Katya
Woke socialist, stray cat magnet, Tūī feeder, she/her/ia. Living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.
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- Reposted by KatyaThree Waters would have meant entities with expertise and greater borrowing power than individual councils and faster, massive-scale upgrades to our water infrastructure like the Moa Point and Christchurch plants without having to wait for annual council budget cycles. NACT killed it. #nzpol
- Reposted by KatyaThe activists who were arrested in civil disobedience actions against seabed mining can wear their convictions with honour. Everyone who attended a protest, made a submission, signed a petition, donated money, you changed the course of history.
- Reposted by KatyaThis is an environmental win for the ages. They tried to start seabed mining in Aotearoa. For 12 years we fought back. And won. A magnificent alliance of iwi and environment NGOs and 100,000s of NZers www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
- Reposted by KatyaToday, the Court of Appeal has given clarity and confidence to medical professionals in Aotearoa to continue prescribing GnRH agonists/reversible pubertal suppression. You can read PATHA’s statement at patha.nz/news
- Reposted by KatyaAndrea Vance covers the regime's latest secrecy grab www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
- Reposted by KatyaLanding in Dunedin Aotearoa in about 90 minutes for the start of a trip that represents the culmination of a dream I’ve had since I was ten years old.
- 38% of young people ... this is a disaster and every journalist should be highlighting this fact rather than the nonsense about green shoots #nzpol
- Do yourself a favour and read the whole article. Best laugh I've had since I don't know when
- Though I try to stay humble, I'd say I'm probably the nation's top journalist when it comes to in-depth reporting on the Waitangi dildo strike. Even so, I hadn't picked up this piece of info until this week thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...
- Reposted by KatyaThough I try to stay humble, I'd say I'm probably the nation's top journalist when it comes to in-depth reporting on the Waitangi dildo strike. Even so, I hadn't picked up this piece of info until this week thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...
- Reposted by Katyathe guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.
- The problem with Willis is not her university qualifications, but the fact she only takes advice from neoliberal economists, wealthy donors to the National Party, and business leaders with vested interests #nzpol
- Reposted by KatyaJust chucking young ones on the scrap heap. That early loss of income has flow on effects throughout their lifetimes. More entrenched poverty as this is also generational #nzpol
- Reposted by Katya100% this! I couldn’t believe the level of “drunk on capitalism spin” that dribbled out of his mouth on 1News last night, when he straight faced declared unemployment was higher coz more people are dusting off their CV’s and applying for (not getting) jobs?! WTAF?! 🙄🤨 #nzpol
- Reposted by Katya1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
- Reposted by KatyaProtest on Thursday morning outside van Velden's office in Meadowbank. #nzpol
- Reposted by KatyaIt’s very funny that the predominance of US-created content stolen to feed AI means it interprets Simeon’s “make these people look like muppets” as “convert them into wholesome and adorable figures beloved by kids and nostalgic adults around the world” and he doesn’t even register the difference
- Reposted by KatyaLuxon says hes been meeting iwi up n down the country lets see his track record Ratana 2026 ❌️ Ratana 2025 ❌️ Waitangi day 2026 ❌️ Waitangi day 2025❌️ Maori king tangi ❌️ Maori queen coronation❌️ Last interview with moana 2023❌️ Last interview mihi forbes 2023❌️
- Reposted by KatyaFrom wildlife protection to license to kill www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... via @greenpeace.org.nz #nzpol #nature #election2026
- Reposted by KatyaWe challenged the Minister of Oceans & Fisheries’ decision to only close some hoiho habitat to setnet fishing, when the entire population is at risk. While we were not successful on the grounds of our case, the judgment delivers powerful clarity on the Minister’s legal duties to protect #hoiho.
- Reposted by KatyaIt's a quiet day at work, so I'm training Bea to let me put a biscuit on her snout. She is... unimpressed. 🇳🇿🐶
- Reposted by KatyaWhat do you mean that firefighter is being investigated? We used to be a proper dildo throwing country. Where are our traditional dildo values? I shudder to raise my child in this dildo-at-politicians void world.
- Reposted by Katya#nzpol New unemployment data from Stats NZ today, showing the impact of an economy that isn't working. An additional 5,000 people became unemployed during the quarter, rising to levels last seen in 2015. 164,000 people are now unemployed, up 39,000 in just 2 years. A🧵
- Reposted by KatyaWhen the government is one of the biggest customers of many businesses and you cut spending which means private enterprises don’t make money and so they also don’t hire any of the public servants you fired for no reason, you end up with the economy we have now. Even Nicola should get this.
- They all did well in this standup in spite of some truly inane questions from the press gallery. Loved the description of the current government's coalition agreement as "backroom deals that looked like 200 random hot-takes from your granddad's facebook page" #nzpol
- Reposted by KatyaMy other overview. Journalists like @carolecadwalla.bsky.social have documented the information warfare aspect of the hybrid war launched by Trump/Russia/Brexit But Epstein provides much of the international base to this superstructure, as he provided the financial architecture for it all to happen
- Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...
- This is why anyone even quarter way to becoming a billionaire needs to be taxed so heavily they cannot accumulate any more wealth
- Reposted by KatyaI'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
- Reposted by Katya97% of central govt expenditure was on responding to and recovering from natural disasters, only 3% spent on risk reduction and resilience. Yet…“the Government cannot commit to providing financial support for the business case at this stage”. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
- Reposted by KatyaGovernment rejects plan to prevent landslides and save hundreds of millions #nzpol
- Reposted by KatyaNZ says it will explore “co-operation on critical minerals” with the United States, a day after NZ PM Christopher Luxon brushed off talk of any such co-operation. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Trump #USA #RareMetals #MineralDeals #ShaneJones
- Reposted by KatyaOnce again wondering if there will ever be any accountability for the Nats breaking immigration rules to give Peter Fucking Thiel nz citizenship. It’s a stain on our nation and worse, he can just come and live here any time. Ask the PM if he supports Citizen Thiel. Get him on the fucking record.
- Had this vivid dream about doing work for the Green Party and having a massive row with my long dead FIL, who used to work for Shell. Woke up tired
- Reposted by KatyaEngland's water companies have 1,200 criminal convictions. They lose a trillion litres of water to leaky pipes. Dump sewage in rivers for 4m hours. Customers fleeced. None has its licence revoked. No exec prosecuted. Corporate fines are not collected Whatever happened to democracy, rule of law?
- Reposted by KatyaThe thing is, you didn't have to be Nostradamus to see it. You just had to be independent of the ultra-rich. Unfortunately, the great majority of the media is in the plutocrats' pockets. So the people pointing it out are shunned. In 2009 I tried and tried to get the BBC to pick this up. But ...⛔🤐
- 1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
- Reposted by KatyaSo so dangerous.... #nzpol
- Reposted by KatyaThis is a travesty. The Polluters Get Paid Plan: AKA Regulatory Relief / Regulatory Takings www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... #nzpol
- Reposted by KatyaReupping this because of today’s #nzpol media. The only change I’d make is to delete “economic”. *Anything* the Greens say is automatically taken as the extreme position. (And despite what the finance minister says, it was exactly the same with James Shaw as leader)
- Reposted by KatyaI have stopped my thread at 20 for now. Thanks to all who contributed. The focus is on academics who sought promotion by, accepted money from, maintained direct interaction with Jeffrey Epstein well after his 2008 conviction. External link—shareable & easier to read: skyview.social?url=https%3A...
- Reposted by KatyaThe police destroying public trust to protect their own is bad for us, and its bad for police, because they depend on that trust not just to enable them to do their jobs, but also to protect them.
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- Why did RNZ use a quote from Helen Clark in this article and then put the word destructive in inverted commas as it it wasn't a valid word for her to use? This is not okay RNZ.
- I hate this
- I think they should just accept that this is now a cat scratching post in the shape of an octopus spoon-tamago.com/cats-to-blam...
- Reposted by KatyaSo get your restricted, sit back and wait 12 months, and then apply for a full licence?
- At last some good news - peacherines are back in season!
- Reposted by Katyathe whole country is on fucking fire and Mamdani is just over there going down the checklist of shitty things no one should have allowed rich people to get away with, and honestly it gives me hope for a better world.
- Reposted by KatyaCNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: “the Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."
- Reposted by KatyaThis is highly entertaining and excruciatingly painful at the same time.
- I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
- Reposted by Katya"The last time company failures were at that level was during the global financial crisis (GFC)" Yet Labour & National are more or less tied 10months out from an election. FFS
- Reposted by KatyaIf your thumbs were prickling too in the mid 2010s, and you could feel it in your bones and sinew, this is why.
- Reposted by Katya“Atrocity crimes are being repeated because past ones were tolerated. Our actions – or inaction – will determine whether international humanitarian law vanishes altogether.”
- Reposted by KatyaPeople have to do jail time. Powerful people, who thought they were untouchable. They have to be arrested, tried, stripped of assets relating to their crimes, and sent to jail. Because if it doesn't happen, it will prove to voters that democracy is a sham. And then we're seriously fucked.
- Reposted by KatyaDavid Seymour says kiwis are squeamish about handing state assets - paid for by everyone - to ACT party donors to make profits they don’t need & reduce services & supports we require for a dignified life. #nzpol Yeah David we’re as understandably squeamish as you are self-serving. Hugely. #ACTout
- Reposted by Katyawhy would you word it this way lol
- We are way past the emperor isn't wearing any clothes stage. Every politican and journalist should be pointing out that Trump has dementia
- Trump: "Minnesota is a mess. There's something in the water up there. I won the 3 three times but I got no credit for it. It's a rigged state. Really rigged badly w/ the Somalians, and the Somalians & the theft. We gotta get 'em out, most of them. 92% don't work. Many of them drive Mercedes-Benzes."
- Reposted by KatyaIt's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
- Reposted by KatyaGood god. We've spent a decade with the British media - including the BBC - claiming that the 'gender critical' movement wanted to 'protect women and girls'. And it turns out Jeffrey Epstein was funding part of it.
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- Elsie has stolen Figment's chair and I don't like his chances of getting it back
- Reposted by KatyaErica Stanford announcing a NEW IDEA. Twice yearly school reports which show how children are doing in reading, writing and maths and how their progress tracks to expected achievement. This is to replace twice year school reports which show how children are doing in reading, writing and maths and...
- Reposted by KatyaYep, completed a masters at Vic Uni middle of 2024 and came out to find zero jobs in my field. From our cohort of approx 30+ I've heard of only 3 getting a job. Took 6 months to find a job in an unrelated field and gave up on the career change. 30k debt too. In a small city, 10,000 is devastating.
