The Green Party constitution no longer requires a male co-leader, instead requiring one woman and one person of any gender, plus a requirement that one must be Māori. The finer details of the review of the party's constitution are yet to be revealed after...
As I understand it, the Constitution of the USA guarantees separation of church and state. If as Alito argues: It is time to heed the constitution, then surely that means all parts of it, not just the ones cherry-picked by one side of a deeply polarized ...
Thank you for discussing this Peter (though I have to assume it was a topic on yesterday's OM, I am a bit short on time these days). I haven't yet read the original Politico piece which published the leaked draft, but this Guardian piece has been useful. ...
Yesterday was a big news day! I was dealing with stuff during school hours and kids afterwards, so didn't get to have a look in till nearly midnight. Roe v Wade set to be repealed by SCOTUS https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/02/roe-v-wade-...
The property of my local MP has been targeted for the second time in a year, though this time was a lot less coherent of a message than the first. Beyond her attendance at; The Ōtepoti Festival for Trans Rights and Liberation, last year (SUFW counter-...
DF People have limited time for online reading and commenting on the Social Media Platform that is The Standard. What many call; Cancelling, or; Aversion to Negative Feedback, is simply boredom with tiresome drivel. Freedom to express oneself is not a ...
Well: Gosman & DF, maybe people are so accustomed to scrolling past your comments unread that they miss it when you do have something of substance to contribute? I was reading that Boy Who Cried Wolf story to my kids at bedtime the other day, perhaps you ...
Toast to the ones here today Toast to the ones that we lost on the way 'Cause the drinks bring back all the memories And the memories bring back, memories bring back you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KOaSaK96oM Respects Poli: Born mid August 1980 - ...
What is it with these internet celebrities (in their own minds) filming themselves being arseholes in distant countries and posting it online? This isn't quite; filming corpses in Japan's "suicide forest" level bad, but still the cluelessness is ...
I posted this link yestereve, but obviously not read by you Felix: The exact orders the judge will make have yet to be decided. The parties have 14 days to agree on the words of a declaration, or the judge will decide it at a later date... “We have long ...
Auē! He kauae tehe. Kia kaha Ngāpuhi hine. A Havelock North mother who was told her moko kauae scared children in a playground, wants to meet with the women who insulted her... "They asked me if I could cover my chin, my moko kauae, with my mask, because I...
Hard to know what's what until we see the specific details, Jimmy. I saw the story on Stuff (not willing to pay for the NZH), which seemed a bit vague: The exact orders the judge will make have yet to be decided. The parties have 14 days to agree on the ...
Hmm, this is not where I expected ANZAC memorial disruptions to come from. A man reportedly shouting “the world is flat” has been arrested at the national Anzac commemoration in Wellington. https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/300572731/man-arrested-at-national-...
This is an American song about what can happen to forgotten soldiers there. I may disagree with the decisions of those leaders who choose war, but it is still important to support those who did their duty as they saw it. It is a fan made video, but ...
What kind of clueless arsehole do you have to be to stand at the front of an ANZAC day crowd unmasked and chatting during the moment of silence between the Last Post and Reveille? Camera held on them for an uncomfortably long time too! There were enough ...
Oof! "Today we wear the puppy..", but I did like that she continued on despite the flub rather than drawing more attention with correction. Eg "Centenary.. uh; Centennial" just now. Prayers now, which I can't be bothered with - one advantage of the ...
Up early to watch dawn service on ODT, so was glancing at sites I'd not looked at for a while. I guess this is not as bad as the RSA's (Rhodesian Services Association) cooption of ANZAC day up in Tauranga, but the ignorance of history is astonishing - ...
Huh! A bit tipsy and seem to have deleted my comment. More about NZ culture (specifically music) than politics anyway. Irritating! Basically, I was pre-ANZAC day watching the Pogues "& the band Played Waltzing Matilda" on YouTube, and left it on autoplay ...
Were your other questions not genuine then Molly? Well at least that saves me the bother of addressing them when I could be spending time with whānau. L for Lesbian G for Gay B for Bi T for Trans Q for Queer + for all the others omitted from this ...
Thanks for the links Joe90. I don't spend much time on Twitter so wouldn't have thought of looking there myself. Though admittedly I do glance at Te Taipo and the disinformation project every so often since the Wellington occupation(/ inept coup attempt). ...
This is simply despicable: A Mount Maunganui museum dedicated to the military history of white minority-ruled Rhodesia that’s been likened to “celebrating the holocaust” is being used as a venue for Anzac commemorations this weekend... A spokesperson for ...
Brigid So much ew, from your comment! You freely state you don't know anything, yet leap to the conclusion that Poli was a serial abuser (because they were LGBTQ+ advocate?). The judge dismissed that unsubstantiated notion because this was Poli! If there ...
Anker Do you really think that the Mormons (not necessarily literal Church of LDS, more a common catch all term for Americanised Evangelists and their followers in te Moana Nui) care whether someone is gay or trans before judging them according to their ...
Molly Buy the DVD, or find someplace that streams it online. I don't know anywhere you can watch it entirely for free. Poli is in it, but the focus is far more on Mataele. While I do regard Gender Criticals as being essentially Gender Essentialists, was ...
In a week it will be the one year memorial of the brutal, but perhaps not random, murder of Poli on Tatakamotonga beach: Polikalepo Kefu, or Poli, was well recognised for his tireless devotion to a wide range of human rights causes. The Red Cross described...
Thanks for continuing to see trans people as people on this site McFlock. Scrolling past "the daily hate" wasn't really working for me, so I had to skip from the platform altogether for a while. Which has also brightened my days and given me free mental ...
Anker - my recollection of the SUFW being being barred from using libraries for their meetings was (at least in Dunedin) more due to concern for the wellbeing of other library users. At the time, the council posted on Twitter that "We strive to ensure our ...
Weka - we seem to have as different conceptions of feminism as we do of womenhood. Though admittedly I avoid Quillette, so may have missed the "feminists" writing there. But here's a description of how the site's founder started off: On YouTube, there is a...
That does seem to be the main reason that RNZ is going so hard on this - they got inconvenienced by the delay in OIA request, so now they are returning that inconvenience to the MoH. Which seems very human, but maybe not the best strategy by the reporters....
Colin Wright; managing editor at Quillette (online space for the anti-feminist by the anti-feminist) makes a tweet about how it is really trans women who are eliminating women's rights? That's pretty unpersuasive to me. Though the numbered list is a nice ...
Ta for that TA.
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