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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

@mikejbain

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Single dad of 2, hiker, Feminist Christian, LGBTQIA+ ally, pro Māori & Tangata Tiriti. Loves wine, coffee & craft beer. He/him. Vaxxed. Views are my own.

Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa

Joined April 2012

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

5 years

MENTAL HEALTH CHECK-IN ❤️ I’m doing great 💙 I’m okay 💛 Not too good 💚 I’m struggling 💜 I’m having a hard time and wouldn’t mind if someone reached out to me 💔 I’m in a really bad place Let's reach out to those in need & ensure they feel safe & cared for wherever they are.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 years

How beautiful was it to see @KiriAllan stand at that podium and start with speaking in Te Reo, addressing and acknowledging whānau, hapu & iwi in the affected areas. More of that please. It sends shivers of Pride up my spine when I hear it.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 years

Finally a survey that recognises Pākehā as a valid ethnicity. I am not European, nor am I NZ European. I am Pākehā. My worldview has been influenced & shaped by Te Ao Māori. To deny that with “European” is to deny something that has played an important part in shaping who I am.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

6 months

‘Pretty unfair’? Your government wants to roll @back race relations decades & wants to attack our founding document & you think protests against that are ‘pretty unfair’? It’s time to get off your high chair of Pākehā privilege cause we won’t stop.

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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says Māori protests against government 'pretty unfair'

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says the government plans to work for Māori and non-Māori alike, and protests are "unfair" for a government that's only been in power a week.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

8 months

I’m sad & this hurts. It hurts because this election is a move backwards for the country. Workers won’t get a fair go. Māori outcomes will go backwards. Our human rights will be damaged. Pasifika and Māori will be demonised. Beneficiaries punished.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

Questions I believe journalists should be asking David Seymour: - how long have you been involved in the Atlas Network? - how much influence has Atlas Network had on forming Act policy? - how much money has Act received from Atlas? - who wrote ACT’s Treaty Principles?

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

John Key this morning when he realises that the guy he once called “a screaming leftwing conspiracy theorist” has been honoured for his investigative journalism (including into Key’s office in his book Dirty Politics) by the very honours system Key himself brought back.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 months

Luxon tries to milk the taxpayer for something he doesn’t need. Because of public pressure he has done a U-turn. Normally the @TaxpayersUnion would be all over this stuff like a rash but we’re silent. Why? Cause it is their mates & they are the biggest hypocrites around.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

Kia Ora to my fellow Pākehā, particularly those of us who consider ourselves Tāngata Te Tiriti. Let’s stand up & be great advocates for Te Reo Māori in the spaces we are in. We don’t have to be fluent but we can fight for its use & acceptance. Let’s make Aotearoa NZ bilingual.

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Calling on my Pākeha countrymen and women to speak up and stand up for te reo. It's so much better when we do this together. Kia kaha te reo Māori. 🫶 #HeTaongaTeReo

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 months

Let us not forget that Mark Mitchell IS a war profiteer. He set up a mercenary company that operated in Iraq, making millions in the process. He doesn’t mention it on LinkedIn but NZers should be made more aware that our Police minister is a war profiteer.

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Why aspiring National leader Mark Mitchell’s war-for-profit past matters

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 months

People who decide to jump on news articles about a person dying or social media posts grieving about that person to comment about vaccines or to be racist are disgusting. A person has died FFS! A wife & two children have lost their dad FFFS! Have some f***ing decency FFFS!!!! 🤬

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

6 months

We were only a handful at Aotea Square (most in the vehicle hikoi across the region) but we were well supported - lots of waves, thumbs up’s and toots. In over an hour we only had one man ride past with a thumbs down and only one driver overtly oppose us. #toit ūtetiriti

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

2 years

WTAF?!? Seymour is calling iwi thugs? Disgusting behaviour from an elected representative. He should apologise now!

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

2 months

Hey @NZStuff , I fixed your headline for you.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

6 months

National: we need to be more like Australia. Unions: so keeping fair pay agreements? National: no, not like that. Tax experts: introducing a Capital Gains Tax? National: no, not like that. #Nationalhatesworkers #Nationalhatesthepoor

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 years

So from September, we will have a Māori woman as Governor General & a Māori woman as Foreign Affairs Minister. The patriarchy & racists must be having kittens right now and I am thrilled! This is the NZ I want to live in. Shall we go for a name change to Aotearoa NZ next?

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

David Seymour is lying to all New Zealanders. He has now started a disinformation campaign. What is important to remember is that no historian or Treaty expert has come out in support of David’s planned referendum idea. David hasn’t said who wrote his principle’s bill either.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 months

The major problem with Luxon & his accomodation allowance saga is that we the taxpayers already provide accomodation for our PM. It is called Premier House. Luxon has decided that it isn’t to his liking which gives off rich prick vibes. 1/3

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

F*** conspiracy theorists are arseholes. At my daughters netball game & having one go on about Jacinda & Covid & climate change being a hoax and a sham. Can they not get it in their heads that they lost & over 90% of population got vaccinated & it saved lives. 🤬🤬

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

7 months

Ouch. Damning quote on the front of the current issue of @TheLancet It’s why I’m forever thankful for @SiouxsieW , Michael Baker, Shaun Hendy who taught us the dangers of Covid & for @jacindaardern , @AshBloomfield & Dr Juliet Gerrard for doing the right things to protect us all.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

David Seymour has denied that he or the Act party has any connection to the Atlas Network - a right wing lobby group funded by oil, mining and tobacco companies & the Koch brothers. Yet here is photos of him attending one of their trainings in 2008 (from the Atlas year in review)

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

8 months

This week is your last chance to VOTE. Your landlord will vote. Your boss will vote. Your grandparents will vote. The white supremacist will vote. The sexist homophobe will vote. The climate change denialist will vote. Your vote is just as important as theirs, so please #justvote

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

Ouch! Luxon’s speech is so boring people are walking away. This sounds like the kind of word salad a CEO delivers to shareholders at an AGM. Absolutely oblivious to where he is. Shocking.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

Brian Tamaki should be charged for inciting violence. At the bottom of Queen St he turned his mob around & got big aggressive men to push through a peaceful counter protest. The hatred & desire for violence from Tamaki’s mob was disgusting.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

9 months

Oh gawd!! National MP Chris Penk referred to Luxon as the boss and Aotearoa as NZ inc. Gross. Newsflash National. Running a country is not the same as running a business. Stop making our nation like a business.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

Over 10,000 attending in person. Thousands of others tuning into live streams. This is not a small thing. Combined that is more than the number of Act voters in 2017.

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Waikato Tainui welcome mass contingent at Tūrangawaewae Marae

Kiingi Tuuheitia has thanked the estimated 10,000 people who answered his call to come together to participate in a national hui at Tuurangawaewae Marae.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

The crowds are building. The anticipation is building too. Today’s hui is going to be amazing. #HuiAaMotu

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

6 months

My advice to all workers is sign up to a union now! With ACT holding the Regulations and the Workplace Relations and Safety ministerial positions, things are about to get horrible. Unions will always have your back against this ideological hatred of workers.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

5 years

Looks like the police are going to be busy tonight. Sad really but that is the state of NZ so this must be said: men, rugby is just a bloody game. You win some. You lose some. It can suck but still there is absolutely no justification to take your frustration out on your partner.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

Congrats to all recipients in this first Kings Birthday Honours, but a special shout out to former PM @jacindaardern our incredible leader through one of the most difficult times in NZ history, & to Nicky Hager, a tireless investigative journalist whose work deserves this honour.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

7 months

Let us not delude ourselves. The guy who wants to outlaw “gang” tattoos accused a Māori tane with moko of being in a gang. If his idea becomes law Māori will be the worst affected. His thinly veiled racism must be called out.

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7 months

Thanks @amscraig for reminding me of this one. Mark Mitchell repeatedly accuses this man with a mataora of being in a gang. They say repeatedly that they're not and he assumes they must have been in a gang and left.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

6 months

TW for all racists out there. “Given two thirds of the world’s population is bi- or multilingual, and can quite happily navigate across various languages simultaneously, this suggests that monolingual New Zealanders are simply morons.” ✊🏼💯

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OK (monolingual) boomer, you might be having your final moment in the sun

OPINION: Opponents of te reo Māori may well find that the march of time and demographics have the last word.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

Truths to digest this Waitangi Day - Te Tiriti o Waitangi was a treaty signed by two sovereign nations - the British Crown & the Māori Chiefs. - It was signed to ensure Māori rights & sovereignty were not undermined. - It was signed because Pākehā were acting appallingly. 1/

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

What is becoming more & more obvious is this coalition government is not a government for the people but for the lobbyists & the multinational conglomerates they represent. 1/

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Lobbyists are back at Parliament - with a new privacy measure hiding their identities

'About four' lobbyists have gained access to the Beehive and had their identities made secret by the new Speaker.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

2 months

Let me be clear: these actions by Destiny are hate-filled & antithetical (directly opposed) to the teachings of Christ, which was love & respect. For our wonderful rainbow community, I’m so sorry you are being targeted with this bigotry once again. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Destiny Church, rainbow community clash over drag queen library performance

A rainbow community supporter has described Destiny Church protesters as hypocrites during a heated stand-off at Gisborne Library.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

7 months

Dame Anne Salmond doesn’t hold back in her criticism. “… their proposed ‘Principles’ of the Treaty bear almost no resemblance to the original document.” “… their text ignores or distorts the original promises. This is disrespectful, and arrogant.”

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Why Act’s Treaty referendum is disrespectful and arrogant

Dame Anne Salmond sets the record straight about the Act leader and his proposed Tiriti referendum

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

Thank you Kiingitanga & all the kaimahi. Your manaakitanga today was incredible. Over 10,000 of us turned up & you welcomed us as whānau. People of different iwi & hapu, Pākehā, Tauiwi - we all stood with you today to declare that Te Tiriti is not to be meddled with.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

People celebrating Jacinda resigning are simply boring & predictable. Their rhetoric is full of misogyny & disinformation. The sad thing is that it is showing us that there is a horrible ugly current in NZ society.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

6 months

We don’t need access to AR-15s. This is the weapon that the terrorist used in Christchurch on 15 March 2019. An AR-15 is a weapon designed for one thing - killing people. We do not want access to these people-killers in Aotearoa. Let’s fight this every step of the way.

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David Seymour says they’re looking at a graduated system for firearms In Nicole McKee’s draft legislation (which has not been discussed or adopted by Cabinet) it would take around 5 years for someone who has never owned a gun to get a license and “graduate” to accessing an AR-15

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

9 months

The problem with the right’s claims of government debt out of control due to wasteful spending is they negate Covid. We borrowed money to keep people fed & housed as well as keeping small & medium sized business afloat. Are they honestly telling us that this is wasteful spending?

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 years

80% 1st vaccination in Auckland. Wow! That is an awesome effort.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

7 months

Patrick Gower is being such an arrogant, ignorant arse about this, trying to cook up a story when there is none there. He needs to get off his high chair & actually get involved to learn what actually happens around elections. 1/

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

2 years

I am over the accomodations that are being made to help anti-vaxxers feel included. I don’t seem these same accomodations being made for our most vulnerable, including our disabled communities.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

8 months

Luxon needs to school himself on Aotearoa NZ history. Actually embarrassing for a leader of one of main political parties.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

6 months

I won a scholarship! The university is going to pay the fees for my PhD next year. I am so rapt! I have never won a scholarship before & this feels like a vote of confidence in my research from the institution.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

National & Act have forgotten that Robert Muldoon would regularly meet with the very gangs they call “subhuman”, helping gang members to find accommodation and form work trusts.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

8 months

Very disappointing to see one of our high-profile journalists adopt right-wing tactics to try & create faux outrage on social media about our electoral system.

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Patrick Gower

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8 months

Lots of Kiwis have had a big hardworking week. Why aren’t we progressing formation of our Government? Why haven’t the special votes been counted? Unacceptable delay in my view. We are better than this. We deserve better.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

5 months

This is a must watch for all NZers. There is an overseas group called the Atlas Network who want to dismantle Te Tiriti & they are cashed up. They are getting overseas speakers here to tell the likes of the TPU what Te Tiriti is about. We must be vigilant.

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The fate of the Treaty of Waitangi is teetering on the brink of a popular vote, as the new coalition government pledges to introduce a Treaty Principles Bill, potentially triggering a referendum. Watch our documentary 'Trick or Treaty?' here:

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

I have decided to report the appalling behaviour by Brian Tamaki’s mob. Their aggression & human bulldozer tactics were utterly unnecessary, dangerous & ugly. They must be held to account.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 years

This is tragic. One of our lovely South Auckland councillors, who has been doing a fantastic job of serving her community, has been the target of hate from anti-vaxxers. Security had to be posted outside her home. This is not ok people. #bekind #stopthehate

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

8 months

We voted out a government that had inflation under control (our inflation rate was lower than the OECD average) with evidence today showing a continued drop, & we have voted in a party whose tax cuts & finance policy will push our inflation rate up. Worse pain on the way.

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CPI data was released today - showing a continuing trend of falling annual inflation. Annual inflation has fallen for 15 months now, suggesting that some of the heat has come out of the cost of living crisis. But the data also showed a number of other challenges - a brief thread.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

No sprinklers in the Wellington hostel according to a FENZ spokesperson. How the f*** is a place providing housing for so many vulnerable people allowed to operate in 2023 without sprinklers?? That makes me so angry. A tragedy that is so unnecessary.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

2 months

In solidarity with our amazing rainbow community. You are loved & our society is better for having you in it. #Kiakaha

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

Surprise surprise surprise. Live: Researchers lay out links between ministers and tobacco industry

Recap: Peters, Collins meet counterparts in Australia

New Zealand plans to explicitly align itself with Australia in the face of growing great power struggle and global threats.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

@Manaaki32 The right attacked Jacinda about her former connections to young socialist groups and that was reported by the media. Seymour’s connections to Atlas & their funders like Exxon-Mobil haven’t been touched.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

Hone Harawira (to Seymour): “you and your shitty-arsed legislation are going down the toilet”.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

9 months

“Whether you’re Māori, Pacifica, Pākehā, gay, straight, born here, migrated here, a man, a woman, trans, young, old or different in your own way. We’re in this together. There are better days ahead. Let’s keep moving forward. I’m in it for you.” - @chrishipkins . 100% ❤️

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 years

This is not ok! The camera operator was doing his job in a public space. Anti-vaxxers are showing themselves to be horrible, nasty people who will not listen to reason. This behaviour is not welcome here in NZ.

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1News cameraman attacked by West Coast anti-vaccine protesters

The camera operator was filming a vaccination event when several protesters arrived.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

- Links to tobacco industry & pushing through a harmful policy not campaigned on - Undoing policies unnecessarily - Wasting money on ministry name changes - Pushing through a Treaty Principles bill that no-one wanted - Leakier than a sieve Can we sack the entire government now?

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

This from a friend who works at Auckland Hospital. That the CEO of the hospital has to send this out, warning of potential violence, & ask staff to be extra cautious shows how disgusting & ugly the anti-vax crowd are.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

The hypocrisy is tangible. Luxon owns 7 properties (the most of any MP) & he will personally gain under his proposals. National don’t care about the average Kiwi. #NationalNotFitToGovern Luxon's properties affected by density laws he plans to scrap

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Luxon's properties affected by density laws he plans to scrap

The National leader's $16 million property portfolio is a larger conflict of interest than Michael Wood's $13,000 in airport shares, Renters United says.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

8 months

I’m angry. Two women standing for their communities have been threatened and assaulted. @Maori_Party Waikato candidate Hana-Rawhiti Maipi Clark’s house was invaded & vandalised. Angela Roberts of @nzlabour was assaulted at the end of a meet the candidates meeting. 1/

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

I have watched Sean Plunket harass, belittle, & abuse women since he was the ‘comms person’ for T.O.P. It was always misogynistic, ugly & horrible. I am glad he has been permanently suspended from Twitter. It is what he deserved. But, with Musk ‘permanent’ is not always that.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 months

Seymour hates academics. He dismisses academic research whenever he can & has gone on a clear campaign of attacking academics. We should all be concerned that the deputy-PM-in-waiting is acting in such an ugly & petulant way as well as being so dismissive of academic research. 1/

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Kyle Church

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This is one of the clearest free speech cases NZ has ever seen. Attacks on free speech are about state power being used against the public to stop them speaking out. This is more the case here than ANY bad faith examples ACT has supported over the decades

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

While I get the outrage over Luxon’s sister-in-law’s job, it feels like a red herring. The major outrage is that Chris Bishop, current Housing Minister & their Campaign Manager, was a spokesperson for Philip Morris. That’s where we need to focus.

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@StrayDogNZ Edited to Xtwitter duration, an interview on 1News of Chris Bishop before he was an MP, representing the views of the tobacco industry.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 years

“Barry, a little more decorum.” Ouch. What a burn. My favourite quote of the briefing. And it sounded like he stormed out of the briefing too.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

Seymour spoke with such arrogance. The crowd booed & jeered but the sense I got was the boos & jeers came from a place of deep pain & hurt over what Seymour proposes. He needs to learn to read the room.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

2 years

@FoxyLustyGrover The average crew member in McDonald’s earns a max of $42,000. That means under National’s proposed tax cuts they will get $112 extra a year. That equates to $2.15 extra per week. That won’t buy a bottle of milk or a loaf of bread.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

2 months

This government is the most racist in recent history. Bully boy tactics imposing an ideology to reduce Te Tiriti even more. Absolutely disgusting. Shame on NAct First. 🤮 Māori wards ultimatum for councils as coalition government imposes referendums

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Māori wards ultimatum for councils as coalition government imposes referendums

Councils that brought in Māori wards without polling residents will need to hold one - or scrap the wards they had set up, the government says.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 months

Oh look. Seymour’s lies shown up again. Here he is as spokesperson for an Atlas think tank in Canada. Come on NZ journalists, this man wants to fundamentally change the way we understand Te Tiriti. He has an agenda & it needs to be shown to the NZ public.

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Jeremy Walker ❤️🖤💛 Always was #YES always will

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David Seymour, in a nice Canadian accent, arguing Calgary (capitol of Alberta, the oilsands state) should spend less on public transit & more on roads for more cars & more petrol, on behalf of the fossil/Atlas thinktank Frontier. #ClimateCrisis #nzpol

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

Today a great leader announced she was stepping down. I do not blame her but I am sad. She has led NZ with dignity & kindness & what she was given in return by some NZers was ugly, hated-filled sexism. 1/

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

5 months

Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! The only way congestion improves is reducing the number of cars on the road. That can only happen when we have a strong reliable public transport network. The light rail would’ve been part of that. Pulling the pin is backwards thinking.

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Government pulls the pin on Auckland Light Rail

The coalition government has cancelled the multi-billion dollar project after years of delays.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

Seymour & ACT are definitely not hiding their racism. This is absolutely disgusting. He is attempting to redefine for the sake of white supremacy what Te Tiriti is & what our obligations are under it.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

If you are going to turn up to a community meeting in 2023 & moan at the meeting starting with a karakia you lose all credibility. Walking out as a karakia is said to close said meeting is disgusting & disrespectful. It is akin to someone talking through the Ode or Remembrance.

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Deborah Russell says she’s going to start the meeting with a karakia, several audience members audibly groan and protest. “Give us a break” “I can’t stand this”

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

@max_tweedie I’m proud to have been here to say that #LoveWins #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

6 months

“Kaua e waiho mā te tokoiti hei kawe. It is not for the few to carry. Do not leave it for individuals to carry. We must all respond on all levels to the deliberate, planned misogyny, racism & homophobia that comes from this government.” Great kōrero.

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, he toa takitini kē

Opening comments by Professor Leonie Pihama on behalf of Te Wharepora Hou Kia uruuru maiA hauoraA haukahaA haumāiaKi runga, Ki raroKi roto, Ki wahoRire rire hau, Paimārire Te Wharepora Hou is a rōp…

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

2 years

It’s official. @AklCouncil has its first wāhine Māori & first mana whenua Councillor in @KerrinLeoni . It’s taken 12 years but it is progress and well worth celebrating. 🥳🥳

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

2 months

Another great piece by @JohnJCampbell , this time about water. A follow up story would be how the likes of the TPU misled Kiwis with disinformation to derail Labour’s 3 Waters & how NAct First’s inaction will see our water infrastructure sold overseas.

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John Campbell: New Zealand’s water infrastructure is in the poo

Opinion: The cost of fixing our water problems is mind-blowing. But the price of ignoring them? Devastating.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

7 months

This is what happens when you fish in the cesspool of conspiracy theorists to keep your political career alive. You end up sounding as conspiratorial as them. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Deputy PM Carmel Sepuloni calls for apology from Winston Peters over 'bizarre' tweets about Jacinda...

The deputy prime minister says the NZ First leader's tweets on what Dame Jacinda Ardern knew about the 15 March terror attacks before they happened are "bizarre" and incorrect.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 months

A huge thank you to Grant for his service. His guidance of our economy through a terror attack, a volcanic eruption & a global pandemic was amazing & just what we needed. Thousands of businesses were able to stay open because of his economic management. A huge loss. @nzlabour 😢

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Maiki Sherman

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BREAKING: Labour’s Grant Robertson will leave politics and take up the role of Vice-Chancellor at the University of Otago, effective from 1 July 2024. His final day in Parliament is not yet clear. @1NewsNZ #nzpol

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

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Whoops. Jordan’s mask has slipped & his Atlas Network agenda is showing.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

8 months

I have been reflecting on David Seymour’s claim that Act are not racist & his dismissal of his party’s racism by people like Dame Naida Glavish. Those claims sit very awkwardly with me & are dangerous because what Act are pushing are actually racist policies. 1/

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 months

“I’m entitled … it’s an entitlement … I’m entitled.” What a horrible wealthy privileged a***hole.

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Luxon hosted 25 family members for Xmas Day at Premier House

The Prime Minister spent two nights at Premier House over Christmas last year and hosted his extended family for festive celebrations.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

Annette Skyes getting stuck into the coalition. She is cheered by the crowd as she challenges Seymour & his lack of speaking Te Reo & hiding behind Nicole McKee. Ouch! She has told him that his lies will be exposed.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

5 months

With a new strain of Covid going around in Aotearoa, it is a timely reminder that boosters not only reduce the risk of contracting Covid but also significantly reduces risk of long Covid. Get your booster now if it has been 6mths since your last booster.

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Vaccination Dramatically Lowers Long COVID Risk

Several new studies reveal that getting multiple COVID vaccine doses provides strong protection against lingering symptoms

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

For anyone doubting the links between TPU and Atlas, this article outlines it clearly, with receipts.

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The apparatus behind the curtain – Part 2: The mainline

In a guest post Seddonville Miner explores links between the Atlas Network and the Taxpayer’s Union.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

Time for us to know who Seymour really is, who his supporters are & where he gets his toxic ideas. FYI, @Mihi_Forbes @huihoppa @JohnJCampbell . It looks like Seymour’s connections to Atlas go way way back.

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@DrJeremyWalker

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@CitizenBomber @matroked Here's Seymour singing songs about how to get rid of public schools with Atlas Network CEO Brad Lips during the inaugral 2008 'Atlas Thinktank MBA'. He then went on to work for Canadian Atlas thinktanks funded (like much of the network) by oil companies to defeat climate policy.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

@chrisluxonmp You’ve raised it 2%! Under Ardern’s government it was raised more than 7% and under Clark’s government it was also raised more than 7%. Your mate Key even raised it by 3%. Your raise is less than the rate of inflation. Average Kiwi families going backwards under your leadership!

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

3 years

@max_tweedie Difference between Pasifika/Māori having a community mindset and a Pākehā privileged view that their rights are most important. Us Pākehā have a lot to learn from Māori & Pasifika. Delta shows that they have the right mentality around putting community first.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

2 months

Painting over a rainbow themed pedestrian crossing is shameful. To do it at night is cowardly. It is bigotry pure & simple. Our rainbow communities are part of our society & I for one love the vibrancy they bring.

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Richard Hills

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We must stand up against hate! Rainbow communities are welcome in Auckland! Ignorance & hateful views do not give people an excuse to erase our identities. Let people be who they are in peace! Dean Kimpton has said to me they’ll repaint the crossing as soon as weather allows.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

2 years

Dear #FreedomandRights coalition. My personal rights are being attacked. I get abused, yelled at, & harassed by angry people who call me horrible names & threaten me with violence. All because I made the personal choice to protect myself & wear a mask. Are you willing to help?

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

10 months

@nickbakernz I put the jug on for coffee. #UffingIt

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

5 months

Please join me in speaking out against the proposed Treaty Principles bill. What's proposed is a neo-liberal populist idea incompatible with Te Tiriti & the original intent. Petition of Chris Hickson: To object to the treaty principles bill

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

8 months

Luxon needs to school himself on Aotearoa NZ history. Actually embarrassing for a leader of one of main political parties. Thanks for the video ⁦ @tinangata ⁩

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 years

This is hideous, poorly veiled hatred. Enforces gender duality, an idea that has no basis in science & also re-enforces justification of homophobia & anti-LGBTQIA+ attacks. I can’t believe this type of electioneering is considered ok. 😡 #gross

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

5 months

Together we can demonstrate that despite members of the Government's attempts to drive us apart, there is a growing movement of people unified, determined and empowered to create a Te Tiriti o Waitangi honouring future. via @actionstation

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Honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Together we can demonstrate that despite members of the Government's attempts to drive us apart, there is a growing movement of people unified, determined and empowered to create a Te Tiriti o...

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

4 months

Winston got booed. He tried his usual “where were you sunshine” line but the crowd weren’t having it.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

2 years

A huge congrats to the winners at last night’s media awards but particularly @paulapenfold @kirsty_johnston & @Mihi_Forbes . 3 amazing wāhine toa who continually bring thoughtful, challenging, intelligent & well-researched news content to us all. Keep up the awesome mahi. ✊🏼

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

9 months

Despite the faux hand wringing from Seymour, the reality is that what he said was racist, toxic & very dangerous. He joked about blowing up a government ministry & now claims people are over reacting. We need to stand up & fight this horrible rhetoric he is engaging in.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

1 year

I’m excited about this. The CRL is really starting to look like a railway line. One step closer to trains using it.

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Michael Bain 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

5 months

Great piece about the Atlas Network. We aren’t immune to its schemes - both the Taxpayers Union & the NZ Initiative are members. Topham Guerin speak at Atlas run events. We need to be alert to this group & call out its influence on politicians.

What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies |...

The Atlas Network’s dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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