Hey National. This is not second term winning behaviour.

It’s fuel for another bra burning.

Remember the votes you drained from yourselves with ACT’s Treaty Bill? This will be the same.

Soon you will only have middle-aged white blokes and landlords.

The Pay Equity Bill is going under the knife thanks to fembot Brook Van Velden, who famously said: "When it came to COVID, we completely blew out what the value of a life was, completely, I’ve never seen such a high value on life.”

When someone tells you who they are. Believe them.

The radical overhaul will impact female-dominated industries whose wages are lower because of sex-based discrimination. The suddenness of it all (changes are happening today), combined with the fact it will impact current pay equity claims, has left many of us incredulous.

Disdain and disregard for workers and women.

Striding out flanked by a cohort of biological-only women did not help Nicola deliver her spin. ‘No, it’s not at all about poly filling the giant fiscal hole in the budget wall’ and ‘yes, men and women should be paid the same, but we know woman cry wolf, so what we need is more proof’.

Well, those broads have certainly changed their tune. Just a few short years ago when the Equal Pay Amendment Bill was getting its first reading in parliament, these National handmaids were all for it.

But hiposcrasy is golden in politics.

Even RNZ’s Jo Moir smells a rat over the swiftiness of it all.

“The legislation reforms haven't been considered urgent or even raised by Luxon or Willis in the past 18 months as being necessary. Two weeks out from Budget Day, National ministers would have it believed the legislation has become so unworkable so quickly that it needs to be fixed under urgency in Parliament within 24 hours of the public being notified.”

Like the deportations in the US, due process is being scuttled and our rights eroded here too.

The $12 billion spent in tax cuts for boomer landlords are now being paid for by the stagnant, unequal pay for women workers in New Zealand.

Those living on Struggle Street are not a priority for this government. We’ve seen it time and time again.

“I guess we know “what is a woman" now, eh?” tweets @DarrenWatson_NZ. NACTFirst has defined it as "Someone who is intentionally paid less than a man for the same work."

Dry, brother, dry.

But Disability Support worker Jo-Chanelle Pouwhare said it best on One News.

Standing out in a crowd of cardinals

Types of sadness and other stories

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Humour: How The Daily Mail crop images.

Compilation: Yorkshireman Bastard compilation feat. Sean Bean.

Dystopian: Get a load of the trailer for Stephen King’s The Long Walk, the first story King ever wrote at the age of 18.

The ancestor of the air fryer: Microwave cooking with Alison Holst will really take you back.

Puffin’: Vape-a-gotchi If you stop puffing a Tamagotchi dies.

Schlebs: The only Met Gala Review you need is from Irish national treasure, Garron Noone.

My dear old friend, the Lazy Fish corkscrew: A unique and whimsical design — circa 1960s — that reflects a blend of functionality and artistry.

Crushing fascism, literally

British WWII veteran and Sherman tank owner Ken Turner is 98 years-old and a man of action.

I’m old enough to have seen fascism the first time around; now it’s coming back. Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, is using his immense power to support the far-right in Europe, and his money comes from Tesla cars. Well, I’ve got this message for Mr Musk. We’ve crushed fascism before, and we’ll crush it again.