The Bad Newsletter has moved to Emily Writes Weekly!
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Taxpayers’ Union pet policy to cost taxpayers billions, again
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I did not want to take this newsletter out of hiatus. I really didn’t! I have my kids to look after, I have projects to do, I have lawns to mow. As I write this my absurdly cute 8 month old daughter is chasing my laptop around the house, as she has picked today to
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All the Garbage I Found On Substack In One Hour: An Update
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Content warning This post contains examples of rampant anti-Semitic hate speech, Nazism, white supremacy, some of the worst and weirdest anti-science/anti-vax stuff I’ve seen anywhere on the Internet, anti-trans hate speech, and Glinner. Read at your own…
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Coming now: the Ghost-powered Bad Newsletter
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This is The Bad Newsletter, a brand new version of an old site by Joshua Drummond that’s just migrated from Substack. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if…
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Why is Stuff promoting right-wing propaganda?
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The way New Zealand’s Taxpayers’ Union works should be obvious by now. This fake union — which is actually a neoliberal, ultra-capitalist lobby group acting in concert with a dense network of international right-wing think tanks called…
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A Simple Nullity
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An incredibly important documentary went live today, and I don’t want you to miss it. “Trick or Treaty? Indigenous rights, referendums and the Treaty of Waitangi” is a deep dive on how right-wing influence networks in Australia…
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The Hand That Feeds
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A short lunchtime post today. Let’s begin with a (gift) link to an Atlantic story revealing Substack’s Nazi problem. How bad is is it here? This bad: At least 16 of the newsletters that I reviewed have…
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The Dark Present
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Hi! I hope you enjoyed the sunshine in the Brighter Future. Unfortunately, today’s newsletter is a return to the Dark Present, with a timely reminder that everything is danged1 and it’s all economics’ fault. Well, that’s not…
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The Brighter Future
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Saturday starts out sunny, so we catch the 9:05 rapid from Kirikiriroa to Paeroa. The plan: beach day. We make it to the station with time to spare, which isn’t too bad, as it was kind of…
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The Party That Can’t And The Party That Won’t
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Approximately every three years I indulge in a bit of political punditry, which is about as much as I can stand. It’s nearly that time again, which is my opportunity to do something pundits almost never do:…
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The Biggest Liar
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Political debates are shit. Not only do they not follow the rules of actual debates, they’re a boring yet simultaneously wildly frustrating sideshow in which politicians demonstrate their ability to give glib answers to (sometimes) important questions.…
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The Metiria Turei Test
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It’s Friday, 4 August 2023, and with utterly dull regularity the Post has produced another hit job on non-Tory politician, Wellington mayor Tory Whanau. Whanau is in the news near constantly because she keeps doing normal human…