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Cassandra

There was an interesting item yesterday on, inter alia, Tonga and then the knowledge level of Labours MPs. Former PM Ardern came up. Nice but vacuous person. With an Oxford degree (of sorts).
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July 4, 2026 8:12am
- peterwn
  
  Yup! She has charmed Ivy League outfits as well.
  
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  July 4, 2026 8:47am
Tomtoddy

Life for America’s socialist (s/b ‘communist’) mayors is hotting up. NYC’s Mamdani stood outside one of his constituent’s biggest and shiniest office skyscrapers to announce a new billionaire building tax aimed at raising $500 million – to help fill the gaping hole in the city’s finances only to have the owners of that building announce they were off to Maimi where there was less tax to pay.

Their NYC tax paid was $450 million – just one business – so Mamdani is quickly out of pocket. he is racing around trying to stop more capital heading south to sunny Florida.

Seattle is in the same boat. They elected another leftie twit who is trying the same “tax the rich” approach. When will they ever learn?

Should we have a whip around and fly Chloe biz class to see some of this chaos first hand?
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July 4, 2026 8:21am
- David George
  
  Iconic NY investment firm, Goldman Sacs, are off to Texas as well.
  This ideological distinction between the various state regimes is a great strength of America. It’s like a life-size economic and social experiment.
  
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  July 4, 2026 8:32am
- gravedodger
  
  If the Melon cannot read the same information you do Tom, then wasting the dosh for the pointy end seat will not expand her intellectual chasm, will it you think?
  
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  July 4, 2026 8:50am
- Cassandra
  
  Mamdani is actually doing well in the polls and NY will soon have two more Socialists in Congress. American politics is changing. They’ll find out what socialism actually means then. OPM.
  
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  July 4, 2026 8:51am
  - mike
    
    Americans might even have to suffer the horror of affordable access to healthcare.
    
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    July 4, 2026 9:03am
- rouppe
  
  That would only result in photo ops of Chloe wearing red berets, and pumping her fist in the air to a chant of “tax the rich”.
  
  The flight of capital will only be noticed when the city financially collapses and the inevitable rampant crime, piles of stinking rubbish, and broken subway system are a public disgrace.
  
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  July 4, 2026 9:03am
artemisia

Advisory group proposes axing pay parity for early childhood teachers

Multiple early childhood education groups and experts have warned against watering down pay parity and incentives for services to hire fully-qualified teachers.

Have those groups considered the impact on their sector and their jobs, not to mention families, if ECE centres close because they aren’t making a buck, some already saying taxpayer funding is not covering costs. Some industry groups have mentioned up to 400 closures possible in the near future.

https://wtheww.rnz.co.nz/news/education/659998/advisory-group-proposes-axing-pay-parity-for-early-childhood-teachers
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July 4, 2026 8:27am
Maggy Wassilieff

USA- 250 years.
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July 4, 2026 8:53am
- rouppe
  
  It’s a terrible shame that the USA is ruining its own anniversary simply because of who is president at the time.
  
  And the thing is, they did it to themselves. If Trump had won in 2021 then he wouldn’t be president now.
  
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  July 4, 2026 9:08am

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