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The 60 largest planned data centers could produce the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as 27 coal plants. Big Tech CEOs are polluting our planet and selling out our future to line their own pockets. We need a data center moratorium — now.

Well done Hungary. You give hope to all of us.

Anti-Orban concert in Hungary with the audience chanting “Russians, go home”

You can be opposed to the Iranian regime AND the reckless bombing of school kids. You can support the troops AND be opposed to sending them into senseless wars. You are not an antisemite if you decry the Israeli regime’s genocidal rampage. Don’t let morons impose their idiotic view of the world.

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

Many, many, many of us were either too addicted to the too-cool-for-school “both sides are equally bad” schtick or too blindly hostile to the left to recognize the historically extraordinary threat to freedom Trump represented. Way too many still are.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

People criticizing the lack of proper training that ICE have received, and arguing that “training reform” is required, might be missing the point that ICE is doing exactly what the Trump regime wants them to do in exactly the way they want them to do it.

The present global economic system has only one setting: destruction of everything that has true value for profit. Yet if you point this out, you're assailed by smart arses trying to show how clever they are.

The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”

Read of the day. This is such good reporting and writing by @helenpidd.bsky.social

The last few hours have proven 2 terrible things. First, the US and Russian governments are so close that the US government takes large parts of Russian proposals and passes them off as their own, and second that some people are so desperate to exonerate Trump that they act like this a good thing.

Btw, I do hope people understand what they have seen today. It was a well-planned and deliberate ambush of Ukraine by Trump, to force the Ukrainians to bend the knee to Putin's dictatorship. It was not slip-shod, rushed, impulsive or an accident. It was prepared malice.

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions. Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions? 🧵 1/2

I'm sorry, but this is straw-grasping bollox Back in the real world, governments are rowing back on green measures and fossil fuel corporations are planning expansion I, and many others expect 2C to be exceeded by 2050 - perhaps even well before www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"That's a robot, a Nazi, and a poorly-disguised Russian. Give us your phone, love." Brilliant. ~AA

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

This report is disingenuous and dangerously misleading Astonishingly, it even suggests that adapting to 4C 'will not be costly' 😮 The reality is organised adaption to 4C is impossible The world will 'adapt' to 4C via economic and societal collapse www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it. Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

Thanks, New Yorker

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

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A wonderful actor and great man is gone.

Trump will arrive in the UK on Tuesday night. During his stay he will enjoy a huge amount of special treatment. This also includes a broadcast on Channel 4: they dedicate their Wednesday night schedule to unpicking all the falsehoods expressed by Trump since taking office. This takes several hours.

More of this please

Far right organisers in this country consistently side with foreign billionaires over our democratic institutions. They are not patriots. They are quislings.

Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state. Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

The people marching in London today are very obviously the ideological descendants of the Mosleyite BUF fascists of the 1930s. The mainstream news and media are too timid to point it out, but that's what they are - and we normalise it at our peril.

An economy that is turning towards almost exclusively graft, speculation, fraud and gambling to obtain wealth, which is basically what we currently have, is going to only create more conditions that lead to social isolation and violence.

This story is the latest in a summer of revelations about Britain’s hidden waste system: Millions of tonnes of sewage sludge spread on farmland yearly, under 1989 rules that barely test for anything dangerous. 3/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Three of my great uncles, heroes all, died in World War Two to stop men like this. Will we now allow them to saunter into power?

In the real world…

Hi All, Just released my free weekend update. The big story this week the Ukrainians keeping up their ranged campaign against Russian oil refineries and pipelines--and having strategic effect. Putin is warning Russians about shortages and Fico is making nice. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.

The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it. A few examples in 🧵: theconversation.com/how-should-l...