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There's another way of putting this: "Markets prefer fascists" www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

🇺🇸 Fast-food giants. UK rivers. One BIG pollution problem. As American fast-food giants expand across the UK, demand for cheap chicken is soaring. But behind the boom lies a growing environmental crisis... 🧵1/2. riveractionuk.com/news/big-ame... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Today’s budget looks like being worse for our future and the young than even anything Starmer came up with. A budget based on approval of mass new oil drilling is a betrayal of our future.

While Norway banned routine gas flaring in 1971, the UK continues to lag behind, with voluntary industry rules instead of legally binding regulations. Comment 'no new gas' below if you want the government to take concrete actions to meet their climate change commitments.

Was that it? It all felt very familiar. A Labour Government totally unwilling to take on power and wealth and give our country the investment we so desperately need. Join.greenparty.org.uk

70 years ago today…

The only unaffordable thing in the UK is greed. £150bn Tax Evasion £80bn Tax Breaks £219bn Corruption £449bn - 40% of the entire budget STOLEN by the richest. That is DOUBLE the entire NHS budget. Take it back.

Burning the planet is pragmatic. 🤪

Andy Burnham is asked about Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields. He says "Use of our resources can support and accelerate a clean energy future" We are truly down the rabbit hole with this utter nonsense. Invest in renewables, insulate homes & say no to fossil fuels.

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ANTI-NETANYAHU ISRAELI: “This country has been fascist for a long time… 60 years of military occupation… we can’t deny 🇮🇱 was built on ethnic cleansing… the situation is dire… daily horrors in Gaza and the West Bank.” From @channel5bluesky.bsky.social : www.instagram.com/reel/DfAharv...

I am Jewish. My grandparents were Jews who escaped the Holocaust. Pogroms were a common practice, ethnic cleansing too, and they managed to escape before the Holocaust. Most of their family members are dead, we’re a broken family tree with missing spots. I support Palestine BECAUSE I am Jewish.

I guess we'll see if the US can find it in its heart to make an exception to the current "white South Africans only" refugee policy

Bolsonario (son) runs away from Brazil after losing the general election - using his second, Italian passport. Accused of money laundering/ corruption, he left for Magaland. 🤷🏼‍♀️ www.expansion.com/economia/pol...

Trump just threatened to withhold federal disaster relief from North Carolina if the state votes Democratic in the midterms. Let me remind you again: no president in history has politicized and weaponized natural disasters the way Trump has.

Thames Water has gone bust So it's normal (and appropriate) for shareholders to get ZERO compensation And a huge chunk of its debt can be written off as part of the special administration process @andyburnham.bsky.social you have 2 DAYS to stop the bailout weownit.org.uk/news/5-thing...

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554 MPs, 85% of the total, were elected in 2024 with less than half the vote in their seat, up from 229 in 2019. Under First Past the Post, most local voters backing someone else is now the norm.

British politicians defend Macklemore and reject push to ban him from UK - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/british-politicians-defend-macklemore-and-slam-calls-him-be-banned-uk

EU tells countries to make plans to cope with 3C of global warming Climate commissioner says member states must take ownership of damage caused by floods, heatwaves and fires www.ft.com/content/964...

Rewilding doesn’t cause wildfires. In fact, it’s one of the best tools we have for creating fire-resilient landscapes. We saw this over the summer during the worst of the wildfires, and now a new report from Rewilding Britain sets out the evidence.

⏰️ It's time for a bold, green budget that brings down bills, tackles inequality and works to protect our environment. Will Labour deliver?

It's disturbing to see some young Jews, especially Americans who moved to Israel, echo Nazi rhetoric. American-born Jews also wield disproportionate influence within the settler movement, including some of its most violent extremist factions.

People around the world are uniting to say no to Trump. Yet Andy Burnham does the opposite by approving the Jackdaw gas field.

56 individuals in the UK have as much wealth as the poorest 27 million (Oxfam), but they appear - for some reason - to be immune from government efforts to raise more cash Monstrous and criminal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

More British people are "very concerned" about climate change after a summer of extreme weather, up from 34% to 38%. The total share concerned about climate is 79%, but that's still lower than the 85% seen just before the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow five years ago.

NEW: Check out the latest #AccidentalGods podcast where Jon Alexander fills in for host @mandascott.bsky.social. He takes a deep dive into our Climate Popularism report with me and my co-author, @carolinelucas.bsky.social. accidentalgods.life/climclimate-...

It is time for Andy Burnham to ditch Israel and really speak out forcefully, The Israelis torture their prisoners.

FT: Insurance analysts pressured to play down climate risks to cut prices "These policies are going to become quite vulnerable and might not keep us profitable and we will have to cut chunks off the policies, making streets or whole areas uninsurable"... www.ft.com/content/b6bc...

Almost none of us benefits from an advertising business model which puts short-term profit and convenience ahead of the health of our society. But ultimately the money fuelling this comes from advertisers we all know and shop with – and this gives us a way to push back. /4

Every day we’re seeing the consequences of advertisers failing to fix this: Rising racist attacks, the toxic resurgence of misogyny among young men, an uptick in transphobic hate crime, charity volunteers being harassed simply for doing their jobs. /3 www.insidetrack.org.uk/releases/adh...

This timely and urgent whistleblower report paints a shocking picture of an advertising industry knowingly complicit in the spreading of dangerous hate and lies. /2 www.insidetrack.org.uk/releases/adh...

Advertising whistleblowers have just released a damning exposé of their industry's role in "incentivising and enabling" online hate /1

True.

Wes is exactly where the multi-£billion war lobby need him to be: highly impressionable. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Green MSP Kate Nevens and SNP MP Lara Bird have been kidnapped by Israel for trying to enter Palestine. The Prime Minister should be demanding their immediate release.

Where is the coverage of this it should be on every news front.

The cuts being made at the BBC are unforgivable. They are putting it into a death spiral. The weaker it gets, the less people will want to support it. And yes, this is an issue for the Government, which likes to pretend it's not their problem. It is.

It's not just about climate chaos. It's also about landscape chaos. The damage we do to the land's hydrology is layered on top of the damage we do to the atmosphere. Our mismanagement of land commits us to a cycle of flood and drought. We can change this, as explained here. Please read. Thanks.

“People are demanding action on rents, the cost of the climate emergency and about how we can bring people's bills down and yet what we're about to see is just the same old.” Hannah Spencer on the government's approach to Wednesday's Budget, speaking at the Cost of Living rally.

Conservative peer Lord Jackson told a debate on Lords reform on Friday: "An elected House...will result in a House of compliant placemen from party lists, donors, careerists, cranks and the unemployable." Which to most members of the public sums up their view of the Lords as it is *now*

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

When you're asking questions about choices in the Budget this week... #lobbying #UK #treasury abolishwestminster.com/finance-indu...

The UN-mandated commission of inquiry found that Israel's genocidal acts are ultimately aimed at "blocking any viable attempts to realize Palestinians’ right to self-determination."

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

This is so effing disgusting on the part of the IDF !

This is eminently reasonable, extremely well-argued, and essential reading. Erin is correct about all of this, and it is doubly urgent given what we've seen in the UK. 2026 is the time to correct the Dems about this. 2028 may be too late.

🌊 Not content with the damage data centres are doing on land... www.scientificamerican.com/article/unde...

Patriots one and all 🤣🤣🤣