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U.S. is a big reason the world is losing ground in the fight against climate change, U.N. report says U.S. was only major economy that failed last year to reduce its carbon pollution or at least slow the growth in how much c02 is spewed by burning fossil fuels. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron raises serious concerns of "ethnic cleansing", the United Nations has warned

"The Cuban regime has stifled any viable domestic opposition. But the withering of the state—a process that has been under way for decades—has accelerated, and is shocking to see up close" From Robert Worth, @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Ditch US tech - this article helps.. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The stock markets and bond markets are no supporters of democracy, and we should never allow them to dictate the limits of politics.

Google illegally cleared an estimated 250,000 trees across 330 hectares of forest in Muhos, northern Finland, to prepare for a new AI data center before completing mandatory environmental impact assessments And another 150,000 trees felled at Otanmäki www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

"With a seeming flick of a switch, Musk has the power to alter the course of a deadly conflict. " Nobody should have that kind of power www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals! It's not just about giving destructive industries what they want, important as this is. The likes of Trump and Bolsonaro will kill the planet out of a vengeful desire to hurt. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump oligarch Mark Zuckerberg has suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the national day of action.

"The number of registered beekeepers has more than doubled, from 19,000 in 2010 to 47,000 in 2025, according to the National Bee Unit." Honeybees are barging aside wild pollinators in hunt for pollen and nectar, study finds | Bees | The Guardian share.google/70KZxgwyY3DF...

Honeybees are barging aside wild pollinators in hunt for pollen and nectar, study finds | Bees | The Guardian share.google/70KZxgwyY3DF...

No one who has seen and heard these accounts can ever unsee them. The absolute, inhumane, psychopathic barbarism of the people making these decisions beggars belief. #Gazagenocide www.theguardian.com/film/video/2...

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

Donors of $333 million to the ballroom include "contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member." From @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4yiUDPx

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Call for hedgerow quality payments for farmers in next CAP - Agriland.ie share.google/hEBPl6GTjMna...

Putin has not funded disruption and chaos across Europe and the UK solely to weaken his enemies. He also knows that disruption and chaos favour the far right. And the far right loves Putin. It will abandon Ukraine and build him a highway into Europe.

Oxfam sues French state over tax inequality: 'Wealthiest buy privilege of not following same rules'

IPCC is under pressure to delay publication of key global climate report www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There is, writes @davidfrum.bsky.social, an "implicit quid pro quo in these lucrative deals offered to Trump’s family and friends: If you compel Ukraine to surrender, we will enrich you beyond reckoning" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Members of the Irish women's wheelchair basketball team plan to bow their heads during the national anthem and wear black armbands as they face Israel in the qualifiers for the Women's B division European Championship

A civilian narrowly survived a Russian drone strike on a kindergarten campus in the Kyiv region yesterday, with the entire incident captured on CCTV. 10/8/26

Traitor.

Chevron donated $150,000 to the Bay Area Council, which led a campaign against electrification rules requiring homeowners to replace gas water heaters with electric heat pumps. The Council hired a software company to send thousands of opposition emails, some without the consent of the signers.

"Suella Braverman: Britain’s Most Self-Loathing Brown Person?" The reliably toxic politician is well known for false and harmful racial allegations. Now she says she cannot be English because she has the ‘wrong ancestry’. From @afuahirsch.bsky.social and @zeteo.uk - read/share/subscribe:

2026 🤷 Debunked: Despite claims online, burning turf has a significant carbon footprint share.google/7SFrCPen7XwY...

🇷🇺An approved Communist Party rally in central Moscow did not go as planned. Protesters chanted “Fair elections,” “We want freedom,” “Freedom for political prisoners” and “Down with the Tsar” — referring to Putin. Police detained around 60 people.

Introducing the President of the United States... Yes, you heard right! He just offered up Los Angeles & San Diego for annihilation! Insanity! Approximately 60% of the U.S. Pacific Fleet is based out of the San Diego! California accounts for approximately 15% of the total U.S. economy! Vote blue!

At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed. Do not forget this.

ICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off.

George is quite right on this. I discovered via FOI requests that just 5% of all woodland creation grants go to support natural regeneration of trees, and 95% to tree planting. I’ll continue to push DEFRA to fix this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... bsky.app/profile/geor...

The Telegraph has published my letter responding to a column by James Rebanks. I argue that the pastoral idyll can obscure destructive and wasteful land use. They changed one thing though: I pointed out that the headline accused me of waging a "sheep culture war", not the article. archive.ph/pgEGB

OpenAI challenges secrecy of Apple pact with Musk’s X and SpaceXAI reut.rs/4hymDsn

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

Ban us from your conference, this is what happens 😉

The ‘British values’ brigade in action.

Nigel Farage filmed celebrating illegal foreign donations Undercover footage reveals plot to break the law by funnelling offshore funds through a UK donor. Donations funded a series of widely reported polls boosting Reform ahead of the local elections channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

Meanwhile.. Catastrophic floods, snow and mudslides have struck the Andes region, with Chile, Peru and Bolivia all badly hit. Peru's president has declared a state of emergency as experts warn that up to 1.2 million people could be affected. Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman reports, 29 Aug

Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.

A lot of truth in this new cartoon from Nova Scotia's Bruce MacKinnon. BTW, King Dumbass is claiming (as usual, with no evidence) that Dolly Parton was a "huge fan" of him. Yeah, right.

"There has been a 76% increase in under-construction gas-fired projects amid ‘frenzy’ to build more datacenters." #climate US building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China in AI boom, analysis finds | Fossil fuels | The Guardian share.google/ekLpQ3qzXoou...

More than 2,500 people have ⁠died in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak, which is spreading "out of control", Médecins Sans Frontières has warned.