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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 9h

#WildlifePhotography

Glorious #MrFox 💚

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 23h

Took hundreds of pictures this summer on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada), but only now had time to go through them. This molting Arctic fox giving a cute nose-lick while staring at me in the tundra is one of my favorites. 🌿🦊

Molting Arctic fox in the tundra, giving a cute nose-lick. Photo: Dominique Berteaux."

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 10h

🚨 #Energy ⬇️ #PowerOutages⬇️ #FakeNews 🚨

NPR @npr.org · 10h

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 12h

🚨 #PublicHealth
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💉 #VaccinationMatters💉

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16h

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 12h

#PublicHealth #CDC

@honigsbaum.bsky.social

Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 20h

Trump govt did not reverse these firings out of goodness or self-owning a "mistake." They would have been happy to get away with it. This reversal is the result of strong opposition. We undercut our own power when we give them the credit. Resistance matters. And remaining cuts are still devastating.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

TRUMP CDC REVERSAL: Trump administration racing to reverse some CDC layoffs. Disease detectives, measles responders, MMWR staff RIF’s are revoked. DC office still shuttered. w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Worth noting that Labour deputy leadership candidate Bridget Phillipson has been handed £60,000 by the Israel lobby, and that pro-Israel former hedge fund manager Stuart Roden has donated £80,000 supporting the office costs of Phillipson and Lisa Nandy? #bbclaurak

Israel lobby funded half of Keir Starmer’s cabinet

Exclusive: Labour’s top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel funders.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 15h

#ChinaSpyTrial

Well -said. Also insulting to the electorate.

@annachen.bsky.social

Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 15h

Assuming No 10/ Powell/ FO action intentionally or unintentionally scuppered the China spy trial, they might be better off just owning it and defending their reasoning rather than tying themselves in knots pretending otherwise and leaving hostages to fortune in their evasive answers

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15h

Lower bills.

Fund our NHS.

Not their culture war nonsense.

youtu.be/1CbN6TUTRZs?...

Zack Polanski HUMILIATES Piers Morgan LIVE On Air!

YouTube video by Antony Jones

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 17h

👀 they are really struggling with that $50,000 question.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 1d

#FreeDrHussamAbiSafiya who refused to leave his immobile patients in Al-Shifa hospital. One of 10,000 hostages held in Israeli prisons including over 450 children. Where is the international outcry? Why are the humanitarian voices in Israel so few?

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 2d

If they do this, they’ll need a convincing answer to the obvious question some will ask: ‘why don’t we rejoin?’ Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

www.thetimes.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 22h

#NatureMatters #Petition

With Sarah Mullaly elevation to @archbishopofcanterbury.org, maybe as current bishop @dioceseoflondon.bsky.social she'll halt the proposed sell-off of #Hackney #GreenSpace. 💷💷 @churchofengland.org 👇
www.savetheparish.com/church-of-en...

www.change.org/p/save-st-pa...

Sign the Petition

Save St Paul’s Rectory Garden

www.change.org

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 4d

Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

#JournalismMatters 🇺🇦🇺🇦

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered.
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...

Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero

The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...

kyivindependent.com

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 2d

Judge blocks Trump’s attempt to send National Guard troops to Chicago
www.channel4.com/news/judge-b...

Judge blocks Trump’s attempt to send National Guard troops to Chicago

Well President Trump might be celebrating his peace efforts abroad - but at home he's fighting Democratic rivals around the country as he tries to step up his federal crackdown from Memphis to Portlan...

www.channel4.com

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 2d

#ClimateChange ➡️ #PublicHealth

🚨...epidemiologists estimate heat fatalities by calculating excess/unexpected deaths during a severe hot spell. Eg: the 2022 heatwave in #Europe ➡️ ~62k heat-related excess deaths, while this summer 16k more people died prematurely. The US chooses not to know...🚨

Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

www.theguardian.com

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 2d

#LestWeForget #Sudan #TheNobel

🕊️ #Peace is not just an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice 🕊️- as true 350 years later as when #Spinoza wrote. Thoughtful writing as ever from @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social.

www.channel4.com/news/the-for...

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨 #THIS

Gershon Baskin גרשון בסקין غرشون بسكين @gershonbaskin.bsky.social · 2d

www.alquds.com/en/posts/196...

Times: The Gaza agreement was ready a year ago.

www.alquds.com

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Sam Kiley @samkiley.bsky.social · 2d

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Trump has been lavished with praise for delivering peace in Gaza – but did he really?

Donald Trump has been feted for his diplomatic role in the Gaza peace plan, but does the evidence stack up, asks world affairs editor Sam Kiley

www.independent.co.uk

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 2d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @greenbenali.bsky.social @northdevongreens.bsky.social #ICYMI

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 2d

#Gaza #Latest

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 2d

Gaza update at 11.30am UK time:
- a ceasefire has gone into effect 90 minutes ago
- Israel has moved to its Phase 1 withdrawal line (but still occupies >50% of the Strip
- the IDF has pulled out & is standing down some reserve units
- aid deliveries set at 600 trucks a day

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d

Nestle quietly exits global initiative to reduce dairy methane emissions

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Nestle quietly exits global initiative to reduce dairy methane emissions

www.latimes.com

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 2d

👏 Calling opposition to #genocide antisemitic is always ignorant & sometimes wicked. My willingness to fight antisemitism, leads me to stand against emerging fascism, and the #genocide that the far-right #Israeli government has unleashed👏 @tonybooth1.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb ‘cumulative’ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action

www.theguardian.com

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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 4d

We fasted for 25 hours in front of houses of parliament for Gaza Then we stopped. Not an option in Gaza or Darfur. But important to show where we stand on genocide.

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