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Mr MT @mremtee.bsky.social · 13h

Chase these people for every penny of the money they owe with all the same rigour applied to poor people who are a few minutes late for a job centre appointment or who receive £1 more than the government decides they need to survive for another week.

Anything less than that is just soundbites.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13h

PPE Medpro will be pursued
'with everything we've got'
Wes Streeting says

news.sky.com/story/steeti...

PPE Medpro will be pursued 'with everything we've got' Wes Streeting says

PPE Medpro says it is yet to hear from the government on its offer of settlement talks but ministers signal they are not interested in a deal, only full repayment.

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Mr MT @mremtee.bsky.social · 13h

Chase these people for every penny of the money they owe with all the same rigour applied to poor people who are a few minutes late for a job centre appointment or who receive £1 more than the government decides they need to survive for another week.

Anything less than that is just soundbites.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

IDF is still shooting people in Gaza

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18h

I feel thrown by the widespread proclamations of a glorious, lasting peace in Gaza. A lot even treats “now that it’s all over” as the unquestioned premise.

It still looks like a disaster to me. Am I way off? Are my domestic politics distorting my view? Either the consensus is wrong or I am.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 19h

To learn more about the interface of war economies, the climate crisis, and geopolitical restructuring - and what to do about it- join us for the launch of @transitionsec.bsky.social tomorrow at 1 ET www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-climat...

War, Climate Crisis and the Economy: Transition Security Project Launch

A collaboration between Common Wealth and Climate & Community Institute to investigate the US and UK military industrial complexes.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 19h

Increasing military budgets as part of rising great-power competition is a disaster across multiple fronts: for the victims of wars, for an already burning planet, and for workers who don’t see real benefits from military conflict. New from me & @transitionsec.bsky.social co-director Khem Rogaly

All Guns and No Butter on a Burning Planet

The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet.

jacobin.com

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Ahmed @ahmeeed9.bsky.social · 19h

Donations are few and far between, barely enough to provide enough food for my family, but I may not be able to eat today so my family doesn't go hungry. 😭💔

Please don't abandon me.
chuffed.org/project/1426...

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 19h

Palestinian families like Ahmed's have been violently displaced & starved for 2 yrs of Israel's genocidal famine & destruction of Gaza. Please help by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, & shelter, they've been left with nothing:

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 1d

The Guardian view on the rising risk from flooding: uninsurable buildings should focus minds on climate adaptation | Editorial

Editorial: The bleak future faced by one small town offers a cautionary tale about the threat from global heating

www.theguardian.com

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Even if this was true - it isn’t, this is unbelievably worse and indefensible than e.g. the Iraq War - you are talking about World War II level crimes against humanity here. A significant chunk of the public believes you should be sent to prison for decades, and they are correct.

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 1d

Journalism that dares not name fascism, that dares not call out as wholly dangerous and illegitimate the anti-science, anti-rule of law policies and politics of one side, in the name of supposed 'balance', is the custodian of democratic rot.

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand you have a political party that believes in the rule of law. On the other hand, you have a political party which is lawless & authoritarian. The journalist who presents these as being of equal democratic legitimacy is dragging society half way into lawlessness. This isn't neutrality.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

How the Labour government would have banned the Labour movement.
My latest column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 2d

“Governments are repressing human rights defenders and the current trajectory is incompatible with the realization of human rights for all. It’s just a road to destruction … I think states are behaving in a criminal fashion”

‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert

Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists

www.theguardian.com

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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 2d

Make polluters pay for climate action here 👇
foe.uk/5w0tj

Demand the super-rich and big polluters pay for climate action

foe.uk

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Julius Garbe @juliusgarbe.github.io · 2d

📢 OUT NOW: Global Tipping Points Report 2025

In this new report, we provide a check on the status of critical Earth system #TippingPoints and opportunities in #PositiveTippingPoints across sectors.

➡️ Full report: global-tipping-points.org

#GTPR2025 #COP30 @exeter.ac.uk @pik-potsdam.bsky.social

Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact

Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability.

global-tipping-points.org

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

This bit in particular: what, our leaders just decided that the UN aid agency were terrorists, then replaced them with mercenaries firing machine guns at starving civilians? Everyone involved needs to be tried for war crimes then sent to prison for decades.

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 2d

Bleaching, Melting, Slowing: New Global Tipping Points report tracks growing risks of Earth system tipping points. It highlights mounting risks, from melting glaciers, ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

It really is infuriating that our politics has been mutilated to accommodate these crimes and ensure no negative consequences for the people who facilitated it. If the system won’t punish these people then the public has to instead, at every election for the rest of their lives, if necessary.

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 2d

Dear friends, please read this. 😔

We owe it to our one and only living planet, not to turn away. To be uninformed is to be powerless indeed. We have to face reality, no matter how painful, to have ANY hope at all of driving the positive change we need.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 3d

Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 3d

🌊 New study shows timing of CO₂ cuts is the main driver of sea-level rise variability by 2065–2075; unless Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping points are triggered…

Rapid decarbonisation + adaptation are both crucial to manage sea-level rise risks

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The interplay of future emissions and geophysical uncertainties for projections of sea-level rise - Nature Climate Change

Unclear emissions and ice-sheet processes drive uncertainties in future sea-level rise. The authors show that the timing of emissions reductions drives the uncertainties during the twenty-first century, but geophysical uncertainties become more important with time, especially under optimistic scenarios.

www.nature.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 4d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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