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Eleanor Fielding @meownersclub.bsky.social · 2d

Yup.

You're told you don't deserve help
Your experience is being denied
Your support network is denigrated
You can't leave your house
You're afraid of dying but can't access healthcare
You cannot trust the people closest to you

Well Wise Cat has the answer “Has anyone else noticed that the psychiatric model of #ME is really just a form of
COERCIVE CONTROL?”

The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1h

Jon Kay says some people will say there can't be equivalence between Palestinian convicted criminals & Israelis taken from a music festival or their homes

Well done to Dr Khaled Dawas for explaining Palestinians live under occupation & it is their right to fight that occupation

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1h

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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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

www.sureserve.co.uk

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 7h

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Ciaran Mundy @ciaranmundy.bsky.social · 36m

#Starmer and the people who put him into power conduct "a political project at once proudly Machiavellian but entirely devoid of moral and intellectual substance." And "using hundreds of thousands of pounds in undeclared donations from hedge fund managers and supporters of Israel."

Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 54m

👉NEW -- How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate

by Richard Sanders

Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.
www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...

How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate

Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 36m

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 37m

Sweden’s “Green Transition”: Opportunities and Challenges rosalux.eu/en/2025/engl...

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels Office | Sweden’s “Green Transition”: Opportunities and Challenges

[:en]In northern Sweden, the rapid expansion of green industries is transforming the region—but at what cost? As billions are invested in new mines, battery factories, and wind farms—investments are e...

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 39m

Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making | David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher

A half-century ago, CBS’s own president was boasting of his support for an antidemocratic political project. Our new book uses never-before-reported documents to tell the story of a scheme to undermin...

www.theguardian.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2h

Israel has committed atrocity after atrocity, war crime after war crime & they've slaughtered 70,000 people (the real death toll is far higher). The highest global court says what Israel has done is plausible genocide & the UN says it is genocide

The UK govt: Hamas must disarm

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1h

The fake controversy: bsky.app/profile/keta...

And Koonin's desmog page (he's a former BP guy of course)

www.desmog.com/steve-koonin/

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2h

The new head of Channel Ten news in Australia being a climate change 'false balance' style denier seems pretty significant

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots

www.theguardian.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2h

It's a little understated that Bari Weiss is really a flat-out 'just-asking-questions' style climate change denier.

Eg, here she is saying the science is up for public debate rather than settled, publishing the work of a big-name denier influencer (Koonin), and boosting a fake controversy

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
"Is Donald Trump a “dictator”? Did the events of January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., constitute an “insurgency”?

Is Joe Biden “sharp as a tack”?

Is the science of climate change “settled”?

Are Javier Milei of Argentina, Marine Le Pen of France, and the AfD party in Germany “far right”?

Is the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis a “conspiracy theory”? Was the persistence of the virus a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? Does Anthony Fauci “represent science”?

Does Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, “promote hatred”? Do “fact-checkers” check facts?

Let’s ask a question about these questions: Why on Earth were we placed in a position of having to answer them?

In an open society, perspectives on reality confront one another in forceful competition. Each may contain some particle of truth—or at least some useful information.

So even the flat-earthers are allowed their say. Even the Bigfoot-seekers appear on the Discovery Channel. Somewhere among the nonsense, there may be something worth hearing.

Because we don’t precisely know where or when, the conversation is never over.

A vast diversity of perspectives should be promoted within an open society. It’s the intellectual equivalent of hybrid vigor.

If we all think alike, a single fatal error, being shared by all, could destroy the world.

These precepts are not original. They have long been part of the American DNA. The default, for us, has always been debate.

When certain subjects, like slavery, were made taboo and removed from the possibility of discussion, towering figures arose and terrible conflicts were fought to restore the balance.

However, the past four years have seen a sustained effort to overturn the principles of the open society. The just-departed administration, of which Biden was the decrepit figurehead, tried to impose, by threat or mandate, a version of reality that brooked no discussion.

Supported by its allies in the media, the academy, and the bureaucracy, the administrati…

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
Climate change did not cause the LA fires says Steve Koonin in an essential conversation with our
@EmilyYoffe
:

https://thefp.com/p/climate-change-did-not-cause-the-la-fires-steve-koonin

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
·
Sep 6, 2023
Gratified at the outpouring of responses to this important and courageous piece by
@PatrickTBrown31
.

https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published
From thefp.com
Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
·
Sep 5, 2023
"Savvy researchers tailor their studies to maximize the likelihood that their work is accepted. I know this because I am one of them.

Here’s how it works."

@PatrickTBrown31
with a must-read piece:

https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2h

Adam Parsons tells us Palestinians "feel" that Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are hostages too

Feel?

People are seized from their homes & locked up indefinitely without trial or charge, with no evidence against them & not even told why they've been locked up!

"Feel".

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 5h

"Even achieving emissions reduction targets consistent with the ambitious goal of 1.5°C of global warming under the Paris Agreement will result in the further loss of 70–90% of reef-building corals compared to today, with 99 corals being lost under warming of 2°C or more"
www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/...

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 7h

This is very sad, but also not surprising. The science has warned for a long time, including in IPCC reports, that even modest levels of global warming will devastate virtually all coral reefs.
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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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 4h

How does one write about China's plans - solar or whatever else - in Tibet without recognising that the people have been marginalised and pushed out? The lack of understanding of land and resource rights issues among (mostly Western) climate reporters is sadly not new
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

China’s High Ambitions for Clean Energy

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 8h

" #Climate change is no longer a distant fear, it has now become a clear & current threat.

Things that used to happen on geological timescales are now unravelling in *our* lifetimes" - @philipb-h.bsky.social

#GlobalWarning ⚠️ @aljazeera.com

Inside the planet’s most urgent climate warning | Global Warning E1 | Featured Documentary

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8h

Palestinians returning to northern Gaza say they have no means to rebuild amid what they describe as indescribable destruction by Israeli forces, as limited aid trickles in but remains scarce, according to officials.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/n5k3lj

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2h

Dominic Waghorn reports that Israel refuses to release Marwan Barghouti, "who is arguably the Nelson Mandela of Palestinians".

The release of Mandela heralded the end of apartheid South Africa. Its not hard to see why the Israeli apartheid regime wants to keep him locked up.

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Duroyan Fertl ᚇᚓᚑᚏᚐᚇᚐᚅ @dfertl.bsky.social · Mar 27

The rapid expansion of green industries worldwide is generating new conflicts over land use, the environment, & #indigenous & social rights.
Arne Müller looks at the contradictions & conflicts playing out in the #GreenTransition in northern #Sweden.
#Sámi #CleanEnergy
rosalux.eu/en/2025/engl...

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels Office | Sweden’s “Green Transition”: Opportunities and Challenges

[:en]In northern Sweden, the rapid expansion of green industries is transforming the region—but at what cost? As billions are invested in new mines, battery factories, and wind farms—investments are e...

rosalux.eu

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 15h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14h

BLM is now trying to say the Esmeralda 7 solar project is not canceled because now companies have to submit their projects individually for environmental review.

This, err, means it is canceled, because what was once a giant solar project is now a bunch of separate little independent solar projects

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management responded to 8 News Now on Friday afternoon to clarify the meaning of a “canceled” notice on the Esmeralda Seven Solar Project. A decision to combine the environmental reviews for the seven projects is being changed to give each project the option of submitting their proposal separately. The BLM’s statement: “During routine discussions prior to the lapse in appropriations, the proponents and BLM agreed to change their approach for the Esmeralda 7 Solar Project in Nevada. Instead of pursuing a programmatic level environmental analysis, the applicants will now have the option to submit individual project proposals to the BLM to more effectively analyze potential impacts.”

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14h

The entire point of Esmeralda 7 was that it was one big mega-project comprised of many solar farms at once, and the environmental review was nearly done

Ending the review and forcing each facility to go through its own review is canceling the mega-project!

#greensky #energysky #climatesky

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 13h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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