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Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 1d

For Green members: following demand from multiple members been asked to turn the emergency conference motion around the hate crimes that happened last week into an open letter for Greens to show their unified opposition. Please sign and share widely:

Green party open letter on Manchester Yom Kippur killings and Peacehaven attacks

Green Party open letter on Manchester Yom Kippur killings and Peacehaven arson To Whom It may Concern, Subject: Yom Kippur killings in Manchester and arson attack in Peacehaven. On 2nd October 2025 t...

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 18h

Climate Change is already creating serious food supply issues. The potential collapse of the already declining AMOC could add dramatically and catastrophically to this.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20h

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

www.monbiot.com

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to the BBC asking Richard (man-made climate change is 'absolute garbage') Tice, MP for the towns, about this....

"Boston and Skegness in Lincolnshire [is] projected to have about 90% of homes at risk from river and coastal flooding by 2050 – the highest proportion in the country."

Millions more homes in Great Britain at risk of flooding, investigation finds

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 22h

Growing the green economy makes good sense. Growing the fossil fuel economy so that predatory corporations can make more money doesn't.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22h

Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

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Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister's wife – HOPE not hate

IN BREACH OF PARLIAMENTARY RULES: REFORM UK’S RICHARD TICE Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register lavish hospitality...

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 1d

How much do you really know about abortion in the UK?

Senior reporter Isabella McRae has been uncovering whether our rights are still under threat.

Read the full series this week on bigissue.com 💻

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Cllr Sam Casey-Rerhaye @samcaseyr.bsky.social · 20h

Ffs, another day, another scandal.

Tories are incompetent and attract incompetence.

The knowledge and skills to properly and safely insulate have been around for centuries

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds

Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23h

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. 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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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 22h

Every person on the planet has countless numbers of microplastic particles in their body and we have no idea how much damage this will do over a lifetime. Yet plastic production is still increasing.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

www.theguardian.com

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Cllr Sam Casey-Rerhaye @samcaseyr.bsky.social · 21h

Land value tax - @greenparty.org.uk policy means a fairer tax which includes land owners, who currently do not pay local tax for the facilities they use.

Other great policies available!

If you agree, why not join? join.greenparty.org.uk

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 1d

When Reform promise you savings on your council tax bill, what else could you expect

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1d

County Durham residents fear higher bills as Reform UK plans council tax changes
Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax; they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

County Durham residents fear higher bills as Reform UK plans council tax changes

Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax; they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 1d

Data given to @lnbdublin.bsky.social show very low levels of prosecutions for wildlife crime. "these figures expose a system that’s simply not delivering”

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Convictions for wildlife crimes in single digits despite high number of complaints

In the absence of ‘real deterrents’, penalties amount only to ‘slap on the wrist’, says Sinn Féin MEP

www.irishtimes.com

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Cllr Sam Casey-Rerhaye @samcaseyr.bsky.social · 1d

I had to turn off the news on radio 4 this evening as wall to wall coverage of the words of a man wanted for war crimes was broadcast. What is this, collaboration BBC?

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 1d

Wild bees are dying out never to be replaced. The wildlife emergency continues to worsen as humans seeking a bit more profit wipe out species as effectively as an asteroid

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

www.theguardian.com

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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 1d

postmodern finance theory

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

everything i’ve read about how this latest ceasefire came about suggests that if you want to credit anyone it should be the qataris for bribing the president enough that he determined he wanted to keep them happy and then using that carrot to demand a change after bibi (insanely) bombed them

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 1d

In other news we are wrecking the joint and those who are making money out of it are happy to carry on as if everything was normal.

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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 2d

Another significant environmental crime

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

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Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

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Cllr Sam Casey-Rerhaye @samcaseyr.bsky.social · 1d

More privatisation of the public realm. Hugely disappointing . Labours really are just the same as Tories but in a different colour

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Trump calls climate science a ‘con job’. That could make tackling the crisis a whole lot easier | Francesco Grillo

Europe and Brazil have a rare opportunity, unimpeded by the US, to make a success of Cop30 – and reshape the world order, says Francesco Grillo of the European University Institute, Florence

www.theguardian.com

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