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Simeon Shtebunaev
@shtebunaev.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at Social Life | Doctoral research at Birmingham City University in youth and urban planning | Trustee RTPI | Design Council Expert

Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/simeonshtebunaev
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@mark--watts.bsky.social, Executive Director of C40 Cities, said:

“C40 Cites stands fully behind Colombia’s Belém Declaration on a just transition away from fossil fuels. We respond to their invitation for subnational involvement with an ‘absolutely… yes!’
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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This is shocking. Up to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis, research suggests

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Can’t quite believe the Chancellor is seriously considering slashing support for home energy efficiency as a way to cut fuel bills 👀. Locking people into cold & leaky homes which will cost them more to heat & decimating the insulation industry at same time. Total madness 👇
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Jordan has read Time Shelter, woop woop great Bulgarian book!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Miss Me? - Listen Bitch! Nostalgia Used to be an Illness - BBC Sounds
Miquita and Jordan answer your questions about the things that scare us.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Victoria Derbyshire, "One of your policies that wouldn't hit most people is a wealth tax, 1% on those with £10m+"

Zack Polanski, "Patriotic Millionaires say between £15-25 billion a year"

Zack Polanski, "This isn't about creating public investment it's about reducing inequality"
October 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Sorry you've been a victim of fake news.

I said this morning to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social that the Green Party had passed 123,000 members.

A couple of hours later it's out of date. @greenparty.org.uk have 126,000! 🎉🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
October 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Tomorrow I'll be on Laura Kuenssberg.

Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?

It's tantalisingly close to happening!

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
October 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Proud to support this powerful campaign begun by residents in Moseley. It has resonated with people across the country
who are sick and tired of seeing nothing but divisive rhetoric in our news every day.
#noplaceforhate #Brumunited.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right
A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
October 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating.

We're just getting started.

This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.
October 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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1/2 These days Jewish life exists in the UK by virtue of a large amount of security, which is very expensive, & which many organisations cannot afford. it is an invisible tax on Jewishness. The Community Security Trust provides this security free of charge, alleviating the burden
October 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Labour stand for one thing to everyone - to protect the super rich.

@greenparty.org.uk will cut bills, bring public services back into public hands, and protect our NHS.

Labour takes cash from oil & gas, gambling, and the arms trade.

Make your choice.
👉🏼 Join.greenparty.org.uk
September 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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The Green Party now has 78,000 members.

Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.

I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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"The era of trickle down economics was always a lie."

@zackpolanski.bsky.social lays out the Green Party's plan for a fairer taxation system on Sky News.
September 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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However, Mr Polanski ruled out working with Sir Keir Starmer’s current government.

“While they’re still arming a genocide, cutting disability payments, and the two-child benefit cap, I wouldn’t dream of working with them,” he said.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Green Party leader Zack Polanski: 'I feel compassion for Angela Rayner
The newly elected leader said he sympathises with the former Deputy PM and asks whether Reform UK’s Nigel Farage should also quit
www.standard.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The AI prompt writer straight out of Stalinist school of art
Every authoritarian regime that embraced this aesthetic inflicted violence and chaos on its society
August 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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When it rains, it pours.

Not only is DC under attack today by our felon President.

So is my marriage, and the marriage of nearly ONE MILLION of my fellow LGBTQ+ Americans.
Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling
10 years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to all same-sex couples, it will consider whether to take a case asking it to overturn the decision.
abcnews.go.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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El Gobierno de Sánchez, Europa y la comunidad internacional no pueden seguir mirando hacia otro lado.

Es urgente frenar la ocupación de Gaza: embargo total de armas y ruptura de relaciones comerciales y diplomáticas con el Estado genocida de Israel.
www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
El gabinete de seguridad de Israel aprueba el plan militar de Netanyahu para ocupar la Ciudad de Gaza
Una larga reunión del Ejecutivo concluye con el aval para invadir la urbe, pero no el conjunto de la Franja, lo que era el objetivo declarado del primer ministro y había levantado críticas internas
www.eldiario.es
August 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
And now the census
August 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM