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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 10h

Trans ppl and pro-Palestine ppl would have been among the two easiest demographics for Labour to keep but this leadership decided to adopt a far right transphobic position on basic rights while also cracking down on the freedom to protest while also being complicit in the Israeli genocide

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 11h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Varyl Thorndycraft @varylt.bsky.social · 7h

The social and environmental costs of private car ownership captured in one screen grab.

From the intro to @thewaroncars.bsky.social Life After Cars book

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 9h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Siavash Amini @capgrasman.bsky.social · 17h

if you ever wonder how metal underground in early 2000s in Tehran looked like.

Siavash Amini @capgrasman.bsky.social · 17h

20 years ago me on the left playing lead and being slim as fuck lol

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

They take genuine pleasure in torturing people and a political culture that has long ago normalised this will not stop unless forced to

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abu Seed has given a harrowing account of life inside an Israeli prison after his release as part of the ceasefire deal.

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.

“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

I’m going to go ahead and guess that Israel will participate in both Eurovision and UEFA as if nothing happened

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Varyl Thorndycraft @varylt.bsky.social · 1d

"Agricultural industries... responsible for 85% of forest loss over the past decade, have received average annual subsidies worth $409bn...70 times more than the $5.9bn of international public finance provided each year for forest protection and restoration."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 1d

Source: Charitie Ropati, Intersectional Environmentalist, and Feminist reporting on Typhoon Halong ravaging western Alaska

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Varyl Thorndycraft @varylt.bsky.social · 3d

Fossil Free London and Stop Rosebank are looking for people to sign up to a rolling picnic outside DESNZ, 8-9am to coincide with ongoing consideration of Equinor's application. Need to sign up TODAY. I've committed to some Tuesdays. #stoprosebank

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DRAFT Rolling Picket of DESNZ until they Stop Rosebank

Every day that parliament is sitting for the rest of 2025. we'll be outside DESNZ to remind the Government to make the right decision and Stop Rosebank. Sign up now to join the rolling picket. &nbs...

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Varyl Thorndycraft @varylt.bsky.social · 4d

Sadly, I fit three of the venn diagram circles but it's too far for me!

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 5d

We can't keep up...

Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000.

Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 6d

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.

The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.

The Greens say enough is enough.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Varyl Thorndycraft @varylt.bsky.social · 8d

Great thread on the contrasting imaginaries shaping our energy futures.

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

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11d

The racists in the UK are not the ones attending pro-Palestine marches this weekend.

The racists in the UK are the ones saying that you shouldn’t protest 53 Palestinians being murdered because two Jewish people were also murdered on the same day.

Some of us can condemn both.

At least 53 Palestinians killed in fresh wave of Israeli attacks on Gaza

Military offensive stepped up as Hamas leaders consider Trump’s 20-point peace plan

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11d

What a first day of conference!

@greenparty.org.uk is here - and ready to win.

www.channel4.com/news/zack-po...

Zack Polanski delivers first conference speech as Green Party leader

The newly-elected leader of the Green Party in England and Wales has used his party conference speech to attack the Labour Party and Reform UK.

www.channel4.com

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Varyl Thorndycraft @varylt.bsky.social · 11d

"The truth is simple: Britain is not broken because of migration. Britain is broken because of inequality....We are organising. We are growing. This is our moment. We need you to help us seize it."

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11d

"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski

Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

www.theguardian.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 12d

Mamdani’s controversial stance is the he believes an arrest warrant by the ICC needs to be respected regardless of the accused. Those who disagree believe that international law must never be applied to the people they like. It really is that simple.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13d

Zohran Mamdani: “If Netanyahu comes to deliver a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next year while I am mayor, I will move to honor the ICC arrest warrant issued in The Hague against him — just as I would against Putin."

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 13d

Pls join us in following the Global Sumud Flotilla as it attempts to break Israel’s starvation siege of Gaza.

It will make more noise if more people are watching on YouTube.

So far over 60,000 people are following live.

www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

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