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Catherine Read
@cathread.bsky.social
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💙NHS, Welsh, worried about climate change.🌍Born at 321ppm. 🏳️‍🌈2024 Parliamentary candidate💚Guardian of Folly Wood🦇🐝🌿Former Radiographer. Expressing my own views.
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cathread.bsky.social
RCT council realise that you cannot stop rising waters with expensive flood defences. So they bought the houses to demolish. This is how you look after citizens affected by the #ClimateCrisis

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘To live a normal life again, it’s a dream come true’: UK’s first climate evacuees can cast off their homes and trauma
Forty-odd residents of Clydach Terrace in Ynysybwl, south Wales, relieved by council buyout after years in fear of fast flooding
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:04 PM
cathread.bsky.social
Great weather for tree planting. Nearly 100 native trees this season.
#FollyWood
🌳🪾🦋🦋🐝🐜
February 8, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Reposted by Catherine Read
goodlawproject.bsky.social
While banning social media seems like the easy solution, in fact it's letting Big Tech off the hook and placing the burden to protect themselves on children and families.

That's how we see it. What do you think?
February 8, 2026 at 10:01 AM
cathread.bsky.social
Want to know more about the leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social?
He oozes positivity, is thoughtful kind and fun, but not afraid to challenge an unfair status quo that only benefits the rich and powerful.
#HopeisHere
💚
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub
With polls and membership at an all-time high, the Green party are having a moment – and it’s largely down to their charismatic (if slightly cheesy) new leader. Can he really pull off a socialist revo...
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:39 AM
cathread.bsky.social
“Appointed” is that democratic?
Doesn’t live in Wales!
Good grief, what a shambles.
#VoteGreen
February 6, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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sianberry.bsky.social
It’s easy being Green 💚
join.greenparty.org.uk
February 6, 2026 at 11:51 AM
cathread.bsky.social
'Thiel has been publicly supportive of authoritarian government' he “no longer think[s] that freedom and democracy are compatible”
Is this really who we want to share our data with?
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Palantir and how its infiltrated our NHS and MOD.
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
Exclusive: Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gapin...
www.thenerve.news
February 6, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Reposted by Catherine Read
peterstefanovic.bsky.social
“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore

It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end
February 6, 2026 at 7:34 AM
cathread.bsky.social
Links everywhere of an elite and powerful gentlemen’s club seeking to destabilise democracy, making us all poorer and subservient to these extremely wealthy and greedy individuals.
Bannon, Trump, Farage, Epstein
#TaxWealth
#ExtremeWealthCorrupts
#BrexitDisaster

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
bylinetimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:55 AM
cathread.bsky.social
“the issue was not Epstein’s files per se but the questions the messages raise about powerful foreign influences and the networks aimed at weakening Europe”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Epstein files shed more light on Steve Bannon’s efforts to influence European politics
Donald Trump’s former adviser told Epstein in 2019 that he was ‘focused on raising money for Le Pen and Salvini’ before European elections
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:39 AM
cathread.bsky.social
Polanski said Palantir “has absolutely no place in the NHS, looking after patients’ personal data … I understand there is a break clause in the contract this year and I would urge you not to renew the contract of such a disreputable corporation”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals
Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to examine deals blocked
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Reposted by Catherine Read
sarahdougherty.bsky.social
I have thought of this quote a lot and shared it with lots of people. Helped me point out how car brained we have been guided to be: we have assumed it is a right to have a car wherever we want and gov should help us store it? Wrong. City spaces are meant for people not cars :)
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d
“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
Picture of central Pontevedra, Spain from the air
February 4, 2026 at 1:25 PM
cathread.bsky.social
@greenjennyjones.bsky.social reflects on the downside of patronage in the upper house and how “it would be better still to tear up the system and rebuild it in a more democratic way”
#Democracy

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Peter Mandelson is fleeing the House of Lords: now let’s throw out all the other rogues and idlers | Jenny Jones
The disgraced politician throws all that is wrong with our present system into sharp focus. We need a second chamber the public can trust, says Jenny Jones, a Green party peer
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:16 PM
cathread.bsky.social
The splitting-the-vote argument is not a result of the system. It is the point of the system.
#MakeVotesMatter
💚

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If Reform ever wins power in Westminster, it will be because of Labour’s cowardice | George Monbiot
Starmer could improve our unfair electoral system to stop the hard right, but he won’t. All the party has left are threats about ‘splitting the vote’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Reposted by Catherine Read
sianberry.bsky.social
The incarceration of people for months and years without trial for offences that are in essence political has no place in a democracy like ours.

And in case it needed saying Greens oppose BOTH the increasing criminalisation of protest AND the removal of jury trials!
February 3, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Reposted by Catherine Read
strategywoman.bsky.social
It’s very loud in Kyiv.
russia is attacking us with ballistic missiles.

Let the world know.
February 2, 2026 at 11:43 PM
cathread.bsky.social
“restoring wetlands and the natural flow of rivers, along with continuing the reintroduction of ecosystem engineers such as beavers, will help” to reduce flooding. Beavers do all this for free.
#ProtectNature
🦫🦋🐦‍⬛

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It sounds apocalyptic’: experts warn of impact of UK floods on birds, butterflies and dormice
Events such as Storm Chandra take a terrible toll on ecosystems, but nature can be part of the solution for mitigating flood waters
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:58 AM
cathread.bsky.social
I am always overlooked at a bar and it’s really annoying that other customers walk up and get served straight away! Really, it is not fair customer service. Table service would be my preferred option.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘It’s ridiculous’: publicans bemused by rise of single-file queues to get served
Bar owners say they struggle to dissuade people from forming a line as behavioural experts point to post-pandemic ‘new norms’
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Reposted by Catherine Read
sianberry.bsky.social
Wondering why I am so angry and vocal about the UK Govt building a toolkit for tyrants?

In the USA, ICE agents took facial rec for tracking ‘non-citizens’ (so grim in itself!) and then immediately used it to build themselves a database of human rights protestors. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:12 AM
cathread.bsky.social
Great idea. Eating cows on only 4 days a year. Make it special, if you need too.
Better still, expand that to dairy because there are loads of alternatives that have a smaller climate footprint.

www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ja...
The rise of ‘beef days’: why even meat lovers are cutting back
Inspired by YouTube creators, some people are limiting beef to a handful of ‘feast days’ a year to cut their climate impact
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:18 AM
cathread.bsky.social
“The scale of investment remains insufficient relative to overall flood risk”
The government needs to up its game and fund adaptation and flood defence schemes for people’s homes.
#ClimateEmergency
🌊🛟⛑️

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk
As rivers swell and homes are cut off, scientists say UK winter rainfall is already 20 years ahead of predictions
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:54 AM
cathread.bsky.social
The positives of regularising immigrants “tax revenues increased by about €4,000 per regularised immigrant a year”
Welcoming those who want to work is a good thing, it avoids cheap labour & brings in tax revenues. Everyone gets a better life.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘It’s like a gift from God’: undocumented foreign workers welcome Spanish amnesty
Half a million migrants will be ‘regularised’ under plans to boost economic growth that have angered rightwing parties
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:32 AM
cathread.bsky.social
Great thread. Do you read the following graphs as an optimist or pessimist?
thierryaaron.bsky.social Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 11d
The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data.

It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes.

Here’s what I mean 🧵👇
January 30, 2026 at 9:00 AM
cathread.bsky.social
Reform just do not care about ordinary people. Why would you vote for someone who knowing kept his tenants from having hot water for 2 yrs?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Reform UK council chair resigns after ‘illegally renting out unsafe properties’
Council said Edward Harris’s properties ‘failed to meet even most basic of living standards and legal requirements’
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:51 AM
cathread.bsky.social
“wealth is concentrated in a few hands and everyone else is struggling”
#WealthTax
Share the wealth, eradicate poverty.
dalevince.com Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 13d
We need to change the tax system - we need tax justice.
January 29, 2026 at 3:12 PM