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Anita

@anitabaker.bsky.social
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Environment, animal rights, politics Ⓥ 🌱 🇬🇧 🇵🇹 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 #EndFactoryFarming #KeepTheBan #EndTheCull #EndBSL #Degrowth #PostGrowth #UBI #StarTrek #Overshoot #CollapseAware

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
If this is what the Israeli authorities do to people the world is watching, imagine what they do to people with no voice and no visibility. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
theguardian.com
Gaza flotilla activists allege sexual assault and rape in Israeli detention
Israeli prison service denies claims of abuse during detention of 430 people trying to take aid to Palestinians
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
As I reported last week, Reform is increasingly vocally anti abortion (article done before Kenyon selected so his comments not included - great scoop by Cat below!) www.opendemocracy.net/aabortion-re...
opendemocracy.net
Abortion is becoming a new front in Reform UK’s culture war
Following abortion decriminalisation, analysis from openDemocracy and the Fuller Project reveals the UK far right is pushing anti-abortion talking points into mainstream political debate.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
A deeply concerning analysis by @richardjmurphy.bsky.social I'm not qualified to assess its merits, but it sounds as if we should at least be highly alert to the possibilities he raises. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05...
taxresearch.org.uk
This could be as bad as 1929, and maybe very much worse
As Katie Martin has noted in the FT this morning, there is something exceptionally strange going on in the world's financial markets at the moment, and we should be taking note. Since 30th March this...
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“Amsterdam is set to ban climate-damaging advertising [fossil fuel & meat adverts] in public spaces, following a trend spreading across Dutch cities. France has also enacted legislation outlawing adverts from non-renewable energy companies, & one Italian city has plans to do the same.” #UrbanTruth
euronews.com
The European city banning all fossil fuel and meat adverts in public
Amsterdam initially proposed the move in 2020, becoming the first city in the world to do so.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
15% of all gas/oil are used for growing, processing, transporting and storing food. In other words… “…you are eating fossils fuels. This means any sudden spike in oil prices hits food prices, too. In fact, if the Iran war drags on, this could become the worst food shock in the modern era.”
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It’s not sustainable to mass murder fish, turn them into fish food, ship the extremely inefficient fish food half way around the planet, dump the food onto salmon kept in concentration camps while they swim in their own shit. There’s absolutely nothing sustainable about that.
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It is clear that the US and Israel plan to do to Iran what Israel has done to Gaza. There is something evil that is emerging. Europe can't just stand by while 90 million people are carpet bombed. Sanchez is right.
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Forcing half a million people to leave their homes and then destroying their homes is ethnic cleansing. Why are you just sat here watching? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
theguardian.com
Israel launches huge strikes against south Beirut after mass evacuation order
Residents fled Lebanese capital in panic before assaults on claimed Hezbollah targets while Tehran continues to launch retaliatory attacks
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
WAR CRIME BY THE US. An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US. The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship. THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown. This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Six days on, a New York Times investigation concludes that the US bombed the school. 175 are dead, 150+ of whom are schoolgirls aged 7-12. The My Lai massacre for our generation. The Hague - and Hell - awaits.
An aerial view of a hundred freshly dug graves for the school girls while families gather around
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 31/01/2026
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
404media.co
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
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JP @monde-autrement.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
See what happens when this technology gets in wrong hands. All democratic countries using Palantir should think twice. #Germany #UK
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 31/01/2026
To target a "criminal or immigration nexus" the software pulls Americans' personal data from across the government, including data from Health and Human Services and other agencies unrelated to law enforcement. How did ICE and Palantir get all this data together?
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Anita @anitabaker.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The absolute state of this cosplaying scum.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The Brexit latest seems to have moved from strong independent sovereign nation to country entirely dependant on US funding and defence for its survival. Thanks.
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
If Denmark can get farmers to agree to dropping their nitrates derogation, adopting a carbon tax on meat, government promotion of plant-based diets and rewilding a fifth of the country - why can't Ireland? www.irishtimes.com/science/2026...
irishtimes.com
Denmark’s plan for a greener country offers ideas worth Ireland’s attention
Carbon tax on farming and taking land out of agricultural production among bold moves by the Danes
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This was announced 12 days ago and really ought to have received more attention.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Very sobering piece by John Naughton on what it would mean to sever our reliance on US digital tech (in short … one hell of a shock). Bluesky is American too … observer.co.uk/news/columni...
observer.co.uk
The UK is wedded to US tech. Time for a divorce
Ofcom’s investigation into X is not just a regulatory issue. It will define our future relationship with America
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trump sent out a batsh!t crazy letter yesterday and people once again fell for it. The real story is not the letter, its just another tactic to get what he wants. It shows how he despises Europe and is helping Putin. Yet people comfort themselves by mocking him. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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People Are Still Not Getting Trump Right
His Letter Was Not And Is Not The Story
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"Perhaps the real absurdity lies not in imagining a tool-using cow, but in assuming such a thing could never exist.” We so under-estimate non-human animals #AnimalIntelligence www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
theguardian.com
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It’s now easy to see in real time how the Nazi’s were able to do what they did. You often wondered how the people of Germany allowed it. Now we can see.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
You can judge a person by the size of their moral circle. Trump, for instance, has the smallest possible moral circle, containing only him. Be the opposite: expand your circle. Include, for example, animals currently raised for food. We shut them out of our consciences. It's time to bring them in.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Performative neutrality isn’t neutrality. It’s an active alignment with the status quo and existing power structures. When scientific institutions do this, they don’t protect credibility or public trust; they undermine both, weakening science’s legitimacy as a force for the public good.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
If you’re in the global 1% with ~ $1 million in wealth, you’ve used up your ‘fair’ share of the 2026 carbon budget in just 10 days. Inequality is literally fueling the climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam
Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Greenland isn’t just warming fast; it’s becoming strategically irresistible. Trump’s interest shows how the climate crisis is turning geography into geopolitics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Why is Trump interested in Greenland? Look to the thawing Arctic ice | Gaby Hinsliff
Forecasts suggest that global heating could create a shortcut from Asia to North America, and new routes for trading, shipping – and attack, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Anita @anitabaker.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Mercosur will be yet another environmental disaster.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/01/2026
Please everyone stop writing articles about "defense" or "economic" reasons to occupy Greenland, that's all irrelevant
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Anita @anitabaker.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Also, pet food is largely made of human food leftovers - the problem really is human animal meat consumption, but hey let's go with pets and keep those chicken wings for dinner.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are: From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Laurie Macfarlane @lmacfarlane.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The dismantling of regulations and welfare states. Opening up healthcare and agriculture to US corporates. Pillaging natural resources. Mass deportations. I don't think any of this is off the table. All in the name of "saving Western civilisation".
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Laurie Macfarlane @lmacfarlane.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
When Trump takes Greenland with no major repercussions, he won't stop there. This doesn't mean invading Europe. But it does mean destroying European social democracy. 🧵
bbc.co.uk
US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military - White House
It came as European allies rallied behind Denmark after renewed US insistence it must have Greenland.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Crook. Always.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/01/2026
Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 05/01/2026
so cool, love the internet our tech overlords have built
cnbc.com
Meta reportedly projected 10% of 2024 sales came from scam, fraud ads
Meta projected that about $16 billion in 2024 revenue came from running ads for scams and banned goods, according to a Thursday report from Reuters.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Exactly 💚 The nature cure is best:
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Why is is so hard for people to say these words?: Lough Neagh, the UK's biggest lake, is being killed by *livestock farms*.
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Animal Justice Party @animaljusticeparty.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
SCOTLAND SET TO JOIN GREYHOUND BANS "The Scottish government has given its backing to a ban on greyhound racing in Scotland. Scottish Green MSP Mark Ruskell has already received cross party support for his member's bill." #AusPol #AusPol25 #AnimalRights #DogsofBsky www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Greyhound racing ban backed by Scottish government
The agriculture minister said the government supported the general principles of Green MSP Mark Ruskell's bill.
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Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 27/08/2025
Unsurprisingly, the Daily Mail this morning is one goose step away from a rerun of its infamous 1934 "Hurrah for the Blackshirts!" #r4today
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I have been saying for a while now that we are actually going backwards, and here's the latest evidence Pliocene conditions will be arriving as soon as the 2030s and the world's governments simply don't give a sh*t www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Brazil issues last-ditch plea for countries to submit climate plans ahead of Cop30
Only 28 countries have submitted carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters yet to produce plans
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Anita @anitabaker.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Daily reminder that the climate crisis is above all a food crisis.
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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
They'll call you a doomer, then they'll tell you that your digital photo album is using too much water.
the-sentinel-intelligence.net
A Government Just Quietly Announced The Collapse of Civilization
A news update.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 11/08/2025
Kenya and other African nations are being overwhelmed by imported textile waste. Synthetic textiles don’t biodegrade, instead clogging up vast open-air landfills and leaching toxins into the soil, water and air, and posing a human health threat.
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As Africa pays the price for rich world’s fast fashion fix, new French bill targets brands
NAIROBI — Mountains of waste stretch as far as the eye can see, smoking in places, giving off an acrid stench that stings the eyes and catches in the throat. These are the first sensations that…
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
"Some farmers believe peak bodies advocate for agribusiness interests over those of grassroots farmers." "farm bodies cannot advocate for farmers while sponsored by corporations and aligned with specific political parties. “The chemical companies are in every pocket”"
theguardian.com
Why are some Australian farmers losing faith in peak agricultural bodies to represent their interests?
National Farmers’ Federation says expectations on peak bodies are changing but rejects suggestions it prioritises agribusiness over grassroots concerns
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Sheep or sitka deadzones. The only current livelihood options open to farmers in Irish uplands. It's time society gave them an alternative that works for nature, the climate, tourism, local communities, against downstream flooding, etc., etc... #Rewilding 🌏
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