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Mervyn @badmoon.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

"...either the White House didn't look into its clams about the BBC before bringing them to the podium, or had no concern that they weren't true." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

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BBC Verify Live: New satellite images show damaged Russian bombers from Ukraine drone attack

Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 23/04/2025

This is what we all feared. The United States and Russia bullying brave President Zelensky into a terrible deal. Time for the United Kingdom and Europe to stand up to Trump and seize the Russian assets so we can go it alone.

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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We haven’t seen atmospheric CO2 levels consistently this high in 14 MILLION years. We’re in so so SO much trouble, & pretty much every politician & journalist has just decided to ignore it. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy (graph by Dr Thomas Ronge)

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The stages in a Donald Trump deal: 1. Lie about something being a problem 2. Do something to "fix" it, which causes an actual problem 3. Say you won't reverse what you've done 4. Reverse what you've done 5. Say "Art of the deal"

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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London Mum @londonmum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Can u imagine this amount of coverage about the economic costs of Brexit? Sigh.

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 24/03/2025

To stop receiving military operational planning updates from the White House, reply UNSUBSCRIBE

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Why are UK electricity bills so high? It's fossil gas, stupid! Many want to make us believe that it's because of renewable energy. But look at the data and you find very little impact of renewables but a huge impact of the cost of fossil gas. HT @daanwalt3r.bsky.social @ember-energy.org

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 18/03/2025

Climate Change Committee: "We estimate that the net costs of Net Zero will be around 0.2% of UK GDP per year on average in our pathway, with investment upfront leading to net savings during [2038-2042]." Kemi Badenoch: "Impossible without a serious drop in our living standards or by bankrupting us"

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

🚨NEW: climate inaction will cost more than a third of global GDP this century, but an investment of less than 2% GDP now will reduce harms by 90% - a "massive opportunity for humanity", finds a report from Boston Consulting Group and University of Cambridge.

forbes.com

Climate Inaction Could Cost 1/3 Of Global GDP This Century, BCG Warns

The Big 3 consulting firm finds that most harms come from productivity losses, but also reveals how nations could avoid 90% of climate damage.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Zelenskyy's character can be judge more directly by how he treats others and whether you think he's protected his country. From what I've seen, he has treated Americans with respect. His attire is to remind people he's at war, not unlike Churchill wearing a siren suit to the White House in 1942.

Winston Churchill at the White House wearing a one-piece garment known as a siren suit.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 28/02/2025

This is thuggery from Trump and Vance, plain and simple. They are bullying the brave true patriot Zelensky into accepting a deal which effectively hands victory to Russia. Unless the UK and Europe step up, we are facing a betrayal of Ukraine.

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God @thegodshow.com · 27/02/2025

Republican “free speech” = they get to say racist slurs in public while you get arrested for protesting them.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Once again I'm begging journalists — and climate people! — to stop using the phrase "climate goals" and start saying "climate safety" or "climate stability." A "goal" sounds like an optional nice-to-achieve, but a relatively safe, stable climate is actually essential for human functioning.

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Even before he took office, President Donald Trump's promise to halt all offshore wind projects upended an industry just as it was getting off the ground. Now, a freeze on wind project approvals threatens so man plans that it could undercut the country's climate goals.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Musk, Vance & Trump all misrepresent democracy. When they say “democracy”, they mean a free-for-all with no rule of law, where the winner takes all. When Europe says “democracy”, we mean proportional representation, collaborative politics, citizen rights, and agreed guide rails guaranteed by law.

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Willem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

God this is such a good video. I cannot believe we still have to put up with the absolute dumbest people spreading fossil fuel misinformation in media in 2025

youtu.be

How Oil Propaganda Sneaks Into TV Shows | Climate Town

YouTube video by Climate Town

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK. The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned. This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Most of us probably don’t read the thing that’s at the end of @theguardian.com articles but they’re not wrong.

This is what we're up against
Bad actors spreading disinformation online to fuel intolerance and undermine democracy.
A media ecosystem dominated by a handful of billionaire owners.
Teams of lawyers from the rich and powerful trying to stop us publishing stories they don't want you to see.
Lobby groups with opaque funding who are determined to undermine facts about the climate emergency and other established science.
Authoritarian states with no regard for the freedom of the press.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/01/2025

Physics does not care about our politics, and ultimately the world will continue to warm until we get global emissions of CO2 to (net) zero.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This is the colleague that the likes of Cleverly, Badenoch & Jenrick are refusing to defend...

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 28/11/2024

NEW: I've just been passed this excellent article from the Papua New Guinea Courier's London correspondent.

To England, where five months after the last general election two and a half million adults
(sic) have signed a petition calling for another one. Succesfully. It will be held in four years
and seven months’ time.
The campaign began because Labour didn’t restore prosperity in their first twenty weeks.
Rumours that the petition was a ruse by an autograph hunter who specialises in simpleton
signatures were not laid to rest when Reform UK threw its collective intellectual weight
behind it.
Labour only have themselves to blame. By annihilating the Tories at the ballot box, they
killed the goose that laid the golden tractor porn eggs. Without Randox, or Chris Pincher, or
shell PPE companies, or Partygate, or a vision, all they seem to offer are tax rises and warm
words about Blackrock. Ideologically, this leaves them more exposed than Peter Bone
talking to a junior staffer.
Enter stage far-right, goosestepping, Reform UK and their cartoon Tory clones who hawk
uncontested narratives about imaginary threats posed by refugees, experts and – er – trans
people. The near and present dangers of climate catastrophe are meanwhile rejected.
Never, they say, let the truth get in the way of a good story. In a world where mothballed
Thunderbirds extra Richard Tice can become a political figure, it seems that voters are
unwilling to let it get in the way of a crap one too.
Insurance giant AXA has just published data which say that Tice’s constituency is the
second most exposed to global warming in the UK. It’s a catchy stat, but not so catchy as
Tice’s mantra that ‘Net Zero equals Net Stupid’. Perhaps the 4000 householders in Boston
and Skegness who are at risk of submersion will chant this next time they’re baling turd-filled
floodwater from their living rooms.

Apologies, the alt text box has run out of space. Pls DM me if you were reading this way and I'll forward the rest!

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I spent days digging into the public statements of every single Trump Cabinet pick to see what they've said about climate change and it was a horrible process but I did it because Journalism Is Important and climate change is actually real so please click it I beg you heated.world/p/trumps-ent...

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Trump's entire Cabinet misrepresents climate change

I analyzed the public statements of each nominee. It was awful. (Though Matt Gaetz was surprising?)

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The Laser Hundreds @laserhundreds.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Can't recommend highly enough giving Carl Bovis a follow. His bird photography is quite simply outstanding.

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