Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this. At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years 862284882
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialHardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Given how much the China spy case has dominated headlines, it really does beg the question: why is our political-media class so uninterested in Nathan Gill, his Russian bribes, his once close associate Nigel Farage, and Reform UK? Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇 221034573
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/10/2025I'd sooner trust a stoned monkey with a bag of hand grenades than this lot with the economy. 661122388
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialWikipedia @wikipedia.org · 22/04/2025Earth Day is a reminder that we only have one planet. Sometimes, it takes seeing Earth from space to truly grasp how precious it is. 🧵⬇️ (1/4) 12193371804
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025“Starmer must not trade away our food standards as part of tariff negotiations. We are as indignant about American animal welfare as JDVance seems to be about the control of anti-abortion demonstrations outside UK clinics” So many reasons to focus on the EU, not the US. Letter of the week The Week 29991439
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/04/20251. I've been banging on about the existential crisis facing our food system for years. But don't take it from me. Take it from the food professionals now risking their careers in an urgent and devastating warning to their own industry. Key quotes from their memo in 🧵 drive.google.com/file/d/1tATF...drive.google.comInvestor Memo - Inside Track.pdf 321060440
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialEd Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 07/04/2025The rich and powerful are planning for catastrophic climate change, but not for how to prevent it, how to mitigate the effects on them and even how to profit. But make no mistake hundreds of millions of ordinary people will die and be displaced. Everything we know will change. 23623
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Next time Starmer and Reeves say there's too much regulation, remember this. This is what a deregulated economy looks like, and we all pay for it, with our health, our ecosystems and, eventually - when the massive clean-up / land abandonment bill can no longer be avoided - our wallets. 471363559
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/03/2025A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWhat’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George MonbiotThanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 20633581970
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Here's a major source of microplastics in soils. Other sources, astonishingly, include the *deliberate application* of microplastics, to make soils more friable, and the plastic pellets in which many fertilisers are encased. It is simply crazy and must stop now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comA cocktail of toxins is poisoning our fields. Its effect on humans? Nobody can tell us | George MonbiotMany of the chemicals being spread as sewage sludge are untested or can’t be assessed. That’s why I’m suing for answers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 351075489
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialCALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second. 20245395536863
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialEdwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 28/02/2025Starmer's lovefest with the USA just blew up. He will now HAVE to choose between Trump or Ukraine. Not even 24h of positive headlines. 1516527
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialDavid Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them. 812294937817
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialEd Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 28/02/2025This 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. 15045161253
jessisthe.bsky.social @jessisthe.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...you.38degrees.org.ukNo second state visit for TrumpThis is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he... 010
jessisthe.bsky.social @jessisthe.bsky.social · 01/03/2025stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...stoptrump.org.ukPetition: Cancel Trump’s state visitStop Trump Coalition 010
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 24/02/2025❗❗❗ former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukEx-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribesThe ex-MEP and former UKIP Wales leader made favourable statements about Russia for money, a court hears. 16523581235
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today. 5545464315952
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.truthout.orgTesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in IncomeThis brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent. 14454740620201
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialWalter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 30/01/2025If you're feeling despair it's because you have a moral compass. It means you're not empty on the inside - that you nurse hope and a sense of justice in a cage next to your heart. You're one of my people and I'll stand with you. There are more of us than they want you to believe. Hold fast. 1195074955
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Kemi Badenoch today praised Argentinian President Javier Milei for taking a "chainsaw" to regulations. Here's a quick look at how that's been going 42749314
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialRichard Osman @richardosman1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Fewer than half of British people can name the 2022 British PM with a 5-letter surname starting with T. Politics can be more brutal than showbusiness sometimes. 1782071284
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Let's call this out for what it blatantly is. The Tories and their mates at the Telegraph, trying to thwart Labour meeting its growth targets. Griffiths doesn't want our country to succeed. No Brexiteer does. It's faux patriotism hiding their true goal of keeping us poor while hedge funds boom. 21456121
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025🔴Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...bylinetimes.comTwenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You AboutYou probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks 19322164
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025How many gracious mutually beneficial offers does the EU need to extend to the UK… …while Trump & Musk fire hostility toward us… Before Starmer & Reeves can see who our friends are? It’s mind-boggling.bbc.co.ukEU trade chief: Bloc may consider UK joining pan-Europe customs schemeThe UK joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention is up for discussion in reset talks, says Maros Sefcovic. 1031385471
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialEd Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 23/01/2025Why is the government happy to cosy up to China, but won't even look at a better customs deal with our closest neighbours in Europe? Ministers say they’re looking everywhere for growth but are ignoring what is staring them in the face. 1131499457
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️ 318318599157
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialEd Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 05/01/2025🌾 Could vertical farming save the world? I used to be v sceptical. There are MANY challenges. But then I visited one. & I'm no longer so sure. So, with the world facing future food crises, here's a thread on the most interesting thing to happen to farming in a long time... 🧵 1318166
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialDaniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social · 18/12/2024True luxury is found in the simplest moments. 424195714269
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 16/12/2024A good news story to start your week. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘It absolutely took off’: five UK biodiversity success storiesFrom new butterfly habitats in the Cotswolds to arctic willow planting in the Scottish Highlands, there are increasing numbers of places where humans are giving nature a helping hand to re-establish i... 0309
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/12/20242024: Covid, norovirus, RSV and flu are on the rise "leaving thousands in hospital" 2022: That time Bridget Phillipson when in opposition called for clean indoor air to reduce the transmission of airborne viruses Now Labour are in gov, why aren't they calling for clean air in schools any more? 919362
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/12/2024The concept Nigel Farage is incapable of grasping is human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want. I’ll fight that to my last breath 25865931598
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Having bought the US election, Musk now wants to buy ours. This ketamine-infused menace thinks global domination is his to buy. And Farage is grasping for his money.These repulsive men weaponise prejudice for power. They feed off ignorance, resentment and inadequacy. If they succeed, we have failed. 771869733
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialSarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 25/11/2024Netflix - please stop minimising the end credits of movies to suggest something else. Let viewers enjoy the soundtrack and see the cast and crew that worked on the film. We'll exit it ourselves when ready to. #film #filmsky #movies #moviesky 1765575204548
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialAnnieForTruth @anniefortruth1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024It’s a cult….. 742746644
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/11/2024If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds 463152745038
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024As the Trump reality hardens into something world-threateningly grim with a cabinet chock full of dangerously vindictive inadequates; including power-abusing billionaires, sex pests, conspiracy theorists, Russian assets, racists and climate deniers… Never forget who cheered this nightmare on… 631353656
Reposted by @jessisthe.bsky.socialSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others. 672298615186
