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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Glad we made it to Bordeaux by taxi last night and are now in the TGV train to Paris!

Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This new documentary can inform #disability studies. It can call us to accompany those addressing #racism, pursuing #reparations, respecting #animals and #biodiversity, doing authentic #sustainability work, and addressing the colonial mindset. Gratitude to one and all involved in this powerful film.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Committed to peace, Benjamin Lay nevertheless insisted that “a tongue is for saying no when a no is required.” And for that, @marcusrediker.bsky.social tells the audience, Benjamin Lay was the most disowned Quaker of the 18th century. www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/24/w...

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Whose History? Our History. A Review of the Documentary Becoming Benjamin Lay

Becoming Benjamin Lay isn’t a documentary about an actor portraying dwarfism, actor Mark Povinelli explains. It’s about portraying one of the great

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The House will vote on an amendment that would block funding to Israel. It should be a no brainer: Our tax dollars should not fund a genocide. We cannot continue to be complicit in Israel’s crimes against humanity.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We call on the people of Britain and the United States to insist on a shift away from the disastrous war drive, and into actions that address clear and present dangers: increasing inequality, biodiversity loss, and climate breakdown. www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/23/t...

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The Declaration of Independence From America

Sarah Swift of the Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign in Britain says: “Now is the time to call for Independence From America.” What prompted this call?

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“The No ICE in the Cup campaign came about because many people in the U.S. were moved to take action against the presence of ICE in our cities and communities,” Zou said. billypenn.com/2026/06/15/i...

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'ICE Out' protest art in Philly ramps up amid World Cup spotlight

Anti-ICE protest art in the city embraces Philly's long tradition of blending art, activism and community-building.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Now reading: The Half Has Never Been Told - Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

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CounterPunch @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"We are in this land of scorching sun and heat, searching for a large Amazon solar installation in rural San Bernardino County, California. This is the home of the endangered desert tortoise and Joshua trees, but more recently, it’s become a plaything for greedy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs."

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Vampire Planet: Data Centers, Far Bigger Disasters Than You Even Thought

The road is dusty and trash-strewn. My friend and collaborator Colby Groves is hanging out the car window as I drive, gazing at a patchwork of solar panels lined up behind a chain-link fence. “This ha...

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Earth’s got a memory of the days of untamed figs. Before we speared, harnessed, bred things, before everything known was named. www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/05/b...

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Buried Days

Buried Days I have a memory, in daylight and in sleep. We leap easily over streams, make love in arboreal dreams. A big-toothed cat pursues our scent

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Translation: the UK will do absolutely nothing

I am truly appalled at the video posted by Israeli Cabinet Minister Ben-Gvir taunting those involved in the Global Sumud Flotilla.
This violates the most basic standards of respect and dignity in the way people should be treated.
We are in touch with the families of a number of British nationals involved to provide them with consular support.
We have demanded an explanation from the Israeli authorities and made clear their obligations to protect the rights of our citizens and all those involved.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Yes. As long as no remaining bits of untamed Earth are paved over for it.

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Spunky to my Friends @almagirl.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

And they claim it's an improvement. I remember when you could type in key phrases and up would come the essay or article from which they came, so you could actually read the original rather than some nitwit summary of conventional wisdom.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Good advice for those who can. No matter the price of fuel, walking, riding a bike, and using social transit are the right picks. If we'd avoid private cars all along, even when fuel is cheap, countless harms could be averted.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Imagine if we and the media spent as much time discussing real solutions to this fuel crisis as we do on the continued obsession with aviation and maintaining business as usual.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“It shouldn’t be the default choice to have to get in the car,” she (Dr Caoimhe Clarke) said, adding that Ireland is the second most car-dependent country in the EU.

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Campaigners highlight gulf between numbers of boys and girls cycling to school

Research commissioned by insurer finds that only 3% of Irish population cycles daily

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The logical conclusion of the private car? Ride bikes, take trains, for real.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Why do your letter forms to write to representatives ask for a gendered pronoun? If I'm not a Dr., I have to choose Mr, Miss, Ms, or Mrs? @theactionnetwork.bsky.social I'd suppose you're losing a lot of #nonbinary, 2-Spirit, and intersex signatures.

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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 08/04/2026

The two-week ceasefire is meant to give negotiators in Pakistan time to hammer out a permanent deal based on Tehran’s 10-point plan that has been sitting on the table from the beginning, meaning all this fighting was for nothing. NOTHING. www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/power-plan...

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"Power Plant and Bridge Day" became the most humiliating military climb down in US history

Yesterday brought a new meaning to the term “doom scrolling” as we anxiously waited for Trump to fulfil his threat to end a 6,000 year old civilisation (and possibly the world).

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

He forgot his role as “liberator” when he justified his threats to reporters by saying “they’re animals”. Yesterday, he went even further...“a whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again”. It left many wondering if he would use nukes. www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/power-plan...

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"Power Plant and Bridge Day" became the most humiliating military climb down in US history

Yesterday brought a new meaning to the term “doom scrolling” as we anxiously waited for Trump to fulfil his threat to end a 6,000 year old civilisation (and possibly the world).

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Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Name one thing Trump has done that he shouldn't be impeached for.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

`Let’s be honest, Iranian schoolgirls don’t count as human, but the people who bomb them do. Everyone was frantic with worry that those pilots, who were innocently bombing civilian infrastructure, might become hostages.' — @normalisland.co.uk open.substack.com/pub/normalis...

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Trump looking forward to launching Power Plant Tuesday from British military bases

President Trump says he is looking forward to launching Power Plant Tuesday from military bases in the UK, unless Iran opens the Strait that is only closed because Trump started this war.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

`Lin Jian, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, claimed March 27 that a U-M researcher died by suicide after U.S. law enforcement interrogated him, urging the U.S. to conduct a full investigation.' www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

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UMich investigating researcher’s death after alleged questioning

DPSS is investigating the March 20 death of Danhao Wang, an assistant research scientist in the College of Engineering.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Sustainability? I believe we need a radically changed humanity if we, generation after generation, can keep playing a role in this beautiful web of life on Earth. Domination and control just don't cut it.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

`Many people aren’t sure how to respond if they witness a racist or transphobic attack. This video provides some tips.' [Appreciation to @fsearthcare.bsky.social for sharing this.] bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/dont-...

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Don’t be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Bystander intervention that does not rely on the police.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

`For the past week or so, it’s felt like we’re stuck in an airport lounge while the Trump-ocalypse unfolds, or more accurately, in a spaceport, hoping to escape the madness of the world. Planet Earth, it seems, is a write-off.' www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/trump-inte...

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Trump intends to "liberate" Iran by bombing it "back to the stone age"?

For the past week or so, it’s felt like we’re stuck in an airport lounge while the Trump-ocalypse unfolds, or more accurately, in a spaceport, hoping to escape the madness of the world.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Camps. This is how it happens, how it starts.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I oppose US military activity in Iran. At the same time, I wonder why folk (who could afford—or even avoid—the filling stations) decry having to pay $4+ to break the climate! The plain refusal to seek knowledge about our impacts—to change habits and lives—feels as surreal as climate turmoil itself.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/03/2026

"this is like a bookstore ripping the covers off the books it puts on display and changing their titles" www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

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Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

Let us know if you see more.

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 16/03/2026

BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer has rejected Trump's calls to send British warships into the Strait of Hormuz because our sailors said they don't fancy drowning for paedophiles 👀

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The news gets more sordid by the hour. Blowback is certain. Anyone with a shred of respect for human dignity is horrified. If we were a sensible species, we'd see our climate falling apart and ask: Cripes, maybe it's time to figure out how to behave ourselves after all these centuries of nastiness?

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 06/03/2026

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life.

Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent.

That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship
Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

`Werder Bremen, one of the founding members of the Bundesliga, said playing in the city “does not fit with our values” in light of two federal law enforcement shootings last month.'

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

On Sundays, in Florida. Free bus from Ft. Myers/Naples.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

`The arrest took place this morning on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s 66th birthday, meaning he has lived 25 years longer than his rape victim, Virginia Giuffre.` www.normalisland.co.uk/p/it-turns-o...

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It turns out being born with royal blood doesn't make you above the law any more

In a stunning development, a man who was born with magic or “royal” blood has discovered that he is no longer above the law.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 19/02/2026

This is well put. So *many* technologies are joyous and progressive. The web was invented in a PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY! It is, in fact, an aberration that the fascist VCs think they're the default with their approach to tech. They were only ever supposed to be a tiny fraction of the ecosystem.

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Lee Hall 🍉 @leehall.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

`Ask yourself why the Israeli consulate would be using a property managed by a sex trafficker and owned by his brother that was attended by underage models to house a former prime minister. Take all the time you need.' www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/here-is-th...

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Here is the smoking gun that Epstein was an Israeli spy

In a recent article, I showed you plenty of evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was an Israeli spy, and while that evidence seemed overwhelming, some argued there was no smoking gun.

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Matthew Kelly @bymatthewkelly.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Despite scoring an initial zoning victory, CoreCivic argued before the Kansas Court of Appeals that it should be allowed to open an ICE detention center in Leavenworth without local approval. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

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CoreCivic doubles down on argument that it can operate ICE prison without permit

Despite scoring an initial zoning victory, CoreCivic argued in court that it should be allowed to open an ICE prison without local approval.

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