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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Repeated dawn raids by the police on peaceful, decent people who have made social media posts supportive of Palestine Action. They are being treated as if they were building bombs. Tell me this isn't authoritarianism. www.middleeasteye.net/news/this-is...
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'This isn't the Britain I grew up in': The activists raided by police over Palestine Action videos
Activists say police searched their entire homes, confiscating personal devices and items bearing the Palestinian flag, even rifling through personal diaries
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I’m seeing countless posts fed-up with the #BBC news bias and its ReformUK propaganda. Time to stop yelling into the void and complain directly to the BBC. Give them hell. They deserve it for constantly pushing this lot of charlatans in our faces. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
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Make A Complaint | Contact the BBC
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Combining solar farms and boosting #biodiversity: a positive report H/T @inkcapjournal.bsky.social www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/news/new-rep...
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New report of Suffolk solar farm showcases ecological best practice | Suffolk Wildlife Trust
Pioneering 12-year study carried out by Suffolk Wildlife Trust at Broxted Estate & Solar Farm Suffolk demonstrates how renewable energy generation and biodiversity restoration can be achieved together...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?
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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 16/08/2026
“Gathering different datasets into one place paves the way for authoritarian surveillance and control”- Duncan McCann, our tech and data lead on our latest investigation It’s vital we push back against Palantir and their presence in our police force, before it’s too late goodlaw.social/79kt
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Palantir: UK police forces rack up £7.8m on US spy tech | Good Law Project
Six police forces are now known to have processed data with Palantir software, while further information is being fed in through data sharing agreements with neighbouring forces.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is an inappropriate, credulous & politically biased BBC headline. The claims about savings will be sharply contested. News reports should not imclude what reads as an ediorial endorsememt in the headline www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026
A former director of BBC News speaks:
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Not hard to see why Reform did not announce their plan to abolish Personal Independence Payment until *after* the by-election..
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JoanKay @joankay.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"The report did not contain a section on Trump’s personal ties to Russia and whether he was compromised or represented a counterintelligence threat. "He acknowledged that he had not examined whether Russian oligarchs had laundered money through Trump’s businesses... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...
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How a Counterintelligence Inquiry Into Trump’s Russia Ties Was Derailed
Documents released by the White House shed new light on the demise of an often-overlooked 2017 F.B.I. investigation.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10/08/2026
We have very unfortunate news to share today... 😢 I've been an author for this report since 2020, and we just celebrated our 20th anniversary edition last year.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🔴 Zack Polanski Promotes Radical Plan to Break Up Britain’s ‘Billionaire Media’ Green leader throws weight behind Media Sovereignty Act campaign to stop press barons “literally buying democracy” bylinetimes.com/2026/08/10/z...
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Zack Polanski Promotes Radical Plan to Break Up Britain's ‘Billionaire Media’
Green leader throws weight behind Media Sovereignty Act campaign to stop press barons "literally buying democracy"
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 11/08/2026
Why Do People Linked to Jeffrey Epstein Keep Mysteriously Dying? Zeteo rounds up nine deaths, some of them weird, over the span of a decade and the unanswered questions they left behind. Read full list: zeteo.com/p/why-do-peo...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We don't have a badger problem. We have a dairy cow problem. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A fifth heatwave. People at risk across the country. But the new Government is silent. Time to tax fossil fuel companies to fund firefighting helicopters. And to race to lower carbon energy and permanently cheaper bills.
Green leader Zack Polanski accuses government of 'gross negligence' over climate crisis
With parts of Britain set to experience their fifth heatwave of the summer this week, Zack Polanski, the Green party leader, has accused the government of not recognising the severity of the crisis.

In a statement, he said:

We are now facing the fifth heatwave in months following the recent deaths of 3,000 people in our country from extreme weather conditions.

This is the greatest crisis this country has faced since the second world war and to complacently dismiss the demands for immediate action by saying everything is under control is gross negligence, blatantly untrue and misses the severity of the crisis.

Only days after dedicated public servants talked about the need for urgent action, backed up by indisputable science, to secure our food supplies and the health of the most vulnerable, the Labour government says it’s all in hand, and supply chains are resilient.

At a press conference last week, Polanski said the government should be responding with emergency measures now.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This isn’t talked about enough… Europe is warming faster than any other continent; at more than twice the global average. This isn’t a distant future. Talk about it with someone today.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"more work needed to assess risk from collapse of ecosystem services" Really? I think we all know the risks, as shown by a number of already published analyses Forget further assessment - we need action - by yesterday www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A broken #FoodSystem. A failed economic system. A huge waste of human potential and capacities needed to tackle our #AgeofShocks www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Healthy diet too expensive for one in three people globally, UN report finds
Global hunger declined for the third year in a row in 2025 but experts call for action to bring down costs of fruit, vegetables and dairy as report shows 2.69bn people can’t afford to eat well
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Excellent and essential letters here, laying to rest some pervasive myths about Carbon Capture and Storage, and raising further concerns about both the astonishing financial outlay and the vast climate damage it will cause.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The difference is the Green Party will actually do it. Rent controls. Wealth tax. Climate action. Join.greenparty.org.uk
On the other side of the ideological divide, Burnham's references to hope and particularly the closing line - that's my mission as your new leader, to bring back hope. I believe in all of you and I am confident we can do it" - could have been spoken by Zack Polanski, pioneer of his own brand of left leaning populism
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“If the UK allows any new development of oil and gas fields, it will severely undermine those claims of leadership by contributing to further oversupply of fossil fuels, making it more difficult for the world to limit warming to 1.5°C” #AndyDon'tBurn'Em
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UK researchers urge PM to end new oil & gas development - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
Hundreds of academics at universities across the United Kingdom have urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to end approvals for new developments of onshore or offshore oil and gas fields in a letter sent t...
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 18/07/2026
The rot at FIFA has gone too far. Under Infantino, political greed has completely broken the game we love. We can't just watch from the sidelines anymore, the FA and our European partners need to walk away and build a fair, clean alternative from scratch. It’s time to move on.
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Auntie Social @auntiesocial.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
If you're arresting people at the airport on their way OUT of the country, your goal.was never border security. It's filling for-profit concentration camps.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
You effing idiot! @andyburnham.bsky.social An utterly ignorant and nonsensical decision Look around you for f*ck's sake And explain your decision to the relatives of the 2,700 people who have just died in the UK as a consequence of the mass burning of fossil fuels www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Can’t believe this is even needed, but here we are.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A reminder: The US, by being the largest historical CO₂ emitter, has caused $10 trillion in global climate damage since 1990. A quarter of this impact is felt domestically, but it disproportionately affects poorer countries.
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US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds
US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train. But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK. Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Dreaming of a home? UK workers' share of gross value added down from 71.9% in 1975 to 59.3%. Employee median wage £31,524 (£26,217 net). Can you buy a home? Private sector rents up 28% in the last 3 yrs. Social housing decimated since the 1980s. Govts still besotted with neoliberalism.
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The housing crisis is manufactured. We can end it.
Wage cuts and the right to buy are to blame
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
These pricks constantly tell you there is 'no money' for you. I wonder why?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
About 2000 billionaires and centi-millionaires have turned up in boats worth billions to watch the F1 race in Monaco.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Is it rude to ask how data access and abuses ARE being policed and could be policed once the contract ends.? What has happened to the met data. This made me laugh (scornfully) “Mosley went on to say that Palantir has no interest in patient data in the UK. Right. He thinks we are idiots.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
If you want Sadiq Khan to block Palantir from using all the Police cameras in the UK to spy on you for Donald Trump. RT
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This isn't accidental oversight by our media. It's malicious complicity.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
More data and details: popular.info/p/the-media-...
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The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal
As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
(🚨) OK, the time has come. Everyone needs to read the 2020 bestseller Proof of Corruption, in which the man pictured below is a key antagonist trying to steal the 2020 election for Trump. Don't care about the money here, just borrow it from the library.
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U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We are 7 weeks into the most egregious stock market manipulations of our lifetime. Orchestrated by a crooked president and his underlings. Billions siphoned via false proclamations of ceasefires and peace talks. With the criminals in charge, every day is a crime spree.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
More good stuff in-coming from Miliband reportedly. An accelerated Warm Homes Plan and reforms to minimise the role of gas in setting power prices are precisely the levers the government should be pulling to try and tackle the oil and gas shock. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528505...
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Miliband poised to ramp up net zero plans
Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary reportedly set to confirm plans to accelerate Warm Homes Plan and electricity market reforms in response to global energy shock
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
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Dr Negrin's Victory Pills @dr-negrin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
BBC News - More than 13 million living in poverty, new figures show www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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More than 13 million living in poverty, government figures show
The level rose slightly on the previous year while the number of children living in poverty has remained steady.
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Living on Earth @livingonearthradio.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Climate news stories across the globe have dropped nearly 40% since 2021, notes @maxboykoff.bsky.social, director of UC Boulder’s Media and Climate Change Observatory. www.loe.org/shows/segmen...
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Living on Earth: Climate Coverage Dropoff
News media outlets are retreating from covering climate change, according to the Media and Climate Change Observatory at the University of Colorado Boulder, which has been tracking this trend for deca...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
And, for the record, this was also very obviously Trump depicting himself as a doctor. About to do a prostate exam.
Trump posting an AI photo of himself as the Pope
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Having spent a lot of time recently with someone (unlike Trump in almost every way) who is in mid-stages of dementia I have to say this style of conversational glitching and swerving is bleakly familiar.
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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Karmam Bales has produced an exceptional piece of investigative journalism that reveals how funds linked to Viktor Orbán are flowing into the right wing media circles of the United Kingdom. A crucial look at the hidden networks influencing domestic discourse.
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EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK
As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Br...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Can we not just focus on the climate crisis.
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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought - Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas #AMOC #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 09/04/2026
NATO will be there. On the opposite side.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
In January, the Under Secretary of War summoned Pope Leo XIV’s then-cardinal ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture. America, Colby and his colleagues told the cardinal, has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.
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The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy
The Free Press has documented a closed-door Pentagon meeting in which a senior Trump official lectured Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador on American military supremacy.
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