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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good news! Privately owned utilities paying out shareholder dividends at the expense of investment and higher bills can't possibly be considered "serving the public interest", so I guess we can look forward to renationalisation soon.

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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah, just to let you know, cops, that you're arresting the wrong people. The war criminal/genocidaire was inside the building. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder arrested at anti-Netanyahu protest in New York

Actors detained at Jewish Voice for Peace demonstration against Israeli prime minister’s address to the UN general assembly

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Sheeran debacle has once again made me appreciate how BBC News will both-sides everything from climate change to racism, but never give a voice to those *opposing* genocide.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There are no 'legitimate concerns' about climate change, no 'legitimate concerns' about genocide in Gaza, and no 'legitimate concerns' about racist thugs attacking RNLI volunteers. The only concerns it's legitimate to hold are about the existence of asylum seekers. Britain in 2026.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran was making cynically, offensively bland AI-style music before AI was a thing. Why it should surprise anyone that he's an unprincipled corporate stooge is beyond me.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Standard police gaslighting of the people who *reported* gangs of masked, racist thugs and were roundly ignored.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is exactly why taxation of wealth isn't primarily even about funding public services, but mitigating the concentration of political power in the hands of dangerous vested interests.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In a working media ecosystem, no Reform official would be allowed to rest until they'd answered how a Party funded to the tune of millions by AI and crypto billionaires can be 'of the people'.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I know this is clickbait hence screenshot not link; but there is something perfectly encapsulating about toxic masculinity that thinks it’s OK to raise and slaughter definitely sentient beings for food but worries the ladycoded robot who tells them they’re big strong and clever might get turned off.

Bsky post from The Guardian reading “Can chatbots feel or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for Al rights

Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just…” with a photo illustration of a balding white man with tedious facial hair in a cowboy hat presumably sat on a horse

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Home Secretary should be relieved of her duties and the entire operational command of HIW Police should be subject to disciplinary action. Thugs are currently feeling empowered to attempt pogroms because police continue to be disinterested in preventing them. It really is that simple.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The UK government ceasing automatically to support almost anything the government of Israel does is a major shift. The next step should be to rescind the ban on #PalestineAction, to stop treating protesters as terrorists, and to acknowledge that those seeking to disrupt a genocide may have a point.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I think Reform are underestimating the extent to which most people find them repugnant, based on the minority it would take to put them in power. But then understanding constitutional arrangements is one of their many, many weak points.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Cut-and-paste from the far right US playbook. Like 'DEI', there's no attempt to even adapt the talking points. Lazy fascism.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If Andy Burnham is concerned about the effect of a green transition on Scotland's energy workers, wait till he hears about climate breakdown.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We've passively allowed the creation of a concrete and asphalt urban environment that exacerbates intense heat in the summer and precipitates flooding in the rain - both certain to worsen with climate breakdown - just to avoid inconveniencing drivers.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For the world's poorest, "just focus on adaptation" often equates in reality to "die".

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Standard article which highlighted the issue included a video to demonstrate the problem. It featured a shot with 1 Lime Bike and 5 cars on the pavement.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I can only assume I've fallen victim to clickbait, because there's no way anyone could be seriously suggesting carbon capture and storage as anything other than greenwashing and misdirection by a destructive industry committed to business-as-usual. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael Jacobs

Carbon capture and storage could make the Rosebank site compatible with UK net zero commitments – if its owners are willing to pay the price, says economist Michael Jacobs

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We have had this conversation so many times. You do not have to platform/debate obscene views that are also false. I wrote during a wave of pressure on progressives to compromise with far-right haters:

I can comprehend, and do, that lots of people don’t believe climate change is real, but is there some great benefit in me listening, again, to those who refuse to listen to the global community of scientists and see the evidence before our eyes? A lot of why the right doesn’t “understand” climate change is that climate change tells us everything is connected, everything we do has far-reaching repercussions, and we’re responsible for the whole, a message at odds with their idealization of a version of freedom that smells a lot like disconnection and irresponsibility. But also climate denial is the result of fossil fuel companies and the politicians they bought spreading propaganda and lies for profit, and I understand that better than the people who believe it. If half of us believe the earth is flat, we do not make peace by settling on it being halfway between round and flat.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026

"Low-emission zones," where car traffic is restricted, save lives -- especially the lives of children. The empirical evidence is unambiguous. But every attempt to create a new one is met by hysterical opposition filled with lies, because our societies are collectively poisoned by car-brain.

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London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The "it's just summer" crowd pivoted to "there's nothing we can do about it" incredibly smoothly.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

That Burnham's considering a ban on disposable bbqs but not North Sea drilling is almost a parody of his unwillingness to address the structural underpinnings of pretty much every issue we face.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Oil and gas giants brazenly profiteer with total impunity while worsening climate catastrophe. It'd be more surprising if they didn't take advantage of war in the Middle East. Beyond time these corporations were dismantled, and held criminally accountable for their wilfully destructive actions.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Data shows you're 11% more likely to die in a crash while *driving* an SUV, largely because the false sense of indestructibility leads you to drive more recklessly around others. Antisocial behaviour is baked into the design of these monstrosities.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In many cases, the US and its allies allowed these "new core" countries to use state-led industrial policy for development - an approach that was denied to the rest of the periphery. The East Asian "tigers" are a clear example. The final line by Amartya Sen here is a banger:

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Should schools teach critical thinking, encourage joy in learning, and the capacity to thrive wherever someone finds themselves? Or should they be assembly lines, creating workers for the benefit of (changing, contingent) industry? The latter is miserable. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs

PM wants curriculums for students aged 14 and above to be more responsive to local jobs market

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

NEW | One woman seems to represent *all* of Britain’s pensioners… OMNIBUS WANKERS AND THE BRITAIN’S ONLY PENSIONER The big problem with BBC vox pops on buses and a case study on VAT. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/omnibus-wa...

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Omnibus wankers and Britain's only pensioner

Vox pops in the BBC's coverage of Burnham's bus fares policy and VAT cuts highlight the problems with attempting to represent the public's view on any given issue.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Spain already look like the best team in the world, but if they can overcome Argentina's total impunity they'll prove it beyond doubt.

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I won't say that this was enjoyable to record because talking about how my queer community is being demonised is always awful, but it is an important conversation with people whose company I value and enjoy. Thanks to @sandraduffy.bsky.social, @senthorun.bsky.social, and @adrienneringin.bsky.social

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I was asked yesterday what neoliberalism is. This is the answer:

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As a decolonial, critical international law scholar, I find the Argentine obsession with a small, previously uninhabited island group they have never possessed and failed to take in a war of aggression instigated by an unpopular junta, frankly, quite weird.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Does Farage really believe this rambling nonsense is a good look?

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If we're now at the stage where parents are being warned posting images of their children leaves them open to abuse, *maybe* the answer isn't a social media ban, but rigorous action against an unregulated industry and maybe, finally, recognition that the existence of billionaires is actively bad?

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The UK needs to reduce its car dependency for a host of climate, environmental, and health reasons, but this week has clearly shown that the sheer volume of concrete infrastructure needed to store and move cars is devastating during extreme heat events. Cities need more trees and fewer roads.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"I inherited a party that was electorally, financially, and morally bankrupt." Still gaslighting us even in resignation.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Keir Starmer lied through his teeth to become Labour leader. He justified Israeli war crimes, arrested opponents of genocide, attacked pensioners, disabled people and migrants, pocketed freebies, crushed dissent and threw others under the bus to save himself. History damns him

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Worth taking a moment to reflect on just how monumentally Starmer has managed to fluff what was, relatively speaking, a pretty easy hand.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The UK has given up any pretence of defining terrorism through anything other than political expediency.

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Joe Peacock @brumgreenjoe.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I’m so glad that he is no longer in charge. Birmingham deserves better. We need a serious approach to saving lives and transforming the city’s roads.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This is a great piece. The backlash against veganism from what should be natural allies on the left isn't about coloniality or privilege but comfort and familiarity, and to suggest otherwise is disingenuous and actively detrimental to minority, indigenous, and gender-based struggles.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Just to bring you up to date, here's a recent photo of every candidate but one in Birmingham's upcoming municipal elections saying to the father of a child killed while walking ON THE SIDEWALK of a dangerously designed road that they wouldn't support even modest measures to slow drivers down.

Shakeel Afsal (Independent), Robert Alden (Conservative), John Cotton (Labour), Roger Harmer (Liberal Democrats), Nosheen Khalid (Independent), and Jex Parkin (Reform UK) all saying in front of Babiker Yahia that they oppose 20 mph speed limits on residential streets, with only Julien Pritchard (Green) supporting this measure which has been shown to significantly reduce fatalities in incidents of traffic violence.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

One small(!) point: the reason Reform’s hideousness is targeting the Greens is because the Greens are the first to properly challenge the Reform bollocks about immigration head on.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Are Villa playing with a beach ball?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

BBCs coverage isn't just misleading, it is inflammatory. It has predictably been latched onto by the far right and others, including this government, to call for even more restrictions on those seeking asylum. Along with others, I explain here how wrong it is 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2602505...

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Experts condemn 'appalling' BBC story that 'raises risk of far-right attacks'

THE BBC has come under heavy fire after publishing a “misleading” report on asylum seekers which experts allege will put vulnerable people “at…

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If the crux of anyone's argument is "We aren't spending enough on defence because there's too much welfare", you know to immediately disregard their argument as economically illiterate, reactionary conservatism, rather than simply self-serving.

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Sean Madden @seanmadd.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The fragility of a food system reliant on synthetic, industrially-produced inputs for export-driven production again laid bare. Yet another reason to expedite our transition away from fossil fuels, and from our destructive, unjust global agricultural system.

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