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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.
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Wales Environment Link @waleslink.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
On Tuesday, the Senedd passed the Environment (Principles, Governance, and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill. This is a huge moment for Welsh environmental law. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2026/02/25/w...
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We’ve just seen a landmark moment for the environment in Wales
It’s taken nearly eight years but, last night, Senedd Cymru finally agreed new laws to restore nature, put the environment at the heart of policy making and increase access to environmental justice…
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Trans Greens 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @transgreens.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
We stand proudly with the trans community across Wales. #EtholwchEinDoliau! 💚 🏳️‍⚧️ ✨ lgbtiqagreens.teemill.com/product/elec...
Four people in a church wearing #EtholwchEinDoliau t-shirts. From left to right: John Le Marchant Dane, Anthony Slaughter, Tessa Marshall and Charlie Aldous
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Wildlife and Countryside Link @wclnews.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🐬 4 years after going out for consultation the UK Cetacean Conservation Strategy has been published.   📄 The final document lacks any new commitments from the UK Governments to reduce threats to dolphins, whales and porpoises.
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Wales Environment Link @waleslink.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Great blog from @ruthchambers.bsky.social today on amendments needed to the Environment Bill: "It is essential that the OEGW’s independence from the Welsh Government is watertight, something which the bill currently fails to secure." www.iwa.wales/agenda/2025/... #WeNeedNature #AngenNatur
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At a crossroads: why Wales must futureproof its new green governance - Institute of Welsh Affairs
The new OEGW can fill our environmental governance gap, but it must be given the legal duty and resources to ensure its independence and delivery.
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Wales Environment Link @waleslink.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We're logging on to say a big thank you to everyone who joined our panel discussion at the Climate Cymru Act Now Change Forever mass lobby 🐝 We also wanted to say a big thank you to the staff at @climatecymru.bsky.social, Bethan Sayed and Stanley Townsend for organising a brilliant day.
Our four panellists (L-R - Joe Wilkins, James Hitchcock, Edna Wachira, and Ruth Chambers) standing in front of a WEL pop up banner. 

Joe is holding his hands behind his back. James is holding a yellow board with a dark yellow rectangle patterned background, which says 'for people, for climate, for nature' and includes the Act Now Change Forever logo. 

Edna is holding a white Wales Environment Link board which says 'I support ambitious nature targets / Rwy'n cefnogi targedau natur uchelgeisiol', and includes a blue, green, and red footer designed to look like a chart tracking nature recovering over the next 25 years. 

Ruth holds a board with a white and baby pink rectangle patterned background, which says 'Cymru Iachach, Tecach, Mwy Diogel'.

There ae various items on the floor in the background, including other posters and an amplifier.
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Matt Walsh @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Shocked. Shocked, I tell you. The non dom exodus, the collapse of private schools, which other over hyped story from the last 12 months will turn out to be nonsense?
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Tess @tessamarsh.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Great to see this piece gaining traction. A strong Bill is crucial for us to deliver nature's recovery in Wales - and to re-establish the rights and governance we lost after leaving the EU in 2021. We need a strong Environment Bill for a #NaturePositive Wales 🐝🐬🌱
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
IMPORTANT: The more Israeli crimes are exposed, the more emboldened Israel becomes in committing even more. If you’re following the news & the lists of victims’ names, you’ll understand what I’m saying. Lately, every single day, Israel is killing over a hundred people—some of them entire families.
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Tess @tessamarsh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Came on here to complain about the ITV coverage of the women’s football simply not mentioning Wales’ game on Saturday but describing England’s game as ‘the big one’ but there’s actually real problems in this country 🙃
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This afternoon, the Planning Bill enters the House of Lords. Within it is a proposal that would make it easier to destroy the woods, rivers and wildlife we all love - by weakening the laws that keep them safe. If Part 3 isn’t changed or scrapped, nature will pay the price. ⚠️
A clear stream winds through lush, green woodland, flanked by mossy tree trunks and overhanging branches. The kind of precious habitat that could be lost without strong environmental protections.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 25/06/2025
😳 As more than 100 backbench Labour MPs prepare to rebel against the Government's cruel welfare cuts, Kemi Badenoch has offered Tory votes to push through the cuts. Labour and Conservatives teaming up to punish vulnerable people. Who'd have thought it... 🤷
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Tess @tessamarsh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
If you joined a pride event on the weekend, now is the time to do the work and respond to this consultation ⚧️🏳️‍⚧️✍️
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Tess @tessamarsh.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
“New Velindre mitigations and sustainable design features [are] no more than a sticking plaster slapped over a corpse, a particularly blatant form of greenwashing, with a high, net environmental cost.” Save the Northern Meadows still never miss 🎯
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 18/06/2025
“They're missing the whole point in that we're seeing more fires, a longer fire season, more intense fires, more severe fires, because the climate is changing due to human activities,” said fire expert Mike Flannigan. “It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Whether for love, work or to flee danger - people move. Always have and always will. It's the govt's job to make it work - but instead the failing Home Office wastes taxpayer money treating migrants like criminals. Time for something new - my report with ‪@zoejardiniere.bsky.social‬ out today.
Quote graphic with text reading: "The Home Office has lost the trust of all major stakeholders and must be radically reformed if it is to have a hope of rebuilding confidence". Then block text saying "No way home? It is time to remove management of immigration from the home Office" with text below reading "A report by Zoe Gardner, commissioned by Carla Denyer MP."
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Tess @tessamarsh.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Wales is told to celebrate the pitiful £450 million for new rail, when a single road in England is getting £590m… and we were originally asking for the £4 billion owed by HS2.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Totally utterly completely indefensible
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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
No farmers, no food.
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Tess @tessamarsh.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
It's been an incredible opportunity to work on this Bill for WEL with colleagues across the ENGOs and the Welsh Government. Although there are gaps, these can be closed with ambition and determination. It's crucial the Bill is strengthened to ensure it delivers real change for nature.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
All you need to know about our broken economic system, is that more people are in the market for private jets. And more people than ever blame immigrants for the fact that they can’t afford a house. ☹️
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
We only just crossed 1.5C warming. This means a rate that is rapidly approaching 1C per decade. That means we're only 20 years away, at most, from a 3C+ world. Arriving half a century sooner than was projected, half a dozen years ago. And still heating...
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A 3C World Is Now “Business as Usual”
The world is on a path to warm around 3C above pre-industrial levels by 2100 under policies and commitments currently in place.
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Tess @tessamarsh.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Imagine if Cardiff worked for people who live here instead of the visitors - got off the train and shepherded out the back of the station to a cab rank around the front where I’m immediately in a cab (great) then stuck in traffic and the driver says £25 😭
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Devastating new figures on global forest loss increasing sharply again last year, in large part due to fires. The failure to reckon with the risk of feedback loops is probably the single biggest flaw in the debate around climate action. www.businessgreen.com/news/4413897...
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'Global red alert': Fires responsible for half of global forest loss in 2024
Record breaking levels of forest loss recorded globally in 2024, with wildfires leading to 4.1 gigatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
It's International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia - and just 3 days ago it was revealed that the UK is now one of the more difficult places in Europe to live as an LGBTQIA+ person. A sobering reminder that our rights can never be taken for granted. #IDAHOBIT2025
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Tess @tessamarsh.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Arguing on Bluesky like it’s twitter in 2017. A beautiful Sunday morning ✨🌞
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Lots of National Wales staff (including myself) were approached by Pakistani bloggers last year who had captured the expired website domain name. They've relaunched it with the worst sort of AI-generated content.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
BREAKING 🇵🇸 The UK has sent more than 160,000 munitions to Israel since October 2023. Today, a groundbreaking new report from the PI, the Palestinian Youth Movement and Workers For A Free Palestine reveals the extraordinary scale of UK arms exports to Israel since the start of the Gaza genocide.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
One year today - Wales decides. @walesgreenparty.bsky.social have been going from strength to strength. Donate to their crowdfunder in the link below. 👇🏽
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Tess @tessamarsh.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Solidarity with the students 🇵🇸 When hundreds of thousands are at risk of death from starvation, we need more action - TODAY - to call our institutions to account for Palestinians
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I have never seen a situation so dismal that Tony Blair couldn't make it worse.
Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The Prime Minister needs to hear from trans people and trans allies about the impact this ruling will have. Please do use the brilliant TransActual's 'write to the PM' action: transactual.org.uk/write-to-the...
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Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I can't stress the last part of this statement enough - so much of how shit things get for trans people over the coming months will depend on organisational decisions about how to implement new rules and guidance. Places can still choose to keep trans people safe and we must hold them to account
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 25/04/2025
A reminder that Tonia Antoniazzi is a 5G conspiracy theorist.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 22/04/2025
Hello, I've been working non-stop since the judgment came out. Mostly for free. I am hoping the work I do is doing some good. If you want to make my life easier and this work easier, you can send me a couple quid to help me pay for things. I would really appreciate it. ko-fi.com/jessothomson
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Tess @tessamarsh.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Low-key have a huge week at work but am instead thinking about how this ruling is going to make life harder for me, my partner, our friends, and our community. It’s debilitating.
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Wildlife and Countryside Link @wclnews.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Without big changes, the Government’s Planning Bill could spell disaster for nature 🥀 The Gov has promised a win-win for building & nature, but right now the Bill doesn't deliver🏡 @richardbenwell.bsky.social explains what the Gov needs to do to make the Bill work for people and nature 👇
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Tess @tessamarsh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Looking to book a train ticket over a month in advance to Cornwall to visit my parents - £77+ with a railcard Surreal to be priced out of visiting family by a train that doesn’t even have a refreshments trolley
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Wales is getting screwed over by the Treasury (again). A deliberate decision has robbed public sector bodies in Wales of money while protecting those in England. This is fiddly but really outrageous. You can either watch the video or read below... [Thread]
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RSPB Cymru @rspbcymru.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A strong signal for Welsh Government that people value nature and want to see it at the heart of decision making. Urgent and transformational change is needed to help nature thrive once again. #naturepositivewales #sustainablefarmingscheme
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 31/03/2025
The number of teenage boys in Wales who are being radicalised by neo-Nazi groups is growing faster than in any other part of the United Kingdom - and it’s time to recognise that it’s happening right under our noses, says a lecturer from Cardiff University nation.cymru/culture/on-o...
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"On our doorstep": New programme sheds light on the rise of neo-Nazism in Wales
The number of teenage boys in Wales who are being radicalised by neo-Nazi groups is growing faster than in any other part of the United Kingdom – and it’s time to recognise that it’s happening right u...
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Cardiff Hubs & Libraries @cdflibraries.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
*New event!* Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (plus open mic), with Durre Shahwar and Hanan Issa! Hear about this landmark collection of essays on nature by women of colour, and join in during a themed open mic session. All welcome! Tickets: tinyurl.com/yrcxyc5e @cardiff-hub.bsky.social
Thurs 17 April 2025, 5.45pm. Cardiff Central Library Hub. Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (plus open mic), with Durre Shahwar and Hanan Issa. Join us as we celebrate a year since the publication of landmark essay collection  Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (editors: Durre Shahwar and Nasia Sarwar-Skuse). As well as readings from the book and discussion with co-editor Durre Shahwar and contributor Hanan Issa, National Poet of Wales, there will be an open mic on the theme of connections with nature and landscape. All are welcome.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 02/04/2025
Israel's defence minister has said the country aims to seize large areas of the Palestinian territory and incorporate them into “security zones”. The UK government cannot remain silent while genocide is carried out in plain sight. We will not look away.
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

• Violation of international law
• Ethnic cleansing
• Collective punishment
This is not security; it is genocide.

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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
On the first day of Eid, Israel killed more than 76 people in Gaza.
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Tess @tessamarsh.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Called my MP two weeks ago to ask what they’re doing to end the siege on Gaza, called them a week ago to follow up. Still no confirmation the call happened or response to q’s. Red Cross and UN workers killed in cold blood alongside 50,000+ Palestinians still isn’t enough to move this government
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Tess @tessamarsh.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
And now plans to push another 50,000 children into poverty in yesterdays budget. Deeply, deeply shameful
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"The health ministry has released a 1,516–page document listing the names of over 50,000 Palestinians confirmed killed in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023. There are a total of 474 pages listing 15,600+ children’s names. The first 27 pages the age is listed as 0 — children under 1 year old" Sharif Kouddous
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