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"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter." –Rachel Carson

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16h
What we face. I talk to Oli Dugmore for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social podcast about extreme weather, tipping points and the potential for systemic collapse of the global food system. Then: how we confront these threats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdPz...
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Extreme weather will batter our food supplies | George Monbiot | The Exchange
YouTube video by The Exchange
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump voters are looking my way because I'm not bought off. I want money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13h
Shell’s refineries expected to make record profits. Profit margins of $42 a barrel, up from $24 a barrel. Cashing in on global conflicts. Bumper payouts for execs and shareholders. Misery for households and businesses. Millions plunged into poverty. Must levy 100% windfall tax.
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Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made
Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17h
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Billionaire David Reuben says he quit UK for Monaco ... actually already there since 2014. Worth £28bn, objects to non-dom tax changes. Doesn't want to be taxed on the same basis as UK residents Super-rich happy to make profits in the UK, want special treatment, hold govts to ransom.
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14h
Navi Pillay last year: "The commission finds it is genocide" Pillay has just won the Nobel peace prize.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20h
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 14h
Tower Hamlets refused the Brick Lane data centre unanimously. The govt approved it in Angela Rayner's name. Her partner, Sam Tarry, is senior adviser at NorthPoint Strategy, a lobby firm working in AI, crypto and energy, chaired by Tory peer Lord Wharton.🧵 europeanpowell.substack.com/p/free-zones...
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Free Zones are Stepping Stones to Free Cities: Brick Lane, Teesside and the Road to Próspera
Tower Hamlets Council unanimously rejected the Truman Brewery scheme. Labour approved it anyway
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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just wondering where and when are the riots over this White Paedophile Gang, just convicted? Did I not get the memo? Did I miss the Invite?
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Excellent front page here
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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EpicallyEpicSB @seanloch7808.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Alanis Morissette - Isn't It Ironic?
ALT: Alanis Morissette - Isn't It Ironic?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16h
Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"With this merger, the entire media space is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs, all of whom you’ve seen whispering sweet nothings into Trump’s ear. Ellison has CBS and CNN, Musk has X, Zuckerberg has his Meta empire, and Bezos let democracy die in broad daylight when he gutted WaPo."
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The Rightwing Media Machine Just Got Way More Dangerous
The right has been consolidating the media for three decades, and the left keeps sleeping through it.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure on the UK rejoining the European Union tells the BBC, "Come back. Anytime" My view: Across Europe, the message to Britain is increasingly simple: come back. We are stronger working with our closest neighbours — economically and in our shared defence.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Private equity owners of Boots sell it to another PE group from Canada for £6.74bn. Debt-laden PE has no long-term interest. Everything is a commodity. No UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign owners, which sweetens cash extraction. PE dominates town centres, when it crashes ...
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Canada’s Weston family buys Boots for $8.9bn
Former Selfridges owners buy UK high street institution from long-term backer Stefano Pessina
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Failures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.
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Royal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobs
The postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The person responsible for carrying out the totally independent investigation into Reform and clearing the party of all wrongdoing has been identified.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The government has declared datacentres “nationally significant infrastructure projects” that can be forced through the planning system. This means getting preferential access to water. Yet it has no idea what they're used for. Our dwindling supplies might be prioritised for nudifying celebrities.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
After the Brexit referendum in 2016, Nigel Farage predicted that the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and Italy. 2016 to 2025: each country has become more pro EU 🇳🇱 Netherlands - from 72% to 81% 🇩🇰 Denmark - from 62% to 85% 🇸🇪 Sweden - from 64% to 85% 🇦🇹 Austria - 37% to 51% 🇮🇹 Italy - 33% to 52%
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schmitt: "Did you attend a Hawks game on February 3rd?" Smith: "That is incorrect. I was in Hollywood attending a dinner gathering at the home of actor Ethan Hawke." Schmitt: "AHA! WE GOT YOU!"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Compare @angelaeagle1.bsky.social's statements to those of Reeves and Starmer, who repeatedly deployed the Cauldron Principle, casting the living world as nothing but an obstacle, and a slimy, scuttling, creepy one at that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In terms of messaging, this is very positive, and a big shift from the nature-hatefest of the Starmer administration. Mind you, most tree-planting is unnecessary: I'd like to see much more emphasis on natural regeneration. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ash Sarkar, "Every time we've had these squeezes on welfare recipients, what we've actually seen, rather than dealing with issues like long-term unemployment, is an increase in child poverty, and in-work poverty as well"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump regime has killed at least 234 people by bombing boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since last September. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. This is a danger to us all.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mike Rogers told Michiganders he was an assembly line autoworker who made Chrysler LeBarons. Turns out it was a complete lie. Shameful.
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Mike Rogers claims he was an assembly line worker. The UAW said that is stretching the truth. • Michigan Advance
Rogers says he built Chrysler vehicles on an assembly line. Records show his work was at an aftermarket facility that modified vehicles after they left the factory.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, "The Bank of England was set up by Tony Blair" My view: The Bank of England was founded in 1694, during the reign of William III and Mary II.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The love affair continues …
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For just a moment, the world saw their true nature. This is a real photo. F*cking chilling.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There’s a link here that lets you get a whole year of the i online for just £20. It’s normally £79.99. What a bargain! inews.co.uk/opinion/jim-...
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Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe should keep Britain's name out of his mouth
James O'Brien: The tax exile knows a thing or two about chemical companies - but that doesn't mean his other opinions are valuable
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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AyJay @dcvet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The temerity, irony, hypocrisy, stupidity, and arrogance should have ended the run of this 🍊🤡💩🎪 a long time ago.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sign the petition. Let water companies go bust. Ofwat approved 36% bill increases for 2025-2030, companies want more. Prices doubled - in real terms - since privatisation. We got sewage in rivers, water outages, hosepipe bans. Need public ownership.
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We're telling Ofwat: let water companies go bust!
consultation to reject proposed water company bill increases. Ofwat.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
From Andy Burnham's excellent speech at the UN, "Russian agencies have used every means at their disposal and spread lies and disinformation, and prey on people's fears. They've used bots and fake websites..." My view: We've known this since Brexit, so what he is goig to do about it?
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Sylvaners @sylvaners.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Plans to demolish Kennedy Center, threatened to withhold disaster funds from NC if Republican Michael Whatley isn't elected,war in Iran. #StopVotingForRepublicansAtAllLevelsOfGoverment #RepublicansMakeEverythingWorse #TheOrangePedophileIsAGlobalLaughingStock www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Tantruming Trump's threats just hit his own fans between the eyes​ — and they're furious
To the extent that the ubiquitous reports pointing to President Donald Trump holding a large poster-type document that reads "Kennedy Center Demolition" proves to be a plan of action in taking the fir...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For those not on the hellscape, Matt is out there begging for votes
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sorry not to be reply to everyone who responded to my info request about #ME/CFS treatment y'day. Totally overwhelmed by utterly horrific stories. Now busy pulling it all together. And starting to see that there's a whole other story to be written (one day) about capital and chronic conditions. 1/2
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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