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WanderingDutchman

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No longer wandering but forever wondering... Fully electric lifestyle / renewables home owner, EV driver since 2017 and awaiting electric planes. Britain / East Riding of Yorkshire

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare bill, which cuts disability benefits Last night at the PLP meeting Liz Kendall asked MPs to back her. 108 have indicated opposition Fuel the rebellion. Tell your MP to vote against the cruel cut. Poverty is a political choice
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Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare bill
Amendment intended to kill off legislation that would cut benefits could be backed by up to 100 Labour MPs including senior figures
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WanderingDutchman @wanderingdutchman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"relief" is doing some heavy lifting here, considering that most of the money is coming from "developers", who will be filling the adjacent fields with hundreds of houses and commercial buildings. 😄🤦‍♂️ www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-ea...
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Contract awarded for new £45m road in East Yorkshire
The project is expected to take two years
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WanderingDutchman @wanderingdutchman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Nature; "Stop driving these toxic cars"
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AccuWeather @accuweather.com · 18/06/2025
A rare high-elevation tornado hit near Pikes Peak in Colorado on June 17. The tornado was near Divide, Colorado, at an elevation of 9,118 feet and leveled hundreds of trees.
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AccuWeather @accuweather.com · 23/06/2025
Destructive hurricane-force winds knocked a train off the tracks and completely destroyed buildings as a powerful derecho moved through eastern North Dakota on Friday night.
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WanderingDutchman @wanderingdutchman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
To everyone else it seems that the RAF are actively supporting a rogue nation committing Genocide. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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WanderingDutchman @wanderingdutchman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Oh, well perhaps Iran WASN'T 'weeks away from making a nuclear weapon' 😄🤦‍♂️😕
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WanderingDutchman @wanderingdutchman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"slow process"...
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a black and white photo of a little boy sitting at a desk with the words `` still waiting '' written above him .
ALT: a black and white photo of a little boy sitting at a desk with the words `` still waiting '' written above him .
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Octopus Energy @octopus.energy · 23/06/2025
The car’s out of the bag 🤯 Live at the #EnergyTechSummit, @gjuk.bsky.social launches Britain’s first EV vehicle-to-grid bundle with BYD. Power Pack Bundle gives a car lease, two-way charger, and a smart tariff for £299/m with 100% FREE smart charging - saving £1,000/yr on fuel vs petrol.
Energy tech summit photo with Greg Jackson and special guests
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 23/06/2025
👉 NEW -- Israeli arms firm lobbied Home Office on Palestine Action court case by @jmcevoy_2 Exclusive: Elbit Systems pushed for retrial after charges against Palestine Action co-founders were dismissed, new documents show. www.declassifieduk.org/israeli-arms...
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Israeli arms firm lobbied Home Office on Palestine Action court case
Exclusive: Elbit Systems pushed for retrial after charges against Palestine Action co-founders were dismissed, new documents show.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
90% of the radio stations, newspapers, TV Channels and all other News Media in the USA is owned by just 3 billionaires through a variety of shell companies. There is no journalism, independent or even billionaire. There is just Rupert Murdoch and his mates lies.
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NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 20/06/2025
Schiphol stapt naar de rechter om verblindend zonnepark weg te krijgen
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Schiphol stapt naar de rechter om verblindend zonnepark weg te krijgen
Bij helder weer hindert de schittering van de zonnepanelen piloten, betoogt de luchthaven.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 22/06/2025
⚡️ Russia seeks to advance along almost entire front in Ukraine's east, Syrskyi says. As of mid-June, Ukrainian defenders are fighting close to 695,000 Russian troops in Ukraine across a 1,200-kilometer (750-mile) front, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said.
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Russia seeks to advance along almost entire front in Ukraine's east, Syrskyi says
As of mid-June, Ukrainian defenders are fighting close to 695,000 Russian troops in Ukraine across a 1,200-kilometer (750-mile) front, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said.
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
For those unfamiliar with why bioenergy at #Drax is a #Scam
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Why have I tabled a motion against the continued funding of Drax to burn US trees, to be heard on Monday in #HouseofLords? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince
The evidence against the Drax power station is damning, yet the government wants to continue its massive public funding, says campaigner Dale Vince
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 22/06/2025
As the US & UK say Iran must never acquire a nuclear weapon, Israel is awaiting the delivery later this year of its German-built sixth submarine, set to carry nuclear arms. UK ministers have authorised dozens of exports of components for Israeli subs. www.declassifieduk.org/britain-is-a...
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Britain is aiding Israel’s nuclear force
UK companies have sold £9m worth of technology for Israel’s submarines, which are believed to house nuclear weapons.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Gaza: the grim reality of genocide The first comprehensive analysis of how Israel's war on Gaza will cause suffering for generations to come. A catalogue of the physical, mental & societal damage. Please have a read. It’s important. 👇 northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 21/06/2025
The Tate Modern art museum in London has also been lit up. #ShowYourStripes And, the warming stripes are currently on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York: www.moma.org/magazine/art...
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Ani @aninewforest.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
37 percent of Ireland's energy is now generated by wind power. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/i...
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Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe
Moneypoint in County Clare, Ireland, joins the ranks of other European nations exiting coal by shutting off power generation at its sole remaining coal plant. Industry observers say Ireland’s increase...
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Kirsten de Vos 🚶🏻‍♀️💚🚲🍃 @kirstendevos.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Stop this madness now! #AxeDrax #StopBurningWood #Biomass #AirPollution #Greenwashing @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @mumsforlungs.bsky.social
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NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 21/06/2025
Mensen vluchten voor bosbrand aan Kroatische kust
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Mensen vluchten voor bosbrand aan Kroatische kust
De brandweer noemt de bosbrand totaal onbeheersbaar.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The energy transition is more disruptive—and could move much faster—than most people think. It’s not just about swapping old tech for new. Shift to clean energy is a complex web of feedback loops, tipping points & surprises. Read our report👇 www.scurveeconomics.org/publications...
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Sybrand Frietema @frietema.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Wat zijn bedrijven die sloten subsidie nodig hebben om producten te maken die we niet eens nodig hebben in Nederland én die de rest van het land op slot zetten met hun #stikstof uitstoot? Het zijn bedrijven met publiek gefinancierde emissiehobby’s. Laten we daar gewoon mee kappen.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 20/06/2025
The largest number of climate stripes outfits in one place? @cycling4climate.bsky.social organise popular cycling and running events in the Netherlands for #ShowYourStripes day!
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Agreed - see my submission to Whitehead review which closes today. scrapcc.org/WHITEHEAD Our #ScrapCC campaign opposed CCS with biomass burning and gas (LNG) burning and processing for blue hydrogen. Write to your MP! scrapcc.org/WRITE-TO-YOU...
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🚨 Shocking! a resigning matter for the Chancellor👇 Reeves reassures Norwegian state oil company about a slight rise in the windfall tax—she’ll give them a “quid pro quo” in dishonest carbon capture subsidies for building new power stations. Graphic in replies explains why this is so bad.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
And we made it! Great event again. I hope it also draws much needed attention to the worsening climate crisis. www.linkedin.com/posts/common...
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Common Futures reed mee met de #ClimateClassic 2025! | Common Futures. Energy Transition Specialists
Common Futures reed mee met de #ClimateClassic 2025! Uitgezwaaid door #klimaatburgemeester Joris Koornneef fietsten onze collega's Jelle Hofstra, Kees van der Leun en Daan Peters 250km van De Bilt...
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polder-pv.bsky.social @polder-pv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Schiphol, waarvan recent de #natuurvergunning werd vernietigd, gaat verhaal proberen te halen bij Energy Solutions Group ("De Groene Energie Corridor", DGEC) om de "schitterende" #zonnepanelen naast de Polderbaan weg te krijgen 🤔 #soap www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binne... www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-...
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Schiphol naar rechter om zonnepanelen die piloten verblinden
Schiphol spant een rechtszaak aan tegen de eigenaar van zonnepanelen in de buurt van de Polderbaan. Die zonnepanelen weerkaatsen zonlicht zodanig dat ze piloten verblinden. Ze vormen volgens Schiphol ...
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
EXTRAORDINARY:44C ON KAZAKH HIGHLANDS Records pulverized in hundreds of stations at 500m/1000m asl 43.9 Aksengir 43.0 Aydarly 42.8 Bakanas 42.6 Ciganak 42.3 Aul etc SIBERIA 38.2 Chadan It will get much worse: It's the most extreme event in world climatic history hands down
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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
As the 9th anniversary of the #Brexit referendum approaches, new polling shows: 🇪🇺 Large majority see Brexit as a mistake and failure 🇬🇧 Large majority blame Brexiters for the failure 🇪🇺🇬🇧 Clear majority want to #RejoinEU Let's get on with it! yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Ministers continue to allow water companies to sell microplastic and chemical ridden sewage sludge as fertiliser. It contaminates our food and our rivers. An incredibly foolish & dangerous thing to do. Gov has a duty to protect the public. This is a very serious failure @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social
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Water companies MUST pay to fix their mess and stop contaminating our soil!
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
EU's green aviation fuels mandate will 'drive inflation, achieve nothing and play into the hands of populists'. Couldn't have said it better myself! www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/eu...
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EU's green aviation fuels mandate will 'drive inflation, achieve nothing and play into the hands of populists'
RefuelEU Aviation requires 1.2% of aviation fuel to be made from green hydrogen by 2030, despite e-kerosene being 11.5 times more expensive than conventional jet fuel
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 19/06/2025
Today’s London Standard has a big report on how the capital “isn’t working”. It blames immigrants, especially Muslims, and the lack of “White British”. It asks “if there’s a minimum number of natives” at which London must give it up its status as the UK capital. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/lond...
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Planet Over Profit @planetoverprofit.org · 20/06/2025
BREAKING: activists disrupt business at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to demand they evict Crye Precision and Easy Aerial, two military manufacturers hiding their HQs in Brooklyn. These companies produce materials for the IDF and ICE and are complicit in genocide and mass disappearing. Evict them now!
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 19/06/2025
Is the UK hot right now? YES - it's hot! Live temperature updates hour by hour, every day. istheukhotrightnow.com
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WanderingDutchman @wanderingdutchman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
#Sandwich #Biomess #Biomass 😡 youtu.be/E2e2Sr2hEyA?...
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The biomass power plant in Sandwich
YouTube video by Get Wild
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River Action @riveractionuk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚨 BREAKING NEWS!🚨: A landmark victory for the River Severn and turning point for polluting factory farming across the UK We’ve just overturned the approval of a 200,000-bird factory farm in the High Court, a major legal victory against Shropshire Council. 🔗 - bit.ly/3HY4xl4
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River Action wins landmark High Court case against Shropshire Council over industrial chicken farm chaos - River Action UK
High Court ruling sets national precedent that marks turning point for polluting factory farming in the UK We have won a major legal victory in the High Court against Shropshire Council today, success...
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This is bang on point about the ecological impact of the game bird industry coupled with land ownership patterns. I see the scars from burning the moors. good stuff from @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social & The Star 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Rob Jansen @aether.eurosky.social · 18/06/2025
Eternit wist al vanaf eind jaren ’40 van de gezondheidsrisico’s van asbestproductie www.ftm.nl/artikelen/st...
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Eternit aangeklaagd voor de dood van werknemers van vroegere asbestfabriek
Bouwbedrijf Eternit moet voor de strafrechter komen vanwege de dood van twee medewerkers van zijn voormalige asbestfabriek, en vanwege de dood van de partner van een medewerker. Volgens het Openbaar M...
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Spain's blackout had nothing to do with renewables Red Eléctrica miscalculated dynamic voltage capacity needed. Regulator should have switched on another thermal plant. Plus, private generators failed to regulate the grid's voltage shortly before the blackout www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Spain's government blames huge blackout on grid regulator and private firms
Spain and Portugal were disconnected from Europe's electricity grid for hours in April, causing chaos.
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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Carrot or stick? In a massive dataset of over 10,000 cities around the world, the strongest association with distance travelled by walking and cycling was not climate, topography, or even infrastructure - it was *gasoline prices*! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Figure 3 from "Global health and climate benefits from walking and cycling infrastructure" by Adam Millard-Balla, Monisha Reginalda, Yasmina Yusufa, and Christopher Bian. The figure shows factors associated with distance travelled by cycling and walking, arranged in order of effect size. For cycling, the largest effects are gasoline prices, GDP per capita, rail service, steep terrain (negative effect), minimum temperature (negative effect), population density, and bicycle lanes. For walking, the largest effects are population density, gasoline prices, bicycle lanes, and maximum temp (negative effect).


Fig. 3 Caption: Factors influencing active travel. Each coefficient represents the impact of a one-SD change in each variable on the share of kilometers traveled by cycling (A) and walking (B). For each city-level variable such as density, the model estimates a separate coefficient for each country. The shaded area shows the distribution of country-level coefficients; for density, for example, the effect on walking ranges from about zero to ~0.11, excluding one outlier. For country-level variables such as gasoline prices, there is only a single coefficient. Variables are ordered by the size of their absolute effect in the median country—density and gasoline prices have the greatest impact on walking and gasoline prices and income (GDP per capita) on cycling. The minimum temperature variable shows the marginal effect of both the linear and squared terms.One might expect climate to have a major impact on active travel, and many studies highlight the impact of weather on daily and seasonal travel decisions (9, 25). However, in our model, there is a negligible association between precipitation and the mode shares of walking and cycling. Hotter temperatures decrease walking but have no effect on travel by bicycle. Colder temperatures only reduce walking and cycling in colder climates (SI Appendix for further Discussion). At the national level, gasoline price has the largest association with the share of travel by active modes. A one-SD increase in the price per liter (equivalent to US $0.40) is associated with a ~1.0 percentage point increase in walking and a ~0.5 percentage point increase in cycling—notable given that the mode share of cycling across the entire dataset is just ~0.9%. These findings echo a large volume of research that shows how vehicle travel declines in line with rising fuel prices (26). Gasoline prices also have an indirect effect in promoting denser, mixed-use development (27).
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"There are more than 30,000 Gazans with major life-changing physical injuries... Those victims suffer from a range of injuries including severed limbs (including amputations), brain damage, severe spinal cord injuries... At present, in most cases, no proper rehabilitation is possible"
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Gaza: the grim reality of genocide
The first comprehensive analysis of how Israel's War on Gaza will cause suffering for generations to come. Journalist David Keys reveals the horrifying scale and long-term implications of the ongoing ...
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Now, the biggest gap between demand and WindWaterSolar (including storage) supply is around midnight to 2 AM, not after sunset.
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Josephine Moulds @josephinemoulds.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
HSBC was slammed at its AGM when we revealed it appeared to have breached its coal policy by funding coal expanders. Today we reveal that it appears to have broken its coal policy for the second year running. Investors are rightly furious. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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HSBC breaks pledge to phase out coal for second year running
Shareholders voice anger at bank’s $900m deal with controversial steel giant
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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 18/06/2025
Once known as the “Kingdom of Bicycles”, China largely abandoned cycling in the 1990s, handing their streets over to the car in the name of prosperity. But in recent years, policymakers have done a stunning reversal, reallocating vast amounts of space in the name of liveability. buff.ly/S7fY4eY
cycling bridge in chinacycling highway in China
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 18/06/2025
👉NEW -- Fighter jet parts sent through UK airport to Israel by @john-mcevoy.bsky.social & @wereontheditch.bsky.social Exclusive: As Israel uses F-35 jets to bomb Iran and Gaza, we reveal parts for these warplanes were transported via London last month. www.declassifieduk.org/fighter-jet-...
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Fighter jet parts sent through UK airport to Israel
Exclusive: As Israel uses F-35 fighter jets to bomb Iran and Gaza, we reveal parts for these warplanes were transported via London last month.
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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It's #CleanAirDay tomorrow! Join us on the @globalactionplan.bsky.social Walk and Wheel event, starting at Great Ormond Street Hospital at 10am. ‬Campaigners, health professionals and patients will be walking with us, as we call on policymakers to adopt WHO #AirQuality targets.
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The case for health sector action for clean air
Air pollution is now the second leading risk factor for death ahead of tobacco and poor diet globally; in the UK we see some of the worst childhood asthma rates in Europe: the need for the health…
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Rob Jansen @aether.eurosky.social · 18/06/2025
Sanctioneer de fascisten in Israël! Niet een paar ministers maar het hele moordlustige regime. “Moderne Israëlische wapens welke geëxperimenteerd zijn op Palestijnen worden gekocht door Nederland”. WTF 🤬 NL is medeplichtig aan #Genocide.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 18/06/2025
📹NEW VIDEO -- Jeremy Corbyn slams Israel’s illegal attack on Iran Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke with Declassified's Laura Pidcock about the dangers of war with Iran and why he wants the British government to come clean about its role in Gaza. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydWj...
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Jeremy Corbyn slams Israel’s illegal attack on Iran
YouTube video by Declassified UK
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 18/06/2025
✍️ Bentham residents confront local PFAS crisis at public meeting Can the most PFAS polluted town in the UK finally inform the public on the scale of the extent of forever chemical contamination? By Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social
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Bentham residents confront local PFAS crisis at public meeting
Can the most PFAS polluted town in the UK finally inform the public on the scale of the extent of forever chemical contamination?
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