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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Beware of populist leaders, warns judge. Justice Azhar Cachalia makes a clarion call for the rule of law underpinned by universal human rights and an independent judiciary. groundup.org.za/article/bewa...
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Beware of populist leaders, warns judge
Justice Azhar Cachalia makes a clarion call for the rule of law underpinned by universal human rights and an independent judiciary
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What is the tech industry truly afraid of? Is it the AI they have unleashed, as they want us to believe? Or is it…all of us, standing up to them? Thanks to Chris Hayes for having us on.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 16/09/2026
The only prediction about the AI crisis I feel confident making is that the crisis will involve the one thing that every American crisis involves: oligarchs and politicians attempting to rob the poor, while corporate media depicts that as the only prudent course of action.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Beware of Silicon Valley tech bros bearing shiny undeliverable promises, with large lobbying budgets & undemocratic values, that bear allegiance to a state with doubtful levels of democracy and consistency #Security #CyberSecurity nataliebennett.org/2026/07/15/c...
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Cyber Security and Resilience Bill Second Reading - Natalie Bennett Green Party Peer #NatalieGreenPeer
Beware of Silicon Valley tech bros bearing shiny undeliverable promises, with large lobbying budgets and frighteningly undemocratic values, and that bear allegiance to a state with doubtful levels of ...
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Two giant data centres secure initial green light from Cape Town municipal tribunal, but the application neither makes mention of how much water the giant data centres will use, nor does it detail energy supply and demand. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
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Two giant data centres get initial green light from Cape Town tribunal
The building of two massive water-hungry and energy-hungry data centres next to Cape Town International Airport has cleared the first regulatory hurdle.…
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#NaturesRights - great work!
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Richard Burden @richardburden.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Birmingham City Council illuminated The Library of Birmingham in green and white last night to remember the 8,372 men and boys murdered in the Srebrenica genocide of July 1995 and to stand in solidarity with their loved ones who survived. We’ll never forget. #Srebrenica31 @srebrenica.bsky.social
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I visited Camp Beagle in Huntingdon, where beagles are bred and kept in tiny cages. They have no access to outdoor space and are subjected to cruel experiments. These outdated practices must end and be replaced by modern, reliable methods.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Once again, Brighton and Hove’s brave and inclusive city has massively outnumbered an attempted fascist march on our streets. Love will win. Pics: forward view, backward view, team view, street view. #gohomeracists #Brighton
A small number of fascist marchers waiting behind police lines outside Brighton station. A very large crowd behind the other side of the police lines around the bus stops outside Brighron stations. Signs say ‘against the far right’ and ‘bye virgins’Sian Berry MP in a blue cap in the crowd with a woman protestor in an England flag football shirt with a sign in union jack letters saying ‘wrong city mate’View of the bottom of Surrey Street with a large anti-racist crowd blocking a wide area of tbe junction with minimal police presence.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.
Huge fires encompassing a street with buildings, cars and the majority of the street on fire with plumes of black smoke.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“The truth is that the global far right have spent the past few years using a billionaire-owned social media platform to deliberately whip up racist violence on Britain’s streets and now they are finally starting to succeed.” @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/t...
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Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage and the ‘Pure Cold Rage’ Used to Trigger a Racist Pogrom in Belfast
Mainstream politicians have stood by as the global far-right campaigns for anti-migrant violence on our streets. Now we're suffering the consequences, argues Adam Bienkov
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zen2025.bsky.social @zen2025.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Please help this family if you can. chuffed.org/project/help...
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Help Iman and her family survive in Gaza
"The ongoing war has completely destroyed our home, leaving my family with no place to go. We are facing harsh conditions without the basic necessities of life. Most heart-breakingly, we have already ...
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zen2025.bsky.social @zen2025.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Workers pay tax, AI and self service machines do not.
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zen2025.bsky.social @zen2025.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Never thought I'd feel sorry for Malema but five years seems harsh considering that the Zuptas and Afriforum's buddies in the Epstein class get off scot free.
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zen2025.bsky.social @zen2025.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This is so 1940s South Africa. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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NAACP lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s xAI of polluting Black neighborhoods near Memphis
Suit alleges the billionaire’s AI company is illegally spewing toxic pollutants from its datacenters in the Memphis area
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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Sweet lord, 138!
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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Ding dong, the mafia state is out! Magyar has his work cut out for him: much of the damage in Poland is still there, and that regime only lasted 5 years. But in the meantime, this is a fantastic result, and so overwhelming that Orbán conceded without the expected legal challenges, etc!
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Hungary election: Viktor Orbán concedes with opposition on course for landslide election win - follow live
Hungary's prime minister has been ousted after 16 years in power, with Péter Magyar set to be the country's new leader.
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zen2025.bsky.social @zen2025.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
So many brilliant Middle Eastern scholars and analysts have to talk about the crises using Western terminology and categories which may be devoid of understanding the cultural ties between the peoples of the middle east and how these may surpass borders and nation states.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
#PalantirOut - first the NHS, then defence www.ft.com/content/dbb6...
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NHS staff boycott Palantir’s data platform over ethical concerns
Controversial US tech group was awarded a £330mn contract in 2023 to collate hospital and patient information
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George Monbiot
Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
John Mearsheimer and I teamed up yesterday on Tom Switzer’s podcast, to discuss just how deep a hole Donald Trump had dug himself in Iran. youtu.be/NyvFSpZ7yYs?...
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Iran: The Illusion of a Peace Deal | John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
YouTube video by Switzerland with Tom Switzer
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Polanski’s speech won a standing ovation & was welcomed by NEU general secretary, Daniel Kebede, who said more than 60% of his members used to vote Labour. “I think our membership feels that Zack speaks more for schools and education at the moment.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Zack Polanski meets unions in attempt to get them to switch party funding to Greens
Leader understood to have spoken to 10 trade unions after party claimed working class voters are turning to them
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
After more than a decade of culling and the deaths of over 230,000 badgers, I welcome reports that the government has committed to ending the cull. I’ve written to the responsible minister asking her to confirm that badger culling in England will end in full.
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I am really encouraged by reports that you made a verbal commitment to ending badger culls during a meeting with the Badgers Trust last week.  
 
After more than a decade of culling, and the brutal deaths of more than 230,000 badgers, such a commitment would be very significant and hugely welcome. The commitment would reflect what many have provided compelling evidence against formany years: that badger culling is a costly, ineffective policy which has failed to address bovine tuberculosis in a meaningful way, yet persecutes one of the most iconic native species of rural England. 
 
Ending intensive and supplementary licences marked the formal closure of the large-scale, long-term culling framework, but without a clear and unequivocal commitment, there remains a risk that badger killing could continue in some form under a future bovine tuberculosis strategy.
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zen2025.bsky.social @zen2025.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Then the US will be case of what political scientists have called competitive authoritarianism, electoral authoritarianism and semi-authoritarianism.
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zen2025.bsky.social @zen2025.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
They'll go after Mamdani like they went after Obama and they're hounding Polanski like they hounded Rayner. That is what they do to anyone who goes off script.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#GoodNews - a very strong message! www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/zack...
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Zack Polanski joins half a million people in anti-far-right march in London
Green Party leader Zack Polanski took part in an anti-far-right march in central London on Saturday (28 March). Organised by the Together Alliance, half a million people are estimated to have joined t...
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Collieflower @collieflower.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
damn daniel, at it again with the best podcast around.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The Moonroe Doctrine.
White House tweet stating "America will never give up the moon again."
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zen2025.bsky.social @zen2025.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Where is the evidence that people from these four countries abused student visas?
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Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...
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Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965.
Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"There is a hidden world we don’t properly understand, and often aren’t interested in. But it is interested in us." How little we understand even about our own bodies: we need to #unlearn scientific hubris www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Meningitis shows we still don’t understand our hidden human world
Bacteria associated with the virus mostly live in our bodies unnoticed — but sometimes, something goes wrong
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
First ep of Nusantara, new Dig series on history of Indonesia. We know little about this giant place despite pivotal history of Dutch colonialism and then of nationalist, Islamist, communist revolt against it. This ep features Rianne Subijanto & Made Supriatma. Listen thedigradio.com/podcast/nusa...
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Nusantara Ep. 1 – The Long Arc of Dutch Colonialism
Nusantara is a new Dig series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history. This episode traces a l...
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"Marco Rubio’s encomiums to white Western civilization, and Hegseth’s pornographic fantasies of “death and destruction from the sky all day long,” proclaim today a sadistic urge to re-impose the racial hierarchies of the nineteenth century." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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A Bitter Education | Pankaj Mishra
In its quiescence to the West’s war on Iran, India is squandering a precious legacy.
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zen2025.bsky.social @zen2025.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Went leafleting for the first time in years. Met an elderly woman who said she does not engage in politics because Jesus takes care of everything. I did not argue much, she was returning from the food bank, clearly struggling. Marx was right about the opium of the masses in some cases.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Yesterday I pushed Ministers again to include Ella's Law in the upcoming King's Speech. With a proper plan like this, everyone in the UK could be breathing clean air. The cost to our lives and the health of our children of letting this vital Bill sit on the shelf is simply too high. #EllasLaw
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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I’m on my way to Cuba for an emergency 3-day visit. I’ll be delivering medical aid to a children’s cancer hospital and joining an international delegation of MPs opposed to Trump’s new ban on any fuel entering the country. This cruel policy is putting lives at risk.
Richard Burgon MP holding a box of medical aid that will be delivered to Cuba in front of a Cuba Vive banner.
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I would say I’m fairly knowledgeable about the corruption, violence, coercive authority, and brutal imperial power that pervades extractive sectors and yet I am still in shock at this Trump admin move to secure Zambian minerals
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
It's welcome to see somebody being held responsible for this appalling political assassination
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"Between 2020 and 2023, they say, the expenditure of anti-abortion groups increased by 34%, and British branches of US organisations by 46%" Toxic US politics imported here #Healthcare #AbortionRights www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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How US groups are driving a new generation of anti-abortion activism in the UK
The killing of Charlie Kirk galvanised a transatlantic campaign against abortion. But will it succeed in shifting Britain's pro-choice consensus?
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"There might not be this boundary between the animal and the plant kingdom—or it might be a lot more porous than we think." How little we understand about the #biodiversity we are fast trashing. How much we need to #Unlearn phys.org/news/2026-03...
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Can plants count? Study suggests they can track the number of events they experience
It's long been assumed that for an organism to learn, remember or draw conclusions, it needs a brain. But mounting evidence, including a recent Cognitive Science study, challenges that assumption, sug...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 12/03/2026
“This war has been no help to the people of Iran. It risks leaving them in a more destabilised country with a worse regime.” Siân Berry discussing the conflict in Iran on #BBCQT.
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zen2025.bsky.social @zen2025.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ships diverting to the Cape route!!! Back to the 1600s.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I am delighted that the High Court has ruled in my favour on the key issues in the libel case brought by Raffi Berg. The court rejected the claimant’s interpretation of the article and ruled that it expressed an opinion based on stated material.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
There's a story every day trying to talk about why the Green Party is no longer "Green." Protecting our environment means lower bills, warmer homes, unionised jobs. Every day our membership rises & we're winning. People are increasingly connecting the dots. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
How to process the demonisation of migrants by MPs of that heritage? Like the mini despot Shabana Mahmood. And Reform's Zia Yusef? Power saves them now. Not forever. My column inews.co.uk/opinion/grim...
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The grim irony of Labour’s anti-immigrant rabble rousers
Shabana Mahmood has morphed from a liberal into a mini-despot
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 12/03/2026
Earlier this month, prominent Iraqi human rights defender and feminist advocate Yanar Mohammed was killed in an armed attack on her home in Baghdad. Democracy Now! spoke with her in 2003 following the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The British government aided and abetted the genocide in Gaza. Now, it is aiding and abetting an illegal war in Iran. Complicity in the untold suffering of human beings around the world. That is how this government of warmongers will be remembered.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Such a powerful maiden speech from our amazing new Green MP Hannah Spencer - take a few moments to listen & celebrate that a bit more humanity has entered Westminster & hope is beginning to feel more normal 👇
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zen2025.bsky.social @zen2025.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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Brazil President Lula warns Ramaphosa South Africa could face invasion without stronger defence
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to strengthen defence cooperation, warning both countries could be vulnerable to foreign invasion if they fail to prepa...
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