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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 31m

JPMorgan says the US needs renewables to meet increasing demand for energy from the tech industry and more stories on today's Green Daily

JPMorgan Says US Needs Renewables to Meet Rising Energy Demand

JPMorgan says the US needs renewables to power growth in its tech industry. In an interview with Bloomberg Television this morning, the bank’s global head of sustainable solutions Chuka Umunna said it’s not about climate, or the environment, but about becoming self-sufficient.

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 30m

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Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home | Owen Jones

History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised now, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

At long last. A look at the details of Farage's fantasy economics.
An economically illiterate attempt to con the voters.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 1h

I am once again begging you to boycott Tesla

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15h

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 2h

Those with me last night will have witnessed the shocking scenes from Kharkiv, where a hospital in the city was bombed.

Here's what it looks like this morning. One building was destroyed, the wards were badly damaged. All 57 patients needed counselling while 6 were wounded.

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1h

I guess accepting donations in crypto makes sense for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. It could help the party to hide the identities of pro-Russian benefactors.

Nigel Farage tells crypto conference ‘I am your champion’

Reform UK leader touts plans to create a state-owned bitcoin reserve

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

Rachel Reeves, just tell voters why taxes must go up – and then do it | Polly Toynbee

The Thatcherite notion of tax as wicked must be challenged in the upcoming budget. Target unearned wealth; explain that tax creates a decent society, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Allan Paterson #FBPE FB99% #UBI #YNWA 🐟 @allangpaterson.bsky.social · 1h

Solar power is now the world’s cheapest energy source!
www.dpaonthenet.net/article/2180...

Solar power is now the world’s cheapest energy source

<a href="/products/185/Electronic-Components">Solar energy</a> is now so cost-effective that, in the sunniest countries, it costs as little as £0.02 to produce one unit of power, making it cheaper tha...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2h

To all you patriots (and UK authorities)

Is this not political interference of the most egregious and socially divisive kind?

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 2h

Most voters want a wealth tax.

Why not Labour?

Because they don’t want to upset their corporate donors.

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Bill Hall @artboy.bsky.social · 11h

Music After Midnight
It's late. Time for some of the coolest jazz ever made. Chet Baker performing "Time After Time" live. Just wait for that trumpet solo...
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Chet Baker - Time After Time (1964) - Live

YouTube video by Das weiße Kaninchen

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

oh. right.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

When the right loses both Joe Rogan and Marjorie Taylor Greene on the issues in the same week, you know it’s going to get rough for Republicans.

Joe Rogan on ICE: “The way it looks is just horrific.”

QAnon queen MTG on the economy: “I’m just living in reality from here on out.”

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Bill Hall @artboy.bsky.social · 11h

Music After Midnight
It's late. Time for some of the coolest jazz ever made. Chet Baker performing "Time After Time" live. Just wait for that trumpet solo...
youtu.be/Y8yGvmGtIn8?...

Chet Baker - Time After Time (1964) - Live

YouTube video by Das weiße Kaninchen

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice.

Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice.

Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice.

Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice.

Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 12h

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is very frightening.
How can the government fight back against this huge amount of money and this huge negative influence.
Whatever, it takes we have to do it.

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

Rupert Lowe's take on Nathan Gill 👀

"Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close... He was one of just two MEPs from the previous term Farage allowed to stand again."
"He seemed particularly interested in Russian/Ukrainian developments which I found peculiar"

s/s X-Twitter post from Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10
I have received A LOT of questions about Nathan Gill, having sat as a Brexit Party MEP alongside him in Brussels and Strasbourg. He was also the Reform leader in Wales. For those who don’t know, he has pleaded guilty to taking pro-Russian bribes over a number of months.

Obviously, I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close. He was the head of the delegation of our MEPs, so with the whip ran the day-to-day affairs of our grouping and organised activity in Brussels/Strasbourg. He was one of just two MEPs from the previous term Farage allowed to stand again.

He seemed particularly interested in Russian/Ukrainian developments which I found peculiar. There was one event, right at the beginning of our term, which he asked me and other MEPs to attend. Due to his position in the grouping, I agreed. It had a very pro-Russian slant, with individuals who claimed to be close to Putin there. For obvious reasons, I did not attend another such event.

I thought his obsession with that part of the world was strange, but given his years in the Parliament and position in the party, I didn’t think there was more to it. Other MEPs also found it unusual, but we just got on with job.

So to journalists asking, there is my response.

It is disgraceful behaviour, treasonous behaviour.

I am ashamed to have ever sat alongside him.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15h

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12h

Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK

The Reform Leader is joining forces with a US-based Christian legal group, which campaigns for abortion to be outlawed around the world

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 23h

This goes even higher up. Forget Medvedchuk. Forget Medvedev

According to former Brexit Party MEP and defected Reform MP Rupert Lowe, the individuals at Gill's meetings claimed to be "close to Putin"

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h

Big media outlets are rejecting the new Pentagon press restrictions imposed by TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

So far: The Guardian, WaPo, CNN, The Atlantic and NYT.

Prominent news outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline — The Washington Post

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 1d

Love that Chicago is getting in on the Portland humor bandwagon! Hard to say it’s a warzone when this is happening!

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 2d

Farage and his cronies aren’t the only ones with questionable connections to Russia…

Tommy Robinson’s ties to Russia

Elon Musk is promoting a far-right agitator who has regularly aped Putin’s propaganda.

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Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 2d

"I have worked with Nathan Gill over a period of years and he's been terrific, he's never, ever, let me down. He's as honest as the day is long."
Nigel Farage
BBC News 2016

Welsh election: UKIP's Farage backs 'terrific' Gill

UKIP leader Nigel Farage backs the party's Welsh leader Nathan Gill as

www.bbc.co.uk

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