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Tina Leonard 🧡💙
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Retired research biochemist. Quaker. Climate activist. Co-founder Quaker Support for Climate Action (QS4CA), Networker, Green. #NotMyKing #TogetherWithRefugees
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Tina Leonard 🧡💙 @leonard3tina.bsky.social · 25d
For Quakers, faith & action are inseparable," said recording clerk for Quakers in Britain.

“Peaceful protest, prayer, & non-violent action are expressions of our worship. When this is criminalised, our religious freedom is under attack."

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 29d
Quakers in Britain has been refused permission to give evidence in a landmark legal challenge to the UK government's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

We are disappointed with this decision, which means our concerns around freedom of religion will not be heard in court.
Quakers denied intervention in court challenge over faith rights in terror law case
Quakers in Britain has been refused permission to give evidence in a landmark legal challenge to the UK government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
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Lesley @lesleyjgrahame.bsky.social · 13h
I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax
Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...
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Extinction Rebellion BCP @xrbcp.bsky.social · 15h
🌍✊ March for Climate Justice! ✊🌍
From Poole Park to Poole Quay, we stood in solidarity for people, animals & planet, calling out Perenco’s harm and demanding justice for communities from Dorset to the Global South.
There is no climate justice without decolonisation, reparations & animal liberation 💚
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 13h
Awesome re-analysis of the Franklin / Crick / Watson story. Explains how Franklin produced (with considerable skill) the *pictures* that made the penny drop for slow-on-the-uptake Watson. Sadly, paywalled.

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Reassessing Discovery: Rosalind Franklin, Scientific Visualization, and the Structure of DNA | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Reassessing Discovery: Rosalind Franklin, Scientific Visualization, and the Structure of DNA - Volume 79 Issue 1
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18h
"Two Top Scientists Tackle Trump’s Idiocracy" | Great review of my new book with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, by @danfalk.bsky.social for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Two top scientists tackle Trump's idiocracy
In a new book, Michael Mann and Peter Hotez examine the risks posed by entrenched beliefs, corporate greed, and regressive governments.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13h
"We were strip-searched, zip-tied, blindfolded and disappeared into the Negev Desert."
5 Days in Israel’s Desert Prison: Jewish Flotilla Activist David Adler on Harrowing Detention Ordeal
Israeli forces have abducted over 500 peace activists over the past week who were sailing to Gaza in an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged territory. Organizers of the Global Sumud Flo...
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 13h
Greens out in force to show support for the freedom of the Palestinian people

We joined over 500,000 people

The Palestinian people must be given their total and complete freedom, the blockade must be lifted, access to international journalists granted

Time you joined
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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 16h
I just supported a campaign that’s really important. Larch is in a tough spot and needs help to save his home from being taken. Please consider donating or sharing this. Every bit counts. gofund.me/9f6919344
Donate to Save Larch’s home from HS2 AND HELP His NEXT GREAT PROJECT, organized by Merlin Matthews
Dr. Larch Maxey has dedicated 40 years to sustainability and … Merlin Matthews needs your support for Save Larch’s home from HS2 AND HELP His NEXT GREAT PROJECT
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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 1d
🚨 Legal win 🚨

Ministers can’t duck environmental duties after this win

Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas

#ClimateJustice Read my op Ed scrapcc.org/IS-EDP-OPED

Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15h
Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
Nigel Farage on Russia Today.
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Russell Scott @russellscott1.bsky.social · 13h
Baroness Mone isn’t the only Tory Peer named as a VIP Lane referrer.

Also on the list:

Lord Agnew
Lord Gove
Lord Leigh
Lord Feldman
Lord Chadlington
Lord Marks
Lord Deighton
Lord Bethell
Lord Lansley
Lord Prior
+10 other Tory MP’s 👀⤵️

Listen to my chat with @BylineTimesPod :
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 1d
Billions of pounds worth of unused #PPE literally went up in smoke.

@russellscott1.bsky.social has been investigating the UK's biggest waste of taxpayer's money - and wonders why no one has been held to account.

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Byline Podcast: PPE, The Pandemic and Cronyism with Russell Scott
Adrian Goldberg hears from Russell Scott, author of 'VIP Lane – Cronysim and the Pandemic', which is out now via Byline Books.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn mor...
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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 16h
We kicked off the @scottishgreens.org election campaign for the West of Scotland today in Largs 💚

Want to help re-elect me and have @caramckeegreens.bsky.social join me in Parliament to fight for people and planet?

Join our movement today greens.scot/join
Fifteen Green activists with flags and posters in Largs
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 22h
Israel refuses to release abducted Palestinian doctors, will not let foreign medics enter Gaza either

Doctors imprisoned without charge, beaten and starved will remain in 'detention' says Israel as it blocks international medical access to Gaza
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Israel refuses to release abducted Palestinian doctors, will not let foreign medics enter Gaza either
Doctors imprisoned without charge, beaten and starved will remain in 'detention' says Israel as it blocks international access to Gaza
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 5d
⚠️Three-quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir.
Read that back.
The head of the UK branch of Palantir is Louis Mosely, grandson of British Fascist Oswald Mosely.
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UK police forces dodge questions on Palantir | Good Law Project
After Leicestershire Police removed details of a deal with the controversial US spy-tech firm, three quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 5d
Louis Mosley is quoted as saying that Palantir's strategy for entry into the British health industry was to "Buy our way in" by acquiring smaller rival companies with existing relationships with the NHS in order to "take a lot of ground and take down a lot of political resistance"
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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d
Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...
Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district
A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 5d
Reminder - Palantir has 24 contracts with key UK institutions, the NHS, the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office, the police force, and the DLUHC.
23 of the contracts were given by the Tories.
The most recent contract given to Palantir was to Coventry City Council by Keir Starmer in April 2025.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 5d
Keir Starmer will continue handing out Palantir contracts to councils, as one by one, councils are collapsing due to insufficient funding and poor management. This is part and parcel of how predatory corporations are making serious incursions into the public sector.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d
The foreign secretary says the UK has been contributing to the peace process.

No. What the UK govt has been contributing to is the extermination of the Palestinian people.
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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 23h
Farage won’t help you with your rent.
Farage won’t make your bills cheaper.
Farage won’t save the NHS.

The Green Party WILL.

Join now and help us do it.
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 1d
Unbelievable - Thames Water wants to pollute ILLEGALLY for the next 15 years

If they get away with this, other water companies will copy

If you don't want sewage until 2040 (!) please sign our
petition to @ofwat.bsky.social

We'll be handing it in on 21st October

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Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.
Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d
Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d
Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

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Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.
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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 1d
Clam shells sound warning of Atlantic ‘tipping point'.
New research from @exeter.ac.uk using centuries-old clam shells has found signs that key Atlantic Ocean currents may be losing stability.

Full paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🦑🐟🧪🌐🌍🌊 #AcademicSky @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
a closeup of bivalve shells. text overlaid in a bold white font: Clam shells sound warning of Atlantic ‘tipping point’. New Uni of Exeter study finds evidence of "stability loss"
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Tina Leonard 🧡💙 @leonard3tina.bsky.social · 1d
So this is what peace looks like?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d
Displaced Palestinians return to the ruins of homes, driven by loss, defiance and the will to rebuild.
Palestinians search Gaza rubble for loved ones in ceasefire, return home
Displaced Palestinians return to the ruins of homes, driven by loss, defiance and the will to rebuild.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d
I had a high opinion of MIT before today but it just went up some more.
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 1d
MIT, as one of nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks, REJECTS the Trump administration deal.

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(gift article) #AcademicSky
MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding
MIT is one of nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.
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Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social · 1d
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins
Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.
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