Dan Hultgren
@diftol.bsky.social
Humanitarian, environmentalist, union organiser and philosophy/astrophysics nerd. US born / UK living.
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How pleasingly ironic it would be for the British Broadcasting Corporation to remind Americans what the First Amendment is all about. The BBC may be about to lose a director general, but it still has a spine. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has no choice but to teach Trump a lesson about free speech
The corporation may have lost a director general, but now needs to prove it still has a spine
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
How pleasingly ironic it would be for the British Broadcasting Corporation to remind Americans what the First Amendment is all about. The BBC may be about to lose a director general, but it still has a spine. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
BUY Together for Palestine’s charity single LULLABY!
If it goes to festive No.1, we can make history for Gaza’s children.
All profits to the Together for Palestine Fund held by Choose Love to support Palestinian-led humanitarian orgs.
linktr.ee/T4Plive
If it goes to festive No.1, we can make history for Gaza’s children.
All profits to the Together for Palestine Fund held by Choose Love to support Palestinian-led humanitarian orgs.
linktr.ee/T4Plive
December 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
BUY Together for Palestine’s charity single LULLABY!
If it goes to festive No.1, we can make history for Gaza’s children.
All profits to the Together for Palestine Fund held by Choose Love to support Palestinian-led humanitarian orgs.
linktr.ee/T4Plive
If it goes to festive No.1, we can make history for Gaza’s children.
All profits to the Together for Palestine Fund held by Choose Love to support Palestinian-led humanitarian orgs.
linktr.ee/T4Plive
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Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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Hell yes. Read & share this piece.
Happy Thanksgiving! I wrote something for everyone to discuss around the dinner table when the pie is passed around and everyone proposes specific measures to seize the wealth and break the anti-democratic power of the tech oligarchy.
How To Expropriate An Artificial Intelligence Oligarchy
An industry whose bubble is set to burst is crucial to U.S. national security, you say?
www.forever-wars.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Hell yes. Read & share this piece.
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A 2024 report by food/climate scientists said livestock "must" peak by 2025 in high-income countries. (HT @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social)
It won't.
It's futile to call something people *will not do* a requirement for climate mitigation.
animal.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...
It won't.
It's futile to call something people *will not do* a requirement for climate mitigation.
animal.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A 2024 report by food/climate scientists said livestock "must" peak by 2025 in high-income countries. (HT @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social)
It won't.
It's futile to call something people *will not do* a requirement for climate mitigation.
animal.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...
It won't.
It's futile to call something people *will not do* a requirement for climate mitigation.
animal.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...
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Jean Su warns that the booming AI industry’s high resource consumption threatens the world’s climate goals, despite rosy prognoses of AI’s projected benefits.
“Data Crunch”: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals
A new report titled “Data Crunch: How the AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals” from the Center for Biological Diversity warns the booming artificial intelligence in...
www.democracynow.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Jean Su warns that the booming AI industry’s high resource consumption threatens the world’s climate goals, despite rosy prognoses of AI’s projected benefits.
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Brian Eno: "I'd like the whole taxation system to be fairer, which means rich people paying more tax and poor people paying less tax... people know that somethings wrong, they know that rich people don't pay much tax compared to their incomes"
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Brian Eno: "I'd like the whole taxation system to be fairer, which means rich people paying more tax and poor people paying less tax... people know that somethings wrong, they know that rich people don't pay much tax compared to their incomes"
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If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
Brazil is drilling in the Amazon while claiming to be a climate champion. I have just asked Brazil to choose to lead the world away from fossil fuels at #COP30.
Add your name to @350.org's petition to pressure the Brazilian government to take the action that's needed! 👇
act.350.org/letter/cop30...
Add your name to @350.org's petition to pressure the Brazilian government to take the action that's needed! 👇
act.350.org/letter/cop30...
Tell Brazil: Lead the World Beyond Fossil Fuels at COP30
Brazil is promising to protect the Amazon while allowing new oil drilling there. Brazil's leaders must choose: help the world move away from oil, or get left behind.
act.350.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Brazil is drilling in the Amazon while claiming to be a climate champion. I have just asked Brazil to choose to lead the world away from fossil fuels at #COP30.
Add your name to @350.org's petition to pressure the Brazilian government to take the action that's needed! 👇
act.350.org/letter/cop30...
Add your name to @350.org's petition to pressure the Brazilian government to take the action that's needed! 👇
act.350.org/letter/cop30...
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"In an age of grotesque and rising global inequality, civil society is ordinary people challenging elites and the governments that are elected to serve them." Amitabh Behar speaking at #ICSW2025
Full conversation: www.youtube.com/live/ymZYirn...
Full conversation: www.youtube.com/live/ymZYirn...
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"In an age of grotesque and rising global inequality, civil society is ordinary people challenging elites and the governments that are elected to serve them." Amitabh Behar speaking at #ICSW2025
Full conversation: www.youtube.com/live/ymZYirn...
Full conversation: www.youtube.com/live/ymZYirn...
Trump must have thought that Elon did such a good job starving kids abroad that he needed to one up him by starving them at home. 🤬
Mike Johnson lies shamelessly: "The president is desperate for SNAP benefits to flow to the American citizens who desperately rely on it ... the SNAP situation has legal impediments."
November 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Trump must have thought that Elon did such a good job starving kids abroad that he needed to one up him by starving them at home. 🤬
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Australia has so much clean energy they're literally giving it away. Meanwhile, GOP is in all-out war to stamp out solar
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Australia has so much clean energy they're literally giving it away. Meanwhile, GOP is in all-out war to stamp out solar
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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I've been thinking about this topic for a long time and I'm really excited to have finally gotten to do an episode about it!
@tammam.bsky.social speaks with @sana.msf.ca and @pollypw.bsky.social about whether humanitarianism has a marketing problem.
🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
@tammam.bsky.social speaks with @sana.msf.ca and @pollypw.bsky.social about whether humanitarianism has a marketing problem.
🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
How to make people care? Emergency aid's marketing problem | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Podcast Episode · The New Humanitarian · 10/30/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I've been thinking about this topic for a long time and I'm really excited to have finally gotten to do an episode about it!
@tammam.bsky.social speaks with @sana.msf.ca and @pollypw.bsky.social about whether humanitarianism has a marketing problem.
🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
@tammam.bsky.social speaks with @sana.msf.ca and @pollypw.bsky.social about whether humanitarianism has a marketing problem.
🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.
I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?
Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.
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I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?
Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.
I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?
Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?
Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
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In NLR 154, Aaron Benanav develops his framework for a post-capitalist social order:
‘From a technical standpoint, there may be no single optimal answer. But from an economic and political perspective, a choice must still be made.’
newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...
‘From a technical standpoint, there may be no single optimal answer. But from an economic and political perspective, a choice must still be made.’
newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...
September 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
In NLR 154, Aaron Benanav develops his framework for a post-capitalist social order:
‘From a technical standpoint, there may be no single optimal answer. But from an economic and political perspective, a choice must still be made.’
newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...
‘From a technical standpoint, there may be no single optimal answer. But from an economic and political perspective, a choice must still be made.’
newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...
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Eyad Amawi, a humanitarian worker in Gaza, has “mixed feelings” as peace talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Egypt.
"The situation [is] worsening" in Gaza, he says.
"The situation [is] worsening" in Gaza, he says.
October 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Eyad Amawi, a humanitarian worker in Gaza, has “mixed feelings” as peace talks between Israel and Hamas continue in Egypt.
"The situation [is] worsening" in Gaza, he says.
"The situation [is] worsening" in Gaza, he says.
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Why do we have so much stuff but don't meet needs? youtu.be/sPMKp1MkAiA?...
John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society asked a question that still matters: how can we live with private luxury alongside public squalor?
John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society asked a question that still matters: how can we live with private luxury alongside public squalor?
Why do we have so much stuff but don't meet needs?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
October 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Why do we have so much stuff but don't meet needs? youtu.be/sPMKp1MkAiA?...
John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society asked a question that still matters: how can we live with private luxury alongside public squalor?
John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society asked a question that still matters: how can we live with private luxury alongside public squalor?
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Every time you board a bus, or catch a train, you’re caught in a web of private ownership.
“Public” transport is not public.
Why does transport cost more while our services get worse?
🧵 Let’s look at the facts. (1/11)
“Public” transport is not public.
Why does transport cost more while our services get worse?
🧵 Let’s look at the facts. (1/11)
September 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Every time you board a bus, or catch a train, you’re caught in a web of private ownership.
“Public” transport is not public.
Why does transport cost more while our services get worse?
🧵 Let’s look at the facts. (1/11)
“Public” transport is not public.
Why does transport cost more while our services get worse?
🧵 Let’s look at the facts. (1/11)
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People are exhausted.
Our high streets, public spaces, whole communities left unloved.
Blaming migrants won’t fix this.
Tackling inequality will. Tax the super-rich. Fund public services.
#DrawTheLine
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Our high streets, public spaces, whole communities left unloved.
Blaming migrants won’t fix this.
Tackling inequality will. Tax the super-rich. Fund public services.
#DrawTheLine
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We have to tell an alternative story’: Green leader Polanski chats to Nigel Farage’s constituents
Visit to Clacton-on-Sea part of social media strategy that Zack Polanski feels can rebut Reform’s rhetoric
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
People are exhausted.
Our high streets, public spaces, whole communities left unloved.
Blaming migrants won’t fix this.
Tackling inequality will. Tax the super-rich. Fund public services.
#DrawTheLine
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Our high streets, public spaces, whole communities left unloved.
Blaming migrants won’t fix this.
Tackling inequality will. Tax the super-rich. Fund public services.
#DrawTheLine
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The obstacle to addressing the climate crisis is not a lack of awareness or a lack of popular will. The problem is that our governments are capitalist, and the climate crisis cannot be addressed within capitalism. Read @jasonhickel on climate solutions. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/can-...
Can Socialism Solve the Climate Crisis?
Governments globally are failing to combat climate change because they prioritise profit over the planet — for real change, the capitalist mode of production must be overhauled.
tribunemag.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The obstacle to addressing the climate crisis is not a lack of awareness or a lack of popular will. The problem is that our governments are capitalist, and the climate crisis cannot be addressed within capitalism. Read @jasonhickel on climate solutions. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/can-...
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Due to a lack of fuel in #Gaza, people are resorting to dangerous methods that cause serious public health risks and environmental damage.
We're doing our best to deliver critical supplies, but our work is being systematically obstructed.
We're doing our best to deliver critical supplies, but our work is being systematically obstructed.
August 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Due to a lack of fuel in #Gaza, people are resorting to dangerous methods that cause serious public health risks and environmental damage.
We're doing our best to deliver critical supplies, but our work is being systematically obstructed.
We're doing our best to deliver critical supplies, but our work is being systematically obstructed.
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As a general rule, regardless of the topic, the media is at least 50% of any problem.
taxjustice.net/press/millio...
taxjustice.net/press/millio...
Millionaire exodus numbers “fabricated” warns forensic analysis; Tax Justice Network comments - Tax Justice Network
This simply confirms our thorough debunking of these scare stories, and shows how far the opponents of fair wealth taxes are willing to go.
taxjustice.net
July 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
As a general rule, regardless of the topic, the media is at least 50% of any problem.
taxjustice.net/press/millio...
taxjustice.net/press/millio...
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🌍 BREAKING: Climate impunity ends today - by order of the world’s highest court.
The International Court of Justice has spoken:
✅ States are legally obliged to act
✅ Inaction = human rights violation
✅ Polluters must be held accountable
This is a legal revolution for our planet.
The International Court of Justice has spoken:
✅ States are legally obliged to act
✅ Inaction = human rights violation
✅ Polluters must be held accountable
This is a legal revolution for our planet.
July 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🌍 BREAKING: Climate impunity ends today - by order of the world’s highest court.
The International Court of Justice has spoken:
✅ States are legally obliged to act
✅ Inaction = human rights violation
✅ Polluters must be held accountable
This is a legal revolution for our planet.
The International Court of Justice has spoken:
✅ States are legally obliged to act
✅ Inaction = human rights violation
✅ Polluters must be held accountable
This is a legal revolution for our planet.
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Time of Monsters: UN Human Rights Chief on Gaza, Immigration, Climate Crisis, and Lack of Solidarity (Full Interview)
Time of Monsters: UN Human Rights Chief on Gaza, Immigration, Climate Crisis, and Lack of Solidarity (Full Interview)
Full interview with U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland.
www.democracynow.org
July 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Time of Monsters: UN Human Rights Chief on Gaza, Immigration, Climate Crisis, and Lack of Solidarity (Full Interview)
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In the last 20 years, USAID has saved 92 million lives. Trump's cuts will kill 14 million people in the next 5 years.
A new study in the Lancet says the closure of USAID could lead to the premature deaths of more than 14 million people in less than five years, including 4.5 million children under the age of 5.
Donald Trump chose this. www.theguardian.com/...
Donald Trump chose this. www.theguardian.com/...
Obama and Bush call Trump’s USAID closure a ‘travesty’ as report warns of 14 million extra deaths
Former presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush and singer Bono send emotional message to staff as organisation closes
www.theguardian.com
July 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
In the last 20 years, USAID has saved 92 million lives. Trump's cuts will kill 14 million people in the next 5 years.