Lesley
@lesleyjgrahame.bsky.social
Jewish by birth, Quaker by choice, Green by necessity. Zone of Interest: local WMD base USAF Lakenheath, that's preparing a nuclear Holocaust 42 miles near Norwich. www.lakenheathallianceforpeace.org.uk
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Lesley
@lesleyjgrahame.bsky.social
· Nov 13
It's a week since I woke up expecting to be part of a global sigh of relief, rather than a global gasp of horror & dread. Resistance is FERTILE, serious & organising brilliantly.
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Important new article in science magazine PNAS : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510922122
"The wholesale removal of dead trees will make the fast-fire situation worse" and "no detectable changes in the likelihood of fire or area burned in beetle-affected snag forests" either.
"The wholesale removal of dead trees will make the fast-fire situation worse" and "no detectable changes in the likelihood of fire or area burned in beetle-affected snag forests" either.
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Important new article in science magazine PNAS : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510922122
"The wholesale removal of dead trees will make the fast-fire situation worse" and "no detectable changes in the likelihood of fire or area burned in beetle-affected snag forests" either.
"The wholesale removal of dead trees will make the fast-fire situation worse" and "no detectable changes in the likelihood of fire or area burned in beetle-affected snag forests" either.
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Reform UK councillor slapped with a £40,000 fine for hiring an illegal worker. 🤔
So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.
A masterclass in hypocrisy!
So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.
A masterclass in hypocrisy!
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Reform UK councillor slapped with a £40,000 fine for hiring an illegal worker. 🤔
So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.
A masterclass in hypocrisy!
So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.
A masterclass in hypocrisy!
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A key part of Reform UK’s narrative has been that the party's vetting crisis has been resolved. The “bad apples” would be gone, Farage promised.
But are they? We put together a list of the four most questionable conspiracy theorists working for Reform: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/09/f...
But are they? We put together a list of the four most questionable conspiracy theorists working for Reform: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/09/f...
Far-right conspiracy theorists working for Reform UK – HOPE not hate
When Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s head of policy, was interviewed earlier this summer, he boasted that “the talent density available to this party continues to...
hopenothate.org.uk
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A key part of Reform UK’s narrative has been that the party's vetting crisis has been resolved. The “bad apples” would be gone, Farage promised.
But are they? We put together a list of the four most questionable conspiracy theorists working for Reform: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/09/f...
But are they? We put together a list of the four most questionable conspiracy theorists working for Reform: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/09/f...
Two massive data centres planned for the outskirts of Edinburgh would each cause similar amounts of climate emissions to Edinburgh Airport. I've emailed Edinburgh Council to demand a full Environmental Impact Assessment. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ed...
Edinburgh Council - require Environmental Impact Assessments for massive new data centres
Two massive data centres are being planned for the outskirts of Edinburgh. Each one would emit more than 200,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. That’s roughly the same as all the emissions from E...
www.foxglove.org.uk
December 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Two massive data centres planned for the outskirts of Edinburgh would each cause similar amounts of climate emissions to Edinburgh Airport. I've emailed Edinburgh Council to demand a full Environmental Impact Assessment. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ed...
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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🪱🍎 Happy #WorldSoilDay 🥕🐞
Let's celebrate #soils & all farmers phasing out #pesticides to protect them. Soils, the foundation of our subsistence, host an incredible amount of life. Yet, they are degrading fast, with pesticides a major cause.
Dig in: www.pan-europe.info/blog/let%E2%...
Let's celebrate #soils & all farmers phasing out #pesticides to protect them. Soils, the foundation of our subsistence, host an incredible amount of life. Yet, they are degrading fast, with pesticides a major cause.
Dig in: www.pan-europe.info/blog/let%E2%...
Let’s celebrate World Soil Day: Protect soils against pesticides!
Today is World Soil Day. That is important, given the fact that soils have been, for a long time, largely overlooked. The official World Water Day has been celebrated since 1993. The first official Wo...
www.pan-europe.info
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🪱🍎 Happy #WorldSoilDay 🥕🐞
Let's celebrate #soils & all farmers phasing out #pesticides to protect them. Soils, the foundation of our subsistence, host an incredible amount of life. Yet, they are degrading fast, with pesticides a major cause.
Dig in: www.pan-europe.info/blog/let%E2%...
Let's celebrate #soils & all farmers phasing out #pesticides to protect them. Soils, the foundation of our subsistence, host an incredible amount of life. Yet, they are degrading fast, with pesticides a major cause.
Dig in: www.pan-europe.info/blog/let%E2%...
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❗️ Red Alert❗️ EU Commissioner Varhelyi proposes to weaken the #pesticide regulation. Eternal permits for pesticides, no more periodic evaluations. Health and environment will suffer, industry will profit.
📝 React now, tell the EU Commission what you think: www.pan-europe.info/end-toxic-pe...
📝 React now, tell the EU Commission what you think: www.pan-europe.info/end-toxic-pe...
End The Toxic Pesticide Age
Do you want healthy food for you and your children? Do you care about biodiversity and clean water? Beware! The European Commission is currently proposing a series of measures to massively deregulate ...
www.pan-europe.info
December 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
❗️ Red Alert❗️ EU Commissioner Varhelyi proposes to weaken the #pesticide regulation. Eternal permits for pesticides, no more periodic evaluations. Health and environment will suffer, industry will profit.
📝 React now, tell the EU Commission what you think: www.pan-europe.info/end-toxic-pe...
📝 React now, tell the EU Commission what you think: www.pan-europe.info/end-toxic-pe...
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🚨 Let's get momentum behind having a broadcast national emergency briefing
🎤 Watch Olivia Blake read the letter to #Starmer and broadcasters youtu.be/c0NLZPUTH3g?...
✍️ Please give 1 minute to sign the letter yourself: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
👏👏 Over 41,500 have signed now
🎤 Watch Olivia Blake read the letter to #Starmer and broadcasters youtu.be/c0NLZPUTH3g?...
✍️ Please give 1 minute to sign the letter yourself: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
👏👏 Over 41,500 have signed now
December 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨 Let's get momentum behind having a broadcast national emergency briefing
🎤 Watch Olivia Blake read the letter to #Starmer and broadcasters youtu.be/c0NLZPUTH3g?...
✍️ Please give 1 minute to sign the letter yourself: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
👏👏 Over 41,500 have signed now
🎤 Watch Olivia Blake read the letter to #Starmer and broadcasters youtu.be/c0NLZPUTH3g?...
✍️ Please give 1 minute to sign the letter yourself: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
👏👏 Over 41,500 have signed now
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🚨BREAKING: Greenpeace Luxembourg activists have delivered a message to Amazon on their European headquarters.
Activists are exposing Amazon’s tax avoidance AND their reported provision of crucial cloud computing services and data storage to Netanyahu’s government and the Israeli Defense Forces 😡
Activists are exposing Amazon’s tax avoidance AND their reported provision of crucial cloud computing services and data storage to Netanyahu’s government and the Israeli Defense Forces 😡
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🚨BREAKING: Greenpeace Luxembourg activists have delivered a message to Amazon on their European headquarters.
Activists are exposing Amazon’s tax avoidance AND their reported provision of crucial cloud computing services and data storage to Netanyahu’s government and the Israeli Defense Forces 😡
Activists are exposing Amazon’s tax avoidance AND their reported provision of crucial cloud computing services and data storage to Netanyahu’s government and the Israeli Defense Forces 😡
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Electricity users will be paying a huge subsidy to Hinkley Point C as pointed out below. Then add to that the subsidy being paid to Sizewell C while it's being built, and who knows what costs we will be picking up on the SMRs.
When the UK's new nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C starts to produce power in 2030, its guaranteed 'strike price' will have risen to ~150 £/MWh (170 €/MWh). Average wholesale electricity prices will probably be around half of that, so that's a 50% subsidy.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK energy bill payers will hand £2bn a year to EDF for new power stations
French government-owned company to receive funding for Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Electricity users will be paying a huge subsidy to Hinkley Point C as pointed out below. Then add to that the subsidy being paid to Sizewell C while it's being built, and who knows what costs we will be picking up on the SMRs.
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We're in a national emergency, but we're not talking or acting as if we are.
This dangerous disconnect is why we convened the @nebriefing.bsky.social. Our goal was to reset the national conversation on the climate and nature crises, cutting through the sea of misinformation holding us back.
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This dangerous disconnect is why we convened the @nebriefing.bsky.social. Our goal was to reset the national conversation on the climate and nature crises, cutting through the sea of misinformation holding us back.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We're in a national emergency, but we're not talking or acting as if we are.
This dangerous disconnect is why we convened the @nebriefing.bsky.social. Our goal was to reset the national conversation on the climate and nature crises, cutting through the sea of misinformation holding us back.
⬇️
This dangerous disconnect is why we convened the @nebriefing.bsky.social. Our goal was to reset the national conversation on the climate and nature crises, cutting through the sea of misinformation holding us back.
⬇️
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WATCH: @climatechoirs.bsky.social flashmob at lighting of Norwegian Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square
Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field.
#StopRosebank
Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field.
#StopRosebank
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
WATCH: @climatechoirs.bsky.social flashmob at lighting of Norwegian Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square
Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field.
#StopRosebank
Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field.
#StopRosebank
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EU politicians will decide on Wednesday whether to go ahead with the ban on words like burger and sausage for plant-based foods.
That means we have one last chance to show how unpopular – and absurd – this policy is.
Act now and see what you can do on savetheburger.org
That means we have one last chance to show how unpopular – and absurd – this policy is.
Act now and see what you can do on savetheburger.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
EU politicians will decide on Wednesday whether to go ahead with the ban on words like burger and sausage for plant-based foods.
That means we have one last chance to show how unpopular – and absurd – this policy is.
Act now and see what you can do on savetheburger.org
That means we have one last chance to show how unpopular – and absurd – this policy is.
Act now and see what you can do on savetheburger.org
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:
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What happened at COP30, the UN's climate conference in Belém, Brazil, and what's next for the climate justice movement?
Join a webinar on Thurs. 12.11 at 4-5:30 ET to learn from climate organizers who were there, including Oil Change's @allieeerose.bsky.social.
Register: bit.ly/4pjUDv0
Join a webinar on Thurs. 12.11 at 4-5:30 ET to learn from climate organizers who were there, including Oil Change's @allieeerose.bsky.social.
Register: bit.ly/4pjUDv0
December 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
What happened at COP30, the UN's climate conference in Belém, Brazil, and what's next for the climate justice movement?
Join a webinar on Thurs. 12.11 at 4-5:30 ET to learn from climate organizers who were there, including Oil Change's @allieeerose.bsky.social.
Register: bit.ly/4pjUDv0
Join a webinar on Thurs. 12.11 at 4-5:30 ET to learn from climate organizers who were there, including Oil Change's @allieeerose.bsky.social.
Register: bit.ly/4pjUDv0
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
6 UK political prisoners in *critical stage* of hunger strike from early November. After year in prison without trial or bail for protesting genocide, they may die this week
Fulfill yr *responsibility* to report on this urgent, life-threatening crisis.
Report it *NOW*
6 UK political prisoners in *critical stage* of hunger strike from early November. After year in prison without trial or bail for protesting genocide, they may die this week
Fulfill yr *responsibility* to report on this urgent, life-threatening crisis.
Report it *NOW*
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
6 UK political prisoners in *critical stage* of hunger strike from early November. After year in prison without trial or bail for protesting genocide, they may die this week
Fulfill yr *responsibility* to report on this urgent, life-threatening crisis.
Report it *NOW*
6 UK political prisoners in *critical stage* of hunger strike from early November. After year in prison without trial or bail for protesting genocide, they may die this week
Fulfill yr *responsibility* to report on this urgent, life-threatening crisis.
Report it *NOW*
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🚨 Land-based salmon is the next brutal frontier of factory farming
Our new briefing #FishOutOfWater exposes how this dystopian technology drives ocean depletion, animal suffering and climate harm.
Read more 👉 foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-... #PullThePlug #StopFactoryFish (1/5)
Our new briefing #FishOutOfWater exposes how this dystopian technology drives ocean depletion, animal suffering and climate harm.
Read more 👉 foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-... #PullThePlug #StopFactoryFish (1/5)
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🚨 Land-based salmon is the next brutal frontier of factory farming
Our new briefing #FishOutOfWater exposes how this dystopian technology drives ocean depletion, animal suffering and climate harm.
Read more 👉 foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-... #PullThePlug #StopFactoryFish (1/5)
Our new briefing #FishOutOfWater exposes how this dystopian technology drives ocean depletion, animal suffering and climate harm.
Read more 👉 foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-... #PullThePlug #StopFactoryFish (1/5)
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“…Even if they are able to clean up his mess … elect a supremely sane president next, America will NEVER again be a trusted partner. Because there are enough Americans who would vote for him … (again).
I couldn't even say anything. She was right. The damage this has done is endless…”
I couldn't even say anything. She was right. The damage this has done is endless…”
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“…Even if they are able to clean up his mess … elect a supremely sane president next, America will NEVER again be a trusted partner. Because there are enough Americans who would vote for him … (again).
I couldn't even say anything. She was right. The damage this has done is endless…”
I couldn't even say anything. She was right. The damage this has done is endless…”
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“This work shows the #AMOC has been weakening for more than a century, and that trend is likely to continue if greenhouse gases keep rising.”
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
Strange Atlantic cold spot traced to ocean slowdown
For more than a century, a patch of cold water south of Greenland has resisted the Atlantic Ocean’s overall warming, fueling debate amongst scientists. A new study identifies the cause as the long-ter...
news.ucr.edu
December 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
“This work shows the #AMOC has been weakening for more than a century, and that trend is likely to continue if greenhouse gases keep rising.”
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
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Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Racism and egotistical megalomania are a dangerous mix
December 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Racism and egotistical megalomania are a dangerous mix