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TrundlelinB @trundlelinb.bsky.social · 13h

#SaveOurWeatherPatterns 🌊❄️🌀🌬🌪🌩🌨🌧☀️
#ClimateActionNOW 🌡🚨 #ActionNotWords 🗣
#SaveOurSeaIce❄️❄️🦭❄️🐋❄️🐧❄️
#SaveOurGlaciers❄️🗻❄️
#SaveOurPermafrost ❄️
#extinctionisforever 🦕🦖🦤...🐋🐬🦭🐧🐟👨‍👩‍👧‍👧?
#KeepItInTheGround🛢💰⛽️💰🥇🪏💰💎⛏️💰🪨⚒️💰
#RenewableEnergy 🌬🌊☀️ #NetZero ⏰️🌡🙈🙉🙊
#DavidAttenborough 💔 #LifeOnEarth 🌍

Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 1d

There is absolutely a path to 100% renewable energy – the technology already exists, and is getting better (and cheaper!) every year

What's missing is the political will from governments and the EU to fully plan an end to fossil fuels, insulate and cut energy waste, and go full-tilt for renewables

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 1d

Do not sleepwalk into insanity.

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Scottish Environment LINK @scotlink.bsky.social · 8d

We're pleased that the @parliament.scot Rural Affairs and Islands Committee has backed proposals in the Natural Environment Bill to introduce statutory targets to restore nature.

Nature targets are a key demand of our Scotland Loves Nature campaign.

Read more:
www.scotlink.org/msps-back-na...

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ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 2d

Please donate to DONATE: opdeadair.org/donate Operation Dead Air who are supporting the Committee Against Bird Slaughter in their courageous front-line work to try to save thousands of songbirds being cruelly trapped in Cyprus - for a dish which is now illegal to serve under EU law.

ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 2d

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Petition to ask the Colombian govt's Mining Agency to reject a licence extension for a giant multinational company mining project that would pave the way to millions of tons of toxic waste in in Jericó rivers, needed for local farmers' sustainable livelihoods.

Colombia: Don’t reward toxic mining

Don Porfirio is 86. He grows coffee and loves opera. Now he's facing charges – for defending his community’s water in Colombia. He and 10 farmers are being prosecuted by a mining giant for peacefully ...

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 5d

History repeats. That’s why in Europe we have the ECHR. 🇪🇺

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 5d

History repeats.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump Action Tracker is a British academic’s answer to Trump “flooding the zone” with anti-democratic and anti- rule of law behaviours.

It’s a one-stop-shop for logging thd lot. And the neta-analysis of what is happening is very enlightening… darkly.

See TrumpActionTracker.info

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 5d

❗️REPOST if you stand with President 🇺🇦Zelensky!

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ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
July 25: Kemi Badenoch: 'I want to be Britain's Javier Milei'.
Sept 25: The Argentinian central bank burned through > $1bn of reserves in a week trying to prop up their currency.
'Farage, Badenoch, Musk and all the rest are maintaining a red-faced silence.'

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty

The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 5d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJuD...
Play 5.38 - 7.25 for Dame Routledge's "You'll Never Walk Alone" (from Carousel, National Theatre, 1992)

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Dame Patricia Routledge obituary

Formidable and versatile actor best known for her comic turn as the snobbish Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances

www.theguardian.com

ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 5d

'the decimation of democracy…planned with surgical precision… executed with ruthless efficiency…and disguised as government reform.'
'once Schedule F is expanded…once independent agencies are gutted…once loyalists are in place...You. Can’t. Vote. It. Away....so elections stop mattering.'

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 5d

Schedule F: the boring-sounding guillotine that could end the Republic. Russ Vought doesn’t want to “drain the swamp.” He wants to salt the earth.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

The Wrecking Ball Named Russ Vought: How One Man Is Taking a Sledgehammer to Democracy

How a Christian Nationalist Turned OMB Into a Weapon Against Democracy

open.substack.com

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ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 5d

Glasman chose a symbol to criticise 'classes' of people. Lanyards are worn by thousands of people who are vital in our community. Thus it is either a stupid & meaningless symbol or it implies contempt for workers who, collectively, are doing far more for the 'working classes' than Baron Glasman.

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ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 5d

From 'anywhere at all' (actually Lochinver). Thank you for publicising this inspirational museum/community centre. Have just donated a few quid. Attracted initially by the 'Pictish' appearance of the stones' designs (but now realise Govan was not within Pict land, but a Britonnic royal capital).

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall final message
The pernicious idea that economic development should come before the environment. In reality, we’re on a planet with finite resources, and if we exhaust them, it could spell our own end
“Humans are not exempt from extinction,”

www.vox.com/climate/4634...

Listen to Jane Goodall’s final — and urgent — message

Her last interviews are essential listening for everyone.

www.vox.com

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WWF UK @wwf.org.uk · 5d

Solar energy sending rays of hope. ☀️

Renewables are now the biggest energy source in the EU. This positive climate action towards #NetZero means cleaner air and a safer environment for people and wildlife. 💚

www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/solar-energy-european-union-renewable-power-electricity…

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ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 5d

'Doctors & nurses, care workers, teachers, managers, administrators, secretaries. The people who hold society together'....retail workers...pilots......what's 'pretentious' about them? how many 'working class people' do you know who could do without lanyard wearers?

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · Aug 24

🔴Glasman says Attlee and Bevan would “never have given the ECHR status in British law.”

🔴But Attlee signed and ratified the ECHR.

🔴Bevan fought for legal dignity, not executive impunity.

🔴Glasman is laundering authoritarianism with fake history.

Thread 👇
#TheGreatUntruth #BlueLabour #ECHR

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

This is his repeated attacks on what he calls the "lanyard class". Who are the terrible people who wear lanyards? Doctors & nurses, care workers, teachers, managers, administrators, secretaries. The people who hold society together, who keep everything running, who do the jobs he wouldn't stoop to.

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ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 5d

www.zerohour.uk/climatechang...
Conservative Party now RENEGING on:
1989 Thatcher's UN Speech
2008 Tories' own Climate Change Act
2014 Cameron at UN Summit 'Climate change is one of the most serious threats facing our world.'
2019 May updated the Net Zero target as legally binding by 2050.

Why Kemi Badenoch is wrong on the Climate Change Act

Zero Hour's Allan Gray, responds to Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch's vow to repeal the Climate Change Act.

www.zerohour.uk

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 6d

This is illegal, plain and simple, with penalties including removal from federal service, debarment from federal employment for five years, and a fine of $1000. 5 U.S.C. § 7326.

A country which valued the rule of law would enforce its laws.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the
Department's operational status.
Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

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WWF UK @wwf.org.uk · 6d

Saying it louder for the people in the back. 📣

Climate Change is a CRITICAL threat to nature and wildlife.

Nearly 60 countries have similar Climate change laws because they WORK - reducing emissions, bringing down bills, and restoring nature. 🌳

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tories pledge to scrap landmark climate legislation

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says her party would axe legally binding targets to cut emissions.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 6d

This is big: Michelle Mone is being forced to pay back £122m after supplying poor quality protective gear to our NHS during the pandemic. But she STILL hasn't been kick out of the House of Lords. Mone has to go. Agree? Sign the petition today: 38d.gs/lrpq

Sign the petition: Michelle Mone should be removed from the House of Lords

This is big: Michelle Mone is being forced to pay back £122m after supplying poor quality protective gear to our NHS during the pandemic. But she STILL hasn't been kick out of the House of Lords. Mone...

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ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 7d

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Stand Against Neo-Nazi Violence

Neo-Nazis attacked a sacred Aboriginal site, shouting 'white power.' Aboriginal leaders are calling for a massive wave of solidarity to get this investigated ASAP and prevent...

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