Claire James
@claire-james.bsky.social
Looking for some nice content to break up the doomscrolling. Londoner. Climate campaigner (see @campaigncc.bsky.social)
@crisortunity.bsky.social Zipcar is going to disappear in London from the end of the month, making it harder for many Londoners to live in the city without owning a car.
Brand new petition here to take the service into public ownership 👇
Background: www.londoncentric.media/p/zipcar-lon...
Brand new petition here to take the service into public ownership 👇
Background: www.londoncentric.media/p/zipcar-lon...
Sign the Petition
Keep Zipcar operating in the UK
www.change.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
@crisortunity.bsky.social Zipcar is going to disappear in London from the end of the month, making it harder for many Londoners to live in the city without owning a car.
Brand new petition here to take the service into public ownership 👇
Background: www.londoncentric.media/p/zipcar-lon...
Brand new petition here to take the service into public ownership 👇
Background: www.londoncentric.media/p/zipcar-lon...
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🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Funny but... not funny
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Funny but... not funny
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November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation.
...Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."
...Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation.
...Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."
...Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."
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We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood.
Meanwhile in Denmark:
Meanwhile in Denmark:
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood.
Meanwhile in Denmark:
Meanwhile in Denmark:
Asylum seekers = illegal migrants = a threat to the UK: the basis for performative cruelty and policies which would make it impossible for refugees to rebuild their lives.
And of course is a narrative which encourages racism on the streets.
And of course is a narrative which encourages racism on the streets.
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Asylum seekers = illegal migrants = a threat to the UK: the basis for performative cruelty and policies which would make it impossible for refugees to rebuild their lives.
And of course is a narrative which encourages racism on the streets.
And of course is a narrative which encourages racism on the streets.
Reposted by Claire James
Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system www.gov.uk/government/s...
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system www.gov.uk/government/s...
I find it striking how little this is mentioned when people talk about how terrible Musk is.
His gloating about 'feeding USAID into the woodchipper'. If the cuts aren't reversed, then the total number of deaths caused by them is predicted to be 14 million over five years.
His gloating about 'feeding USAID into the woodchipper'. If the cuts aren't reversed, then the total number of deaths caused by them is predicted to be 14 million over five years.
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I find it striking how little this is mentioned when people talk about how terrible Musk is.
His gloating about 'feeding USAID into the woodchipper'. If the cuts aren't reversed, then the total number of deaths caused by them is predicted to be 14 million over five years.
His gloating about 'feeding USAID into the woodchipper'. If the cuts aren't reversed, then the total number of deaths caused by them is predicted to be 14 million over five years.
So apparently some parts of the US Right are responding to electoral losses by calling for women’s right to vote to be withdrawn.
#AllPerfectlyNormal
#AllPerfectlyNormal
Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment
The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
So apparently some parts of the US Right are responding to electoral losses by calling for women’s right to vote to be withdrawn.
#AllPerfectlyNormal
#AllPerfectlyNormal
Reposted by Claire James
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
UK still selling arms to UAE which may be used by RSF
www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...
Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue
Satellite images show most el-Fasher civilians likely still trapped
Latest images suggest that majority of 260,000 civilians still in captured city, as mass RSF killings continue
www.middleeasteye.net
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
UK still selling arms to UAE which may be used by RSF
www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...
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"The pace of killing can only be compared to that of the Rwanda genocide in 1994"
#KeepEyesOnSudan
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
#KeepEyesOnSudan
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Signs of latest massacres in Darfur are visible in satellite imagery
Analysis concludes paramilitary soldiers are conducting mass killings in house-to-house operations
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"The pace of killing can only be compared to that of the Rwanda genocide in 1994"
#KeepEyesOnSudan
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
#KeepEyesOnSudan
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
After I posted this I thought I should have rounded Bill Gates’ net worth to $106 billion. Then I realised the 0.3 = $300 million which does kind of drive it home how crazy this kind of wealth is.
Literally one day before Hurricane Melissa made landfall, Bill Gates (net worth $106.3 billion) argued that the world should worry less about missing climate targets: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Devastation hits Jamaica.
October 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
After I posted this I thought I should have rounded Bill Gates’ net worth to $106 billion. Then I realised the 0.3 = $300 million which does kind of drive it home how crazy this kind of wealth is.
What is it that makes politicians nod along enthusiastically to this sort of thing? In Doctor Who this plot development would be how they realise that the government is actually being run by aliens.
Legal battle over a data centre in Ireland which could more than triple the electricity consumption of the entire country.
🚨 Permission for Irish data centre megacomplex could send dangerous signal for Europe. Today we’re supporting a legal action taken by Friends of the Irish Environment and @foeireland.bsky.social.
October 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
What is it that makes politicians nod along enthusiastically to this sort of thing? In Doctor Who this plot development would be how they realise that the government is actually being run by aliens.
Free after 12 years and reunited with his family.
‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps
The campaigner, who spent more than a decade in an Egyptian ‘vortex of incarceration’, wants to join his son in the UK while he reflects on the fight for freedom
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Free after 12 years and reunited with his family.
@responsiblesci.bsky.social looking forward to Wednesday's meeting even more now I find out you're legionnaires of the Antichrist.
Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
wapo.st
October 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
@responsiblesci.bsky.social looking forward to Wednesday's meeting even more now I find out you're legionnaires of the Antichrist.
I think I want all my political information to be delivered as Richard Scarry-style cartoons. It's the only way I can cope.
October 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I think I want all my political information to be delivered as Richard Scarry-style cartoons. It's the only way I can cope.
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🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X
Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.
📝 latest Substack 👇🏻
Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.
📝 latest Substack 👇🏻
Why you should leave X
A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...
writesbright.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X
Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.
📝 latest Substack 👇🏻
Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.
📝 latest Substack 👇🏻
Reposted by Claire James
On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
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![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
Reposted by Claire James
Amid all the stuff about ‘dangerous London’ and ‘broken Britain’, new figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. No one under 25 was murdered during the school summer holidays.
September 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Amid all the stuff about ‘dangerous London’ and ‘broken Britain’, new figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. No one under 25 was murdered during the school summer holidays.
The rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and the media's fawning over Farage pose a huge challenge for the rest of us.
A good first step would be some sensible comms (like this) from Government in response. Not blathering on about 'legitimate concerns' and further stoking fears about asylum-seekers.
A good first step would be some sensible comms (like this) from Government in response. Not blathering on about 'legitimate concerns' and further stoking fears about asylum-seekers.
August 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and the media's fawning over Farage pose a huge challenge for the rest of us.
A good first step would be some sensible comms (like this) from Government in response. Not blathering on about 'legitimate concerns' and further stoking fears about asylum-seekers.
A good first step would be some sensible comms (like this) from Government in response. Not blathering on about 'legitimate concerns' and further stoking fears about asylum-seekers.
Is the word motorist actually ever used nowadays except when tabloids bewail a 'war on motorists'?
A 'car driver' is someone who uses their vehicle to get from A to B.
A 'motorist' sounds like it's a hobby: someone from the 1930s going for a jolly jaunt down to Brighton in the old automobile.
A 'car driver' is someone who uses their vehicle to get from A to B.
A 'motorist' sounds like it's a hobby: someone from the 1930s going for a jolly jaunt down to Brighton in the old automobile.
No-one could accuse the Telegraph - whose owners have massive oil and gas investments - of not trying hard enough to persuade its readers that they are victims of a "war on motorists"...
August 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Is the word motorist actually ever used nowadays except when tabloids bewail a 'war on motorists'?
A 'car driver' is someone who uses their vehicle to get from A to B.
A 'motorist' sounds like it's a hobby: someone from the 1930s going for a jolly jaunt down to Brighton in the old automobile.
A 'car driver' is someone who uses their vehicle to get from A to B.
A 'motorist' sounds like it's a hobby: someone from the 1930s going for a jolly jaunt down to Brighton in the old automobile.
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🚨1000 authoritarian actions. 7 months🚨
I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America.
In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks
christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi...
1/2
I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America.
In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks
christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi...
1/2
Grand Designs: the loss of American freedom
Exactly seven months into Trump's second term, we have reached 1000 authoritarian actions. Here I lay out the enormity of what has happened.
christinapagel.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
🚨1000 authoritarian actions. 7 months🚨
I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America.
In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks
christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi...
1/2
I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America.
In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks
christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi...
1/2
Love the sign language interpreter here, including the flappy hair sign for Trump.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu:
“Under the Trump administration, groceries are less affordable, housing is harder to build, cures for cancer are farther away, and good news on our economy has been as hard to find as the Epstein list.”
“Under the Trump administration, groceries are less affordable, housing is harder to build, cures for cancer are farther away, and good news on our economy has been as hard to find as the Epstein list.”
August 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Love the sign language interpreter here, including the flappy hair sign for Trump.