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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 33m

FACTCHECK: Claire Coutinho claims UK gas power only costs £55/MWh…

…but she is ignoring a few small details:

🤫 Gas prices always rise in winter
🤫 Gas plants cost money to build
🤫 CO2 causes economic damages

THREAD with receipts

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Representative Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 3h

Republicans won’t come back to work because we can now force a vote on releasing the Epstein Files.

Meanwhile, folks' insurance is skyrocketing because they refuse to extend healthcare tax credits.

They’re putting Pedophiles before the American People.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 45m

The centre-right European People's Party is siding with far-right groups to slash EU sustainability and corporate due diligence rules, while business leaders and former EU heavyweights are urging to keep climate and human rights reporting rules intact.

EPP ready to join far-right in watering down EU sustainability rules

The centre-right European People's Party is siding with far-right groups to slash EU sustainability and corporate due diligence rules, while business leaders and former EU heavyweights are urging to keep climate and human rights reporting rules intact.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 1h

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 1h

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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 1h

"The Conservatives' promise of cheaper energy while opposing wind and solar is contradictory nonsense. Renewable energy is far cheaper than building more fossil fuel plants."

Our head of policy, Mike Childs, on the plan to scrap green energy at the Conservative party conference:

The five worst ideas from Tory conference

From scrapping green energy measures to creating a version of Trump’s deportation force, the Tories have announced some bad policies

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Should elected officials be imprisoned for speaking out against an invasion of their cities? Hard to say. Very technical question. Really one for the lawyers to sort out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 1d

NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️

Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.

https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 1d

Surprise!

Air #pollution from 30 years ago is still killing you

Ergo, air pollution today will still be killing you in 30 years
#health

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/170739/...

We've known a long time - we need clean air just like we need clean water

(Unpolluted speech is also a critical thing)

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1h

"Pritzker and Newsom see it as a defining challenge of this moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily, and using it to subjugate and dominate Blue America as if it’s akin to an enemy nation within."

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 1h

That's... considerably behind what the government is meant to be aiming for: 80% sales by 2030.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1h

The Plot to Enslave America

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 2h

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 2h

"Hello, am I through to Prevent? Blue Zafira on the M25, yeah that's the one"

Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2h

See yer da’s got a new car.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 3h

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has written an open letter to One Nation Conservatives who feel abandoned by their party urging them to join the Liberal Democrats, following Kemi Badenoch’s conference speech today

Full text of the letter:

Dear friends,

Our country is at a crossroads.

The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch is becoming more extreme and out of touch, chasing Nigel Farage instead of focusing on the issues that really matter to people. Meanwhile, Reform UK is growing in strength - threatening the tolerant, decent values that hold our communities together.

I know many One Nation Conservatives are deeply concerned about the lurch to the hard right in our country and under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership. Her plans to tear up the Climate Change Act and withdraw from the ECHR show she is abandoning traditional British values of tolerance, decency and the rule of law.

So my message to the millions of One Nation Conservatives who feel let down by their party and reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is to come and join us. Help us save our country and defend the values we all hold dear.

We will stand strong where others back down. We will not pander to Reform. We will fight to protect our environment, stand up for decency and the rule of law, and stop Trump’s America from becoming Farage’s Britain.

So if you share those values, now is the time to join the Liberal Democrats.

With best wishes,

Ed Davey

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2h

Leaked car industry paper: carmakers’ EU demands would cut EV sales in half

- "If the Commission capitulates to these demands, it will only hand a further competitive advantage to Chinese automakers.”

www.transportenvironment.org/articles/lea...

Leaked car industry paper: carmakers’ EU demands would cut EV sales…

Carmaker lobby ACEA wants to turn Europe’s car regulation into a ‘Swiss cheese – full of holes’.

www.transportenvironment.org

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2h

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows

- Fossil fuel donors poured $96m into Trump’s 2025 presidential campaign and affiliated action committees

Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows

Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy

www.theguardian.com

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 2h

This is the hellscape liberals want us to live in.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14h

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.

Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists

The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3h

BBC Radio 4's World at One is currently platforming far-right columnist and Reform member Tim Montgomerie, for his views - and his views alone - on the political conference season.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 2h

to be clear: you can drive a souped-up uninsured car with a fake numberplate at over 130mph while evading police, hit-and-run someone who later has his leg amputated, concoct an elaborate lie about it all, and be allowed to drive again in less than 6 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Merthyr Tydfil hit-and-run driver caught by Ring doorbell - BBC News

Anthony Tregonning reported his car stolen in an attempted cover-up before admitting he hit a worker.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 3h

Trump is terribly out of control, but Stephen Miller is worse.

Stephen Miller is the Poster Boy for the Rabid MAGA Movement

The more voters see of him, the more repulsed they’ll be

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 2h

Trump's world, in other words.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 2h

🔴 ‘America Must Save Britain’: MAGA-Mania and Conspiracy Theories Broadcast Nightly on GB News’ New US Show

A new daily GB News programme broadcast from Washington features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump. ✍️ @bylinetimes.bsky.social

'America Must Save Britain': MAGA-Mania and Conspiracy Theories Broadcast Nightly on GB News' New US Show

A new daily GB News programme broadcast from Washington features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump – as its hosts tell the American audience that the UK need...

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 20h

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 21h

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3h

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

www.ft.com

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