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JuneSim63 @junesim63.bsky.social · 31m

Reform UK think Trump’s methods should be imported into the UK.

#UKPolitics #USPolitics #HumanRights

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9h

This is truly horrifying.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach…with Antifa."

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 35m

How the oil and gas industry bamboozled, then captured, successive UK governments with a speculative solution to carbon emissions.

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 22h

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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JuneSim63 @junesim63.bsky.social · 1h

We are the owners of public money. I authorise it!

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

What if the UK admitted it uses MMT and turned that into its superpower? youtu.be/ufst9cxbyZA?... What if the UK government admitted it already uses modern monetary theory? Would markets panic — or would we finally have the power to rebuild Britain?

What if the UK admitted it uses MMT and turned that into its superpower?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 2h

Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter boosted its influence while being used at home to silence regime critics. “They’re surveillance states.They’re police states. They want to use the latest tech to stay in power and surveil their populations.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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JuneSim63 @junesim63.bsky.social · 2h

Rubbish.

JuneSim63 @junesim63.bsky.social · 10h

She's toast. Her strategy should be to land the right side up.

JuneSim63 @junesim63.bsky.social · 11h

Green Party leader Zack Polanski will be on Question Time tomorrow. I expect La Bruce will condescend beautifully.

#BBCQT #GreenParty

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC One - Question Time, 2025, 09/10/2025

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Shrewsbury.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 11h

Belarus rarely makes Western headlines — but it should this week.
A quiet move by the Trump administration has just handed Alexander Lukashenka, and indirectly Vladimir Putin, an unexpected gift.
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JuneSim63 @junesim63.bsky.social · 11h

Perhaps look more closely at the source before you jump in and mansplain to us Brits a totally misguided take on the Green Party of England and Wales?

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 11h

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

www.bbc.co.uk

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 23h

I am finding two ways of thinking about this in South Africa

1. USAID cuts immediately closed SA trans clinics, and trans ppl, cut off from gender affirming care, have since died by suicide

2. USAID cuts have cut HIV/AIDS medication access, which takes months or years to manifest in deaths

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h

We just hit 93,000 members.

We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.

Over 1000 people joining a day!

Join our movement.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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JuneSim63 @junesim63.bsky.social · 14h

I hope you get back to yourself soon. Many good wishes.

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 14h

Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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JuneSim63 @junesim63.bsky.social · 16h

Starmer's zionist pants are showing. Proscribing PA was only the start.

#Israel #Palestine #UKPolitics
Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

www.bbc.co.uk

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 16h

Wye, oh Wye, oh Wye is this allowed? Water firm and Tesco chicken farm accused of polluting river bit.ly/4h6MtTG 4000 seeking damages and clear up order.

Biggest UK pollution case to be filed over River Wye

Thousands of people are seeking substantial damages and for the waterway to be cleaned of a ‘mountain of chicken manure’

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JuneSim63 @junesim63.bsky.social · 16h

Chris Mason's bias is even more pronounced than Tory Laura's.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 17h

Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that must be deradicalised.

Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

Gaza genocide two years on: The West must be deradicalised so this never happens again

This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel's demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on humanitarian activism

www.middleeasteye.net

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JuneSim63 @junesim63.bsky.social · 17h

There's not much I disagree with in this article by Stephen Methven.

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide

Israel Is Dragging Us All to Hell | Novara Media
novaramedia.com/2025/10/08/i...

Israel Is Dragging Us All to Hell | Novara Media

Two years on from 7 October, Israel is falling - and we in the West are all falling with it. Yet our governments refuse to untether us from its descent, writes Steven Methven.

novaramedia.com

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 20h

The Gaza Port — once bustling with life, now reduced to ruins by Israel’s genocidal war.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21h

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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