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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of affiliating to Labour, throw our union's support behind politicians and parties that support a wealth tax and nationalisation of utilities and services, like @greenparty.org.uk

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 2d

Laura Kuenssburg isn't a real journalist anyway, she wouldn't have a clue how to interview someone like @zackpolanski.bsky.social who doesn't turn up with a pre-agreed script of neoliberal talking points.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

I'd actually forgotten how extraordinary it is that when I won the leadership - I wasn't interviewed as it was too close to our party conference interviewed.

And then refused a second time!

Part of the antidote to all of this is creating our own media platforms.

Hey @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👋🏼

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 2d

Answer: Racism

ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 3d

I think you missed the "or are they just serving the rich for their own personal gain and to hell with everyone else" option.

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone who thought that wasn't paying attention.

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 4d

Representing Them (the 1%) Vs Us (the 99%) => "Grown up politics"

Representing Us (the 99%) Vs Them (the 1%) => "division and grievance"

That has always been *Their* language; I for one am glad to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social raising *Our* grievances!

Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 4d

When Labour says @zackpolanski.bsky.social is "using his platform to sow division and grievance", what they mean is that he's using it to push for justice and equality.

They *hate* when people do that.

It's a bloody good speech. No wonder they're freaking out.
www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...

Responding to Polanski’s speech, a Labour spokesperson said: “It is no surprise that Zack Polanski, a man who said he wanted to learn from Nigel Farage, has done so in his speech today – using his platform to sow division and grievance.

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 6d

And I never claimed that either system was net zero. I claimed that the animals themselves are net zero. Anything else has been *your* red herring.

ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 6d

It would certainly fix the rental market. I think you also need to address mortgage multipliers, that's the mechanism by which the super rich, via the banks, own a large proportion of private housing stock.

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 7d

If the number one thing to do in your 20s to secure your future isn't "Vote Green, vote down neoliberal capitalism" then @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com doesn't truly understand the challenges facing young people.

@greenparty.org.uk
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 8d

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent stuff from @graceblakeley.substack.com. People believe that if you build more houses then the price will come down. This simplistic analysis ignores the fact that the demand side is virtually unlimited due to the super rich wanting to buy up all of the assets.

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 9d

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

graceblakeley.substack.com

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 9d

So because 70% of N20 is released by arable farming you'd say that plants are not net-zero?

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 10d

It was 25 years ago that a friend of mine, an American PhD student, explained to me "the thing you need to understand about the American Right is that as far as they are concerned they never lost the civil war, there's just been a pause in fighting while they regroup."

ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 10d

How long before we officially recognise that the American civil war is back?

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10d

ICE arrested press tonight. They threw a tear gas canister into the press last week. This was not an accident.

Release Steve Held.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 10d

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening.

A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 10d

This is what happens when the only thing you offer the electorate is "we aren't the Tories" and then the only two things you do in government are support a genocide and *be the Tories*.

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 10d

🗳️ BREAKING | Starmer is now the most unpopular Prime Minister in history - WORSE than Truss

🔴 Starmer – 13% satisfied, 79% dissatisfied

🔵 Liz Truss – 16% satisfied, 67% dissatisfied

Via @Ipsos_in_the_UK, 11-17 Sep

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 10d

A more useful message is "The livestock industry, alongside all other industries, needs to reach net-zero, and to do that we need to eat a lot less meat. It is essential, however, that people do not think that by cutting meat they have done their part - fossil fuel emissions are far more important."

ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 10d

Destroying rain forest is obviously bad, whether it's for meat or for palm oil, but attempts to guilt-by-assoc. all livestock farming is poor stuff. As one of the world's foremost climate experts Prof. Ray Pierrehumbert says: "methane is a sideshow, livestock methane is a sideshow to that sideshow."

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 13d

The animals *are* net zero. As I've already explained to you, N20 is released by badly managed soil. *Soil is not an animal!* I'm sorry you find that concept so hard to comprehend.

Agricultural N2O is released by soil. 70% of it by arable farming.

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 14d

People laugh, but I genuinely think that the Lib Dems *can* help to stop Farage...

... by not running candidates in any seats contested by The Green Party.

ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 14d

Cows are net zero, in exactly the same way plants are. Poor livestock management can lead to net positive emissions in exactly the same way poor arable management can lead to net emissions. The latter doesn't mean plants are net positive, just as the former doesn't mean cows are net positive.

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 14d

First I literally just said 30%, but second and more importantly, this is *your* straw man Henrik. I said that cattle are net zero, which they are, I said nothing about livestock farming.

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 14d

No, it isn't emitted from manure. N20 is emitted from *soil* that is over fertilized. Poor livestock management accounts for about 30% of that, but the idea that natural emissions associated with animals pooing in nature is driving man-made climate change flies completely at odds with the evidence.

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 15d

Pointing out that I trust the arguments of the Halley Professor of Physics at Oxford University, a member of the highly prestigious Royal Society, more than I trust a random guy on Bluesky with a degree in media studies is not an ad hominem, it is simply a recognition of expertise.

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 15d

Cows don't release N2O. But why let science get in the way of your opinion.

If you are arguing that bad soil management needs correcting then I wholeheartedly agree, but since 60 to 70 percent of agriculture N20 comes from arable farming it doesn't, as an argument, help your cause.

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ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 15d

(continued) In this context, any policy which helps to keep the methane emissions rate from increasing is compatible with net zero."

Fossil fuels: net zero <=> net emissions are zero.

Biogenic methane: net zero <=> emissions are *stable* (not zero!)

ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 15d

Lynch J, Pierrehumbert R. (2024) Does 'net zero' mean zero cows?

"the net zero goal translates into policies that stabilize temperature—i.e., keep it from continuing to rise in the future.

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