It's horrifying but grimly believable that the British government, including 'prison reformer' Lord Timpson, is willing to allow young people (who have not been convicted of an offence) to die of starvation rather than talk to them www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A very long and important THREAD -

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

Britons support a ban on trail hunting by 50% to 29%

Support by 2024 vote
Green: 64%
Labour: 62%
Lib Dem: 50% (net +22)
Reform UK: 45% (net +5)
Con: 34% (net -13)

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

The government has proposed to add 'life sciences' to the list of "key national infrastructure" that have their own offences for disrupting under the Public Order Act 2023. This risks further criminalising already heavily policed protests against animal testing www.cambsnews.co.uk/news/governm...

On the first day of ACAB, my true love taught me...
in 2009, animal rights activists were imprisoned for 11 years for conspiring to blackmail, following police surveillance and a series of raids.

➡️Check out netpol.org/policeraids for info on your rights during a police raid

#12DaysOfACAB

The lengths we go to, to avoid seeing the bleeding obvious.

After 15,000+ objections to the proposed Cranswick megafarm, and incredible campaigning on a local and national level, Norfolk council has rejected the application! 🔥 A step in the right direction for the environment, for animals and for local communities💚

www.sustainweb.org/news/apr25-r...

Very enjoyable and hopeful evening seeing @georgemonbiot.bsky.social in Nottingham tonight. Last time I saw him speak was October 2019 inside Smithfield meat market, which I'd helped to occupy with (then) Animal Rebellion.

The Times using its front page to let us know how environmentally bad avocados are cos they clear rainforests to grow them and they use 320 litres of water to grow.
They’re going to lose their shit when they hear about beef, right?

I worked in climate change comms (focusing on unions & working class action) back in the noughties, & we knew then what did & didn’t work, in terms of people’s sense of reciprocity, proportion, duty & what just invites a backlash. It’s depressing how bad the establishment is at learning this lesson.

Kudos to nine-year-old Isabelle, whose petition to ban animal experiments on dogs in the UK has amassed 200,000 signatures in a week
www.itv.com/news/2025-02...

Man who kills hens for a living devastated that his hens will be killed before he can kill them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Boss, I’ve got this story about a murderous cult”
“Call it a vegan cult”
“But it’s not got anything to do with veganism”
“Bung in half a sentence about how it cropped up in a blog and call it a vegan cult”

Can we go back to calling it a fad please, ta.

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

Wales is banning dog racing 🎉 The Telegraph is worried where it will end! Oh no, could this inadvertently bring an end to animal exploitation?? That would be just terrible www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

Kudos to @theguardian.com for managing to blame the rise of the far right on the only group of people who have actively resisted the rise of the far right www.theguardian.com/politics/202...