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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers have found that birds are abandoning their usual migration patterns, with warmer temperatures in their winter habitats disrupting their annual flights. This change could lead to many bird species dying out and drastically altering nature.
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

Ominous warning for humanity as birds adopt 'unsettling' behavior

A disturbing trend among bird species in the US could lead to a mass extinction event that rocks human society forever.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 23h

I'd Do Anything For Growth (But I Won't Do That)

www.ft.com/content/5ab6...

More UK visas for highly skilled Indian workers ‘not part of plan’, says Keir Starmer

British premier embarks on two-day trade trip with 125 chief executives, cultural leaders and university vice-chancellors

www.ft.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d

As for this - in other words the government would rather we offshore our operations instead of generating jobs and exports in a high productivity sector in the UK. I despair...

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 1d

This is outstanding.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause 39 million deaths worldwide over the next 25 years

go.nature.com/42x5KHD

The rise of ‘nightmare bacteria’: antimicrobial resistance in six charts

Data reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan.

go.nature.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 2d

They're showing him non-stop AI generated fiction, aren't they.

Terrifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "You have Black women with MAGA hats on in Chicago. All over the place. They want the Guard to come in."

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 2d

Do they know Britian at all?

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 2d

Conservatism is believing Romford is still in Essex 60 years after it became part of London.

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 2d

We're honoured the Forever Lobbying Project that Watershed was part of, led by @stephanehorel.bsky.social + in association with @corporateeurope.org has been nominated for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize of the European Parliament.

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The Forever Pollution Project, The Forever Lobbying Project exposes the real cost of PFAS Pollution on the environment, science and politics

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 4d

England's hotel protesters say we should house the homeless rather than migrants. So where were these protesters when, in 2020, the pandemic protection ended for homeless people and they were chucked out of hotels and back on the streets?

Exactly.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 3d

Alarming piece from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Blair + Murdoch + Ellison + Ellison Jr + a touch of Musk and the new world order.

www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

www.thenerve.news

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 5d

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

Humans Just Pushed Earth across Another 'Planetary Boundary'

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

www.scientificamerican.com

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 6d

At Climate Week NYC, the message was clear: progress is underway. While none of us can do this alone, the number of people who are committed to tackling climate together is growing every day.

Read on Mailchimp: shorturl.at/yXmnn
Read on LinkedIn: shorturl.at/bssRq

Climate action can't wait

NYC Climate Week: The world leans in, the U.S. checks out, and how to SHIFT into action

www.talkingclimate.ca

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 7d

After seeing what successive covid infections did to a healthy 21 year-old student, and as a parent, this is very alarming.

Link to the study.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 7d

A huge achievement but still a long way to go:

As @mumsforlungs.bsky.social highlight, although London has now lowered nitrogen dioxide pollution levels to UK legal limits, these limits are still 4 times higher than WHO recommendations to protect people's health.

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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 8d

A DEFRA report suggests London is now finally compliant with UK legal #AirPollution limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2).

DEFRA reports that last year, London complied with the UK’s annual average legal limit of 40ug/m3 for NO2, 15 years after it should have.
uk-air.defra.gov.uk/library/annu...

The front page of a DEFRA report. White background, with the top half of an image of London's skyline visible. The title of the report is Air Pollution in the UK 2024.

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 8d

Looking forward to reading it. 👍

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 8d

No country in the history of the world has ever prospered by deliberately lowering the educational attainment of its citizenry.

No other country in the world today (not even Trumpist America) is proposing to do so.

Suggesting the UK should do it, systematically, is a marker of deranged idiocy.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8d

'He added: "But also close down half of universities and turn them into vocational colleges just to open the conversation."'

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 9d

Why did I not know about this before?

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 9d

In her Labour conference speech, Chancellor Reeves announced that the Government has so far recovered nearly £400m of funds from Covid fraud, and launched a new "hit squad" to investigate and recover money from fraudsters who exploited government contracts

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 9d

Apart from the unnecessary hardship this will inflict on individuals, this will be bad for integration and social cohesion, bad for the economy, and will increase irregular migration.

[And, as @robfordmancs.bsky.social has shown, it's hugely unpopular and out of step with the British public]

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d

Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:

Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 10d

"Conventional methods used by municipal wastewater treatment facilities are unable to remove many common drugs". Combine ageing societies and #ClimateEmergency, this is going to become more and more of an issue

phys.org/news/2025-09...

Wastewater treatment plants are a major source of pharmaceutical pollution, study finds

Municipal wastewater treatment plants are ineffective at removing Prozac (fluoxetine) and other common pharmaceuticals in wastewater, causing the drugs to be discharged into lakes, rivers and streams ...

phys.org

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 11d

This would even be unusual in the UK.

Unless it's in an airport.

Tim Fullerton - Host of the Find Out Podcast @timfullerton.bsky.social · 11d

Kudos to whoever ordered a white wine at the local diner at 9:15 am.

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 Time's running out to tell gov you want bottom trawling OUT of protected waters. We need a wave of ocean warriors to take a stand & take action. Otherwise, gov will only hear the deafening calls of Big Industry, angling for a quick profit at the expense of our seas.

ACT: https://bit.ly/42b3BBj

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 11d

Pay now to prevent a problem or pay more later to mitigate it.

I can hazard a guess which option our privatised water companies would prefer.

The government needs to get a grip. (On a lot of things)

Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 11d

Desalination and water recycling are measures to fix a water crisis. They're expensive +, before we turn to these, we should be taking much more cost effective steps to prevent that crisis happening in the first place.

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www.theguardian.com/business/202...

£500m Thames Water desalination plant has provided just seven days’ water over 15 years

Plant in Beckton has run only five times and has been beset by multiple problems since it was built

www.theguardian.com

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