With a year’s supply left in resevoirs, the government is focusing on diverting rivers, pumping groundwater and desalination, but pays little attention to the economies that can be cheaply achieved by managing household demand and the ravages of tourism. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...

Most people cut off by the tide weren’t swimming — they were walking dogs, exploring rock pools, or taking photos. Here's how to stay aware of what the water’s doing, even on dry land ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Attention all Evanstonians! Your librarians and library staff need your support. Join the Evanston Local 1891 AFSCME Library Union as they make their demands to their Executive Board. @afscme.bsky.social

Europe's electricity system is changing rapidly and often in places that don't make the headlines. Look at Estonia - not that long ago and fossil fuels dominated around 90% of electricity generation. Today solar and wind eat more and more into the share of fossil fuel-generated electricity.

So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?

A reminder: The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. The Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not just the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies.

We need your help! But let me explain why:

“A federal agent is facing felony assault and child endangerment charges in Riverside County after being caught on camera detaining a 17-year-old boy at gunpoint.” lataco.com/gerardo-rodr...

Teaching about the jury today and reading “Why Jury Duty Matters” again. It is a book that should be at the center of civic and democracy debates. Perhaps today more than when it was written, it offers a path forward. #Books

“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”

Worrying trends amongst the young in Spain reported by @grahamkeeley.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Join us on 26 November for A.E. Stallings' next Professor of Poetry lecture on 'Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy'. 26 Nov at 5.30pm Examination Schools ALL WELCOME! No booking required. #poetry #TeamEnglish @oxpoetrylibrary.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social

Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."

Posted this last night. In case you missed it, Hope Projects does amazing work with people utterly abandoned by the state. Giving them some money will annoy Nigel Farage, Shabana Mahmood, Lee Anderson, Tommy Robinson and the Daily Mail.

Yet again the honest folk of the Cotswolds and other lightly-populated places the rich live are denied the opportunity to work with dangerous materials. Such things are for Northerners and the Celtic fringe.

Rice, pumpkin, chestnuts, butter and sage. Feels very wintry and just a little bit decadent. Thanks to @rachelaliceroddy.bsky.social .

"The government and regulators keep no record of which water companies use these beads, where the treatment works using them are located, or how many are in use, said a government spokesperson, was a “matter for water companies”. A capitalist result a la Thatcher. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The least bad approach to Israel/Palestine horror. It won't work, Israel will see to that. At best the bombings might lessen a bit + some more food, medical items, even water, might be seen. Trump/Kushner $$$ development will look yucky, but offer jobs for Gazans. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Innocent until proved guilty in court Palestine Action detainees are now on hunger strike and suffering bad conditions. This is the latest example of the deterioration of British justice which has a Trumpian/Israeli flavour these days. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

At the moment, the official voice of the US government is a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating.

Another WOTY...https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/nov/18/feel-a-connection-to-a-celebrity-you-dont-know-theres-a-word-for-that

@imogenforster.bsky.social Hello, I’m Azooz, 16. I lost my father, my home, and my school in the war 💔 Now, I carry my family alone, I need to help Mama 😔 Even a small gift helps me to hope Please donate or share if you can

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

18 November 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Flore Merjam Cohn, was born in Amsterdam. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 September 1943 in a transport of 1,004 Jews deported from Westerbork. She was among 498 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

There is a big push at Cop30 to reframe AI as a way to cut, rather than add to, planet-heating emissions. But is 'AI for good' really a force that will help confront the climate crisis? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We need your help. @waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. Please read on for more information www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908... (1/2)

“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.” Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.

Epstein’s brother has said this repeatedly

They’re Starving Outside the Dáil — and Ireland’s Barely Noticed youtu.be/dAz1MBe80_E?...

This is bullshit! What are the charges? 📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence

Smoke in the woods like someone walking in a silent film beside the tracks… —John Burnside, “Signal Stop, Near Horsley” published in SELECTED POEMS (Cape, 2006) #poem #poetry www.penguin.co.uk/books/389400...

Six months ago, before Keir Starmer's "island of strangers" speech, the Greens were polling at 9%

Some heartening news:

Many communities in Charlotte, North Carolina, were reeling after federal Customs and Border Protection teams descended on the city at the weekend and arrested at least 81 people.

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

‘“Resistance” spans the hundred years or so during which the photographic print was the primary medium of visual communication. Aesthetically and technically, this makes sense. Politically, however, it’s curious.’ @trillingual.bsky.social on Steve McQueen. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The way this Govenrment are treating some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting. And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern. Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.

StubHub and Viagogo among eight firms investigated over pricing practices

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I think it fits the translanguaging model outlined here rather than straightforward code-switching, given the range of resources being deployed and the semiotic breadth, but happy to be corrected. Translanguaging and Code-Switching: what’s the difference? | OUPblog share.google/qruuJNOE7Mna...

“They were pedophiles who became wealthy precisely because the psychological traits that enable sexual predation also enable economic predation under capitalism. And because economic power enables sexual power over children” bettbeat.substack.com/p/why-are-pe...

Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say." But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question

Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.” Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.

Shabana Mahmood and the Labour government have appalled me so much that it’s time to give The Hope Project, which supports destitute refugees, the equivalent of my old Labour Party membership fee again. You can too: click I Want To Help and scroll down to Donate hope-projects.org.uk/about-hope/

Trump claims his ICE raids are going after the "worst of the worst". But his own DOJ admits that over 97% of immigrants detained in Chicago have no criminal record. It was always about cruelty, not public safety.

ICYMI - Epstein survivors dropped a warning shot at Congress. No more delays, no more cover ups, the truth is closing in. #SaveHealthcareNotPedophiles @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social

Families need health care they can afford, not empty promises from politicians. I promised Wisconsinites that I would fight for their health care, and that’s what I’m doing.

Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years. Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024. It’s far past time for Medicare for All. Here’s what you need to know.

Sylvester Turner's Congressional seat #TX18, which has been without representation for 11 months, finally has a runoff date of January 31st. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/17/t...