The listening flowers – a quiet unfolding | Susana W. Dawn

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Sometimes an #OceanDevotion has imperfections. A dog runs through. A wave nearly knocks my tripod over. I giggle. But it’s the little things that make them real, no? Here are your imperfect but beautiful 10 minutes of peace & calm: youtu.be/Z7ubK60Yi_o?...

The correspondence between a NYT reporter & Epstein is extraordinary. But the NYT also has questions to answer: it fired him for soliciting a donation from Epstein. Did it not conduct any sort of investigation? Or did it just decide to not make public?

And yet, it is about Trump also as a paedophile...rapist, convicted and now also found...

Exclusive by me: A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, threatening the health of more than 2bn people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research. @amnesty.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Breaking News: House Democrats released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein alleged that Donald Trump knew of the convicted sex offender's conduct and “spent hours at my house” with a victim.

It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States. Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011: "i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."

“Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage” @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 👇 #BBC

Be fun if the BBC chose to counter sue Trump for £1bn also for defrauding the public

No one wants to stay in the overcapacity + understaffed hospitals to do the complicated after hours care. Docs have provided solutions, begging for Workforce Planning, and incentivizing the hard afterhours care: www.informedreform.c... 3/6

◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit ◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley ◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas ...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.

The Sentencing Bill aims to reduce the prison population — a welcome goal given our overcrowded prisons. But it risks adding complexity without addressing the real injustice of IPP prisoners still trapped beyond their sentences. #JusticeReform #PrisonReform

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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide - and has now capitulated to Donald Trump. It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...

Labor party members call for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to be banned across the whole of WA.

I've summarized the truth about Loeb's 10 "anomalies" about 3I/ATLAS in one post. Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!

So true...

Southern Water apologises for catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads in Sussex

Marine CO₂ removal lacks standardized indicators to quantify carbon removed and environmental impacts. This absence of reliable metrics prevents verification, inhibits investment, and blocks entry into carbon trading systems. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%. policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

For several weeks, more than 40 million Americans have been facing uncertainty over the status of federal food assistance through the SNAP program. Those worries have been especially sharp for residents of Alaska and Hawaii, the two states with the highest food costs in the nation.

Nurdles — tiny plastic pellets — are polluting our beaches and seas. The EU is acting to cut spills in half. I’m asking the government what they’ll do to tackle this pervasive plastic problem. #PlasticPollution #EnvironmentalHealth

Every personal attack. Every attempt to distract or to divide. It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement. Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"All of these things should make each and every one of us sit up and pay attention - because whatever we think of the BBC, the moment that the Trump machine celebrates your decapitation, you can be almost certain you’ve found yourself smack bang in the middle of someone' else story" Truly excellent.

"This Week in Democracy – Week 42: Trump Pardons Crooks, Ignores Courts, and Threatens War" Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term. Read/share/subscribe:

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New study finds “brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41C (106F).” 😱

Unpaid ‘women’s work’ is worth $427 billion, new research shows. See how much your unpaid labour is worth theconversation.com/unpaid-women...

Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say

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Every journey between two infinities is only a moment.

ChatGPT is driving people with no prior mental health issues to suicide and harmful delusions. I often wonder if chatbots are simply accelerating what the general decline in our sense of community (because of television and the internet) is doing to people's mental health.

Talent is everywhere, opportunity isn’t. In this letter to the editor, a former teacher reflects on her pupils’ hopes, and the barriers some will face ⤵

Climate change is posing growing risks to aviation safety and efficiency by intensifying storms and turbulence, a new French study has found.

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Tax online betting games to reflect the harm they cause, MPs say

It’s clear why Zohran Mamdani has a double-digit lead in the New York mayoral race | Margaret Sullivan

Britain is not in the grip of mass violence. The Cambridgeshire train stabbings were horrific - and incredibly rare. Your odds of being attacked by a stranger are much lower than they were. Here's the facts! 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/britain-is...

Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing go.nature.com/3WB8bFS

As the world gathers in Brazil for COP30, the stakes could not be higher. Leaders must join together and do what it takes to protect the people we serve, and the planet we share. My op-ed with Mayor Paes of Rio de Janeiro for @NewStatesman. www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...

SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) Just spoke with my CDC sources. They warned that farm workers in California are falling sick with H5N1 symptoms, yet orders have reportedly come from RFK Jr. himself not to test, not to report, and to keep it quiet.

It’s wild how casually we say “42 million people are on SNAP” like that’s just a normal statistic. That’s 12% of the entire country—in the richest nation on earth—relying on government help just to eat. That shouldn’t be a data point we shrug off. That’s a national emergency.

Yes. Exactly this.

Can citizens and journalists unite to hold back authoritarianism and protect democracy? On 4th November at 7pm, join our live online event with: - George Monbiot - Nafeez Ahmed - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - Nick Lowles Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope

More and more of Japan’s universities are moving toward teaching in English for all students in a bid to bring an international environment onto their campuses.