I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated. Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom. #FreeAlaa Always. freealaa.net/alaa-response

As it's clear some are already logging off for the hols, thought I'd better get my traditional Nativity dire-rama up. This year's title: 'If you tolerate this, then your Christmas will be next' However you celebrate the end of another circuit round the sun, enjoy yourselves my Bsky chums.

If you are sick and tired of Governments failing to implement a peat compost ban again and again - to save all of the habitat it destroys each year and bring security to jobs and businesses in horticulture - please sign this petition actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal... I’ve signed

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kholoud. Kholoud worked in education before this. She lost her brother and sister in the 2014 Gaza war and another brother and brother in law during this one. She is helping many of their children (I’ll list them in the replies) and her mother

This is not a useless task so long as there’s a chance just one person can see this and help. So here’s hoping. Six families, etc.:

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Marah and her daughter Mila need food, shelter and medical care. Please help if you can.

"The smoking gun quote that brought down two of the most senior editors at the BBC was itself misleadingly edited. But unlike the BBC’s edits – which at least accurately conveyed the overall impression of the march – Prescott’s edits gave a false impression of the comments." 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws

Absolute craven capitulation for no good reason at all. The edit was but a speck compared the horrors Trump has inflicted upon journalism.

The #DeadInternet in action, AI scraping bots to amplify and spread false reports. The purpose is to generate interest from other bots.

Lewis is absolutely right here

I just listened to the most interesting 14-minute speech delivered at The Art of Tax Reform Summit. Yes, really. youtu.be/ODSKfN6pSMs?...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Marah’s still really sick. Please help if you can. Even sharing her post will expand its reach.

This poor woman is suffering badly in Gaza . Please donate if you can

"The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

Please sign if you care about European wildlife

To learn more about this complex relationship between beavers and salmonids, including the full details of Dr. Needham's methodology and the discussion about upcoming documentary 'Balance the Scales', listen to the entire episode 209. 10/10

There's only one Taylor Swift, whereas 65 million US households own a dog. A dog fed on wet food emits ~ 6.5 Tonnes CO2e/year, while one only fed dry food comes in at 0.83 Tonnes/yr. So US pet dogs emit between 54M & 423M Tonnes of C02e/ yr. Globally, private jets emitted 15.6MTCO2e in 2023.

Poems from the children of Gaza. "And the question remains - will we tell it or become the story?" What a line. 💔

Ditched Spotify for Tidal. I should have left over their treatment of artists, refusal to pay them a living rate but having plenty of cash for Joe Rogan to push far-right extremists and COVID denial, but I was lazy. The final straw was their CEO funding military AI. www.vice.com/en/article/m...

I have just donated, these families are starving 🙏

This is the kind of success story that Yvette Cooper is so terrified you might read, she’s going to try and make sure it vanishes and that publishing anything similar would be illegal palestineaction.org/barclays-div...

'Israel will occupy Gaza and stay there indefinitely.' @mrjamesob.bsky.social 'cannot see Netanyahu's plan to clear Gaza failing' because there is 'no international resistance to what they're doing.'

For convenience, see; foe.uk/v9oem

Read and weep.

If you like your journalism open, honest & independent, this is my latest newsletter. Please do sign up as I forgot to post the links here. Thank you so much to everyone who has 🙏 open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @stopfundinghate.bsky.social

Really shocking allegations about the Foreign Office's manipulation of processes to allow the UK to continue selling arms to regimes committing atrocities. It's clear govt has been complicit in war crimes and has questions to answer here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stop the far right.

With many soils currently saturated, now is a great time to get out there and identify ghost ponds. I know of a few around me and will be approaching the owners to see if they are interested in restoring. @worcswt.bsky.social

Keir Starmer's government decided not to impose a full arms embargo on Israel in order to protect its relationship with the US, court documents show. The maintenance cost of the 'special relationship' is being paid with Palestinian lives. www.declassifieduk.org/labour-avoid...

On a day when house building is in the news, we publish a new report - LOST NATURE. In it, we asked if housing developers have been delivering their ecological commitments. Answer: NO. Read the report here: wildjustice.org.uk/general/lost... 1/8

🇵🇸 Boycotts work. Sabra, a long-time target of the BDS movement, has been dropped by the Strauss Group. The brand mass produces hummus and other Arab foods. Its profits have reportedly been supporting the Israeli military. 📷 @jvp.bsky.social

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as

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Signed. We don't need a UK version of Fox News ffs