Let's fight Big Tech oligarchs one Data Centre at a time. Each of 2 data centres planned for Edinburgh suburbs would cause similar amounts of climate emissions to Edinburgh Airport. Email Edinburgh Council to demand a full Environmental Impact Assessment. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ed...

We're all gonna have to start growing our own food before long. I mean, too, Trump's EPA, which is now the opposite of any kind of "protection" agency, just approved new PFAS-containing pesticide for food crops. MAHA my ass.

This piece by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social is truly excellent and worth your time. As a dad of boys (12 & 6), who was socialized through single-sex soccer himself, it resonates deeply. But breaking the pattern is challenging when your kids lives in such an implicitly and explicitly gendered world.

Even Kim Jung-un would be embarrassed by this bad theater.

It pains me to say it but it’s hard not to think #YourParty is doomed. For a democratic socialist party to be built around, and held hostage by, two political prima donas is a fundamental & deadly contradiction. Not quite a people’s movement built from ground up. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Satellite data suggests the scale of the problem is vast - between 8000 + 13,000 illegal waste sites in the UK. Regulators are under-resourced to meet this challenge. They closed 700 dumps last year - a huge number until compared to the full number of sites. 2/4 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1000% This is the essay every Labour Party official and activist, home office bureaucrat, editor and media opinion-giver and average person in the UK should read. It's a no brainer, really, but kudos to @kenanmalik.bsky.social for making things so compellingly clear. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

If they profit off our pain, they don’t get our dollars.Join Black Voters Matter, Indivisible, the Working Families Party, & SURJ & say no to corporate backing to ICE & Trump racist cruelty. Boycott Home Depot, Target & Amazon from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

Google wants to build an enormous new data centre in Essex - emitting 570,000 tonnes of CO2 and concreting a local wildlife site. Join me in asking the local council to refuse planning permission! Data centre by data centre, let's say no to the AI juggernaut. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/th...

Labour, Big Tech, and "Growth" - the disastrous alliance we need to dismantle. This is the kind of well-researched and critical business/economics journalism that should be everywhere - thank goodness for @ethanshone.bsky.social and @opendemocracy.net www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-co...

The key factor behind #Mamdani success isn’t his ads or charisma — it is a public campaign finance system that can be replicated across the country. Time to start making it happen! Excellent analysis from @davidsirota.com www.levernews.com/how-zohran-m...

At Oakland #NoKings, I asked Justin here if, as a Black man, he had particular concerns w the Trump admin's actions. Loved his answer.

Such an obvious and powerful idea, well-argued by @davidsirota.com - but with so many vested interests embedded in the Democratic Party, we'll have to fight to get the party to see the light and shift gears. How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats www.thebulwark.com/p/anti-corru...

“The real owners can be seen in the ‘Who Owns Britain?’ report by think tank Common Wealth ... asset managers and private equity own Britain.” Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — in @leninology.bsky.social’s new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social 🔗👇 jacobin.com/2025/09/brit...

Want to better understand the current political conjuncture in Britain (& beyond) & what "fascism" might have to do it & w/anti-migrant wave? @trillingual.bsky.social is BRILLIANT at pulling the pieces together while making the most of @leninology.bsky.social's writing. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Absolutely - perhaps (hopefully?) too late to save Starmer, but a project a renewed Labour party would be wise to pursue.

As TV dramas go, "The Hack" is brilliant. Watch it. It's fun - and a crucial reminder of the dangerous nexus between media giants, police & politicians that has distorted British politics. The UK needs strong press reform: time to sign Hugh Grant's and other victim's new petition 38d.gs/bgit

Such great work from @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social challenging the need for, and revealing the dangers of, a #DigitalID for the #Britain. What a juicy target for hackers! If you care about your rights, watch this video and sign the petition - #JustSayNotoDigitalID www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvJV...

Please sign the urgent petition to Keir Starmer - don't offer Donald Trump more giveaways to US Big Tech companies: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ke...

Funding cuts have hit the UN hard, and its wider membership faces tough choices about how to manage the fallout. From Gaza to Sudan to Ukraine, @crisisgroup.org lays out 🔟 challenges for the UN General Assembly to grapple with. www.crisisgroup.org/visual-expla...

Deliberate genocide by starvation - a crime against humanity by the state of Israel. Western countries are entirely culpable through inaction and their support for Israel. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

YES "As much as we are struggling, seeing people who have never been politically active before attending their first protest, meeting others & being part of a mass movement makes me feel that I have never been freer than I am in prison right now." #Filton24 #Gaza tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/an-a...

🔴Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain? The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain’s streets is a disgrace, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

⏰ ONE MONTH TO GO! ⏰ The stakes couldn’t be clearer: 🥵 we’re coming out of the 4th heatwave of the summer 🔥 a record amount of land has been burnt by wildfires already this year 🤑 and CEOs of the most polluting industries in the UK are getting richer

Excellent from @trillingual.bsky.social on roots of bad idea of housing asylum seekers in hotels. A question: What about govt paying people to offer places in their homes? The money would go to the people, not hotel chains & could help build trust. Crazy idea? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

84% of Labour Party members want the government to end the two-child benefit limit. In a country as wealthy as the UK, allowing child poverty to deepen is a political choice. Labour must choose differently. @compassoffice.bsky.social polling & motion in LabourList: labourlist.org/2025/08/end-...

Respect to #MyleneVialard, indigenous communities, protestors, lawyers and supporters who took risks to say NO to the fossil fuel criminals & their state agents backing #Line3 #ClimateEmergency #ProtestIsADemocraticRight www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Bubble Nebula, in the constellation of Cassiopeia. The bubble itself is a shell of material cast off by the intense winds of the bright star SAO 20575 inside. The radiation also illuminates a vast cloud which surrounds the region, causing it to glow the characteristic red of ionized hydrogen. 🔭

Good news alert In 2024, renewables supplied more than half of the UK's electricity for the first time over a year, reaching a record share of 50.4% Renewables and nuclear combined hit a new high of 64.7% assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6889ec...

Let's say it again, "the economy" is entirely dependent on the environment. No economy on a dead planet, no #PublicHealth on #biodiversity-depleted islands www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...