1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

“Cyclists take up so much room” says man from 4 metre wide Emotional Support Vehicle adelaidemail.com/single-post/...

Acquisition of the major news outlets in the USA, media, including films/streaming & now TikTik by TRUMP ALLIES is all part of the Project 2025-Forever manifesto. What has not been takenover has been stymied with lawsuits, defunding, adverse regs. Even fully independent organizations were affected

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

www.surveymonkey.com/r/QK2ZLPN Alma Economics an independent research organisation. has been commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) to conduct research on the safety of journalists working in the UK. If you're interested in contributing to this, here's the link.

‘We got lazy and complacent’: Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country

. Ireland Government allocates €360m for active travel and greenways in 2026 We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change! Read on: businessplus.ie/news/e360m-... .

⚡🏭 The UK government can’t keep ignoring the environmental impact of data centres. Data centre energy demand is rapidly rising, putting growing pressure on electricity grids and undermining the UK’s decarbonisation plans. Here’s why this matters 👇
🧵 #ClimateSky #GreenSky

🌊 Let's flip the script on #BlueMonday. Usually known as the most depressing day of the year, we're rebranding it as a day for the big blue 🌏🐋 Join us in the fight for our #ocean, there's so much to protect 💙 bit.ly/oceanauk_news

Everyone should read this.

The clampdown of protest in the UK is taking us down this route.

What ICE is doing on US streets looks terrifying, but don’t forget: it could happen anywhere | Nesrine Malik

. Judge allows offshore windfarm halted by Trump to resume construction | Trump administration | The Guardian Find out more: www.theguardian.com/us-news... #ClimateAction

Indonesia sues 6 companies over alleged links to deadly floods & landslides ->Mongabay | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week. The cuts could hobble the nation's disaster agency. n.pr/49XXPXO

Yes. Ban it.

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

Cut the ribbon: the Discovery Building is open! From 1976 to today, Rothera Research Station has been the UK’s Antarctic gateway for 50 years. The new building will power polar science for decades to come - and understanding Antarctica means understanding our planet. #PolarScience

Microsoft to overhaul AI data center building with community-first approach - says it will 'be ... ->Tom's Hardware | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Up early to protect 'Old King George' on the 7am shift in the car park. Taking a flask of hot coffee because it's freezing out there. Hoping we bust through £6k today on our www.crowdjustice.com fundraiser in Wivenhoe to save the tree from council felling

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Please support independent and community media. It's an important part of staving off full fascism.

Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same. Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Watching US politics from the UK has been punctuated by moments of significant negative space. Watching the riots of 6th Jan, I was struck by absence - where on earth was the National Guard? Here we were watching a superpower and they couldn't muster the forces to deal with a riot. It felt wrong.

ORFC 2026 is here and I’m there representing @themerl.bsky.social. I’m running a workshop on agroecology and heritage, with @jcniala.bsky.social, @tallehatenchong.bsky.social + other brilliant folks! Come and join us, 9.00-10.20 tomorrow, in the Museum Maker’s Space at the Museum of Oxford.

Scientists have spent the past year working to preserve/revive discontinued federal climate resources. Today's story looks at the ways these grassroots efforts are making a difference - and the challenges they're facing in terms of resources, funding and public trust. www.eenews.net/articles/all...

The silencing of activists continues. India govt is in effect saying opposing fossil fuels going against Indian interests. www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/m...

All links to material in the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal appear to have been wiped. You have to go looking for things.

Commit to watching at least one film per week. How to keep our cinemas in business. Well done Rob!

Native freshwater mussels do important work filtering the water in Midwest rivers. These animals are in trouble, but Kansas has a plan to help them. Plus: We'll hear from farmers around the central U.S. about what made this such a tough year, and what may come in 2026.

#ResistanceRoots Lynn Conway was born on this day in 1938 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She was a computer scientist, electrical engineer and prominent transgender rights activist whose work at IBM and Xerox PARC fundamentally reshaped the architecture of modern computing and the semiconductor industry. /1

This article is gobsmacking. One fact; apparently the Kennedy Center board cancelled lots of concerts when they let FIFA use the Center for over a week. And they’re suing Chuck Redd for cancelling? Pot Kettle Black.

Regeneration and hope in Mark Cocker's @theguardian.com country diary. #countrydiary #naturewriting

There's very little understanding of how reliant our civilization is on biodiversity and natural ecosystems, even amongst scientists, for the reason there's no field of science, really studying it. Scientific ecology only really studies non-human organisms. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1/2

Stingless bees in Amazon rainforests become first insects to get legal rights ->India Today | #insect #bee #amazon rainforest | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.

Thanks for sharing this @amandalitman.bsky.social - open.substack.com/pub/amandali...

Bloody hell, just caught up on this. Solidarity with Imran and the whole team. We need CCDH! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Carol of the Bells ("Shchedryk") from Ukrainian Defenders at Sofiivska Square, in the heart of Kyiv. Merry Christmas, friends! 📹: miarodriges / Threads

Here is a version from Mariupol from winter 2021/2022 - just before the full-scale-invasion. It was recorded at the christmas market right next to the theater, which was bombed just a few months later. Several hundreds of people were killed there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ZS...

Something important to note is that the tech companies and the gas companies have promised each other demand and supply, so massively constraining and killing any threat to that is a key function of the Trump admin

After I got fired by DOGE, I wanted to respond to this climate of fear. So I started working at SecureDrop, making software for whistleblowers to communicate with journalists. Our response to all this is to expand who can run and use our software, while safeguarding whistleblowers' anonymity.

Community radio has an important role to play here.

With the 60 minutes leak, the many recent Epstein releases, etc., I think we are seeing the future of government accountability under authoritarianism: Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches. Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵