Reminder that in Britain seats for life in a legislator (the Lords) have routinely been sold for £3 million (and much less too)

Guys, Trump doesn’t care about Christians in Africa and it’s not really about the Nigerian oil. It’s the rare earth minerals. Nigeria has exploded in rare earth mineral production in the last couple of years. In fact, it is the number five rare earth mineral producer on the planet.

In 2019, the rate of fatal police shootings in the US was 3.1 per million residents. By contrast, the rate in France was 0.14 per million, and in Germany, it was lower. In Germany, police officers discharged a total of 85 bullets at people in the entire year of 2011.

Happy Sunday lovely phone family. Have you all managed to get some time to relax? I've got a movie marathon with a buddy today! I don't do political posts here very often, but this is a useful and timely reminder that vulnerable folk deserve our help 🥰 Have a wonderful day ☕️ #HaveCourageAndBeKind ❤️

$100m of solar panels saves a country 30 years of gas imports at 2024 prices for the same 1.5TWh of electricity generated That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed Another one of my charts of the year

Back of the net!

Surprise surprise. The angry troll tweeting on Christmas Day turns out to have been, quite literally, hoisted by his own petard. We really, really deserve better than this joke of a government - and their morally-adjacent rivals. Do something to fix this broken system and Join.greenparty.org.uk

If I were innocent, I would want everything released to prove my innocence.

I will continue to resist MAGA and what it stands for long after Trump is gone. Here is an interesting read as to positive results of protest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Karma knows your address.

How shit at business do you have to be, to be personally worth 37,000 times the amount an average UK worker will earn in a LIFETIME, and still be incapable of withstanding a tiny tax increase?

Nothing in this David Victor essay indicates that there’s any danger in heating the planet over 2C. Instead, he says that slowing decarbonization is good. 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...

Ha! Two clever developers have accessed the Epstein files and pulled all of the emails and by going to jmail.world you can now see them as though they appeared in your own gmail inbox. You can scroll, read, & search through them. Unbelievable.

In other news, expecting Trump will distance himself, Greenland has changed its name.

Definitely check out gutenberg.org It has a lot of books in the #PublicDomain to be downloaded for free. (E.g. Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula,...)

Front page of today’s iPaper. The Green Party are the only party able to hold this government to account and take the fight to Reform. Join us today to help shape 2026. Join.greenparty.org.uk

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This morning, I spoke with President Zelenskyy about ongoing efforts to secure a just and lasting peace. As Ukrainians face another winter of Russian aggression, I reaffirmed Canada’s commitment to Ukraine, and the need to maintain pressure on Russia to negotiate.

I somehow missed this www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

While climate scientists are sitting there smashing the panic button governments around the world, including Australia are ramping up fossil fuel extraction and leaving mining tails and poisons from fracking in our pottable water while destroying all the soil biomes so no nutrients in food.

Where the world’s electricity comes from. Looking forward to the update including 2025.

When I wasn't happy with big law, I built my own law firm to protect democracy. When I saw what corporate overlords were doing to the media, I decided to build Democracy Docket. But I need your help for it to grow and thrive. Support its 22 person team by becoming a member today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

I was kind of sad and angry when MSNBC let @katiephang.bsky.social go, but now I think they did us all a big favor because we get Katie Phang unleashed. She no longer has to hold back to protect a big corporation. We scored.💙

South Park called it, and it’s hilarious. One of the creators purchased the Trump Kennedy Center URL address before the name was even changed because they know Trump’s narcissism is in the driver’s seat.

I support DEIA! Do you? D-Diversity E-Equity I-Inclusion A-Accessibility I hope every progressive will commit to examining their language & biases & think about equity, inclusion, and accessibility. No one is perfect. We all have growing to do. That's okay. Let's all learn together. Save & Share

My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.

So now exercising your First Amendment rights gets you labeled a domestic terrorist. This is straight-up fascism, and it won’t stop here. It eventually expands to include almost anything the administration doesn’t approve of. reason.com/2025/12/26/j...

" The guidelines recommend that museums should “Transition away from sponsorship from organisations involved with environmental harm (including fossil fuels), human rights abuses, & other sponsorship that does not align with the values of the museum.” "

👀 China makes it illegal to podcast on health issues without a degree. Before 2025 we might have felt this is wrong but it’s hard not to be jealous. (Yes, every member of our team has a collection of letters after their name)

I summarise: In June, DOGE cancelled a $4,192,431 premium subscription for Adobe Acrobat, forcing the FBI to save the latest batch of redacted #Epstein files in the basic version. So now they can all be copy pasted into a Memo app & then read without redactions. This time is too stupid for me.

Just a little anti-constitution! Definitely anti-democracy.

Irrespective of whether Jesus was a real person or not, the fact is the Bible states he was born in Bethlehem, Palestine to non-white parents & was of no fixed abode. He disliked the rich & spent his life advocating for the vulnerable & poor. Perhaps Christians should take note.

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A few years ago...Australia’s oldest man knitted tiny sweaters for penguins injured in oil spills..... ( Just ths once.... #MensArt ;) )

Merry Christmas to all that celebrate 🎄! I hope Santa was good to you 😉 TY to everyone who commented in my last post. I promise I’ll respond, but I’ve been busy prepping food and wrapping last minute gifts 😅. “Serene birches”; mixed media on canvas; 2024. Sold #art #landscape #nature #painting

Merry 🎄

Goodnight. Christmas Tree, Friedrich Kallmorgen, 1903.

One day Karma will be a total bitch

So the US administration considers hate speech and disinformation “American viewpoints“? 🙄 HateAid is an organization that also helps climate scientists to defend themselves against online abuse and threats. Its founder was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 🇩🇪 this year.

This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.

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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Final window ‘Skating by Moonlight’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Oh my god! This is really going to happen! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/s...

It is hard to see how trust can be rebuilt while the public are routinely treated to the squalid spectacle of prime ministers ladling out jobs-for-life in parliament to friends, allies and donors. This grubby ‘business as usual’ Westminster approach to the Lords needs to be broken.

Reform UK-led Derbyshire council announce closure of eight residential care homes just days before Christmas. That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in. A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.

The campaign group Defend Our Juries said Thunberg's arrest could signal "a new level of repression", questioning whether police had misapplied the ban on Palestine Action or whether expressions of support for detained activists were now being treated as terrorism offences.