MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Remember this.

This makes no sense… An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto… No thanks If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote Sign the petition & help make that law. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

On this day in 1909 the first state pensions came into force - thanks to a Liberal government.

This year: - Bolsonaro went to prison - Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested and is being tried - Brazil and Belgium joined S. Africa's ICJ case on Israel's genocide - Global green energy surpassed coal power - Denmark passed a law against deepfakes There are people still fighting to make the world better.

Genocide www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

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Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year. #Quakers #QuakersIreland #FaithInAction #GeorgeFox #PeaceTestimony

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Another shake-up of scientific leadership is underway at NIH after a policy clash over the alleged dangers of funding a study that would alter seasonal flu viruses. That grant is now suspended, Science has learned, and the leader of the NIH division that oversaw it has resigned.

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social One for you!

For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.

Local Authority Research Practitioner Richmond and Wandsworth Councils Wandsworth £38,976 - £47,229 Closes 05/01 jobs.richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk/jobs/job/Loc...

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.

Botanical rainbow in December. Pause for a ping of dopamine 🌿

On International Migrants Day, let’s celebrate the generations of migrants who’ve helped make London what it is today - the greatest city in the world.

Give this a listen - it is haunting in its beauty and also heart-breaking to think of it being sung by the Palestinian mothers with empty cribs this Christmas.

With just a few days left, we have a real chance to get Lullaby to UK Christmas number one. Buy it here: linktr.ee/T4Plive

Christians have the tools within their own tradition to resist the fascists if we so choose. We can side with Jesus the Disinherited, with those whose backs are against the wall. 5/ #Christian #theology

"God never expects more from us than we are capable of doing. Each word of comfort, each act of compassion, is a small bonfire in the thundering nights. But these tiny flickering flames, the simple gestures of loving hearts, will add up and will eventually save the world." Imre Gellérd

This used to be a car park

I'm just over 100 days as the leader of the Green Party. We've had several polls where we're in second place above Labour. And today we found out we are closing in on overtaking Labours membership. Then we're coming for Reform. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Social media fuels smoking and vaping among children, especially girls, study shows. Via @pamelawrites.bsky.social @usrighttoknow.bsky.social usrtk.org/healthwire/s...

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.

Brighten your day and watch this #hope

Just today, Reform UK were given £9,000,000, their largest single donation ever, and the largest donation ever from a living donor. In recent years, donations of over a million pounds have become common place across the political spectrum - it's time for a cap on donations buff.ly/OrXZVw9

So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"

Unity is stronger than division. That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right. #Together we show where this country really stands. Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk

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📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.11 🔽 Thank You! 👍♥️✊

Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

I make each of my flower necklaces by casting real flowers in silver incl snowdrop & bluebells. I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make wearable versions incl wrens & blackbirds 20% off my jewellery atm with code TINYOWL20 Cut off day for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

“When the bridge closed, about 25,000 vehicles crossed it daily… Six years later, 9,000 of those journeys have vanished - not diverted to other crossings, but simply evaporated. Yet the local economy has adapted, air quality has improved, and overall traffic congestion has lessened.”

Good. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not. He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions. Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I apologise for this, but I need everyone to join me in a rousing internal chorus of Where's the money from? to the tune of chirpy chirpy cheep cheep. Because I shouldn't suffer alone and the Mail's last bid for the telegraph was funded by Qatar and Abu Dhabi I think

Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle and transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel and GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and the RIDICULOUS amount of $ we’re paying for water.

Suggesting that science is or has “orthodoxy” is a fundamental misunderstanding. Orthodoxy implies unquestionable dogma. Science doesn't work like that: it’s a method designed to question, test, and revise if necessary.

For more than two decades, scientists have studied whether vaccines cause autism. The answer has been consistent: there’s no evidence they do. I compiled a list of 14 studies, covering more than 10 million children, that find no link between vaccines and autism.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

"This energy!!!" 👏👏👏👏 Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol

Worth remembering that freezing fuel duty, which could well happen again, costs about 30x more than the cycle to work scheme per year.

🚨ASH's updated Tobacco Dependence Treatment Services Calculator is now live🚨 This tool estimates the impact of implementing NHS inpatient services modelling demand reduction and the associated cost savings. ashresources.shinyapps.io/TDTS_Impact/

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

"Attend to what love requires of you, which may not be great busyness" #wisdom

Commercial determinants of active travel: a crucial but overlooked barrier to health and sustainability but NOBODY oppposes physical activity? oh but they do this is very good www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Ooh - these are wise words…..