Pro-Israel lobby groups and individuals have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members, Declassified has found. The list of recipients includes Yvette Cooper, Britain's home secretary who wants to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group. www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby...

World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds Two-thirds of the biggest 65 banks increased financing by $162bn from 2023 to 2024, walking back climate promises Money over people, every single time.

Hungary: Orbán Government Withdraws from ICC EU and Court Members Should Press Them to Reconsider, Support Justice Orban, of course, has links to the Heritage Foundation, the Koch-connected org behind Project2025.

Who’s funding Reform – and why? Nigel Farage says his party is a break from the political establishment. That claim doesn’t match up with its donors

Trump Has Deployed More Troops in LA Than Syria and Iraq, Per US Counts The figures are a show of the administration’s willingness to use extreme military force on its own population.

Jordan Peterson’s ARC Project Receives $500,000 from CEO of Disgraced Pharma Firm. The anti-climate network received the donation from the owner of a company fined $47 million by the Department of Justice

EXACTLY the kind of language I would have used in a diplomatic cable to London, describing a democracy crackdown in a third country. Here, in the US.

⚠️ ‘Resolute 1850’: Reform UK Ltd’s MAGA plan to turn Britain into Little America Right-wing US interests are pushing a plan to bend the UK to their will, ‘DOGE’-style – in Farage’s Reform UK they have an eager little helper By Ann Moody @annaubert.bsky.social

Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really I wonder how they sleep at night.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order calling for an end to taxpayer funding for NPR (National Public Radio) and PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), an escalation of his dangerous assault on public media that could shutter hundreds of local stations across the country.

Thames Water’s Prospective New Owner Donated $1 Million to Trump’s Inauguration "Let’s not kid ourselves that this company will swoop in and clean up our rivers and lakes."

Trump 100 days: White House action plan makes Project 2025 look mild Donald Trump tried to distance himself from the radical rightwing blueprint for government during the campaign but its prescriptions are all over the administration’s agenda Heritage Foundation, Koch network

Exclusive: Government hands private firms £3bn in bid to ‘stop the boats’

How Project 2025 became the blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing Washington think tank which published Project 2025, has provided policy guidance for Republican presidents since the Reagan administration. Koch network

‘100-year timeframe’: how Project 2025 is guiding Trump’s attack on government David A Graham’s latest book considers the vast far-right plan to change US politics – and why its architects are playing the long game

Friday is @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk time. Standby for stories of defending democracy, being an alternative to mainstream media, and finding kinship with other volunteers. Here's Magdalena explaining why writing for Bylines is therapy and why we matter to Europe. #PoweredByVolunteers. 1/3

From big oil to think tanks, Bylines journalists uncover lobbying power in the US and the UK. A great example below! But we can’t do it alone. We need your help. 🔽 /1 chuffed.org/project/byli...

There is nothing better than citizen investigations. This article exposes Tufton Street’s far reaching tentacles and their ties to the GWPF /2 #TruthToPower @stephencantellow.bsky.social @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk kentandsurreybylines.co.uk/politics/dem...

Hedge Fund Boss Paul Marshall Bet Big on Elon Musk Before Trump’s Election The UK media baron trebled his shareholding in Tesla, while his outlets pumped out pro-Musk content. Marshall is one of the directors for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship.

Right-wing push to dismantle the EU: Heritage Foundation’s private workshop After seizing control of the US government, the Heritage Foundation turns its attention to the EU Excellent as always from Ann Moody.

Thousands of US health agency workers laid off in overhaul led by RFK Jr Trump administration begins reducing Health and Human Services workforce as Kennedy plans up to 10,000 job cuts Project2025, Heritage Foudation, Koch network

The historic significance of Trump’s fascist assault on science "Dominant sections of the American ruling class are determined to destroy all of the social gains won by the working class during the 20th century, and they have selected Trump as their Führer to carry this out."

A partial accounting: What we know about President Trump’s finances “We’ve seen President Trump and members of his family and close associates significantly profiting off the presidency in a way that’s unprecedented in American history.”

Here's me, well outside my comfort zone introducing Bylines Network's Autism Awareness series of articles coming out over the coming days.

"Gaza is the deadliest place in the world to be an aid worker. More than 400 aid workers have been killed in the conflict", says foreign minister of the UK, which continues to arm Israel. #DCUKparliament

The Royal Air Force (RAF) has sent at least 518 surveillance flights around Gaza since December 2023, it can be revealed. These intelligence operations were conducted in support of Israel. Is the International Criminal Court watching? www.declassifieduk.org/britain-sent...

COP30 must remove fossil fuel interests from climate negotiations

10,000 angry white men and me: my night with Reform UK

🔴 Reform Candidate Arron Banks Has Repeatedly Mocked Basic Climate Science The multi-millionaire Brexit funder has claimed “CO2 and climate change is the ultimate hoax”. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

When experts on Fascism are compelled to flee America, maybe we should pay attention... "The mainstream media still resists calling this what it is: a Fascist coup."

Marine Le Pen found guilty of misappropriating EU funds by French court – Europe live

How Jordan Peterson Became a Global Anti-Net Zero Power Broker The Canadian psychologist is leading a Trump administration-linked network opposed to eliminating greenhouse gas pollution by 2050. Alliance for Responsible Citizenship

The new fascism: Israel is the template for Trump and Europe’s war on freedom The West is taking the first formal steps down a different political path - one whose final destination we know from our own relatively recent history.

Dark Money Is Fueling Efforts to Kill Consumer Protections at Supreme Court Groups tied to conservative legal activist Leonard Leo have filed legal briefs pushing to further gut regulatory power. DonorsTrust, Koch network

Wisconsin’s Environmental Future Is at Stake in State Supreme Court Race Candidate Brad Schimel has strang ties to the fossil fuel industry - "Koch Industries, one of the largest privately held fossil fuel conglomerates in the world, continues to be one of Schimel’s most significant backers."

Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU The group behind the radical Project 2025 agenda is increasingly turning its attention to Europe. Koch network

Elon Musk tops list of 2024 political donors, but five others gave more than $100 million The other names in the list are: Timothy Mellon, Miriam Adelson, Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, Kenneth Griffin, and Jeffrey Yass and his wife Janine who all gave $100 million or more.

Curtis Yarvin, a close ally of Peter Thiel, recently declared that the system is “irreparable,” that “To capture an elite, you have to demolish its institutions,” & that “Every existing institution of science, outside the scientists & the labs themselves, must be fully cremated…” 1/

“Greenland will form a new coalition government that comprises all but one party elected to its legislature, a show of political unity in the face of ongoing takeover threats from United States President Donald Trump.” 3/27/25 www.politico.eu/article/gree...

Always remember: the autocrat, Trump, is not your friend—even if he purports to want to protect you; even if he hurts those you have proclaimed your enemies, writes @aloner.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

Trump Is Bringing Project 2025’s Anti-Climate Action Goals to Life .Despite distancing himself from Project 2025 on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump’s early actions have taken plenty of inspiration from the conservative policy playbook created by think tank the Heritage Foundation.

Much like the architects behind “Project 2025”, a set of ultra-conservative networks are waging a campaign to dismantle progressive European policies and replace them with traditionalist Christian values – leaving little room for feminists, LGBTQ+ activists and other marginalised groups.

Trump administration profile: Mike Waltz Much of Waltz’s financial support for his political campaigns came from the defense industry, and he now advises the president on national security issues and assists in decision making regarding foreign and national security policies.

Leader of the Free What, Now? Does the "free world" exist anymore? Did it ever?

I did an interview about Trump and transnational organized crime: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehqp...

This quote is making the rounds again, even though FOX deleted the interview. It's in my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. I'll never forget: 1) the death threats I got in 2016 for posting the clip 2) the amount of effort put into removing HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, a bestseller, from circulation.

Will Trump’s entire presidency be as damaging as his first month? From blowing up at Zelenskyy to fast-tracking Executive Orders, what can we learn from Trump’s recent behaviour? That he's an unhinged lunatic?

Trump at CPAC 2025: Attack Climate Policy and Double Down on Denial Conservative conference featured global right-wing speakers from Liz Truss to JD Vance calling for an end to climate protections.

Is this the end of Big Oil’s green energy arc? BP recently ditched its net zero goals amid investor pressure. Other oil supermajors have done the same.

Lobbying firms scored record earnings in 2024 Lobbying firms earned a record $2.2 billion in 2024, according to a new analysis by OpenSecrets, continuing an upward trend that began in 2016.