An absolutey fantastic piece. It's something that I struggle with lots as a very junior (PhD student) figure in academia. My research touches on various right/far-right oppositions to climate change and I'm often surrounded by work (in various settings) which uses 'populism' incorrectly.

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza. Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military. They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

The erroneously named "Campaign Against Antisemitism" says a failure to ban practically ALL protests in solidarity with Palestinians means "the blood of British Jews is on the hands of politicians". This is horrifying rhetoric in the current moment, from an extremist pro-Israel group

Good lord....what exactly about opposing genocide is 'un-british'.....Ha actually history probably suggests quite a lot

A picture of a corpse who has bled out seems a bit much for the BBC homepage last night? Not really typical of how they report these (thankfully very rare) incidents as far as I remember?

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plays the same role in aviation as CCS/BECCS/DACCS play for other fossil-fuelled sectors: more a stalling tactic than solution. Good engineers work on SAF, but CEOs/politicians/etc deliberately mis-sell their role in mitigation. climateuncensored.com/gatwick-expa...

Meta sent emails to 6 people informing them that ICE had served the company with a subpoena demanding extensive personal information about the users. The accounts, most notably StopIce.net, are part of a broader crowd-sourcing movement that works to publicly identify masked ICE agents.

that's not a defense, it's an admission of guilt

I'd recommend this video to anyone, absolutely fantastic stuff 😎

It's official. 7/9 planetary boundaires crossed. www.stockholmresilience.org/research/pla... We need #degrowth now.

THE MEME IS REAL

Absolutely spot on. Highlights the absolutely limitations of centrism and techno-optimism. I've said it before....their interview was the head of the CCC was one of the most depressing hours nonespeak I've ever heard.

YES IT FUCKING DOES YOU ABSOLUTE CLOWN

I was there researching today.....fash can do whatever they want and pensioners sitting peacefully are arrested for terrorism was my takeaway. Fuck the genocidal state of Israel and fuck any police officer who thinks that it's acceptable to act this way

No Keir, i'm not worried about this. I'm more worried about making access to services reliant on a compulsory digital product containing sensitive personal data. And, since we're talking "division," you're about to introduce enforced segregation for a portion of the population.

🚨 MSF FORCED TO SUSPEND ACTIVITIES IN GAZA CITY 🚨 Our clinics are now encircled by Israeli forces. There are continued airstrikes & tanks advancing closer & closer to our healthcare facilities. This is an intolerable level of risk for our @msf.ca staff. I am outraged, and you should be, too.

On the one hand at the minute you've got utter burying head in the sand of Simon Stiell (UN Climate chief) saying that the green transition is going in the right direction. As ever, @kevinclimate.bsky.social and @loispennington.bsky.social has a much more realistic appraisal

This in absolute spades. I really wasn't quite as skeptical about Starmer as I should've been a few years ago. Bloke is literally just a naff Farage tribute act at this point. Zak's politics and his style really are the best chance that we've got of combatting the rise of the far right in the UK

It takes a special kind of person to go to the African continent and show support for someone who was OK with racist and slavery views. The Rwandian children watching is so ironic. Note the Yahoo article is before Kirk's death, August'25. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The digital ID card sounds like a trojan horse to link your use of public services to your finances, your health records to your shopping habits and finance and your location to the police, to me.

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Two points: 1. It's still breaking a pledge if you break it then pretend that you didn't via a weird little play on words. 2. At this point, who cares about the Labour manifesto! Actually have a third point: We cannot tackle CC and biodiversity loss by continually bending the knee to FF companies

the recognition of a state that excludes its right to have a standing army while also actively funding the foreign army massacring its people is worse than worthless—it's a ruse intended to publicly absolve those responsible for genocide without any material change to business as usual

Surely the markets will take care of it? 🙈🖕

"10 years after the Paris Agreement, governments plan to produce more than double the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C" Stark "production gap" report from @unep.org today www.sei.org/publications...

Ah FFS, solidarity with these amazing academics. Farhana's writing has been a huge inspiration to me....I can't seem to tag her now, so assuming that she's had her account blocked again. Grim that neo-fascists never seem to face the same level of suppression of there sppleech and freedom 🖕

This is one of the points that various groups such as JSO, and broader movements like degrowth speak to. We simply cannot continue on the current trajectory. Any measures like offsetting, CDR, CCS, so called 'green' growth..... they're various shades of nonsense.

A truly lovely person in a truly awful situation gofund.me/7d7296b19

As @alexheffron.bsky.social says, this really highlights the utter nonsense that is liberalism. So disappointed to hear GS talking like this.

Wow, only taken two years to notice. Still you got there eventually eh?! Last week he was too busy accusing @zackpolanski.bsky.social of fishing for social media likes to have noticed apparently.

If any of my followers are unfamiliar with Aaron's work then I'd strongly urge you to check it out. He (and his collaborators) have really helped me understand the structural problems inherent in the mainstreaming golf the far right

Currently at work and feeling very down about the scenes in London today. Fair play to Zack though, he's managed to at least make me feel slightly more positive.

A brilliant little piece on flags, imperialism and borders from the fantastic @sophlively.bsky.social On flags: "Their banal yet pervasive presence acts as a symbolic reminder that we ‘belong’ to a nation" 🔥🔥🔥 centralbylines.co.uk/news/home-af...

The latest event for @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social is now open for registration: 'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' will have three speakers: @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social ; @kaiheron.bsky.social and Jane Clarke. @mybisa.bsky.social www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...

Really enjoyed speaking at the @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference yesterday. Met some incredible people and lots of food for thought for future research. Big thanks to @pancholewis.bsky.social and the other panel conveners.

This in absolute spades. BBC and other media are just waving them in and offering zero critique. I saw that Farage claimed his deportations would save hundreds of billions. He says this nonsense totally unopposed. We need to totally abolish legacy media

Always frustrating to see green capitalism nonsense like this. The only problem with nature loss is a 5% GDP hit apparently. If 5% GDP hit was actually that important surely we'd just rejoin the EU?! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@kevinclimate.bsky.social is absolutely spot on as ever. Making my debut at an academic conference next week talking on a panel about net-zero transitions. I'll be highlighting that net-zero at present is a utter nonsense which merely facilities bigger polluters to carry on polluting.

If any legal firm wants to set up a fundraiser to sue Robinson for libel on behalf of Ayeni I will happily contribute. (Assuming he wants to sue).

This. Vance wasn’t here for a holiday.

Intensive animal farming in being total unethical dystopian horrorshow shocker. No. Fucking. Way. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Voted. Best political voice in the UK by far at the minute 💪🏻

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is as ever spot on here. I couldn't quite believe what I was reading when I saw that Palestinian statehood was being used as a bargaining chip with a wanted war criminal 😳

Really interesting article this

Great to see @kevinclimate.bsky.social back, and a great article he's shared that really resonates with my as an avid cyclist/racing fan. The contradiction of supporting a sport reliant on fossil fuel sponsorship whilst researching climate change has always troubled me.

Nigel Farage at his crime press conference in London is openly arguing that migration is causing an increase in the number of rapes, and talking about the need for the "right kind" of migrants. It feels like Reform's supposed firewall against far right rhetoric is disappearing at speed.

One more time with feeling.....you can't fight climate change and biodiversity loss (nor many other societal 'bads') within growth based capitalism.

Once again, if you are pointing to a mob and arguing that their violence is a justification for doing what you want, it’s your mob and your violence.