Tax. The. Rich.

Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure: $2.2 billion in personal income for his first year back in office — more than triple his 2024 total of ~$600 million. Here’s where the money came from, and why it matters. A #SheShed 🧵

Good job there aren’t massive cuts to humanities departments that threaten the viability of these fields of study

Labour's Stella Creasy has launched an amendment to introduce a £100,000 cap on political donations. Now the Q is whether Andy Burnham will back it Olly Buston of Clean Up Westminster: “If your MP doesn’t back Stella’s amendment then they are basically saying they think politics should be for sale"

The fact that this even needs said…

Well done Milan! #NaturesRights - it means thinking differently, and hearing different voices H/T @annieleymarie.bsky.social www.euronews.com/2026/07/02/p...

Bearing witness to atrocities and war crimes:

“Scottish Water is absolutely something that UK gov't could learn from. It was established quite deliberately as a public corporation. There are upsides and downsides to that - it's not beyond criticism. But compared to privatised English companies, it has been a stable model that's performed well.”

The obvious win win solution here is - it costs around £100 a foot for new pavement or a cycle path, the delivery robot has saved the company around that after...12 hours of work? Just build their own lane.

Because, whatever we call it, this derangement that Labour and Democrats alike exhibit, is a deadly bug in liberal systems.

“This is Labour’s reset moment when we can consign to the past some of the appalling language used by politicians to describe refugees: ‘invaders’, ‘an island of strangers’, ‘tearing our country apart'." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Trump administration has attacked science 574 times. Track each instance with this online tool f-st.co/MMvsCtx

Ten years on, the research is clear: #Brexit has left the UK poorer than if it had stayed in the EU. Thomas Sampson (CEP, LSE) sets out Brexit's impact in three key areas: higher import prices, heightened uncertainty and new trade barriers. Read: cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publica...

Europe is facing a deadly, record-breaking heat wave, and to keep cool, cities and residents have taken to design interventions. Here are seven ways European cities have been aiming to help their citizens beat the heat, even if it’s just a couple of degrees at a time ⬇️

Right now I'm in the epicentre of the heatwave, in southwest France, where the brutality of the heat has ground life to a halt. And I have to keep reminding myself: this is only the beginning.

It takes a lot of heat to increase the temperature of water and land. That causes a delay of decades between greenhouse gas and aerosol forcings, and temperature and weather impacts. Despite these records, we've ain't seen nothing yet.

This would be an astounding piece of damage to the world leading climate science …

University of Exeter, whether Cornwall or Devon campus, is a top University in terms of Climate Change and all the above subjects are involved in gaining an up to date understanding of what we’re doing to the planet.

Keir Starmer has announced his departure as PM and Andy Burnham is looking highly likely to succeed him. We @anothereurope.bsky.social and @ukstoptrump.bsky.social have written this open letter on what change would mean for Britain’s role in the world 👇🏽 www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/what-ne...

Keir Starmer’s legacy will 'forever be marred' for lending support to Israel during the genocide in Gaza. He will be remembered for selling weapons to Israel while it flattened Gaza and starved civilians, according to Medical Aid for Palestinians. Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

This: It is not the technology that is at fault but the very flawed “business” model underpinning it. Theft is not a legitimate business model.

“Living like a beast’ or sensing the world through more-than-human lenses as a surprisingly visceral experience and what it can teach us: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

"The court’s order—requiring a temporary injunction barring Google from spreading the false claims in any further AI Overviews—may have global implications, as the court seems to be the first to hold an AI firm liable for AI speech."

It seems a good day to remind people that in the UK 3 times as many people work in Indian restaurants or for McDonalds as in the whole coal and steel industry. 5 times as many are academic staff at universities. If Labour does not understand its electorate, there is no way to appeal to it.

Sharing this poem again because I think the world needs these words now more than ever.

#ResistanceEarth Droughts, heatwaves, floods and wildfires are taking a toll on our kids. Almost every child is exposed to at least one climate hazard that threatens their health, education and survival. Half of the world's children are at risk of three or more. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

this is unsustainable

The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed 1600-1900 by T.M. Devine

The U.S. order to suspend foreigners' access to Anthropic's latest models is a stark reminder for Europe that it's heavily reliant on American AI models — and that the window to change that is closing.

Climate change is, in fact, a kitchen table issue.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is planning a project of it's own, a very different, destructive one.

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

We need to stop framing environmentalism as an economic sacrifice. Forests aren't just pretty backdrops"luxury green spaces."They are infrastructure. When we clear-cut a forest for short-term profit,we are actively dismantling the systems that clean our air,filter our water & stabilize our climate.

“Delo seemingly doesn’t see the irony of complaining about a “rigged game”, while donating to a party funded by the same wealthy interests that have bought and rigged our political system for decades.”

Cory Doctorow was interviewed by Anna Foster on BBC Radio 4 Today on the topic of AI. I've captured a transcript of the questions here in a short thread (with the help of Google AI voice-to-text. Good AI, thank-you.) 1/5

More economic independence. Riders can reportedly reduce their operating costs by as much as 40%, putting more money directly into workers' pockets. 4/4 www.ktpress.rw/2026/06/why-...

Respect! Something our cowardly PM refuses to do Despite the fact that 50 UK families own getting on for £2/3 trillion between them - as much as half the population www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

on the origin of “robber barons” “the term was typically applied to businessmen who used exploitative practices to amass their wealth.Those practices included unfettered consumption and destruction of natural resources, influencing high levels of government, wage slavery”….ctd.

“This is censorship... This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”

“More generous social security entitlements are key to Scot Gov ambition of reducing child poverty to 10% by 2030-31. While its child poverty rates are as a result the lowest of the four UK countries, current official projections indicate it will fail to hit its target without additional investment”

American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar. Why? This chart has the answer.

In an era of multiparty politics - first past the post is utterly broken. It is time for Proportional Representation. The climate crisis & our inequality crisis cannot wait for another general election. Failing to fix our democracy immediately will betray future generations.

This is not just a US science problem. It is a global problem. And, no, the rest of the world can’t just pick up the slack as I hear some folks saying. The scale of the US science and tech research infrastructure is staggering. I think the NIH external grants alone were nearly 3 times EU Horizon.

This: I have young people living at home and I teach young people. This is the current reality

THIS. Do I worry about the effects of social media on my 11-year-old? Obviously yes. Do I think she should be banned from it any more than young men falling into the manosphere on Reddit, middle-aged ladies being dragged into transphobia on Mumsnet, or pensioners radicalised by Facebook? 100% no.