After more than 50 years of award-winning global justice journalism, New Internationalist could be forced to shut down. We need your help to survive. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-new-i...

The Ebola outbreak is out of control in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The situation has been exacerbated by slashed foreign aid budgets. We need a world in which we have decent medical services everywhere, until then none of us can be certain of our health security. #Ebola #WHO #HealthSecurity

"It's going to b a whole lot easier to improve #accessibility than it will be to try & cure every #disability or #ChronicIllness ..lack of cures is not the prob..it’s the lack of accessibility that makes #DisabledPeople feel like a burden.": buff.ly/xVMTlTI by sarahlynn358 #cures #disability

The #NNSBill offers a vital way to protect communities & strengthen national resilience. And it’s urgently needed! The Joint Intelligence Committee reports that *every* critical ecosystem the UK relies on is now on a pathway to collapse, leading to food insecurity & global instability. Pls do help👇

Social media posts claiming that Dorset Police said 44% of sex offences are carried out by asylum seekers living in asylum hotels are false. We could find no evidence this is true. Dorset Police told us the figure is “incorrect” and was not issued by them.

Just when I was thinking Bluesky was getting too serious!

This BBC article states that "climate change is believed to have played a role in such hot spells as this." Let me fix it: Climate change IS making these hot spells more likely and more dangerous. Scientists have been warning of this for decades. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“The real danger is that you criminalise people for breaching something which is essentially a civil injunction. Not a criminal offence ….but ends up with a criminal penalty. It means that private companies, effectively, are imposing injunctions which lead to large numbers of people going to jail.”

Press Release: Joint statement on running Birmingham City Council birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/19/p...

In Parliament, Conservatives are championing the very oil and gas companies who have banked billions in unearned profits from war, while people struggle to heat their homes. A shift from fossil profiteering to public renewables, planned with workers, is the real answer.

You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇

The death toll in Kyiv has risen to eight people. Tomorrow is a day of mourning. Every person killed was a whole world to someone.

CEO pay rose 20 times faster than worker pay in 2025, per Oxfam. Overall, global worker pay declined 12% between 2019 and 2025 — while CEO pay rose 54% during the same time. Trickle-down economics was always a sham. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A gallon of gas is now 50% more expensive than when Trump started his Iran War. In the war's first month, the 100 biggest oil and gas companies brought in an extra $30 million per HOUR in windfall profits. Trump's Big Oil donors come out on top while the world suffers.

Good morning & welcome to Whiskers Wednesday Stand steady, even when the world feels uncertain. Keep your paws planted, your heart strong, and take today one small step at a time. You don’t have to rush greatness… just keep showing up.

🗓️ 🗪 Did you know we have a public meeting called #6to8? It takes place on the first Monday of every month, between 6pm and 8pm at The Warehouse on Allison Street in Digbeth. There's an open agenda. See you there?

“Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz,” says @billmckibben.bsky.social, co-founder of @350.org and founder of @thirdactorg.bsky.social.

⚠️ 7th May's elections could be huge for climate! 🗳️ We're recommending the strongest vote for climate in 2,700+ elections 👉 VoteClimate.uk/local-elections ℹ️ We also tell you about the most climate-marginal elections in your area, so you can encourage others to get out and vote.

🌱 You know that @mothinali.bsky.social loves his gardening, right? ❓️ So we put some horticultural–political questions to him. Starting with: ➡️ If Reform was a weed, which would it be, and why?

Maria Prymachenko on this painting: “This is how I imagined the fourth reactor. Flowers will grow there. Children will bring flowers, just as the monument will stand there forever. Doves will fly in — our heroes, who saved us and are now gone.”

It’s 40 years since the Chornobyl nuclear disaster (April 26, 1986). The Soviet authorities hid the truth in the first days. 🇺🇦 Maria Prymachenko The Fourth Reactor Unit, 1988

🚲 Come join our monthly cycle around Birmingham City Centre. Open to all ages and abilities. Every first Friday of the month, 6pm start from (currently) Hippodrome Square on Hurst Street. We look forward to welcoming you! 🙂

BRING HOPE BACK TO BIRMINGHAM! #VoteGreen in the local elections on May 7, and help us turn Brum Green! #VoteGreenInBrum birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/birmingham-g...

We want to keep tracking MP donations coming from people + organisations linked to private healthcare 🚨, and that’s not all. We want to find out whether meetings are happening in the background between our policymakers + representatives of private healthcare! 😮🚨 We’re just…

We are now in the countdown to the local council elections on May 7, when EVERY Birmingham seat is up for re-election, and for the first time EVER there is a @greenparty.org.uk candidate in every single seat. Follow us here: repost this: and #VoteGreenInBrum on May 7!

From making billions of pounds of assets off-limits to fossil fuel companies to inspiring faith groups to fund climate solutions, your gift will help us move Church & wider society towards a more sustainable future. DOUBLE your donation now until 29/4. DONATE: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Big oil saw profits of $30m every hour in the first month of the Iran war. All while households face rising bills and insecurity. I wrote for @lbc.co.uk on why govt must stop big oil cashing in on conflict and invest in a cheaper future for all 👇 🧵... www.lbc.co.uk/article/cost...

This came up on the doorstep today. Here's a very useful reminder.

Beggars belief that Met Police is in talks with #Palantir about giving them access to highly sensitive data, when there’s already such concern over its links with ICE & Israeli military. Palantir already has UK contracts worth over £500m, incl. with NHS. We should be scrapping them not signing more

I didn't mean to turn this into a short thread, but once I started ranting ... So here it is, on one page: skywriter.blue/@georgemonbi...

love bluesky because the replies to this post immediately descend into people fighting about whether the minions would have worked for stalin

Need your bike looking at? The wonderful Cath Palgrave is running a Dr Bike at Moseley Hive (93A Alcester Road) tomorrow, 10am until 1pm. Bring your bike for a check up and minor repairs. 👀 You could also pick up an window poster while you're there. 👀

🚸 We are calling on all those standing for election in Birmingham to back practical steps for safer streets. Ask 8:  Make residential streets greener and calmer. 👉Read the ten asks and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....

🧵Wind down your day by catching up with what you've missed: 🎥Our weekend read was on The Electric cinema – and plans to save it. 🗞️Yesterday's briefing unpacked whether Birmingham is heading for a 'mad coalition.' Both can be read on our website at the link below🔗

We need more people talking about taxing extreme wealth and reducing inequality - an important message from @garyseconomics.bsky.social to get involved

New research shows private firms made £1.6bn in profit from the NHS over the last two years. That money could have paid for over 19,000 nurses. Private companies shouldn’t be profiting from the terrible state of the NHS. Read: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Some boys skipped class to see the Beatles. Ringo Starr snapped a photo of them. 50 years later, the group recreated the photo.

Love these posters from @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org. Only three weeks till the #LocalElections2026. Have you had any canvassers at your door yet? Please tell them you support policies that will lead to #CleanAir 💚.

#FoodSecurity - as @greenparty.org.uk has long been warning, government neglect of this issue is a huge dereliction of basic duty www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

🚨If you do one thing this Sunday, sign this petition to STOP BLACKROCK IN OUR NHS. If we don’t fight back against corporate takeover of our NHS from US corporations like Palantir and BlackRock, we will lose it. Take action now before it’s too late. #NoToBlackRockInOurNHS vist.ly/4y6jh

It may seem like nerdy detail that the increasing weight of cars is worsening potholes, but it matters. The car makers push to sell wider and heavier cars is increasing road maintenance costs and that affects us all. Not to mention worse crash outcomes and less space to pass (wider) parked cars.

🗳️ The local elections are weeks away—and we need to elect candidates who stand up for climate and nature. 📝 By 20 April: Register to vote 📨 By 21 April (5pm): Apply for a postal vote 🆔 By 28 April (5pm): Apply for a proxy vote or free Voter ID ➡️ 7 May: Elections ✅ Register, sort your ID, and vote!

#Caturday my cat has decided to file herself away. My husband was sorting out the car insurance, so I suppose she's only one letter out.

What if one of the most powerful climate solutions isn’t technology—but conversation? This week in Talking Climate, we're talking about hairdressers inspiring climate convos, war supercharging emissions, and more positive content creators to follow. Read on!

Bless this Pope for loudly condemning the fascists.

are you: trans? a metal musician? want to contribute to a compilation album that will raise money directly for trans people in need? then what the fuck are you waiting for?? get in the pit!! forms.gle/dhtLGhurrwQs...

Sakura in Kyiv has started to bloom. I captured it today. News headlines don’t notice the beauty. I do.