Why? Corruption, mainly. The barriers to improving US public health and energy affordability are mainly political, not technological, but billionaires have corrupted our democracy almost beyond recognition. Unrig our democratic systems, our economy, and the courts, and we have a fighting chance.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said it is time for the Democrats to ignore party leaders, embrace a “new vision,” and call for the abolishment of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

"Could it be that Israel’s 30-year narrative about Iran - one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression - was always a fiction, an invention cooked up in Tel Aviv?" (Jonathan Cook) www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...

'It identifies Perth and Kinross as a particular hotspot where 12% of the local economy is net-zero related." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sanctions send a very clear message... President Milanovic 🇭🇷 makes his voice heard! More of this please (looking at all other countries here)👇 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

"Future historians may well see the Iran war as the moment the US unwittingly ceded leadership to China. If so, it would not be the first time that a change in the world’s energy matrix led to a reordering of the political hierarchy of nations." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Former top officials at USAID, CDC, NIH and the White House said that if USAID was still intact, it’s possible its resources might have helped contain the virus in this new outbreak and even saved lives. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Friends, I’ve been around politics for over 50 years. I’ve never seen anything as brazenly crooked and corrupt as what Trump and his cronies did today.

Hey Stop Funding Hate... Would be great to get your backing for Parliamentary Petition to end billionaire capture of our media? #MediaSovereigntyAct mediasovereignty.org/petition/

"Can you imagine the outcry if LBC decided that it would have non-stop Reform or Green Party propaganda? So why has GB News, uniquely, been given a free pass?" www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...

Where "people" = "billionaires" 👇

US Congressman Thomas Massie “We should end all US military aid to Israel.” He is on course to win his election tomorrow and beat Donald Trump's pro-Israel, pro-Genocide candidate.

Immigration make Britain brilliant

⭕Les Juifs descendent dans les rues au #Royaume-Uni pour la marche du Jour de la #Nakba, réclamant la fin de l'occupation illégale de la #Palestine. Via : #jewish_antizionist_action

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

I’m on the train back from London and the train conductor just made an announcement: Shout out to those comimg back from the Rugby, the Football and Unite the Nation (meaning Unite the Kingdom march). Hope you enjoyed your day. What???

New York Lawmakers Planning First-Of-Its-Kind Tax On $1 Million Homes Purchased With Cash, Report Says

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

"A modest tax on incomes over $2 million has balanced New York City’s $124.7 billion budget..." Awkward silence, after being told that decades of #austerity (i.e. tax cuts for the rich and service cuts for everyone else) was the only way to balance the books! www.normalisland.co.uk/p/muslim-soc...

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social at the CA state capitol: “We chanted ‘we will not go back’ — I burned a confederate flag outside the chamber to send a message we will not go back to the times in which our folks were met with Billy clubs & the blast of the fire hose…” 🇺🇸

Attorney: I’m a trial lawyer. I tried the case against Meta and Google in Los Angeles, the first social media addiction case decided by an American jury. The evidence that I saw in that case keeps me up at night.

Great night to talk politics with young people from across the country with Patchwork Foundation. Brilliant questions on wealth taxes, the climate crisis and proportional representation. Thanks for having me guys! 💚🙌🏽

GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

This is the language of the Jim Crow South of a century ago — restored to power by John Roberts and the conservatives on the Supreme Court. Shameful.

How the #Epsteinclass weaponised antisemitism as a ruse to malign democratic socialism... a piercing appraisal from Jonathan Cook 👇 open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

It must be mindblowing! #BookSky

💚🙌🏽 youtu.be/c0Ml8TQM7hs?...

It's absurd we even have to have this argument.

"The Green Party... gained from people’s anger at the cost of living crisis and at Labour’s support for genocide and its racism towards migrants—as well as their hopes for a more environmentally just society." socialistworker.co.uk/news/electio...

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Be more Attenborough! 💯 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

You have 1️⃣ day left to sign @mumsforlungs.bsky.social open letter to add the Clean Air Act to the Kings Speech. CVF have signed it. - Will you? www.mumsforlungs.org/news/sign-ou...

Don’t run universities like a business run it as a public good

Every suspected hantavirus case took a commercial flight to get home. They were in crowded airports and on airplanes. They weren’t isolated. They weren’t instructed to mask. No precautions were taken. The lack of precautionary principle is maddening. If you’re traveling, wear an N95.

“We need to reassess the threat posed by this virus,” Palacios said... “The lack of approved medical treatments, the potential for widespread transmission, and the high case fatality rate of the infection should raise concerns.” english.elpais.com/health/2026-...

Individuals and organisations who are blithely minimising the risks of #airborne transmission from the Andes #hantavirus... (which was already documented in 2018) would do well to read this article, and the associated report. The facts are sobering 👇 english.elpais.com/health/2026-...

The same minimizers who told us coronaviruses evolve slowly and that SARS-CoV-2 won't evolve immune escape, won't reinfect people, isn't airborne, doesn't affect kids, and doesn't cause persistent infections are here to reassure us that "hantaviruses don't do X". www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Has Palestine Action put the UK justice system on trial? The recent ruling against KC Rajiv Menon appears to have violated the long-standing precedent that “established the right of juries to give their verdict according to their convictions”... www.declassifieduk.org/contempt-cas...

Guy Venables

Reminders for this Thursday May 7th ➡️ 💚 Bring voter ID - you need photo ID to vote, check here to see what is accepted www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-e... 💚 This year all 3 councillor seats in every ward are up for election - so make sure you mark an 'X' against 3 names

France’s mandated profit-sharing distributes excess profits to workers. This paper shows that the policy raises the labor share and reduces the profit share, with little to no effect on investment, productivity, etc academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

States should tax windfall oil profits to fund their way out of crisis

🧪 FIRST STUDY to compare direct air capture of CO2 vs renewables: “An amount of money spent deploying wind or solar delivers more combined climate and public health benefit than if it is spent on DAC.” Releasing CO2 into air and then trying to suck it up is dumb. techxplore.com/news/2026-05...

"Because of their absolute lack of strategic thinking, they may speed the global energy transition anyway, via the demand destruction brought on by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz."... & the fossil fuel industry may want their $1 billion back! www.meditationsinanemergency.com/truth-conseq...

"Shame on Western governments first and foremost, and their complicit inaction.”... www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.” #cdnpoli