People in Iran daring to express their anger at decades of repression and demand fundamental change are being met with unlawful use of force and firearms and mass arbitrary arrests, in scenes reminiscent of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising of 2022. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Almost as pathetic as the FT lunch with Blinken. Biden’s foreign policy was a mess that left millions of people worse off. Complacent and arrogant. Doesn’t even mention Afghanistan.

This is wild - the fake experts and PRs bombarding UK journalists pressgazette.co.uk/news/named-5...

CNN's Omar Jimenez describes the scene outside a hotel in downtown Minneapolis where anti-ICE protesters believe federal agents are staying. Demonstrators can be seen shining lights at hotel windows and making noise through drums and whistle blowing. https://cnn.it/458p7Iu

Heroic peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/08/p...

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

He might not be interested in international law, but international law is interested in him… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This man can’t be PM. Well done to the Guardian for continuing to follow this story, as well as to those coming forward www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

US companies have a role here too in saying no to this madness www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At what point does calling for a fan boycott of the USA World Cup become a serious option, would this influence Trump, and can it be achieved?

‘The soul of the city’: can Kinshasa’s last remaining baobab tree be saved?

Excellent to see that Raid has joined Bluesky.

Translated from the original German

New year, new platform. 👋 Same fight for human rights. We’re officially on Bluesky — because human rights conversations belong everywhere people care about dignity, freedom, and justice. Follow along. More to come.

this is an alarming statement that fails to grapple at all with the aggressive use of force by the us govt and how that alone constitutes a human rights violation. contrast this with amnesty’s statement.

Today an illegal coup in Venezuela, but where next? Donald Trump talks peace but he is a man of war | Simon Tisdall

Denying medical assistance is unacceptable in any circumstances. Israel’s threat to withhold registration from MSF & other INGOs is a cynical and calculated attempt to prevent organizations from providing services in #Gaza and the #WestBank, #Palestine. https://ow.ly/XQwE50XR5OE

Interesting video. A position that is right now a minority in Congress. But seems very plausible that this becomes pretty mainstream for 2026 and 2028 elections

Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.

Genuine question: Why's the reaction of many politicians to AI 'it's transformational, we must go faster, we can dismiss concerns over energy, copyright, job losses', yet the reaction to a clean tech transition that's more advanced and has less overt downsides is 'steady now, we need to slow down'.

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Eastern #DRCongo: @hrw.org statement following capture of #Uvira by #Rwanda-backed #M23 👇 @kajakallas.bsky.social @eudiplomacy.bsky.social: EU should finally put full pressure on #Rwanda, end impunity for crimes & violations of int'l law.

Excellent work

5/5 Families need secure homes, fair wages and services run for people, not profit. Without real change frustration builds and insecure lives give the authoritarian right room to move in. Britain needs renewal built on fairness, security and democratic power.

4/5 In Norwich problems are stark. 4 in 10 children in poorest wards live in poverty. Rents swallow nearly forty per cent of take‑home pay. 1 in 5 households live in fuel poverty. Local groups warn national promises won'treach families here without affordable housing, insulation and regeneration.

2/5 New in 2025: scrapping the two‑child limit, a duty to alert when children become homeless, ending B&B use beyond six weeks, and a £950m fund for 5,000 homes. Reaffirmed: free school meals and childcare support.

1/5 Labour’s Child Poverty Strategy marks a step forward. Its aim is to ease the stress and suffering of around 550,000 children and families. This only counts if backed by clear targets and funding.

A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

By me and @andy-rowell.bsky.social Two fossil-fuel billionaires with close ties to Donald Trump bought millions of shares in the company they co-founded just days after a meeting with senior White House officials, who then issued them key regulatory permit www.theguardian.com/business/202...

More shocking evidence of how polluted the Niger delta has become after 60 years of oil production - unbelievable footage of gas bubbling up through the ground. Massive health risk to the people of this community www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrHR...

Negotiations around a proposal for a new treaty on minerals are tough. A live update from pre-negotiations of the UN Environment Assembly next week in Nairobi: www.climatechangenews.com/2025/12/04/p...

📢 🇸🇪 A new review by the Swedish Burma Committee, Justice For Myanmar and Fair Finance Guide reveals that Sweden’s national pension funds AP1, AP2, AP3, AP4 and AP7 have invested over US$484 million in 12 companies linked to Myanmar’s illegal military junta. Read more on Facebook 👉🏽 buff.ly/hGCB1w4

1/ Proud to announce the launch of a new @amnesty.org @amnestybhr.bsky.social report, detailing the lessons learned from our corporate crimes project. This works to address business involvement in crimes linked to human rights abuses. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

45 years ago I made a pitch for the Director-General job. Didn’t get it – mind you, I was only 13. But I did get a reply from Ian Trethowan, who was DG at the time. All these years later I’m proud to work for the BBC.

The news that a national lockdown could have been avoided is shattering. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone who lost loved ones during the pandemic. Kemi Badenoch should apologise on behalf of the Conservative Party. This tragedy must never be repeated.

EU inaction in DRC kills! Today activists from LUCHA RDC & @amnesty.org gathered outside the European Council to demand EU act to end horrific abuses in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Not this again. Referring to "blood smartphones", like "blood cobalt" or "blood batteries" does nothing to help the people of the DRC, but instead encourages those bad faith actors who don't want battery tech to succeed so that we keep driving cars fueled by petrol. worldcrunch.com/in-the-news/...

Sports clubs are, at the end of the day, answerable to their supporters. Fans of all the other teams helping Rwanda sportswash its reputation should take their cue from the Gunners For Peace. www.instagram.com/p/DRPGbqHjNZw/

@hrw.org : Israel Emptying Refugee Camps in West Bank a Crime Against Humanity www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Finally!

How powerful do fossil fuel companies feel right now? Energy Transfer, the company that built Dakota Access Pipeline and recently won a big verdict against Greenpeace, wants a North Dakota court to step in and halt a lawsuit against it in the Netherlands. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Russia’s arms exporter Rosoboronexport’s Director General received "Social Outstanding Award" by war criminal Min Aung Hlaing. Badge of honour drenched in blood. Int'l arm of Rostec has provided fighter jets, helicopters, missiles & UAVs to the military, fuelling its nationwide terror campaign.

ICYM Cutting heat pump and energy efficiency funding is a bad idea. Doing it while attacking middle class climate action is a really bad idea. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

Recommended: Dead Man Walking at the #ENO. Powerful, emotional and thought provoking. www.eno.org/events/dead-...

The juxtaposition of these figures on the high # of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP and the images of Indigenous protestors literally breaking the doors to get in exemplifies the injustice of climate governance. hhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-cop30

Oh sorry. Russia.

Amazing. If Britain isn't your friend then who the hell do you have left?

Very easy for Treasury to characterise heat pump grants as being kickbacks for middle class families, but they are primarily a mechanism for catalysing a market that will then benefit everyone. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...