While obviously Lammy's proposal of scrapping many jury trials is getting the headlines, it seems odd how little attention his proposal to scrap the automatic right to appeal is getting. That seems like quite a big thing to be honest, especially for poorer and more marginalised defendants. #r4today

Wes Streeting is a one-man stigma producing machine. Denying support for trans folks, now seeking to limit who has mental health care. Why don't we, y'know, invest in housing, communuties, young people, food, art, nature, regulate social media, consider the impact of covid, long covid & deprivation

WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.

Israeli strikes kill five Palestinians sheltering in Gaza makeshift camp - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-strikes-kill-five-palestinians-sheltering-makeshift-camp

I'll be honest. I thought there was a limit on presidential pardons (5) & you could only do it during the last month of your presidency. I had absolutely no idea that a president could pardon an infinite amount of criminals onto the streets every. day. of his presidency. That's a bonkers power.

2025 was heat and drought. 2024 was incessant rain Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020 Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reform gets largest ever political donation by an individual in UK history from a crypto baron living in Thailand This is not normal www.ft.com/content/db73...

Black panther photography; Laikipia, Kenya. #BlackPantherKenya #MelanisticLeopards #KenyaBigCats #ElusivePredators #AfricanLeopards #Laikipia #travelafrica #sustainability #SafariAdventure #WildlifeEncounters #conservation #travelife #nature #wildlife #animals #travel #safari #naturelovers #tour

"Assuming no change in the rate of taxation, and all other things being equal, the exchequer will lose the thick end of £100bn in tax revenues this year. Far from having to raise £26bn in extra taxes, Reeves could have chosen to halve the 20% rate of VAT with money to spare."

UK government lawyers use 'secret evidence' to justify ban on Palestine Action - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-government-lawyers-use-secret-evidence-justify-ban-palestine-action

Why did Steve Witkoff kowtow to Putin so completely on Ukraine? You maybe didn't know he has received millions in investment from a former advisor to Vladimir Putin's sovereign wealth fund. Yes, I know. You can't make it up.

50 seats... we can make it more! Lets grow the @greenparty.org.uk. #HopeIsHere Join.greenparty.org.uk

I’m 56 years old, and for my whole life we’ve been asking some version of the question “what would WE, our generation, have done to stop the Nazis, either in Germany as they were rising, or around the world to fight for freedom. Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.

African negotiators secured significant gains on just transition, including recognition of clean cooking and energy poverty, marking the first time these priorities entered the formal United Nations climate negotiations.

The European Union has voted to postpone implementing a key antideforestation law for the second year in a row, citing technical concerns. Critics of the move warn that a delay and other proposed changes will further weaken the law.

New research documents the positive impacts that Afro-descendant populations have had on tropical ecosystems in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Suriname. The study found that deforestation rates are between 29% and 55% lower in Afro-descendant lands than in protected areas.

In Indonesia’s Flores highlands, Manggarai agroforestry traditions — reflected in 253 specialized terms — are fading as monocultures, tourism & forest loss expand. With 71 hectares of primary forest lost since 2002, researchers say reviving this lexicon is key to restoring knowledge & resilience.

One small Indigenous territory is currently the site of roughly 70% of deforestation in Indigenous territories across the Brazilian Amazon due to illegal mining over the last two years, according to government data.

The German mind-bending logic strikes again. In German lalaland, we can get emissions free fossil fuels. search.app/arVa9

Alex Horton, one of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the story, has been a participant in more violent combat than Pete Hegseth by an order of magnitude. It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.

Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine. She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”

As long as it serves them -maintains the system that enriches and empowers them - elites will deny the reality of even the most obviously grotesque acts. A g£h0[!de continues

Well well, Larry Summers is finally getting a well deserved, long overdue public humiliation for his friendship with Epstein the rapist power broker of American empire

'teflon' Summers - key architect of Washington Consensus neoliberalism - pushed out Stiglitz from World Bank chief economist for criticising financial liberalisation - promoted liberalisation till 2008 crisis - muse for small state Democrats - made sexist remarks as President of Harvard

I like that they make the genAI turn-off-able but so does DuckDuckGo? They both still seem to be actively pushing it to be a standard feature of search rather than resisting the pressure from the search giants. Why? Does it serve the user? Is it helping the state of truth and accuracy? Why??

Absolutely sickening The government has agreed to let Trump force the NHS to pay 25% more for medicines "The move will cost taxpayers in Britain about £3bn" Terrible news for patients www.ft.com/content/02e4...

"These are not symbolic protests. They are strategic interventions in the circulatory system of global capitalism — and they are led by the workers who understand its rhythms best." The 44th PI Briefing of 2025 is online now.

Octopuses use their arms to sense and respond to microbiomes on the seafloor news.mongabay.com/2025/12/octo... 🦑🧪🌎

There are people on here who *still* argue for giving fascists the benefit of the doubt on free speech.

❗️ Monday: Israeli Invasions, Abductions And Violations In #WestBank #StopIsraelimpunity #EndUScomplicity #BDS #FreePalestine imemc.org/article/mond...

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.

COP30 elevated the ocean, bringing it closer to the heart of the global climate agenda, but the deep sea – everything below 200 metres and making up roughly 90% of the ocean – stayed buried in the margins. oceanographicmagazine.com/features/cop...

This is the more relevant chart, and yes--we should be concerned about the steady, longer-term decline in Arctic sea ice minimum extent, even though 2025 wasn't a record low: nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

The fabric of this country is forever being torn apart by hate and exclusion; it is forever being stitched into new patterns, new connections, new relationships. Solidarity is always about connection across difference... It is a quilter's art of bringing the fragments together into a whole.

An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.

News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me. In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror: newrepublic.com/article/2037...

Zillow deletes climate risk data from property listings after complaints it harms sales www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Extraordinary heat in The Caribbean Records are falling allover the area DOMINICA HOTTEST DECEMBER DAY IN HISTORY 34.2 Canefield AP In few hours of December over 100 countries have already broken monthly heat records from Oceania To Asia,Europe,Africa and Americas.

I need it to be very clear: Hilary Clinton's state department backed a coup against a democratically elected government in Honduras because they were doing a DEMOCRATIC revision of their constitution. The man she installed? The drug lord that Trump is now pardoning. It's a club and you ain't in it

2025: A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool Is this how it works? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This time last year, I was on the South Lawn of the White House helping to lay out the AIDS Memorial Quilt. This year the White House did nothing and the State Department instructed empoyees and grant recipients to “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels”

So it sure looks like someone invented a fake Russian advance in Ukraine to manipulate the online gambling market Polymarket. Gamblers are making money by betting on the outcomes of battles big and small in the war. Edited map is run by DC-based think tank www.404media.co/unauthorized...

In other words: the strategy is working

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

"Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions.” www.wsj.com/world/russia...

'One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.' James Baldwin #HumanistHeritage. heritage.humanists.uk/james-baldwin/

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