Young women like Greta Thunberg are mostly focused on long term survival of our species while old men like Donald Trump are mostly focused on short term gains for themselves. Generalisations don’t apply to everyone - but there is a definite pattern.

International law exists because history already ran the experiment. These rules emerged from catastrophic failures that showed certain actions destabilize everyone. They are not arbitrary norms; they’re scar tissue. And without exception the worst consequences land on the actor who ignored them.

I have been saying this for some time to students seeking career advice: the energy sector is one of the most exciting places to work with a huge transformation taking place right now. Electrification is a game changer and means a redesign of our energy system as we know it.

The outcome of any democratic election depends on how voters cast their ballot, yet the electoral system shapes the result too | Professor Sir John Curtice Via @bylines.scot

Please forward this to anyone you know who is still on X/Twitter, especially if they are your MP. "Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X" from @drjennings.bsky.social. Archived version for those who don't have an account with "I". archive.ph/B8doO

"Due to these misperceptions, even willing politicians who want to do more felt their hands were tied.”

International law prohibits law enforcement in the territory of other states. Were it otherwise any state could seek to arrest Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

From Washington to Europe, the same organisations keep appearing – Heritage, Heartland, Koch-linked groups – pushing identical anti-net zero scripts & climate change scepticism. It’s a coordinated, well-funded project of fossil fuel money, think tanks, tech giants & political operatives

Isn't it time we clamped down on tax avoiding American businesses?

The saddest part about the US becoming an aggressive maverick state is that they're doing it over oil. Oil is a strategic dead end. It has to be. Within twenty five years no-one will want it. All of this criminal brutality will have been for nothing

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Of course international diplomacy is complex and nuanced, and that becomes more complex when it is a close ally, but Trump saying US has effectively just taken control of a sovereign nation and UN planning a censure motion does mean Starmer needs to be firmer than shrugging and saying "wait and see"

Anyone else just completely blindsided by the lack of international condemnation? I‘d honestly expected it to be pretty universal and instead we’ve got a bunch of countries (UK included!!) just kind of shrugging and saying “oh but you have to realise that Maduro wasn’t a great guy”

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

It was audacious. You know, a spicy little war crime.

Just incredibly spineless. If this is the standard of response to a blatantly illegal invasion of a sovereign country, you can bet it won't stop there. I hope the EU has plans to defend Greenland beyond stern words.

This is why Europeans should be cautious about cheering when the US under Trump makes illegal and imperialist actions, even when those actions target figures we dislike, such as Maduro. Imperialism does not stop in Venezuela. It will harm us and empower other imperialist actors

I wrote this only last week, after saying that Trump seems about to wage war on Venezuela. It seems pretty relevant to what transpired today. UK and Europe *must* reduce our dependence on America and its technologies as rapidly as we can. christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...

They massacred 40 people to capture one criminal indicted on drug charges

absolutely bizarre to see a violent, rogue american regime, which is threatening military attacks on a bunch of major trading partners and close allies, and openly fantasizing about hitler-style wars of territorial conquest, covered in the tone of horse-race political commentary

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

Det här är Europas Neville Chamberlain-ögonblick USA förbereder av allt att döma ett angrepp mot oss och visar nu att de struntar i andra staters suveränitet EU måste ta sig samman. Igår.

Totally normalising headline. Media at its worst, failing to interrogate and frame and question the narrative. This was not an arrest. This was not legal. This was not normal, especially from a supposed rule of law democracy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#ClimateCrisis - "Transportation is a huge contributor to climate change. If SUVs globally were a nation, they would be in the top 10 for carbon emissions." www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

European politicians please note. Don't appease or sit on the fence. Tell it like it is

If Trump’s concern was drugs, he’d not have pardoned Honduras’s corrupt leader; if terrorism, he’d have gone after Iran; if world order, Russia; if preserving US power, China. If democracy, human rights or humanitarian motive, dozens of other worthy cases. What’s left is oil. And Epstein.

This needs immediate international condemnation.

Psychopath Trump attacks Venezuela, kidnaps President and his wife. The 21st Century bully wants oil, gas, minerals, puppet regimes. What next - attack on Iran, Syria, Panama, Canada, Mexico, Denmark ... there is no limit to his stupidity. The world must unite against new imperialism.

The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.

First demo of 2026. This one outside the US Embassy London today to stand with #venezuela and against the terrorist #DonaldTrump. #DownWithImperialism #SmrtUSA #venezuela

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

A gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional roles.

I'm losing track of how many countries a man livid he wasn't given the Nobel Peace Prize has illegally bombed. Iran. Venezuela. Nigeria. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Pakistan. Somalia. Syria. Yemen. Not to mention threatening to annex Greenland and Canada and invade Panama.

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign country after launching airstrikes against its military, is surely illegal in every way. America, what the fcuk are you doing?

Please, let's have no wishy-washy 'stand with our ally' crap from the British government today. Condemn this. Take the high ground before other bad regimes (e.g., Russia and China and Iran) do at the UN www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Nigeria, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and Venezuela - all countries the US has attacked since January 2025. The nonpartisan conflict monitor, ACLED, states that the US, before today, has carried out – or been a partner to – 622 overseas bombings, using drones or aircraft, since January 20.

Would like to see some JAG officers on the news talking about whether these military strikes are technically legal and, if not, what sort of liability commanders have incurred by carrying them out.

I hope that the EU will be discussing today what sanctions they will bring against theleaders of the US regime.

Trump just illegally bombed Venezuela and sent in troops without congressional authorization. Innocent people are going to die because this demented bastard wants to waive his tiny dick around to force a regime change.

Nästan orimligt att vi fick hela två dagar innan 2026 års första oprovocerade invasionsattack

Donald Trump, obliged to withdraw the military from the streets of US cities, now directs that foreign sovereign states be bombed.

'Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of death's construction' #warpigs #Venezuela m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ieN...

The story of Europe’s economic decline while US is 'soaring' is everywhere. But it is wrong. It is a myth. Europe delivers more leisure, longer life expectancy, less inequality than the US. Gabriel Zucman dismantles the myths. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

De har tvingats amputera armar och ben på svårt brännskadade barn utan bedövning. Nu ska Läkare utan gränser inte släppas in överhuvudtaget. www.etc.se/ledare/krigs...

Everything in this thread is bang on point and should be read by everyone- especially those who refuse to see the Russian threat and are still playing on old Cold War settings

In the US, whoever is making foreign policy it seems highly unlikely to be the current president, who lacks the knowledge, the skills, or the temperament.

Stockholm.. ranked #3 in the world as the greenest city. (After Vancouver and Oslo) #home