I just signed this petition calling for better cooperation with the EU on the environment. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

​‘The hypocrisy is staggering’: will swift bricks fall prey to government fears of Reform? @hammersmithandy.bsky.social Hope my MP Andy Slaughter will vote for this. Swifts and martins are declining in W6

Europe lost 5 million farms in 15 years. EU subsidies flow to agribusiness while small farmers disappear. I just signed to demand a farming system that works for people + planet. Join me! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-04...

BREAKING: The SAVE Act is a SHAMEFUL ATTACK ON OUR DEMOCRACY! Republicans are terrified of We, the People! #HandsOffHerVote

Let's talk about the so-called Save Act. Don't let the name fool you. This bill doesn't SAVE anything - this is 100% a voter suppression bill. #HandsOffHerVote

Ayanna Pressley NAILS IT! HANDS OFF our bodies. HANDS OFF our social security. HANDS Off our constitution. HANDS OFF our Democracy. #HandsOffHerVote

🐟We believe that a thriving, healthy ocean is worth far more than one being exploited through overfishing, bottom trawling, oil and gas drilling and waste plastic🐟 Find out more and how you can take action 👇 www.clientearth.org/campaigns/pr... #OnlytheOcean

Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen! Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...

I saw this unpublished writer opportunity and thought it might be of interest to some of our followers! Mentorship and funding available - www.wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org/prize/new-vo... #writers

A very happy Friday! Today's Substack is about submitting to lit journals - Bloodaxe Books: “Such a "track record" is not used as a quality guarantee, but as an indication that the writer has spent time building up a publishable collection” flyonthewallpress.substack.com/p/why-litera...

Meanwhile, South Korea has successfully impeached their president www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Get inspired with the story of a Devon Clunis, a Jamaican man immigrating to #Canada to later become the first Black Chief of #Police Register for our Global Read ft. author Devon Clunis w/his book “ONE: A Story of Hope in Our Time” on March 26. #literature #immigration #compassion #hope

Rewind and be kind: what happens if you do one act of kindness every day? Great article and idea.

Today, our CEO David Mooney joined a roundtable at Walthamstow Wetlands to discuss restoring and protecting London’s waterways. We’re committing £800K over 2 years for river and nature recovery, working with communities and the Mayor to deliver real change. @london.gov.uk

Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...

Morning from Kyiv. I had a slow #warcoffee and read the news (nothing good is there). Today is International Women’s Day. I am sending my solidarity hugs to every woman who sees this message. We can do more than we think. The painting: 🇺🇦 Seraphym Charkin, Amazon Woman, 2019

Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Today for international women’s day I am going to cheer my daughter racing on the Thames in her crew of 8 with hundreds of women competiting in a sport that banned them until recently (8’s were considered “too hard” for women athletes.) We can do hard things.

Donald Trump sparked outrage worldwide with his shocking display of bullying at Friday's Oval office meeting with Ukraine’s President Zelensky. Now, over 145,000 of us are calling to cancel his second UK state visit - will you join the backlash too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

A voice from the past who feels very present right now. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

1/ Support today for journalists fighting for the future of The Observer, threatened by The Scott Trust’s plan to sell to Tortoise Media. Tortoise, though respected, is a small, loss-making venture and the sale risks The Observer becoming a stripped-down website behind a paywall. Worse..

A blog about reading, faith and bonding across boundaries: catherinetemma71.medium.com/sexy-fairies...

In this morning’s news read: Wicked and how it started; rewilding in small businesses, Netanyahu’s arrest warrant; a possible global plastics treaty; an Ethiopian paleobiologist decolonising science. The world is and always has been a mix of possibilities. Let’s not despair.

On the culture front where ture change happens, I tuned into an on-line reading with the amazing poet Jane Hirschfield on Monday via Coffee House Poetry, London. She shared this poem by Adam Zagajewski that seems worth passing on to the Blue ether: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57095/...

Hello Bluesky. Here is my first post - about my hope in these times, and reading Marge Piercy the day after the election. medium.com/@catherinete...