According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted, and 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Keep going with this, Paris.

One of the gravest problems we have in the UK is that coverage of racist hate about Muslims gets far more coverage in the media and by politicians than what appears to be a deliberate attack of a Muslim woman in London last week. CCTV shows her being deliberately knocked over by a car in Harrow.

My daughter is pregnant with her first child. It will be my first grandchild. I'm rather nonplussed when friends congratulate me! I'm not sure what to say. It seems a bit of a strange custom or is it me that's weird?

Students and others, we don’t know if meningococcal disease can spread through the air. I see some of you in the outbreak zone are wearing masks. If you want to maximise your protection against a *possible* airborne threat, wear a *respirator* (FFP2 or - better - FFP3). These are ~N95/N99 in USA.

Aguilar: "It never occurred to me that an administration would come in & want to use only AI to target and to kill people, and to have no humans in the kill chain making decisions. This is shocking but that's clearly the authority that Pete Hegseth wants. It's scary & is going to necessitate policy"

A senior US official tells Zeteo's Asawin Suebsaeng that they have heard from foreign counterparts, in this US official’s paraphrase, some version of the following: “Trump wants us to die for him in the Strait of Hormuz, and we aren’t having it.” Are you subscribed to our First Draft morning email?

A couple and their 5 and 7 year old kids… Shot and killed in front of their 2 other kids by the IDF This would be on every front page and condemned by politicians far and wide if the victims has been Israelis And yet when they’re Palestinians… Utterly utterly shameful.

Trump started the war, his mess, his responsibility. news.sky.com/story/iran-l...

Tel Aviv : manifestation des opposants aux guerres europalestine.com/2026/03/09/t...

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Not quite sure what it will take for MAGA to see Putin as an enemy.

Insult, outrage, injury laid down generation upon generation like sedimentary layers. Where do they think that simmering anger goes? Eventually it must resurface, black as coal, hard as diamond.

This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?

Not just a loser. But a bad loser.

As an optimist I am hoping this result will show Starmer he needs to stop chasing the right-wing vote and start standing up for traditional Labour values. Labour are doing a lot of good that is not being celebrated because everyone is too busy talking about boats. Sack Mahmood, open processing ...

Well said @zackpolanski.bsky.social The perfect response to the rage baiting, sore losers, Reform UK Media should stop pandering to every bit of nonsense, distraction and lies, Reform UK out out.

they voted for a woman is a tradesperson, who is led by a leader who is Jewish and gay but Reform say they lost because of Islamists lol

Farage frothing about WFH again… Funny how the loudest critics are the ones who’ve probably never done a school run or a Zoom call with a sick kid in the background. WFH isn’t hurting Britain - but Reform’s backers would hate you to realise who really is. open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

#buggeredback I'm so crap at doing nothing so I'm going to tell you all about the Watership Down scenario outside my window Today, the white squirrel came for a breakfast of walnuts, the female greater spotted woodpecker munched on the concrete gate post and the dog just watched

This brave woman speaks for millions of British people. Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

Mate, it was 1066. Move on.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has announced today a record £1bn invest in community-owned energy. This is the start of an energy ownership revolution which will see communities and community assets benefit from renewables in their areas. 📺 Watch him explain.

the end of this war is getting steeper and faster. Russia is staring disaster in the face. Putin is destroying his country and its future. They will not recover from this in decades. Ukraine needs to keep up the pressure, keep resisting and we must keep supporting them to the end. I know I say this

So glad a debate is finally happening. This goes to the heart of the security of our democratic system. I’ve taken part in court cases against successive governments for their failure to investigate hostile state interference in UK elections - ministers’ lack of curiosity is truly shocking 👇

Picking Mandelson as ambassador was based on totally wonky thinking. Especially as we had an excellent one already. Massive mistake by Starmer. But PM is not responsible for mandelson’s wrongdoing and other PMs eg Johnson have done far worse eg Covid. Is it really in country’s interest to oust him?

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Ukrainian Defenders have shared photos from before and during Russia’s war against #Ukraine. 📷: vitsikkkk / zolotarev_well / do_schelchka / kriher.m / vasilpoplavsky / sigard / kelly.kko / yarmak_d / krakovskyi_a / olexandr_mkr / pro100_monah / ed.petso / Threads

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Badenoch’s screaming about kicking Mandelson out of the Lords, but she shuts the hell up about Mone. #UKPolitics

French prosecutors raid Paris offices of X, issues summons to Musk and Yaccarino www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I love this

Tom Morello welcomes Bruce Springsteen to the stage at the Defend Minnesota! benefit concert fundraising for the families of Alex Pretti and Renee Good at First Avenue in Minneapolis 🎸 🎥: @chrisrstrib.bsky.social

France should ban #Palantir.

🚨 Russia struck a passenger train in Kharkiv region “Barvinkove — Lviv — Chop,” with three drones. 291 people on board. At least two are injured.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

In paraphrase, the Trump regime position is "the executions of unarmed citizens in broad daylight for exercising their First Amendment rights will continue until morale improves *and* the blue states the president is targeting admit that he won all of them in 2016, 2020, and 2024" I'm not kidding

This is powerful from military veterans about Alex Pretti. "They took his life. Don't let them take his name."

In Kryvyi Rih, due to the cold weather, water freezes before it even reaches supermarket shelves. 📷: dianaoleynikkkk/Threads

Anyone going to davos, please kick this off with some sniggers and guffaws, it'll spread like wildfire

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

Holodomor (“hunger mass-death”) is what Ukrainians call the genocidal artificial famine created by Soviet dictator Stalin in the 1930s that killed millions here. Now fascist Russia has added a new word to the vocabulary of Ukrainian genocide - Kholodomor, or “cold mass-death.”

Carney speech worth reading in full - doesn't just lay out the end of the useful fiction of the rules-based world order but talks about a multi-laterial alternative to isolationism www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

The true purpose of the masked men terrorizing Minnesota, writes @polgreen.bsky.social, is "to stage a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance against Trump’s dark vision of America." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Everything Trump says here is verifiably untrue. During this period of time the number of US installations on Greenland went from 17 to 1 as a result of US determinations that they were not needed.

Our local town (in Spain) organised a festival of nations. Many countries whose citizens live here were represented and this year I helped get a local British group involved for the first time. It was a beautiful event celebrating all the immigrants that help make the area where we live flourish.

Macron wants to pull out the big guns.