A wonderful result in the Carshalton South & Clockhouse by-election with the brilliant candidate, Lisa Webster, winning 52.2% of the vote for the Liberal Democrats!

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18

youtube.com/watch?v=2JZB... Westcroft Leisure Centre Goes Green with Solar Power! ☀️ This project will reduce emissions that harm the climate, save money on energy costs, and create a more sustainable future for our community. Learn more about the benefits 👇

Sutton Central (Sutton) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 55.7% (+17.4) 🌳 CON: 14.1% (-10.0) ➡️ RFM: 12.2% (New) 🌹 LAB: 9.3% (-17.4) 🌍 GRN: 4.1% (-6.8) 🙋 IND: 3.6% (New) ✝️ CPA: 1.0% (New) Liberal Democrat HOLD. Changes w/ 2022.

Well, I don’t imagine I made a lot of friends at Thames Water today! But I was proud to use the chance to take them to task for their shocking record in Westminster Hall. Customers, and our river, deserve so much better.

Organs & Organists starter pack updated… go.bsky.app/NpCGD1Y @katelynemerson.bsky.social @felixhell.bsky.social @michellehorsley.bsky.social @christopherholman.bsky.social @cmwoolmer.bsky.social If you’re an organist but not in the starter pack, feel free to let me know so I can add you. 😎

As I answered at Full Council, Sutton remains in the Top 5 Boroughs in London for recycling...

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

Read this twice. The world we know is shifting beneath our feet.

There is no technological compromise between strong encryption that protects the data and a mechanism to allow the government special access to this data. Any “backdoor” built for the government puts everyone at greater risk. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Music is far more important than some people realise… chng.it/d4RvTNBhds

Great canvass session this morning in my Council Ward with my two Cllr colleagues @cmwoolmer.bsky.social and Qasim Esak. We all had a very warm reception and some casework on parking, school drop off congestion, and also concerns about school places and how GP waiting times.

Survivors return as world remembers Auschwitz 80 years after liberation www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Hitler, Stalin and potentially Trump leave behind them death and destruction. It is comforting to remember that there are others who illuminate our world for a while and leave it richer and finer.” www.prospectmagazine...

Jo Maugham, the director of the Good Law Project, said campaign groups without transparency around their funding should be treated with scepticism about who was financing them. #FBPE www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Happy Christmas from the organ console! 🎄

Going against evidence will cost lives… www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The House of Commins is now on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/hous...

I talk about this endlessly in my book....how our current electoral system is NOT fit for purpose @petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....

NBC: Mississippi Free Press "Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter,” Pittman said. “Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited.” search.app?link=https%3...

1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic. Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵

When the mask mandate was lifted from Mass General Brigham in May '23, hospital transmission of resp virus went up. When the mandate was re-instituted in Jan '24, infection rates went down. www.news-medical.net/news/2024052...

Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Net Zero Secretary Funded by Backers of Tufton Street Climate Science Denial Group The Conservative party leader and several members of her new Shadow Cabinet have ties to the opaquely-funded group campaigning against plans to reach Net Zero bylinetimes.com/2024/11/05/k...

Consensus On Climate Change

Yup.

1000 days of Russian aggression, 1000 days of Ukrainian heroism and suffering, 1000 days of Polish aid and solidarity. By supporting Ukraine, we’re moving the war away from our Polish and European borders. Let us remember that every single day.

Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇

Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science. Indeed almost all people who used to be active on climate change on Twitter/X are now here. To get more content: @katharinehayhoe.com has the complete overview and best starter packs, as usual 😀 mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

🔴If Trump Surrenders to Putin Then Europe Will Quickly Need to Form a ‘NATO Within NATO’ European leaders fear Donald Trump could soon open Europe’s doors to Moscow bylinetimes.com/2024/11/20/i...

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

Giorgi Revishvili: “ #Ukraine used #ATACMS for the first time to attack the #Russian territory. Per RBC-Ukraine, AFU carried out a successful strike on ammo depot in the city of Karachev, located in #Bryansk region. It appears the use of ATACMS is not limited to Kursk as it was earlier reported.”

🔴EXCLUSIVE: ‘Europe Must Forget Trump and Form a Coalition of the Willing to Defend Ukraine’ Senior politicians, military leaders and experts send an open letter calling on Europe and Canada to join forces in defending Ukraine from Russian aggression bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/e...

🔴COP29: As the Climate Crisis Intensifies, Trump and World Leaders Are Leaving the Stage The global consensus on tackling climate change is fragmenting at the very moment action is most needed, reports Mike Buckley bylinetimes.com/2024/11/18/c...

Far from uniting Europe’s far right in triumph, Trump’s return could actually deepen the conflicts between them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

"You can't have a ten year plan for the NHS if you don't have a serious plan for social care too." Ed Davey talks to Laura Kuenssberg about the need for cross-party collaboration on social care. youtu.be/W8fZqmn83MQ

“The Observer view on trade relations: closer ties with EU is the lever for economic growth”

The former head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has said that the UK should side with the European Union over trade and economic policies rather than a Donald Trump-led US, as fears grow over a possible global trade war. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Many viewers asked for a review of a recent study which supposedly shows “new evidence” in the climate change “debate.” I’ve had a look. www.youtube.com/watch?v=chDl...

Since I appear to have acquired a bunch of new followers today, I'm reposting this morning's column, on Trump and the aggravation of Brexit as strategic self-harm in a fractured the west. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Amerexit: Oligarchy Comes to the United States Peter Jukes's editorial from the December Print Edition of Byline Times https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/16/amerexit-oligarchy-comes-to-the-united-states/

"The alignment of Mr Musk with president-elect Trump and his use of the platform to promote the interests of president-elect Trump is obviously driving out a lot of people" ”https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-exodus-could-bluesky-spike-spark-end-of-elon-musks-social-media-platform-13254722

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

Vaccination saves lives. Period.

The Bluesky User Counter now going at serious pace. See —> bsky-users.theo.io And no service outage tonight. 🙏🏻

Now more than ever, we must stand up for core liberal values—equality, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. Join us in defending these values: http://libdems.org.uk/join