Even the existence (let alone use) of nuclear weapons harms us, since it forces us to live with the possibility of experiencing that brief moment between the flash and the unimaginable blast.

This open invitation to the @nebriefing.bsky.social was published in the @financialtimes.com today. Please check whether your MP can make it here: www.nebriefing.org and if not ask them to! We will be briefing on national security, tipping points, food security, nature and more.

The most important story in the world. As we heat the planet, we reduce the planet’s ability to stop us heating it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“This Labour government would have banned the labour movement.” The always-excellent @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on blistering, exceptional form. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is this moment the closest we’re going to get to the psychological cause of Netanyahu’s genocide?

This Labour govt has seized on one brutal anti-Semitic attack to further clamp down on legitimate protest against their own increasing authoritarianism. Are they worse than the Tories? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Israeli state is psychopathic. Attacks on Jews are intolerable. Two things can be true at once.

Exactly.

Progressives urgently need to clarify: progress towards what?

Wow. Journalist searches in Tel Aviv for three days for evidence of Israeli compassion for Palestinian civilians in Gaza — finds almost none. I’ve never been to Israel, but the impression given here is of collective psychopathy. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

Is Charlie Kirk America’s Reichstag Fire?

Yes you can fret about @zackpolanski.bsky.social talking only to his base and not reaching more conservative voters, as perhaps others would have. But he seems to be on the airwaves everywhere, & he’s articulating a necessary & genuinely-progressive agenda better than any other leader 👏👏👏

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

If you want to know how dangerous the Israeli regime is, you only need to listen to their spokesperson David Mencer on BBC R4 Today programme at 8.10am. Spends the whole interview shouting over Nick Robinson, claiming the UN is in cahoots with Hamas to starve Gazans. Absolutely unhinged.

“…unless the judicial review is successful, membership of, or inviting support for, the group [#PalestineAction] will carry a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.” Palestine Action are a non-violent, direct action protest group. This is wild government overreach.

When protest is conflated with terrorism, the complete erosion of all civil liberties is well underway. This presided over by a government that has co-opted the Labour brand but has none of its humanity. It’s time for a complete change in how we do politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I support #PalestineAction and all non-violent direct action groups seeking to protect life.

“Unless we are able to democratise our society, political and economic decision-making processes will continue to be dominated by those who have helped to cause climate breakdown up to now.” @graceblakeley.substack.com #VultureCapitalism

But Iran isn’t even trying to build a nuke. Even Tulsi Gabbard knows this. So WTAF, Kier Starmer? Even Blair’s government had the shame to dress up illegal wars in the Middle East with dodgy dossiers. Here, nothing but unprovoked aggression.

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

Pure posturing by Reform UK. Drilling in the North Sea will do nothing to prevent ongoing production decline, nor secure U.K. energy independence, as the oil and gas is sold on the international market. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It’s far more expensive to retrofit quality insulation, PV and heat pumps. House building companies have made profits by building substandard houses and shifting necessary work onto homeowners’ shoulders. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The idea that bosses of a failing company might take huge bonuses out of the emergency funding that’s propping the company up is so mind-blowing that there’s only one possible conclusion: We need to renationalise water. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Climeworks’ Iceland capture plant fails to cover its own emissions “Direct capture is a scam, carbon capture is a scam, blue hydrogen is a scam, and electrofuel is a scam. These are all scam technologies that do nothing for the climate or air pollution” heimildin.is/grein/24581/...

Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why. Here is what this means:

We should ‘not…think of this as a Republican administration. This is a far right revolutionary government that is moving with tremendous rapidity to alter America and make it unrecognisable…’

Stop Musk! Change the law on political donations On 31st March, MPs will debate the petition that 140,000 of us signed - to stop overseas billionaires polluting our politics: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Make sure your MP attends - email them now: www.writetothem.com

Keep fascist money out of our politics.

Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻

This week's impressive Climate Change Committee report makes a rock solid case for net zero. BUT it recommends a major program of new fossil fuel infrastructure—giving Big Oil exactly what it wants. Why that’s a bad mistake, and what the alternative is. 🧵

President Krasnov.

We should stop thinking of Trump as American. He is operationally Russian.

As Trump turns on Ukraine to do deals with Russia, here’s your reminder that he is a Russian asset, an easily-manipulated narcissist cultivated by the Russians from an early stage: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

Musk’s Twitter does not reflect reality. Most Americans know climate breakdown is real. climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/u...

George Monbiot has kept the receipts on Labour’s failures so far, which are beyond disappointing.

‘When I lost my wife,’ said Tony, ‘I decided that grief is actually always there. It’s like it lives in you, dormant, until somebody goes, and that person dying — it just wakes you up to it, makes you aware of it. But it’s always been there.’ The Deluge, by Stephen Markley.

“She would not grow up to be president or a great ballet dancer or a neuroscientist or a VR influencer. She would be, like most of her generation, a scavenger, likely a part-time cannibal… 1/2

No-one is safe from climate breakdown.

“He says the main function of every society is solving problems by investing resources. But as society becomes more complex, the problems become more complex, so you have to invest more resources. Tainter says at the end of this spiral, collapse is inevitable.” amp.theguardian.com/environment/...

Arguing for decarbonisation isn’t mobilising sufficient numbers. Concrete, local plans for adaptation, on the other hand, could focus minds better about what is to come, and get more people behind decarbonisation as a by-product. Good thoughts from @rupertread.bsky.social

“Labour ruthlessly targeted its resources in seats it cd win &…discouraged campaigning elsewhere. In effect it was signalling to…voters to back the best-placed progressive to defeat the Tories, which is exactly what I was charged with.” Excellent from Neal Lawson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Holy sh*t. If climate breakdown doesn’t already keep you up at night, spend a moment with this gif. Nice work @edhawkins.org