Tammy Bruce: "Beginning August 20, nationals of Malawi and Zambia applying for B1, B2, business ,and tourist visas will be required to post a bond of up to $15,000."

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵 www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

Evidence - rare, like hens teeth, great share:

Got from my sister

See full thread, including: "The take-home message is clear. Overlooking nature’s tree planters risks missing ‘win-win’ pathways for both climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation."

New: After Gaza aid flotilla volunteer & US citizen Christian Smalls was taken into Israeli custody, seven uniformed individuals beat him, choking him & kicking him in the legs, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. Smalls is co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union.

As a general rule, regardless of the topic, the media is at least 50% of any problem. taxjustice.net/press/millio...

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

I'm a Scottish Greens member, so separate to the Green Party of England & Wales, but Zack is exactly the type of political leader the UK needs. Not afraid to clearly call out the snake oil of Reform, & offer solutions to properly improve the lives of all communities who have been left behind ✊️💚

The realest of the real ones ❤️

Across the Western world, public opinion is overwhelmingly hostile to Israel’s crimes. That isn’t being acted on because the Western media forms a protective shield around Israel, cementing its impunity.

🙌Go @ealingcouncil.bsky.social "Ealing Council is committed to becoming a zero-carbon borough by 2030 ...To achieve this target .. Passivhaus certification is the baseline standard for all new buildings being designed in Ealing." Read more 👇 www.passivhaustrust.... @beyondcarbon.bsky.social

Fantastic

Of the 20 costliest weather disasters in history, four have occurred in just the last year.

Rhetorical question I assume?!

DON’T LOOK AWAY: Children seen shackled and escorted by federal agents out of a downtown Los Angeles detention center. Multiple minors. In chains. In public. This is not a “border issue”—this is a fucking human rights crisis.

Guys, this is a standard staple of every authoritarian regime ever You call the Secret Police on your neighbour for listening to Radio Free Europe to stop them mowing the lawn on Sunday morning

Helps us understand how Nazification of Germany happened….

🚨BREAKING: Prince Andrew is now free to travel internationally after the FBI quietly shut down its investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. No charges. No accountability. Just a royal hall pass.

Shitstorm brewing?

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Plastic nurdles may sound harmless - but, when a spill of nurdles occurs, as in the X-Press Pearl disaster, or off the coast of East Yorkshire this year, these tiny pieces of plastic can absorb other pollutants, & are eaten by sea creatures who cannot digest them, as Dr Megson explains here:

Our government is selling arms being used to commit genocide. Israel kills a child every 45 minutes. We are all Palestine Action. 🇵🇸

Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover

'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' Wednesday 2nd July, 10 pm Channel 4

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j... Channel 4’s head of news and current affairs :“This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces that deserves to be widely seen (...)"

This…in LA. The home of which they exploded the door off of…was reportedly occupied by all US Citizens. Are you beginning to understand why the people who you could never understand why they boarded those cattle cars…went ahead and got on?

Out and about one a Marginal photo book walkabout and someone in Thirsk has a sense of humour #phonephotography

Great piece in today's NYTimes on the recent acceleration of global warming (and its impacts), featuring comments from Kate Marvel, Daniel Swain, Cecilia Bitz, and me: www.nytimes.com/2025...

A new report at Harvard Dataverse citing Israeli military data suggests that in addition to the nearly 60,000 Gaza health ministry counts (morgue data) another 377,000 people are possibly missing and presumed dead dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Super article from @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social This is the time to end the absurd Drax power station which is UK's biggest carbon polluter - and Govt know it For more see my submission to the Subsidy Advice Unit - Drax should receive no more public money👉 scrapcc.org/BOSWELL-DRAX...

Amidst shameful media neglect of genocide in #Gaza, there has been a consistent exception: the UK’s Channel 4 News. Today’s report on the daily killings by Israelis of the starving queuing for food aid. Wait for the UN assessment at the end. This is a difficult but essential watch. Pls share.

Without remotely wishing to pick on anyone in this photo, and with the caveat that pictures of technology are very hard indeed, this photo from DSIT's LinkedIn account, of Men in Suits Looking at Quantum Computing, is really very funny.

The historic Hotspur Press building on fire this afternoon, after the owners let it rot for years. (Son took the picture from the top floor of a nearby multi-storey car park)

Trying to get home on the train from Macclesfield to Liverpool is certainly 'fun' this evening! Most trains going west out of Manchester Piccadilly and Oxford Rd cancelled because of this. Had to leg it across town to Victoria.

Take note.

uk - still the us’s poodle

The Iraq playbook is back & the media won’t question it. Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants. Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.

This seems like a really important conversation to be had in UK public services. Fairness must be a condition of efficiency measures; short-term AI-driven cost savings will come back to bite us if they deliver bad outcomes that set back the creation of a fairer society.

California national guard troops and marines deployed to LA to help restore order have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they don't want to join. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ancient fossils show how the last mass extinction forever scrambled the ocean’s biodiversity About 66 million years ago – perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May – an asteroid smashed into our planet… theconversation.com/ancient-foss...

It's only a "ransom note" if there's no other option for Thames Water But privatisation isn't the "last show in town" PUBLIC OWNERSHIP is, and the government knows it Give up the ideology, tell the private bidders threatening our environment where to go www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Incredibly concerned to see the forcible interception of the Madleen in international waters, and thinking of all those who were on board and have been detained. UK must condemn this breach of international law and immediately demand their release.

Newsom: "Arrest me. Let's just get it over with, tough guy. I don't give a damn ... Tom, arrest me. Let's go."

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Roussillon, France #BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant We used to massively extract ochres from this area, hence the shape of the scenery- quite extraordinary