Copenhagen 2009. Humanity's last chance to avoid collapse? Obama claimed partial victory. The ambassador for 130 developing countries' responded with "the most important briefing the world never heard". Obama's deal meant "Certain death for Africa, certain devastation of island states".

Some tried this defence at Nuremberg. Let’s see how they got on. 🧵

This is what the media don't get. It's not about raising the maximal amount of tax revenue. It's the first step towards making society fairer and stopping it from collapsing.

We urgently need democratic oversight of social media algorithms.

What's the definitive meme of life in 2025 and why is it this one?

This is Phil Piratin — the 1930s activist who showed us how to beat today's fascists and racists as they try to tear down democracy in the US and the UK. From rent strikes to the Battle of Cable Street, Piratin proved that when communities organise, fascism runs away.

The #NoKings marches are scaring the hell out of Trump and his fellow fascists. But history tells us exactly what MUST come next to destroy his vile regime.

Remembering a conversation with an oil trader who sold his company and moved to Switzerland. Why? "Because that seems like a good place to be when the shit hits the fan. Things never end well when the gap between rich and poor is this big. Even my hedge fund buddies are begging to be taxed more." 😨

The Nobel Peace Prize is a bad joke. Monsters like Henry Kissinger, genocide enablers like Aung San Suu Kyi and warmongers like Barack Obama have won it. Time for an Anti-Nobel Prize for real peacemakers who end conflict through nonviolence & integrity. Some winners of our REAL peace prize.🧵

The Nobel Peace Prize was won by one of the worst war criminals of the 20th century. The year was 1973. His name was Henry Kissinger. This is his thread of shame. #RedHotHistory

Zack Polanski became leader of the Green Party just a month ago but has already taken British politics by storm. Tonight he appears on Question Time alongside a rogues’ gallery of right-wingers. So where did he come from - and what does he believe? 🧵

There’s still a lot left that’s worth fighting for. RIP Jane Goodall.

They called her the most dangerous woman in America. Black Panther. Tupac’s godmother. Political prisoner. Jailbreak while 8 months pregnant. Obama’s FBI put her on the Most Wanted list but couldn’t get her. She just passed in exile in Cuba. This is Assata Shakur in her own words. 🧵

If Uruguay can do it in 5 years, anyone can.

Govt should offer all workers in polluting industries transition to a green career. They’re crying out for it.

November 17, 1938. 50,000 devotees of “Western civilisation,” “traditional family values,” “positive Christianity” (the official religion of German N*zism) and rabid anti-communism gathered to mourn the assassinated German diplomat Ernst vom Rath.

It's such a relief to have a politician and party leader who actually speaks his mind and tells the truth and shifts the agenda rather than kowtowing to whatever toxic rubbish Rupert Murdoch and Lord Rothermere are pushing today.

➡️ Charlie Kirk ➡️ “Tommy Robinson” ➡️ The PR machine defending the Israeli government ➡️ The war on climate science What have they got in common? Their funders - a small clique of American billionaires. 💰 It sounds like a conspiracy theory - but it’s true. 🧵

It’s easy to despair when Tommy Robinson and 100,000 far-right marchers fill London + Reform is surging in the polls. But the UK — and other countries — have stopped the far right in its tracks in the recent past. Here’s how 🧵

Karl Popper was the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. Jewish by birth, he fled the N*zis in 1937. What does his Paradox of Tolerance tell us about "Tommy Robinson" and those who marched with him in London on Saturday? 🧵

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

Stop demonizing immigrants. Start addressing inequality. Another world is possible. 💚

🔥 The Reichstag Fire – how Hitler exploited one blaze to seize absolute power. 🧵 #RedHotHistory

Amazing story. We need more Weibo Ludwigs wherever fossil fuels are still being extracted.

Another world is possible. A world without violence. A world founded on empathy.

Technology makes us more efficient, so emissions fall right? WRONG - because of the rebound effect which explains why emissions just keep rising even as tech becomes more efficient. 🧵

Exciting for me to be here in the same room as Tim Lenton and John Schellnhuber as their words are seared into my soul.

Drill baby drill? US Big Oil is cutting jobs, slashing costs and scaling back investments.

"Carbon dioxide, as it becomes a greater proportion of the atmosphere, behaves somewhat like the glass of a greenhouse. It traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely. This process appears to be already under way" said this guy 60 years ago.

As the world burns and demand for AC skyrockets, one desert city solved the heat problem 2,500 years ago. No fossil fuels. No electricity. Just brilliant design. These are Yazd’s windcatchers - ancient climate tech that beats anything being built today. 🧵

This is the #1 climatologist in the world: James Hansen. He’s spent 50 years studying what humans are doing to the climate. He's gone out on a limb time and time again - and been proven right. His message? It’s far worse than they’re telling you. 🧵

Reminder for this Saturday's Air Quality cycle ride and rally in Wandsworth. Ride: 10:30am from Battersea Park Rally: 12pm Opposite Southside Centre We are joint by a great panel of speakers, including @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @mowords.bsky.social @climatejoe.bsky.social @peteknapp.bsky.social

Every week in my yin yoga class the teacher says “are you thinking about a chaotic future?” and I think “how does she know?”

Trump. Putin. Carney. Støre. bin Salman. Every leader of a petrostate is a murderous lying scumbag - except perhaps for one.

Nine times out of ten, it’s a waste of time arguing with someone from the other side of the political spectrum. You’d be better off making them a cup of tea. Here’s why that might actually work - and why your childhood determined your politics.🧵

🌊 Rivers have spirits. 🪨 Rocks hold memory. 🌏 Earth isn’t a resource but a relative. These are things many tribes that have lasted for millennia believe. Is it woo-woo? Or could it be the key to building a better world out of The Collapse?🧵

A quote from ‘Serving the Reich’ that is as pertinent today as it was in 1930s Germany: “The sense of helpless fatalism among the academic scientists seems not so much misjudged as calculatedly self-serving. The Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard, working at the University of Berlin in 1933 said…” 1/n

They were pillars of the British establishment. Then they realised: we are the baddies. What did they do next? 🧵

The planet is burning - and the Global South is being told to "catch up"? Across India, communities are saying no. They're showing that another world is possible. Grounded. Fair. Democratic. Frugal. In harmony with nature. They call it eco-swaraj. 🧵

In 2008, the collapse of a single bank - Lehman Brothers - nearly brought down the global economy. Now, a far bigger crash is brewing. And our so-called leaders know it. But they're doing nothing about it.🧵

Nashville. 1960. One of the most segregated cities in the world. But change is coming, thanks to a masterclass in strategy, discipline and nonviolent resistance. This is the story of how the civil rights movement achieves the impossible. 🧵

WHAT THE MEDIA WON'T TELL YOU ABOUT IRAN. Iran has suffered at the hands of the West for 75 years - not because of its nuclear aspirations, but because of its fossil fuels. 🧵

"No country would find billions of barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them there" said Justin Trudeau of Canada’s tar sands, the world’s biggest source of pollution. But in 2023, the people of Ecuador voted to do just that. 🧵

All politicians are corrupt sellouts right? Well, maybe they are now - because the one man who could prove you wrong just died. As president of Uruguay, José Mujica gave away 90% of his salary and lived in a shack. This is his incredible story. 🧵

UK PM Keir Starmer seems keen to make it easier for developers to concrete over Britain’s green and pleasant land. 💸🌳 But the real path to prosperity? Let nature go WILD. Around the world, other countries are healing the land AND growing jobs and prosperity🧵

It's not them, it's you. JSO activists are often shy and quiet. “I haven’t been radical" says Anna, the soup thrower on the right. "We’re facing the extinction of everything we know and love. The only radical thing a person could be doing right now is ignoring it.”

The skies turned brown in Illinois last week. Is this the second coming of the dreaded Dust Bowl? 🧵

This is a thread about people who want to avoid the breakdown of human civilization, and what they are doing about it. 🧵

“First they came for the communists...” This is the incredible story of the German pastor who wrote those famous lines, and his journey from Hitler fanboy to his opponent and victim.🧵

It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. What did the man behind that quote tell us about how to change this?