At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

This is so ugly. The original racist comments, Tice’s whataboutery and refusal to explicitly condemn them, and the fact we all know this will not become a major scandal for Reform - all of it more horrible evidence that standards around hateful and odious behaviour in public life are collapsing.

Off to London for the Women’s Voices conference - a very early start, but the beautiful sunrise made it worthwhile!

A dozen female Palestinians are working to save and preserve medieval and early modern manuscripts 📕 from the Al-Omari mosque’s library. Hang this picture in the Louvre (and the Met). www.newarab.com/features/ins...

A guess a lot people will be spending a lot of today checking some slowly changing numbers on a BBC webpage. If you enjoy that sort of thing and want it to be a more than annual occurrence - can I recommend getting into county cricket?

A barrister is being tried for simply accurately stating the law to a jury in a closing speech, possibly for the first time ever. It is chilling how quickly we are resorting to authoritarian measures, particularly in the context of the genocide in Palestine. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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We have just published a blog post with tributes from six authors who have been impacted by Jione's life and work, including @grahamadams.bsky.social, @victoriaturner.bsky.social and @msamrc.bsky.social 'Go and do likewise...': Remembering Jione Havea scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/blog/go-and-...

Our aid cuts have been just as severe. It won't kill as many people because we spent less to start with, and focused a bit less on health/food programmes. But we've got nothing to be proud of here.

We keep treating hate like a series of isolated fires. We extinguish one only to find three more are elsewhere. ​If we do not step back and see the entire landscape, from far-right extremism to rising antisemitism, we just play whack-a-mole with symptoms as the system rots🧵 1/7

This is such an interesting thread!

Not a shock, and made worse by how both Labour and the Conservatives stripped back protections, while pushing more people into precarious positions, making it harder for people to seek help and putting more people at risk of exploitation. A perfect storm. #r4today www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I am absolutely begging everyone to see this as a threat from the fascist far right party Reform to the Green Party and Green voting areas. Just like Trump’s attack on liberal cities, this is a threat to terrorise communities who do not fall in step with fascists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Israel controls every aspect of people’s lives—what we eat, how much we eat, the quality of the water we drink, and the environmental conditions we live in. It decides who receives medical treatment and who dies from lack of it, .. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

A retweet by Zack Polanski is now the main story across every single media outlet. Two days ago, it was revealed that Nigel Farage failed to disclose a £5 million gift from a crypto-billionaire. It gets nowhere near the media attention, for straightforward political reasons.

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

May Day Isn’t a Celebration. It’s a Reminder. Weekends weren’t given to you. Sick pay wasn’t given to you. Safety laws weren’t given to you. They were fought for, and they can be taken away. #JoinAUnion Protect what workers built. International Workers' Day

Final in-person session of my MA today. It’s been such a great 3 years and I’m sad it’s nearly over. Now I just have to finish my dissertation, which currently looks more like the fragments in the final photo - an apt metaphor found in the college garden!

Devastated to read this - I’m currently writing my MA thesis partly on Havea’s use of talanoa and have found his work so valuable and challenging. May he rest in power www.cwmission.org/news/spotlig...

Meanwhile, 23% of children in his constituency are in poverty, more than the average for Scotland.

Amnesty International warn against travel to the U.S. Soccer is great, but know what you risk — lengthy incarceration, travel restrictions, invasive search of devices, state-sponsored violence, and more… www.amnestyusa.org/blog/2026-wo... #fifa #Trump

Anti-rights movements won't stop with trans people. The Alliance Defending Freedom campaign against abortion rights, gay marriage, and anti-discrimination laws. Now they are openly backing a case against Parkrun for including trans participants. www.independent.co.uk/sport/great-...

An open letter to the court of appeal with the words "we oppose genocide, we support Palestine Action". The letter is posted on the Defend our Juries website & on Protest is not Terrorism. A sign-on form for anyone wanting to add their name is here: actionnetwork.org/forms/97d9a1...

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Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

A (quite personal) essay from me about reclaiming rewilding in Wales, out in @inkcapjournal.bsky.social today. I was born, raised and still live in rural Wales. My ancestral farmhouse is a ruin surrounded by conifer trees. I understand the fears. But it's the loss of nature I fear far more.

In light of the BBC claiming that asylum seekers are falsely claiming to be gay in order to gain asylum, here is an article about the difficulties and humiliations LGBT asylum seekers have experienced trying to prove their identities. www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

However incompetent you think the Home Office are, there is always another level that they can reach.

Hello. I just found out that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”, and now I need you lot to know that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”. youtu.be/voqCQSDAcn8

The emperor penguin has been declared an endangered species as climate change pushes the icon of Antarctica a step closer to extinction, the global authority on threatened wildlife has announced.

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

I’m at a major Christian conference with a group from church. Not a big fan of these things but trying to be open minded. Unfortunately the speaker this morning made it clear my LGBTQIA+ friends wouldn’t be welcome here, so I walked out and am now sat on the beach reading trauma theology instead!

It is a very strange feeling heading to bed and thinking that if we wake up tomorrow to find that the President of the United States hasn't committed genocide or started a nuclear war it will be something of a positive, rather than just what you would think would be normal.

Escalating war crimes to genocide? This is insane. Anybody defending or supporting Trump right now risks being complicit in crimes against humanity.

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

Ali Ghamsari absolutely knows that US-Israel will not hesitate to kill him and destroy the power plant. That is the point of the action. To die for justice.

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

America not being a signatory to a number of treaties does not mean that international law does not exist. The US is conducting clear war crimes, and boasting about it. They should be treated as a pariah state. They definitely shouldn't be getting a Royal visit.

Having run out of vulnerable humans to harm, Labour turn their gaze toward animals...

Happy #TransDayofVisibility. It does feel like some don't understand what that means. They claim trans and non-binary individuals being seen mean others aren't. For the most part, most of us just want to be recognised as existing, and not face hate for doing so, and even that seems too much for some

‘A cruel penalty’: hundreds of thousands of disabled people will have their benefit cut if their conditions are deemed not to be lifelong. My report in today’s paper: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 1/5

"Watering down" Labour's hostile anti-immigration policies is akin to someone saying they removed most of the rat poison from a cake mix so it is fine to eat. When policies are so thoroughly toxic they need scrapping and the Home Secretary who pushed them needs firing. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

People don't tend to think "hey I will use this overly complex and expensive student route specifically so I can reach the UK to seek asylum". It tends to be "I am studying in the UK and now cannot return because someone will kill me because I studied in the UK". 8/

Been thinking about it since I saw JK Rowling posted this yesterday about the IOC's new policy, calling Imane Khelif a man. Imane Khelif was born female. She was raised as a girl. Her original birth certificate says female. She's always been a woman. But sure. "Men punching women."

Anti-trans policies invariably harm women as well as trans and non-binary individuals. The IOC's decision plays straight into the hands of those stereotyping women. It leads to exclusion and discrimination against women who don't conform as much as trans people. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children

We want to preserve the Christian heritage of our great nation. Jesus: Then feed the poor, heal the sick, comfort the prisoner, welcome strangers and … So you’re saying stir up hate against minorities. Jesus: What? No, I’m saying… Yeah got it, make people scared of foreigners, no need to keep on

CCA greeted new Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, on her pilgrimage to her installation. Beautiful that our Rev Sue Parfitt, one of the first women to be ordained priest in the CofE asked the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury for a blessing for CCA’s work, and gave her a blessing in turn.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes