Capitalism doesn't work. @ecomarxi.bsky.social

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

No, you’re not crazy. They are deporting brown people and importing white people.

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

Last week, I attended an excellent workshop at @lancasteruni.bsky.social hosted by @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social on "Higher Education's Role in the #Climate Crisis: Bridging Research Culture and Action". Here's a thread on some papers that came up in our discussion🧵

The Trump-Vance State Department just approved $3.01 billion in arms & equipment sales to Israel $2.04 billion in bombs $675.7 million in bombs & weapon guidance kits $295 million in bulldozers Administration said "an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale," waiving congressional review

It’s out on June 5th, but as a new author, pre-orders massively help with visibility so I'd be so grateful if you'd considering ordering ahead of publication!! www.waterstones.com/book/to-exis... 5/5

On the 25th October 2018, from my hospital bed, I began to write. 1/5

Gaza's civil defence agency says Israel has killed at least 70 Palestinian children in attacks across the besieged enclave in the last five days. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

"Some [some!] attributed the intensity of the fires to climate change." Oh just some randos over there, like ... all the world's climate scientists.

Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses (the guardian). This is the water company that USS invested nearly £1 billion of our pension money. And no one has taken responsibility for the mistakes or financial losses.

A survey of of Palestine-Israel coverage by four Sunday morning news shows reveals a startling statistic: With the exception of one interview, thesw shows went 12 months without speaking to a single Palestinian or Palestinian American.

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buying a big weirdly shaped electronic gizmo is a humbling reminder this is a cardboard engineer's world and we're just living in it

👉NEW -- ‘They’re political prisoners’: Parents of Palestine activists slam pre-trial detention by Daniel Tester Young protesters face more than a year in prison before going on trial over a break-in at an Israeli arms factory near Bristol. www.declassifieduk.org/theyre-polit...

This excellent book shows how the powerful fossil fuel industry is central to capitalism, how it plans to continue to focus on extracting oil, to dominate the climate debates and to lobby governments to fund their supposed “solutions”. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

MSCI studied the carbon emissions of ~9,000 major listed companies - and they are on track for 2.8 degrees of warming! Solving the climate crisis continues to be “unprofitable” under our economic system. #climate #greensky #climateemergency www.msci.com/research-and...

Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️‍🌈

Looking back at temperatures over the last 3 months - find your location... 🟥 warmer than average 🟦 colder than average Dataset described in doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

The pop star effortlessly illustrates in her music what it means to love and lose simultaneously.

The combined net worth of America's twelve wealthiest people just passed $2 TRILLION. 12 people. $2 trillion. The bottom half of America collectively holds $3.5 trillion. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

the fact that we have "serious" convos about whether billionaires are okay suggests public consciousness that is totally divorced from the 1) actual scale of private wealth accumulation 2) its political implications. helpful data visualization: eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

Israel killed at least 26 Palestinians and injured more than 60 others, including children, in an air attack on a home in Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, according to Al-Awda Hospital ⤵️

Tel Aviv University is co-hosting a 'Defence Tech Summit', in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence. Speakers include government officials and army generals, and the whole thing is sponsored by the arms industry. A direct, undeniable, cooperation and participation in genocide.

Palestine is recognised as a sovereign state by 146 countries, representing 75% of UN members. So, which nations recognise it in 2024? ⤵️

One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors, Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, may have been raped to death in an Israeli prison, recent revelations show. He’s not the only one ⤵️

He watched democracy die in his home country of Hungary. Here is his advice to Americans getting ready for a second Trump term.

My November climate indicator update... Graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... ⚒️🧪🌊

Another day, another street cluttered with bikes to the point I can’t use the pavement…

Updated periodic table with origin of elements in the Solar System (for boron and lithium at least)

Excited to be here, looking for disability advocates to follow please!

We’ve posted an update on USS’s investment in Thames Water. £ 1 billion of members’ money down the drain ! Read more at www.divestuss.org/news/

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.

More than 10,000 New Zealanders on Friday joined a 660-mile protest march heading toward Parliament in Wellington, amid growing opposition to proposed legislation that would strip Maori people of special rights accorded to them under an 1840 treaty.

This Palestinian journalist in the occupied West Bank remained calm and cracked a joke while Israeli sniper lasers were pointed at him.

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divestuss.org DIvestUSS is a group of members of the UK Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) committed to ensuring it follows an investment strategy that protects the planet, respects human rights, invests responsibly, ensures good pensions and divests from fossil fuels