Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

The campaign group Defend Our Juries said Thunberg's arrest could signal "a new level of repression", questioning whether police had misapplied the ban on Palestine Action or whether expressions of support for detained activists were now being treated as terrorism offences.

"The most vulnerable people in Gaza now have no shelter at all and frequently go for days at a time without food. With the worst of winter still to come, it is inevitable that fatalities will increase over the coming months." #Gaza

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... “The campaign group Prisoners for Palestinesaid Aspen, a global speciality insurer and reinsurer, was targeted because it provided services to Elbit Systems UK, a subsidiary of an Israeli weapons maker"

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d... well done 🇨🇦

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... “Dear L.N...We share one thing … our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch,’... Yours, J. Epstein.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... morons dark matter unveiled by ingenuity

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... YAY!

Farewell to CBS News and "60 Minutes." It just went the way of the Washington Post's editorial page Once you begin surrendering to Trump, he always wants more. You can’t appease a tyrant. Some thoughts...

The CIA plays a "key role in picking the targets that are chosen by the military for destruction" in the Trump administration's ongoing attacks at sea, says investigative journalist Aram Roston.

I'll be speaking with Amy Goodman of @democracynow.org about the Trump administration's latest assault on climate science tomorrow morning ~8:45am ET. Please tune in! www.democracynow.org

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... " it's very easy now for China to apply pressure because we have created these dependencies"

www.aspi.org.au/report/the-p... Chinese authorities are now building and deploying AI-powered surveillance and censorship tools specifically designed to monitor Uyghurs, Tibetans, Mongolians and others

www.rte.ie/news/investi... JA Solar & Jinko Solar.. sourcing a raw material called polysilicon – one of the essential ingredients in the manufacture of panels – from Xinjiang, where China has built a regime of forced labour & repression targeting the region's ethnic minorities, particularly Uyghurs

🚨 Urgent deportation threat Man who secretly filmed internment camps in the Uyghur region in 2020, Guan Heng, now under threat of deportation from New York. He awaits a court appearance on Dec 15, according to @hrichina.bsky.social @zhoufengsuo.bsky.social. hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-fi...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... "In late 2021, Guan had published a 20-minute video online, detailing his travel around the north-western Xinjiang region in China... visiting places identified... as detention facilities for Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities – or likely sites for such centers"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "Labour could and should be more energetic and braver in rebuilding ties with Europe. In facing shared security threats, tackling economic challenges and upholding democratic values, Europe is Britain’s natural home"

Some proposed climate “solutions” just don’t stack up against an objective, evidence-based perspective. That’s why the Drawdown Explorer calls these “Not Recommended” climate solutions.

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🚨BREAKING NEWS: XRUK ARE CLOSING THE DOOR ON GOVERNMENT INACTION 🚨 Seven years after XRUK first called for urgent climate action, the window to keep global heating below 1.5°C has now passed. THEY FAILED US... SO XR ARE SYMBOLICALLY FLOODING THE STREETS WITH DARKNESS...

How Trump got his FIFA prize: Trump’s aides demanded that FIFA’s made-up “peace prize” awarded to him be literally as big as the World Cup. The White House gave FIFA a list of demands regarding the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, which was invented by FIFA president Gianni Infantino to present to Trump.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "Just to endure, to put one foot in front of the other amid so much grief, with as many as 70,000 killed and whole neighbourhoods obliterated, is an act of bravery"

“We know that severe drought weakens the trees,” Avtzis says. “But when we looked more closely at what was happening, we found bark beetles had taken advantage. They were attacking the trees.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.” ― Edward O. Wilson

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Hanson is calling for tougher hate speech laws, while she is currently in court trying to appeal against her loss in a hate speech legal case. A fact not mentioned by a single outlet covering this story.

possibly relevant:

The only way to get back on track to the Paris Accords — which aims to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2.0 C — is to pull the “Emergency Brake” climate solutions. Towards the top of the list is curbing methane emissions as quickly as possible. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

hydrological research observatories & helping to incorporate user priorities early in the design: recent collaborative paper from work since 2024 within the UK Flood & Drought Research Infrastructure project hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/... @ukceh.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social et al

The real breakthrough of the year isn’t AI. It’s the explosive growth of renewable energy.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... "After thousands of years of stability, Lake Geneva is undergoing a period of huge and irreversible change in the space of just a decade. In the American and Canadian lakes, there are no signs of quagga populations falling after 30 years of colonisation."

How did Jeffrey Epstein, a college dropout with no financial training, become such a wealthy and influential figure in business? https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/17/epstein_wealth

Another insane move from the Trump regime. One of NCAR's contributions to climate science is the development of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), which is used by researchers worldwide. Here's a simulation of air-sea CO₂ fluxes from CESM.

Still here. Still waiting for HMP Bronzefield to call an ambulance for Qesser Zuhrah, who is on day 46 of her hunger strike and needs urgent hospital care now.

"What is the point of intelligence that can identify environmental protesters but cannot link a cache of guns to a known extremist connection?" Strong piece on #ASIO #bondibeach #auspol by @UrbanWronski (repub) michaelwest.com.au/bondi-attack...

Policy works. How do we know? Because emissions go up when the policy is removed (transport in this case). [Noting, biofuels are allocated zero emissions in GHG emission reporting, on the assumption emissions are captured in LULUCF]

UK govt war on bats and newts, part 328 Small building developments will no longer need to worry too much about the damage they cause to nature Or as London Wildlife Trusts say "We’ve got a flatlining economy, I know what’s to blame: hedgehogs" www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

ProPublica could not find evidence Trump ever lived at either of the two Florida properties he claimed as principal residences in the 1990s. Legal documents and other records from the period give his address as Trump Tower in Manhattan.

❗️Some of the UK spy flights for Israel coincided with Israeli airstrikes and the killing of British aid workers in Gaza. We spoke to the Henderson family, one of the victims. www.youtube.com/shorts/UPh4U...

Geographer @smillermcdonald.bsky.social on the myth of progress — a delusion that's been following us for 5000 years and justified endless wars, genocides and ecological destruction. Full episode out now: www.planetcritical.com/the-myth-of-...

Looking back at 2025 (through mid-December): a snapshot of the climate fingerprint on the UK’s unusual, at times excessive, heat. The Climate Shift Index signal ramps up in spring, then flickers on and off in waves into early September. Notice how it shows up again throughout November.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... "our religion is a religion of peace and we are very peaceful people. This proves that.”

"Evidence and facts matter, but so does being genuine and so does being human." Hear the full conversation with @globalecoguy.bsky.social on our pod: play.megaphone.fm/h20lqjxrtzym...

If you cannot stop doing volunteer labour for X by contributing free content to Elon Musk, this is the type of thing you are actively and directly assisting gain prominence: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... “What scares the hell out of me is the thousands of chemicals to which we’re all exposed every day about which we know nothing...until one of them causes something obvious, like children to be born with missing limbs, we’re going to go on... exposing ourselves.”

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