"The concept of universalism is fading, just like the idea that human rights are meant for everyone. In some countries they apply to everyone—except environmental activists." Libertes' Balazs Denes on rule of law issues today at the LIBE committee: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...

If you want your audience to support your cause, give them a vision to fight for. Always great messaging advice from @wmtfaction.bsky.social. If you campaign on social justice issues, give them a follow. And check out our own messaging guides here: www.liberties.eu/en/reports-a....

If you've not heard @untruth-band.bsky.social before, give this a listen. They should be as famous as Arcade Fire or Crowded House. Hearing them next to Coldplay makes you realise how the latter really are the Enya of indie. Slap on their quality tunes. You will still be singing along decades later.

A new hope. Will it help parties on the left stop being so scared of being... left? This guy and @zackpolanski.bsky.social are my antidotes to doomscrolling and are the answer to populist authoritarians. There must be more like these folks out there. We need you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

What does "authenticity" look like? Doing the work *and* showing you're doing the work *and* making fun of yourself for what you don't know. (Bonus points for a really excellent accent, and I say this as a former college Spanish teacher who demanded rolled Rs.) www.instagram.com/p/DQZrQz4jtFm/

It's true. Poverty is a choice. A choice made by billionaires to take all the money working people create while holding down wages, refuse to contribute to the country that made them, empower politicians to steal the resources we generate for our common good.

1/ Great messaging from @zackpolanski.bsky.social that gives voters an alternative - accurate - way to understand who is to blame for their hard times. Farage, parroted by Labour and amplified by the media, has made migration the 'common sense' explanation for many people for why everything sucks.

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Am I the only one reminded of Baghdad Bob / Comical Ali when seeing statements from Trump's administration? Do they have him in the back writing their press releases?

News: China invites JD Vance to visit Dalai Lama for 'exchange of opinions'. #PopeFrancis www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Well that's naïve. These folks are pretty strategic. This is just one step on a longer journey for those behind the movement to reverse progress towards towards equality for all sorts of people. Changes to access to abortion care and marriage equality, are probably next on the list.

The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.

Neoliberalism destroys democratic hope & far right fills the political void. We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital Why pursue austerity when country voted so decisively to end it? Why reject wealth tax, when 2% levy assets over £10m could raise £24bn a yr?

A crook runs Hungary, feeding off public funds. He's rigged the system to make it hard to lose elections - as long as his hardcore supporters vote for him. He's scared of a new rival party. So he scapegoats to whip up his base & restricts protests to hobble his critics. www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

Someone put her in charge of the Dems. Please.

Privatisation means hiring a middleman to deliver an inferior service while underpaying their staff so that they can siphon off public funds to some very rich people. www.bbc.com/news/article...

How come we aren't talking more about a European minerals deal? Why join mobster Trump's protection racket if Ukraine could get a fair agreement from an EU that realises that Ukraine's security = Europe's security? www.politico.eu/article/crit...

There are corporations making a killing by dirtying our air & water, fuelling extreme weather & destroying our soil. Our leaders are deciding to serve them, instead of protecting the rest of us. So they're making it harder for activists to push the EU to protect our environment. shorturl.at/PYLYH

Co-wrote this 6 years ago and it applies equally to anti trans siren songs. MAGA keeps trotting out the same playbook and Dems keep acting brand new. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-...

Crisis framing activates fatalism (a sense the world is beyond repair), which makes people apathetic. A far better strategy for inspiring action is to show that change is not only desirable but also possible www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/opinion/public-health-crisis-america.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share