This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“It’s gonna be great” “It’s gonna be the greatest war ever ended!” …For the love of God will someone, please, stage an intervention on behalf of humanity…Please! …I’m so tired of listening to this soon to be octogenarian, dangerous infantile, egomaniacal, psychopathic, senile, baffoon, drone on🤦🏻‍♂️ 🌱🕊️

At the 1948 Democratic National Convention, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey gave a historic speech that mapped out the future for a Democratic Party that rejected its Dixiecrat/segregationist elements and embraced the anti-fascist ideal of fundamental human equality. youtu.be/8nwIdIUVFm4?...

Eighty-one years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Magazine that excuses violent neo-Nazis draws the line at going clubbing

Reform picks anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin as its candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election. A reminder that just a few months ago the BBC invited him onto Question Time as a supposedly independent "author and academic"

This is a tough thing to face. But on the left we *must* uphold the standards we preach. It concerns me that this is the only article by a leftist I've yet read that handles the issue honestly. Otherwise I've seen only tortured apologetics & gross hypocrisy. www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?art...

Grey wolf

Last week, the House Committee on Natural Resources advanced Rep. Gosar’s bill to remove the Mexican gray wolf from the endangered species list. Fewer than 300 Mexican gray wolves remain in the wild across AZ and NM, where the species continues to face significant threats. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4qA0fSu

Sometimes all you need is a relaxing mid-day nap.😴 🎥Watch our Red Wolf pack live on our webcams: https://nywolf.org/meet-our-wolves/webcams/

In Sweden, the Administrative Court of Appeal in Sundsvall has rejected the licensed wolf hunt in Västmanland, ruling that there is no scientific basis for allowing hunting at such low levels. A promising step toward stronger safeguards for Sweden’s wolves. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4q1L83b

Porcupine

Bears vs. Trail cameras

Board of Peace - Season 1

Silver fox

The reality of escalating extreme weather as we start 2026: Meteorologist @climatechris.bsky.social breaks it down. Serious question: Do you accept that this is happening?

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

Statesmanship 🌱🕊️

In a modern political culture of immediacy I understand why Trump's actions lead to views that the world will never be the same again, but that is to over-estimate his impact and under-estimate what else is happening globally.

PM Starmer: Putin being on a board of peace - he is waging war on a European country and as we sit here, they're raining down bombs on #Ukraine. it's minus 20, 60% of the energy in Kiev is gone and people are having to put tents up in their living rooms to keep warm.

Hmmm🧐 …Don’t they just🤔💭 🌱🕊️

A picture paints a thousand words. Two pictures, even more…

UK @jncc.bsky.social publishes first post-EU assessment for habitats and species jncc.gov.uk/news/uk-publ... Individual Summaries of Habitat and Non-bird Species Assessments assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/697200...

Terrific RHLSTP Book Club with Red Dwarf co-creator and brilliant writer Doug Naylor shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo... Buy Sin Bin Island here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sin-...

Brilliant!🙏…Some of my happiest memories are of my dad and me guffawing watching Steptoe and Son together around christmas time - I also loved/love Red Dwarf too, obviously🤓 🤭🌱🕊️

#FoodWaste - it is what the supermarket model is built on: full shelves, all of the time with every product, can only create waste. #FoodSecurity demands a different model www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he "obviously" had concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin being on U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed "Board of Peace."

BREAKING: The House Natural Resources Committee voted to send HR 4255, the Mexican gray wolf delisting bill, to the full House. The bill relies on misinformation when making the claim that Mexican gray wolves have met recovery criteria. Urge your Rep. to OPPOSE this bill: https://bit.ly/466LD4G

Trump flew to Davos to make his case for acquiring Greenland, or as he kept calling it, "Iceland"

Instead of paying Greenlanders $100K to join the U.S., can Trump toss that money Detroit's way?

Death toll in Afghanistan when NATO answered the US’s call: - 453 Britons - 158 Canadians - 89 French - 59 Germans - 53 Italians - 44 Danes - 17 Spaniards “Stayed a little back, off the front lines “! No one in the media will call him out over this lie or any of the others he spouts.

The UK needs #DigitalSovereignty. This means running our services and critical infrastructure on homegrown open source tech that's beyond the reach of foreign political interference, whether it's the US, China or Israel. We urge you to support the Early Day Motion tabled by @sianberry.bsky.social.

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Good overview on how Trump permanently blew up America’s place in the world with his madness over Greenland.

“Plunging temperatures, wind, rain and floods. Winter keeps compounding the misery of people in the #Gaza Strip, where the vast majority remain forcibly displaced and living in tents and half-standing buildings.” — UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Half the world's 100 largest cities are experiencing high water stress, where the amount of water being used is perilously close to exceeding what's available. Now, climate change is drying already stretched water supplies. Our new article, out now: share.google/EUPGwaOZefaC...

Trump is pursuing an “ahistorical version of ‘greatness’ [which] rejects persuasion in favour of intimidation, legitimacy in favour of spectacle and leadership in favour of force,” argues Sasha Mudd.

How deeply indoctrinated must one be to NOT see how obscenely immoral and unnatural #DAIRY is?

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Credit where due If the lowest point(so far)in his time as PM was the shameful attempt to try & justify the turning off of power & water to Gaza then at least(this time)he found the strength of character to stand up to Bully Trump & for Greenland Good for him I say🤔💭 😊🌱🕊️ share.google/xIPi5Yfo4qgH...

NEW: NEC source puts pressure on Burnham to resist the temptation to stand. “Andy has a big choice to make. Does he want to undermine the Party ahead of important elections, by trying to trigger a massive mayoral by election, or does he want to get behind a strong local candidate?”…

the problem with focusing on Musk's South African heritage is that it erases the real reason he and others are so intent on whipping up racial animus, and catastrophizing immigration: their own crimes are so heinous, and so connected to deep structural rot, they have to keep us looking elsewhere

absolutely insane to see Musk feted at Davos as the icon of a boldly "optimistic" future in 2026, as if he hadn't just spent the last year buying elections for fascists, making Nazi salutes, condemning millions in Africa to death, and building "Mechahitler," and a nonconsensual porn/CSAM generator

Stephen Miller (who I just had to google this second because I’d never heard of this 40 year old individual until now) is also wrong about this (headline below) As a general rule, one must always stand up to bullies🤔💭 🌱🕊️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm posting this for no other reason than goats Well, solar's a pretty good reason, too And also, solar is the GOAT

This is clear evidence that green policy framed *within* a socialist transformation, with a strong populist narrative, can 100% be a winning political platform.