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EU leaders slam Hungary’s Orban for blocking Ukraine aid package https://aje.news/884mgj

Bill to remove two child limit on benefits becomes law www.gov.uk/government/n...

👏 A good summary of where the UK and the EU are at following the first round of reset negotiations in May. 🇪🇺 Next time round we need deeper alignment on all goods and services to free British businesses from the red tape strangling their growth...

Gulf states request urgent debate at UN Human Rights Council, documents show reut.rs/4lzZNC0

Iran’s attacks on gulf nations - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait - continued overnight. Cathay Pacific has cancelled all flights to Dubai and Riyadh until the end of April. Oil is now up to $113 a barrel.

Reform show their true colours, every time. Here they are voting to be able to lie to their constituents. Farage won’t change.

On how far Denmark wants to go: For sure a measure of value is how far you want to go to protect it.

As ever the opposite is the case. What they're all arguing for here is dominance over Muslims. Dominance over a religious minority's right to worship, to freely assemble, to be visible, and to exist as equal members of British society. The complete opposite of what Britain fought for in World War 2

Shame.

📚✨ In 10 years in libraries, I’ve never seen 300 Norwegian librarians moved like this. Today, @samhelmick.bsky.social did. The fight against book bans is about democracy. We can’t take our values for granted. 📖 #Libraries #FreedomToRead #Democracy

I am hard pressed to think of any prior President who was solely responsible for causing such immediate unambiguous, and completely foreseeable economic pain. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

One can always hope…

It seems a bit strange to me that Putin has once again disappeared from the public space and that yesterday, March 18, he didn’t even stage his usual propaganda spectacle around his “Crimea speech” and the official Anschluss of Crimea in 2014. It does feel a little unusual.

This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Share please, donate if you can. #ukraine must win.

Iran strikes the world's largest LNG complex in Qatar The Iranian military carried out a missile strike on the industrial city of Ras Laffan in Qatar, where the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) production complex is located. 1/4

Brought to you by Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

‼️ Russia: “The rate of car loan application rejections in Russia has reached 80%.” www.avtovzglyad.ru/avto/price/7...

Meanwhile in Russian Media… “Russians were given advice on how to protect themselves from assassination attempts ordered by scammers.” 👉 “Forensic scientist Ignatov urged people not to open the door to strangers, including police officers.” 🇷🇺: 🔥 this is fine 🔥 news.ru/society/ross...

Obscene, outrageous and unsurprising. This comes right after Republicans just passed a record high military budget with a huge increase. Now Trump wants an insane amount more for his latest war. And this comes on a day our exploding national debt just passed $39 Trillion.

Day 1481 of the illegal invasion of a sovereign country by Putin and his fellow criminals. Russia's troops still make ground in some areas, but Ukraine has weakened the invaders' air defence and is making inroads into supply lines. Here's the daily thread:

Trump is asking for $200 billion for his war so Susan Collins can pass $50-100 billion through the Appropriations Committee and claim she is a fiscal conservative who stood up to Trump. Trump knows he isn’t getting $200 billion, this is a game Republicans play before elections.

So it begins …

Meanwhile in Russian Media… “Experts predict Russia's economic growth will plummet to zero.” www.mk.ru/economics/20...

The top Democratic member of the US House Judiciary Committee accused the US Patent and Trademark Office of helping obscure who controls and profits from President Trump's Board of Peace reut.rs/3PuQlUx

Democratic House Rep. Ro Khanna and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse are re-introducing a bill to tax Big Oil. “The Big Oil Windfall Profits bill would protect consumers from giant oil companies exploiting world events to jack up prices.”

40%+ of outside spending in last night's elections were from one organization - AIPAC. AIPAC was the largest source of Republican money in Democratic primaries in 2024, and it is on track to break its own record. This is an existential threat to the Democratic Party.

It seems to me that when the Fed chair says “there is effectively zero net job creation” happening right now that that would be a five alarm fire.

Stark reminder, or a wake up call. “if we were coal miners we'd be up to our waists in dead canaries." -- Michael Higgins, 2019

Breaking News! Code Yikes! Yet another new record daily low was set for Arctic sea-ice extent, over 50,000 km² below the previous record daily low, set on March 17, 2017. Meanwhile, a new record low yearly maximum for extent is looking increasingly likely. Stay tuned!

in the words of British physical chemist C.P. Snow, for the sake of “the poor who needn’t be poor if there is intelligence in the world.” 🌍🔥😭🍿 #climate

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For only the second year since 1982, global sea-surface temperatures have hit 21.10°C (preliminary). The all-time record was on April 24, 2024, when SSTs peaked at 21.173°C. Will this record be broken later this year? The Climate 8-Ball says: "f&%kery ahead!"

Sounds right, unfortunately - f%#^ry ahead. #climate 🌍🔥😭🍿

New from Yellow Dot Studios: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sykT...

No Kings. March 28th. Make a plan for where you'll be and bring your family and friends. www.nokings.org

This man did far more fighting for the US than anyone in the cabinet or the White House. And he died one day after being taken to an American concentration camp. One day. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Finally some good news. People have to fight for nature, give her a voice.

Great news. Dartmoor is an ecological disaster zone masquerading as a National Park, as its ecosystems have been grazed out by sheep. Now this must change.

20 Reasons Why Forests Are Important 1. Help Us Breathe 2. Home to Nearly Half of All Species 3. Benefit Millions of Humans 4. Keep Us Cool 5. Keep Earth Cool 6. Make It Rain 7. Prevent Flooding 8. Soak Up Runoff, Protecting Other Ecosystems www.treehugger.com/reasons-why-...

And the heat goes on, la di da di da… 🌍🔥😭🍿

Heatwave for the Ages!! Starts today in the US Southwest. The hottest temperatures ever experienced in March in the US, and not just one day, multiple days, into next week! The US all-time hottest March record will likely be crushed and we may even challenge the US record for April! #heatwave

Yup. You did. It’s all about short term greed. They are blind to the long term effects of global politics let alone the climate crisis.

Medicane over Libya In March Surreal #ClimateChange is a hoax #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis

While the graphs showing the heat go up, this one goes down. 🌍🔥😭🍿

Climate catastrophe

I know it’s not the main take-away AT ALL from this piece, but as a cat supporter I’m so happy that Kat got over her allergy. I’ve experienced this myself with people and it has changed their lives. Just as Kat is going to change the lives of the people that count, the ‘marginal’ people.