“The civil rights movement had a well-crafted theory of the relationship between religion and politics. The movement’s theology taught its members that they were themselves sinful and that they had to put restraints on their political action…

“a grimly Weimar like quality to Britain’s predicament: a mass of citizens disorientated and disillusioned with its political institutions. The risk is the next crisis acts as a tipping point propelling the far right even further”

"The High Seas Treaty has reached the threshold of 60 governments signing it into law, clearing the way for it to enter into force. This is the most important global agreement on the environmental crisis since the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement" www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/histori...

A lot of people are saying Tylenol (paracetamol) makes you woke, trans, paedo, foreign, Muslim, vegan and concerned about anthropogenic climate change

Six years for liking a Facebook post www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Whenever I need a little emotional pick-me-up bc of the state of the world I go back and listen to this. Ty @volts.wtf

“If all of the planned new extraction takes place, the world will produce more than double the quantity of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with holding global temperature rises to 1.5C above preindustrial levels” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Crudely, you’ve got about sixty per cent who are ‘Preserve and improve,’ but forty per cent who are ‘Burn it all down,’ ” www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

“The trees in truth are our parents, We sprang from the oak, or perhaps, as the Greeks maintain, from the ash…” Czesław Miłosz

“What other place on earth could more effectively rouse humanity from its desolation and birth a new age of freedom?” Brave and poignant words from Peter Beinart that I happened to read yesterday on the eve of recognition of Palestinian statehood by UK, France, Canada and others

Cambodia and Armenia have always been at war

one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye

"Within the phenomenological framework one of the central problems of quantum mechanics is resolved or...dissolved, through a subtle but crucial shift to understanding it as a theory of knowledge by virtue of embodying our correlative participation in the world" aeon.co/essays/why-q...

“When Mr. Miller declared on Aug. 25 that the Democratic Party was ‘a domestic extremist organization,’ he was presaging a crackdown not merely against anti-government activists but against the nation’s opposition political party itself” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

Protestors in the Soviet Union would sometimes simply write an article from the Soviet constitution on their posters.

In the US, PM₂.₅ from wildfire smoke already kills about the same number of people as guns and cars (~40k each), but this will increase significantly with climate change. 😐

“The double helix of libertarianism and authoritarianism that runs through much of Trump’s programme can be traced back to Murray Rothbard’s work” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"I know I shouldn’t be, but I’m astonished at the apparent lack of visible concern on the part of mainstream environmentalists as we slide into a police state. The right to peaceful protest remains a basic human right, but you wouldn’t know that here in the UK" writersrebel.com/love-anger-a...

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism. From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

"China is so far the main beneficiary of Trump’s unseriousness." samf.substack.com/p/unserious-...

"Instead of blaming years of Tory austerity, or a capitalist system rigged against the little guy, for these people, “illegal immigrants” were to blame. And Starmer was the bogeyman" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Solving complex tasks at these competitions requires deep abstract reasoning, creativity, the ability to synthesise novel solutions to problems never seen before and a genuine spark of ingenuity" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"If the medium is the message, the message is mass psychosis—and it will send us careening from one political emergency to the next... We are poisoning ourselves and inviting others to poison us." samharris.substack.com/p/we-are-los...

“As atmospheric heating and weakening of the surface permafrost continues, it is likely that more explosions will occur” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...

"It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world." Nellie Bly

"The vaccines cost $79 billion to develop & deliver..provided health & economic benefits globally worth between $5 trillion & $38 trillion in the 1st year based on avoided infections, hospitalisations & deaths. That is a ROI of between $60 & $475 per $ invested" www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

"data supporting the supposed chasm between human and animal intelligence has been systematically rigged in our favor." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/b...

🎙️NEW EPISODE: The eloquent and inspiring @georgemonbiot.bsky.social joins us to share his wisdom on how progressives can shape the next decade. For starters: ever heard of Public Luxury?

This is great

“In the absence of any meaningful change or any narrative to grasp on to [from Starmer and the Labour government], the right and Reform UK have shaped the story. One all too easy to believe.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The commission “warns all other countries have an immediate obligation under the Genocide Convention to "prevent and punish the crime of genocide", employing all measures at their disposal. If they do not, it says, they could be complicit” www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Europe bans substances it harbors doubts about, while the United States tends to allow substances unless there is solid evidence of harm. That may have something to do with the millions of dollars that companies spend lobbying…and donating to political candidates” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

“violence is coming” Thanks, Elon www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“many toxic chemicals escape treatment, ending up in waterways or accumulating on fields. Currently all of England’s rivers fail to meet legal standards for chemical pollution.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Poll of over 7,000 people reveals strong support for clean energy, nature restoration, and climate action. A large majority made up of people who think they are in a small minority, thanks to relentless misinformation online and in the mainstream media.

Exterminate the brutes www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"Why would the U.S. abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great? ...Why would we put at risk laboratories that are working to cure cancers or perfecting artificial limbs or exploring deep space or testing the limits of artificial intelligence?" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

6/ A new future for England's moorlands is taking shape - with new groups like @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social starting to demand moors pass into the ownership of communities, not wealthy aristocrats - in order to restore nature, rather than destroy it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Humans inhale as much as 68,000 microplastic particles daily, study finds

@amnestyuk.bsky.social : Nearly 900 arrests at Palestine protest shows Government's disregard for our protest rights www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

the full terror of the voyage must be kept withdrawn into the obscure background

Writing a thesis “models a kind of self-actualization, a belief in the integrity of one’s own voice.” www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

@amnesty.org : Escalating Israeli offensive in Gaza City will have catastrophic and irreversible consequences for Palestinians www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

“Cults can have very powerful control, but they can’t turn people into robots. We’re still human. And even in the worst of circumstances, we create these little niches of humanity.” www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

"oneiric technologies: [ones that] do not and quite probably cannot exist, but they fulfil a deep-rooted dream, or a nightmare, or both." aeon.co/essays/no-su...

Absolutely blistering takedown of the US government's mad climate report that rehashes the worst denier tropes of the past decade. US gov't took on a handful of self-serious denier micro-celebs, and in doing so, basically just hugely owned themselves in public sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doe...

Why community ownership is a key part of an anti-fascist economics - and how it could help beat Reform. Great piece by @morganj0nes.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

Fun fact: this would be true if we lived on Pluto

“Without a coherent new social contract for Syria, the killings will continue.” Sobering and very sad report, with tiny glimmers of hope www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

"Deranged zealots, bigots, evil, hateful murderers, and mentally unwell people exist everywhere on the planet... But routine mass shootings occur with regularity in just one developed rich country." www.forkingpaths.co/p/guns-at-an...