@highburyprkfriends.bsky.social Keys found in the snow

It's #showyourstripes day

Jenrick – who in 2020 accepted that his approval of Richard Desmond’s building project had been unlawful – said it was “so annoying watching so many people break the law and get away with it”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Fantastic performance by @arsenalfc.bsky.social women to win the Champions League! Absolute class! 🥳

“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!” - UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues. “Brexit Betrayed!”

GB News : "Brexit is a good thing?" Brexit Fisherman : "It's been a disaster" "But exports?" "Red tape is 100 fold, our main market is the EU" "But EU fisherman?" "They didn't come here" "But charge more?" "They can buy in the EU" "How would you vote?" "I'd vote for Remain in a heart beat"

I was surprised to see in today's ONS figures that UK goods exports suddenly rose 3.5% in Q1/25. Then I found this was almost entirely driven by a surge in UK aluminium exports to the US ahead of Trump's tariffs. This alone pushed UK GDP growth by ~0.2 ppts (out of 0.7 ppts total in Q1). Amazing.

WTF

📢NEW from me: Oops, He's Done It Again: all the misled furore around Tony Blair's climate pronouncements this week somehow served to detract from how truly dreadful his policy paper is. I did a deep dive for some reason.

Would any @arsenalfc.bsky.social fan like a Bournemouth ticket today? Think you need to be a member to allow transfer. I can't make it and would rather gift it than waste it @zoejardiniere.bsky.social @gemabbott.bsky.social

💯 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Climate plan not based on phasing out fossil fuels is definitely doomed to fail! a) they are finite b) we won't have a liveable planet left if we burn them all c) how much have you been paid by petrostates? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Macron shook one hand.

We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.

"If you torture one animal, you’re arrested and considered a psychopath. But if you abuse millions of animals in a systematic, industrial process, you’re hailed for your business acumen." Nicholas Kristof is 100% (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/o...

🧵Twelve conceptual 'problems' that make dealing with climate change super difficult:

Just 3 hours after arriving, Vance & his wife depart Greenland. And they never even left the military base. For a country as hospitable as Greenland, it is a remarkable feat to be so loathed you can’t leave the airport. Another staggering waste of taxpayer dollars. 🇬🇱🤝🇩🇰🤝🇪🇺 (🎥 VP Press Sec)

Is there some sort of news embargo on this? Conspiracy to cause public nuisance is repressive and should not be a crime, certainly not with jail time attached to it @goodlawproject.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com @mrjamesob.bsky.social www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

AP is banned by Trump from WH pool, while this is happening:

🚨new Indie SAGE report on childhood diseases! 🧵Vaccines have been so successful that once common diseases are now so rare that even many doctors might never see a case. In this report we describe 12 diseases, their consequences & impact of vaccines 1/15 independentsage.org/report/preve...

Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers. If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers. INCLUDING DRIVERS. The “war on cars” has always been a lie.

Perhaps the top person at The Atlantic was added to the Signal chat because those on the chat believed there was a person in charge of the Atlantic.

Grönland säger tack, men nej tack!

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

Legend

What a legend

John Kelly finished Loop 3 in 39:50:27. #BM100

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

While any reduction in sentences is welcome, these people should not be in prison at all, these sentences even when reduced are completely disproportionate. This is the real two tier justice system banning civil disobedience - a foundation of civil society www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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What a lot of people who know the images of the Nazi book burnings, and have a visceral reaction to «book banning» and «book burning», don’t know is this; that some of the first books that they destroyed were books on sexuality and trans people.

The interesting thing about this is how technology has made it easier to erase history and distort it. There’s no fire from burning books things are just gone with the click of a button.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

The Trump administration is: *breaking the law by not spending appropriated money from Congress *breaking the law by ignoring a court order *lying about it *killing people *silencing public employees who are pointing all of this out

@lewisgoodall.com @mrjamesob.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social Have you been able to verify the Haltbakk Bunkers post? I can't find any link to it. Just screen grabs posted and reposted and then other posts claiming specific ships or subs have been refused. Fishy?

He should be skiing where the real Ohio people go. Mad River Mountain in Bellefontaine.

I see a lot of "no more", "isolate the US", "stand with Europe", etc. But what does that look like? Do we recall diplomatic staff and kick theirs out? Stop sharing FiVeEYes intel? NATO expulsion (no mechanism)? UN resolution? Scrap AUKUS? What form does "no more" take? What are the consequences?

Surely now 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇳🇴 step in and do the minerals deal with security guarantees using frozen 🇷🇺 assets to build capacity and 🇺🇲 weapons?

Slava Ukraini

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

This is an excellent and timely factsheet on Ukraine, U.S. v. European security assistance, and other misunderstood or lied about aspects of the war, by our friends at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social. I'll summarize a few main points below, with additional sources of my own:

👇Evergreeen www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

No matter how hard Donald Trump tries, he still can’t get Republican voters to like Vladimir Putin.

The primary goal of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is to steal their resources and meet its broader strategy of market monopolization and price manipulation. Ukraine holds over 110 billion tons of proven mineral reserves across 100+ resource types. It is valued between $15 - $26 trillion. #opcanary 🧵

The Kremlin-linked Donald Trump blackmailed Ukraine (again), threatening to withhold aid unless it provides him and his corporate oligarchs with $500B in rare earth material or equivalent contracts. Hours later he praised Russia. 90% of US Ukraine aid is already reimbursed before delivery. #OpCanary

Sent this piece out yesterday. Calling Trump's policy towards Putin "appeasement", in unkind to Neville Chamberlain. Its closer to Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact.