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The bottom two-fifths of the income distribution saw the biggest rise in essentials spending between the financial crisis and the pandemic Rising energy prices in particular have led to a ‘comfort crunch’ as families spend more of their budgets on essentials.

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Earth is Absorbing Far More Heat Than Expected—It’s Happening Twice As Fast https://www.europesays.com/2206670/ In a startling revelation, recent research has shown that Earth’s energy imbalance—the difference between the heat Earth absorbs…

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EXCLUSIVE: watch the trailer for "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack", the film the BBC didn't want to air. The trailer features, among others, Dr Adnan al Bursh, later killed by Israel. Zeteo is proud to be airing this documentary to paid subscribers across the world on 2 July at: gazadoctors.film

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Finally someone challenging the mainstream media's framing of the Glastonbury hysteria to their faces. This man should lead a political party or something.

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Tomorrow's welfare reforms should be scrapped and no new reforms proposed until the government has reviewed their changes and completed a full impact assessment on how they will affect disabled people’s lives. Austerity is a political choice. www.gmlaw.org.uk/2025/06/30/s...

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"We would be looking to the ultra rich, not the poorest in society..." Leader of Stroud District Council, Cllr Chloe Turner explains why the Green Party opposes the Government's cruel plans to cut disability benefits.

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Palestine Action is not a danger to democracy. But Yvette Cooper is. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Google and Apple must stop making cash out of conning kids and their parents through fake app store age ratings. Join our fight! goodlawproject.org/s/20d2ac

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And people are surprised why there are hellish temps in places like Spain Italy and France Its no secret - more and heat is being trapped on Earth and not escaping back into space due to burning of fossil fuels and mass deforestation is destroying nature ability to absorb carbon

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Today, MPs got a letter from Liz Kendall with the Government's panicked proposals for a two-tier disability benefits system, harsher and meaner to people who fall sick or disabled after Nov 2026. Not acceptable - Green MPs will vote against the Bill tomorrow #TakingThePIP #WelfareBill

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Turn off toxic algorithms action.eko.org/a/protect-ai...

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Swift bricks are specially designed nest boxes that can be built into the walls of buildings, offering safe nesting spaces for swift birds. This low-cost proposal was BLOCKED by Labour!

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👉NEW -- UK withheld evidence from court in Israel arms export case by @john-mcevoy.bsky.social Judges say Britain can supply fighter jet parts to Israel, but the case has exposed how the government conceals its own evidence of Gaza war crimes. www.declassifieduk.org/uk-withheld-...

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Another day another war crime by Europeans, Americans, Canadians, Australians et al whose full blooded complicity in Israel's genocide has stigmatised a whole Western generation: Israeli forces killed at least 80 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

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Before the recent partial U-Turn, the UK govt had stated that as a result of the benefit cuts extra 50,000 children would fall into poverty. Why is the govt content to increase child poverty? Now carefully watch and note the Minister's reply. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsGs...

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It's been 50 days since our government petition to end the badger cull reached 100,000 signatures, yet we've heard nothing about a debate. The government is ignoring us! Disgraceful.

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PRIDE IS A PROTEST ✊The Gay Liberation Front led direct actions: spray-painting, “kiss-ins”, torchlit rallies. 🗣️Marginalised groups face injustice - worsened by climate breakdown. WHEN RIGHTS ARE CHALLENGED, MINORITIES FALL FIRST Let’s round up Pride month continuing how it began, with protest 🏳️‍🌈✊

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Homes, schools, hospitals and hungry aid seekers targeted by Israel as it forces thousands out of the enclave’s north.

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"Two Palestinians have already died [as of March 2024] while waiting to hear back from the Home Office..." @carladenyer.bsky.social on the urgent need to create a scheme to reunite Palestinians in Gaza with family in the UK, to impose stricter sanctions and to end all arms sales to Israel.

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How do you sound an alarm without being dismissed as alarmist? Asking for a friend. "Climate change is twice as bad" seems like it should be headline news. #climate

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Polar ice is melting and changing Earth’s rotation. It’s messing with time itself As the ice melts into the ocean, meltwater moves from the poles toward the equator, which further slows the speed of the Earth’s rotation. edition.cnn.com/2024/03/27/c...

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📣 Today, a crucial, once-a-decade meeting of world leaders and institutions is kicking off in Seville. Yesterday, global citizens made their demands clear #TaxTheSuperRich – For People and Planet. Here's why the #FFD2025 Summit is so important, and what we need to see... 1/4

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It's outrageous. Labour's new Planning and Infrastructure bill will be disastrous for wildlife. What are they playing at? Share if you think Labour should be protecting wildlife, not destroying it!

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Earth’s energy imbalance has more than DOUBLED in two decades. Whenever I take a week off from immersing myself in this nightmare, I return to discover things are even more dire than I thought. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20

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"Hospitals, food distribution sites and schools have been targeted across Gaza as Israel continues its siege across the strip. A series of Israeli air strikes has killed more than 70 Palestinians since dawn on Monday" Meanwhile the BBC: 'death to the IDF' is antisemitic

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I have no other agenda than sharing the science & interpreting what it likely means for the people I love. If you have a problem with that, it’s almost certainly because you’ve been radicalised. Also: Fuck.

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Big oil and gas companies are responsible for the climate crisis. We need to take back their power. No to fossil fuels, yes to renewables! #StopFossilGas share-int.greenpeace.org/s/BAIYOeBV

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Bullfighting is TORTURE - not tradition.

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Goldman Sachs predicts up that to 50% of jobs could be fully automated by 2045 Do not believe the crap that jobs lost by AI will be replaced by new jobs No they will not - most people will be on the scrap heap whilst billionaires have a 24 hour workforce www.forbes.com/sites/jackke...

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Shame on Ireland Wild salmon are on the brink of disappearing from Irish waters forever In the past 5 decades, wild salmon numbers in Irish waters have dropped by 90% www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Egypt’s FM Badr Abdelatty says Cairo is working on a Gaza deal including a 60-day ceasefire, release of Israeli captives, and quicker aid delivery. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ aje.io/mrie7d

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Time to ban private Jets - only billionaires and millionaires would miss them "Globally, private jets emitted up to 19.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2023: Aircraft departing from USA accounted for 65% of global private jet flights, and 55% of those gas emissions"

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Eleven were killed and seven injured in a gold mine collapse in Sudan, in an area held by the army amid ongoing civil war aje.io/f2xd4p

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"When Will the West Stop Exploiting Women’s Rights for Imperial Aims?" Powerful piece from Fatima Bhutto, who says nothing about the US and Israel attacks on Iran were about 'liberating' Iranian women:

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They're doing this because they're scared.

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KLP, Norway’s largest pension fund, will no longer do business with two companies, one US, the other German.

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Sanctions worked on apartheid. Why not sanction Israel, then? youtu.be/PLhkJLy2hzo?... The Co-op has banned Israeli goods. The UK government remains silent. This silence is complicity. Real leadership in the face of genocide would require that the UK sanction Israel.

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"We need to stop bombing children in Gaza" Rachael Cummings from Sabe the Children speaking from Gaza.

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Britain’s ‘medieval’ health inequality is devastating NHS Spends £50bn a year dealing with effects of deprivation, child poverty Govts obsessed with austerity, wage/benefit cuts. 16m, including 5.2m children, live in poverty Political system is sick 50 families have more wealth than 34m people.

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The questions we should be asking our politicians www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06... Most political interviews are lame and land few punches. So, what questions should our politicians be asked? I suggest round 30 here that might search out what they really think.

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While Susanna Reid, Ed Balls, Kwasi Kwarteng & Kevin Maguire tell us that saying 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' is a call to violence & antisemitic, Israel continues starving Palestinians to death. Hani Mahmoud reports.

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A note to a young person who wants to be a campaigner www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06... If you want a career in campaigning, take a look at this.

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Israel launches 50 aerial attacks across Gaza, with at least 68 Palestinians killed on Sunday.

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Make healthy food more appealing, govt tells supermarkets. How about making good food affordable by curbing profiteering - energy, water, transport, banks, insurance, exec pay, regressive taxation? Need equitable distribution of income/wealth. Need action, not weasley words

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Mission accomplished for Netanyahu ... at the cost of tens of thousands of lives. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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While the UK mainstream media closes ranks to tell us 'death to the IDF' is violent hate speech, the IDF gets on with murdering Palestinians. Yesterday they killed at least 68 people.

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Corporate Welfare 2012-2027: £11bn subsidy for Drax, produces electricity by burning trees at double the price from gas. 2024 operating profit £1.06bn £869m subsidy. £97m dividend paid; £300m share buyback. Will get free money until 2031. No means testing. Contrast with welfare of people.

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🚨 New research published today! 🚨 Rising energy prices have led to a ‘comfort crunch’ as families spend more of their budgets on essentials. Read Bare necessities now ⤵️ buff.ly/fCKt988

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Revealed: spies for hire used ‘Big Brother’ tactics on salmon farm activists www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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