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B.C. Workers Still Waiting for Heat Protection After Deadly 2021 Heat Dome www.theenergymix.com/b-c-workers-...

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‼️ Entitats i sindicats esclaten contra un acord que “utilitza el català com a moneda de canvi” 🔶 L’OCB diu que estaran més mobilitzats que mai i l'STEI adverteix que afecta el decret de mínims

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It's not the wealthy who are leaving New York City—it’s the working class. That’s why we’re going to use every single tool at our disposal to make this city one that people can actually afford. And that starts with freezing the rent.

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We’re sure many of you have heard about the growing controversy in Oklahoma, where parents are pushing back against a new curriculum quietly pushed through by the state’s superintendent.

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At this point, there is zero incentive for undocumented immigrants to pay taxes, or abide by government immigration requirements.

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An absolutely chilling story about a cost of climate disasters we don't think/talk about enough, from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This case will force the justices to yet again grapple with the consequences of giving broad discretion to a group of people who are openly ignoring the basic principles of due process.

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Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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SCOOP: The State Dept has begun rolling out its enhanced social media vetting plan. It’s starting with Harvard. We have the cable. Free version of story will post soon, and we will update with details: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

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New study confirms that the famous 'cold blob' or 'warming hole' observed in the northern Atlantic is caused by a weakening Atlantic overturning circulation. 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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⚠️ #ÚLTIMAHORA | EL PP i l’extrema dreta pacten d’incloure la vehicularitat del castellà en l’educació. 🔶 Tota la informació, ací ⬇️

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🔴 La BBC haurà d’indemnitzar Gerry Adams amb 100.000 euros per haver-lo difamat 🔶 Consulteu tota la informació ⬇️

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La Unió de Periodistes denuncia una retallada del 46% en ajudes públiques www.diarilaveu.cat/societat/la-...

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Trump’s Flurry of Pardons Signals a Wholesale Effort to Redefine Crime Critics say President Trump has used the vast pardon powers of the presidency not to settle accounts, as President Biden did, but to burn the ledger. By Glenn Thrush www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...

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“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.” ― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

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For the sake of our humanity — and our planet — we must shut down the war machine.

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🔴El Suprem no dissimula que desobeirà el TC si avala l’amnistia. 🔸El tribunal filtra que Llarena i Marchena no pensen moure fitxa en el cas dels exiliats i els inhabilitats

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NEW: Of the 238 men deported to the prison in El Salvador, DHS data shows: • 130 had no U.S. criminal histories aside from immigration violations; • 32 had been convicted of crimes in the U.S.; • 6 of those were violent crimes.

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On Tuesday, thousands of desperate Palestinians went to Rafah where the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was distributing long-awaited food and aid. Instead of bringing food to their families, some ended up dead and missing.

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DeBriefed | Earth eyes 2C; Why net-zero is not behind UK bill hikes; US academics stage climate science ‘fire hose’ ✍️ Written by @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org 📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/wS28g3G Sign up to DeBriefed ➡️ buff.ly/3yIyDEZ

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Oil groups target heat rule as workers bake - POLITICO www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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An appeals court stopped a railroad project built for oil extraction and shipping because the environmental review only considered the rail stuff, not the oil stuff it enables. The Supreme Court just overruled the appeals court and sharply limited US environmental review in the process.

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🗣️“Els atacs al català de Prohens són pitjors que els de Bauzà” 🔶Més per Mallorca critica durament els acords assolits pel pressupost entre PP i extrema dreta

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#OtD 30 May 1814 Russian revolutionary and founder of collectivist anarchism, Mikhail Bakunin, was born. Born in Tsarist Russia, he developed a burning hatred of injustice and threw himself into radical politics, taking part in struggles across Europe stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1031...

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The Verge covering my latest research on the power demand of AI and how this is likely to soon surpass another energy hog in the digital space: Bitcoin mining. www.theverge.com/climate-chan...

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Absolutely bang on the money by Diarmaid Ferriter on aviation’s gigantic free pass on #climate wreckage and their deceptive nonsense about “efficiency”. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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NEW findings by Profundo confirm the EU-Mercosur deal will greatly benefit billionaire food giants like JBS. If the deal is adopted, JBS could make €1.2B in extra net profits. This deal comes at the cost of nature, climate, & human rights abuses💔 Read more🖇️ tinyurl.com/24vefaa7 #StopEUMercosur

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Happy to contribute to this article about how the consequences of the Trump cuts to climate science (and science more broadly) on the class of 2025. www.thenation.com/article/envi...

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"Jeremy Lewin — an attorney in his late 20s with no prior government experience who is currently in charge of the State Department's Office of Foreign Assistance and running USAID operations — ordered the end of [World Food Programme] grants altogether in more than a dozen countries."

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“Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life” as should the 100s of thousands of casualties of his destruction of USAID.

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The New York Times is out with one of those stories that has to be read to be believed, so I did just that, three times, to spare you the pain.

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French president calls establishment of a Palestinian state ‘a moral duty and a political necessity’.

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"We're in f*****g terrible trouble." That's the short version. If you want the long version, check out my recent talk - Transformative Adaptation: another world is still, just, possible, at the University of #Exeter, which is available to watch via the link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbw-...

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The EU has the land to decarbonise fairly. Let’s not export the costs. 🌲 National pledges to reduce carbon emissions rely on land-based emissions reductions such as tree planting and forest restoration. This often triggers a massive demand for land in regions where land rights are already fragile.

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Unió Municipalista presentarà llistes a Alacant en les pròximes eleccions www.diarilaveu.cat/politica/uni...

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LIVE FROM BRASILIA 🇧🇷 Susana van der Ploeg of Rebrip on the strategic importance of Brazil's BRICS presidency.

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Το 2015, ως ΥΠΟΙΚ της Σλοβακίας έκανε οντισιόν στο EG για το ρόλο του μπουλντόγκ του Σόιμπλε, απαιτώντας απάνθρωπη λιτότητα για τους Έλληνες λέγοντας ότι οι Έλληνες έπρεπε να τιμωρηθούν για την Ελληνική Άνοιξη. Τώρα η μάσκα έπεσε και φάνηκε η διαφθορά... www.ft.com/content/f510...

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In 2015 he sat opposite me in the Eurogroup as Slovakia's FinMin. Auditioning for the role of Schäuble’s bulldog, he demanded inhuman austerity for the Greeks, adding that they had to be punished for staging their Greek Spring. Now the mask is off... www.ft.com/content/f510...

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#OtD 30 May 1937 the steamship Ciudad de Barcelona, carrying 250 international volunteers fighting Spanish fascism was torpedoed, killing 100 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1031...

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New research: The #EUMercosur trade deal is a major threat to human rights, nature and the climate – and would net over a billion in profits for the world's biggest meat producer, JBS Politicians should not enable billionaires like JBS to expand their predatory business models

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As #megacities continue to grow, they are becoming sites of ongoing and future climate and #water injustices. Drawing on her research in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, @farhanasultana.com examines the #class and #gender dimensions of hydro- and #climate apartheid: berlinergazette.de/the-politics...

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Some politicians tell us that 'security' will come from the barrel of a gun What about the safety of clean air and water, a healthy diet, secure jobs, comfortable homes and a stable climate to underpin it all? (200m tonnes is the fossil emissions of Belgium and Netherlands combined...)

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#OtD 30 May 1978 142 workers building the Mangere Bridge in South Auckland were locked out following on-the-job action for better redundancy pay. The government backed the employers, but the strike was successful after two and a half years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1032...

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