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Humanity is choosing to fail! We are doing virtually nothing to try and limit global warming to even 4°C. Let alone to 1.5°C. Methane concentrations are following the highest IPCC scenario, now at 1938 ppb. H/t @glenpeters.bsky.social

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Starmer told UK must repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people or lose Trump trade deal. Plus sacrifice the NHS, food and environmental standards, worker rights. Who governs? No thank you. Don't want to be the 51st state, or US slaves. Better to join the EU and Single Market.

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This is a must-read article, by @corbintrent.bsky.social znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

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Here’s the truth Democrats won’t face: Americans have lost faith in a system that has failed them. Working people don’t believe our institutions work for them anymore—and they’re right. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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It is shameless. It demonstrates utter contempt for readers. And it is being enacted safe in the knowledge there will likely be zero implications for those engaged in wilful disinformation.

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Dear universities and law firms, You can't "buy Trump off." If you do what he asks, he'll think he owns you and he'll demand more and more. You'll never be done with him. Appeasement is surrender. Resist. Sincerely, Mark

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This⬇️As I've often said, fascism is already here (in Europe, and elsewhere too tbh) it's just happening to people who are systematically marginalized, dehumanized, criminalized, and so on.

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Following on from an earlier podcast (www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Jv...), I'll be answering/discussing climate-related questions live tomorrow (Wed 16th 21.00hrs CEST). Details & zoom link at www.cemus.uu.se/april-16-liv...). Feel free to submit a question via the above site.

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These two posts: * “We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations,” said Joe Kent, Trump’s pick to lead counter-terrorism efforts. * Trump to Bukele (president of El Salvador): “Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough.” 1/

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Harvard will not comply. “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” — Harvard President Alan M. Garber www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Tax the rich. Improve the lives of the poor. There is no other way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A guide to the dark stars of the fascist firmament together with a chink of light. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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"So when it’s all over, if the crown jewel of biomedical research — the enterprise that gave us the human genome sequence, Covid vaccines and treatments for cancer and HIV and obesity — has been destroyed, what will have been the point?" feels like sepsis or metastasis -- the body is taken over...

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RECORD HEAT IN SOUTH AFRICA Endless summer also in South Africa which has been breaking hundreds of records every single month for years. Temperatures still of 37C in Northern Cape with the heat moving Eastward again. Let's expect more heat records in all Southern Africa.

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Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now? Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.

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What's wild about the US tariffs is that they are not coupled with any industrial policy or public investment strategy that could plausibly deliver US re-industrialization. The result is that the tariffs will likely accelerate US industrial decline and general economic degradation.

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This rejection of reality puts every scientist in the cross hairs. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Wow, the world's largest direct air capture facility! 500,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year is a time machine that takes us back ~6 minutes. 🥲 www.1pointfive.com/projects/ect...

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When biomedical science and global health face existential threat, by @daltmann.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social @natrevimmunol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... "The attack on some of us is an attack on all of us, and we must stand together."

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Today's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions."

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Mine too. And many other moms and dads, sons and daughters. Same with many other diseases. I'm fortunate to do what I love, what I am good at, and what the world needs. IMO it's immoral to turn our mission into a weapon of any kind. This is embodied in all faiths. Saving lives comes first.

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Death camp ideology rises in the far right. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Home Office once again seeking to reduce UK exports of higher education. As if the sector wasn't in enough trouble already (and not getting the attention such as important one should get). www.ft.com/content/f441...

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An anonymous group of food industry execs published a memo warning about “a threat to food security like none other we have seen” in the UK, citing degrading soil health, water scarcity, heating, and extreme weather. Mitigation strategies don’t meet level of risk www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/whistle...

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It's extraordinary that this Labour government would rather give in to economic coercion by Trump than admit we've made a mistake about Brexit What's not to like about being part of a strong trading bloc that shares our values? Unless you're one of a few thousand voters in the North East?

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This week I was in the #UK to follow up on complaints and meet with the Government and #EnvironmentalDefenders who submitted complaints to my mandate. Among these complainants was Dr. Patrick Hart, whom I visited in prison on Wednesday. This is where he spent the last three months of his life.

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Judicial Board: Tulsi Gizzard and Steven Seagull remain on our sanctions list, for as long as we suspect they are part of the Red shadow fleet of tyranny. They are not welcome here.

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🚨Food industry figures have warned that firms are not disclosing the true scale of cascading climate risks, which could cause food supply chains to collapse.

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This is what the Israelis and their apologists call a targeted, anti-terror campaign. This is Rafah today.

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Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention— "Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."

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Britain's latest kick in the face of its universities is a reduction in science spend. Ridiculous. Good luck with your growth mission! There won't be any. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

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Depressing to hear so many commentators following tTrump playbook by now wanting to put Britain first It's also misguided because we're such a weak player We would do much better to work with others like the EU and Canada to rebuild the global rules-based trade system With the US on the outside

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UK Gov approves another airport expansion. How is this possible in a climate emergency? #Luton Answer: UK outdated emissions targets are so ineffective, Gov can ignore them👇

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Labour is dead. We need to build an alternative. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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It has now been 30 days with NO humanitarian aid getting into Gaza. No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel. That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.

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