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Green leftie keeping busy in retirement. Finding solace in the natural world & looking for kindred spirits & intelligent exchange of views
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Gary Lineker has used his first day of freedom from the BBC to share this poem about Gaza on Instagram. He left so his bosses couldn't censor him.

Thousands of people protested in Paris in solidarity with Palestine, with demonstrators calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.

The turning point that wasn't: the way the world talks about Israel's war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik

I was cooking dinner and nearly reached into the oven with no gloves on because I was laughing so hard! Thank you, Cyril Ramaphosa😂

Thames Water paid lawyers £1,400 an hour despite threat of collapse Paying £200m a year to advisers and consultants. Cost passed to customers. Interest on £21bn debt pile passed to customers. One-third of bill covers interest. Execs get bonuses. End abuses. Nationalise. archive.ph/k9LC7

A new study by van Westen et al. shows that the #tippingpoint of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC is also found in a high-resolution ocean model which resolves ocean eddies. No surprise to AMOC experts, but it's so computationally expensive to show that this hasn't been done before. 🌊🧵

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

I wrote our PM a letter…

Can’t shout it loud enough, the problem is a super yacht not a dingy, it’s a private jet not someone trying to stow away in the wheel housing of a jumbo. It’s the super rich not the poor. Always has been always will be. If you believe otherwise then you’re being mugged off by the super rich 🤑

I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months. The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.

The footage from Northmoor Farm is truly sickening. This blatant & disgusting abuse shows disregard for the welfare of these animals & the law. Time and time again, government has failed to enforce humane standards through proper spot checks. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

Whoever did this. 🤣

This should be huge @dailymail.co.uk @thetimes.com @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @nigelfarage1.bsky.social

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Let's elevate the fighters: Van Hollen for risking his life to find Abrego Garcia in El Salvador Booker for his 25 hr speech to expose on Trump & Musk's corruption Schatz for blocking 300 Trump nominees Bernie & AOC for rallying hundreds of thousands of Americans Newsom for suing Trump over tariffs

New reality: US not a democracy "Trump opened trapdoor wide enough to swallow entire Constitution. If he can find 1 foreign strongman to cooperate, Trump can imprison any dissident, judge, journalist, member of Congress, or candidate" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Netanyahu loves Trump's plan to force 2 million people from Gaza & turn it into a billionaires’ Riviera. He calls it "voluntary migration.” It's not voluntary if you bomb & starve those who stay. It’s ethnic cleansing. It's a war crime. No more military aid to Netanyahu.

Water CEO's in the UK are getting £200m a year. What do they do? There's no products to sell, none to buy, nothing to change. It's literally treating sewage and building reservoirs, neither of which they do. Nationalise and fire them all.

Well said. Worth watching and sharing.

Ed Davey, "Let's stand up to Trump" "Let's stand side by side with the EU and Canada" "We should hit back with tariffs of our own starting with on Teslas Trump is so desperate to sell" "And let's rebuild our trade with the EU"

Germany urges Britain to rejoin EU customs union Sounds like a plan www.politico.eu/article/germ...

The thing I like about @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is that she includes you rather than lectures you when sharing the wisdom of her knowledge.

Bernie Sanders announces AOC will be joining him on his 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour and delivers an important message in a new interview on MeidasTouch.

This baffles me too.

The UK economy contracted by 0.1% in January. Can't build a sustainable economy without improving the purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Need redistribution of income/wealth; not more austerity, real wage cuts, erosion of welfare and services. Must abandon neoliberal policies.

Temperature anomalies by latitude band in February 2025. Pay close attention to the magnitude of this warmth in the #Arctic (x-axis). This is really jaw-dropping. [Latitude = y-axis (not scaled by distance). Data from NASA GISS (GISTEMPv4) using a 1951-1980 climate baseline]

Our demand for an independent inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Gaza is growing. The public deserve to know the full scale of this country’s complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time — and pressure is mounting on our government to come clean. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

CNBC is calling it the Tesla Chain Saw Massacre. 🤣

whoever is doing this campaign in London well bloody done 👍

US Army Orientation sheet full of prescience, eloquence and awareness. March 1945. Heartbreaking that the warnings were not heeded.

Edolph gets more detestable every single day.

Michelangelo, 1515. Look at the insane level of details in his hand.

Trump is a Russian agent and has been for 40 years. The evidence is there if you look for it. apnews.com/article/0513...

Have y'all seen this?

Denmark is better than the USA in every way.

A compulsive liar, a Russian agent and an idiot walk into a bar. The barman says "Good evening Mr Trump"

"Some random country that hasn't fought a war in 40 years..." Over 500 dead British and French personnel (more than 1,000 total European fatalities) and c10,000 injured in Afghanistan 2001-2021. The only time Article 5 has been invoked. 'Disrespect' does not reside in lack of a suit, Mr Vance. ~AA

So now what we witness is the US population being gaslit into believing that Zelensky is a tyrannical dictator unworthy of US support. So when Trump abandons Ukraine his adoring crowd love & adore him. I’m beginning to get the hang of this & it’s utterly hideous

Your new Anthem USA. 🫡🇷🇺

I think Russian intelligence services cannot believe their good fortune at everything that is happening right now. This is a bonanza across the board. The vicious attack on Ukraine, nutters at the FBI, Gabbard at DNI, shredding of CI capabilities. A monumental tragedy for the West.

US Veterans' leader, Paul Reickhoff, condemns the Oval Office treatment of Zelenskyy as "victim shaming".