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submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

UK stock market is a destructive cash extraction machine. In 2024, listed-companies paid £86.5bn in dividends. Top 100 alone paid another £56.9bn in share buybacks. In 2024, companies raised £3.4bn in new shares; £953.7m in 2023. UK ranked 28 out of 31 OECD countries for investment.

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

I don't know how anybody can simultaneously defend charitable status for top public schools and oppose free breakfasts for poor kids. But rightwing Twitter somehow manages to pull that one off.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

Israel says it is expanding its military offensive across the occupied West Bank and preparing for troops to remain in some refugee camps “for the next year”.

submitted 7 hours ago • 19 comments

Dear Germany, two thoughts when it comes to your elections 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 Look what happened when the UK voted for Brexit 🇺🇸 Look what Happened when the US voted again for Trump Populists promise the world, and deliver pretty much nothing other than more hate and division. Chose well and good luck 🙏

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

Just listened to this brilliant conversation involving @zackpolanski.bsky.social It inspired me to join the Greens. They are the party that can create radical societal change. I’ve been a Labour Party for years, now resigned the the fact they won’t provide the degree of change needed. Listen up!

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

My public lecture on the effects of pollution on wildlife #EDCs #PCBs #pharmaceuticals #foreverchemicals vimeo.com/641947702

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

HOW OIL COMPANIES HARM MARINE LIFE 🧵🔽

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Just your regular reminder that public ownership is hugely popular. ✅ #PublicOwnership

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Populations of wading birds are in serious decline. There are many causes - habitat destruction, over harvesting of shell fish, disease - exposure to PFAS is yet another assault on the health of these vulnerable birds. 🧵 1/6 phys.org/news/2025-02...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

A study in the same waters found amphipods with low sperm counts but could not find a cause. This study notes PFAS as "known to impact sperm quality + quantity in a variety of species". If creatures at the base of the food chain can't reproduce as much, it's bad news for the creatures who eat them.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

We are so irresponsible. We should be stewards of the earth, instead we spread our pollutants without penalty into the living flesh of other beautiful species

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Fitz Floored by sabs @huntsabs.org.uk www.facebook.com/peterborough...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump, "I withdrew from the one sided Paris Climate Accord" "I terminated the Green New Scam, one of the greatest hoaxes played on this country.. We spent trillions on this nonsense" "A total hoax"

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

Trump, Europe’s Collapse & Why Liberals Keep Losing - interviewed by Rania Khalek www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms5-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Höcke claimed that "Hitler was regarded as only bad.” He has been convicted twice by German courts for using Nazi slogans. And at one point his own fellow AfD leaders thought he was too extreme for their party. But he’s hero to Elon Musk.

submitted 19 hours ago • 84 comments

Wow

submitted 15 hours ago • 42 comments

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

submitted 14 hours ago • 634 comments

Labour let the last Tory Govt pass repressive anti protest laws. Some of us Peers tried to stop the worst measures with a Fatal Motion I tabled, but Labour refused to support it. Now in power, they are happy to use these laws against us.

submitted 14 hours ago • 13 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 1 day ago • 254 comments

They fired a top Black general and are replacing him with a much less-qualified white general. They’re not hiding the racism.

submitted 13 hours ago • 206 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 19 hours ago • 956 comments

Trump and Musk, between them, have 18 children (that we know about) with 7 women. Family values, GOP-style.

submitted 13 hours ago • 180 comments

It's great to hear lots of people say this really helped them decide what they should do. And always brilliant to see membership grow! Join.greenparty.org.uk

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

Exploited migrant farm workers in UK paid for picks, not hours. Workers not paid for in-work travel, time spent moving between workstations, team meetings, receiving instructions on equipment use. Employers violating employment rights. Need effective enforcement, not deregulation.

submitted 12 hours ago • 30 comments

Temu sellers dodge millions in tax — by pretending to be UK firms Rogue traders grab details of innocent British small businesses to avoid VAT. Billions of public revenue lost. Tax dodges result in unfair competition, threaten jobs. Make platforms liable for lost VAT. archive.ph/cmiJZ

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

Are you struggling with poverty, low wages, insecure job? Neoliberals have an answer. They want govt to encourage you to speculate on the stock market, buy/sell shares with illusion of riches. Part of the right wing coup to distract people from reality, produce corporate foot-soldiers.

submitted 11 hours ago • 21 comments

Surging fascism & the surging lines below are caused by the same thing. Mass ignorance & mass inequality - deliberate & essential components of our neoliberal capitalist system. So neoliberals absolutely CANNOT save us from these surges. Survival means new leaders & a radically new system.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm part way through this and it's a fascinating debate on what the left needs to do next. Zack - as always - makes a brilliant case for the Green Party whilst also acknowledging where we need to improve. Come join us. join.greenparty.org.uk

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

These Israeli leaflets dropped on Gaza are so depraved, so disturbed, that it's difficult to even know what to say 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-dro...

submitted 23 hours ago • 17 comments

Unleashing bamboo: A nature-based solution to rid world of plastics that can replace many single-use plastics, including straws, cutlery, cups, bowls and food packaging Single-use items also represent between 30% and 50% of all plastic use. dialogue.earth/en/nature/un...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Bozo Trump wants to turn all of this into a giant mining zone Do not let him buy Greenland

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Meat, together with dairy, accounts for around 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet most people will only give up meat for health reasons and not to prevent climate change interactive.carbonbrief.org/what-is-the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Greenland’s government banned drilling for fossil fuels in 2021 Now Trump wants this ban overturned There is no accounting for the evil of this tyrant time.com/6080933/gree...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour Unless Greenland’s ice remains frozen, coastal flooding will force the largest migration that humanity has ever witnessed Critical ocean current AMOC is also threatened naturalworldfund.com/greenland-lo...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

Hamas says Israel's “failure to comply with the release of the seventh batch of prisoners in the exchange deal at the agreed-upon time constitutes a blatant violation” of the Gaza ceasefire agreement. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/dwcxlp

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments