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Imagine if the govt was as tough on tax dodgers as it is on benefits claimants...? 🙄 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.

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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

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SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

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This is the devastating reality of #ClimateEmergency at just 1.5C 💔. South Korea is suffering deadly #wildfires fuelled by unseasonably high temperatures. Global warming has significantly amplified likelihood of this heat, intensifying fire risks in areas grappling with severe drought & strong winds

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

User traffic on Musk's X continues to decline while Bluesky's is increasing significantly, with average daily web visits up 21.5% from Nov & most days in March #Bluesky has hosted more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. No surprise when you see top 25 news/ political accounts on X 🤢👇

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Scientists like Bluesky! "In March 2025, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to new research than X." This while Bluesky has 33 million users vs. X 650 million. A large proportion (>90%) of those that repost science articles on X are non-academics, examples suggest.

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"In a minefield of glitchy AI search and social media, Wikipedia becomes one of the most reliable places on the internet" Read more, via CNN Business ➡️ edition.cnn.com/2025/01/14/b...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Polish presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki representing populistic and kleptocratic Law and Justice party and having links with criminal underworld slammed by @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

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“It looks like the days of X’s dominance are over. Competing platforms, such as Bluesky and Threads continue to invest in their platforms that leaves users fully in control of who can interact with their posts.” www.altmetric.com/blog/bluesky...

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Oh my God. The email contains an implied threat that any student who doesn’t immediately leave might be sent to El Salvador. /technically it says “countries other than their countries of origin,” but the context right now, given everything going on, makes the threat clear.

submitted 6 days ago • 141 comments

Two thousand people arrested at a rally in Istanbul against Erdogan’s coup. It’s the largest protest in the country in more than a decade.

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Notably missing: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia. Kind of mindblowing to me given what the substance of this letter is: "government should not retaliate against law firms"

submitted 8 days ago • 158 comments

So very good to still have a non-smart TV... Talk about the enshittification of things!

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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 12 days ago • 1567 comments

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

submitted 11 days ago • 140 comments

A mob of Israeli settlers has attacked Palestinian filmmaker and activist Hamdan Ballal just three weeks after he won an Oscar. Israeli soldiers then blocked the ambulance transporting Ballal after the attack and detained him. His current condition and location is unknown.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

Post a warning "Fly-tippers will be killed" Spotted in South London yesterday 👇

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Minister Matthew Pennycook signals Labour are preparing to scrap the Digital Services Tax (a 2% tax on UK turnover of US online tech companies) so tax avoiding companies like Amazon, Apple and Google can make & extract more profit from the UK The tax was introduced by the Tories

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Under a Labour government, billions are being slashed for the elderly, disabled and children – the most vulnerable in society. Meanwhile, tech bosses rake in tax cuts and wealth taxes on the super-rich aren’t even on the table. Austerity 2.0 isn’t the “change” people voted for.

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

Northumbrian Water dumped 945,000 tonnes of sewage into sea in 2024. Every day story of England's water companies with 1,135 criminal convictions. Permitted by OFWAT to fleece customers, operate illegally, create health hazards. Govt refuses to end abuses.

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NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

submitted 13 days ago • 170 comments

The digital tax is necessary.The US online giants get away with not paying tax on their UK profits. UK firms and millions of small businesses have to pay their taxes. The digital tax is a matter of equity. No British government should disadvantage British business. Simple. #UKPolitics

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All you need to know about Twitter

submitted 12 days ago • 3197 comments

This Berkeley Earth page shows you how much warming you can expect in YOUR country by end of 2100 (and how much it has warmed so far since the Industrial Revolution). It's based on SSP2-4.5. Here's the US👇 [h/t @hausfath.bsky.social]

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Here’s the first instalment of our "Fireside Carbon Chat" series, hosted by @cemusuppsala.bsky.social and available as both a podcast & on YouTube: www.cemus.uu.se/fireside/ We borrowed the "Fireside" concept to reflect our goal of fostering informal, candid conversations on climate-related issues.

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EACOP, Tilenga & Kingfisher oil projects in #Uganda linked to environmental degradation & grave human rights abuse, especially from growing use of security forces around oil sites perpetrating forced evictions, extortion & GBV, finds @fidh-official.bsky.social #StopEACOP www.fidh.org/en/issues/bu...

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African Union has proposed an expansion in fossil fuels that would be incredibly harmful. Many Africans dont want this & are strongly calling for evidence-based just transition to #RenewableEnergy Pl ✍️ this petition calling on leaders to prioritise clean energy for Africa #EndFossilFuels #EnergySky

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Keep your eyes on Uganda! 🚨 A growing number of activists, farmers, students, and frontline communities have been arrested for peacefully protesting EACOP over the last couple of years. Communities have a right to speak out about projects that don't serve them! #StopEACOP

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Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya has filed lawsuit against German fossil fuels company RWE on grounds that #ClimateChange fueled by RWE's polluting greenhouse gas emissions poses major risk to his village. If he wins, it will set a precedent for #ClimateLitigation www.ecowatch.com/peru-farmer-...

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Over £650 million raised in digital taxes. While Reeves is prepared to take PIP off the disabled to save £5bn. It is a lost cause trying to appease Trump, you can't grovel low enough & remain an independent country. He will sell 🇬🇧 out on the drop of a call from Putin, state visit or no state visit.

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"Slashing the Digital Services Tax paid by social media giants social media would be robbing disabled people to appease Musk and Trump. "They should stand up for Brits, not bow to Trump and his billionaire cronies." @libdemdaisy.bsky.social

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More irresponsible policy from a Gov blind to the real & present threat of climate breakdown👇 Gov should accelerate—not slow—the transition to EVs. What about taxing SUVs and other high-emissions more? More info in reply. www.parkers.co.uk/car-tax/advi...

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Kemi Badenoch has called for UK's 2050 #NetZero target to be abandoned but gives no alternative & fails to cite any evidence backing her criticisms 👇 IPCC has explained limiting warming by 2100 to less than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels requires emissions to reach net-zero globally by early 2050s

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We're looking for a new treasurer and trustees who can support us in our mission to tackle e-waste and end the throwaway economy 🪛 Apply by 10am on 22nd April and come join us! Full role descriptions and details on how to apply: therestartproject.org/jobs

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US court has ordered #Greenpeace to pay $660m+ in damages to Energy Transfer Partners, a US #OilAndGas company worth almost $70bn. Its an appalling & dangerous ruling w/ huge implications as it'll stifle advocacy campaigning across a spectrum of environmental & human rights issues #ClimateLitigation

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European Union government ministers are discussing ways to keep the pro-democracy media outlet afloat after the Trump administration stopped its grants over the weekend. #EuropeNews

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“Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive gov’t funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m…”

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It’s not a trade war; it is a destabilization campaign. The erratic swings in trade policy are not a bug, they’re a feature. There is method to this madness: it is a tactic known as controlled chaos. palecek.substack.com/p/its-not-a-... #cdnpoli

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We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect the climate, by putting an end to new oil and gas projects. Will you join me in signing the petition? www.stopcambo.org.uk/p/no-new-oil

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😡#BigOil dumped over 230kg of oil & chemicals into seas in 2024. @oceanauk.bsky.social live #OilSpill map has identify an horrific number of toxic oil spills in protected UK seas. @skytruth.org tech scans radar satellite image collected by the European Space Agency to spot oil slicks #EndFossilFuels

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“Creating green jobs in a profoundly brown world just won’t be enough to repair the damage. To be truly sustainable we will have to embrace new ways of thinking and working that align our economy with planetary boundaries as well as meet the wellbeing needs of people.“

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Great to see more & more schools like St Davids College in N Wales hosting our joint lettersfromtheglobalsouth.org project with muslimsdeclare.org, raising awareness of the impact of our fossil fuel emissions on others. To book the mobile exhibition: lettersfromtheglobalsouth.org/book/

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Fact-checking and debunking myths almost always spreads the disinformation we are trying to defeat! They trick us into delivering their messages beyond their media bubble. Here is how that works, how to stop doing it, and what to do instead! reframingamerica.substack.com/p/do-not-ass...

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As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

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