Alan Keenan
@ajcpkeenan.bsky.social
A while back I wrote a book called "Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure". Little did I know... So much still to learn.
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Sign here to tell @andyburnham.bsky.social to SAY NO. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
foxglove.org.uk
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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Andy, Andy, @andyburnham.bsky.social You know approving #Rosebank is not the way to lasting growth - nor an exit from #neoliberalism. It's a faster route to the dead-end of #climatecollapse. Just say no - and be the change you talk about!
Global Justice Now@globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 3mo ago. @andyburnham.bsky.social North Sea oil won't lower bills, but it will sell our futures to big oil. Last year you supported the Fossil Fuel Treaty and called for a just end to oil and gas expansion, for workers and communities. Don't be a hypocrite on day one. #StopRosebank
Heatwaves across the UK are intensifying thanks to climate breakdown. But gov has nothing in place to prepare. Workers shouldn’t bear the cost. We demand: 📢 A national maximum working temperature 📢 A heatwave furlough scheme 📢 A climate action plan heatstrike.uk #HeatStrike #TooHotToWork
#HeatStrike: The Met office has issued a Red #ExtremeHeat Warning for this week, with the historical UK temperature record for June set to be obliterated Which is why we are calling a Heat Strike on the hottest day of the year so far! Sign here: heatstrike.uk #climate #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather
Heat Strike
On the hottest day of the year people all over the UK will join the Heat Strike. Find out more and sign up!
heatstrike.uk
This thread on the #ReflectingPool #AlgaeScandal is brilliant. Go science!
Buttons (Ashley) 🏴☠️#OFMDForLife🏴☠️ 🏳️🌈🤡@sevensugars.bsky.social · 4mo agoSince I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
S&P 500 profit margins just hit a record high. In Q1, companies kept nearly $0.15 in profit for every $1 of revenue — more than double the long-run average. The boom is concentrated in megacap tech, AI infrastructure, layoffs, and “efficiency” drives.
Researchers from the nonprofit tech watchdog Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) reported that [Musk's, Yaxley Lennon's and Lowe's] posts about Belfast collectively garnered more than 115 million views across their accounts, with Musk accounting for 55 percent of the total.
Elon Musk's role was 'instrumental' in the Belfast riots, researchers say
The newly crowned world's first trillionaire is once again facing criticism over the violent narratives he amplified on his platform X.
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Good to see some in US media are willing to call a spade (#ICE concentration camps like #DelaneyHall) a spade (a concentration camp). Yes, it can - and is - happen-ing in the USA. Thanks to @andreapitzer.bsky.social for the reference. jerseybee.org/2026/06/11/w...
Why we’re calling Delaney Hall a “concentration camp” – The Jersey Bee
The term describes facilities where targeted groups are held without due process under inhumane conditions.
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Andy Burnham has a 12% lead in new Makerfield poll ahead of Reform with Greens in 3rd place ahead of Restore. Labour: 49 Reform: 37 Greens: 5 Restore: 5 Conservative: 3 Lib Dem: 1 Other: 1
Janeese Lewis George, a self-described democratic socialist, could become the next mayor of D.C. Now, Trump is threatening to take over the nation’s capital if she wins, an assault on the Home Rule Act of 1973 and a grave threat to the democratic process. https://bit.ly/4ejAz7D
This is what impunity looks like. Thousands upon thousands involved in illegal road blocks, violence, intimidation, unlawful procession, disorder, rioting, arson, pogroms.. Less than 45 convictions out of thousands in August 2024, and around 100 out of thousands arrested for Ballymena in 2025.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 4mo ago19 arrests have been made since rioting broke out in Belfast on Tuesday. A reminder that on Tuesday night 27 people, including children, lost their homes.
The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.
A woman's hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide
The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.
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Thousands mobilised against the far right in cities across the UK today. Some 20,000 people out opposing racism in Belfast. The biggest antiracist demo in Belfast’s history - the best possible response to the racist pogroms that hit the city. 🧵
Racist rioters defended. Peaceful protesters arrested. This week has exposed better than any other how our “two tier” political system really works www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-belfas...
The Belfast Riots Have Exposed the Real ‘Two Tier’ Britain
Racist rioters are defended and peaceful protesters are arrested. This week has exposed better than any other how our “two tier” political system really works
adambienkov.co.uk
An outrageous and anti-democratic verdict, a product of Starmer’s authoritarian turn, aided and abetted by too many politicians, judges and journalists to name. #Palestine #RightToProtest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Pro-Palestine activists sentenced as terrorists over damage at Israeli arms factory in UK
Four found guilty get tougher conditions as judge says actions were ‘designed to intimidate the UK government and a section of the public’
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It’s simple: tenants have the legal right to safe and habitable housing, and my administration is committed to making sure that right is upheld.
Gothamist@gothamist.com · 4mo agoThe new owner of more than 5,000 mostly rent-stabilized apartments says it has agreed to waive millions of dollars in unpaid rent: gothamist.visitlink.me/cWR0a1
Twitter/X is an enormous national security threat on a global scale, and a lot more nations need to grow a spine and start blocking it (and taking other active, aggressive measures).
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4mo agoStatement from Mayor of London Sadiq Khan calling for Musk and his platform to be held to account:
The easiest way to end up in the NYT Opinion section is to be someone they perceive as “progressive” arguing that progressives actually have to capitulate to the right on x issue
Laura Chapin@laurachapin.bsky.social · 4mo agoSo @nytopinion.nytimes.com ? Why the hell was Zaid Jilani, who has ZERO professional expertise or experience on abortion, given space to write about it in the New York Times? It's not just wrong, it's insulting. We've won doing everything he says not to do. We don't polls. We have actual votes.
Not to repeat myself again, but it is bad that we are now two years into a Labour government and a major shift has been we now have annual riots that the government struggles to condemn.
“ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump: On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.”
ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump
On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.
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Lots of fascinating details in this @majorityreport.bsky.social interview with @jeetheer.bsky.social linking chief accuser of @grahamformaine.bsky.social to previous Republican skullduggery, including a role for #GrahamPlatner's opponent, #SusanCollins www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg-C...
Platner Smear Flops | Jeet Heer | TMR
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Excellent discussion on democracy & the various things called "populism". Sharp questions from @piercepenniless.bsky.social & subtle & enlightening answers from @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social. Way past time to update my book: the politics of "the people" has changed so much! www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Jan-Werner Müller and James Butler · On Politics: Myths of Populism
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"German politicians rush to demonise...Israeli philosophers speaking at Holocaust memorials, while they forgive allies’ jokes about Auschwitz; they pass laws to combat what they consider antisemitism,[to] be enforced by police officers who send one another Nazi memes" www.equator.org/articles/ger...
Bad Memories • EQUATOR
Nothing can stop Germany’s moral panic over antisemitism
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They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.
The Economist@economist.com · 4mo agoThe next generation of illiberal leftism is gaining ground. It is time to fight back econ.st/3RPYFPV
A superb analysis by Prof Guy Standing of the politics of precarity and the class dynamics driving British politics and threatening the Labour Party's survival. Must reading for @andyburnham.bsky.social and well-wishers. @compassoffice.bsky.social www.opendemocracy.net/the-precaria...
The precariat election: Ignoring class and insecurity imperils Labour
A fractured ‘dangerous class’ has spoken. If Labour cannot offer them real security, the damage may be permanent
opendemocracy.net
Annabel Denham of the Daily Telegraph is the posh face of mob violence. The radicalised British right are now happy to invoke the language of violence & unleash violence on the streets of Britain. It needs called out; not normalised. #Newsnight
