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National Emergency Briefing@nebriefing.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What if the whole country saw the full picture? This is a national emergency. The impacts are already here. But the solutions exist. Communities are watching the People’s Emergency Briefing and discussing what to do next with neighbours and MPs #EarthDay Screenings www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

Did they forget Satan?

Even the existence (let alone use) of nuclear weapons harms us, since it forces us to live with the possibility of experiencing that brief moment between the flash and the unimaginable blast.

This open invitation to the @nebriefing.bsky.social was published in the @financialtimes.com today. Please check whether your MP can make it here: www.nebriefing.org and if not ask them to! We will be briefing on national security, tipping points, food security, nature and more.

The most important story in the world. As we heat the planet, we reduce the planet’s ability to stop us heating it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

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“This Labour government would have banned the labour movement.” The always-excellent @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on blistering, exceptional form. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Is this moment the closest we’re going to get to the psychological cause of Netanyahu’s genocide?

This Labour govt has seized on one brutal anti-Semitic attack to further clamp down on legitimate protest against their own increasing authoritarianism. Are they worse than the Tories? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

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The Israeli state is psychopathic. Attacks on Jews are intolerable. Two things can be true at once.

Exactly.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“The science demands action, the law [ICJ] commands it, the economics compel it and people are calling for it,” says António Guterres, UN head, at climate summit #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Progressives urgently need to clarify: progress towards what?

Wow. Journalist searches in Tel Aviv for three days for evidence of Israeli compassion for Palestinian civilians in Gaza — finds almost none. I’ve never been to Israel, but the impression given here is of collective psychopathy. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

Is Charlie Kirk America’s Reichstag Fire?

Yes you can fret about @zackpolanski.bsky.social talking only to his base and not reaching more conservative voters, as perhaps others would have. But he seems to be on the airwaves everywhere, & he’s articulating a necessary & genuinely-progressive agenda better than any other leader 👏👏👏

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

If you want to know how dangerous the Israeli regime is, you only need to listen to their spokesperson David Mencer on BBC R4 Today programme at 8.10am. Spends the whole interview shouting over Nick Robinson, claiming the UN is in cahoots with Hamas to starve Gazans. Absolutely unhinged.

“…unless the judicial review is successful, membership of, or inviting support for, the group [#PalestineAction] will carry a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.” Palestine Action are a non-violent, direct action protest group. This is wild government overreach.

When protest is conflated with terrorism, the complete erosion of all civil liberties is well underway. This presided over by a government that has co-opted the Labour brand but has none of its humanity. It’s time for a complete change in how we do politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ban on Palestine Action to take effect after legal challenge fails

Group will become first direct action protest group to be banned under Terrorism Act after unsuccessful action

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I support #PalestineAction and all non-violent direct action groups seeking to protect life.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last yr.

If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences? This is where we show them how solidarity works. My latest with the great @doubledown.news

“Unless we are able to democratise our society, political and economic decision-making processes will continue to be dominated by those who have helped to cause climate breakdown up to now.” @graceblakeley.substack.com #VultureCapitalism

But Iran isn’t even trying to build a nuke. Even Tulsi Gabbard knows this. So WTAF, Kier Starmer? Even Blair’s government had the shame to dress up illegal wars in the Middle East with dodgy dossiers. Here, nothing but unprovoked aggression.

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

Pure posturing by Reform UK. Drilling in the North Sea will do nothing to prevent ongoing production decline, nor secure U.K. energy independence, as the oil and gas is sold on the international market. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Reform UK promises to reverse ban on new North Sea oil drilling if elected

Party spokesperson says policy has ‘clear benefits for securing jobs and energy independence’

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It’s far more expensive to retrofit quality insulation, PV and heat pumps. House building companies have made profits by building substandard houses and shifting necessary work onto homeowners’ shoulders. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Poor building standards add £1,000 to energy bills of new homes, analysis finds

About £5bn more spent than if rules for low-carbon new-builds had not been scrapped in 2016, ECIU thinktank finds

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The idea that bosses of a failing company might take huge bonuses out of the emergency funding that’s propping the company up is so mind-blowing that there’s only one possible conclusion: We need to renationalise water. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ministers to block Thames Water paying bosses bonuses out of emergency loan

Exclusive: Firm close to insolvency says using £3bn loan to pay ‘substantial’ bonuses is vital to retain senior managers

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Climeworks’ Iceland capture plant fails to cover its own emissions “Direct capture is a scam, carbon capture is a scam, blue hydrogen is a scam, and electrofuel is a scam. These are all scam technologies that do nothing for the climate or air pollution” heimildin.is/grein/24581/...

Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions

The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – wh...

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Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – UK politics live

‘Any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,’ says former PM

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Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why. Here is what this means:

We should ‘not…think of this as a Republican administration. This is a far right revolutionary government that is moving with tremendous rapidity to alter America and make it unrecognisable…’

Rupert Read@rupertread.bsky.social · last yr.

As I’ve been warning for some time, by rejecting the separation of powers, and appropriating more and more powers to themselves, the Trump administration may be starting to end democracy in the USA: Watch!: youtu.be/LSsvi-nTseg?...

Stop Musk! Change the law on political donations On 31st March, MPs will debate the petition that 140,000 of us signed - to stop overseas billionaires polluting our politics: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Make sure your MP attends - email them now: www.writetothem.com