Also, by my lights, this is one of the most interesting paragraphs in the paper. I think of this often.

Will our elected representatives choose our health, or protect corporate mega profits? That’s what’s at stake right now. While farmers, children & families get harmed by pesticide exposure, European institutions rush through legislation that would remove safeguards & allow unlimited approvals.

Before MEPs Vote on Pesticides, They Need to Hear These Families

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"[The Tour] doesn’t take place in a vacuum." The #TdF2026 and #UCI could play such an important role in promoting sustainable mobility, yet they choose to look away from the causes and consequences of #climate breakdown, and platform fossil fuel sponsors & states instead. #cycling

Domestique@domestiquecycling.com · 4w ago

Riders are sounding the alarm on 🇫🇷 Tour de France heat. Nobody is listening. ANALYSIS 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/tour... 📸 Cor Vos

Take: bring back #captions actually describing what an image is showing, not just an excerpt, quote or summary of what's already in the article.

Personal take: If you don't fly because you deem it's too intense of a means of travel; you should also not use generative #AI /LLMs because it's too intense of a way to search or do you digital work. Both are incompatible with a sustainable future - and I question whether they make us any happier.

Heel de wereld in klimaatontregeling gestort, na decennia georkestreerde twijfelzaaiing en ontkenning van de fossiele industrie. Ver vooruit voorspelde weersextremen worden realiteit. Politiek discours: ja maar er was iemand op verlof bij 112 net nu zeg allez zeg www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Hittegolf eist bij ons 1.222 extra levens: "112 functioneerde niet goed dat weekend" | VRT NWS Nieuws

Tijdens de hittegolf van vorige week stierven in België 1.222 mensen meer dan gemiddeld. Dat blijkt uit een voorlopige analyse van de Risk Management Group. Hadden de overheden beter, meer of andere m...

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Financialisation of humanity Vital services handed by the state to private equity 84% of children’s homes, 80% of adult care homes in England controlled by financial investors. Private equity is a key player. £1.5bn profit extracted from care homes. Public purse looted for poor service.

The finance curse is devouring the UK

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Th...

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Il est désormais attendu 42 à 45°C de la Bretagne (!!) jusqu'aux Pays de la Loire mercredi, avec des rafales pouvant atteindre 50 km/h et une humidité relative inférieure à 10 %. 1/5

🚨 Welfare - not warfare! That's the slogan bringing thousands of people together on Brussels streets today. Militarisation budgets are soaring while people facing a #PublicServicesEmergency! Invest in people - invest in public services!

The AMOC collapse could change Europe, threatening today’s conditions of living. The subsequent scientific debate may appear like disagreement, but it is really reflecting high levels of uncertainty because of the scarcity of data. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Amoc collapse could change Europe’s climate 10x faster than expected. We aren’t ready

The system of ocean current that moves heat in the Atlantic Ocean plays a key role in regulating climate. Today’s monitoring of it may be discontinued

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Protest en kritische stemmen staan ook bij ons steeds meer onder druk. Daarom dit pleidooi om in deze tijden solidair te zijn, om geen wig te laten drijven tussen meer radicale en iets pragmatischere stemmen in onze protestbewegingen. Want we hebben iedereen nodig.

Merci de faire vivre la Masse Critique à Bruxelles. 3850 fois merci. ❤️ #LetsRideTogether 📸: 1. @giuseppemassa.bsky.social 2. #nicolashemeleers 3. @criticalmaps.bsky.social 4. #benbaudart

29th may 2026, the biggest critical mass ever in Brussels. 🔥 #LetsRideTogether

"Save our women and children" from asylum seekers, they said. And yet again, it was projection. They hunt what they see in the mirror. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

One in five people arrested over 2024 riots have since been reported for domestic abuse

Exclusive: Police data shows 21% of the 949 people detained in England and Northern Ireland were later accused of violence against intimate partner

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Les prix des carburants explosent ? Il faut moins de routes, plus de trains ! Mobilisons-nous ce week-end des 30-31 mai, 4 mobilisations pour 4 raisons de défendre le transport ferroviaire. Episode 1 : on veut du fret ferroviaire public, à Arles et Saint-Martin-de-Crau.

Het is echt warm. Véél warmer dan normaal. Het is niet omdát het gebeurt, maar omdat we weten waaróm het gebeurt, dat het dit niet oké mogen vinden. Bedankt aan de CEOs, de groei en de vooruitgang. Uw kunt uw biljetten tellen terwijl de wereld afziet. Op naar beter. Let's resist.

Friends of the Earth Europe@foeeurope.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Us frying under this heat dome causing record temperatures 12-16°C above seasonal averages. Shoutout to fossil fuel corporations for fueling the #climatecrisis while cashing the checks.

Sometimes, Switzerland is so 😍 and sometimes, Switzerland is so 🤮

Europe Elects@europeelects.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Switzerland: on 14 June 2026, voters will cast their votes in two ballots on immigration & civilian service. The gfs.bern poll shows a perfect tie for the Initiative and support for the Amendment. Fieldwork: 20 April - 3 May 2026 Sample size: 19,728 ➤ europeelects.eu/switzerland

UK (Wales), Final election result: Welsh parliament seat projection PC-G/EFA: 43 (+30) REFORM~NI: 34 (+34) LAB-S&D: 9 (-21) CON~ECR: 7 (-9) GPEW-G/EFA: 2 (+2) LDEM-RE: 1 +/- vs. Last election result ➤ europeelects.eu/uk

UK (Scotland), Scottish parliament election: Seats won (final result) SNP-G/EFA: 58 (-6) LAB-S&D: 17 (-5) REFORM~NI: 17 (+17) SGP-G/EFA: 15 (+7) CON~ECR: 12 (-19) LDEM-RE: 10 (+6) +/- vs. 2021 election ➤ https://europeelects.eu/uk/Scotland

UK (London) local elections, preliminary final result: Councillors elected LAB-S&D: 694 (-462) CON~ECR: 409 (+5) GPEW-G/EFA: 297 (+279) LDEM-RE: 243 (+63) REFORM~NI: 79 (+79) Ind.-*: 42 (+30) ASPIRE-*: 33 (+9) RAs-*: 18 (-8) +/- vs. 2022 elections ➤ https://europeelects.eu/uk

The amount of times I've constrained myself from complaining about international train travel on #BlueSky, because I thought it wasn't constructive. Now this though, this is going somewhere! While not perfect, the step towards a unified #EU train booking system and data transparency is so needed!!

Lena Schilling@lenaats.bsky.social · 3mo ago

„Es tut uns leid, dass Sie Ihren internationalen Zuganschluss verpasst haben. Leider können wir Sie weder umbuchen noch die Kosten erstatten.“ Wer mit dem Zug durch Europa reist, kennt diesen Irrsinn. Helft mit, dass zu ändern 👇

„Es tut uns leid, dass Sie Ihren internationalen Zuganschluss verpasst haben. Leider können wir Sie weder umbuchen noch die Kosten erstatten.“ Wer mit dem Zug durch Europa reist, kennt diesen Irrsinn. Helft mit, dass zu ändern 👇

Ein Kontinent, ein Ticket 🚅 - Actions GreensEFA

Mach bei unserer Kampagne mit und fordere ein einheitliches europäisches Zugticket. 🎫

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Booking a cross-border #train shouldn't require five websites, a degree in logistics and a prayer. With the #Commission proposal pending for 2026, the #Greens campaign for a strongest possible text to make travel simple, reliable and accessible for all share.greens-efa.eu/s/ZJyMTKlP #StayGrounded

Get on board our campaign and demand a Single European Train Ticket. 🎫

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It’s #OvershootDay again for Europe 🌍 We are in the red because industries are gobbling up more natural resources than we actually have. Yet, rather than reducing our dependency on raw materials, our economies remain founded on unsustainable extractivism.

Today we’re in Geneva for a global conversation on tackling poverty beyond economic growth after we contributed to this roadmap. Poverty is not inevitable. It reflects how systems are designed and the choices we make. Great to be joining @deschuttero.bsky.social pushing for rights-based solutions.

Condenamos el imperialismo liderado por #EstadosUnidos, incluida la agresión militar contra #Irán, #Venezuela y el #Líbano, el bloqueo ilegal de #Cuba y el genocidio de #Israel y EEUU en #Palestina. Llamamos a la paz! Nuestra declaración sobre esta amenaza existencial👇 www.foei.org/es/condena-i...

Today at ILO in Geneva, @deschuttero.bsky.social presents the Global Roadmap to Eradicate Poverty Beyond Growth. This roadmap is not just for the North but also for the South. Growth does not serve Southern nations in the duty to serve their population. Check in here: live.ilo.org/group/eradic...

ILO Live - Eradicating poverty beyond growth: A global roadmap for a new economy

This high-level international policy conference is organised under the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, as a contribution to the Internati...

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"The main obstacle [for social protection] is capitalism. Capitalism uses growth as a marketing term, and the economy as a return on investment." @timparrique.bsky.social just now at the #EradicatingPovertyBeyondGrowth conference, hosted by ILO

Commissioner Séjourné held 84 meetings on #deregulation. All 84 were with business groups. Not one civil society org. Not one. This isn't consultation. This is what corporate capture looks like. 🧵 Check out our new report 👇 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/w...

This is what corporate capture looks like! | Corporate Europe Observatory

Where do the EU deregulation laws come from? From extensive talks between the European Commission and business groups, often in opaque new types of dialogue, according to the report “This is what corp...

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Your daily reminder that the deregulation wave hitting the European Union is not merely a result of democratic results, but from deeply entrenched corporate capture, neglecting rule of law and shortcutting existing checks and balances.

Alban Grosdidier@albangd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

⬇️ BREAKING - EU Commission answers EU Ombudswoman's findings of maladministration following a complaint by @foeeurope.bsky.social and 8 partner organisations. My reaction ⬇️