"The contrast between Europe’s decisive early response to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and its fragmented stance on Gaza is arguably as damaging to the international rules-based order as the actions of those seeking to undermine it."
Ciaran Mundy
@ciaranmundy.bsky.social
Pro Gaia, anti fascist. I'm for transforming cultures of violent domination into cultures of respectful harmony.
In November, Ireland "should lead calls to expand the EU Blocking Statute (Regulation (EC) no 2271/96) to explicitly shield ICC officials and national judicial bodies cooperating with the court from foreign sanctions, particularly third-country secondary sanctions ..." Sought by the ICC May 2025.
“They invoked academic freedom and then began erasing fields of study they found politically inconvenient. They railed against ‘indoctrination,’ and then argued that the state is entitled to control everything said in the classroom.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
All The Things You’re Not Allowed To Say In Texas
The state now controls what professors can teach.
theatlantic.com
What does it mean to give nature rights? Well...it means a complete change to the way we, in the US, think about nature. Let me tell you the tale of a tiny fish. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/what-does-...
What does it mean to give nature rights?
In a new piece in National Geographic, I explore a case where a toad's existence is coming up against infrastructure that people need.
brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com
'How many millions of legal and settled migrants and British citizens should be forcibly deported?' is an example of how far the radicalisation of the politics of racism + remigration has gone, between parties with Westminster representatives [though neither Lowe nor Jenrick ran on these positions]
Alberta moves to stop data centres from using renewable energy www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/21/n...
Alberta moves to stop data centres from using renewable energy
Data centre developers in the province likely won't be able to use renewable energy like solar or wind to power their facilities — even if they want to.
nationalobserver.com
It's not often you get to talk about Israeli terrorism on primetime British TV
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
apnews.com
Yet again, Labour showing itself to be the single most racist and hostile anti-asylum government in living memory. It can take decades, if ever, for refugees to be safe returning to countries they fled, and that's when those countries are stable which Syria is not www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Surgeon faces deportation as Home Office revokes refugee status for Syrians
UK classifies Syria as safe to return to despite UN refugee body’s advice
theguardian.com
"Barrister Andrew Mitchell KC, an expert in financial services law, said Panorama's evidence showed the scheme was 'straightforward' tax evasion and 'it couldn't be more blatant'." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth, BBC finds
Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, investigation finds.
bbc.co.uk
Media supporters of genocidal child slaughter terrified of Green #TaxTheRich policies try to pretend the Green Party byelection result wasn't a massive 22.4% increase in support while the Tories, Reform & Restore failed dismally
the fucked up thing about going for a bike ride is you can literally feel your mood improving. even if it was already good
is there any good, trustworthy information out there on the actual impact on bot / disinfo activity as a result of the data centre attacks in Russia? Seeing a lot of pixely screenshots but not a lot of links to primary sources or actual analyses
EUROPE RECORD WARMTH Records warmth in Europe moving North and East DENMARK:Mins up to 15.5C,after the record 15.9C min at Copenaghen on the 1st 30C and tropical nights in The Balkans OCTOBER RECORDS BOSNIA 30.7 Gradacac SERBIA 30.0 Novi Sad UKRAINE 29.0 Ivano Franvivsk
Four-hour #battery storage now less expensive than open-cycle #gas turbines in all 43 markets where both technologies were modeled. www.woodmac.com/press-releas...
Wood Mackenzie: four-hour battery storage now beats gas peaking on cost globally
Wood Mackenzie’s latest global report on levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) shows that advancing technologies and market dynamics continue to drive divergent prices, with four-hour battery storage n...
woodmac.com
Corporate Welfare Tory tax break for banks cost UK public purse £6bn In 2023 Tory govt cut the bank surcharge from 8% to 3%. Current govt hasn't reversed it. Record profits, exec pay, dividends at banks Reversing the surcharge would raise billions.
Tory tax break for banks has cost UK public purse £6bn, says TUC
Exclusive: Chancellor urged to reverse Jeremy Hunt’s tax surcharge cuts to claw back billions in lost revenue
theguardian.com
“Free Palestine” banner flown over Gillette Stadium during the Patriots-Raiders game today. I’m told it was put on by a group of Boston locals “who are pissed off at Robert Kraft.”
If only the UK had voted for a Green New Deal in 2017 & 2019 energy bills would be far lower ...
Greenpeace International 🌍@greenpeace.org · 2d agoWind and solar helped the UK avoid US$7.8 BILLION in gas imports during the Hormuz crisis. That’s what breaking fossil fuel dependence looks like. Governments backing more oil and gas owe people an explanation. SCALE UP RENEWABLES.
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
Delighted that Navi Pillay, chair of the UN commission which found Israel guilty of genocide in Gaza, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Let Trump and Netanyahu splutter and fume: the truth becomes ever harder to deny.
I don’t understand why there are so many people eager to ignore this in order to get the left “onboard” with AI
Brad Johnson@climatebrad.hillheat.com · 2d agoMy god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
If you are wondering why Anthropic aren't coming out and opposing statements like this, it's because they very genuinely do not care about climate responsibility and will burn absolutely whatever they can get their hands on to keep the grift going. www.capitalbrief.com/article/anth...
There are principled and political reasons for the Labour response to the Reform plan of abolishing asylum completely to be to challenge it on decency - since most Labour voters and potential voters are sympathetic to those seeking asylum, even without the controlled + safer means they would want
