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@cid-lee1.bsky.social

Haven't a clue generally. Researcher, writer, editor, poet, sole parent, live in a beautiful place. Am with Roethke: 'And, lovely, learn by going where to go!'

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MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 6h ago

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.

Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships

Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service

meidasnews.com

Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social · yesterday

Governments responding to accelerating climate change and drought with - more licences for heatwave-hastening oil & gas - more water-guzzling data centres while advising - hosepipe bans - requests to stop use BBQs is beyond stupid, it's lethal criminal negligence

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 3d ago

⚠️⚠️ Amber weather warning issued ⚠️⚠️ Extreme heat across eastern parts of England Thursday 0900 – 2359 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️

Amber extreme heat warning bounded by a line London to The Wash to Lincoln to Sheffield to Birmingham to Reading to London. Temperatures: Sheffield = 35°C Lincoln = 35°C Peterborough = 36°C Birmingham = 37°C Cambridge = 36°C Oxford = 36°C London = 37°C Very high temperatures. Impacts on transport, infrastructure and health are possible.
@alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 10h ago

An innovative floating offshore solar project that generates electricity and converts seawater into drinking water. The farm near Gran Canaria produces 85 MW of renewable electricity while using that same power to operate reverse osmosis systems that desalinate seawater #ActOnClimate #renewables

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Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 19h ago

Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?

Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 8h ago

Glad to have added my name to a letter from 50 green groups urging PM to be clear that #climate breakdown is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. The public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces & offers a robust plan to tackle them

Green groups urge Andy Burnham to break silence on climate crisis

More than 50 organisations say PM urgently needs to show leadership and prepare British people for scale of change needed as UK struggles through another heatwave

theguardian.com

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 10h ago

Farage has properly lost his touch. Old confident Farage would have known to play along with the Binface gag. New insecure Farage can't bring himself to do it. And that's why the headlines are about him staying away from the vote rather than the fact that he won it.

@cid-lee1.bsky.social · yesterday

Jeff Bezos has just been crowned the world's third richest person...while Amazon dodges billions in tax. Right now, governments are negotiating new global tax rules. Tell the UK Government: don't cave to the super-rich.

Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 2d ago

What a damning reflection of the pitifully low priority currently given to climate adaptation - yet building local & national resilience to increasingly damaging impacts is vital to keeping people safe & building support for more ambitious emission cuts

Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

theguardian.com

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d ago

Andy Burnham says the bigger questions of oil and gas will come "at the right moment in time." On the eve of another heatwave when thousands of people have died already, when is a better time to rule out drilling for new oil and gas?

Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · yesterday

Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels

Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues

Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified

independent.co.uk

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d ago

Water nationalisation for our water security? End north sea oil & gas - invest in renewables for our energy security? A maximum workplace temperature for worker security? No. A request not to sell BBQs. This is dire from Andy Burnham. Spectacularly mishandling the crisis.

Burnham had faced calls from the green party to chair a cobra meeting on the heatwaves with leader Zack Polanski accusing the pm of inaction amid threats to public health and food supplies
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · yesterday

👀 "UEFA and their allies want the FIFA presidency to be rotated between the confederations, meaning FIFA could never again have another president with the power of Infantino." www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Uefa takes inspiration from European Union in plan to oust Infantino and reform Fifa

Uefa and their allies want the Fifa presidency to be rotated between the confederations, meaning Fifa could never again have another president with the power of Infantino

independent.co.uk

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d ago

We are bankrupting our young people and saddling them with mountains of debt even before life has opened up to them. Wealthy families will pay it off. Most will have this financial albatross round their necks for years.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d ago

UK students to pay up to 7.1% interest on loans. UK student debt £325bn, England £295bn; expected to hit £500bn by 2040s. Who can afford to afford to buy home, start family/business? England must copy Scotland, abolish university tuition fees. Write-off tuition debt.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 4d ago

"The path to voting rights was paved with the blood, sweat and tears of generations of people who endured injustice from a system that did not recognize their equality or, at times, their humanity." - Rep. Jennifer McClellan www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

What we lost when the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act — and why we need a new one

We face one of the greatest challenges to Black political participation since the VRA first came into existence.

democracydocket.com