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📢 As the quote goes "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Prison without hope or end is psychological torture. Burnham doesn’t need another review to tell him that | Simon Hattenstone
Political leaders have kicked the can of public protection tariff reform down the road for years – causing hopeless inmates to take their own lives, says Guardian writer Simon Hattenstone
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🤮 More performative fantasy cruelty from Reform. How does anyone take these idiots seriously...???
🤔 Maybe the rapacious #AI industry and its #datacentres will lead to a modern-day Populist Party, especially in the more water-stressed rural parts of the US? Or maybe it's already happening with the left insurgency within the Democratic party? www.britannica.com/event/Populi...
Populist Movement | Definition & Goals | Britannica
Populist Movement, in U.S. history, the politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the Midwest and South that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th...
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🤔 Feels like the main weather forecasters are engaged in a conspiracy to downplay the seriousness of our climate collapse. That's why we get the mindless "happy face" interpretation of what has been a dreadful and threatening summer. They're still stuck in a 'Phew, What A Scorcher!' mentality...🙄
"Opposing data center construction is one of the most popular positions a candidate can possibly take right now—and those who fail to do so are starting to lose elections."
Anti-populism is reshaping American politics
Democrats are winning on data center opposition. So are Republicans.
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Corporate @Democrats: You've failed to meet the moment. Step aside for those that will fight. #DumpTrump #RIPGOP #2026midterm
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🚨 The basic problem with AI and its attendant datacentres is that no one asked for it, no one needs it, and increasingly no one wants it. It's pure supply-side billionaire-driven insanity - "we've invented it, wasted billions on it, so you're damn well going to have it and pay for it". #RejectAI
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content. www.wired.com/story/the-ai...
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
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🤔 If we could somehow just get to a position where billionaire = lazy, entitled, trustafarian, greedy bastard, instead of billionaire = success story, the world would be a happier place...
“The idea that extraordinary talent deserves extraordinary compensation” has become our modern-day justification for record inequality. @dannydorling.bsky.social #billionaires jacobin.com/2026/07/econ...
Take a Moment to Feel the Pain of the Rich
Once respectable opinion fretted about distinguishing the “deserving” poor from the “undeserving.” Today, as sentiment against the ultrarich surges, the Economist argues that it is in fact billionaire...
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The orange felon has cut major funding for National Parks and is diverting that money into doing more of his destructive vanity projects for the bulldozed White House. This is unethical, it’s theft and it’s illegal, but totally on brand for the criminal fraud. Makes me sick.
🚨 Almost the perfect metaphor for billionaire callousness and indifference - sailing on serenely while someone else is in distress... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Zuckerberg faces questions over why superyacht reportedly declined to help stranded boat
Small cruise ship rescued skiff in south-east Alaska even though Meta billionaire’s $300m megayacht was closer
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🤔 Don't understand why Burnham isn't doing more about the climate?? Not only is action desperately needed, it would also help win back more voters from the Greens. He could: ✅ Ban North Sea drilling ✅ Ban new runways ✅ Enact a National Water Conservation plan ✅ Nationalise the water companies.
🤮 More performative fantasy cruelty from Reform. How does anyone take these idiots seriously...???
🤔 Which will we run out of first? Water or food...? #ClimateCollapse #DumbHumans #BoilingFrogs🐸
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoUK temperatures could hit 36C as fifth heatwave of summer looms
We're not far now from the first datacentre being torched or otherwise destroyed, probably in the US where the resistance is growing... 🙂 #RejectAI #PitchforksAgainstDataCentres🧑🌾🧑🌾🧑🌾
🙂 The resistance to #AI and its #datacentres will be a key - if not THE key battle - against the billionaires and their plans to further ruin the world with their greed. We urge everyone to oppose any and all datacentre development, sign all petitions, and lobby your MPs. It's time to #RejectAI ✊
📢 As we've said before #ThamesWater is no better than an Organised Crime Group... #DenOfThieves #NationaliseTheWaterCompaniesNow www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water faces anger over ‘indefensible’ £1m payout to finance chief
Campaign group says firm is ‘taking the mickey’ by paying fee, and Andy Burnham should nationalise it
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🚨 More 🔽 on how the moderate Democrats in the US are failing to understand the very welcome new mood of hostility towards billionaires and big corporations... #TaxTheRich www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Centrist Democrats dismiss Abdul El-Sayed as a freak radical. Do they want to win in 2028 or not? | Nesrine Malik
Americans want someone on their side in the fight against sordid interests – that means politicians like the Michigan primary winner and Zohran Mamdani, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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📢 There is absolutely no electoral downside to attacking billionaires and large corporations (especially tech corporations). They are, deservedly, incredibly unpopular now and they have overreached. It's the "moderate Democrats" that are not reading the room. Things have changed...
Populist economic policies can sway moderate voters in swing districts and states, according to an advocacy group pushing Democrats to craft messages that attack billionaires and large corporations ahead of the midterms.
Group urges Democrats to woo moderate voters with populist policies
A progressive group says messages that target the wealthy and large corporations appeal to a majority of Americans who see the economy as fundamentally rigged.
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A fifth heatwave. People at risk across the country. But the new Government is silent. Time to tax fossil fuel companies to fund firefighting helicopters. And to race to lower carbon energy and permanently cheaper bills.
In a new piece for Fair Comment, Will Snell sets out why taxing wealth is only one part of the solution to tackling wealth inequality 👇 🔗 www.faircomment.co.uk/p/three-ways...
Good grief. The met office needs to rethink their phrasing. Their statement on the heatwave says "this incredible summer" and "we’ve had such an exceptional summer". Accurate - but will be taken in entirely the wrong (positive) way by most people. This summer in the UK has been a climate disaster.
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Datacentres or water...? Decisions, decisions... 🙄