When the Tories tell you who they are you really should listen
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h agoThe UK Conservatives want Jewish groups to meet their new Neo-Nazi ex-con candidate.
Tim Goodacre - Writer
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I am an Australian leftist political "big picture" thinker / writer. My recent focus has been on how the neoliberal era has shaped today's extreme politics worldwide. See pinned post for recent articles. More at https://timgoodacre.wordpress.com/
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h agoFor my UK and Euro friends - I don't know if music can magic up some rain for you, but I do know this song is amazing, and has me thinking of you all www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtQO...
The Cure - Prayers For Rain
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Climate risks compound. Drought means a loss of reactors. Heat means a spike in electricity demand. These are the brittle fail points in our systems, but the real problem is that we're just beginning to discover how many there are.
Dave O Mitchell@daveomitchell.bsky.social · 2d agoClimate x energy polycrisis, in a nutshell: “Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
This. For more cases, read The Spirit Level @equalitytrust.bsky.social
Inequality News@inequalitynews.bsky.social · yesterday🚨 Unequal countries such as the UK lock up more people in prisons due to #inequality creating a harsher economic and social environment. Rates of imprisonment are a sign of social failure, the US being the most obvious example... ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
Much of what is said about economics is little better than gaslighting.... I used AI tools when writing this post, including a spell checker. I also used 50 years of experience writing about these issues. The drawing was the smallest part of all that, and I had no budget to do it any other way.
I remember a few years back here in Aus when the extraction industries were using "more jobs" to justify opening more mines. A report showed we'd be better off opening more cafes.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · yesterdayDirect, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
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Current non-fiction reading: "Class, Crisis and the State" by Erik Olin Wright. I love Wright - he's a hero of mine, alas departed. This is a republished early work of his - Marxist sociology, I suppose. Hard-core but fascinating and readable. Thanks @versobooks.bsky.social
There are a great multitude of factors beyond our control that impact our decisions. That chronic stress leads to so many bad outcomes makes clear how important it is to reduce chronic financial stress in order to improve outcomes. Ending poverty and creating real security with a UBI floor is a must
Turtles All the Way Down: The Biological Case for Universal Basic Income
If our decisions are shaped by forces we never chose, then punishing people for those decisions and withholding the resources that would improve them is our true moral failure.
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When major players in an industry merge, prices go up, wages go down, consumer choice decreases, and slows innovation. That's why antitrust cases like the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger are so critical. This week, @atg.wa.gov joins us to talk about that case and more.
Not the first time that I've thought this fascism was a lot funnier than original recipe fascism. Not a laughing matter though...
The Canary@thecanaryuk.bsky.social · yesterdayFascism used to perform solemnity, which allowed for it to be satirised. Now reactionaries beat satirists to the punch with memes by @hugoharvey.bsky.social
Right-wing newspapers are blaming Europe's blazing wildfires on anything but climate change and its human-made causes by @cjmbaillie.bsky.social
Right-wing press blame anything but human-made climate change for deadly wildfires
Right-wing newspapers are blaming Europe's blazing wildfires on anything but climate change and its human-made causes.
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Centrist Democrats are writing off New York City socialist wins as a fluke reducible to gentrification and low turnout. But it was the Democratic Party machine itself that spent decades cultivating a depoliticized electorate.
New York’s Socialist Victories Can't Be So Easily Dismissed
Centrist Democrats are writing off New York City socialist wins as a fluke reducible to gentrification and low turnout. But it was the Democratic Party machine itself that spent decades cultivating a depoliticized electorate.
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“While wildfires threaten communities across the world, drought bites and energy costs spiral, ordinary families are paying the price for big oil’s prioritisation of shareholder wealth over a livable planet. It’s time to make oil giants pay up…” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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As Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices.
Trump’s FTC Is Threatening to Punish Big Tech for “Woke AI”
As Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices.
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Americans Live in the 'United States of Oligarchy' With Elon Musk at the Top Read an exclusive excerpt from @cjcmichel.bsky.social's new book exploring how the country's wealthiest are monopolizing U.S. democracy: zeteo.com/p/americans-...
Americans Live in the 'United States of Oligarchy' With Elon Musk at the Top
Read an exclusive excerpt from journalist Casey Michel's new book exploring how the country's wealthiest are monopolizing U.S. democracy and propping up dictators and autocrats in the process.
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We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2d agoBREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Is a law a law if violations of it cannot be challenged? 🤔
The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 20h agoThe Trump Administration is seeking to gut a key part of enforcement of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. A legal filing by the Trump administration in defense of Elon Musk’s xAI seeks to block citizen lawsuits against violations of those laws.
A great thread of @globalvoices.org stories from over the weekend, showing the range of coverage: articles and essays on #statelessness; community #climate action in #Nepal; Emancipation Day in #Trinidad, language preservation in #Nigeria ⬇️
Global Voices@globalvoices.org · 2d agoIn case you missed the important & interesting stories we covered this weekend, a quick 🧵, starting with this story from our Statelessness Spotlight about difficult, delayed citizenship processes in Assam, India.
Imagine being a 12 year-old girl, forced to allow a male sports doctor to "examine" your genitals to determine whether you can play softball. Horrifying.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Climate Deniers of the 119th Congress and the Second Trump Administration A new CAP analysis finds that the federal government is rife with officials who deny climate change in leadership positions within the executive branch, presidential Cabinet, and Congress.
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Former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern recalls her 2019 phone call with President Trump after the Christchurch mosque attacks, which killed 51 Muslim worshipers