Another glorious vindication of Kemi Badenoch’s impeccable political judgment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate

Kemi Badenoch says Joshua Bonehill-Paine will now advise the Conservatives on tackling extremism.

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BOOKER: Let me make this easy. Be a man. Yes or no -- did Joe Biden win the 2020 election? CANDEUB: ... the Congress certifie-- BOOKER: There you go. Stop! Can you please tell me yes or no, did President Biden win the 2020 election? CANDEUB: The Congress certified-- B: You are showing cowardice.

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots

The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.

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We've always known the moon is a woman, but

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."

If corporations paid ‘where they play’ not ‘where they say’, the UK would be up £13 billion a year. It's time we ended the corporate tax scam. 👉 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The concern here isn't surely isn't just oil. It's also things like food and basic consumer goods. Nevermind that these are countries whose economies are partly built around a degree of conspicuous consumption that Iran could eliminate -- couldn't Iran theoretically just starve them to death?

Hey!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

Anyone for a rapid energy transition?

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 8h ago

Reuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be ​unlikely to risk transit without paying."

The R4 Toady programme - the Badenoch show

Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts This has to stop. It's wrong and unsustainable https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/palantir-corporation-tax-uk-2024-accounting-practices

8 CORPORATIONS amassing obscene profits by fueling war & climate catastrophe. 8 BILLION PEOPLE on track to lose everything & everyone we love. Our children are screaming at us from the ashes of the future: “WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU LETTING THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS?!?”

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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So much to #Unlearn in many subjects. Economics is the standout leader in needing to abandon disastrous, failed ideas theconversation.com/decolonizing...

Decolonizing economics means questioning where its ideas came from — and imagining new ones

Calls to decolonize economics challenge the discipline’s foundational assumptions about development, markets and inequality.

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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

A Cry for Moral Courage in a Wounded World https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/05/a-cry-for-moral-courage-in-a-wounded-world/

Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d ago

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

We don’t have to put up with this. You can vote for parties that won’t put up with this.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterday

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

New UK Prime Minister Should End the Assault on Protest Rights https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/08/05/new-uk-prime-minister-should-end-the-assault-on-protest-rights

Austria has set a new all time temperature record of 41.0°C today. 9 separate weather stations recorded >40°C as heatwaves & record temperatures continue to impact the Northern Hemisphere.

You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

NASA: Warming Effects of Carbon Pollution since the 1800s. Wait for it. Since human’s industrialized the Earth has warmed 1.5°C/2.7°F due to heat-trapping greenhouse gases released from the burning of fossil fuels, changes in land use, and the feedbacks of both. This may not sound like much but 1/

This.

TryingMyBest@tryingmybestuk.bsky.social · yesterday

Top geezer ❤️❤️❤️

Direct, 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?

Institutional investors on North Sea drilling: “If what you’re trying to achieve is the trifecta that most governments appear to be looking for ... affordability, energy independence and decarbonization,” then increasing North Sea drilling “doesn’t achieve any of those."

Investors Raise Alarm on Prospect of More UK North Sea Drilling

Institutional investors are raising concerns over the prospect of UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham supporting more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.

bloomberg.com

Something good

Protect the Wild@protectthewild.bsky.social · 2d ago

Devon Docherty, Scottish campaigns manager at Protect the Wild, said the decision was a “victory for compassion, for science and for common sense”. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Devon Docherty, Scottish campaigns manager at Protect the Wild, said the decision was a “victory for compassion, for science and for common sense”. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scottish seabird hunt cancelled for first time in 400 years

NatureScot refuses licence for hunt on Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir in which up to 2,000 gannet chicks are killed

theguardian.com

Suella Braverman, Priti Patel, Kemi Badenoch, Keir Starmer, David Lammy, Robert Jenrick support this… Imagine Palestinians doing this to the Israelis, what the response be?!

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d ago

Israel blocks ambulances in the West Bank again. Shoots Palestinians, then seals off medical access so they bleed out and die. Deliberate. Sadistic. State policy. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️

Please stop using ai and ChatGPT 🫩 I don’t want any more data centers. Please use your minds, please allow yourself to learn you’re killing people with pollution, killing your mind and making climate change worse

As Reform crashes, Farage attempts a reboot by pressing the default factory settings button.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d ago

Layla Moran says Reform UK are raising small boats again to distract from the Clacton by election where Nigel Farage is facing a Bin

Anger and hate are all they have.

Conservatives Are Completely Melting Down Over A 2018 Anne Hathaway Speech About Equality—Because Of Course

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