#OtD 5 Aug 1981 11,345 federal air traffic controllers were fired by US President Reagan for refusing his order to return to work after 2 days of strike action. Military air traffic controllers were used as scabs until new hires could be trained stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1049...

Predicted he’d step down before Badenoch stopped defending him

Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate

It follows a backlash against the party's decision to pick Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a council candidate in Somerset.

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Alasdair Mackenzie@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 9h ago

One of Badenoch’s problems is that she doesn’t really seem to conceive of the possibility that she might ever be wrong about anything. Absolutely impervious to reflection or self-criticism. She’s going to carry on defending this until (presumably) someone else tells Nazi conviction guy to step down

Dog goes viral after accidentally adopting himself at a stoplight. Original post

Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate

Spot on. This is an extreme emergency which warrants a Cobra meeting.

Sam Vimes@mistersvimes.bsky.social · 5h ago

Zack Polanski gives a well needed speech on the state of the climate. I've been around 50yrs, and i've never seen a time when every single lawn is dead from lack of water, and scorching weather. There'll be no lawns soon, just dusty patches of dirt youtu.be/yzAfG6KX-s4?...

Reform UK: dangerous especially if they reach power sharing deal. Conservatives: increasingly irrelevant. LDs: probably mop up one nation Tories but irrelevant. Labour: liberals not addressing the crises of now. Interesting times but it seems to me it's socialism or extinction.

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

Everyone’s expectations got skewed over the past week but Abdul El-Sayed getting $70 million spent against him in a state he lost a primary by like 20 points eight years ago and still winning last night is probably the most impressive electoral accomplishment of the decade.

The Conservative party is an increasing irrelevance.

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 5h ago

The Tory "plan" to send prisoners to foreign jails isn't getting enough scrutiny. What is the legal basis for banishing British citizens to Albania? Whose laws are they subject to? How many prison staff have to go over? Are family visits just abolished? How many prisoners are we talking about?

In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post

Zack Polanski has called for fossil fuel producers to be made to finance firefighting helicopters, following a series of recent fires across the country He also called on PM Burnham to stop new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, including the Jackdaw & Rosebank fields off the Scottish coast

Thread.

Lewis Baston@lewisbaston.bsky.social · 5h ago

I’m probably going to regret this, and I’m basically pro-Stancil, but Pratchett didn’t get the ‘boots theory’ from nowhere. I was told it quite independently by a man, the legendary Bert Hazell, who was a farm labourer (and then union official and Labour MP). It reflected his life experience…

Six years ago a donkey named Diesel went missing in Wyoming. He's now part of an elk community Original post

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."

Zack Polanski delivers ‘reality check’ to Burnham over ‘biggest crisis since WWII’ after summer of extreme heat

I thought Polanski gave as good as he got on BBC WatO earlier. We need to remember Farage post the 2016 referendum saying 'well we held a referendum and nobody died'. For those with short memories Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by a right wing zealot. Unforgivable comment.

Important that people claim all they're entitled to. I don't think the state should subsidise inflated rents but we cannot take it out on the worst off. inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

At 69, I am paying £875 in rent - I've survived on £1 frozen meals

Valerie Michalski says renting in later life puts a huge strain on her finances

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Daily Telegraph article talks about May's so-called dementia tax but fails to mention details of her successor Johnson's. This severely retrogressive measure would have meant homeowners in Hartlepool and Redcar losing their assets but counterparts in London or South unscathed.

You really have to feel for these poor dogs! 😹

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.

This elk asked me for my license and registration - but then, let me go. From near the beach in Gearhart, Oregon. That's the ocean straight out in the distance about 1/4 mile. #mammals #nature #deer #love #PNW #nokings #wildlife #outdoors #elk #ocean

Not sure why so much discussion of Covid now. It was 6 years ago. Hopefully lessons were learnt. We need to brace against the crises of now, food scarcity likely to be a problem because of drought and Iran War.

Hilarious Cat 😸 Photobombs

The proposition that the president of the United States is an adjudicated rapist isn't an argument. It is a fact.

And now in the Evening Standard. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Green-run London councils to resist new trans guidance on single-sex spaces

Lambeth and Waltham Forest councils have already signaled they will resist new guidance on single-sex spaces over risk it leaves 'trans people open to discrimination'

standard.co.uk

Caroline Russell@carolinerussell.bsky.social · yesterday

I’ve written to the Mayor of London: “I urge you now to work with councils across London to support their efforts to make sure the (EHRC) guidance cannot be used to diminish the everyday rights of 🏳️‍⚧️ trans Londoners and to seek the wider adoption of these approaches across our city.” [1/3]

I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Also the trope of England supposedly not having been successfully invaded since 1066 is largely an invented tradition. We ignore the 1215-17 French and 1327 Scottish invasions altogether, and pretend the 1153 Angevin and 1688 Dutch invasions and seizures of the throne were voluntary domestic affairs

Lewis Baston@lewisbaston.bsky.social · 24h ago

The borders of the U.K. have been in place since 1922.

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?

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 · yesterday

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...