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The New York Times is a fascist-enabling newspaper. Yes, fantastic journalists still do good work there. But the purpose of the paper is to enable and support the far right - including Trumpists and transphobes. Find and spread other sources for news and commentary. Thread 🧵 follows.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d ago

The @nytimes hasn't written a single article asking if "voters will think Tom Tiffany is too radical" because he is an election-denying, pro-ICE, authoritarian extremist. Somehow, his position on the political spectrum has disappeared completely from the National and State Conversations™️

So last month JKR threatened to sue Amnesty out of existence and this month she's offering to fund any cis woman who wants to sue the NHS for not being transphobic enough fast enough. How many beloved institutions will she have to threaten before the Sensibles notice?

If you’re a trans ally in the UK, here’s some urgently important things you can do to support the community and help protect and restore trans rights: 1. Support @GoodLawProject.org’s legal challenge against the UK government’s transphobic “guidance”: goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

Fight back against the code of practice

The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us

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A fire now the size of 140 football pitches Drought in half of England & all of Wales Heat alerts across the country. Already 3000 dead from the heat. The crisis is here. We can see it, we can smell the smoke. We cannot sit by while government sit on their hands. www.lbc.co.uk/article/new-...

Drivers told to flee cars ‘if you want to stay alive’ after New Forest fire spreads | LBC

An area the size of 140 football pitches has reportedly been destroyed

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Tackling Climate Change is very simple. Stop burning Fossil Fuel. You do that by building Wind and Solar. China builds 5x as much Wind and Solar as all of Europe and North America combined. We aren't even trying.

Hooley, Merstham & Netherne (Reigate & Banstead) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+3.4) ➡️ RFM: 24.4% (+13.6) 🌳 CON: 20.3% (-3.8) 🔶 LDM: 7.4% (+0.9) 🌹 LAB: 6.2% (-14.1) Green GAIN from Conservative. Changes w/ 2024.

New YouGov polling shows a huge majority of Labour Party supporters back an end to the capture of our media by unaccountable elites. Sign and share the Media Sovereignty Act Campaign's petition to make sure this is debated in parliament. Let's take back control from the 0.001%. shorturl.at/L38KI

Petition: Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory reform

Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...

petition.parliament.uk

Big Oil spent decades denying climate change. "As accountability draws closer, the industry has moved on from denying the science to discrediting the scientists who produce it, influencing the judges who hear these cases, and rewriting the rules before the evidence is heard," writes @mikelevin.org.

Big Oil wants to rig the courts. You’ll pay for it on your utility bill.

Congressman Mike Levin argues that rising energy costs and climate disaster expenses stem from fossil fuel industry deception and lack of corporate accountability, proposing the Energy Bills Relief…

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I have been thinking a lot lately about “imperfect” disabled representation—the disabled villain who wants revenge for their body and how they’ve been treated, the person struggling with a new disability and internalized ableism. People constantly try to tell me “some disabled people are assholes.”