Crucial to puncture Andy Burnham's Jackdaw and Rosebank trial balloon #ClimateEmergency
Meriem Mahdhi
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Investigative reporter / previously @tbij.bsky.social 🇮🇹🇹🇳
Our story (@hyphenonline.com) today about one of the Huntingdon train heroes and his struggle in the months since the stabbings is so heartbreaking and so damning - this guy put his life at risk to help strangers and in return he's been badly failed by everyone. hyphenonline.com/2026/07/09/h...
Huntingdon train attack hero still waiting for trauma therapy - Hyphen
Raza Mustafa Aslam was stabbed as he stood between the knifeman and fellow passengers on board an LNER train last year
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if you haven’t read the @sabs.bsky.social piece from defector
AI Animal Videos Are Ruining One Of The Internet's Last Good Things | Defector
Recently, while picking up a banh mi in my neighborhood, I found myself transfixed by a TV in the restaurant showing what I assumed was a nature documentary. At first the footage soothed: Gentle humpb...
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In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million. www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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Really important win for journalism but it’s the last paragraph that really struck me Palantir has to pay 95% of the Swiss magazine’s costs - which are $11,000 A case like this in the U.K. would cost *millions* in legal fees. Why it’s so easy for rich to suppress criticism
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo agoPalantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine ft.trib.al/TS7SOJp
A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.
To all my colleagues still using X: is this not enough evidence that you must stop using it?
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2mo agoX owner Elon Musk has reposted his Sept 2025 call that pre-emptive inter-ethnic violence (civil war) is necessary for 'self-defence "Elon Musk was always right "You either fight back, or you die."
My dearest friend, one of the strongest women I ever met, wrote one of the most beautiful poems I ever read. Please have a look and share.
Rei Takver@rtakver.bsky.social · 2mo agoLast night, doctors told me I very likely have late stage ovarian cancer. I am 39. In the waiting room at the hospital, as I awaited that moment, I wrote this poem. Whoever you are, wherever you read this - live your life. In all its glory. In all its pain. Live it. It is everything.
Last night, doctors told me I very likely have late stage ovarian cancer. I am 39. In the waiting room at the hospital, as I awaited that moment, I wrote this poem. Whoever you are, wherever you read this - live your life. In all its glory. In all its pain. Live it. It is everything.
I've been investigating the huge levels of exploitation faced by workers on the seasonal worker visa for the last few years, and have often asked myself why the trade union movement has ignored these workers. So I spoke to unions, big and small, to try and answer that question.
opendemocracy.net@opendemocracy.net · 9mo ago‘An indictment of the trade union movement’: Why no one is organising seasonal workers
OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels. New from me @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...
OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist
The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.
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Feeding Europe, Failing Workers. Mittlerweile sind in sechs europäischen Ländern Texte zu unserer Crossborder-Recherche erschienen. Sie zeigt, wie die EU Arbeitsausbeutung in der Landwirtschaft mit Millionen subventioniert. Ein Überblick:
Reminder - carbon offsetting is a con. We have to BOTH stop burning fossil fuels and look after nature #ClimateEmergency #NatureCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
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NEW INVESTIGATION: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse Financed by @journalismfund.bsky.social, this project traced dozens of EU payments to farms committing serious labour abuses. A🧵of cases demonstrating the lack of safeguards on CAP funds: www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...
Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse
This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...
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Well done, Academy alumni @frnzskschwrz.bsky.social, @meriemm.bsky.social, @simonguichard.bsky.social & Carlotta Indiano!
Clean Energy Wire Network@clewnetwork.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe 2024 CLEW Summer Academy planted seeds for big stories Read about alumni collaborations into food systems & carbon capture: 🍽️ www.journalismfund.eu/feeding-euro... 🏭 www.journalismfund.eu/carbon-captu... & more to come! If you want to make a new Summer Academy possible, get in touch or donate!
The 2024 CLEW Summer Academy planted seeds for big stories Read about alumni collaborations into food systems & carbon capture: 🍽️ www.journalismfund.eu/feeding-euro... 🏭 www.journalismfund.eu/carbon-captu... & more to come! If you want to make a new Summer Academy possible, get in touch or donate!
🔴RÉVÉLATIONS🔴 Des agriculteurs reconnus coupables d'avoir exploité des travailleurs migrants continuent de toucher des millions d’euros de la PAC. Durant 9 mois, @humanite.fr et 5 médias européens ont enquêté sur le scandale de la conditionnalité sociale des aides PAC 🔽
Agriculture : comment la PAC finance l’exploitation des travailleurs dans l’Union européenne - L'Humanité
Censée faire enfin respecter le droit du travail dans les champs, la conditionnalité sociale des aides à la PAC s’est heurtée aux limites du système agricole européen. L’Humanité...
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Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in subsidies. Our investigation traced dozens of EU payments to farms that have breached, are under investigation for, or have already been convicted of labour-related offences. @journalismfund.bsky.social
DeSmog@desmog.com · 10mo ago🔴 Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse New investigation reveals how farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers rake in millions in subsidies 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...
The U.K., a country without any written constitution and a tradition of absolute parliamentary sovereignty and no longer with the legal framework of the EU, has become a honeypot for crackpot tech accelerationists. You’re just one cabinet meeting away from instituting literally any mad notion.
peterkwells@peterkwells.com · 11mo ago"Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders’ skin at meeting with [new UK Home] secretary" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Alternative medicine and supplements companies. A few businesses have made a fortune out of false claims that Ivermectin could cure COVID. A claim spread nonetheless than Joe Rogan himself.
Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe “climate change is a hoax” lobby makes sense to me because I can see exactly who financially benefits from it. The anti-vax lobby does not make sense to me. Who stands to financially benefit from denying vaccines?
🕯️ 𝟐𝟗 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓: 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐛: 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑅𝑎𝑗𝑎𝑏, 𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝐹𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑎
The docket containing documents investigating the case of #EmanuelaOrlandi, a young girl who disappeared in the summer of 1983 in Vatican City, and whose disappearance has been linked - among other theories - to a #Vatican sex ring, has been found empty. www.rainews.it/articoli/202...
Caso Orlandi, giallo all'archivio centrale dello Stato: il fascicolo su Emanuela è vuoto
A prendere atto che un fascicolo su Emanuela Orlandi, proveniente dal Ministero dell'Interno, è stato il senatore Andrea De Priamo, presidente della Commissione di inchiesta sulle scomparse della stes...
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Trusts are legal arrangements that can give opacity and protection by separating assets from their original owners — at least when such distance is convenient for tax planning or other purposes. Wyoming’s business code can take this a step further. https://buff.ly/4iTucta
With sharp rise in incorporations, Wyoming cements reputation as US secrecy haven - ICIJ
New data shows that company registrations in the Cowboy State have eclipsed Delaware, a renowned tax haven. Local officials are scrambling to keep up.
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Our latest investigation exposes the Briton who helped manage millions on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad. It also shines a light on the UK’s role in enabling some of the world’s most infamous kleptocrats. v/ a formidable team @edsiddons.bsky.social @meriemm.bsky.social & @eleanorrose87.bsky.social
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 2y agoBREAKING: TBIJ and the Guardian are unmasking a Briton who helped manage hundreds of millions of pounds allegedly looted from the Syrian people The Briton worked on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar and a man known as the “butcher of Hama”
🚨 BREAKING: @tbij.bsky.social and @theguardian.com are unmasking a Briton who helped manage hundreds of millions of pounds allegedly looted from the Syrian people The Briton worked on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar and a man known as the “butcher of Hama”
‘Butcher of Hama’: Assad’s uncle used Guernsey fund manager to stash…
Ginette Blondel worked without a licence or oversight for alleged war criminal Rifaat al-Assad
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BREAKING: TBIJ and the Guardian are unmasking a Briton who helped manage hundreds of millions of pounds allegedly looted from the Syrian people The Briton worked on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar and a man known as the “butcher of Hama”
‘Butcher of Hama’: Assad’s uncle used Guernsey fund manager to stash…
Ginette Blondel worked without a licence or oversight for alleged war criminal Rifaat al-Assad
thebureauinvestigates.com