Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account
@raycasey.bsky.social
We need to stop setting fire to the planet. Please don't DM me, I'll just block you
An excellent voluntary service, in need of funding. Update by James Waterson for @northeastbylines.co.uk Women’s Street Watch Middlesbrough launches fundraising appeal to keep vital service running northeastbylines.co.uk/region/tynes...
Women’s Street Watch Middlesbrough launches fundraising appeal to keep vital service running
Women’s Street Watch Middlesbrough has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help cover its running costs and ensure patrols can continue
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The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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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 agoBP 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...
The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
"they didn't die OF cyclospora, they died WITH cyclospora" incoming
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:
Tory MP Nick Timothy breached MP rules after failing to declare relevant financial interest when submitting 4 written parliamentary questions in December.. He’s bound to end up joining Reform, he’s so much in common Farage broke MP rules at least 17 times and like all the Reform MPs he was a Tory🤷🏻♂️
Suffolk MP breaches code of conduct over financial interests
West Suffolk MP Nick Timothy has been found to have breached the MPs’ code of conduct.
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The TVCA is due to review the finances of Teesside Airport next month. It will need to take into account a £2.1mn bad debt from European Cargo. Meanwhile, @teesvalleymonitor.bsky.social reports on yet another dubious deal www.teesvalleymonitor.com/alfor-aviati...
Alfor Aviation Invest Teesside Airport. Get Flags out?
Alfor Aviation has announced it will make Teesside Airport its HQ and build a facility there. Who are they? Will they suffer the same fate as European Cargo?
teesvalleymonitor.com
Very obliging of #r4today to lead with Reform’s ‘plan’ to stop the boats using the Royal Navy, pretending it’ll be some great WWII-style escapade, rather than a hateful, costly, diplomatically incontinent mess. A total waste of everyone’s time as they’ll never be in power and it’s unworkable anyway.
Is the TVCA the model for English Devolution? Let's hope not. James Waterson spells out the dangers, courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk Devolution: Andy Burnham hears no evil at Ben Houchen’s TVCA northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Devolution: Andy Burnham hears no evil at Ben Houchen’s TVCA
There is a deafening silence surrounding the Tees Valley
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For more detail on Teesside, see @raycasey.bsky.social 's posts and regular updates on North East Bylines
Once again, I think we can all agree that the real story here is Kemi Badenoch’s miraculous resurrecting of Tory fortunes.
Well, they're on their way back to Morocco actually, as they never had any way to reach mainland Spain, let alone the UK, but who needs facts when you're Bobby J the King of Bullshit.
1/ Kemi Badenoch says she isn't a climate denier. Let's take her at her word. Here are five findings she wrote around this week as though they don't exist. 🧵
For years, Telegraph columnists told us climate breakdown is a hoax. Now they say: it's real, but it's too late to do anything about it, so let the bodies pile high (again). Just one long list of excuses not to reduce fossil fuel use. Such newspapers bear as much responsibility as the oil firms.
It really irritates me that, despite the news being full of reports of drought and wildfires, almost all the weather forecast presenters adopt a jolly, upbeat tone when talking about 'fine, dry weather' and a slightly glum tone when mentioning the odd places where there will be a few showers.
How I chortled on hearing Ben Houchen - he of Teesside Freeport - pontificate on devolution
Got a good job down at the Data Center. I work on the line, and it's hard work but it's honest and the wage is fair; my family and I are grateful for it. I rivet the word "absolutely" onto the little apologies that chatbots do when they misunderstand a prompt.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
Not just Houchen. There's a bloke living in Dubai who's done quite well out of it.
Not before time. Some will frame the UK being outside this obligation to be a 'Brexit benefit'.
Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social · last wk."Starting July 19, 2026, the European Union officially banned large fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes, shoes, and accessories. Instead of sending perfectly good products to landfills or burning them, companies must now donate, recycle, or repurpose them." via No one Cares
Thanks Ray, for keeping us updated on #Sunak'sFlagshipFreeport and #Gove'sLevellingUp What the hell is next? IIRC the 'seed money' in this case was about £500m+ ie way above the usual for freeport startups. Has that all gone now, with nothing to show (except for Houchen's lifestyle maybe) ?
Jonathan Porritt has been arrested. As he says "trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism."
Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org
Secret Service agents are trained to take bullets for a president but not this shit
My latest update from Ben Houchen's ill-starred Teesworks boondoggle, courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk South Bank Quay: another Teesworks project facing an uncertain future northeastbylines.co.uk/business/sou...
South Bank Quay: another Teesworks project facing an uncertain future
The success, or otherwise, of SeAH Wind is closely tied to that of the neighbouring South Bank Quay, which is used as an offshore base for wind farm construction
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Instead of using a photo of the current conflagrations caused by climate breakdown, the Telegraph uses a pic of a wind turbine burning ... in February 2025. Because that's the important thing: 17 months ago a turbine ignited. Caption: "It’s time to cease building wind turbines". #FossilFuelStooges
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d agoI'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
If you are a Unite member and want more climate action (not less), look out for the ballot paper which should arrive in the next couple of days. Sharon Graham has argued for more drilling in the North Sea and briefed against Ed Miliband because of his work on net zero. Time to dump Sharon!
Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
Germany has campaigned very hard to maximise wildfires next year by slowing down the phase out of VW, BMW and Mercedes fossil fuel cars. Maybe time to tell Germans to stop increasing wildfires in France?
