I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

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A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body go.nature.com/4fDUY9w

COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you

Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.

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No one should face exclusion or discrimination because of who they are. The Green Party stands in solidarity with the trans community and will keep fighting for equality that includes everyone.

Burning fossil fuels makes wildfires more frequent and more intense. Of course those who have made record profits causing the problem should pick up the bill.

Severe Covid leads to persistent viral reactivation, with >10 different viruses noted in the first 40 days after hospital admission. Long Covid was specifically associated with reactivation of latent Anelloviridae virus @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 - Nature

Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prog...

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If you’d like to read the report exposing the anti trans people ‘Gender Critical’ movement in the UK - which sadly Amnesty took down after bottling it due to legal threats from the Edinburgh Funder - here it is. Like_a_snowball_final_.pdf - Google Drive drive.google.com/file/d/1PSsa...

Electric Buses Point of no return - have gone from 12% to 56% of new city bus sales in Europe in just 6yrs Europe's 2035 target of 100% zero emission bus sales could be reached as early as 2028 Bravo Europe 🇪🇺!

The Pentagon is using a new method of tallying the number of U.S. soldiers killed and wounded in the Iran war that a U.S. government official said was “designed to obscure the count.”

Last year, the UK Government chose trade relations with Israel over action to stop genocide. Join our call to Andy Burnham to turn words into action – and impose meaningful sanctions on Israel to stop Israel’s war crimes. act.globaljustice.org.uk/petition-tel...

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?

The words that maketh murder: how arms shows make the act of killing palatable aoav.org.uk/2026/farnbor...

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...

BP quarterly profits up from $2.5bn to $5.73bn as Iran war sends oil prices soaring. Shell doubled its net profit to almost $10bn. High bills fuelling poverty and misery for households and businesses. Boon for execs and shareholders. Must levy 100% windfall tax on oil, gas, energy companies.

BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring

Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record

theguardian.com

Texas and Maine have vastly different relationships with both churches and unions, yet they are both actively organizing in response to ICE’s cruelty and violence. sojo.net/articles/new...

ICE Is Moving More Quietly. Clergy Resistance Is Not

From Texas to Maine, people of faith are active on every front of resisting deportations and detainment.

sojo.net

EVENT 8/19: The Trump admin's lethal, illegal boat strikes began 11 months ago yesterday. 63 attacks, 221 dead so far. RSVP to join us for a virtual panel about how we got here, the deterrence failure, who the victims are, and what needs to happen next.

Events: Forum on the Arms Trade

Events sponsored by the Forum on the Arms Trade

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India: Continuing weapons exports to Israel risk complicity in ongoing genocide in Gaza – new @amnesty.org investigation At least 2,596 shipments of Indian weapons to Israel since 7 October 2023 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

India: Continuing weapons exports to Israel could risk complicity in ongoing genocide in Gaza – new investigation

India continued to supply arms to Israel despite the substantial risk they could be used in its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, Amnesty International said in a new re...

amnesty.org

A German court has ruled that comparing Israel to Nazis is legal – a major victory for the pro-Palestine movement By @skwawkbox.org

German court rules comparing Israel to Nazis is legal

A German court has ruled that comparing Israel to Nazis is legal – a major victory for the pro-Palestine movement

thecanary.co

📅 18 September 2026: The Environmental Politics of War Join SGR’s Dr Nico Edwards and others in a full day workshop exploring how conflict and militarism are destroying the ecosystems and climate that enable life on earth, and what we can do about it. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-enviro...

The Environmental Politics of War

This workshop will foster critical discussions around the environmental politics of war and conflict.

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PSA Environmental Politics Specialist Group@psaenvironmental.bsky.social · 5d ago

We've just confirmed the final speakers at our 'Environmental Politics of War' workshop @responsiblesci.bsky.social @paulinesophieh.bsky.social @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social @ritafloyd.bsky.social Join us in September! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-enviro...

Who remembers how pleased with itself the BBC was its "exposé" about asylum seekers faking being gay

DIVA Magazine@divamag.bsky.social · 3d ago

Concerns for LGBTQIA+ people after changes made to Home Office asylum interviews

Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show that procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws

‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention

theguardian.com

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

The verdict is in fact that a full Environmental Impact Assessment is required. Annual carbon emissions would be 200,000 tonnes, the equivalent of building another Edinburgh airport.

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: The Scottish Government has issued a verdict on an appeal regarding an AI data centre on the outskirts of Edinburgh 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

AOAV is hiring a Freelance Digital Communications and Data Impact Consultant to grow the reach of our Explosive Violence Monitor. £1,000 a month for 12 months, around one day a week. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Apply: ioverton@aoav.org.uk aoav.org.uk/job/freelanc...

RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP. Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow

"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."

London's first month without rain

Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?

londoncentric.media

For days, Reform politicians claimed that significant numbers of migrants who surged into Ceuta would be heading to Calais and onwards to Britain Not only have most already returned to Morocco, but Moroccans have made up just 0.07% of small boat arrivals since 2021 inews.co.uk/news/no-thou...

No, thousands of migrants won't come to the UK from Ceuta - here's why

Fears of a new migration crisis impacting the UK are misplaced despite the chaotic scenes witnessed in Ceuta, an expert has said

inews.co.uk

Israeli settlers in own words: "I think now, after they killed one Israeli, we need to kill all the people in Tal and Sarra, even Jit and Farata," naming the Palestinian villages closest to the outpost. He added, "God chose us [and] because of this you are jealous." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge

Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.

bbc.com

A female Israeli Border Police officer has published a disturbing montage documenting her abuse of Palestinians, including blindfolded detainees forced into a car trunk and a detained Palestinian made to repeatedly slam his head into a wall. Video: B.M. via X (@ireallyhateyou)

💢 Video, satellite imagery, & weapons analysis indicate the US dropped a 2,000-pound on a family home in a densely populated residential neighborhood on Iran’s Qeshm Island overnight Thu., The New York Times reported. The strike killed a husband, wife, & their 2-year-old son. Two other children...

🎥🇵🇸 “We went to sleep under a ceasefire… thinking that the situation would get better.” Footage from Drop Site contributor Abdel Qader Sabbah shows the aftermath of an Israeli strike on the main medical warehouse at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, which also shredded nearby tents...