A functioning regulatory system would include frequent, randomized spot checks, done regularly by well-funded civil servants using modern technology, plus consequences - fines or jail time - serious enough to actually prevent polluters from sickening or killing nearby people.

Boris Johnson truly is the turd that just won’t flush away.. 🥴

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4h ago

What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.

Who else is way past impeachment and wants REAL accountability? 🙋‍♀️ I do. Who’s with me? #USDemocracy #RisingBlue

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

theintercept.com

The Supreme Court is trying to stop you from voting. Call your local Democratic committee to get the info you need. democrats.org/find-a-state...

🇪🇸 Protests in Madrid after 87-year-old pensioner evicted Demonstrators have taken to the streets of Spain's capital to protest against the eviction of an 87-year-old pensioner from her lifelong home, in one of the harshest expressions of the country's chronic housing crisis

The link you need. 👇

Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe

On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?

europeanmovement.co.uk

Martin: “I don’t have a magic wand you know” Mamdani: “Oh you don’t need one, it’s actually quite simp…” Martin: “I DON’T HAVE A MAGIC WAND OR A MAGIC MONEY TREE. I’M NOT A MAGICIAN OK”

Climate change isn’t just about heatwaves and emissions targets. When climate and nature loss affect food, migration, economies and geopolitical stability, they become national security issues too. That conversation is long overdue. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

theguardian.com

A new study finds that climate pollution caused by just 122 companies led to a 15% decline in annual average Western mountain snowpacks. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/09/scie...

Scientists link fossil fuel producers to the West’s worsening water shortages » Yale Climate Connections

A new study blames 122 companies for contributing to severe drought in the region.

yaleclimateconnections.org

Oh... in other places in the world, people have standards, courage, morality. And they decry genocide and call it what it is. What the hell is wrong with us?

Mickey Kuhns@mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 4d ago

United Nations delegates were seen walking out of the chamber as Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu arrived to address The U.N. General Assembly… #WarCriminal

A blockbuster Susan Collins scandal, GOP panic as the midterm map shifts, a Trump-loving Republican scrubs Trump from his site, Trump threatens to “annihilate” Iran at the UN, a GOP senator calls for an investigation into Don Jr., Trump TV flops, and AOC talks 2028. And that’s just the start.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 465. 9/22/26

… A blockbuster new story from the amazing investigative journalists at ProPublica detailing blatant corruption by Sen.

meidasplus.com

Private jets exemplify what economists call a free-rider problem: They crowd & pollute the airspace & environment that belongs to everyone without paying an appropriate cost. In fact, we keep giving them tax breaks Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Private Jets Have a Free-Rider Problem

If you try to take a free ride on, say, public transit in New York City, you’ll get in trouble with the law. If your mode of transportation is a private jet, on the other hand, there’s a high risk you...

bloomberg.com

Private jets account for 16% of FAA operations but contribute just 0.6% of the taxes that fund it. Does that mean we should raise private jet taxes 25-fold to make up the difference? Why, yes, in fact Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

“There’s a terrible software vulnerability in there,” says Dan Wallach, a security researcher at Rice University in Houston. “I know because I wrote it. It’s a web server that anyone can connect to and read/write arbitrary memory. That’s so bad.." www.wired.com/story/darpa-...

Hackers Take on Darpa's $10 Million Voting Machine

At this year's Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware.

wired.com

Exactly right. A country that does this is the very antithesis of a free country. And the fact that this has been going on in America for the past 20 months and EVERY American is not fucking up in arms and raising hell about it is a huge shameful stain on this country.👇

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." Required reading.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 4d ago

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

Ed Miliband made a presentation at a private meeting during the UN General Assembly based on the report by the UK’s spy chiefs that found the collapse of natural systems around the world would lead to conflict, migration and food shortages.

UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

theguardian.com

Other generations dealt with more horror than we have, but we're the first generation doing it over the internet. The WW2 generation got news from radio & newspapers. They didn't have access to the 24-7 "WTF information overload" we've been carrying these past 2 years.

been thinking about this for awhile. you can point out how it's similar to what Bill Clinton said in the 90s, but it could also be Zohran starting a frankly overdue debate about the left approach to crime and bureaucracy bsky.app/profile/core...

Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 4d ago

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

I’ve updated this to link to the extremely late report the BBC has now published on the incident.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW | I’m not surprised, but I am livid. BBC NEWS, ‘DANNY TOMMO’ AND THE DINGHY ATTACK THAT DISAPPEARED While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bbc-news-d...

I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.

MAinNC@martyd409.bsky.social · 4d ago

The GOP needs to get serious. His family needs to get serious. This is not something that a stable mind puts out.

Possession of an offensive weapon, reckless endangerment, criminal damage ... Let's hope the police take this seriously. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard

Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover

theguardian.com

Congress passing a law that the DoJ ignores immediately to protect the President due to his years long participation in some sort teen rape club must just happen all the time so it’s not worth reporting on further

Flight Attendant on the 09:20 from Glasgow reminded passengers to ‘take everything with you.’ Big mistake…

We’re just in a position where the far right are trying to murder people on the streets or at sea and the government have had almost nothing to say about it. It’s all on fucking video you can watch them do it!

We are SO occupied.

This story is about so much more than one man and one company. It’s about the corruption of our British democracy through the subtle intermingling of the financial and political interests of our political class and the world’s most powerful corporations. open.substack.com/pub/zeteouk/...

Why Is a Labour Lord Now Paid by Palantir – and What Does it Mean For Our Democracy?

Ex-Labour deputy leader Tom Watson just got hired by a controversial US tech company seeking taxpayer-funded state contracts. The intermingling of politicians and corporations corrupts our democracy.

open.substack.com

Anyone stanning Newsom in September of 2026 cannot possibly have anything I need to see over the next however many years we all even have left

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · last yr.

Anyone stanning Newsom in August of 2025 cannot possibly have anything I need to see over the next however many years we all even have left