I see the Guardian's "fearless independent journalism" doesn't extend to covering the Middle East today, despite Iran bombing the shit out of the HQ of the US Fifth Fleet and other military bases in Bahrain (minutes after Trump said Iran was running out of missiles) ๐ค
Politicians do love to use the cost of "net zero" as a catch-all excuse to push it down the priority list. Perhaps this new report on the cost to all-important "productivity" of last month's heatwave (ยฃ2.3 billion) will make a difference.
The cost of doing nothing is vastly higher than getting on with it, but then we all know that, don't we.
@MediaActivist Euch. Ain't that the truth. I have a surfeit (one would be too many tbh) of these as my neighbours and have tried several times. I mostly just get furious and sweary and hurt my eyeballs by rolling them so hard, then walk away before I call them all irredeemable cunts and cause myself more bother ๐
Global uprising in defence of affordable housing: Spain edition
Yesterday in A Coruรฑa, activists from various local organisations held a protest outside a building where a mother with four children, a survivor of domestic violence, was threatened with eviction so that the property could be purchased by speculators.
Actions like this are taking place daily across Spain.
"Powered by US money and far-right European think tanks, Cambridge has recently become an outpost of a peculiar blend of national conservatism and apocalyptic Christianity, through the figure of James Orr โ Head of Policy at Reform UK described as Nigel Farageโs 'Kingmaker'."
Absolutely extraordinary story from a monastery in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania, where a terminally ill Christian monk spent his final months documenting atrocities committed against children in Gaza through a dedicated Telegram channel.
Andrew Marr: " The Commons rules are very clear and they forbid face coverings "
Count Binface: "Well the Commons rules are very clear about what you can do with donations , but that seems to have got all murky so why can't I see how the line can get tested? "
How does the world manage to get grubbier and more corrupt every. single. fucking. day?
"In the case of (founder Shayne) Coplan, despite efforts made to obfuscate his past, he was clearly immersed in networks within the cryptocurrency agency with ties to Israel and Israeli intelligence well before he founded Polymarket."
All the faves are in there - Mossad, the CIA, corporate media, the financial markets ...
@selzero@OccuWorld Ah, having a bit of a search about I notice that this one *is* actually new (launched last week), so I'm guessing it must have taken over from the one the archive genocide account on Xitter was running. It doesn't seem to be covering Lebanon, which the other one was.
Books, gardening, anti-fascism, politics, inept cello-ing, word nerdery, folklore (Morris dancing not so much) and all the other good stuff.Zionists, centrists, TERFs and racists need not apply. Down with colonialism, imperialism and capitalism. Independence for all who want it and above all, a free Palestine.She/her