“techno-optimist” scientists [engaged in] less civic actions and protests, signed fewer petitions and engaged in less advocacy, also less likely to reduce the number of flights they took, cut car usage......." You know who you are - and should be ashamed theguardian.com/environment/…

The UK's 117 day long streak of somewhere having at least 20c every single day has ended today. This record trashes any previous year and proves beyond any doubt that the UK is suffering serious Climate Change.

What's happening in France is that students are protesting against overcrowded classrooms, deteriorating school buildings, and long school days, from 8am to 6pm. Teachers, unions and parents have also joined the protests in solidarity.

Ein Tiefpunkt für unsere Demokratie. Ein völkisch denkender Rechtsextremer wird Vize-Präsident eines deutschen Parlaments. Ein Faschist, auch wenn er demokratisch gewählt wurde. Eine Schande im Lichte unserer Geschichte. spiegel.de/politik/deutschla…

Hey @AldiUK this letter you’ve sent my son is intimidating. You never mentioned to him that he was over paid, threatening him with debt recovery action and asking for immediate payment (on a date 2 weeks before you’ve even sent the letter) is awful. You made the mistake not him.

Senate Republicans want to sell 3 million acres of public land to private investors that will destroy these majestic lands turn them into hosing estates or mine them Boot them out in mid terms hcn.org/articles/senate-repu…

Was James Hansen right?

Experts say the move could help protect one of the planet’s most important ecosystems—often called the “lungs of the Earth.” Nature is amazing. Protect it. 🌳

I thought Donald Trump didn’t know who was behind Project 2025 or anything about it.

The suggestion that the Conservative Party has somehow recovered sufficiently to contemplate winning the next general election outright simply does not correspond with the scale of what happened to it in 2024, or with what has happened since. After fourteen and a half years in government, the Conservatives left office with the country carrying an enormous burden of public debt, an electorate deeply divided and an economy that had endured years of political and economic upheaval. Whatever excuses may now be offered for individual events during that period, the judgement of the electorate was devastating. Labour’s landslide was not produced by some enormous surge in the Labour vote. Labour secured 33.7 per cent of the vote, while the Conservative vote collapsed to just 23.7 per cent. The Conservatives fell from 365 seats in 2019 to only 121 in 2024. Millions of people who had previously voted Conservative either stayed at home or transferred their support elsewhere, including to Reform UK. And the decline did not end on election night. The Conservatives emerged from the election with just 121 MPs and, since then, a further 21 have walked across the floor and defected to Reform. On that mathematics, 121 minus 21 leaves them with only 100 MPs today. Those MPs who crossed the floor are no longer Conservative MPs; they are Reform MPs. There is nothing constitutionally preventing an elected Member of Parliament from changing political allegiance while retaining his or her seat. That is an extraordinary position from which to claim that the Conservative Party has somehow rebuilt itself sufficiently to win an election outright. It was reduced from 365 MPs to 121 and, following those subsequent defections, is now down to around 100. At the same time, the Conservative electoral coalition that disintegrated in 2024 has fragmented across Reform, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and those who simply chose not to vote Conservative at all. No one has simply forgotten fourteen and a half years of Conservative government or the circumstances in which it ended. You cannot suffer a defeat of that magnitude, lose such an enormous proportion of your parliamentary representation, see further MPs walk across the floor to Reform and then simply declare, within a single parliamentary term, that the party is once again ready to govern. That is why Kevin Hollinrake’s declaration that the Conservatives are now the “least hated political party” is so revealing. Being able to say that fewer people actively dislike you than before is not evidence that those who abandoned you have returned. Nor is it evidence that the trust destroyed during the Conservatives’ final years in government has somehow been restored. The fundamental question therefore remains: where is the evidence of this supposed Conservative recovery? Declaring themselves ready for a snap election is one thing. Rebuilding the enormous electoral coalition they lost in 2024 is quite another.

Rapid Lies account.

I just want to cry reading this. This moment I spent with a Proboscis Monkey is still the most cherished I’ve had. It just beggars belief how many have died and lost their habitat with the Indonesian forest fires over the past month! 😭

As Senator John McCain argued, Putin is provoked by our weakness. So long as he can do so with impunity, he will escalate. As in the late 1930s, we are stumbling towards a conflict which will blow up out of control.

In June, Belgium’s diamond industry gifted Trump an 18-karat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds and 75 gemstones. A month later, European diamonds got an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. We don’t know where the ring is today. Where did it go? Did Trump keep it for himself?

Can’t wait to hear JD Vance lecture Europe about free speech again

I will just point out that if the entire Amazon Rainforest is destroyed in Brazil temperatures will increase another 1C and a climate meltdown where all the ice melts and temperatures increase +15C becomes much more likely. So the elections in Brazil really do matter. Vote Lula

1. Trump doesn’t joke. He’s a sociopathic sadist who doesn’t even possess a sense of humor. 2. Explain how Trump’s comments were a joke and what was funny about them.

In 14 yrs, the Tories destroyed our defences, our legal system and prisons, the NHS, our welfare system, our infrastructure, with austerity, claiming it was "necessary to "pay down the debt". Yet they left the UK with a documented national debt of £2.8 trillion

He is plotting to rig the election. He is stating it publicly. He has done it before. He will try to do it again. We are fools to ignore him.

World risks being ‘unliveable’ if new oil and gas fields approved say all the worlds climate scientists and anyone who isn’t corrupted by this insidious industry bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6zx…