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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Kemi Badenoch's Refusal to Distance Herself From Elon Musk is an Act of Moral Cowardice The Conservative Party leader's refusal to criticise the X owner's dangerous misinformation campaign against the UK should exclude her from ever returning to high office

Kemi Badenoch’s Refusal to Distance Herself From Elon Musk is an Act of Moral Cowardice

Spot on from @adambienkov.bsky.social

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Cartoon showing Jeff Bezos walking into the office of the Washington Post, followed by two servants pushing wheelbarrows filled with money. The slogan 'Democracy Dies in Darkness' lies discarded on the ground, while a new slogan 'Whatever You Say, Mr. Bezos' is being installed above the door. A cartoonist labeled 'Ann Telnaes' walks out through a side door with a sign on it that reads 'Critical cartoonists and journalists - exit here'.

Cartoonist @anntelnaes.bsky.social quits the Washington Post after a cartoon mocking Post-owner Jeff Bezos is refused. Cartoon for @trouw.nl: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje...

#JeffBezos #WashingtonPost #StandWithAnn #pressfreedom

'Anyone who wants to serve in a foreign government commenting on our affairs should be very careful'

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey says the Prime Minister should summon the US ambassador over Elon Musk's tweets

@itvnews.bsky.social

Yes!

"If you're not stand prepared to stand up as a Tory MP and denounce what's been said about Jess Phillips, who's now had threats made to her, then you need to seriously consider why you're in politics in the first place", says Keir Starmer

Starmer hits back at Elon Musk: ‘Desperate for attention’ and ‘spreading lies’ - Politics.co.uk Keir Starmer appeared to accuse Elon Musk of “spreading lies” in a lengthy public statement following weeks in which the tech billionaire has criticised his government.  After delivering a speech on r...

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer responds to Elon Musk

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Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible, they’re not interested in victims. They’re interested in themselves.”

Full statement 👇
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A (successful) test of the state-by-state approach! A day-after-Christmas present for the planet from Albany, New York

New York State is the twelfth-largest economy on earth, and now it's going to demand that Big Oil pay for the climate damages it has caused. This is how the tobacco industry met its match
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Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car In Paris, Barcelona and Brussels, authorities are adopting varied approaches to the task of reducing congestion and pollution

“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.”

Leadership. #Paris
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Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study Busting the myth of the "scofflaw cyclist" Danish Road Directorate studies reveal that while 66% of motorists routinely break road traffic laws only 5% of cyclists do so. Law breaking by cyclists is h...

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding, yet 66% of people did so when driving. And if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com
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Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

It’s a FCKing mess! Nothing is working and we are in free fall. A total disgrace!

Elon Musk Is Posting Nonstop Falsehoods About 'Grooming Gangs' Musk’s posts, which have racked up hundreds of millions of views on X, are his latest effort at inserting himself into UK politics.

Elon Musk has posted ***300 TIMES*** about UK "grooming gangs" in the last ten days.

Including: Calling for UK government officials to be hanged and jailed; demanding the removal of Keir Starmer as UK prime minister; suggesting Tommy Robinson be released from prison.

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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Man, Jeff Bezos really did bring in these idiots to kill off the @washingtonpost.com

They censored an @anntelnaes.bsky.social political cartoon. So she quit

Time to financially punish not just the Post but Amazon anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows Ports including in Saudi Arabia and the US projected to be seriously damaged by a metre of sea level rise

‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows

- Ports including in Saudi Arabia and the US projected to be seriously damaged by a metre of sea level rise

#climatecrisis
Story by me
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I’m scarcely a great fan of Starmer, but these papers are now ranting about him to the extent it’s becoming nasty, obsessive and damaging to our national interests, if not also our way of life and values.

Everything stated in this post is a provable fact.

You are entitled to your own opinion.

You are not entitled to your own facts.

Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.

In Norway, nearly all new cars sold in 2024 were fully electric Fully electric cars account for more than 28% of all cars driven in the Nordic country as of December, according to Public Road Administration data. The post In Norway, nearly all new cars sold in 2024 were fully electric appeared first on Euractiv.

In Norway, nearly all new cars sold in 2024 were fully electric

🎯🎯🎯

A Copenhagen light rail train that allows bikes on board, supporting multi-modal trips.

Typical arguments about whether cars or public transit or bikes are always better for a specific kind of trip, or a specific kind of day, are usually the wrong debate. Smart cities give choices & make multimodal trips, or days, or weeks, attractive. They support multi-modal citizens who can choose.

'Our beaches are full of sewage, rubbish and sanitary products - Brexit is to blame' The EU previously acted as a watchdog on sewage pollution

Sewage spills considered illegal by the European Union are getting worse in Britain after Brexit, The i Paper has found
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2024’s most costly climate disasters killed 2,000 people and caused $229bn in damages, data shows Analysis of insurance payouts by Christian Aid reveals three-quarters of financial destruction occurred in US

Protests against the costs of the green transition/decarbonisation rarely take into account the cost of not acting. The slower we do this, the more costly it becomes www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World endures 'decade of deadly heat' as 2024 caps hottest years on record UN secretary general António Guterres says ‘we must exit this road to ruin’ in annual new year message The world has endured a “decade of deadly heat”, with 2024 capping 10 years of unprecedented temperatures, the UN has said. Delivering his annual new…

World endures 'decade of deadly heat' as 2024 caps hottest years on record

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.

The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form.

It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..

Massive car-dependent freeway interchange

Never forget, car dependency isn’t freedom.

Some might ask “what’s more free than cars?”

Choices.

Choices are more free than car dependency.

It’s not a hard concept.

I’m not pitting cars against any other single mode of transport.

I’m rejecting design that creates dependency on just one mode.

Nigel Farage is watching hungrily as the far right sweeps to power across Europe In 2025, European liberal democracy will be in a fight for its survival

Opinion | In 2025, European liberal democracy will be in a fight for its survival

🖋️ @iandunt.bsky.social

Well done RollingStone for reporting it accurately.

Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed.

The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.