Big Oil Breaks Everything The planet, our democracy, our courts...

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#iran #donaldtrump #middleeast #war #lego #epstein #epsteinfiles YouTube video by mrcodydahler

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Scottish Greens 2026 Manifesto Launch YouTube video by Scottish Greens

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Raise taxes on companies profiteering from Iran war Millions across the UK are already struggling just to get by. Bills are rising, wages aren’t keeping up, and families are being pushed to the brink. As the impacts of the Iran war ripple through the g...

The Iran war is making everything more expensive for us, but some companies are cashing in. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now demanding they are taxed more on their record profits to help us all with the cost of living. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ra...

End Palantir’s NHS contract NOW Palantir, the controversial U.S. company working with ICE and the Israeli military, has access to our private data via NHS databases. We need the Government to trigger the break clause on their contra...

Palantir, the controversial U.S. company working with ICE and the Israeli military, has access to our private data via NHS databases. We need the Government to trigger the break clause on their contract NOW. 🚨Can you sign and share? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/trigger-...

I think we have all been number 5 at some point

Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran.

Meanwhile, the UK is letting US bombers land, refuel and re-arm.

Complicity is always a choice — and our government has chosen to drag Britain into an illegal war.

BE LIKE SPAIN
#illegalwar

And the environmental damage is devastating too.

Dedication

This Is What It Looks Like When Reality Collapses. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is dead.

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Is that actually what he said because if so thats awesome! About time someone used the big words on these evil people.

Aww good morning lil guy!

Zoe Grunewald (@zoegrunewald) Green Party of England and Wales candidate Hannah Spencer didn’t just edge past Reform, she thrashed them. The Greens finished 12 points clear of Reform’s Matt Goodwin. The combined Green and Labour ...

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UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Iran War Is Also a Climate War Climate change is not a peripheral part of what we’re seeing in Iran—it’s structurally embedded in modern warfare.

"At a time when civilization is hurtling toward irreversible climate breakdown, to overlook the climate consequences of three of the deadliest militaries on Earth going to war would be journalistic malpractice."

#ClimateSky

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Billionaires won’t leave if we tax them – and even if they do, so what? YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Explained very easily for non academic types like me!

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Hannah Spencer: councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and the only candidate who can beat Reform in Gorton & Denton today 💚

Thats terrible. Is there no end to the cruelty?

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

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Seems a useful list, as soon as life is a tiny bit less busy I am going through it.

Days left to act: Ban cruel cages for hens Right now we have a unique opportunity to stop this industrial-scale torture: The UK government has proposed ending the use of cages for hens, and they have launched an official consultation to ask th...

Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️

The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Starmer calls for apology from Man Utd co-owner Jim Ratcliffe after claiming UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants Founder of chemicals giant Ineos, which received £120m in UK aid last year, said immigration is ‘costing too much’

I am using their laundry detergent at the moment. Sigh. Yet another company on my boycott list. uk.news.yahoo.com/man-united-c... #boycott #boycotteverything

Scottish Greens reconcile with English & Welsh counterparts Scottish Greens party council votes to restore relations with sister party in England and Wales

💚 Scottish Greens party council votes to restore relations with sister party in England and Wales.

Ofcom investigates X — now the government must prove it can enforce the law The country has now finally caught up with the disgraceful actions being undertaken on Grok

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People would stop going to twitter if all the people they followed had left. You have to lead by example. If the government leave and make it so all the schools and councils etc leave then a lot of people wouldn't go there any more.

I think he should make a stand though.

Its a disgrace. Why is anyone still there? There are many of alternatives, bluesky included.

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.