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EU conservatives vote with far right to approve cuts to green rules The outcome highlights the EPP’s willingness to abandon its traditional centrist coalition allies.

🚨🚨Breaking and bad #EU news: Lawmakers in @europarl.europa.eu agreed today to exempt more companies from green reporting rules after the center-right, right-wing and far-right groups allied to pass the EU’s first omnibus simplification package. #omnibus 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/epp-...

The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies

Those companies pay billions to their shareholders

And then lay off their workers

Think that's unfair?

Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…

Make no mistake, the Chancellor is laying the groundwork for her budget as hard choices for everyone but the wealthiest.⁣
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𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 on taxing extreme wealth, 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 on shifting the burden onto those with the broadest shoulders.⁣

Normally, it's a problem if you say something to a federal court then the next day go online and admit you lied, but we're only talking about the President, the DOJ, and the US Attorneys lying about his plan to illegally withhold funds to starve people, so there likely won't be any consequences.

Screenshot of Guardian headline available at link

This is deeply disappointing from Starmer.

The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯

How embarrassing for the UK.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I don't know what is more depressing. That the BBC seems to have no clue what democratic socialism is or that someone who comments on politics for a living thinks it's the same as communism.

Jesus wept, indeed. GCSE, Introduction to Politics, Chapter 1, stuff.

Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv Verdict ends decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top Brexit campaigner

🚨🚨 Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to #NigelFarage's Brexit group. Great report by @elisabraun.bsky.social on a decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top #Brexit campaigner. www.euractiv.com/news/belgian...

Zach knocking it out of the park again.

If you’re feeling politically homeless and want an authentic, sincere and human leader who really cares without being joyless, take a watch of this.

Well said Zack! #BoycottIsrael

If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.

Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen.

Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy!

Sorta seems like a problem.

“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"

- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.

Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

Most people who actually live next to immigrants are just fine. It’s the people never exposed to anyone different from them who get angriest — and to whom Vance is appealing here.

Also, Vance is a sociopathic ghoul whose nativist bullshit would have prevented his own children from existing.

When children going missing from Home Office and local authority care was flagged couple of years back #r4today presenters uncritically repeated claims children were "voluntarily trafficked". It was an angle used by politicians, and still the idea of protecting kids is dismissed as a "pull factor"

Every study about vaccines that comes out is like "this vaccine is 97% effective at preventing this disease & also 3 other diseases & it somehow helps you play the violin beautifully" and antivaxxers are doing their own research that's telling them they can cure measles by eating polar bear liver.

"Damn that Zack Polanski and his beautiful chest hair... and his fluffed lisp..."

Does the mail want to tell us about how they really think about him? Do they need a room?

The night hope came to Darlington, in the form of the new Green Party leader At a sold-out public meeting, Green Party leader Zack Polanski shoed Darlington what the real politics of hope now looks like

Love this - and a huge welcome to the party!

"It was time I stopped watching from the sideline and actually became part of the change.

That night, I decided to join the Greens."

www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Whenever I’ve criticised the state of the monarchy in this country, I often get told that ‘They have no real power’ so can be ignored.

If this isn’t real power, what is?

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

For some reason basically every federal US department has joined Bluesky all at once so maybe uh, block that fascist propaganda shit

Nothing says "cyberpunk" like doing what a billionaire tells you to do

Why can I remember no Labour politician making this point, this well?

Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.

This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.

This is very classic frustrating interview tactic the Green’s are always subjected to more than others.

A nuanced medical policy based on harm reduction just being reduced to “So you want everyone to buy crack?! You want my child to buy heroin from Tesco as part of a meal deal?!

If there’s one thing the English are really good at, it’s energetically and purposely shooting themselves in the foot over and over again and never learning.

We need to get better at calling out fascists, authoritarians, racists, and bigots as the pathetic spineless babies they are.

Their position is not one of strength, but weakness. Their entire worldview is based in fear of such small differences that don't actual impact their life. It's pitiful.

Well if Labour losing 25.9% and Greens gaining 25.9% is anything to go by, Labour should be scared.

Oh fuck OFF. A rocky ceasefire after years of genocide does not change anything in regards to this.

Fuck Eurovision.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

"The one about Zack Polanski vs. a bunch of different flavoured Tories"

Give 'em what for @zackpolanski.bsky.social 💚