‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

“[People in the plastics industry] are very happy for us to look at ourselves and at each other, and not look at them,” says @bethgardiner.bsky.social, author of "Plastic Inc: Big Oil, Big Money and the Plan to Trash our Future."

Trump officials plan to build 5,000-person military base in Gaza, files show Exclusive: approximately 350-acre compound planned as base for multinational force, according to records reviewed by the Guardian

Trump officials plan to build 5,000-person military base in Gaza, files show www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

She’s Back! Wisdom The Incredible Laysan Albatross Has Returned The world’s oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, the Laysan albatross, has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge to nest.

Wisdom the Laysan albatross is back! She's at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Originally banded in 1956, she's at least 75 years old, has flown >3 million miles (lifetime Premier 1K® on United), laid 50 to 60 eggs, and fledged ~30 chicks. 🪶

How ‘forest bathing’ keeps lungs healthy Wooded environments release organic compounds that seem to improve respiratory health, but the magnitude and mechanism of the effect remains unclear.

How ‘forest bathing’ keeps lungs healthy www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The question is moot Reverend Jesse Jackson Saturday night live Dailymotion video by Jesse Jackson Jr.

RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson

There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

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Doesn’t matter. Deporting people like this is simply dumping them on foreign countries that have nothing to do with it.
Once you hand out citizenship, you are responsible for proving and punishing any wrongdoing.
Otherwise, a regime could boot out anyone they don’t like.

2/2 Stripping people of their citizenship and deporting them is just a way avoiding the duties of governance and dumping the problem on another country.
I would make exceptions for those who take up foreign residency to avoid taxes. They have forgone their duties as citizens.

1/2 I agree. The responsibilities of citizenship go both ways. In a democracy, citizens agree to respect and abide by the rules set by their representatives.

In turn, those reps have the duty to ensure those rules are applied equally and fairly. If someone commits a crime - try them.

Action on Cycle Theft Petition London Cycling Campaign are calling for action to be taken on cycle theft. Sign the petition to pledge your support.

I've just signed @londoncycling.bsky.social's petition calling for action on cycle theft...

40,000 bikes are stolen every year in London. This has to change. Join me in calling for action: action.lcc.org.uk/theft

Two yellow and dark green kitchen sponges

Kitchen sponges like these release microplastics that end up in the sea – harming marine environments and the animals that live there. And they can't be recycled, so remain in landfill for hundreds of years. For eco-friendly sponges see: littlegreenspace.org.uk/reviews/seep...

Gun Control Is as Old as the Old West Contrary to the popular imagination, bearing arms on the frontier was a heavily regulated business

A few famous shoot-outs gives a very distorted view of the “Wild West”.

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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

“Russia’s South Caucasus.”

Something has gone seriously wrong at the Washington Post

I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at galluppanel@gallupmail.com to let them know what you think of this.

This is never surprising, unfortunately. People's perception of the types of crimes that cause the most harm to our communities generally is totally focused on "street crime" and not the very real financial crimes worsening wealth divides and environmental crimes damaging our health and planet.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.

It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.

Just wow.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Left- Israeli activist says that any American criticizing Israel should be "hunted down".

Right- Israel accused of spraying cancer-linked herbicide on farms in southern Lebanon.

Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed | Mohamad Bazzi A crypto startup founded by Trump’s family signed a huge deal with the UAE president’s brother. Where’s the political fallout?

“Under any other president, a UAE royal secretly paying $500 million to the Trump family’s crypto business would cause a political earthquake in Washington. There would be demands for an investigation by Congress, televised hearings, and months of damage control” — my latest @theguardian.com

Rose Njeri, the viral Finance Bill email tool dev, is back with ‘Tuma Report’, a citizen journalism app for Kenya If you followed the intense civic engagement around the Finance Bill 2025 last May, you likely remember the "Civic Email" tool. It was a simple yet devastatingly effective web app that allowed thousands of Kenyans to flood parliamentary inboxes with objections. The developer behind it, Rose Njeri Tunguru (known on X as @rtunguru), has just launched her next major project, and it lands right as the country begins to look toward the upcoming election period. It’s called Tuma Report, and it is arguably a more ambitious attempt to decentralize how news is gathered and consumed in Kenya.

Citizen journalism in Kenya just got an upgrade with the new Tuma Report app, a tool that lets you track and report civic events across Kenya instantly.

‘I didn’t know how to shoot’: how African men have been tricked into fighting for Russia

Ro Khanna posting Epstein emails discussing a 9 year old.

9. At least one was just 9.

Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein — Futurism

Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein - Futurism

“We’ve basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick”

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In 2018 Steve Bannon bragged to Jeffrey Epstein about his influence over European politicians including Nigel Farage and that he could “shut down any crypto legislation or anything else we want”.

What is Reform’s first and only piece of draft legislation?

A pro-crypto Bill.

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler sought Jeffrey Epstein’s help to secure a top job at Facebook just months before the sex offender’s arrest, and advised him on how to respond to press coverage of his crimes. ft.trib.al/P3CyJeg

Uncovering a growing anti-human rights movement We uncover truth and hold the powerful to account. Take action, donate and join the Amnesty movement to protect human rights.

Amnesty International mapped the finances of 65 anti-rights groups operating across the UK. The largest spenders are UK branches of US organisations (£34 million), ultra-conservative Christian policy/advocacy groups (£31.5 million), and anti-abortion organisations (£28.5 million).