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@jongurr.bsky.social

Tree inspector, conservation, travelling, pro-Europe, people and life.

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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

13.02.2026 01:33 — 👍 5273    🔁 3101    💬 197    📌 401
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MISLEADING: A new academic paper by @qmul.bsky.social has attracted significant media attention by claiming that EVs & heat pumps deliver no proven carbon savings in UK ahead of 2030 clean power target - and should therefore be postponed.

Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧵

12.02.2026 15:10 — 👍 190    🔁 82    💬 13    📌 6
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Guardian view on Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Britain does not need political lectures from a billionaire tax exile | Editorial Editorial: Comments on the ‘colonisation of the UK’ by the co-owner of Manchester United were erroneous, crass and a gif

In 2020, Jim Ratcliffe moved his fortune to Monaco, saving himself an estimated £4 billion in tax.

In the same year, immigrants in the UK contributed around £20 billion in tax.

That says it all.

13.02.2026 17:16 — 👍 539    🔁 238    💬 14    📌 8
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Tony Benn warned me about Mandelson 40 years ago Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t convicted last week or last year, but 18 years ago, writes Jeremy Corbyn. Parliament needs to look itself in the mirror and ask itself how it has become embroiled in a ghastly w...

‘Many are viewing the Mandelson scandal through the narrow lens of whether Starmer should stay or go. This misses the point: most of those who are lined up to replace him are likely to carry forward the abject political legacy he leaves behind.’

www.independent.co.uk/voices/peter...

13.02.2026 14:47 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

EXCL: Police are assessing new claims unearthed by ITV News tonight that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was setting up a business with convicted paedophile Epstein while STILL a Trade Envoy.

It appears the plan was to discreetly use his "aura and access".

www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

12.02.2026 21:10 — 👍 154    🔁 80    💬 15    📌 5
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Nigel Farage Advisor Tied to Russian Oil Profits Via Orban-Backed Influence Operation The man in charge of developing Reform's plans for Government sits on the board of an organisation whose funding is tied to Russian oil money

🔴Nigel Farage Advisor Tied to Russian Oil Profits Via Orban-Backed Influence Operation

The man in charge of developing Reform’s plans for Government sits on the board of an organisation whose funding is tied to Russian oil money

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/13/n...

13.02.2026 11:10 — 👍 203    🔁 143    💬 8    📌 20

I don’t know, maybe one that puts people and the planet at its heart and understands the importance of both?

13.02.2026 08:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Government hits back at Tony Blair Institute call to ditch clean power targets Think tank calls for 'energy strategy reset' to permit more drilling in the North Sea and drop clean power by 2030 goal, sparking criticism from government and analysts

The Tony Blair Institute out there today calling for more oil and gas drilling in an absolute gift for Farage and Badenoch. Government will be forgiven for thinking, with friends like these... www.businessgreen.com/news/4525624...

13.02.2026 08:00 — 👍 119    🔁 43    💬 17    📌 22

PhD opportunity: I am looking for someone with a passion for the natural environment and an interest in developing applied research collaboratively with the RSPB
Please spread the word!
@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
@bes-conservation.bsky.social
@rewildingbritain.org.uk
@rspb.bsky.social

13.02.2026 08:15 — 👍 7    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
Labour Aren't Incompetent - They're Doing What They're Paid To Do | Interview With Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Novara Media Labour Aren't Incompetent - They're Doing What They're Paid To Do | Interview With Zack Polanski

Just as I’ve always said… Starmer was employed to kill the left by destroying the Labour Party…

Although thankfully, what we’ve also learnt is that the left will live on despite the demise of a single left wing institution!!

youtu.be/rtPojDOwptQ?...

12.02.2026 20:04 — 👍 83    🔁 25    💬 5    📌 1
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U.S. secretly deporting Palestinians to West Bank in coordination with Israel Palestinians arrested by ICE are being flown, bound and shackled, on private jet belonging to Israeli-American tycoon close to Trump, investigation reveals.

Here's a story that the US media has missed or ignored.

www.972mag.com/us-secretly-...

09.02.2026 16:37 — 👍 20    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0

Reform UK Durham Councillor Nick Brown has resigned.

“It’s clear that certain members of the Reform leadership including yourself but principally your deputy, Cllr Grimes, hold members of their own administration in very serious disdain and consequently refuse to engage in any meaningful dialogue.”

13.02.2026 06:29 — 👍 144    🔁 63    💬 15    📌 4
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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

12.02.2026 19:46 — 👍 26386    🔁 11301    💬 2041    📌 991
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Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’ Rollback of government’s ability to limit climate-heating pollution will make families ‘sicker and less safe’, environmental advocate says

What the betting that this does not get roundly condemned by the British government? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

13.02.2026 06:58 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Businesses must take responsibility for biodiversity loss – for their sake as much as ours Scientists believe we’re seeing the largest loss of life since the dinosaurs – and it’s a risk to the global economy. Governments and companies need to work together on solutions

Businesses must take responsibility for biodiversity loss – for their sake as much as ours

13.02.2026 07:01 — 👍 20    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 1
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Tam, gdzie świstunka jeszcze śpiewa. Prof. Maziarz o granicach zmiany - Academia PAN Od ponad 20 lat dr hab. Marta Maziarz, profesor Muzeum i Instytutu Zoologii PAN, prowadzi długoterminowe obserwacje ptaków leśnych w Puszczy Białowieskiej. Od ponad dekady bada je również w Wielkiej B...

"the Białowieża Forest becomes more than just a conservation object. It's a point of reference that allows us to think about the future of European forests. This isn't a nostalgic look back."

Where the warbler still sings. Professor Maziarz on the limits of change: academia.pan.pl/tam-gdzie-sw...

12.02.2026 16:51 — 👍 30    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

We're hearing that Antonia Romeo will become the next cabinet secretary after an expedited appointments process, and in spite of a briefing campaign against her.

12.02.2026 16:54 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 9    📌 4
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Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

12.02.2026 15:33 — 👍 30    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 0

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

12.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 4519    🔁 1861    💬 98    📌 95
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Oh great, Reform’s fascinating men have yet more thrilling opinions about women After a podcast emerged in which Reform’s Gorton and Denton by-election frontrunner Matthew Goodwin held forth about ‘childless women’, Kat Brown says the fact that people lap this nonsense up is…

Oh great, Reform’s fascinating men have yet more thrilling opinions about women

A podcast emerged in which Reform’s Gorton and Denton by-election frontrunner Matthew Goodwin held forth about ‘childless women’

www.independent.co.uk/voices/matth...

12.02.2026 12:43 — 👍 75    🔁 37    💬 9    📌 3

He was their advisor for less than 2 weeks…

Reform drops green Tory Ben Goldsmith after rural backlash

Farage cuts ties with environmental expert after farmers complain about rewilding views

12.02.2026 15:46 — 👍 57    🔁 30    💬 4    📌 0
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Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil | Good Law Project Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

"A conservative network led by Michael Gove and Nigel Farage’s senior adviser James Orr has spent more than half a million pounds pushing far-right and anti-trans voices – some of it fuelled by profits from Russian oil."

12.02.2026 11:15 — 👍 518    🔁 273    💬 19    📌 15

Attractive pollarded trees in a marketplace.

12.02.2026 12:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

12.02.2026 02:26 — 👍 15662    🔁 7700    💬 523    📌 298
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Staffordshire Reform leader Chris Large faces council racism probe Councillor Chris Large denies claims he wrote or endorsed racist comments on his TikTok account.

Reform UK Staffordshire:

Leader Ian Cooper sacked because he’s a white supremacist.

Replacement Leader Chris Large faces council racism claim probe

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

12.02.2026 06:36 — 👍 105    🔁 56    💬 4    📌 2
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Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

12.02.2026 01:35 — 👍 7542    🔁 3925    💬 237    📌 599

Reform-run Kent County Council accused of 'fantasy economics' over claimed future budget savings

www.itv.com/news/meridia...

12.02.2026 06:43 — 👍 47    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 2

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

11.02.2026 21:36 — 👍 6888    🔁 2864    💬 178    📌 112
Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a “walking skeleton” and “dying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. “She lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. “My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.

Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a “walking skeleton” and “dying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. “She lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. “My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

11.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 8135    🔁 2209    💬 177    📌 495
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Revealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripled Influential Labour committee chairs call on government to clean up politics as our new analysis finds record £42 million in company donations ahead of last election

"Reform UK last year received £200,000 from a tiny UK firm run by a churchwarden in Potters Bar who has worked for an Iranian-Kazakh billionaire who recently bankrolled Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos...It listed tax debts totalling more than its political contributions"

11.02.2026 16:13 — 👍 120    🔁 67    💬 5    📌 3

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