Clem At a Wood

Crack down on what @theguardian.com - language seems to imply there is something that actually needs ‘cracking down’ on

*gasp*

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
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So much to mourn here. ICE shot and killed a single father just after he has dropped his two kids off at daycare. Their justification for stopping him was traffic violations form 12 years ago. Their justification for shooting him was that he was driving away.

A completely needless tragedy.

This is kinda sad

I like the effect but it’s not ideal.
#screenprinting

Very cool 👌🏼

Pollutting now and cleaning up later is not a viable strategy: Direct Air Capture (DAC) is hitting a hard reality check.

Costs are falling much slower than anticipated, casting doubts on the nascent technique’s role in tackling climate change.

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

“It is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities – primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.”
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Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

Thread 👇

And while the cost of living impacts have been severe, they haven't been terminal as he missed the window.

US LNG was ready, renewables were ready, demand response/efficiency surprised.

If he drained German storage even just 6 years ago and kicked it off then instead of 3, different story.

He's RT'ing himself on X but he's still only gotten a fraction of the engagement there that he's gotten here

He has 150k followers on X, and about 1k here

Truly what is going on with these people, I will never understand

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.

Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

Colourway, project for the transformation of a large space under an overpass in Plumstead South London, WIP

not long to go, folks

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UK rail freight boss urges Rachel Reeves to scrap fuel duty freeze ‘Almost perverse’ measure conflicts with aim to transfer freight movements to rail, says John Smith of GB Railfreight

👏👏👏👏👏

The pace of change in capacity is quite something. It was only a few years ago GE’s record 16 MW turbine was installed. Now it’s over 20MWs.

Robot meets bollard. Nothing beats the #WorldBollardAssociation

👋🏼 goodbye to the green and pleasant land 😭

Never give ✊🏻 - that one email sent in a two hour journey will be the reward you are looking for

Reform councillor works on asylum claims for Home Office, investigation reveals Paul Bean may have breached civil service impartiality rules over alleged social media posts Campaigners have complained to the Home Office after it was revealed a councillor for Reform UK also works for the government department processing asylum and immigration claims. Paul Bean, who serves as a councillor for Crook ward at Durham county council, declared his day job as a civil servant at the Home Office in his register of interests. Continue reading...

Reform councillor works on asylum claims for Home Office, investigation reveals

Refugee charities install safe rooms and relocate amid rise in far-right threats Exclusive: One NGO placed on an online hitlist had to temporarily close its office owing to harassing phone calls

Refugee charities receiving death threats from far right
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The never-ending drama of dealing with errant energy companies Three horror stories with familiar plots, dramatic twists and farcical surprises

The never-ending drama of dealing with errant energy companies

‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza

"I entrust you with Palestine – the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

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A shame that the Welsh government don’t want to own it. How will people know that evidence based policy is good actually if we don’t trumpet the results