@suenet.bsky.social
I'm a Brit who's followed US politics for 25+ years - mostly as Thom Hartmann's newsletter editor - & the environment even longer. I've a BSc in Environmental Studies. I write mostly about issues affecting the UK, USA & the whole of Earth. Views my own.
It is crucial to keep Clause 208 in the Crime and Policing Bill on Wednesday, and I'll be doing everything I can to ensure that happens.
Rightwing anti-abortion rhetoric coming from the US is having a disastrous impact in the UK
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Stumbled across this:
The root of "female" has nothing to do with "male". It derives from the Mediaeval Latin femella, a diminutive of femina, a woman. It was mistakenly transcribed in Middle English as "female", perhaps creating the impression that a woman is a version/variant/ subset of a man.
The new paper "Why Biden-era clean energy investment policies had limited political returns" by @agazmararian.bsky.social, @natemjensen.bsky.social and @dustintingley.bsky.social has great data, but it's wild in a paper about messaging and information environments to...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tie the minimum wage to the maximum wealth, so it goes up when the top wealth increases, but is frozen when the top wealth goes down, so workers are not affected by the variability of the stock market.
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
McCarthyism is back with a vengeance on both sides of the Atlantic, with major government clampdowns on people challenging official narratives. Yet we hear not a peep from those who get so exercised about students not wanting fascists to speak at universities. Cos that's the real threat, isn't it?
![Renewables are highly competitive and, for this reason, low-profit. Fossil fuels are uncompetitive and high profit. Media proprietors, like almost all billionaires and hectomillionaires, gain exceedingly by investing in them. [HIGHLIGHTED] If it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, this is because there isn’t one. [END OF HIGHLIGHT] For the sake of the ultra-rich, we are all being gaslit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:srd2elpqbgoq74tmmvghfgln/bafkreibsggh6ur7efe6zgtnxxfjyuxtwnbfqw4f7bsozdgeitpcbzvw5ou)
Absolutely bang on from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social here 🎯
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/uk-energy-prices-soaring-war-iran-fossil-fuel-north-sea
In the first two weeks of Trump's war against Iran, US taxpayers have shelled out over $16 billion for ammo and other war expenses. Meanwhile, Putin has raked in over $6 billion due to higher oil prices and Trump's decision to drop sanctions.
Here at home, Americans are paying much more for energy.
WHERE IT SHOULD HAVE ENDED!
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump #EpsteinFiles #POTUS
Thousands of Americans are calling for Hegseth to be removed.
Movements like this grow fast when people realize they’re not alone.
Sign here:
calltoactivism.info/firepetehegs...
#NoNewNuclear - deregulation could cost us dear on safety, nature-damage, and loss of local democracy
STILL seeing this at my local garden centre. Arrrgh!
Peat needs to stay in the ground. It's an essential store of carbon, critical for biodiversity & under threat. Demand peat-free compost! And complain if you see peat on sale.
The Royal Horticultural Society agrees: www.rhs.org.uk/advice/peat
Trump has shredded the Constitution. He's taken an axe to checks and balances. He's using the presidency to line his own pockets. This is why we need to make sure that on March 28 — two weeks from today— we march across America in the largest demonstration in the nation’s history. NoKings.org
#DailyGlimmer 👇🏽 this is a must read to feed your soul
A small group of landcare volunteers kept turning up and are close to eliminating a smothering weed at a major endpoint wetland for migratory birds 🤩⭐️🤩⭐️✨🤩
Lessons for all of us
#ecology #conservation #birds
At about $25,000 a pop, we’d now have 1.2 million solar-powered homes, no egregiously unnecessary death and destruction required.
If you watch one long-form youtube this year make it this
@kevinclimate.bsky.social updates our climate predicament
Spoiler: To meet +2°C emissions must fall ~13% in the UK every year from the start of this year
#2Late4NonRadicalFutures
#ActNow
#EndFossilFuel
#NoBillionaires
shorturl.at/oybVG
When a friend goes crazy you do your best to get them help but also to protect yourself and others from the harm they are doing. You don't join in their craziness.
best one yet!
They all are.
From Sudbury to Sheffield, last weekend Cardiff to Camden, I'm seeing around these islands huge numbers of people getting out the #VoteGreen message
"There might not be this boundary between the animal and the plant kingdom—or it might be a lot more porous than we think."
How little we understand about the #biodiversity we are fast trashing. How much we need to #Unlearn
phys.org/news/2026-03...
Monday: We have won
Tuesday: Iran is about to surrender
Wednesday: High oil prices are good
Thursday: There is nothing left to hit
Friday: They have no army, navy or missiles left
Saturday: HELP
war seems to be going to plan!
A U turn on affordability, adding regulations for 'Made in America' and removing them for mortgages and housing construction, Women's History gets a mention - but no women. And the TVA CEO should not get a higher salary than Trump.
suenethercott.substack.com/p/executive-...
NEW: Why does gas set the price of electricity – and is there an alternative?
Make yourself a tea (or grab a beer??) and enjoy my Friday longread on marginal pricing, ideas for market reform – & how to break the link btwn gas & power prices for good
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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@davidho.bsky.social is absolutely right. NCAR isn't just a great institution in its own right, but vital for all of us Earth scientists at universities and institutions across the country and around the world. To learn more, watch the video below. Write to NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov today and #SaveNCAR !
A message to President Trump: #NoDeepSeaMining
We cannot trash the last relatively untouched ecosystems on this fragile planet.
And yes, there is the #RuleofLaw.
#PlanetaryBoundaries
theconversation.com/in-its-hunt-...
we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...
