Ben Rawlence

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators” New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

15,000 scientists warn of socio-economic collapse. Yet nearly half of Brits think climate change won’t affect them.

This gulf in perception is why we’re staging the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis.

Has your MP confirmed they’ll be there? 👇

Now or Never 110,000 fascists marched on London. The mythology that we can debate with fascism is dead. Now is the moment to organise.

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“the same administrative apparatus behind refugee rightlessness will expand to produce domestic rightlessness unless actively prevented from doing so.”

Buzzzzzzzzz Something to actually do about insect decline

"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more 'natural' than an array of solar panels. But a corn field is a biological desert ... Put up some solar panels, and add some plants that only need to be mowed once a year or so (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."

uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature...

Featured on the nature reading guide and discounted this month, alongside great books by @adamweymouth.bsky.social @calflyn.bsky.social @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social and others.

Our book about scientists taking direct action on climate and nature is now available on audiobook!

This means our international friends should now be able to access it @scientistrebellion.nl
@scientistrebellion.bsky.social
@srnyc.bsky.social
@sr-sweden.bsky.social
@ucs.org

Following extreme events with severe impacts, public interest is generated in its causes.

One of the dominant questions is: “Was this event caused by #ClimateChange?”

This WWA guide is intended to help journalists navigate this question👇

www.worldweatherattribution.org/reporting-ex...

Poll showing fraction of the public saying that immigration should be increased or decreased. Between 2000 and 2020, the fraction saying that immigration should increase rose steadily, and was briefly greater than the fraction saying it should be decreased. Then after 2020 the fraction saying that immigration should decrease rose sharply.

Every so often I hear people saying that "the public" has a deep seated, unshift able hostility to immigration, and feel the need to post this.

Our weekly test for E. coli at the Warren in Hay yesterday was an appalling 2644 - nearly 3 times over the threshold for “poor” quality, so advise against bathing. Thanks to @riveractionuk.bsky.social for the kit!

You can see all our test results here:
friendsoftheriverwye.org.uk/hay-clean-ri...

Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, from the University of Bath explains the role of social transformation in responding to the challenge of climate change. Climate Dictionary | Social Transformation

What does 'social transformation' really mean, and what does it look like in practice?

Our CAST Director, Prof Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE (@lwhitmarsh.bsky.social), explains in The Conversation UK's (@uk.theconversation.com) latest addition to its #ClimateDictionary series.

Watch the 3-minute video 👇

A similar thing happened under Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia 1990-2010. Children taken from the poor and sold abroad.

Article in 🧵
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We needed secondary sanctions three years ago 👇

The great tragedy of the 🇺🇦 war is that the 🇺🇸/🇪🇺/G7 could have crushed 🇷🇺 economically & fully armed 🇺🇦 in 2022-23 & this all could have been long over by now.

Liberalism's Death Rattle The September deadline set by France, the UK, Australia and Canada for Israel to stop its genocide and commit to a two-state solution is fast approaching.

This is the end of western liberalism. You can't support an openly declared final solution and continue trading on the same old lines about human rights, equality and justice. Gaza has driven a stake through the dank, rotten heart of liberal ideology. My latest open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...

350,000 attend Tel Aviv rally for ceasefire and hostage-release deal, organizers say * * *

350,000 attended Tel Aviv rally tonight, calling for a ceasefire and a hostage deal.

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

I really hope that @thecccuk.bsky.social engages with this critique, it would be good to see a formal reply.

UK #climate journos, how about approaching Nigel Topping for a response?

‘Hellish’: heatwave brings hottest nights on record to the Middle East Temperatures did not drop below 36C in Sedom, Israel on Tuesday night, while several parts of Jordan stayed above 35C on Monday

Minimum night-time temperature - 36C 😮

Make no mistake

Hothouse hell is coming

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"Were Putin to follow his own logic, he would not be invading Ukraine, but handing over European Russia to Finland or Sweden."

Every journalist downplaying the slaughter of their colleagues needs to be barred.

Those who justify it need to be jailed for complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity.

As happened to broadcasters on 'Hate Radio' after the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Read this very carefully: *61%* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 weeks*

How we can fight back against the right-wing coup For a better future the power of corporations and wealthy elites must be curbed and reversed

UK working class impoverished by right-wing coup

Wages taxed at 20% - 45% marginal rates
Capital gains 18% - 32%
Dividends 8.75% - 39.35%.
Private equity bosses at max rate of 32%.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%

Govts not keen on progressive tax policies

America Is Living in a Climate-Denial Fantasy On climate, the U.S. and the rest of the planet are now in “completely separate worlds.”

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... "The United States and the rest of the planet are now in “completely separate worlds” in terms of legal understanding of climate responsibility" - Great breakdown with @lotteleicht.bsky.social. @climaterights.bsky.social

Why the UAW Endorsed Zohran When Other New York City Unions Held Back Zohran Mamdani’s shock victory in this year’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary upended New York politics and called into question the effectiveness of big local unions, which mostly lined up b...

The @uaw.org endorsed Zohran Mamdani when he was a relatively unknown state legislator, thanks to "rank and file activism and a new culture of openness, transparency, and progressivism in the UAW," wrote Sam Feldman, member of the Executive Board of UAW Local 2325:

Chemical pollution a threat comparable to climate change, scientists warn More than 100 million ‘novel entity’ chemicals are in circulation, with health impact not widely recognised

"a lot of people assume that there’s really great knowledge and huge due diligence on the chemical safety of these things. But it really isn’t the case.”

We are swimming in a toxic soup of chemicals, + we know very little about what they're doing to us:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ReWilding our Water: From Rain to River to Sewer and back with Tim Smedley, author of The Last Drop How close are we to the edge of Zero Day when no water comes out of the taps? Scarily close. But Tim Smedley has a whole host of ways we can restore our water cycles.

How close are we to the edge of Zero Day when no water comes out of the taps?

Scarily close.

But @timsmedley.bsky.social has a whole host of ways we can restore our water cycles

Clean rivers, oceans, rains.

What's not to like?

accidentalgods.life/rewilding-ou...
#Accidentalgods #Podcast

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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