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YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski How To Platform Socialist Ideas Through Billionaire Owned Channels | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski

I really loved this conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - I've thought about it lots ever since.

Hope you enjoy it too!

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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

These ads are poisoning trust in media ‘Native advertising' allows fossil fuel companies to disguise their ads in news outlets. A new book argues the practice undermines journalistic credibility.

Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.

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Notice from the Anthropic Copyright settlement website

It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.

For the first time, humans have tracked an individual butterfly, as shown in the Monarch migration of north America.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
@bc-suffolk.bsky.social

Strong voices, unfulfilled promises: rethinking advocacy for women Women Against the Far Right campaign at Strathclyde University brought strong voices but were they enough?

Previously on Bylines Scotland...

“I have experienced racism my whole life – from school to adult life. Every woman who has had a similar experience like this was always told it’s in our own heads."

‘He’s been forgotten’ says murdered journalist Khashoggi’s widow We spoke to Hanan Khashoggi, the widow of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and began by asking her whether the pain of his killing was still raw.

‘He’s been forgotten’ says murdered journalist Khashoggi’s widow

www.channel4.com/news/hes-bee...

Some grim polling here for Labour from Ipsos beyond the headline figures

-69% think Britain is heading in the wrong direction
-Starmer's satisfaction rating at -66
-50% of the public want "radical change" yet only 4% believe Labour will deliver it.

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Britain through the looking glass: my dead goldfish is now a registered waste disposer | George Monbiot Algernon Goldfish is long gone, but I was able to sign him up. No wonder so many crooks are illegally dumping and ruining our environment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by dprkspacemarine Billy Bragg - Which Side Are You On?

We all have a part to play

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A group of people sit outside Gloucester Cathedral as part of the Defend Our Juries protest at the proscription of Palestine Action by the British Government. They are in their 60s and 70s for the most part, taking a stand because they are unafraid of the consequences.

There is something to be said for the senior years - the real “Fuck you” generation - the masks are dropped and nothing needs to be proved.

The site of seniors taking a stand outside Gloucester Cathedral yesterday in defence of youth being proscribed by the government is clear evidence of this.

A group of young Stroud-based XR protestors on the march. a person wearing a light grey beanie hat holds a hot pink XR flag - the flag is completely pink with the famous XR logo - an hourglass made up of two triangles in a figure 8 shape - in a black circle. Central to the photograph is a young person in a camouflage jacket with bright orange hair. They are wearing white-rimmed sunglasses and holding a microphone, next to them is a person with a camera and a backpack waving a white XR flag.

There is something to be said for the vividness, the richness, the rawness of youth when every moment is a moment of discovery.

There is something to be said for middle age, where calm contemplation and consideration gives space for creative thinking.

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Never Trust Anyone Over Thirty – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics Arise, Sir Michael! Mick Jagger was knighted Friday, joining Sir Elton and Sir Paul. Some conservatives grumbled, including Keith Richards, seemingly under the impression his musical partner had been ...

there is a time and a place for every age group to give and to find worth and expression.

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Sudan and Palestine Are Haunted by the Same Ghost | Novara Media The mass slaughter in both Gaza and Sudan is inextricably linked to the bloody tapestry of Britain’s colonial history. When we speak up for Palestinian liberation, we must also speak up for Sudan, wri...

Powerful, short and evocative writing from @novaramedia.com — thank you for this.

novaramedia.com/2025/11/07/s...

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:

“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

And not work in a good way. Endless, relentless admin, rebuilding services that got the most part were functioning just fine

Also abolishing councils up and down the country is creating decades of work and sucking much needed funding from vital public services. Why? Why now? WHY?

NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investment

What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be.
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Taps the sign

I wish I'd known you were there, I'd have come and said hello — I was shaking the bucket for the strikers

This is incredible - only a few months ago that would have been 2/3rds of the entire party membership.

Let's ensure that Young Greens are involved in *every* decision we make. It's their future that we are fighting for.

"Human music and art"

Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."

But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question

New stress map reveals where Earth is on the verge of breaking apart New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing earthquake management

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New stress map reveals where Earth is on the verge of breaking apart.

www.earth.com/news/new-str...

What a brilliant, passionate display of action for better worker's rights and respect for skilled NHS staff.

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.

How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?