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Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

Maybe we should stop listening to those who say decarbonisation will be too disruptive and expensive

And start listening to the experts warning that inaction will be much, much worse

End unfolding genocide or watch it end life in Gaza: UN experts say States face defining choice GENEVA – Escalating atrocities in Gaza present an urgent moral crossroads and States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza – an out...

“This is one of the most ostentatious and merciless manifestations of the desecration of human life and dignity.”

End unfolding genocide or watch it end life in Gaza: UN experts say States face defining choice.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Not only the silence, @financialtimes.com but the active military support to Israel by the US and several EU countries, makes these governments actively complicit in the genocide of Palestinians. These are particularly dark times.
Read the FT article here: archive.is/8uPwV

💸 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀' 𝗗𝗮𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝘅 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵!

😡 The top 1% in Europe holds half the EU's wealth, while workers often face higher tax rates – unacceptable.

✊ We need an EU wealth tax that taxes the wealthiest and the biggest polluters.

👉 lnkd.in/egtw6iVM

A different but in my mind related issue: see also the shock horror at white Europeans being detained or denied access at the US border, while the historical detention and (mis) treatment of migrants 'of colour' has been mostly either ignored or considered normal and just.

A pink construction paper envelope with children’s handwriting that reads “To: Bus driver From: Me”

Among my regular passengers on the 44 are two young boys who ride with their grandma from California and 6th Ave all the way to Silver and Palou. The older brother is possibly a 2nd grader. Last night as they were getting off my bus, he handed me this hand made envelope.

Trump and Musk have ushered in a terrible era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it | Julia Steinberger The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is dizzying, but if we organise resistance now we can stop this, says Julia Steinberger of the University of Lausanne

Tips from @jksteinberger.bsky.social:

- Replace helpless fear with knowledgable anger.
- Gather people, raise awareness of the causes of our common problems, discuss possible avenues of action & put them into operation.
- Create our own organizations for mutual aid & vulnerable people protection.

For a Democratic Society, Democratize Finance The immense power financial institutions wield over most aspects of our lives makes a mockery of democracy. To build a truly democratic society, we need to democratize finance.

“The neoliberals never really sought to shrink the state or free the market.

They sought to shift the balance of power in society away from workers and toward capital — particularly finance capital.”

Read my review of @itsmccarthy.bsky.social’s great new book jacobin.com/2025/03/demo...

Cover sheet of a journal article: "Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity" by Ian Walker and Marco te Brömmelstroet

HOT RESEARCH NEWS!

Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...

Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

‘We will leave when the last Palestinian leaves’: The defiant last stand of the doctors of Kamal Adwan Hospital For 75 days, doctors in this north Gaza hospital have withstood the Israeli army’s attempts to forcibly evacuate them and their patients. In the face of death, the doctors are still refusing to leave,...

For 75 days, doctors in this north Gaza hospital have withstood the Israeli army's attempts to forcibly evacuate them and their patients. In the face of death, the doctors are still refusing to leave, even as the army steps up its attacks.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/we-will-leave-when-the-last…

The proliferation of plastics and especially the thin film variety has happened so gradually that you don't notice it until you look

The Drilled! season (by the amazing @amywestervelt.bsky.social ) on this is a great summary

Plastics are everywhere and they did this on purpose

Reprehensible. Note the corporate caution carefully neutral wording for outrageous and wildly dangerous proposals. And the caption flatters him, egging him on by saying the "expansion" would be a historic event.

Welcome to our post-human town. Don't get run over by a driverless car. Billboard South of Market.

There are so many corpses in Gaza that the cats, themselves famished, are eating them. I won’t post the video here but it’s on IG. There is no end to the hell on Earth unleashed by the genocidal Israeli state.

www.instagram.com/reel/DD5QADP...

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Who is 'the money behind the money?' As the Guardian announces the 'sale' of the 233-year-old Observer to Tortoise Media, I wave hello to my new bosses (hi!) with an investigation of their finances.

The Guardian is pushing ahead with its 'sale' of the Observer.
But the journalism continues...
If you value the Guardian or Observer, I urge you to read this. It's my attempt to investigate 'the money behind the money'.
Who is 'buying' us? And why?
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

I don’t know how many videos of parents bidding farewell to their children I’ve seen coming out of Gaza in the past year+

Israeli society terrifies me more than ever

Noord-Gaza al twee maanden afgesloten van buitenwereld: 'Een eindeloze nachtmerrie' Het leger voert zware bombardementen uit op het noorden en laat amper humanitaire hulp naar binnen, waardoor Palestijnse burgers in het gebied uithongeren.

Mensen eten een halve maaltijd per dag en drinken vervuild water. Wie op de vlucht slaat wordt beschoten. Maar premier Schoof komt niet verder dan: 'Israël heeft het recht zich te verdedigen'. Schande. #nietinmijnnaam

nos.nl/artikel/2548...

Forever is Over On the Fall of Bashar Al-Assad

My latest piece: Forever is over - on the fall of Bashar Al-Assad www.hauntologies.net/p/forever-is...

witnessing-the-gaza-war.com/wp-content/u...

Going Back to Class The Workers’ Party of Belgium is defying the trend of leftist movements losing touch with the working class by using community organising to build a Marxist party with mass appeal.

“The system is designed to make people feel small.

“And I think that the basic thing of the Left is to empower people, to make them feel part of something - a bigger collectivity, a class, a movement they can be proud of.”

My piece on the Belgian Workers Party tribunemag.co.uk/2024/12/goin...

Ethnic cleansing in Northern Gaza. Israel is violently displacing thousands of people.

Ethnic cleansing in Northern Gaza.

Israel kills 40 in Gaza’s Jabalia; Lebanese mourn Hezbollah’s Nasrallah Israeli forces kill aid workers from Save the Children and World Central Kitchen amid renewed ceasefire efforts.

Gaza Soup Kitchen, a relief group, announced the death of its chef and co-founder Mahmoud Almadhoun, who it said was “targeted and assassinated” in an Israeli drone attack in northern Gaza on Saturday.

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Israeli forces kill at least 40 Palestinians in a single air attack on north Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, as a Hamas delegation is in Cairo amid renewed efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in the besieged enclave.

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UNRWA: "Out of the 91 attempts the UN has made to deliver aid to besieged north #Gaza between 6 October and 25 November, 82 have been denied and 9 impeded.

The conditions for survival are diminishing for the 65,000-75,000 people estimated to remain there."

An infographic entitled 'Household CO2e emissions in 2019 per income group (within United States and across countries)'. The graphic uses different-sized bubbles to show household carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions between across countries groups (low-income, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high-income), and also within the United States (bottom 10%, 90-99%, 99.9%, and super-rich & billionaires). Emissions values shown range from a tiny bubble representing 1.6 tonnes of CO2e per household in low-income countries to a huge bubble extending beyond the chart area representing nearly 3,500 tonnes per household among US-based super-rich & billionaires. Image by @AndrewLFanning using data from Starr et al. (2023).

You need to see shocking extent of carbon inequality around the world.

A remarkable study led by Jared Starr finds that super-rich US households emit *2000 TIMES* more CO2e than average low-income country households.

How the f*ck is that even possible? The disparity never ceases to enrage me.

Musk, alongside the American MAGA trolls, have already begun campaigning in many countries, and will continue if not stopped

This Palestinian family is living in a shelter built on ruins of their house, which was destroyed by Israeli forces in Khan Younis, Gaza.

In Beirut today, one person I interviewed had his home destroyed.

His family was unhurt because his mother was already in the hospital.

As he swept the dust from the now exposed stairwell, he said that his thoughts were with Gaza.

“We haven’t experienced 1% of what Gaza has,” he told me.