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Hannah Spencer and Zack Polanski

To all Green Party members new and old. Be prepared: your party will be relentlessly attacked from now on.

And not all of those attacks will be baseless - some mistakes will be made.

But there will be one reason and one reason only for the attacks - because you're winning and they're scared.

Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson will hate this video. But when you watch it, you'll know they can be defeated.

Absolutely - many on the right want similar things to us, and they also want to be heard and respected. We should do that for them.

Marjorie Taylor Greene tweet: "And just like that we are no longer a nation divided by left and right, we are now a nation divided be those who want to fight wars for Israel and those who just want peace and to be able to afford their bills and health insurance."

Sometimes we have to find common cause with people we otherwise completely disagree with.

The London Economic: Bookies make Greens more likely than Tories to win most seats at next general election

Another world is possible.

Exponential change is possible.

Everything can change in an instant.

Political cartoon about slave catchers.

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1842: The Supreme Court holds that the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause gave the federal government exclusive authority to legislate the return of fugitive slaves. However, the ruling also provided states with a legal loophole that still has relevance today. /1

Reform UK poster torn across the middle to reveal “Conservatives” underneath

Spotted in Clacton

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

Just the BBC’s Clive Myrie and Justin Webb rationalising an @theonion.com headline as if it were a valid viewpoint rather than satire 🤯
#Iran.

Chat GPT took it surprisingly well TBF

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Hope is here 💚

satellite image of snow covered Britain from 2010

New York underwater.

Agriculture in Northern Europe wiped out by a big freeze.

Southern Europe plunged into drought.

That’s what's coming if the AMOC current in the Atlantic keeps slowing or shuts down altogether.

How can we be so sure? Because we got a preview in 2009. 🧵

Currently the world produces more than enough food to feed everyone, but hunger persists due to poverty, conflict, poor distribution and waste.

In the coming decades we’re going to have to feed a larger population in much more difficult conditions.

Its a cycle. Actions-> Results-> Beliefs -> Actions

We need more stories that help people learn from what’s working.

Not just what’s going wrong.
Not just what “has to happen by 2050.”

Real examples of action that others can see, understand & build on.

Here's a 🧵on advice & tips for sharing #climate stories that actually inspire action.

Alice Smith tweet: "We don't need surveillance by the state. We need surveillance of the State. We should know every penny spent, every second spent, every decision made, and the name of exactly who decided what at every level."

💯 this - we need democratic oversight of every layer of government.

They can't be trusted. They shouldn't be trusted.

There's no better way of communicating the insane trajectory of humanity in the 21st century than cartoons and no-one did it better than Jon Kudelka. Rest in power Jon.

Here's his top ten.

1. Asteroid mitigation program

Police use dogs to quell civil unrest in Birmingham, Ala., on May 3, 1963. Birmingham’s police commissioner “Bull” Connor also allowed fire hoses to be turned on young civil rights demonstrators. These measures set off a backlash of sentiment that rejuvenated the flagging civil rights movement. (Bill Hudson / The Associated Press)

There’s a strong consensus in the social sciences that nonviolence is more effective than violence. Look it up.

If you find it hard to believe, that might be because our culture is biased towards violent solutions.

Because you are living in a patriachy.

A picture of bad bunny with the word love

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

Gloria Steinem in the Guardian on The Mermaid and the Minotaur by Dorothy Dinnerstein. "It looks at the way humans lived before patriarchy, and before male control of reproduction was codified into “masculine” versus “feminine” roles. It reports that, in our very long migratory past, both men and women raised children. Men developed empathy, patience, attention to detail and a sense of the value of life – all those qualities now wrongly called “feminine”, because they are necessary to raise children. Just as women become more whole as humans by entering into public life, men become more whole as humans by entering into private life. So for this reason, I choose Dinnerstein’s political and practical book. It convinced me, and may convince you, that men raising children – boys being raised to raise children – is the key to equality, democracy and world peace."

The key to equality, democracy and world peace? 🕊️

Men raising children. 👨‍🍼

“Political will” is invoked like magic fairy dust or an abstract variable. It isn’t. If scientists want their evidence to matter, they need to ask how political will is built through organising, mobilisation, & social movements that generate sustained pressure across society & force political action

The Epstein files are not meant to wake you up. They are meant to exhaust you. So many names, so many theories, so many threads. You drown in speculation while the obvious crimes continue in daylight. They do not care if you know they are depraved. They care if you realize they are structural.

💯 this.

It's the system that promotes the worst of humanity.

It's the system that needs to change.

Tony Benn was a prophet.

“Today (1987) we had a meeting of the NEC & the Shadow Cabinet. Kinnock introduced the meeting and spoke for about 20 minutes. We went on to Peter Mandelson who said a few words. I find Mandelson a threatening figure for the future of the Party.”

Yes.

True but

Brits celebrate VE Day

if you think about it, there's nothing more British than uniting to defeat the far right

the Spanish PM

So is global collapse now inevitable?

Not necessarily - strong states can push back against oligarchs. Citizens can demand it.

We need redistribution of power and money. Accountability. Real consequences.

When elites spiral out of control, societies must find ways to reign them in.

party scene from Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet

History is full of examples:

🗝️ The Roman Republic collapsing under elite factionalism
🎂 France’s Ancien Régime hollowed out by privilege
💰 Forced reforms after the excesses of the US's Gilded Age

Different outcomes but all driven by the same underlying dynamic.

the tech bros at Trump's inauguration

More recently, Peter Turchin has shown how societies produce too many elite aspirants chasing too few top positions: "elite overproduction".

The result is vicious competition, norm-breaking, corruption and rising instability. Turchin warned this would peak in the 2020s.

Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch

This idea goes back centuries.

Ibn Khaldun described how ruling groups start out cohesive and disciplined, then descend into opulence and self-interest.

Vilfredo Pareto called it the “circulation of elites”. When circulation stops, decay sets in.