Gregory Claeys
@gclaeyshistory.bsky.social
Historian of the future; utopia/dystopia; radicalism & socialism. Last book: Utopianism for a Dying Planet (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Someone please explain WTF is going on in the US.
We're pretty sure the 28 point plan came from @kadmitriev, because @SteveWitkoff admitted it.
@marcorubio confirmed this to US senators, calling it a Russian proposal.
Later he said it was US-authored.
What a clown show.🤡
We're pretty sure the 28 point plan came from @kadmitriev, because @SteveWitkoff admitted it.
@marcorubio confirmed this to US senators, calling it a Russian proposal.
Later he said it was US-authored.
What a clown show.🤡
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Someone please explain WTF is going on in the US.
We're pretty sure the 28 point plan came from @kadmitriev, because @SteveWitkoff admitted it.
@marcorubio confirmed this to US senators, calling it a Russian proposal.
Later he said it was US-authored.
What a clown show.🤡
We're pretty sure the 28 point plan came from @kadmitriev, because @SteveWitkoff admitted it.
@marcorubio confirmed this to US senators, calling it a Russian proposal.
Later he said it was US-authored.
What a clown show.🤡
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Friday: "Sign this by Thanksgiving or it's all over for you."
Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it." www.huffpost.com/entry/senato...
Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it." www.huffpost.com/entry/senato...
U.S. Senators Say They Spoke With Rubio About Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Who Denied It Is A U.S. Plan
Senators said Rubio told them the peace plan Trump is pushing Kyiv to accept is a “wish list” of the Russians and not the actual U.S. plan.
www.huffpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Friday: "Sign this by Thanksgiving or it's all over for you."
Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it." www.huffpost.com/entry/senato...
Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it." www.huffpost.com/entry/senato...
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So much winning...
"By 2025, the UK economy is 6%–8% smaller than it would have been had we stayed in the EU"
"Business investment is down 12%–18%"
"Fewer tax receipts mean less money for public services, less for investment"
Brexit impact study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
"By 2025, the UK economy is 6%–8% smaller than it would have been had we stayed in the EU"
"Business investment is down 12%–18%"
"Fewer tax receipts mean less money for public services, less for investment"
Brexit impact study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer | East Anglia Bylines
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
So much winning...
"By 2025, the UK economy is 6%–8% smaller than it would have been had we stayed in the EU"
"Business investment is down 12%–18%"
"Fewer tax receipts mean less money for public services, less for investment"
Brexit impact study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
"By 2025, the UK economy is 6%–8% smaller than it would have been had we stayed in the EU"
"Business investment is down 12%–18%"
"Fewer tax receipts mean less money for public services, less for investment"
Brexit impact study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Russia drafted a 28 point surrender plan, handed it to the Trump team, and the regime delivered it to Kyiv unedited, demanding Zelensky sign it by Thanksgiving or lose all US support. Trump and Vance then promoted the plan exactly as Russia wrote it, verbatim, on TV, online, and in person.
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Russia drafted a 28 point surrender plan, handed it to the Trump team, and the regime delivered it to Kyiv unedited, demanding Zelensky sign it by Thanksgiving or lose all US support. Trump and Vance then promoted the plan exactly as Russia wrote it, verbatim, on TV, online, and in person.
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November 23, 1965 – Walter Orr Roberts “carbon dioxide is clearly rising in the atmosphere”
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November 23, 1965 - Walter Orr Roberts “carbon dioxide is clearly rising in the atmosphere” - All Our Yesterdays
Sixty years ago, on this day, November 23rd 1965, American scientist Walter Orr Roberts gave a speech. In it, this – “Perhaps, through this mechanism, we are already modifying the atmosphere, unknowi...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
November 23, 1965 – Walter Orr Roberts “carbon dioxide is clearly rising in the atmosphere”
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allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/22/n...
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Rachel Reeves admits Brexit has damaged the economy but won’t take the steps needed to fix it.
Lib Dems have a plan to rebuild Britain’s trade with the EU and boost growth.
Lib Dems have a plan to rebuild Britain’s trade with the EU and boost growth.
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Rachel Reeves admits Brexit has damaged the economy but won’t take the steps needed to fix it.
Lib Dems have a plan to rebuild Britain’s trade with the EU and boost growth.
Lib Dems have a plan to rebuild Britain’s trade with the EU and boost growth.
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I am always amazed by the willingness of people to captiulate to those who pretend to be tough guys against all the evidence to the contrary.
GOP, Reform, AfD, Cons, etc, all worship and fear Russia as some great power. Their followers then, in turn, worship those cowardly leaders. Makes no sense.
GOP, Reform, AfD, Cons, etc, all worship and fear Russia as some great power. Their followers then, in turn, worship those cowardly leaders. Makes no sense.
What a shit show. Everyone could see this plan was written by the Kremlin. Adopted by Witkoff and Trump who demanded Ukraine accept it by this Thursday. After a firestorm of objections by Europe and Republican senators it appears Rubio wants to distance himself from it.
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I am always amazed by the willingness of people to captiulate to those who pretend to be tough guys against all the evidence to the contrary.
GOP, Reform, AfD, Cons, etc, all worship and fear Russia as some great power. Their followers then, in turn, worship those cowardly leaders. Makes no sense.
GOP, Reform, AfD, Cons, etc, all worship and fear Russia as some great power. Their followers then, in turn, worship those cowardly leaders. Makes no sense.
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I have a question.
Why is the US suddenly so urgently trying to push a capitulation agreement onto Ukraine? Why such a short deadline, and why is there no pressure on the Russians to follow up on the major success of recent US sanctions?
What do you guys think is going on here?
Why is the US suddenly so urgently trying to push a capitulation agreement onto Ukraine? Why such a short deadline, and why is there no pressure on the Russians to follow up on the major success of recent US sanctions?
What do you guys think is going on here?
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I have a question.
Why is the US suddenly so urgently trying to push a capitulation agreement onto Ukraine? Why such a short deadline, and why is there no pressure on the Russians to follow up on the major success of recent US sanctions?
What do you guys think is going on here?
Why is the US suddenly so urgently trying to push a capitulation agreement onto Ukraine? Why such a short deadline, and why is there no pressure on the Russians to follow up on the major success of recent US sanctions?
What do you guys think is going on here?
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Child Poverty %
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Child Poverty %
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
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The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
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"I'm making billions, and, if it fails, taxpayers will bail me out"
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"I'm making billions, and, if it fails, taxpayers will bail me out"
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Tobacco lobbyists are banned from WHO meetings, why not oil and gas polluters from #ClimateCOP?
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Tobacco lobbyists are banned from WHO meetings, why not oil and gas polluters from #ClimateCOP?
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
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One of these quotes is real: Musk actually made this sick statement.
The other one most likely is not: Though you may have seen it before because it is very relevant now, it appears to be misattributed to Hannah Arendt.
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The other one most likely is not: Though you may have seen it before because it is very relevant now, it appears to be misattributed to Hannah Arendt.
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1/5
November 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Keir Starmer has just told COP30 in the Amazon:
"The Amazon rainforest helps to regulate the climate for every person on earth"
So why has the UK Govt refused to invest in Brazil's fund to save tropical rainforests?
& why no mention of Britain's temperate rainforests?
www.gov.uk/government/s...
"The Amazon rainforest helps to regulate the climate for every person on earth"
So why has the UK Govt refused to invest in Brazil's fund to save tropical rainforests?
& why no mention of Britain's temperate rainforests?
www.gov.uk/government/s...
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Keir Starmer has just told COP30 in the Amazon:
"The Amazon rainforest helps to regulate the climate for every person on earth"
So why has the UK Govt refused to invest in Brazil's fund to save tropical rainforests?
& why no mention of Britain's temperate rainforests?
www.gov.uk/government/s...
"The Amazon rainforest helps to regulate the climate for every person on earth"
So why has the UK Govt refused to invest in Brazil's fund to save tropical rainforests?
& why no mention of Britain's temperate rainforests?
www.gov.uk/government/s...
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This is, by some distance, the longest and most expensive legal letter we've ever sent. It involves a team of multiple KC and junior specialist environmental barristers. It's taken us 18 months to draft and has cost us a substantial six figure sum.
We can't meet our climate change targets by exporting emissions. That's why we've taken the first formal step in legal proceedings against the Government. goodlaw.social/s87x
We’re challenging Starmer on climate failure
As Keir Starmer heads for Brazil, his government is failing to meet the challenge of global heating – so we’re taking legal action.
goodlaw.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is, by some distance, the longest and most expensive legal letter we've ever sent. It involves a team of multiple KC and junior specialist environmental barristers. It's taken us 18 months to draft and has cost us a substantial six figure sum.
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Back in 2010 #Cameron&Clegg introduced #Austerity, basically a con to move wealth from the 99% to the less than 1% of #billionaires and their #MegaCorporations
Which parties still support austerity and which party doesn't?
#BackZack #TaxWealthNotWork #VoteGreen
blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
Which parties still support austerity and which party doesn't?
#BackZack #TaxWealthNotWork #VoteGreen
blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Back in 2010 #Cameron&Clegg introduced #Austerity, basically a con to move wealth from the 99% to the less than 1% of #billionaires and their #MegaCorporations
Which parties still support austerity and which party doesn't?
#BackZack #TaxWealthNotWork #VoteGreen
blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
Which parties still support austerity and which party doesn't?
#BackZack #TaxWealthNotWork #VoteGreen
blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
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Can see why Labour waited for Lords stages before adding THIS to the Crime and Policing Bill.
Extending protest suppression to include vague ‘cumulative’ impacts (that could include OTHER protests!) will clearly be misused by police.
Lords must oppose this attack on our rights.
Extending protest suppression to include vague ‘cumulative’ impacts (that could include OTHER protests!) will clearly be misused by police.
Lords must oppose this attack on our rights.
🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
Government's repeat protest restrictions worse than feared - Liberty
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Can see why Labour waited for Lords stages before adding THIS to the Crime and Policing Bill.
Extending protest suppression to include vague ‘cumulative’ impacts (that could include OTHER protests!) will clearly be misused by police.
Lords must oppose this attack on our rights.
Extending protest suppression to include vague ‘cumulative’ impacts (that could include OTHER protests!) will clearly be misused by police.
Lords must oppose this attack on our rights.
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The Joint Intelligence Committee report on climate breakdown warns of food shortages and economic collapse potentially within years
Yet the government refuses to publish it
If you have access, please disseminate
We all have a right to know what it says
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet the government refuses to publish it
If you have access, please disseminate
We all have a right to know what it says
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Joint Intelligence Committee report on climate breakdown warns of food shortages and economic collapse potentially within years
Yet the government refuses to publish it
If you have access, please disseminate
We all have a right to know what it says
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet the government refuses to publish it
If you have access, please disseminate
We all have a right to know what it says
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Too hot to handle: Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal
Insane that climate summit will support billions for burning wood as a climate solution when it is worse than coal
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07...
Insane that climate summit will support billions for burning wood as a climate solution when it is worse than coal
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07...
Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal
New BirdLife report reveals how bioenergy is accelerating the climate crisis.
www.birdlife.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Too hot to handle: Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal
Insane that climate summit will support billions for burning wood as a climate solution when it is worse than coal
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07...
Insane that climate summit will support billions for burning wood as a climate solution when it is worse than coal
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07...
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This is deeply disappointing from Starmer.
The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯
How embarrassing for the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯
How embarrassing for the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is deeply disappointing from Starmer.
The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯
How embarrassing for the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯
How embarrassing for the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...