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JuneSim63 💚
@junesim63.bsky.social
Retired researcher living in Nottinghamshire, England. Native of Hull.

#Socialism #Politics #Cats #Gardening #ClassicalMusic #Environment #GreenParty

She/Her

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Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.

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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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I have just seen a GP asking about PIP assessor jobs as she has been unable to find employment as a GP.
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!

The three-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly now exceeds 1.50°C over the pre-industrial baseline, as of November 8, 2025.

Are you there, COP 30? It's me, the Paris Agreement.
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The woman on TikTok calling the mosques and asking if they’d help her with formula and 100% of them asking nothing but what kind do you want and where are you is the Muslim I am, the Muslim I know. And it really makes the hate that much more unmooring.
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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If this is true - this should have happened a long time ago.

The Green Party alongside campaigners have been calling for this - and it's good to see maybe they've finally listened.

Will reserve relief for all children being lifted out of poverty until we know it's happening.
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*

"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Billionaires and corporations are causing climate breakdown.

It's time to tax the rich.

www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...
You can't solve a crisis with the same thinking that caused it
Billionaires and corporations are driving climate breakdown. It’s time to tax their wealth and build a fairer future.
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide - and has now capitulated to Donald Trump.

It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...
The BBC is in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.
The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide. Now it has capitulated to Trump
www.owenjones.news
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"A [terrorism] definition that relies heavily on executive discretion risks inconsistency, perceptions of unfairness, and the treatment of legitimate protest as terrorism,” said the commission, which heard evidence from more than 200 experts and stakeholders"

#PalestineAction #UKPolitics
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"A British Palestinian surgeon has told Al Jazeera that photographs he received of Palestinians’ bodies handed over by the Israeli army are “highly indicative of organ harvesting”.

#Israel #Gaza #OrganHarvesting

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Updates: Israel’s Gaza attacks continue; Hamas hands over Goldin’s remains
Israeli forces continue attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
www.aljazeera.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.

Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.

Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Hmmmm…

Suspiciouser and suspiciouser.
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Let's stop subsidising destruction.

This Govenrment need to stop standing on the side of polluters and instead tackle the cost of living crisis.

Some of my thoughts on COP 30 👇🏼

bestforbritain.substack.com/p/cop30-must...
COP30 must confront the climate and cost of living crises together
By Zack Polanski
bestforbritain.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Every personal attack.

Every attempt to distract or to divide.

It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.

Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Astonishing to see people fussing over this as if it's just another bit of internal BBC navel gazing and not the senile emperor of a dying global hegemon enforcing fealty from one of its most loyal satrapies.
Exactly, so the BBC didn't need to shoot themselves in the reputation by editing it that way. But they did, and here we are
He explicitly encouraged the Capitol riot
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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This is an excellent explanation of why the govt's headlong rush for airport expansions is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Thank you @flightfreeuk.bsky.social
substack.com/@flightfreeu...
Should the Government be supporting Airport Expansion?
We comment on the Government response to our petition to Stop Airport Expansion
substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..
Sometimes it’s worth the risk
“We will definitely bring proceedings for Defamation and Malicious Falsehood if you publish such complete and malicious lies.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Journalist Paul Holden unearths the real story of how Keir Starmer was catapulted to power.

Spoiler alert: It involves lies, corruption, law-breaking, covert smear operations, and lobby money.

Watch Holden give an overview of his revelations about Starmer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The perfect idea for Davie’s leaving present. Let’s have a whip round to get it framed.
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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"Despite ... having been led for the last five years by a close ally of the Tories, being overseen by committees of Tory appointees, and Turness's own efforts to skew news story selection to "win over" Reform supporters, the right in this country want to see the BBC destroyed."
The Right Wing War on the BBC
The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC Director General, and Deborah Turness, the corporation's Head of News was some unexpected Sunday news. Th...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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www.bbc.com/news/live/cd...

Neither is any loss and particularly to BBC News, where the influence of Robbie Gibb has been catastrophic, destroying its journalistic reputation.
The chances of whomever succeeds them not also being right-wingers and continuing the destruction is minimal.
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit
Davie says
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions.

Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?

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Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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From the BC🇨🇦 protesters trying to protect #OldGrowth forests, THANK YOU🤩

1200 protesters were arrested at Fairy Creek before it was logged.
NOW Protesters are in the Upper Walbran trying to save the last chunk of intact Old Growth on Vancouver Island.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Plastic pellets are readily mistaken by birds + fish for fish eggs - a food stuff for many species - one reason they're so risky for wildlife as Helena Dollimore, MP, explains on tonight's @channel4news.bsky.social

www.channel4.com/news/vast-cl...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM