Ryan Brightwell
@ryanbrightwell.bsky.social
Comms & human rights at @banktrack.bsky.social. Also @CUEBCustomerUnion.bsky.social. He/him.
Migrant from England living in the Netherlands.
"Four more years, it'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians."
Migrant from England living in the Netherlands.
"Four more years, it'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians."
So. The right has fractured, but not really lost seats overall. PVV losses more or less equal JA21 and FvD gains.
In the centre D66 and CDA soaked up all the losses from the NSC's total collapse, and gained a bunch more, it seems from the left.
In the centre D66 and CDA soaked up all the losses from the NSC's total collapse, and gained a bunch more, it seems from the left.
October 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
So. The right has fractured, but not really lost seats overall. PVV losses more or less equal JA21 and FvD gains.
In the centre D66 and CDA soaked up all the losses from the NSC's total collapse, and gained a bunch more, it seems from the left.
In the centre D66 and CDA soaked up all the losses from the NSC's total collapse, and gained a bunch more, it seems from the left.
Here's what 74 European banks considered "material" in their CSRD reporting. Bad news for "affected communities" (among other categories).
This woudl seem to point to a flaw in allowing companies to pick their own material issues.
Source: insights.efrag.org/dashboard
#BizHumanRights
This woudl seem to point to a flaw in allowing companies to pick their own material issues.
Source: insights.efrag.org/dashboard
#BizHumanRights
October 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Here's what 74 European banks considered "material" in their CSRD reporting. Bad news for "affected communities" (among other categories).
This woudl seem to point to a flaw in allowing companies to pick their own material issues.
Source: insights.efrag.org/dashboard
#BizHumanRights
This woudl seem to point to a flaw in allowing companies to pick their own material issues.
Source: insights.efrag.org/dashboard
#BizHumanRights
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TotalEnergies financiers beware: the East African Crude Oil Pipeline is eating up money, nature and livelihoods.
Our #EACOP Finance Risk Briefing is out now. #StopEACOP
www.banktrack.org/article/tota...
Our #EACOP Finance Risk Briefing is out now. #StopEACOP
www.banktrack.org/article/tota...
October 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
TotalEnergies financiers beware: the East African Crude Oil Pipeline is eating up money, nature and livelihoods.
Our #EACOP Finance Risk Briefing is out now. #StopEACOP
www.banktrack.org/article/tota...
Our #EACOP Finance Risk Briefing is out now. #StopEACOP
www.banktrack.org/article/tota...
“I have never advocated violence in the Netherlands” is an unintentionally hilarious line from this pro-Hamas edgelord.
#FreePalestine #humanrightsforall
nltimes.nl/2025/10/10/m...
#FreePalestine #humanrightsforall
nltimes.nl/2025/10/10/m...
Minister urges Radboud to press charges over assistant professor’s anti-Israel tweets
Caretaker Education Minister Gouke Moes has urged Radboud University to press charges against their assistant professor of geography, Dr Harry G. Pettit, saying that his tweets “seem to constitute an ...
nltimes.nl
October 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
“I have never advocated violence in the Netherlands” is an unintentionally hilarious line from this pro-Hamas edgelord.
#FreePalestine #humanrightsforall
nltimes.nl/2025/10/10/m...
#FreePalestine #humanrightsforall
nltimes.nl/2025/10/10/m...
A new study shows how much the global oil and gas industry is contributing to renewable energy. And it is ... 1.42%.
scienmag.com/fossil-fuel-...
This kind of melts away a lot of arguments from the finance sector about why they should keep propping up these companies so they can "transition".
scienmag.com/fossil-fuel-...
This kind of melts away a lot of arguments from the finance sector about why they should keep propping up these companies so they can "transition".
Fossil Fuel Firms Oversee Just 1% of Global Renewable Energy Projects,
A recent comprehensive study conducted by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) delivers a sobering assessment of the fossil fuel
scienmag.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A new study shows how much the global oil and gas industry is contributing to renewable energy. And it is ... 1.42%.
scienmag.com/fossil-fuel-...
This kind of melts away a lot of arguments from the finance sector about why they should keep propping up these companies so they can "transition".
scienmag.com/fossil-fuel-...
This kind of melts away a lot of arguments from the finance sector about why they should keep propping up these companies so they can "transition".
It's almost as if we can't rely on the global banking sector to solve climate change
The Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) has officially dissolved, but little changes — it had already lost credibility. Banks won’t align with climate goals voluntarily, regulation is now essential.
#NZBA #ClimateFinance
www.banktrack.org/article/bank...
#NZBA #ClimateFinance
www.banktrack.org/article/bank...
BankTrack’s statement on the dissolution of the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA)
The announcement of the immediate dissolution of the Net Zero Banking Alliance finally puts an end to its sad spiral of decline. But very little will change in practice, as the NZBA had already…
www.banktrack.org
October 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It's almost as if we can't rely on the global banking sector to solve climate change
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🖍️ Wij trekken de Rode Lijn. We eisen met 250.000 mensen actie van onze regering tegen de genocide in Gaza! #WijZijnMetMeer #RodeLijn
October 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🖍️ Wij trekken de Rode Lijn. We eisen met 250.000 mensen actie van onze regering tegen de genocide in Gaza! #WijZijnMetMeer #RodeLijn
"The increases in fossil fuel production [in governments' current plans] would lead to global production levels in 2030 that are 500%, 31%, and 92% higher for coal, oil, and gas, respectively, than the median 1.5ºC-consistent pathway."
productiongap.org/2025report
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productiongap.org/2025report
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2025 Report - Production Gap
productiongap.org
September 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"The increases in fossil fuel production [in governments' current plans] would lead to global production levels in 2030 that are 500%, 31%, and 92% higher for coal, oil, and gas, respectively, than the median 1.5ºC-consistent pathway."
productiongap.org/2025report
🤦
productiongap.org/2025report
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We asked the UK advertising watchdog, the ASA, to investigate its own ads for being misleading. Then, to use the universal language of clickbait, this happened (they said their own rules didn't apply to them)
@badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social
theecologist.org/2025/sep/09/...
@badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social
theecologist.org/2025/sep/09/...
The watchdog living beyond its rules
Advertising regulator in Britain asked to investigate its own adverts...
theecologist.org
September 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We asked the UK advertising watchdog, the ASA, to investigate its own ads for being misleading. Then, to use the universal language of clickbait, this happened (they said their own rules didn't apply to them)
@badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social
theecologist.org/2025/sep/09/...
@badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social
theecologist.org/2025/sep/09/...
We went to see The Roses.
I need someone to tell me, why didn't they just get childcare?
I need someone to tell me, why didn't they just get childcare?
September 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We went to see The Roses.
I need someone to tell me, why didn't they just get childcare?
I need someone to tell me, why didn't they just get childcare?
A majority in the Dutch parliament wants "antifa" banned. Including the "grown-ups" of the VVD.
This despite there being no such organisation as "antifa", and a complete absence of debate about the proposal.
The slide to authoritarianism is happening here too.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
This despite there being no such organisation as "antifa", and a complete absence of debate about the proposal.
The slide to authoritarianism is happening here too.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Fact Check: Netherlands Did NOT Officially Label Antifa A Terrorist Group On September 18, 2025 -- Parliament Made Request To Government
Did the Dutch government officially label Antifa as a terrorist organization on September 18, 2025? No, that's not true: The Dutch parliament only passed a motion requesting that the government do tha...
www.yahoo.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A majority in the Dutch parliament wants "antifa" banned. Including the "grown-ups" of the VVD.
This despite there being no such organisation as "antifa", and a complete absence of debate about the proposal.
The slide to authoritarianism is happening here too.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
This despite there being no such organisation as "antifa", and a complete absence of debate about the proposal.
The slide to authoritarianism is happening here too.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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💡 Did you know the Customer Union has a formal recognition agreement with The Co-operative Bank?
🤝We met with the bank to represent our members and ask their questions.
📖Read our update on the meeting in our latest newsletter:
saveourbank.coop/newsletter-2...
#union #coops #ethical #banking
🤝We met with the bank to represent our members and ask their questions.
📖Read our update on the meeting in our latest newsletter:
saveourbank.coop/newsletter-2...
#union #coops #ethical #banking
Newsletter September 2025 | Customer Union for Ethical Banking
saveourbank.coop
September 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
💡 Did you know the Customer Union has a formal recognition agreement with The Co-operative Bank?
🤝We met with the bank to represent our members and ask their questions.
📖Read our update on the meeting in our latest newsletter:
saveourbank.coop/newsletter-2...
#union #coops #ethical #banking
🤝We met with the bank to represent our members and ask their questions.
📖Read our update on the meeting in our latest newsletter:
saveourbank.coop/newsletter-2...
#union #coops #ethical #banking
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"Because someone died, we have to take away your rights" -- the same pretextual rationale that authoritarians always use
Kayleigh McEnany on Jimmy Kimmel's suspension: "For all the concern about the 'the First Amendment, the First Amendment,' what about all the amendments that Charlie Kirk lost? Because Charlie Kirk has no amendments right now. None."
September 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Because someone died, we have to take away your rights" -- the same pretextual rationale that authoritarians always use
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The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today.
Charlie Kirk was no exception.
Charlie Kirk was no exception.
Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled
Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.
heated.world
September 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today.
Charlie Kirk was no exception.
Charlie Kirk was no exception.
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🚨 Fighting harmful bank finance? We just launched a Users' Guide for communities & their allies on how to use bank human rights complaint channels: 👇
www.banktrack.org/campaign/hru...
www.banktrack.org/campaign/hru...
Bank Human Rights Complaints Channels: A Users' Guide
About this Users’ Guide This Users’ Guide is designed to support rights-holders and their representatives, civil society organisations, and other stakeholders, in understanding how to raise…
www.banktrack.org
September 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
🚨 Fighting harmful bank finance? We just launched a Users' Guide for communities & their allies on how to use bank human rights complaint channels: 👇
www.banktrack.org/campaign/hru...
www.banktrack.org/campaign/hru...
Proud and happy to launch our new Users' Guide to bank human rights complaints channels.
We hope it makes these channels more accessible and widely used, and that banks take action as a result!
We hope it makes these channels more accessible and widely used, and that banks take action as a result!
🚨 Fighting harmful bank finance? We just launched a Users' Guide for communities & their allies on how to use bank human rights complaint channels: 👇
www.banktrack.org/campaign/hru...
www.banktrack.org/campaign/hru...
Bank Human Rights Complaints Channels: A Users' Guide
About this Users’ Guide This Users’ Guide is designed to support rights-holders and their representatives, civil society organisations, and other stakeholders, in understanding how to raise…
www.banktrack.org
September 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Proud and happy to launch our new Users' Guide to bank human rights complaints channels.
We hope it makes these channels more accessible and widely used, and that banks take action as a result!
We hope it makes these channels more accessible and widely used, and that banks take action as a result!
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Here are 10 provocations on climate and energy. Tell me if you agree, disagree or have a nuanced take. Drop your own provocations in reply or quote post.
Start:
1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!
Start:
1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!
September 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Here are 10 provocations on climate and energy. Tell me if you agree, disagree or have a nuanced take. Drop your own provocations in reply or quote post.
Start:
1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!
Start:
1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!
Trump's aid cuts in Uganda and Tanzania are leading to babies being born with HIV because mothers could not get medication and a rise in life-threatening infections.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Trump’s aid cuts in east Africa led to unwanted abortion and babies being born with HIV – report
Doctors, nurses, patients and other experts describe the loss of decades of progress in beating the virus in 100 days after Pepfar was disrupted
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Trump's aid cuts in Uganda and Tanzania are leading to babies being born with HIV because mothers could not get medication and a rise in life-threatening infections.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.
ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.
Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.
(c/o Caroline Codsi)
ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.
Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.
(c/o Caroline Codsi)
August 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.
ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.
Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.
(c/o Caroline Codsi)
ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.
Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.
(c/o Caroline Codsi)
Air pollution from the oil and gas sector causes 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of illnesses in the US each year. Communities of colour face the greatest burden.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study
Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Air pollution from the oil and gas sector causes 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of illnesses in the US each year. Communities of colour face the greatest burden.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is wild, and topping the list is Raiffeisen Bank International. RBI currently earns nearly 50% of its profits from its Russian subsidiary, which has allegedly invested in Russian sovereign debt. But Austria’s Finance Ministry sees no problem here - and just announced it won't take action.
🚨 New research from @b4ukraine.org, Squeezing Putin, and the KSE Institute finds that international banks handed over >$1.2 billion in tax revenues to the Kremlin in 2024.
That's enough to finance over 65,000 contract soldiers for the Russian army.
b4ukraine.org/pdf/B4Ukrain...
That's enough to finance over 65,000 contract soldiers for the Russian army.
b4ukraine.org/pdf/B4Ukrain...
August 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is wild, and topping the list is Raiffeisen Bank International. RBI currently earns nearly 50% of its profits from its Russian subsidiary, which has allegedly invested in Russian sovereign debt. But Austria’s Finance Ministry sees no problem here - and just announced it won't take action.
Of 33 minerals the UK calls 'critical':
⛔6 are not needed at all for a green transition;
🔽15 are only needed in small amounts;
⛏️Only 7 need significant production increases for a move to net zero.
Overall, a net zero transition "can be accommodated" with existing mineral production levels.
⛔6 are not needed at all for a green transition;
🔽15 are only needed in small amounts;
⛏️Only 7 need significant production increases for a move to net zero.
Overall, a net zero transition "can be accommodated" with existing mineral production levels.
"We can’t build a green future on the exploitation of poorer countries, and we don’t have to. We can achieve a green transition, but there’s a need to transform how our economy works." - @cleodierickard.bsky.social
Our latest report covered in @theecologist.org 👇🏽
theecologist.org/2025/aug/07/...
Our latest report covered in @theecologist.org 👇🏽
theecologist.org/2025/aug/07/...
Military diverting critical materials from renewables
Campaigners say green transition must not be hijacked by military industries or used to undermine the economies of developing countries.
theecologist.org
August 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Of 33 minerals the UK calls 'critical':
⛔6 are not needed at all for a green transition;
🔽15 are only needed in small amounts;
⛏️Only 7 need significant production increases for a move to net zero.
Overall, a net zero transition "can be accommodated" with existing mineral production levels.
⛔6 are not needed at all for a green transition;
🔽15 are only needed in small amounts;
⛏️Only 7 need significant production increases for a move to net zero.
Overall, a net zero transition "can be accommodated" with existing mineral production levels.
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So, the Labour govt reaction to Farage's plans to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers was to say it was "pie in the sky".
Their problem with this abhorrent plan is that it's ... impractical? Simply not realistic?
I'm so much more stunned by this than Reform UK's performative cruelty.
Their problem with this abhorrent plan is that it's ... impractical? Simply not realistic?
I'm so much more stunned by this than Reform UK's performative cruelty.
August 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
So, the Labour govt reaction to Farage's plans to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers was to say it was "pie in the sky".
Their problem with this abhorrent plan is that it's ... impractical? Simply not realistic?
I'm so much more stunned by this than Reform UK's performative cruelty.
Their problem with this abhorrent plan is that it's ... impractical? Simply not realistic?
I'm so much more stunned by this than Reform UK's performative cruelty.
So, the Labour govt reaction to Farage's plans to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers was to say it was "pie in the sky".
Their problem with this abhorrent plan is that it's ... impractical? Simply not realistic?
I'm so much more stunned by this than Reform UK's performative cruelty.
Their problem with this abhorrent plan is that it's ... impractical? Simply not realistic?
I'm so much more stunned by this than Reform UK's performative cruelty.
August 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
So, the Labour govt reaction to Farage's plans to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers was to say it was "pie in the sky".
Their problem with this abhorrent plan is that it's ... impractical? Simply not realistic?
I'm so much more stunned by this than Reform UK's performative cruelty.
Their problem with this abhorrent plan is that it's ... impractical? Simply not realistic?
I'm so much more stunned by this than Reform UK's performative cruelty.
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BREAKING: UK watchdog accepts #humanrights complaints against Barclays and HSBC over private prison investments.
www.banktrack.org/article/rele...
www.banktrack.org/article/rele...
UK human rights watchdog accepts complaints against Barclays and HSBC over private prison investments
Today, the United Kingdom’s National Contact Point (NCP) accepted complaints against UK-based banks Barclays and HSBC, filed by Worth Rises, Coalition for Immigrant Freedom and BankTrack.…
www.banktrack.org
July 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
BREAKING: UK watchdog accepts #humanrights complaints against Barclays and HSBC over private prison investments.
www.banktrack.org/article/rele...
www.banktrack.org/article/rele...