Emma Cooper
@emmacooper.bsky.social
Environmental activist, vegan foodie, hiker, Girlguiding volunteer
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November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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🚨 BREAKING - FIVE Lift The Ban key spokespeople arrested in dawn raids.
Arrested for addressing Open Calls during which legal information on the risks of opposing Labour’s absurd ban on Palestine Action have been shared.
Video: Paddy Friend, a law student, arrested at home.
Arrested for addressing Open Calls during which legal information on the risks of opposing Labour’s absurd ban on Palestine Action have been shared.
Video: Paddy Friend, a law student, arrested at home.
September 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨 BREAKING - FIVE Lift The Ban key spokespeople arrested in dawn raids.
Arrested for addressing Open Calls during which legal information on the risks of opposing Labour’s absurd ban on Palestine Action have been shared.
Video: Paddy Friend, a law student, arrested at home.
Arrested for addressing Open Calls during which legal information on the risks of opposing Labour’s absurd ban on Palestine Action have been shared.
Video: Paddy Friend, a law student, arrested at home.
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You can repair a plane. You can replace a broken window. But you can’t bring back the dead.
We must defend the right to protest.
Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸
We must defend the right to protest.
Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸
June 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
You can repair a plane. You can replace a broken window. But you can’t bring back the dead.
We must defend the right to protest.
Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸
We must defend the right to protest.
Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸
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I stand with #PalestineAction. Lock me up as a terrorist, Yvette Cooper.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Yvette Cooper vows to ban Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws
Home secretary to ignore warning from group’s lawyers that doing so would be ‘unlawful, dangerous and ill thought out’
www.theguardian.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I stand with #PalestineAction. Lock me up as a terrorist, Yvette Cooper.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
I lived in Birmingham 2009-2020, and have gone back to work there this year.
I don't remember a single year without cuts.
I don't remember a single year without cuts.
In today's Birmingham Mail - bin workers and residents unite in protest as another alarming budget passed by city council
March 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I lived in Birmingham 2009-2020, and have gone back to work there this year.
I don't remember a single year without cuts.
I don't remember a single year without cuts.
My support evaporated pretty quickly, but this is just sickening.
Asylum seekers, and many other immigrants, come to this country in search of a better life. We have a duty to provide that. Instead, Labour are throwing them to the dogs.
Their swing to the hard right is sick.
Asylum seekers, and many other immigrants, come to this country in search of a better life. We have a duty to provide that. Instead, Labour are throwing them to the dogs.
Their swing to the hard right is sick.
Writing this with a heavy heart: the refugee citizenship ban is the single most unconscionable policy Labour has proposed since it entered power. It’s the moment that I felt my support for this administration begin to crumble inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...
The precise moment my support for Keir Starmer began to crumble
Labour is going to prevent refugees from ever becoming citizens of Britain
inews.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My support evaporated pretty quickly, but this is just sickening.
Asylum seekers, and many other immigrants, come to this country in search of a better life. We have a duty to provide that. Instead, Labour are throwing them to the dogs.
Their swing to the hard right is sick.
Asylum seekers, and many other immigrants, come to this country in search of a better life. We have a duty to provide that. Instead, Labour are throwing them to the dogs.
Their swing to the hard right is sick.
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Good afternoon to nearly everyone! This is another absolute BANGER of a campaign from the wonderful folks at @cleancitiescampaign.org cleancitiescampaign.org/carspreading/
Carspreading: When big cars make our cities smaller.
Cars are getting bigger – about 1cm wider every two years. The only thing is, our streets aren’t.
cleancitiescampaign.org
February 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Good afternoon to nearly everyone! This is another absolute BANGER of a campaign from the wonderful folks at @cleancitiescampaign.org cleancitiescampaign.org/carspreading/
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11. Adopting Reform’s messages, Reform’s branding and Reform’s cruelty, to compete over who can most brutally beat up asylum seekers. Because competing with the far right always works out so well for centrist parties, doesn’t it? Forgive my French (and German, Italian, Swedish etc) but FFS!
February 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
11. Adopting Reform’s messages, Reform’s branding and Reform’s cruelty, to compete over who can most brutally beat up asylum seekers. Because competing with the far right always works out so well for centrist parties, doesn’t it? Forgive my French (and German, Italian, Swedish etc) but FFS!
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10. Dismissing any prospect of rejoining the Single Market or Customs Union, despite widespread public demand and Bregret, and the urgent need to form strong global alliances in the face of Trump, Putin and many other threats.
February 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
10. Dismissing any prospect of rejoining the Single Market or Customs Union, despite widespread public demand and Bregret, and the urgent need to form strong global alliances in the face of Trump, Putin and many other threats.
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9. Burying the long-standing promise of proportional representation, alongside other democratic reforms.
February 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
9. Burying the long-standing promise of proportional representation, alongside other democratic reforms.
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8. Waging war on what remains of our public protections: you know, all that horrid “red tape” that might have stopped people being torched in tower blocks, rivers being poisoned by sewage, customers getting ripped off, financial systems collapsing …
February 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
8. Waging war on what remains of our public protections: you know, all that horrid “red tape” that might have stopped people being torched in tower blocks, rivers being poisoned by sewage, customers getting ripped off, financial systems collapsing …
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6. Taunting, insulting and abusing anyone who cares about life on Earth and a habitable planet, while ripping up environmental commitments and accelerating destruction. This includes a. airport expansion; b. new trunk roads; c. attacks on the planning system; d. more river-killing chicken factories;
February 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
6. Taunting, insulting and abusing anyone who cares about life on Earth and a habitable planet, while ripping up environmental commitments and accelerating destruction. This includes a. airport expansion; b. new trunk roads; c. attacks on the planning system; d. more river-killing chicken factories;
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5. Sustaining the most extreme anti-protest measures in any allegedly-democratic country. You could even start to believe that Labour finds it convenient to criminalise protest and send peaceful dissenters to jail for years.
February 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
5. Sustaining the most extreme anti-protest measures in any allegedly-democratic country. You could even start to believe that Labour finds it convenient to criminalise protest and send peaceful dissenters to jail for years.
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3.
b. freezing Local Housing Allowance, making decent housing even less accessible to people on housing benefit - while simultaneously refusing to introduce rent controls.
c. identifying disability benefits and personal independence payments as major targets for cuts.
b. freezing Local Housing Allowance, making decent housing even less accessible to people on housing benefit - while simultaneously refusing to introduce rent controls.
c. identifying disability benefits and personal independence payments as major targets for cuts.
February 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
3.
b. freezing Local Housing Allowance, making decent housing even less accessible to people on housing benefit - while simultaneously refusing to introduce rent controls.
c. identifying disability benefits and personal independence payments as major targets for cuts.
b. freezing Local Housing Allowance, making decent housing even less accessible to people on housing benefit - while simultaneously refusing to introduce rent controls.
c. identifying disability benefits and personal independence payments as major targets for cuts.
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1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵
February 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵
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💚 Nature valentines 💚
Nature valentines.
Thanks to my Patrons for keeping me drawing www.patreon.com/birdandmoon
Thanks to my Patrons for keeping me drawing www.patreon.com/birdandmoon
February 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
💚 Nature valentines 💚
Government are either
a) doing the wrong things (eg. considering new oil fields) or
b) doing the right things far too slow (eg reducing Drax subsidies not removing altogether).
They have become traitors to their own promises and they think it will make them popular, can't see that working.
a) doing the wrong things (eg. considering new oil fields) or
b) doing the right things far too slow (eg reducing Drax subsidies not removing altogether).
They have become traitors to their own promises and they think it will make them popular, can't see that working.
Labour MPs across the country told their constituents that whilst they agree with the aims of the Climate & Nature Bill, we don't need to pass it—because Gov will do all the right stuff anyway.
Gov has let them & us down. What are they going to do about it? Because this couldn't be more important.
Gov has let them & us down. What are they going to do about it? Because this couldn't be more important.
February 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Government are either
a) doing the wrong things (eg. considering new oil fields) or
b) doing the right things far too slow (eg reducing Drax subsidies not removing altogether).
They have become traitors to their own promises and they think it will make them popular, can't see that working.
a) doing the wrong things (eg. considering new oil fields) or
b) doing the right things far too slow (eg reducing Drax subsidies not removing altogether).
They have become traitors to their own promises and they think it will make them popular, can't see that working.
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A little greenery, a few bollards, and a simple sign - suddenly, the street belongs to people again. Safe streets for kids don’t need big budgets, just the right priorities #PlayStreet
February 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A little greenery, a few bollards, and a simple sign - suddenly, the street belongs to people again. Safe streets for kids don’t need big budgets, just the right priorities #PlayStreet
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We might yearn for paradise, temporal or spiritual. But to our descendents our habitable planet will look like an almost unimaginable paradise. No tech fantasy, no space station or controlled environment will ever compare.
Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.
Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.
February 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We might yearn for paradise, temporal or spiritual. But to our descendents our habitable planet will look like an almost unimaginable paradise. No tech fantasy, no space station or controlled environment will ever compare.
Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.
Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.
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2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
February 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
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The loss of Arctic sea ice this year compared to the mean for the 2010s amounts to over 3 times the surface area of the UK, for instance...
Saturday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)
• about 790,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,450,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,040,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,430,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 790,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,450,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,040,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,430,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
February 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The loss of Arctic sea ice this year compared to the mean for the 2010s amounts to over 3 times the surface area of the UK, for instance...
Can democrats stop the coup? Potentially...
There's one plausible way Democrats could shut down the DOGE crime spree/constitutional crisis in the short term. And I'm pretty sure this is it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/where...
Where’s the Real Power Nexus? How Does the Opposition Get To It?
I’ve made this point a few times in passing in other posts....
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Can democrats stop the coup? Potentially...
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Clean air zones save lives, money and ease the strain on the NHS.
What's not to like?
What's not to like?
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“After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”
“After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”
Bradford clean air zone saves NHS over £30,000 a month in first year
After one year of the zone, which is the second largest in England, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by a quarter
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Clean air zones save lives, money and ease the strain on the NHS.
What's not to like?
What's not to like?
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You’d be forgiven for thinking this was vindictive:
• Recalled to prison because wrist “too small” for tag
• Spent Xmas, New Year, 78th Bday in prison
• Term extended for being “unlawfully at large” while released
• Released on same tag previously deemed “too big”
Privatisation in action.
• Recalled to prison because wrist “too small” for tag
• Spent Xmas, New Year, 78th Bday in prison
• Term extended for being “unlawfully at large” while released
• Released on same tag previously deemed “too big”
Privatisation in action.
🚨 GAIE IS FREE
🔥 Yesterday Gaie, a 78 year old grandmother, was released from prison after a tag that fit her wrist was miraculously found.
🙄 This tag turned out to be the same same size they claimed was too big for her 2 months ago.
goodlawproject.org/update/break...
🔥 Yesterday Gaie, a 78 year old grandmother, was released from prison after a tag that fit her wrist was miraculously found.
🙄 This tag turned out to be the same same size they claimed was too big for her 2 months ago.
goodlawproject.org/update/break...
February 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
You’d be forgiven for thinking this was vindictive:
• Recalled to prison because wrist “too small” for tag
• Spent Xmas, New Year, 78th Bday in prison
• Term extended for being “unlawfully at large” while released
• Released on same tag previously deemed “too big”
Privatisation in action.
• Recalled to prison because wrist “too small” for tag
• Spent Xmas, New Year, 78th Bday in prison
• Term extended for being “unlawfully at large” while released
• Released on same tag previously deemed “too big”
Privatisation in action.
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January 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM