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Richard Phillips
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Climate Justice now...❤️🌍🐇🤗🌳🚲🐝🤫…maybe clean air?💧? GND!
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🔵 Fact: 2 in 3 refugees are hosted in neighbouring countries.

The vast majority of people who flee find safety close to home.
Fact: 2 in 3 refugees are hosted in neighbouring countries. The vast majority of people who flee find safety close to home.
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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workingclasshistory.com
We're proud to be part of the #generalstrike100 collaboration, commemorating the centenary of the 1926 general strike in Britain. So explore our interactive map and sign up to visit your nearest #GeneralStrike100 event via generalstrike100.com/
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Actor Thierry Lhermitte and his wife at the inauguration of Marie Trintignant's Garden at the Quai des Celestins, Paris, 2007

#BicycleBirthday Thierry Lhermitte
Born November 24, 1952

📷 Frederic Soulov
Photo of a man standing astride a bicycle on a sidewalk. Some other people are gathered around nearby.
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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motherjones.com
Canadians make up the largest proportion—nearly 28 percent—of international travelers visiting Florida. They also comprise the largest number of international visitors for the entire United States.

But that comfortable relationship may be taking a turn.
Canadians have cooled on US travel
Mexico is looking like a much better option.
www.motherjones.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 3 Jun 1906 bisexual Black French resistance activist and performing artist Josephine Baker was born in St. Louis, MS. During WW2 she worked for the resistance, carrying messages and hiding weapons and Jews. Learn more in our new book, preorder here www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...
June 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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in-otter-news.bsky.social
Here is an otter learning to get your day off to the right start.
June 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Sudan conflict: UN aid convoy attacked in el-Koma as it waits to go to North Darfur
Sudan conflict: UN aid convoy attacked in el-Koma as it waits to go to North Darfur
Initial reports suggest multiple casualties following the attack on the convoy, a UN spokesperson says.
www.bbc.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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mandascott.bsky.social
How do we step past the magical thinking of the elites that says we can either use AI to ‘Solve for Climate’ – or just ignore the entire climate and ecological emergency completely?

accidentalgods.life/miraculous-c...

#Accidentalgods #Podcast w Paul Hawken, founder of Project #Drawdown
Miraculous Carbon: Celebrating the Book of Life, Death and Potential with author Paul Hawken
How do we step past the magical thinking of the elites that says we can either use AI to 'Solve for Climate' - or just ignore the entire climate and ecological emergency completely?
accidentalgods.life
April 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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coolbikeart1.bsky.social
Poster promoting an anti-car demonstration in New York City, 1972

HT @carltonreid.com
Poster for a bicycle demonstration. Text: "Bicycle Demonstration (with a little guy on a bike saying, "Look ma, no cars!"). We demand: No private cars in Manhattan (then rearrange the system of buses, cabs, & trucks). Millions for public transit, no more money for highways (stop the spending of $2 billion on rebuilding the West Side Highway, rebuild subways instead.) Free bicycles (end the problem of theft.) Join the AAA (Action Against Automobiles) Room 632, 555 Mad. Ave (371-0999). Practice now. massive Bicycle demonstrations in the spring until the streets are cleansed of the auto gangrene. Stop the cars from killing the city!"
March 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Off By One xkcd.com/3062
March 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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helenczerski.bsky.social
The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
March 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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coolbikeart1.bsky.social
As a photographer for the New York Times Fashion page, Bill Cunningham spent his days riding his bicycle around Manhattan, looking for the next eye-catching trend.

#BicycleBirthday
March 13 (1929-2016)
A man riding a bicycle on a city street photographs a woman standing with her bike. She's wearing plaid trousers.
March 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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petersagal.bsky.social
UPDATE: From the original poster of the letter on FB:
I just now got off the phone with Allan Schappert, the author of this letter. He’s not on social media. When I shared how his letter has travelled, he said, “I’m gobsmacked.” He wrote to share his story, and perhaps to let other veterans know they’re not alone, and he’s amazed that he touched a nerve. “The pen is mightier than the sword!” exclaimed this pilot who once wielded the nuclear sword at the controls of an American B52. Whew. He thanks you, Peter, for sharing his words. Allan and I have plans to grab a beer together this weekend.
March 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 13 Mar 1940 Indian revolutionary Udham Singh assassinated British former lieutenant governor of the Punjab, Michael O'Dwyer, in revenge for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre when O'Dwyer's troops killed 1800 people and wounding over 1200. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...
March 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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tsakraklides.bsky.social
The global collapse of industrial civilisation will be televised, curated and managed by half-truths, green hopium and the creation of new heroes and villains out of thin air. Climate crisis and overshoot are already being forgotten.
March 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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labourlewis.bsky.social
The geopolitical plates are shifting, and pretending Britain can hover in a diplomatic limbo is an exercise in dangerous delusion. This is not a theoretical dilemma — it is a stark reality.

Read more in my article for @bylinetimes.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/03/12/k...
Starmer’s Moment of Truth: 'Britain Must Align Itself with Europe’s Regulated Capitalism and Collective Security '
The PM's pronouncement that Britain need not choose between the US and Europe is 'downright reckless' and an 'exercise in dangerous delusion', argues Clive Lewis
bylinetimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 13 Mar 1920 after the Kapp Putsch and calls for a general strike by the SPD, workers of the anarcho-syndicalist FAUD formed a council and took control of Sömmerda, Germany. Troops killed 23 and arrested 180 to retake the town. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8496/s%C3%B6mmerda-commune
March 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Brilliant submission by Guy here. It's essential that everyone who wants to see richer ecosystems in England also contributes to this consultation, however briefly, as many vested interests will defend the status quo. It's the first time in my life that we've had this chance. Let's not waste it.
guyshrubsole.bsky.social Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Mar 12
I’ve published my submission to the government’s Land Use consultation.

DEFRA has proposed lots of bold and interesting ideas, many of which I support.

But they also underestimate the scale of land use change needed to restore nature & fix water pollution. 1/🧵

whoownsengland.org/2025/03/12/m...
My submission to the Government’s Land Use consultation
This post is by Guy Shrubsole. This is my submission to the Government’s Land Use consultation, which was launched by the Environment Secretary Steve Reed on 31st January 2025 and closes on 2…
whoownsengland.org
March 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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graceblakeley.substack.com
This was a lot of fun! Support Rachel’s work if you can
racheldonald.bsky.social Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · Mar 12
Economist @graceblakeley.bsky.social explains the collusion between states and markets, highlighting the active collusion by elites to control resources and people.

Episode out tomorrow. Subscribe at PlanetCritical.com to get it delivered to your inbox.
March 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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‘In a capitalist society, financial decision-making is insulated from democracy, even as the decisions taken by financial institutions shape the trajectory of that society and the lives of all the economic actors who compose it.’ - @graceblakeley.bsky.social
Democratised Finance Is the Future
Financial institutions wield huge control over our day-to-day lives. We need to democratise that power.
tribunemag.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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racheldonald.bsky.social
Economist @graceblakeley.bsky.social explains the collusion between states and markets, highlighting the active collusion by elites to control resources and people.

Episode out tomorrow. Subscribe at PlanetCritical.com to get it delivered to your inbox.
March 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Congratulations to the senior Tories who, having been told this for a mere 60 years, and staunchly denied it throughout, have finally twigged that it might not be a brilliant idea to have a nuclear deterrent which can be switched off by another state.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
US support to maintain UK’s nuclear arsenal is in doubt, experts say
Malcolm Rifkind joins diplomats and analysts urging focus on European cooperation to replace Trident
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Lots of people (including me) are deeply concerned that the NHS workforce is being de-skilled. There have been lots of developments regarding physician associates recently. My newsletter today will update you about what’s going on. This is really important - sign up here!

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Call To Action | Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 | Substack
I am very concerned about what UK politicians are doing to the NHS, and so I have decided to write about it! This is my personal newsletter, sharing my perspectives +important info about the NHS and m...
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March 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 9 Mar 1894 German radical artist, Franz Sweiwert, was born. He was involved with Dada before helping to form the Cologne Progressives, a council communist artist circle. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...
March 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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An astoundingly well-preserved 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian wig made from human hair!

Worn by a lady called Merit, it was placed in her tomb for use in the afterlife. I saw this remarkable artefact last week at the Museo Egizio in Turin. 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photos shows a well-preserved ancient Egyptian Wig, dated c. 1425–1353 BC. It is made of dark brown human hair. Wig dimensions 30 cm x 45 cm. The locks of human hair were sewn together and braided. The hair is parted in the middle and curled into ringlets that end with braids on either side of the face and on the back of the neck. This type of hairdo was often decorated with flowers and diadems, which were very fashionable in the mid- 18th dynasty, as can be seen in paintings and statues of the period. The wig belonged to a high-ranking lady called Merit, who was the wife of Kha, ‘chief of works’ (foreman) who supervised the royal tomb construction workers. The intact tomb of Kha and Merit (TT8) was discovered in 1906 by Italian archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli, at the Theban necropolis at the workers village of Deir-el-Medina The wig was contained in a shrine-shaped wig box crafted from acacia wood with Merit’s name written in hieroglyphs on the outside.
March 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM