Memo to the Department for Infrastructure:
Instead of spending money on adverts to encourage people to cycle in Belfast, when large parts of the city aren't safe for it, how about investing in safe cycling infrastructure?
These tick box exercises serve no one, but yourselves.
A political quote graphic from Green Party NI. The background is a blurred, muted photograph of a man carrying a young child among a crowd of displaced people — suggesting refugees fleeing conflict. The image is deliberately softened, conveying human dignity rather than distress. Large white quotation marks appear in the upper left corner. A thin white rectangular border frames the image. In large bold white text: “Every bomb dropped on an oil-producing region sends two shockwaves. One hits your energy bill. The other forces hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.” Below the quote, in bold white: “Cllr Barry McKee” and beneath that in regular white text: “Bangor West.” At the bottom centre, the Green Party Northern Ireland logo — a green leaf beside “greenparty” in white, with “NORTHERN IRELAND” beneath in smaller text.
“Every bomb dropped on an oil-producing region sends two shockwaves. One hits your energy bill. The other forces hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.” - Cllr Barry McKee
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Never forget that on June 20, 1979, Pres. Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the roof of the White House. He was a visionary.
Ronald Reagan’s first act as president was to remove them. He was indebted to the fossil fuel industry.
Imagine what USA could be today without the GOP.
Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.
The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.
From a pro-planet perspective, high oil prices is a GOOD thing.
But you have to be zoomed WAY out to see that.
Maybe someday, we'll have politicians who deliberately adjust prices for things based on their societal harm vs societal good scores to PREVENT deaths.
#ClimateEmergency
#BetterDems
From mandatory ID cards to arresting pensioners for holding up cardboard signs to cosy deals with US tech spy firms:
It's good to see lawyers pushing back on their increasingly authoritarian Govenrment.
We must protect jury trials.
No principles, no morality, no information, no expertise, just endlessly appeasing Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and assorted billionaires and foreign oligarchs or chasing the next headline, until suddenly colliding with reality. Bang, oof.
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There isn't. It's time to join to join the greens. The internal structures are what matters. Greens have a membership led party while labour is captured by capital.
"Utterly failed"
@rachelmillward.bsky.social lays out the reality of privatised water - explaining why water must be returned to public hands.
From 1941 to 1952 in the UK, the top rate of income tax was 98%. A luxury goods purchase tax introduced in 1940 later rose to 100%.
Result? The share of incomes captured by the richest 0.1% fell from 7% in 1937 to just over 1% in 1975. That's what we need today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
🚨 NEW: Several Labour MPs are in talks with the Greens about defecting to the party
It looks like the Green Party has by far the best defence policy of all.
Renewable energy; wind, solar, wave and tidal power.
Renewables don’t get stuck or blown up in the Strait of Hormuz.
In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks
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As the US/Israel attack on Iran is likely to tip the UK into recession, let's not forget that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are trashing our rivers, ecosystems, communities, health and resilience for the sake of economic growth. But, as they are now discovering, it's not something they can control.
With our help
The cost of electricity made from wind and solar hasn't gone up because the US bombed someone. Time to focus on local, independent renewable energy generation that doesn't hand oil barons huge profits.
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Wind turbines kill birds, yes but...
🚨 NEW | Seat estimate for London local elections:
🟢 Grn: 548 (+530)
🔵 Con: 481 (+77)
🔴 Lab: 415 (-741)
🟠 Lib: 252 (+72)
➡️ Ref: 132 (+132)
Greens would win a majority on 9 councils 👀
Source: Bombe data published in @Guardian
FREED SEX TRAFFICKER PLACED IN HOSTEL NEAR VULNERABLE WOMEN Pervert pensioner back on the streets near Queen’s University after spending a year in prison Sunday Life8 Mar 2026Ciaran Barnes A pervert pensioner jailed for involvement in a sinister sex trafficking gang which targeted vulnerable women is back walking the streets. Kenneth Harvey is now holed up in a hostel in the shadow of Queen’s University in Belfast, yards from where he exploited his drug addict victims. The 75-year-old moved there recently after serving a one-year prison sentence for trafficking a prostitute and paying for sexual services. This was his second conviction for crimes of this nature. Probation sources questioned the decision to place Harvey in a hostel so close to the scene of his crimes and which is in an area with a high concentration of vulnerable drug addicts. “I couldn’t believe it when I found out he had been placed there,” an insider told Sunday Life. “The hostel is notorious for housing sex offenders and is right next to Queen’s University.
I'm also aware of a small housing block that is mostly occupied by elderly women. They've moved a rapist in with them. Funnily enough, the 'protect women and girls' lot, who have been informed, don't care because he's white.
NI MOST DANGEROUS PLACE IN THE UK FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS Series of talks warning teenagers to be on their guard for early signs of violence and control in relationships Sunday Life8 Mar 2026Angela Davison That was the message delivered to a group of pupils at South West College (SWC) in Dungannon at a workshop on gender-based violence. The interactive seminars, held at colleges across Northern Ireland, are designed to spark conversation about, and raise awareness of, the signs of unhealthy relationships. They also teach students what to do if they, or someone they know, is suffering abuse. SWC student governor Ryan Kearney told Sunday Life: “The idea stemmed from my campaign to be elected as student governor. “Unhealthy relationships and gender-based violence are common and can be down to multiple factors, including the rise of online misogynistic messages by the likes of Andrew Tate. “A friend of mine was a victim, and I noticed she had changed and wasn’t her normal self. Her boyfriend became more controlling, manipulative and tried to isolate her.
"Northern Ireland most dangerous place in the UK for women and girls" [Sunday Life]
First MP by-election win, record high polling, and over 15,000 new members... the Green Party is on the up 📈
More than 2,000 people a day have joined us since our historic win in Gorton and Denton 🥳
Be part of the movement which is making hope normal again 💚
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DOJ admits 47,635 Epstein files — including Trump allegations — were removed
Simply disgusting!
@brewdogofficial.bsky.social workers built this brand and they deserved respect. Instead, they were treated as disposable pawns.
@unitetheunion.bsky.social will not rest until our members have legal and financial justice. #BrewDog
You're forgetting @greenpartyni.org !
That's not how the party works. Zack has no more power to do that than I do. Nor would he want to. It's up to the local party members to decide.
Thank you email for joining the Green Party
Just joined UK’s Green Party for a few reasons. Starmer himself suggested ppl like me leave the Labour Party when he assumed leadership. Request granted. But the Greens’ recent success & polling (and more importantly their policy goals!) show them to be robust & viable.
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If you’re willing to support Trump’s bombs, are you willing to support the people who flee them? Or our citizens who will see prices skyrocketing?
We asked the DUP that in council.
Silence.
Hypocrisy isn’t a policy. 🕊️
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I think you can deduce the rest of the outfit from the footwear. I'd ask if I need boots or would trainers be ok. I assume I'd be told if level of formality or smartness was important.
