Tomorrow. Join me, @clareshawpoet.bsky.social, @draflint.bsky.social, Harriet Tarlo and Melanie Giles for the Sheffield launch of THE BOOK OF BOGS. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
there is an extremely long list of people who need to be held accountable in the next administration but sending the DOGE boys to big boy jail needs to be near the top of the list
"In the United States, the fossil fuel industry budget for Communications and Public Affairs is $4 billion a year. The entire renewable energy industry is $150 million... and so we have a lot of work just to get the message out about the basic facts."
So, I thought, "they can't possibly have said that." So I went looking. OOF. charitably, it seems like they're surprised by the explicit text of the constitution and flails around trying to justify their view. A view which, incidentally, would reduce an enumerated power of Congress to zero.
At the most basic level of 'have some self-respect', Conservative MPs should not put forward someone who visibly is not intellectually equipped to be prime minister as their candidate to be prime minister.
Hope so.
Kudos to this brave MP, and shame on her party's leadership that they should push her to having to make this statement in Parliament.
Strong urge to write a novel following a billionaire in his post-apocalypse bunker as he slowly perishes. Might be therapeutic for thousands of readers.
(Thanks - I should have done the Alt text).
Phil, I grew up metres from this former golf course! We weren't allowed to explore the area when we were kids (though we did) because of the risk of golf balls. Seeing it given back to nature and the local community has been a great joy. Did you help plant the new orchard?
Hard agree with the hen harrier.
Sadly, this is absolutely necessary and I welcome it for at least 2 reasons: Books are personal, about sharing experience & exploring ideas - if you’ve read my books, you’ve met me. And a human author is *accountable* for what they/we write: we take responsibility & influences/money are traceable.
I'm currently reading DUNE and can only visualise the Harkonnens as the GOP.
"We can take them at their word." Witkoff, like Trump, trusts his handler.
Tomorrow. Join me, @clareshawpoet.bsky.social, @draflint.bsky.social, Harriet Tarlo and Melanie Giles for the Sheffield launch of THE BOOK OF BOGS. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
A week on Saturday. My sister @natalielindsay.bsky.social sings in the choir. We will be announcing the David Norminton Choral Scholarship in memory of our beloved dad. Do come along.
This is what scholar of genocide A. Dirk Moses calls the logic of permanent security: 'we need to eliminate them, before they eliminate us.'
It is not rooted in any form of reality, but on the desire to *remake* reality, categorising people as threats in order to justify eliminating them.
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory
mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...
From the always on-point Sue Halpern, a good catalogue of GOP efforts to disenfranchise voters. It's what they've got left.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
“There’s been a massive wave of fossil fuel nostalgia in Brussels,” said Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, a Socialist lawmaker in the European Parliament. “The only way for us to achieve energy security is to get out of fossil fuels. We need to understand it’s the road to serfdom, otherwise.”
He gets it.
"In the last 24 hours both Farage and Badenoch have U-turned on their previous support for Britain joining Trump’s war, with both even daring to suggest that they had never really backed joining it in the first place."
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/10/n...
At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).
Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."
I guess. Otoh, just think where we would be now without this level of FUD and political capture. Transitioning slowly, given climate impacts, is failure.
Oliver Metcalfe, head of wind research at BloombergNEF. “Challenged by razor-thin margins at home, Chinese suppliers are leveraging lower-cost production and fast delivery to enter new markets and undercut established rivals across Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.” Outside mainland China, new additions also rose, increasing 17% year-on-year to 43GW. For the first time since wind power emerged as a major global force, India edged out the US and Germany to claim the title of biggest wind market outside mainland China. India’s climb is bolstered by complex auctions, which typically require developers to integrate multiple renewable technologies or oversize projects beyond their contracted capacity, particularly in wind. “India fully deserves its place as the second-largest wind market in the world.” said Siddharth Shetty, BNEF’s lead wind analyst for India. “The sector is reaping the rewards of complex auctions, pioneered by India’s clean power auctioning agencies in 2018. And this momentum is not fading. We expect wind build to continue at similar levels through the end of this decade.”
China and India making the smart choice while Europe bafflingly decides this is the perfect time to tighten the cuffs that are chaining us to ultra-expensive gas
In 2024, the % of all campaign donations (i.e., $ raised) coming from billionaires was 19%.
Before Citizens United, that was 0.3%.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
Amazing what massive lobbying and influencer payment schemes can do for ecocidal industries.
Commenting on news that Reform UK are pledging to end the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, which providers homeowners with grants to install heat pumps, Simon Cran-McGreehin, @eciu.net said:
"The facts speak for themselves on this one."
eciu.net/media/press...
The President of the USA is now openly threatening Iran with being the target of one of the greatest crimes in world history. Trump is saying he will destroy the basis of life for more than 90 million people.
He should be removed from office for this.
