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  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/us-companies-methane-pollution-rankings; https://law.ucla.edu/news/methane-made-america; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/trump-oil-gas-industry-donors.

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  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/trump-epa-repeal-pollution-standards-power-plants.

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  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/14/civil-service-chief-record-860000-payout-sacked-starmer. "The former head of the #civilservice Chris Wormald received a record pay-out of almost £860,000 when he was forced out of the top job in #Whitehall by Keir #Starmer. Cabinet Office accounts have revealed that the former cabinet secretary, who was sacked earlier this year, was paid £859,496 upon departure... Wormald has since been made a #member of the #HouseofLords, after serving a...

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  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/14/end-times-fascism-by-naomi-klein-and-astra-taylor-review-the-fightback-starts-here.

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  https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uk-and-tories-silent-after-research-shows-their-own-supporters-oppose-cuts-to-disability-benefits/. "Political parties that have spent years calling for #cuts to #spending on #disabled people’s #benefits have stayed silent in #response to new #research which shows the #public have ignored their #rhetoric & strongly oppose any such reductions. The research shows that #support for spending on #disability benefits 'remains strong across the...

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  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/31/climate-crisis-nepal-floods-india-caribbean. "The problem isn’t only historical failure but a casual disregard, an adventurism that launches #wars & stresses #economies with buffers already damaged by the #climatecrisis. The #Iran #war in combination with #ElNiño is a #Weather & #politics collaboration that has hiked #fertiliser #costs on the one hand & choked #rain on the other."

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  https://theconversation.com/climate-doom-may-discourage-climate-action-but-theres-a-way-to-counter-it-288301. It DOESN'T, & that is total & utter BULLSHIT, & I, for one, am absolutely fed-up with hearing this nonsense, @DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social. The people who aren't interested in #ClimateAction are the likes of Donald #Trump & Richard #Tice, who don't believe in the #climatecrisis in the first place.

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  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/09/russian-family-finland-reprisals-pro-ukraine-activism. Why, #Finland, why? This #Russian couple support #Ukraine - if they're sent back to #Russia, they'll end up in a #penal #colony in #Siberia! "Nikita & Olga Belov fled their homeland in 2022 after attracting the attention of Russian #authorities - including #military summons, threatening #messages & attempts to locate them - after expressing #opposition to the full-scale #inva...

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  https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-spd-seeks-lgbtq-protections-in-constitution/live-78140446. That's good to know, @PinkNews@flipboard.com, @christineburns@mastodon.green, @HarriettMB@toot.wales!

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  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/25/history-of-spain-fearless-1970s-trans-rights-political-collective. WOW, @christineburns@mastodon.green, @HarriettMB@toot.wales, @transworld@masto.ai, @transactualuk@mastodon.social, @PinkNews@flipboard.com! See: https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/queer-history/uncovering-the-history-of-spains-first-trans-organisation/.

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  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/23/trump-says-he-is-close-to-decision-on-largest-yet-attack-on-iran. The ordinary people of #Iran go on suffering, #international #law keeps on being broken, yet more #warcrimes are committed - & all so the #fossilfuel #companies can make larger & larger #profits, Vladimir #Putin can make even more #revenue from his #oil & #gas to pay for his #war in #Ukraine, & Donald #Trump can keep on massaging his #SolarSystem sized #ego!

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  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/23/divided-world-pride-hot-show-film-musical. Yes, things WERE bad - VERY bad - for #LGBTIQA people; so why are we letting things get bad AGAIN? Why are we allowing divisions in our #community to be exploited by right-wing #politicians & #TERFs? We need to defend #transgender people & #TransRights, irrespective of our own #gender #identity. @PinkNews @HarriettMB@toot.wales @christineburns@mastodon.green @transactualuk@mastodon.social @tr...

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  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/19/trump-foreign-election-interference.

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  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/16/british-girl-stranded-rome-six-weeks-new-passport-rules. "A #British girl was prevented from returning to her #school in the #UK for 6 weeks after a trip to see her #grandmother in #Italy because of the Home Office’s new rule requiring dual British #nationals to have a British #passport to get back into the #country." Yet more narrow-minded, #racist, #xenophobic #HomeOffice stupidity, for which that #ReformUK entryist into the #LabourPar...

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  https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/10/cia-history-communist-albania-cold-war-kim-philby-review/. How NOT to launch a clandestine mission! Kim Philby didn't need to betray ANY of it, it was so badly organised! "Far from the buttoned-up, bureaucratized #spying of the later #ColdWar period, the early post-war #MI6 & #CIA were an almost shambolic bunch. With little oversight, especially on the #US side, these #agencies could concoct whatever schemes & plans they fancied... they were...

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  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/keir-starmer-britain-pharma-deal-covid; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/11/keir-starmer-medicines-deal-donald-trump-cost-british-lives. "In the face of Trump’s bullying, the #Government will double how much it spends on #drugs as a share of national income, going from 0.3% now to 0.6% in a decade. It also accepts that the money will come from the #NHS budget. The BMJ analysis suggests that over the next couple of years...

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  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/01/the-guardian-view-on-yet-another-immigration-bill-law-as-performance-is-a-failing-model. "The #Right of #British #politics is... [demanding]... a more sinister #agenda of deporting people who have already settled in the country. A #Labour #Government should be doing everything in its power to stop those attitudes encroaching further into the mainstream. #Britain doesn’t need another #law that will only confirm beliefs that #immigration i...

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  https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2026/may/15/wealth-britain-billionaires-gdp-rich-list-inequality. "The #wealth of Britain’s 157 #billionaires is now equivalent to more than a fifth of the country’s entire #GDP, according to analysis by the Equality Trust - a fivefold increase since 1990."

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  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/13/datacentres-electricity-consumption-uk-us-ai. 6% of #electricity #supply in the #UK & #US used by #Datacentres, @DoomsdaysCW - & what about #water #consumption & #carbon #emissions? See: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788.

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  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/09/supreme-court-death-penalty-execution-disabilities. I can believe this only too easily, @andrewstroehlein, @humanrightswatch, @Nonilex, @DoomsdaysCW. It ought to be nothing more than the deranged fantasy of some far right-wing extremist, rather than the real prospect of an actual #SCOTUS majority #decision. It is wrong, wrong, wrong. There is nothing in the least bit right about it. It is a grievous example of #disability #discrimination, &am...

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  https://theconversation.com/even-in-japan-robots-are-a-long-way-from-being-fully-fledged-carers-heres-why-281657. #Robots aren't #humans - so how can a #robot CARE for a #human? How can a robot CARE for anything? Humans & non-human #animals have #emotions - robots don't & can't!

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  https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260430-teen-with-30-tortoises-under-clothes-nabbed-at-thai-airport. Here's another very naughty #teenager - 19 years old, this time. I don't think she'll get away with a slap on the wrist. Smuggling #wildlife - like these protected #tortoises - is a major #problem, which needs to be tackled.

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  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/02/keir-starmer-calls-for-ban-on-some-pro-palestian-protests-british-jews. #Starmer would just LOVE the excuse to ban ALL - never mind SOME - #protests in favour of the #Palestinians. He is NO #democrat, & no #liberal; he IS an #authoritarian & a #Zionist, willing to defend #Israel come-what-may, even when the #Israelis are committing #genocide, & even if that entails the #UK being #guilty of aiding & abetting genocide...

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  https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/key-cost-saving-change-on-pip-re-assessments-as-dwp-offers-new-ways-to-engage-with-timms-review/. "The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) has increased the number of #disabled #claimants who will face fewer #reviews of their #eligibility for #personal #independence #payment (PIP)." Thank Heaven for small (very small) mercies!

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  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/01/esther-cohen-poet-laureate. Only #Trump supporting #Republicans could fire this woman - a #pacifist - on the grounds that she supported #violence, @DoomsdaysCW. What was their #evidence? Yes, she opposed Trump & voted, & campaigned for, Zohran #Mamdani. Was that supposed to be "violent"?

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  https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tories-and-reform-face-scottish-voters-with-manifestos-describing-plans-to-slash-disability-benefits/. So #disabled people in #Scotland will know NOT to vote #Tory & NOT to vote #ReformUK if they don't want their #disability #benefits to be cut!

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  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/21/victims-of-sexual-violence-distressed-by-mps-pugnacious-questioning. "Victims of #rape & #sexual #violence have told #parliamentarians they felt anxious & distressed during a #Westminster #evidence session, with one stating that witnessing 'pugnacious' questioning had resulted in her 'breaking down, sobbing & struggling to breathe'. The victims’ commissioner has made a formal complain...

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  https://theconversation.com/what-neurodivergent-people-really-think-about-the-words-used-to-describe-them-271784; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26134030/; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27546330251390590 (open access). "Across #diagnoses, people spoke powerfully about how certain words made them feel. Words such as 'disorder' were widely disliked. Many felt they implied something broken or defective, rather than acknowledging that difficulties often arise bec...

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  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/14/african-scientists-fungal-conservation-movement-aoe. The #biosphere is fully integrated & inter-dependent. Take out one part of an #ecosystem & the rest of it collapses - & the same is true of the biosphere as a whole. If all #fungi were to become #extinct, the #extinction of other #eukaryotic life-forms, including #humans, would follow, & very rapidly.

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  https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260409-argentine-mps-approve-milei-backed-bill-allow-mining-glaciers. #Argentina is going to end up with no #glaciers if #Milei & his #supporters have their way. The glaciers are under a big enough threat from #climatechange, without THIS, as well! It will be absolutely devastating for the #environment in that #country, & its #people will suffer badly as a result. Do they want to be #flooded out of their #homes? Do they want to see their #crops &amp...