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This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India. It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"Green Party leader Zack Polanski joined public ownership advocates today in demanding the government withdraw the water company’s licence after an investigation was launched into breaches of standards." www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/camp...

Oh dear www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

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@marcdaalder.bsky.social - Govt deficits ought to have something to show for them, right? - the point of govt spending is to fuel prosperity. Whereas all chasing a 'surplus' is going to do is fuel austerity - QED. Can you explain why a deficit is bad? Esp when govt is a currency-issuer?

JUST IN: 🇭🇺 Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says globalists seek to destabilize Serbia, Slovakia, and Hungary after 'losing Washington to the patriots'

Shutting USA down for a while would do wonders for the world.

Mexico has issued a travel warning to not to travel to Texas and seven other US states due to a measles outbreak. At least one case has been registered in Mexico after an infected person crossed from the US. The outbreak comes as Trump is slashing infectious diseases protections. #EndAutogenocide

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BP might be the most obvious company to have given up on green energy and its sustainability programme, but it is not alone. In Trump’s world being green is out of fashion. What price will we pay for that? youtu.be/r0fk_hHjrJA?...

RNZ had this in morning report today. Why the lag, who knows. Their article does show his spin and misinformation. Fossil fuel advocate who slammed clean energy grants joins energy agency board www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

‪Hmmm, could it be they no longer wanted to be the political pawns of Minister "I've never seen such a high value on life" van Velden? #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

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How Common Ground Cafe workers won a union and a cafe Common Ground workers began fighting against mistreatment at work and ended up winning a union and ownership of the business.

Yesterday I had the privilege of joining Cwmparc residents on a peaceful march, protesting the blocking of a historic right of way that separates the community from their mountain. There was rain, mud, a little bit of trespassing, and hypothermic stand-off 🌧️ Here's my report of events. /THREAD 🧵

This is what the world thinks about us.

“Despite the bluster coming from Luxon that his government is 'laser-focused' on growth, all he has to offer the country is another dose of failed neoliberal trickle-down economics. And this is certainly 'backward-looking'.”… #nzpol nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2025/02/chir...

#ProudBlue Good morning, friends! I’m on THEIR team! Wanna join? 🙋‍♀️

"Even Socialist Zionists have betrayed the fundamentals of Socialism by not understanding that it is not possible to build a socially just society while negating the national rights of the Arab inhabitants and forcing them from their land"- Bundist Leader Victor Alter

Jewish Labor Bund leaders inveighed against violating the national rights of Palestinians. E.g. this Henry Ehrlich article from 1938. www.derspekter.org/is-zionism-a...

Thank you! Its Yiddish. Its often associated with the term Doi'kayt which means hereness which is similar to the Palestinian-Arabic concept Sumud. Its about fighting for your place where you are rather than Dorti'kayt ("thereness") which means looking for the solution to your problems elsewhere.

"To me, the most powerful way I could deny the racist interpretation of this slogan as a call for the genocide of Jews is tattooing it on my body." You don't have to agree with me, but the bare minimum I expect is keeping your stupid pro-genocide or pro-democrat apologia about genocide away from me

😅 That's tellin' ya!!!!

It is time for some of you to learn who I truly am. I'm not just a nerdy payments system, economic policy expert and legal researcher. I'm also the grandchild of Jewish Anti-Zionists who tattooed this on my body December 30th 2023. Accept that you don't get one without the other or get lost.

"Stephanie Kelton, the author of ‘The Deficit Myth’ tells us, that governments should not aim to balance the books; rather it should aim to balance the economy." Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in 67 Bullet Points tinyurl.com/29hhtu96 #Economics #StephanieKelton #DeficitMyth

But, knowing that Govt is not fiscally constrained changes things. The question becomes 'how will we do this important thing?' rather than 'how will we find the money?' Eg, if we need to spend billions on green infra, how can taxes be used to free up the resources required to do the work? [10/n]

Why R IsraHELLIs cowards/psychopaths? Takes years of mind control starting age 3, 2 turn kids into heartless automatons, 2 become soldiers 4 the fascist state. My concern is for the victims of these soul-less robots, but this is also child abuse of Jewish children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrxT...

Trump is capitalism in human form, stripped of its disguises. The violent seizure of other people's resources, the exploitation of other people's catastrophes, the predatory gleam in the psychopath's eye. #Gaza #Genocide

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, slams international community for ignoring Israeli genocide in Gaza 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/o4j0jj

Trump's threats of ethnic cleansing in Gaza are abhorrent and the UK government must stand firmly against them

🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸 Like this. Like it a lot From Threads. #bishopmariannbudde #trump

What an incredible, brave woman.

USA: ‘Fighting Goliath’: Amazon workers to hold union election at North Carolina warehouse www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This campaign to privatise NZ's health care system has got to be stopped. We need nationwide strikes. ACT & co may try their 'holding the country to ransom' crap, but don't believe it - ALL of NZ will be in support. This wreckage has got to stop NOW.

Te Whatu Ora has stopped outsourcing surgeries to Canterbury Charity Hospital. It will outsource to more expensive, for-profit private hospitals instead. Privatisation of health is one of David Seymour’s stated priorities this year. #nzpol www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

Only effective permanent structural fix for the NZ economy is to get off oil as fast and much as possible. Essentially a transportation story. Incentivise a rapid EV transition, and investment in trains, buses, and bikes in and between cities. Plus renewables to power them With urgency = prosperity