Jean-Francois Marchaland

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One of the last coal-powered sheep.
Most sheep are all electric now.

#DefaidodonDay #DyddDefaidodon #Defaidodon

I can’t overstate how relieved I am with the election results in France.
It’s still very worrying, the far right is growing in terms of influence, but at least it’s still widely considered as the most dangerous option by everyone else, and it’s still being effectively blocked.

We won’t get an efficient government with how the parliament is split, but at least it won’t be run by the far right. Congrats to all the people who voted to avoid running the country into a totalitarian wall!

“The sight of Elon Musk charging towards Wikipedia with his trademark guile and delicacy was so predictable that it was almost relaxing. He saw a collective resource that people prized and he wanted to hurt it.”

Zoe Williams in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/23/why-is-elon-musk-attacking-wikipedia-because-its-very-existence-offends-him

Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him

The X owner has no time for a democratic experiment dedicated to knowledge. He would rather yell puerile ‘jokes’ into the ether, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian

I missed this, but @openDemocracy notes that while #SuellaBraverman & her unsavoury band of #migrants hating #Tories were decrying the inability of some migrants to speak English, a programme the govt. was going to launch that would have targeted aid to help migrants learn to speak English had been dropped...

words fail me..... (for once)

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/esol-national-strategy-promise-broken-suella-braverman-lee-anderson/

The government ditched plans to help refugees learn English

Exclusive: Braverman’s attack on immigrants followed government failure to deliver promised strategy to teach English

openDemocracy

America has had its share of presidents who were crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush).

But never before Donald Trump have we had a president who combined all these qualities.

"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

We cannot trade the mirage of some future economic benefit for the promise of mass extinction, climate refugees, and the rolling climate catastrophe we are living with more and more with each passing year. Willow is a false hope.

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/03/ruffalo-approval-willow-project-will-undermine-progress-climate

Ruffalo: ‘Approval of Willow project will undermine progress on climate change’

The Biden administration on March 13 approved the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska in the federally owned National Petroleum Reserve. This is a statement from actor and activist Mark Ruffalo.  

Environmental Working Group
What’s this sorcery? 😅