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Current wildfires in Canada.
Red - out of control
Yellow - being held
Blue - under control
#ClimateChange is not some future distant threat, it is here and it will get worse if we don't demand a transition to renewables.
Renationalising our water supplies is essential, no matter how much it costs, because the privatised model shows how the maintenance of clean water supplies, and the management of sewage, cannot be entrusted to private companies whose purpose is to generate profits for its shareholders and its bloated, overpaid CEOs.
Two weeks ago, a revenue collector from Thames Water rang me to remind me that I was overdue paying the first two instalments of my £500+ annual bill, and I spontaneously went into a rant about how…
Staff at the University of Bristol are set to strike on 16 June during an open day in an acrimonious pay dispute.
The university has responded to the current marking & assessment boycott by bypassing degree accreditation processes. It will also dock 50% of pay from participating staff. Hundreds of staff and students have signed a letter condemning management's attempts to degrade the credibility of the university's degrees.
This is chilling, democracy in the U.K. is well and truly dead!
Sunak’s suggesting that he’ll bypass the Lords & use the Parliament Act to force the Illegal Migration bill through parliament.
If you ever wondered how regular people stood by & watched Germany descend into Naziism, now you know.
By ordinary standards—at least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards—saving and improving lives in rich countries is about equally as important...as saving & improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal"
Indeed.
Why has the GOP targeted transgender people? There’s not a shred of evidence that trans people are threats to anyone. All they want is to live peacefully as their true selves.
But targeting trans people is a way to stir up the base, stoking fear and hatred. It's that simple.
Nick Barlow
Nando161
Meanwhile in Canada
BobM
UCU
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
Lauren Weinstein
Robert Reich
Kevin Russell