Charles M Bishop

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Andy Burnham is considering ripping up the country’s insolvency laws to make it easier to bring key utilities such as Thames Water under public control."

Now that my friends would be very, very good news.

https://t.co/vyH6emFIAO

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Sergey Brin is leading a $90 million ad campaign to stop California's 5% billionaire wealth tax.

He is $133 billion richer since Trump's election.

But that's apparently not enough. He'd rather children lose access to healthcare than pay his fair share.

Greed is a sickness.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

What if, listening to this painful call, ALL those who say they care for Palestine, started to pay attention to:
-grocery/pharmaceuticals they buy
-insurance companies they use
-their banks
-their pension funds
-their work or research partners..
And chose an #ApartheidFree life

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Hillary Clinton: "Netanyahu has damaged Israel's perception around the world. That has to be repaired."

She's right. But she's missing the point. The damage isn't perception. It's reality. The genocide. The settlements. The ethnic cleansing.

Netanyahu didn't damage Israel's image. He just showed the world what Israel is

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon: "It's not occupied land. This is our land. We have historical and biblical rights. To call us settlers is a disgrace. Jewish communities are here to stay."

So by that logic, the Bible also mentions Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia as part of "Greater Israel."

After watching this, if someone still thinks these lunatics are interested in peace, they are willingly an idiot

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Israeli defence minister Katz has issued a decree to execute any child flying a kite.
Don’t forget to remain silent about this!

Silence is complicity.
Silence is taking the side of the psychopaths.
Silence is taking the side of those committing genocide.

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

Mehdi Hasan's open letter to Louise Haigh:
"Under Article I of the Genocide Convention – which the UK acceded to back in 1970 – “contracting parties” have a duty “to prevent and to punish” genocide. It’s a “binding duty” per the UN"
https://t.co/Awz1Ygd4f6

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Will Jewish communities be asked to condemn these extreme statements from the Chief Rabbi of the self-proclaimed Jewish state, in the same way that Muslim communities for 25 years have been asked to condemn extreme statements from every random imam anywhere in the world?

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Israel has said that paper kites flown by Palestinian children will be treated as weapons of war.

Read that again.

This is the reality of genocide: the total destruction of innocence, freedom and joy.

End all military cooperation with Israel, now.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

So: naming the crime is the offense, the one who names it is the guilty, and the one who commits it stands above scrutiny: what a combination of stupidity and viciousness.
Victims are honored by making no more victims not by granting perpetrators impunity.
And @MarkRuffalo rocks!

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Robert De Niro: “The Executive Branch has descended into a cesspool of corruption, stupidity, and cruelty led by a malignant narcissist. The Congressional Branch is a joke of course driven by fear. And the Judicial Branch, which should be the bulwark against the downfall of other branches is crumbling led by Trump’s compliant justices on the Supreme Court”

[Bob 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 Living in occupied Scotland @asimov200]

I think Caitlin speaks for most of us.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk spent $290M to elect Trump. Now he wants to spend up to $200M to buy a Senate seat in Texas and keep Republicans in control of Congress.

That’s not democracy. That’s oligarchy.

End Citizens United. Ban super PACs. Get billionaires—from both parties—out of elections.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

Andrey X is a tremendously brave journalist….

"If you sit at a hipster café in Tel Aviv and start talking to a random person, 20 minutes later, this person, drinking a matcha latte and speaking perfect English, will start explaining to you that those [Palestinian] children will grow up to be terrorists, so it's okay to kill them."
@the_andrey_x

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I renew my appeal for an end to the ongoing violence against the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank, and I urgently call on the international community to work toward advancing the two-state solution, for a just and lasting peace.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Like the closing scenes of a horror movie that stays with you for days & days.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

More than 150 years ago, scientists discovered what they termed a “greenhouse effect”, demonstrating for the first time that water vapour and carbon dioxide trapped heat.

Theoretical concerns were soon raised that we might, through the practice of burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon, have inadvertently been altering our climate since the start of the industrial revolution.

In 1938 a British scientist published the first observational study suggesting that human carbon emissions were, indeed, heating the planet.

By the late 1950s, the science about global warming was so well established that legendary Hollywood film maker Frank Capra was hired to make a documentary, The Unchained Goddess, intended to educate the public about what then seemed a relatively far-off threat.

The film explained that the release by factories and vehicles of some six billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year – a paltry sum by today’s standards – was “unwittingly changing the world’s climate”.

In the 1970s scientists working for the oil companies privately confirmed to their employers that their research showed continued fossil fuel burning would dangerously raise global temperatures. The oil companies kept the information tightly under wraps for decades.

By 1982 an Exxon team had produced a chart predicting – though again confidentially – the increases in CO2 levels in the atmosphere over time. When the chart came to light in 2019, scientists realised that the team had, in fact, correctly plotted contemporary CO2 levels – at 415 parts per million – in what was then 37 years into the future.

The Exxon team had also correctly predicted what effect this would have on global temperatures: a disastrous rise of just below 1ºC.

In 1988 Nasa scientist James Hansen testified to the US Senate that he was 99 per cent certain global warming was already under way. His sounding of the alarm sparked for the first time headlines in mainstream media.

In response, the fossil fuel industry began aggressively funding “independent” think-tanks to spread disinformation, and create doubt about the established science.

In 2026, after more than a century of evidence-based warnings, all those predictions have been fully and catastrophically borne out – with heat records being toppled almost daily across western Europe. Drought and wild fires are the result.

And this isn’t even the worst of it. Things are going to get a whole lot hotter, and lot scarier, in the years and decades ahead.

Yet here we are, a century on, still hearing variations of the same arguments of denial promoted in the mainstream from the terminally dim-witted and serially dishonest.

This is an extract from my latest article Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Nor will her successors. Find a link to the full article in the reply post below ⬇️

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Clarkson spent years mocking climate activists, environmentalists and electric cars. In 2009, he said people were “bored” with climate change and should enjoy the warm weather without feeling guilty.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Sergey Brin has made $140 billion since Trump was elected.

If California passes its one-time 5% wealth tax, he would owe $14 billion and still be worth $270 billion.

So what is he doing? Spending $100 million to defeat the proposal.

FIGHT OLIGARCHY. TAX BILLIONAIRE WEALTH.