To be very realistic about what just happened in the US, to the world, to us all, to all animals and plants, the oceans, and to our planet and then to not become cynical may be difficult but is leadership.
Yes to grief, yes to this anticipatory mourning for what will now be lost. But no to falling into the sweet poison that is cynicism. In times like these, cynicism is obedience.
More than half of the living US recipients of the Nobel prize for economics signed onto a letter that calling Harris’ economic agenda “vastly superior” to Trump’s.
23 Laureates, including two of the three most recent recipients.
BREAKING: extraordinary admission from IPCC Chairman confirms catastrophic near-term global warming of 1.8-1.9°C and rising is unavoidable because there are no emissions reductions in sight 🧵
An utterly harrowing account of two weeks at a hospital in Gaza, written by a pair of surgeons who volunteered there: starving children with open wounds, a nurse tortured and left for dead, a succession of children shot in the head by Israeli forces. https://t.co/8poJIgjzMu
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🤯 when a Conservative cabinet decided the party was more important than the country’s well-being.
Astonishing moment from @ShippersUnbound account of May’s Brexit travails in Spring 2019. (Fall Out, p.485)
It is customary to sign off such opinions, “Respectfully, I dissent.” Instead, Sotomayor signed it: "With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”
🖊️ @katiestallard on the Supreme Court and Trump
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Thrilled to release this report commissioned by the Brazilian G20 Presidency today
Just like we have a minimum tax on multinationals, we need a minimum tax on the world's super-rich—and it has become technically feasible
🧵with the main findings and proposals
2mins of Hashi Mohamed absolutely smashing the Conservatives Rwanda policy to bits.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
‘Our learned judges said the Home Office hadn’t even assessed that policy before adopting it
It’s unviable, it’s expensive & the only people it’s going to work for is the Rwandans’ #BBCQT
Beckenbauer arrives at the gates to heaven when all of a sudden, from nowhere, Bremner flies through the air, studs up, and crunches him. As he lays on the cloud, looking bewildered, Bremner winks and says ‘that’s not a fucking penalty either’
#WACCOE@LUFC
RIP by the way
We are a reasonable country, but our patience has now run out.
Our Parliament is sovereign, and it should be able to make decisions that cannot be undone in our courts.
That’s what this emergency legislation delivers.
Look at her lovely hair. Suella #Braverman is leading her best life. Wined, dined and schooled by Libertarian think tanks. Just as the Republican Party loaded the Supreme Court, this American funded Tory Party aims to destroy all Post-war progressive legislation in the UK
Multiculturalism "has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it"
Home Secretary Suella Braverman gives speech on migration in Washington DC
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