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[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Meta has been ordered to pay $537m after a jury found the company knowingly harmed children's mental health.

The harms of social media aren't a bug. They're a feature.

A blanket ban won't fix a business model built around addiction and surveillance.

If we want to protect young people, we need to take on Big Tech directly.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Public ownership. Now.

https://t.co/PWBJeZZcYc

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

all part of the great criminal fraud...

All those adverts water companies are running, telling you how fabulous they are and how it's not really their fault, guess who's paying for it all?

[@ 𝒱𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝑅𝑜𝓌𝓁𝒶𝓉𝓉. (𝒫𝑒𝒶𝓈𝒶𝓃𝓉) @VincentRowlatt]

@Feargal_Sharkey All bodies of water in England polluted with toxic chemicals, official data shows.

Environment Agency assessments find just 14.3% of country’s surface waters in good ecological status.

https://t.co/dNstRNVZvf

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

We really have got to stop building AI data centres

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Southern Water want to rob the River Test of 1/3 of its flows.

“Southern Water is arguing yet again that corporate greed and ineptitude should surpass the needs of the environment,”

Me in today’s @FT

https://t.co/TmdBGhotfT

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Windfall tax on colossal bank profits could raise £19bn in 2026.

Result of profiteering & govt policies.

Sufficient to increase personal income tax allowance by nearly £2000.

Banks paid out £25bn in bonuses in the year to March, can easily pay more tax.
https://t.co/hT9wq4Om6z

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And why do I care about the River Test?

Because right now I’m standing on the banks and this is the view. Get your hands off it Southern Water…

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

The reason why most media focuses on celebrity gossip and whether it’s bad Andy Burnham is having a holiday etc is so the public never talks about things like this

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

A £240m contract with the Ministry of Defence, a £330m deal with the NHS, but only £2m of tax in the UK 🤔
https://t.co/Drf2xZmLI2

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

The dangers of the NHS's £330m contract with Palantir are well known.

A subscription-based contract that leaves the NHS without meaningful ownership. Lock-in to a single supplier that risks future price gouging. Critical health infrastructure dependent on a shady spy-tech company.

We need to reduce our reliance on unaccountable tech giants like Palantir and ensure the NHS remains in control of its own future.

That's why I've signed a parliamentary motion calling on the Government to develop an exit plan from Palantir and move towards an open, interoperable and sovereign alternative.

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

This is very good. Zack Polanski doing a press conference on the absolute necessity now of strategic adaptation and decarbonisation in response to the extreme weather of this summer - and its consequences:

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: The Abramovich connection. How convicted money launderer George Cottrell - & close aide to Nigel Farage - ‘signed documents’ for one of Putin’s closest allies.

My latest for @thenerve_news
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[Rémi Kasprzyk @KasprzykRemi]

Cette photo mérite absolument tous les prix. Elle a même sa place au Louvre.

Elle relate précisément l’inertie de l’individu face à l’effondrement.

Regardez la composition. Un chef-d’œuvre involontaire.

Au premier plan, le sable doré, les tongs abandonnées, la glacière. Le décor ordinaire du bonheur estival. Deux personnages assis, de dos, comme dans un tableau de Caspar David Friedrich. Sauf que Friedrich peignait des hommes contemplant le sublime. Ici, ils contemplent la catastrophe. Et ils ne bougent pas.

Au centre, le parasol. Publicitaire, criard, dérisoire. Un pastis face à l’apocalypse. C’est presque trop parfait : la France qui prend l’apéro pendant que le monde brûle. Aucun scénariste n’aurait osé.

Et puis le ciel. Les deux tiers de l’image. Cette muraille de fumée qui avale la lumière, ce dégradé d’ocre et de noir digne d’un Turner. La nature qui reprend la palette des maîtres pour peindre notre propre fin.

La femme photographie l’incendie avec son téléphone. Mise en abyme totale : nous documentons notre disparition au lieu de l’empêcher.

Cette image dit tout. Le déni, le confort, l’habitude. Nous sommes tous sur cette plage. Nous voyons tous le nuage. Et nous restons assis, parce que l’eau est bonne et qu’on a posé nos congés.

Les historiens de l’art parleront un jour de cette photo comme on parle du Radeau de la Méduse.

Sauf que cette fois, le naufrage, c’est nous qui le regardons depuis la plage.
💔🌍

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

I'm one of 80 MPs & Peers calling on the PM to:

- Recognise the UN’s findings on genocide & implement the ICJ ruling in full
- Impose sanctions including a full arms embargo
- Ban trade that supports Israel’s illegal settlements
End Britain’s complicity in genocide, now!

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

So another cracking Cottrell story by @venetiamenzies & the Insight team. Bravo.

I’m also fascinated by the stake-out pix. ST is throwing PROPER money at this. Looks like photographers stationed at known Cottrell locations.

What do the Murdochologists make of this? @davidyelland? @davidfolkenflik? @arusbridger?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Brilliant to meet with Thomas Piketty at the Paris School of Economics.

We discussed monetary and fiscal policy, bond markets, the climate crisis and global wealth taxes.

Also recorded a podcast for @_BoldPolitics - out soon!

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

BBC News, "Both terminals at Gatwick airport have run out of water"

"It means toilets there can't be flushed and hand washing facilities aren't working"

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

I guess this question has now been answered:

“Government that wants transformation cannot rely only on people who discovered transformation once it became convenient. The Labour left, including those who argued for public ownership, constitutional reform, and economic democracy when it cost them, must have real power inside the [Burnham] project.”

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

100% YES