Matthew Maw

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

Teilt diesen Tweet. Jetzt. Dringend.
Gegenhalten und die Bagger stoppen.
Es kursieren Falschmeldungen über Albanien – mit zehntausenden Likes und Retweets. Angeblich sollen die Bagger gestoppt worden sein. Angeblich soll das Projekt eingefroren sein. Angeblich soll Albanien gewonnen haben.

Das stimmt alles nicht. Das Projekt läuft. Die Bulldozer arbeiten weiter. Rama sagt öffentlich er werde das Projekt nicht stoppen.

Diese Falschmeldungen haben ein Ziel: Menschen davon abzuhalten zu den Protesten zu gehen – weil sie denken es hat sich erledigt. Es hat sich nicht erledigt.

Die Wahrheit: Die Flamingo-Revolution wächst. Täglich Proteste in Tirana. International: Berlin, London, New York, Toronto, Mailand. Weitere Aktionen in Brüssel, Bologna und New York am 15. Juni in Planung.
Helft den Albanern. Retweetet. Erzählt es weiter. Das ist unser Europa. 🇦🇱🇪🇺🇺🇸🦩
Lasst die Flamingorevolution trennen.
#nafofella
#FlamingoRevolution
#KushnerGoHome

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

In Albania THE PEOPLE (ordinary citizens en masse) have:
(1) understood the link btw int'l plutocracy and the assault on national sovereignty
(2) UNITED to protect the latter from the former.

A case-study of people both making full use of and preserving their self-determination.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Starmer’s plan to fund a defence boost by cutting £6bn from net zero, transport, the NHS and schools, is akin to burning your clothes to stay warm.

Hybrid warfare isn’t just about missiles and drones. Its frontline is also public services, energy, infrastructure, and the social cohesion a productive state strengthens.

Cutting net zero undermines our ability to bring down bills and achieve energy dependence.

Transport is military mobility. A health service one dire winter from collapse is a hybrid warfare vulnerability.

These aren’t what you sacrifice for security. They’re what security is made of.

The story this approach tells all of us is that our bus routes, hospital care and energy bills - are the price of the nation’s safety.

That’s not just a shit political message it’s the kind of framing that enhances the goals of hostile states.

Desperate stuff. We can do better.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train.

But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK.

Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Exceptional comments from the Green's Sarah Wakefield #BBCQT

"I only recently got involved in politics in this way, I'm actually on maternity leave at the moment"

"I realised that there is no one else coming to save us, if you have an opinion about what we should do as a country, you have to get involved"

"We've seen on the panel here exactly the problem people have with trust and confidence, because we're all knocking points with each other, saying we're more honest than the other person"

"When actually, the fundamental problem we have in this country, for 40 years, deindustrialisation, topped off with 15 years of austerity; which to be honest the Labour government haven't done enough to address"

"And we're all feeling the squeeze, the pinch"

"We should be looking at the massive inequality in this country"

"50 of the wealthiest families in this country hold more wealth than 50% of the county - that's 34 million people"

"That cannot be right"

"For the Green party, it's not just about changing culture in Westminster, changing Westminster culture won't change the country"

"We need to start having serious conversations about who is contributing for a better future for our children, to solve the climate crisis, to get our high streets going, to make sure we can have the money back in towns and villages so our young people stay here, work hard and have better lives"

"That's what we're all about"

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Phytoplankton and zooplankton, where we get most of our oxygen from and which are the basis of ocean food chain are in trouble
A warming ocean is inhibiting the upward transport of nutrients from deeper waters into the sunlit surface ocean, threatening food supply of Phytoplankton and zooplankton
The lower and upper layers of the ocean are no longer mixing properly

as surface waters become warmer and lighter
This also decreases the ocean’s capacity to store carbon
Studies show that approximately 25% of all carbon-dioxide emissions caused by human activities are absorbed by the oceans.

[Paul Scholes @misterp55]

Worth repeating

[David Richards MBE @davidrichards]

First they deindustrialised the North. Now it is the office's turn.

A FTSE bank just described 7,800 of its own staff as "lower-value human capital." White-collar work is the new coalfield, and the algorithm doing the cutting will not apologise the way the boss did on Friday.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Towards the end of this interview Laura Kuenssberg asks Nicola Sturgeon if she'll pay out of her own pocket to recover the funds embezzled by her ex-husband 🤷‍♂️

Sturgeon was arrested, investigated, and released without charge

Peter Murrell pleaded guilty to the embezzlement, so he bears criminal responsibility

Spouses are not automatically liable for each other's crimes under UK law unless there's evidence of joint enterprise or prior knowledge

Laura Kuenssberg knows this but she said it anyway

One of the most powerful women in British politics brought down not because of what she did or didn't do, but because of what her ex-husband did

And one of the most influential high profile journalists covering British politics, not showing support to her, but exploiting the fact that she was a victim, to bring her down even further

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Thames Water asks millions to stop using hosepipes.

A few days sunshine and infrastructure can't cope

TW built no new reservoir since 1989, loses 570m-592m litres of water daily to leaky pipes

Sewage dumped in rivers. Customers fleeced. TW still trades.
https://t.co/cpmSaxr0Ld

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

The news of Scotland mandating swift bricks has gone viral on various big mainstream accounts. If only everyone who liked the post below emailed Housing Secretary Steve Reed telling him to go back to his original support and mandate. Just like Scotland AND Gibraltar !

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

Green Party rules state that: "No member may campaign for any candidate standing against a properly selected Green candidate".

By endorsing Andy Burnham in Makerfield despite the Greens running a candidate, Lucas is deliberately sabotaging her own party. Unacceptable wrecking.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Chile 🇨🇱

Chile’s push to become the regional tech hub now faces backlash as AI data centres have consumed of billions of litres of water - leaving their wetlands to run dry.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Morons on the @BBCNews moaning about warnings about record-breaking heat waves. They’re really going to have something to moan about when they realise hundreds of millions possibly even more may die in the coming decades because of climate change.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Left need not apply. #trevorphillips panel 31.05.26

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

Wow! Records keep falling with this heat dome.
#Portugal has now recorded its hottest May day ever: 40.3°C in #Mora. 40°C is the sort of temperature you would expect in the height of summer, not in May.
The climate is changing before our eyes, the warning signs can't be ignored.

[Tony Juniper @TonyJuniper]

Back in the 1990s some expected that climate action would ramp up as the scale of the disaster became evident. As it happens, the opposite is the case. Ever more catastrophic impacts are accompanied by diminished ambition & political attacks on decarbonisation. Hard to explain.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Tony Blair could have lived a quiet life as a retired war criminal but instead he feels compelled to pop up from time to time to remind everyone how evil he is, just to feel like he’s still relevant.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

The planet is burning. Energy prices are rising. The job market is under threat, and it’s never been harder for young people to get a job. But there is money for billionaires' mad projects. Nothing can justify this.
https://t.co/GeTHLBIGMC

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

For water companies to warn that “customers will be cut off as reservoirs run dry” is a disgrace.

💧Water companies in England and Wales lose 3 billion litres of water every day from leaking pipes.

💧Water companies have sold off dozens of reservoirs to housing developers, while no new ones have been built in the last 30 years.

💧 AI data centres guzzle 5 million gallons of water per day.

Yet another example of a basic essential service that has been wilfully neglected and diminished because of corporation greed, negligence and cost cutting.