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[Rory Lamp @RoryLamp]

@bitterwaterblue Beautiful. I was out there two days ago. A beautiful place!!!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In an horrible moment, Donald Trump claims the staff, who tend to the cemetery that is the resting place for those who served our nation, are bad people. This is as unpatriotic and un-American as it gets. Retweet so all Americans see this

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Fox News has officially cut away from Donald Trump’s speech to cover this packed house in Savannah, Georgia at Kamala Harris’ rally. Even the media is acknowledging Kamala Harris has the energy and momentum. Retweet so all Americans see this.

[Environment America @EnvAm]

Automated permitting speeds rooftop solar adoption. Learn more about why more and more states are moving to cut red tape for rooftop solar. https://t.co/XmTBhjrt13

[Sierra Club @SierraClub]

Simply put, oil and gas interests have donated roughly $18 to Trump for every $1 donated to the Democratic nominee, totaling roughly $80 million, all in hopes of gaining "full control" of public lands. Read more at https://t.co/BrdaebfUdI

[Laura Deehan @lauracdeehan]

Celebrating #CALeg Assembly passage of #ACR210 by @asmstevebennett to strengthen marine protected areas to #protecttheocean 🐋🐠🌊🦦🌎 @EnvCalifornia @AzulDotOrg @NRDC @EDC_Action @GavinNewsom @WadeCrowfoot @jenneckerle @OPC_California

[Environment America @EnvAm]

Which 10 American retailers can lead the way on rooftop #solar? #SolarOnSuperstores https://t.co/3WZvucnEXa

[Jason Kander @JasonKander]

Ok this is a perfect comedic delivery.

[Environment America @EnvAm]

Superstores can be superheroes in the transition to clean energy – installing #SolarOnSuperstores is a win-win-win for communities, the stores, and the environment. https://t.co/4RfwOmCuDK

[Kelsey Lamp @KelseyLamp]

When I first started working on ocean campaigns, one of the first things I realized was how much we have yet to learn about the deepest reaches of our ocean.

We should be so incredibly careful with this mysterious & alien world, especially as we discover how important it is

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Nate White, a British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

Pop-up fishing gear or “ropeless” gear virtually eliminates the risk of whale and sea turtle entanglement. Recently the California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) has made investments to improve access to the pop-up fishing gear library. https://t.co/kTuRGDVHRV

[Stanley @IowaSportsGuy1]

Blast this video to everyone on earth.

[Kelsey Lamp @KelseyLamp]

One more of the remaining 70 right whale moms has died. No word yet on the cause of death, but this is such bad news for this species on the brink of extinction.

Here's how we could save the whales: https://t.co/ksu7C2lOyG

[Kelsey Lamp @KelseyLamp]

Not for the first time, or for the last time will I say "When we drill, we spill."

Wherever this oil sheen came from, one thing is clear: as long as we power our lives with fossil fuels, we will keep spilling oil in wild places. #ProtectOurCoast https://t.co/j41DApltAf

[Environment America @EnvAm]

A very small bat with very big ears could use our help. Funding for state wildlife agencies would provide it. https://t.co/T4CDiqad9t