John Walker

Retired Marvel comics enthusiast. Woke! Free Palestine! Down with Trump, Putin, Netanyahu & Reform UK. Trans ally. BLM. Just Stop Oil.

[John Walker @WalkerLeftie]

'Spirit grocer' & 'coke merchant' John Lennon having a laugh from beyond the grave...

[Miners Strike @Miners_Strike]

“I say to the people of Britain, if you stand aside while miners are beaten to the ground by a paramilitary police force in riot gear, what they do to us today they’ll do to you tomorrow”

#OnThisDay 1984. Arthur Scargill speaks about Orgreave

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Moving the world to clean, renewable energy costs less than world fossil-fuel subsidies

Worldwide subsidies to the fossil-fuel industry exceed the annual cost of transitioning the world to 100% clean, renewable energy for all energy purposes. This means that eliminating fossil-fuel subsidies more than pays for an energy transition. Let’s look at the numbers. Transitioning the world to renewables costs $6.8 trillion dollars per year. According to the International Monetary Fund, fossil-fuel subsidies alone cost $7.4 trillion dollars per year, or 6.4% of world GDP. These subsidies include $730 billion per year in explicit subsidies and $6.7 trillion per year in tax-code benefits, unpaid air pollution damage, unpaid climate damage, and other unpaid environmental and road damage. So, if we want to eliminate the over 7 million air pollution deaths per year from energy, the growing climate damage from energy, and energy insecurity arising from fossil fuels, one sure-fired way is to stop subsidizing the fossil-fuel industry.

Cost of subsidies
https://t.co/v8c1fFoPM8

Cost of transitioning world
https://t.co/c3RjxqKhcO

Video
https://t.co/d434yPOtA5

[BONUS🌍 @TheDisproof]

Worth stating that El Nino and La Nina only restribute energy, they do not add to it. What has rapidly added to the energy in Earth's systems is fossil fuel emissions.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Rioting broke out on Tuesday night as hundreds gathered outside Southampton police station to protest the murder of Henry Nowak, who died in police custody in December.

The crowd outside the police station was addressed by far-right figures who claimed institutional racism against white people from the police was to blame for the death of Nowak, who was studying accounting at the University of Southampton. Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, told the crowd: “If Henry wasn’t white, he wouldn’t have been handcuffed.”

Footage shows protesters throwing traffic cones, bins and stones at police officers wearing riot gear. One officer narrowly avoided being hit by an e-scooter which had been thrown from a height, according to one report. Protesters carried signs bearing the name Henry Nowak.

Hampshire police said that 11 officers had been hurt in the rioting. Two arrests have been made with more to follow, police said.

Nowak was stabbed to death by 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa. Digwa falsely told the police that Nowak had racially abused him. Bodycam footage from the night of Nowak’s death shows he told officers, “I can’t breathe” at least seven times and was ignored.

After Digwa was jailed, Nowak’s father, Mark Nowak, said the family did not want the death of their 18-year-old son “to be used to create further division, hatred or tension. We want his story to help make our streets safer for everyone.”

However, political figures including Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and shadow home secretary Chris Philp have ignored this and used Nowak’s death to claim that there is a “two-tier” policing system.

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

' "above-average temperatures" are expected for each of the months of June, July and August, and "significant bursts" of heat are expected in the UK and across Europe '

No surprise to see 40C+ this summer and next

After that it will keep getting hotter

https://t.co/6DqSbO4lU6

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Wanting growth. Go green! CBI report shows Britain’s green economy growing by ten per cent a year, as are green jobs, now totalling over a million, paying better and more productive than others. Scrapping net zero would be economic madness.

https://t.co/31rbt1Cixn

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Talk about poetic justice.

@Martin_Abrams is a Jewish councillor who was suspended by Labour - because he opposed Israel’s genocide.

He defected to the Greens - and now he’s leader of Lambeth council.

The Labour briefcase set will be raging. Good!!

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

NEVER FORGET this heroic slave rebellion in USA on this day in 1863, which freed 750 slaves

It was led by a black women, Harriet Tubman. HERO!

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

77.5 million Americans are not religiously affiliated

Christianity is being weaponised by Trump. Result?

81% of white evangelicals voted Trump, despite his lies, sexual assaults & criminal convictions

Keep religion out of politics!

https://t.co/WeLOcr8ZFx

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Jewish groups are now boasting more explicitly than ever that they will use Jewish wealth to destroy any US politician who refuses to "stand with" Israel: as they did to Massie.

But if you observe the same exact thing in order to criticize it, you're instantly branded a bigot.

[Anne Rouse @rouseanne]

Andrew Neilson's Little Griefs owes its considerable effects to quiet skill and a mastery of tone. A strong debut here - I was moved both by its precision and its poignancy.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Literal Nazis rioting in Southampton.

These are our 'patriots'!

People who value white British lives so much that they celebrate a German regime which killed hundreds of thousands of Brits.

Including over 600 killed in Southampton by Nazi bombs.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

At a time when ocean temperatures are smashing records and scientists are still trying to understand how fast the system is shifting under climate change, they are talking about scrapping a 368 million dollar early warning network that has ALREADY BEEN PAID FOR by tax payers.

This is not just a few sensors in the sea. It is a network of ~900 instruments measuring temperature, currents, carbon, chemistry and ecosystem change. It was designed to deliver long term data over decades.

This would effectively end key long running records and that matters because ocean data only becomes powerful over time. You cannot rebuild a continuous climate record once it is interrupted.

[Metro @MetroUK]

Jeremy Corbyn warns ‘the rich eventually fall’ ahead of release of Mandelson files https://t.co/weacShWB44

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The headline talks about Antisemitism fears.

Yet both people were criticising a genocidal Israeli Government.

This constant conflation of criticism of Jewish people with criticism of Israel makes me as a Jewish person feel less safe.

Such a dangerous decision by Labour.

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 1 Jun 1968 Helen Adams Keller, deafblind American author, lecturer, suffragette, pacifist, birth control advocate, and member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, died in her sleep at the age of 87 https://t.co/yOcQ4LGal3

[Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arash_tehran]

Eloquent thread from Ash Sarkar

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Europa was a legendary Phoenician princess from Tyre - after which Europe has its name.

Now Tyre is being destroyed, and almost every government in Europe either enables, or cheers on, the destruction of the values it claimed to uphold.

[Endre Stølsvik @stolsvik]

This is so fascinating to me: Those scientists were *so spot on*. You should read the paper, it is eerie how those projections are tracking what we now observe. In 1982.

[Parwiz Hamidi _🇵🇸 @Palestine001_]

This is extremely shameful when the whole world is silent and toothless on this.

🇦🇺 filmmaker Juliet said: I was raped by an Israeli soldier inside a darkened shipping container while handcuffed and shackled on a Gaza aid flotilla.

They also used water torture and beatings.