Lee Ashton

a socialist, disabled person, a psychology and sociology graduate, who likes football, MMA and boxing.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

1856: Eunice Foote shows CO2 emissions cause global warming.

1954: Oil industry’s own research proves they’re cooking the planet.

2022: Fossil fuel subsidies top $1 TRILLION.

2026: The world burns as Big Oil earns $93 BILLION in 3 months.

Path of a suicidal civilization.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Paul Marshall, the co-owner of GB News, has tripled his hedge fund investments in fossil fuel companies in the first quarter of 2026 to £2.1bn.

They're a propaganda channel cashing in on destroying our future.

Always follow the money.

[Lee Ashton @daicemanashy451]

@UtdXclusive Bullshit. Scalvini is not even a left-back. Reports in June said that Ugarte's injury does not affect the purchase of a third midfielder. Are they going into a Champions League Season with the same number of midfielders as last season? Is this what counts as journalism now?

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Half of England is in drought after record-breaking heatwaves, yet most of our media want to talk about the "problem" of refugees whilst giving airtime to absurd & dehumanising policies from Reform UK.

Politicians who scapegoat refugees and migrants have no interest in making your life better.

If they really cared, they would take on corporations holding this country to ransom.

They would end the daylight robbery of privatisation.

And they would tackle the real cause of society's problems: a grotesquely unequal economy that sucks wealth away from the majority to an elite few.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

The escalating hostility toward China among the US ruling class at the moment is similar to US hostility toward sovereign development in the Global South during the Cold War.

During the Cold War, it became clear that the US was fiercely opposed to economic development efforts in the Global South unless they were aligned with US hegemony.

The US ruling class is now applying a very similar logic toward China: its rise must be opposed because it threatens the US' global hegemonic position.

If we want a world order that moves beyond US hegemony — towards a multilateral order with greater sovereignty for developing countries — it is essential that we fight the anti-China rhetoric of the US ruling class.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

There’s nothing “pragmatic” about drilling for more North Sea oil & gas. The planet is already on fire. How many times do we have to say it will do nothing for energy bills or energy security - but would send a terrible message to the rest of the world? https://t.co/sItNlMVcZD

[Adrian Ramsay MP @AdrianRamsay]

The NFU is right. This is the new climate reality.
It doesn't matter whether people believe it's climate change. It won't care when we run out of water, food costs rocket & wildfires spread.
We need a Climate Adaptation Minister to lead cross-govt action
https://t.co/8O6C5xA0th

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

While the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene.
https://t.co/XMZiIFxpX6

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The so called 'Burnham Bounce' isn't going to last very long.

On Gaza, on Iran, on Benefits, on cutting funding to fund Warfare, on everything, there is no difference at all to Starmer.

If anything he is even more Right Wing.

[Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate]

GLOBAL FOOD PRICE SHOCK COMING WITH EL NINO
See the many regions at heightened risk of drought.
The 2026 El Nino is on a historic heading, so expect and plan for major disruptions of world food production, particularly in India (2nd in world) and Brazil (4th in world). (The Guardian, 12 July 2026) #ElNino #climatechange #foodsecurity #globalwarming

[Prof. Steve Keen @ProfSteveKeen]

10 million gallons of water. Per day.

That is what a single data centre hub in Hayes County, Texas uses for cooling.

It is draining the Edwards Aquifer, which supplies drinking water to the Austin and San Antonio corridor.

And that is 'just' the water.

Texas data centres have requested 446 gigawatts of grid connections. That is 5 times the state's entire peak power capacity.

The last nuclear plant built in America, Vogal in Georgia, took 7 years and its cost doubled from $12 billion to $30 billion.

The waiting list for heavy-duty gas turbines is 7 years. Small modular reactors will not exist in the West until the mid-2030s.

90 percent of global gas turbines come from just 3 companies, and they are not expanding capacity because they fear an AI bust.

One commentator told Andrew Neil that a lot of these data centres are going to turn into pickleball halls. He might be right.

The companies in the vanguard of the technology of tomorrow are about to be strangled by an old-fashioned energy crunch.

Trillions in investment, and nowhere to plug it in.

Watch the full conversation with Andrew Neil in the comments.

#SteveKeen #AIBubble #EnergyCrisis #DataCentres #ArtificialIntelligence #Economics #Infrastructure

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

There's a lot of people who seem to be really stupid

So let me make it clear

There is loads and loads of money. We can have pensions and benefits and healthcare and housing and everything everyone needs

But the billionaires and their puppets want to steal every single penny

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

One thing you can absolutely guarantee in life.

When Labour ministers talk about difficult choices, it's never the rich and powerful that will be taking a hit.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The lie, Russia is going to invade.

The truth, billionaires have bought your Energy, Water and Healthcare.

And if you are lucky you are going to die in a corridor in the middle of sweltering heatwave in a hospital with no AC.

Because all YOUR money was given to bomb makers.

[Lee Ashton @daicemanashy451]

@utdreport @SullyTalkz United will not win the League with a fan base with no courage.

[Lee Ashton @daicemanashy451]

@utdreport @SullyTalkz If you don't like United signing young players, fuck off and fucking support a different club. The club's whole aura is built around the youth team. You have to buy for both, you bunch of dickheads. People panicking about the transfer window in mid-July is ridiculous.

[Lee Ashton @daicemanashy451]

@captaink99 @utdreport @TheSecretScout_ WTF

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

This is a shallow attempt by the WSJ to portray Norway as a country that isn't socialist.

Norway's contemporary economic model was built by socialists.

Norway's first post-war and longest-serving Prime Minister, Einar Gerhardsen, was a democratic socialist. In his youth, he participated actively in communist activities and was even imprisoned for his progressive views.

We call him Landsfaderen in Norway, which means "father of the nation." He is considered the main architect of the post-war rebuilding of Norway.

Today, Norway has one of the highest unionisation rates in the world, some of the most successful state-owned enterprises, and a welfare state that has made us one of the world's most egalitarian societies.

This is all a direct lineage of our explicitly socialist past.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's Day 1 of Andy Burnham being Prime Minister & Donald Trump is celebrating the destruction of our planet.

Meanwhile Spain doubled it's renewables - before they had some of the highest bills in Europe and now some of the lowest bills.

Labour need to stop appealing to Trump.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Hello @ElonMusk. This is how you are perceived. Not too late to course correct but it’s getting pretty late. You certainly have the extra money on hand to really help the people of the world instead of the hellbent road of chaos and destruction you are ludicrously barreling down. Put down the Ket straw. 🤪