Solarpunk Bond

Late Stage Capitalism Vs 21st Century.... Which side are you on?

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Become ungovernable

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

These are the children living in tents completely flooded by rain.

Their clothes, mattresses, and belongings were all soaked. Yet they were incredibly kind to me, smiling, laughing, and playing.

I told them that thousands of people around the world would watch this video, and they were so happy.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.

Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.

I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.

We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.

I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.

What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?

I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.

[Philip Pilkington @philippilk]

Poland is now Ground Zero for the new liberal authoritarian European model of government. They are testing out ways that give the government Communist-era powers to suppress free expression. This will spread to other European countries. 🇵🇱

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

I ain't reading all that. Free Palestine

[Martin Ayling @MartinAylingcam]

@DeeWaynee94 Same during Covid

[Tom Gann @Tom_Gann]

It is very notable how much imperialism’s need to suppress solidarity with Palestine leads to these absurdities, this acceptance of complete debasement of liberal institutions, practices & norms.

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

No economist has ever explained the trap of being poor better than Terry Pratchett's boots theory.

A wealthy man buys a $200 pair of boots that lasts ten years.

A poor man can only afford $40 boots that leak after six months, so he spends $800 over the same ten years and still has wet feet.

Poverty isn't just a lack of money.

It's a continuous subscription fee for not having capital up front.

[A Man in the Sun 🌞 @AManInTheSun]

*pushes person off a bridge*

Uhm contrary to popular belief, I don't control gravity.

[الكسندرا ميراي @LexiAIexander]

The GenZs on tiktok are organizing

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

For last 24 hours I’ve seen footage of horrific scenes from Gaza, just absolute human misery. Yet..it’s not there on any news outlet’s home pages, not discussed on our witless political shows. We’re just going to ignore it? Is that the plan?

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

It's official

Climate breakdown made the 2026 UK harvest the worst on record

The 4 worst UK harvests ever have happened since 2020, leading to the loss of grain equivalent to more than a year's worth of bread supply

And it won't stop there

https://t.co/AjkxCshUBZ

[Sky News @SkyNews]

New documents released by the Scottish government under a freedom of information request show that data centres could cause water shortages, higher energy bills and power cuts.

Sky's @emmabirchley explains.

https://t.co/HZ0WbnkpCJ

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233

[Fozzy @fozzydiablo]

the houthis have better customer support than Coinbase

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

It’s hard to grasp the BBC’s systematic attempt to launder Israeli propaganda until you see the sheer scale of it. Here's a compilation of them doing it at 2x speed.

The latest was on Newsnight on 4 November. When Bernie Sanders called Israel’s government extremist, Victoria Derbyshire answered for it: “And the Israeli government would deny that they are extremists.”

As this video shows, BBC presenters repeatedly do this as guests describe Israel’s crimes: “Israel would say.” “Israel would deny.” “They would reject that.”

We counted 70 of these denials and justifications in 52 aired interviews. The BBC calls this impartiality. But in not one of those 52 did a presenter raise any of these words from Israel’s own leaders:

- “We are fighting human animals.” Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023
- “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” Isaac Herzog, 12 October 2023
- “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Israel Katz, 13 October 2023
- “Remember what Amalek did to you.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 3 November 2023
- Starving two million people in Gaza until the hostages came back might be “justified and moral”. Bezalel Smotrich, 5 August 2024

On 10 October 2023, Tahani Mustafa told the BBC that Israeli forces were not distinguishing civilians from fighters. The presenter replied: “They would reject that.” Mustafa then had to bring up Gallant’s “human animals” herself. The BBC supplied the denial. The guest had to supply Israel’s own words.

That is cherry-picking. The Royal Charter requires the BBC to be impartial, and the public pays for it through the licence fee. In these interviews, it handed its audience Israel’s denials and left out its leaders’ own words, during a genocide streamed live to the world.

We have archived the BBC’s coverage for three years, and we are now counting all of it: 50,000 video clips and many more written excerpts.

We are calling this first part: "BBC: The Would Say Files".

Handing Israel its denials is only one of the ways the BBC launders Israeli propaganda, so we will count every other technique too. Over the next few weeks, we will announce each milestone as we complete the report.

These are the first results, with every clip, quote and source: https://t.co/qEYyFnMyCV

[Scott (Human) - 𐌃𐌏ᖇ𐌉乙乙𐌃𐌕 @Dorizzdt]

I laughed so hard I cried.

God damn this was well done.

[Jacob Reid @JacobReid02]

Palantir's Tom Watson (of deputy Labour leadership fame) wrote to the Health Secretary just weeks before it secured a controversial contract extension.

Louis Mosley, the company's Europe chief, also wrote to Cooper, citing data that he said showed its effectiveness.

[Hassan Ahmadian حسن احمدیان @hasanahmadian]

Iran’s strategy has succeeded in weakening Trump and Netanyahu at home. That affects them both and narrows their room to maneuver and the range of options open to them and to whoever succeeds them in their confrontation with Iran.

After the US election, I’ll repeat what I said before, if Trump had a clear idea of how the war could end with a limited strike, and was confident it would end with a symbolic strike, he wouldn’t have hesitated to hit Iran and tell the American public he’d won and hadn’t been weakened—contrary to what the Democrats say and what the election results showed. But he has no clear idea of either one, and that’s what feeds his personal hesitation and the splintered views of his circle on Iran.

None of this means he won’t attack Iran. But he wants to be sure the strike is worth it, gives him a respectable way out, and that Iran won’t widen its response and launch an all-out war against his forces and Israel. This is where Iran’s cognitive warfare against him has paid off in keeping him in the fog, unable to predict what comes after the limited war he wants, and that has only made him more hesitant. Either way, he needs to make up his mind fast, before next January.

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

Our case was interrupted over 100 times. The government was not interrupted once.

I didn't hold high hopes for the British 'justice' system, but I did expect to at least have our case heard.

No matter what, we will keep fighting for actual justice to prevail.

[Avery 🩵 @Avesvery]

This is infinitely more beautiful than any fictional representation of plasma or any other random scifi cgi energy bullshit oh my fucking god it's so pretty