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[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters.

Concerns about negative environmental effects, public health, increasing utility prices, proximity to homes.

Data centres don't generate many jobs.

Will Britons follow suit?
https://t.co/oMV7dZfVhk

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Since Thames Water is once again staring down a gun barrel, the £3 billion bailout it had runs out later this year, I thought it might be timely to remind us all of the “Economically illiterate”, cost govt comes up with to renationalise the water industry, you remember the £100 billion.

It is of course made up nonsense produced by a think tank in a report which was bought and paid for my United Utilities, Anglian Water, Severn Trent Water and South West Water.

By their calculations it would now cost £26,659,419,800 to nationalise Thames Water. 🤣🤣🤣

What a joke.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

South East Water left thousands of homes in Kent without access to water on the hottest days of the year so far. Yet another shocking example of the failure of privatisation.

Given the scale of the crisis in the water sector, a purely regulatory approach is like putting a complaints box on the Titanic.

Public ownership is the only real solution, as I told the Water Minister in parliament yesterday.

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[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

The Secretary of State for the Environment @EmmaforWycombe thinks it is OK to have 'off the record' meetings with water bosses who could end up in criminal court if @Defra did its job properly.

And who dictates whether Defra does its job properly?

That would be the same Secretary of State.

It's a #dirtybusiness for sure.

https://t.co/CIYWBaWGCy

[National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing]

What if the whole country saw the full picture? This is a national emergency. The impacts are already here.
But the solutions exist.

Across the UK, communities are watching The People’s Emergency Briefing & discussing what to do next.

Find a screening → https://t.co/APDlNZ6wSN

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 Thank goodness! Finally some pushback.

Commons committee says reliance on Palantir (and other US tech) is an “unacceptable point of weakness” for UK national security.

Time to trigger the break clause and build domestic alternatives.

The Atlanticist tech gamble is starting to meet real resistance.

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

Just as horrendous floods hit Ipswich. Reform are putting us all at risk.
Reform’s ignorant policies on climate and nature are unpopular with their own voters. I bet loads of those who voted Reform last month had no idea they were voting for THIS…shower. https://t.co/9LWWgcbWu5

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@KimJohnsonMP Well said

[Kim Johnson @KimJohnsonMP]

Palantir has no place in our NHS.

Patient safety is paramount. We must end all ties with Palantir and remove it from our NHS well before the 2027 break clause.

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@premnsikka Utterly unacceptable

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

South West Water fined £1.853m for supplying contaminated drinking water.

SWW is a serial offender, loses 107m litres of water daily to leaky pipes, dumped sewage in rivers for 407,006 hours.

Still trades. No exec fined, charged. People fleeced.
https://t.co/xN3dxKeYnr

[Theresa May @theresa_may]

The net zero economy now supports 1.1m UK jobs and generates £105bn in economic value - proof that tackling climate change & growing the economy can go hand in hand.

Carbon Budget 7 laid in Parliament today provides certainty to help unlock more investment and energy security.

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This antisocial behaviour is NOT acceptable

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

This couple have been caught on camera fly-tipping near Nuneaton. The evidence will be passed to the Leader of Warks County Council @_GeorgeFinch who, we have full confidence, will ensure these people are prosecuted. @bbcmtd

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

Are we wakingup yet?
Privatisation - a crazy deal signed mostly against our will in 1989, where water company owners don't put put their money into fixing the business and just extract as much of our cash as they can get away with.

- and now our government is lying to us to keep it running.

You can fight back - sign and share - https://t.co/J5ADoh2hre

[Rob Walker @llamedos77]

What has happened in Southampton this evening/tonight, Nigel Farage has done this before. He is utterly low and wrong and should be removed from being an MP ASAP. He should investigated and face possible charges of inciting riots. #Farageriots

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

My God…

Please see this man for what he is.

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"You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me..." Trump loses it with Netanyahu.

But maybe #Trump would also be being legal pursued if his conveniently timed Iranian debacle hadn't taken the focus off #EpsteinsFiles?

https://t.co/4RdDnga6fV

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Today I ‘interviewed’ Facebook whistleblower on stage at Hay…& she couldn’t say a word.

Facebook took legal action to prevent her speaking. What pathetic, pointless vindictiveness.

[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