Ruth Jones 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱@struthjones.bsky.social

I'm using the much nicer Bluesky now but will keep up the fight here.

[JEFF @jeffisrael25]

let me get this straight

a team will not be playing in the FIFA World Cup because they are currently being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Totally agree… it seems to be a dangerous blind spot

[Їne Back Їversen @IneBackIversen]

🧵The best response to the bogus decision by the IOC @Olympics to ban the helmet of @heraskevych and silence the memory of Ukrainian athletes murdered by russia, is to see their faces, learn their names and share it with the world!

They want it gone, we’ll show it everywhere!🇺🇦

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Keep speaking out and standing up.

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

British TV anchor @KamaliMelbourne of Sky News with a moving, personal response to Trump’s posting of the racist clip of the Obamas.

I know Kamali just a little. I’m proud of him for saying this — and sad we’re in a moment when he has to.

[bernie beck @bernieatpwll]

I just signed the campaign calling to save our swifts, by calling for the UK Government to follow Scotland's lead and make it the law for all new houses to be built with "swift bricks" - safe places for these birds to nest. Will you join me? https://t.co/VBr8FnfNbg

[Spring-Nuts @SpringNuts_]

From @springsteen :

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free, Bruce Springsteen

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

We hope the good people of #SanFrancisco will forgive us for adapting a song about their city in 1967 to address the shocking and tragic events in #Minnesota in recent weeks. This is dedicated to Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and in solidarity. Our version is called "Minnesota" ❤️

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.

One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.

But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.

Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.

The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.

The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.

Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.

Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.

[Ruth Jones 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱@struthjones.bsky.social @StruthJones]

@elonmusk @TheAliceSmith https://t.co/l9EOb1T87j

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

1000+ new members since this was broadcast.

Still going up.

1000 more people ready to create a better future.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[Jonny G 🇺🇦 @dontforgetchaos]

I make no apology for posting this photo. I think it’s a photo that will haunt America in the years to come.

This is what you have become. If you defend this, have a word with yourself.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Irony has been butchered, too, by Trump.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

BOARD OF PEACE - Season 1

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

If you want to understand why this ‘partnership’ is so profoundly dangerous, please read my latest piece

https://t.co/SWRrx3kORt

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

This is narcissism turned up to volume 11, as the Spinal Tap director might have noted

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Hope is here.

Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Next time someone asks what's the matter with this site, show them this:
An account in India, amplifying a billionaire from South Africa being encouraged by an Irish passport holder, using an alias, to encourage civil unrest in the UK.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

“You can refuse illegal orders.”

Pretty insane that we are living in a moment where a video message like this a necessary.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Sky news has revealed that @elonmusk is pushing far-right accounts, including that of @RupertLowe10

Let's fight back.

Block Elon Musk.

Block Rupert Lowe.

#BlockMusk #BlockLowe

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