Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann

Global citizen. Politics & tech with pop culture thrown in. Views my own.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The population of Gaza is about 2 million. Nearly half are children.

Millions of innocent people cannot be made to pay for Hamas’ horror.

Collective punishment is a war crime. So are blockades to food and water.

We cannot allow dehumanization to descend into further atrocity.

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

@NRC_Egeland All of this would be good and yet I worry governments are too political at this point to do it.

[Omar Shakir @OmarSShakir]

This would amount to displacing 1 million+ Palestinians—displacement on a scale we have not seen since the Nakba. The international community must act to prevent a calamity. History will not be kind to those who remain silent.

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

@DavidLammy But what if it is not defending itself in line with international law and how do you react to the latest order forcing a mass evacuation and all the short and long term challenges that brings with it?

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

None of these were even proposed. Rishi has taken us to new levels of lying and manipulation - framing inaction as political good will. We need an election now.

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

We will never impose unnecessary and heavy-handed measures on you, the British people.

We will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero by 2050.

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

This is a complete farce from a Tory government that literally does not know what they are doing day to day.

13 years of failed energy policy has led to an energy bills crisis, weakened our energy security, lost jobs, and failed on the climate crisis.

https://t.co/bEQeuXN4Wd

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

The argument against votes at 16 basically fell apart once the country elected Boris Johnson. You can't seriously make the case that the young aren't grown-up enough to vote when the grown-ups chose a clown as prime minister.

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

All the messaging that went out during COP about how “world leading” (🙄) we are was just that - messaging and pr with no effect or intention for impact. This decision is an embarrassment and destroys hope for the future. @RishiSunak

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

UK government yet again has a chance to lead - and loses it. Their messaging that sustainability = costs is toxic. It ignores green growth, it ignores the costs of not doing something, it ignores the fact that profit growth is not the end all and be all.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

NEW: Rishi Sunak plans to row back on some of government’s net zero policies that impose a direct cost on consumers as Tories attempt to create dividing line with Labour ahead of election.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

For this alone he deserves to lose the election on a major major scale.

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

Don’t hide behind x% of total emissions numbers or bank on future initiatives that don’t exist as solutions to the problem you are actively contributing to for economic gain.

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

We need global green energy now. We need green infrastructure (roads, trains, etc) now. We need corporate, country, and individual carbon taxes now (sorry to say it). We need green subsidies + upskilling programmes now. We need a halt to constant over consumption + production now

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

To every company with sustainability as a key priority - if you release a product w/o considering the full sustainability impact first & actively mitigate it (or better yet, wait to release), then you are greenwashing...

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

We also need global cooperation and leadership now. None of this is possible without it. Day by day we see new “unprecedented challenges” and we blink them away because of the scale of the task, preference towards keeping things the same, and lack of ingenuity.

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

No surprise here as COP26 and 27 were greenwashing efforts, and we know that COP28 will most likely be the same. We have zero global accountability on the environment at the time we need it most. https://t.co/LlP3didu6h

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

The weaponisation of absolutely everything: climate change, trans issues, antisemitism, covid, refugees, Ukraine - when what the world needs more than ever sensible discourse, cooperation and joint action.

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

I already bank at @monzo, but if I didn’t, this would just convince me to bank with them more.

[Telegraph Politics @TelePolitics]

Telegraph can reveal employees at Monzo also said Sir Jacob Rees Mogg ‘could do the human race a favour’ by leaving politics https://t.co/9CQMhLYbFh

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

London is cool and all, but I can’t deal with this rain the rest of my life. 10 months of rain and then “summer” (which is just more rain). Where is everyone else moving?

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

As always, a brilliant commentary on today’s politics.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘snollygoster’ (19th century): one who abandons their principles for short-term gain or power.

[Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann @ts_tidbits]

@RishiSunak @Telegraph So out of touch. Yet, somehow countries like Denmark where cars aren’t the central focus have better quality of living and happiness … in addition to being more sustainable - guess you haven’t looked into that one yet.