Yes, I'm over there too @drlukewalker.bsky.social

I guess a bit of late-stage suddenly noticing things will have to do

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"Close to 70% of the victims were women and children." Natalie Bennett discusses the death toll in Gaza and calls for an end to all arms sales to Israel.

This entry in the Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements is a useful explainer of why support for Israel is so high in some sections of American society

🔴 NEW 🔴 British Gas has been given under the radar access to the COP29 climate summit. Bizarrely, its CEO and head of public affairs are registered as representatives of a small African NGO. 📝 My DeSmog scoop from Baku desmog.com/2024/11/16/bri…

Time to once again promote my podcast episode on Bob Dylan and the Truth podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/def…

Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honour the transgender lives lost to violence. It’s alarming that rhetoric that fuels transphobia is still rife within our society and politics. The Green Party fully stands by transgender people and supports their rights.

Scottish Secretary Ian Murray popping out the woodwork on Trans Day of Remembrance to affirm, again, that Labour will uphold the Tory block on passing Gender Recognition Reform in Scotland.

Situation in the State of Palestine: #ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. Learn more ⤵️ icc-cpi.int/news/situation…

New questions for David Lammy and Keir Starmer 1. Did you authorise a vote for an unconditional ceasefire at the Security Council because you knew the Netenyahu arrest warrant was coming? (The US is not part of ICC, we are) 2. Will you continue to transfer arms to Israel?

The ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant must compel the Government to end the indefensible sale of arms to Israel.

Better than that: it not only shows they’re flogging what remains of the postwar state but that *they are struggling to attract buyers*. Which is to say - they are having to put out advertising for this tasty, juicy carcass, to attract vultures.

Blakean counterculture: Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell ('The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction') adapted to promote the Black Panthers. Back page of April 1969 issue of Movement, the paper of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Brighton Labour cllr and cabinet member Tim Rowkins clearly feeling pressure as stories in Brighton & Hove Green Party newsletter force two announcements from him on same day! brightonandhovenews.org/2025/02/28/cou… brightonandhovenews.org/2025/02/28/wee… Thanks to Brighton & Hove LDR Sarah Booker-Lewis for reporting

🚨 Do Brighton & Hove Labour Party share the views of their Queen's Park by-election candidate? Some concerning stuff on LGBTQ+ , race and immigration. 🧵