The $2.6 billion plant in Hebei province has a capacity of 3.6 gigawatts and was a flagship project designed to supply power to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics trib.al/HbLSYpQ

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Strong Towns avoids using the term “car accident,” instead using “car crash.” Why? It comes down to messaging and the connotations certain words carry. 🧵

Chicago dispatch: Let a Palestinian speak. Democrats are snatching defeat from the jaws of a unifying convention victory by not letting a single Palestinian-American address the DNC — even with a vetted speech from an elected Democrat supporting Harris. nytimes.com/live/2024/08/2…

In December 2020, Xi Jinping set a goal for China to have 1,200 GW of wind and solar generating capacity by 2030 It's the middle of 2024, and the country just hit it. Luz Ding

Notre Dame burned by accident and people around the world donated millions of dollars to restore a building; Palestinian holy sites are being bombed by Israel, and hundreds of civilians are murdered as a result, and no one bats a fucking eye. I feel like I’m going fucking crazy

That mosque was 16 times older than the state of Israel itself. This is a crime against humanity.

Lovely air quality charts in the Guardian

This week’s newsletter The i Paper - there are lots of ways that the government could pay for higher social rents that actually covered landlords’ costs without increasing borrowing if they needed to… ft. rachelle_earwaker Darren Baxter-Clow and Aydin Dikerdem inews.co.uk/news/housing/w…

BREAKING: The UK gov't has rightly recognised that approving the Rosebank oil field without taking into account the full extent of its climate impacts was unlawful. It has conceded that argument in our & Greenpeace's legal challenge against the field. So what does that mean? 🧵

It’s so inconsiderate when climate protestors block roa…

You can’t help but feel Labour have misunderstood their own victory. People didn’t vote for them because they wanted tough-talking fiscal hawks in charge, they voted for them because they are fed up of underfunded, poorly functioning public services.

I keep checking our PM’s, the human rights lawyer, Sir Keir Starmer’s twitter, for condemnation of any of the atrocities Israel has committed in the last few days, including the Al Aqsa hospital tent burnings. Nothing. Imagine if it wasn’t Palestinian lives but Israeli’s? Is this

Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said apnews.com/article/ai-art…

🧵 So I guess the cat is out of the bag. I was fired from Microsoft on Thursday, hours after a vigil we organized to honor and remember the lives of Palestinians killed by American-funded and Microsoft-empowered Israeli genocide.

So in his speech today, Starmer is apparently going to say today “Politics is always a choice”. Exactly. So why is Labour choosing to target some of the least well off rather than raise taxes on the wealth of the super-rich? Patriotic Millionaires UK

Unbelievable. The new Labour government - with a massive mandate - with good policies to take buses into public control following the success in Greater Manchester INCREASING the cap on bus fares from £2 to £3 Bleak, depressing, unnecessary theguardian.com/politics/live/…

Scrapping the £2 bus fare cap is a disgraceful decision that will harm the poorest in society, and discourage public transport at a time when it is needed more than ever. Why is the government punishing people for trying to get to work?

Raising bus prices by 50% while keeping fuel duty down. Cynical ploy to prop up middle class support at the expense of working classes.