Steve Tooze

Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting have yet again caved to the interests of multinational corporations. This time? It’s the ultra-processed food (UPF) industry. Why can’t they follow countries putting citizens’ health and well-being before corporate profit?🧵

Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7149…

A £35 nest brick for Swifts could literally safeguard the UK future of an entire bird species. But developers are too greedy to add them to all new homes and Labour are backtracking on a promise to order them to do it. Sign the petition and save the Swifts 38d.gs/ky2i

Don't let The Sun and Murdoch's other titles get away with decades of illegal and unethical behaviour. Tell the PM: Leveson 2 now: hackedoff.org/campaign-actio…

Calling the Gaza genocide a "war" is like seeing a man beating a toddler to death and calling it a "fight". So much evil hides behind calling this thing a war. If you accept that it's a war then you have to take seriously arguments like "It's a war, civilians die in war," or "Hamas shouldn't have started a war they can't win." If it's a war then it has two sides who share comparable levels of responsibility for any bad things that happen during that time. But it's not a war, it's a naked ethnic cleansing operation being carried out by a highly sophisticated military with the backing of the most powerful empire that has ever existed. It's a globe-spanning power structure openly purging a Palestinian territory of Palestinian life using a full siege and the systematic destruction of all healthcare and civilian infrastructure, being resisted by a few thousand guys with homemade rockets and dwindling supplies. That's not a "war". It's not even a "conflict". It's a slaughter. It's a holocaust. If the Gaza holocaust is a "war", then shooting fish in a barrel is "hunting". Beating up a quadriplegic is a "street brawl". A SWAT team shooting an unarmed civilian is a "gun fight". No conflicts are perfectly equal, but past a certain level of one-sidedness the language of conflict becomes absurd. The daily massacres we are seeing in Gaza are far beyond that point. They are raining military explosives on top of a giant concentration camp packed full of children while deliberately starving the entire civilian population to death. They have complete control over the enclave, and they are using that control to eradicate the presence of Palestinians in Gaza. That is not war. That is genocide.

I wonder what has caused Tony Blair, whose institute receives millions in funding from the journalist-murdering petro state of Saudi Arabia, to change his position on fossil fuels?

Every the fossil fuel crooks are spending their dirty cash on lying adverts to make them sound like the good guys. Sign Chris Packham's petition and demand that the government bans fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…

Akala never misses.

@theleftbible This is SO spot on in the UK. Cookie-cutter education for turning out good little 19th century worker drones. A torment to kids like my clever, kind and thoughtful 18 year old son who dare to question the expectations of an out-dated system.

What’s the point of dying a billionaire when everyone hates billionaires? Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, asked himself the same question. So, instead of launching Katy Perry into space, he gave it all away. Here’s why and how. 🧵

My daughter Zoe is a UK political prisoner. Here's the story so far, and why *you* should join us at the Old Bailey on Thursday... A thread 1/

Whenever I post about climate, skeptical folks inevitable respond with this graph. So I decided to do something radical: actually read the underling scientific paper and ask the authors. As it turns out, it actually says the opposite of what skeptics claim.

They smeared the only possible alternative to any of this with Jew-hate; now they cry about the inevitable consequences of their actions. And get paid to do both things. No responsibility, no conscience, no decency. Our fearless, independent 4th estate. Behold them. #ItWasAScam

This is the thinking we need - aided by @grok and totally absent from the mainstream media. Increasing defence spending will accelerate collapse. Let's spend it on renewable energy instead. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/instead-of-8…

I won't be posting here any longer as the owner is a sickening billionaire fascist. You can find me at the blue place. @rebelhack.bsky.social

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (In collaboration with @politicalbeauty)

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. Do I have this right?