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I'm now posting more on Bluesky than on Elon Musk's bully pulpit. Hope to see you over on the brighter side.
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Tom Scott 🇺🇦
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Tom Scott 🇺🇦
@Tom___Scott
Writer, editor, former lecturer, occasional poet, Green Party person, #Xdissenter. Views here not all party positions. On Bluesky @ Tom--Scott.
Cornwall/Kernow, UK Katılım Ekim 2014
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And now it seems Iran has fired missiles at Diego Garcia. Starmer has allowed the UK to be dragged into this catastrophic & rapidly escalating illegal war of aggression.
Unforgivable.
Caroline Lucas@CarolineLucas
This is such a dangerous escalation by Starmer, taking us further into an illegal & reckless war and demonstrating exactly the risk of mission creep that many have warned about, making us all less safe
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Nobody is talking about what’s actually happening in the Persian Gulf right now.
3,200 commercial ships are trapped.
Not military vessels. Civilian crews.
Carrying oil, grain, electronics, medicine.
Crews are running out of drinking water.
One ship contacted the local port authority and begged for permission to dock just to resupply
They were denied.
For context — the Suez Canal crisis in 2021 trapped 400 ships and disrupted global supply chains for months.
This is eight times that.
The cameras are pointed at missile interceptions and oil price charts.
Nobody is showing you the civilian sailor who can’t get drinking water in a war zone he never signed up for.
If these ships are abandoned the environmental catastrophe alone — thousands of tons of fuel and chemicals sitting unmanned — would be generational.
This is not a shipping disruption.
This is a humanitarian crisis.
And it started three weeks ago on a feeling.
Never stop connecting the dots.
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This is wild. The @WhiteHouse plagiarized its reason for launching a war on Iran from @FDD, a cutout of Israeli intelligence. Side-by-side screenshots in the 🧵
Stephen McIntyre@ClimateAudit
The most definitive White House statement purporting to justify the Israel-US war on Iran was its March 2, 2026 statement entitled "The Iranian Regime's Decades of Terrorism against American Citizens". whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/… After a brief editorial opening, the article lists 44 incidents with a total of 992 US deaths. The source of the data wasn't given. Where did it come from? Unlike the Iraq war or the Russia collusion allegation, the reporting didn't come from an intelligence assessment, flawed or otherwise. It turns out that the list was plagiarized by the White House from a June 19, 2025 list (fdd.org/analysis/2025/…) prepared by a former AIPAC employee (Tzvi Kahn) for a think tank (FDD) founded "to provide education to enhance Israel's image in North America". The think tank's original identity was "EMET (Hebrew for 'truth')". The June 19, 2025 publication was literally on the eve of the first US bombing of Iran on June 21, 2025. In this thread, I'll compare each and every item in the White House statement to the corresponding item in the original list by the former AIPAC employee. The list is virtually identical. Any slight changes are always in the change of ratcheting up the underlying allegation.
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Badenoch's approval of Nick Timothy's virulently racist and islamophobic rant is also a sure sign that a Tory-Reform alliance - or even a merger - is on the way. Progressive parties need to think hard about what this means & (in the absence of PR) what they need to do about it.
Peter Oborne@OborneTweets
Kemi Badenoch's decision to throw her weight behind Nick Timothy is a defining moment. The Tory party under her leadership is a cesspit of Islamophobic hatred and racist bigotry. My new column for Middle East Eye: middleeasteye.net/opinion/nick-t…
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10% of ALL Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods. $16 BILLION a year.
Zuckerberg has known about this for a long time. But he has *deliberately* decided to do nothing about it.
Why is Mark Zuckerberg not in prison?
Rob Wiblin@robertwiblin
This tweet got over 1M views so we made it a video: How much money does Meta make by enabling crimes? "Internal docs leaked to Reuters show: • 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods ($16B/year) • Meta estimates it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the US • That suggests they drive $50B in scam losses for US consumers alone each year • Meta earns ~$3B annually from scam/banned goods ads run by Chinese operations alone..."
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🌎️ | NEW REPORT: The net zero "backlash" is a myth. Voters still back climate action, but politics and media are telling a different story. Our new analysis with Persuasion UK explains why and how we fix it 👇 ippr.org/articles/apath…
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Watch the Reform UK's James Orr humiliate himself on #BBCQT
James Orr, "When the wind doesn't blow, you need gas to back it up and sometimes the wind doesn't blow"
Fiona Bruce asks how drilling helps us is oil and gas are traded on the international market
James Orr, "Prices are fixed internationally but a portion of them is connected to"
Caroline Lucas, "It really isn't. It's sold on international markets to the highest bidder"
James Orr, "That's not true.. Bills are higher because of unreliable renewables"
Caroline Lucas, "They are not unreliable. All we need are interconnectors so when its not windy in this country you import the wind power from somewhere else"
"I just despair at the kind of lies James, you are telling to people"
James Orr, "These are not lies"
Caroline Lucas, "They are"
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The world is dividing into those who accept a new normal of murderous psychopathy - the people we hate simply don’t matter & we can kill them for sport
& those - still most of us - who believe all people have rights & worth.
Be like Caroline. #bbcqt
Farrukh@implausibleblog
Must watch #BBCQT Caroline Lucas, "I think this is an illegal reckless war with Iran that is being waged by Trump and Netanyahu" "They have massively underestimated their enemy" "Trump is a bully and a blackmailer" "He has no plan for an exit strategy, says he will exit when he feels it in his bones" "This is a President said who said he would bomb Kharg island just for fun" "He suggested he might attack Cuba as well" "The type of language Trump and Hegseth are using is just so disgusting" "I've got their words: watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today, what a great honour to kill them" "This is not Grand Theft Auto, this is real people real lives" "And yet you get the sense from the White House that this is some big game" "And all of us are suffering from it"
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We are being poisoned for money.
Who cares?
Where is the legislation to protect us, as in EU?
National Academies say if 7 #Pfas chemicals in blood is >2ng/ml, potential for adverse health effects
Highest Pfas level in Bentham = 405ng/ml, >200 x greater than risk level of 2ng/ml
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This is what Prigozhin did in Syria, and Marsalek tried in Libya. For over a decade Putin has been weaponising migration to undermine the EU - and with Farage’s Leave EU campaign and Syria, it worked to create Brexit
Philip Obaji Jr.@PhilipObaji
I came to Amsterdam with a goal: to tell Europe about Russian operations in Africa; how they are aimed at creating a migration crisis in Europe and undermine democracy in the EU. I came to ask for partnership with Africa to combat this. I am here for seriousness not complacency.
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Peter Thiel's pal James Orr is a slippery shyster of an ideologue. Like Farage, he wants to hand over the NHS to profit-seeking interests, but doesn't have the honesty to say so.
Caroline Lucas asks the #bbcqt audience "Do you believe this man?"
Clearly, they don't. 👏👏👏
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Helen Whateley makes the case for "decisive leadership" (ie doing whatever a deranged Trump wants the UK to do for him) with all the decisiveness of a headless chicken. #bbcqt
Farrukh@implausibleblog
The Conservatives wheel out Helen Whateley Who, in case you missed her car crash interviews, humiliates herself on #BBCQT
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“This is not Grand Theft Auto. This is real people’s real lives”
The Green Party’s Caroline Lucas says US President Donald Trump has “no kind of plan” for the US-Israel war with Iran, and the White House is treating it like a “big game”
#bbcqt
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“Trump is a bully and a blackmailer, and he has made absolutely no plan for what an exit strategy looks like. When he asks for our help we should say: Donald, ‘you broke it, you fix it.’”
@CarolineLucas speaking on the Iran war on #BBCQT.
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This says everything you need to know about Reform
- this was in Wales
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Left: Hell as imagined by Hieronymus Bosch
Right: Hell as created by fossil fuels and US-Israeli imperialist aggression
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In January BBC News provided 37 minutes of live coverage of a Reform press conference (12 minutes and then 25 minutes).
@ZackPolanski has done a press conference for the Greens this morning, & never mind any live coverage, I haven't even see it mentioned!
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth
BBC News have just played 12 minutes of uninterrupted coverage of Nadhim Zahawi at a Reform press conference.
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Tulsi Gabbard was elected on her supposed opposition to "forever wars". Now she's cravenly providing cover for a president who's launched a jaw-droppingly stupid, illegal and massively destructive war. MAGA is a black hole of fraud, greed & violence.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
OSSOFF: Your opening statement stated that as a result of last summer's airstrikes, Iran's nuclear enrichment program was 'obliterated.' Correct? GABBARD: That's right OSSOFF: The WH stated on March 1 that this war was launched to 'eliminate the imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime.' Does the IC assess that there was an imminent nuclear threat? GABBARD: The only person who can determine what is or is not an imminent threat is the president OSSOFF: False
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