Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

@cstross People forget Starmer is literally a cop (former Director of Public Prosecutions at CPS) so he's got a great career ahead of him as tool of the state

Incidentally, Starmer shows GREAT TALENT for political timing by having come out agin' the Scottish GRC bill *just in time* for the Tories to start using it as a club to attack devolution, thereby demonstrating to all Scottish Labour voters that Starmer—and English Labour—are Not Their Friend. Way to regain seats lost to the SNP over the past 20 years …!

I made a graph of all my past relationships.

It has an ex axis and a why axis.

Memo to the GOP: Please don't tweet about MLK's legacy while advancing policies that make it harder for Black Americans to vote.

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: 1,000,000 stranded Southwest passengers deserved better from Pete Buttigieg; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/16/for-petes-sake/

#Pluralistic

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"Lützerath is the latest of dozens of villages that have been evicted, inhabitants dispossessed under old Nazi legislation, to facilitate the expansion of lignite coal mines, the dirtiest and most carbon intensive form of electricity generation. This eviction takes place three years after the eviction of the neighbouring Hambacher Forest in 2018, which lasted over four weeks and led to the death of a young film maker. The eviction was stopped by the courts in October 2018, and later declared illegal.

The fight against coal is not over. It’s 11pm, dozens are people have been hospitalised, one person still unconscious. A medic recounts: “What I experienced today was beyond my imagination. I’ve seen every bone in the human body broken today”.

But thousands of people are still there, blockading and occupying space. Tomorrow, more people will once again make their way to the mining area. Lützerath has shown the ecocidal determination of fossil capital and the state, but it has also been a powerful symbol of resistance. Using a diversity of tactics, people from different backgrounds have come to together to show how their determination to fight back is even greater. People will keep resisting in whatever way they can. Join them."

#Lutzerath #RWE #EarthFirst #Ecocide #Coal #Germany

Via @earthfirst

https://earthfirstjournal.news/2023/01/15/reportback-from-lutzerath/

"A deadly, avoidable crisis is under way, fuelled by NHS cuts, the neglect of social care, inequality and the soaring cost of living."
Sobering from @OwenJones84@twitter.com
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/15/britain-excess-death-rate-covid-nhs-cost-of-living?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other