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Look out The athletes are coming Here.. comes.. everyone! #uniteToSurvive

@BBCNews

@BBCSport

The higher you build your barriers The taller We become The further you take your cameras away The faster we will run You can’t deny nor turn your face away.. youtu.be/7B-4Lsrx8IA

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having good reason* to dust down my memories of international sport in 1982/3

Was top 2 fittest fastest** best ergo’s in ‘83 squad **Including running

Did a marathon in ‘82 in 3hrs15, 3 wks after worlds, on no training: was well sub 3 hour pace until 23 ml ‘wall’

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I’m fucking terrified. Not of what’s coming; but of humankind’s preference to deny everything, and/or blame each other, rather than actually face what’s happening here; together.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

@ThierryAaron

TFW both Alberta and Siberia are on fire

... in May

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If you're shocked about the Met today (arrests for carrying rape alarms, arresting protesters they'd negotiated with): In 2019 they confiscated

@XRebellionUK

protesters' wheelchairs and arrested people with accessible loos *after* allowing them in and showing them where to park.

Two uniformed police officers guarding a temporary cordon around a pile of accessibility equipment. A wheelchair and some ramps are clearly visible.

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Have you been fooled by the fossil fuel industry? Here are their 12 tricks... Paper written by

Music: 'Excuses' by

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First outright council majority for the Greens not just in the UK but in the entire Northern Hemisphere. Today is an historic day for

@europeangreens

@globalgreens

💚🌻 Very, very, very well done

@MidSuffolkGreen

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #GetGreensElected #LocalElections2023

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GREEN MAJORITY in Mid Suffolk

Huge congratulations to Mid Suffolk Greens for taking majority control of the council for the first time! #GetGreensElected | #LocalElection2023

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And the Daily Mail can’t pin it on those they normally would (falsely) like to pin it in, as they’d all been arrested - on suspicion of not reading the Daily Mail?

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Col

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I see pride in yer monarchy doesn’t extend to keeping your streets clean

Anyone else join me saying

@carolvorders

for PM? ✨ But which party? ✅ I would hope

would do their utmost to woo you Carol. Or LibDems. Or Labour. And I think I can safely stop there. 🚦

The problem with not having a Green spokesperson in your studio is that everybody you talk to you about the elections is our opponent This can’t be representative of a fair and open democracy The many people who vote for

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#ClimateAction #FightFascism

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Using the fact that all eyes are on the UK to come out as a full-on, no apologies, authoritarian police state unable to tolerate signs being held, or even T-shirts with slogans written on them, sure is a look,

@lucyfrazermp

@DCMS

. A fascist look, actually.

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Police right to arrest coronation protesters as UK on global stage, says minister

Culture secretary defends Scotland Yard’s ‘heavy-handed’ response to peaceful protests after 52 arrested

Enjoying the long weekend? If so, you might like to know that

April Mediterranean heatwave ‘almost impossible’ without climate crisis

wants to see a 4-day working week. There's lots of evidence for the positive benefits of this. We could improve working conditions for everyone, every week, not just when there's a #Coronation!

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This weeks #ClimateCrisis news: Scientists at

@WWAttribution

concluded that the recent record breaking Spanish heatwave would have been “almost impossible” without human emissions. Here's a short🧵putting this in context & asking what comes next...

theguardian.com

Extreme event would have been expected once in 40,000 years before global heating, scientists estimate

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Check out the website? (Do your own research) It says you can sell up at any time, n/p. I'm happy 9000+ green voices united will be heard at future AGMs. #climatecrisis #ClimateAction #noplanetb🌎 #climatechange

I've just joined over 9,000 'green shareholders' in Big Oil via

with ONE share each

Some $400 of my 'pension fund' is now in OIL?🔥 Worry not! I had previously acted to #divest 100% from fossil fuel #voice

What say you

? (or rather, what say your Murdoch-friendly sponsors)

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Tom Scott

@Tom___Scott

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When UKIP won 166 councillors (but no councils) in 2014 the BBC called this a "political earthquake". @TheGreenParty just gained 200 councillors, taking the total to 737, took control of a council & became the biggest party in several others. But 0 Green guests on #bbclaurak.

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This is state over-reach:

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Rich Felgate

@richfelgate

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Yesterday I got arrested whilst filming a @JustStop_Oil supporter holding a banner on the pavement near the coronation route. I'm a filmmaker and had my @BECTU press accreditation visible around my neck. Police deemed this to be "conspiracy to commit a public nuisance".

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These were the Guardian headlines when UKIP won 163 seats at the local elections in 2014 For context the Green Party just won 241 seats, but no talk of a "political earthquake" Media bias is crystal clear

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Local elections: Ukip delivers first tremors of political earthquake
This article is more than 8 years old
Nigel Farage weakens Labour's grip in north as Tories lose control of flagship councils and Lib Dem vote collapses

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FREEPORTS CORRUPTION NADHIM ZAHAWI wife Lana Saib Dec 2020, her company bought Chunnel Industrial Estate, a stone’s throw from the land to become the Sevington inland border facility in Ashford, Kent. Days before the EU-UK trade agreement was signed 😡

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Zahawi’s behaviour is inevitable in a country on the brink of a corporate takeover

Are Conservatives aiming to bypass the problem of losing elections by corporatising the UK and placing themselves on the board of directors?

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A very insightful thread. Please take a good look at the lies the Mail tells.

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Media Tell The Truth XR

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May 5

When will someone get a grip on the billionaire-owned press? They are the greatest block on climate action in the UK. So let's look at some of the worst examples of recent press coverage of climate activism on #TheBigOne and more.

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Daily Mail front page: when WILL someone get a grip on the eco fanatics?

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Worse than all of that if that's possible Ms Mordaunt is a 'child killer' by professionally denying the rather pressing problem with burning all the fossil fuel Warning: you may find this disturbing bylinetimes.com/2021/02/18/min

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Scotty

@ScottyGoesAgain

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Penny Mordaunt is a degenerate WEF globalist, a Bill Gates flunky with a raging pedophile for a brother. She's not on your side, and she never will be. This image should revolt you - if it doesn't, you need your head checking.

The Real Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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Please enjoy reading (and perhaps more importantly sharing?) this most excellent and informative thread from the awesome

@KHayhoe

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@KHayhoe

May 4

On climate change, we often assume people are either believers or deniers. I don't like either label, because climate change is not a religion. Instead, I prefer the 6 categories identified by @YaleClimateComm for the US. climatecommunication.yale.edu/about/projects

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The Yale Program on Climate Change's Six Americas of Global Warming categories.

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Fossil fuel industry should have lost its societal ‘licence to operate’ decades ago But hasn’t, yet: Due to #55tuftonStreet #GWPF and dark web of dirty oil money that has lied & ‘owned’ our ‘free press’ media for decades😱 It’s not just sport that is greenwashed by oil and gas.

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XR Money Rebellion

@money_rebellion

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AGMs of HSBC, Barclays, Standard Chartered, Drax & BP - all disrupted by beautiful people

Next up we're joining #PeoplesHealthTribunal Extractive corporations are hurting communities around the world. But communities are fighting back peopleshealthhearing.org

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Riz is a friend of mine; he is one of the most kind, caring, selfless people I have ever met- he is always there with a smile & a hug when I'm in court 🤗 He is a volunteer member of the City of Westminster’s Night Safety team At 2am he was arrested & held by

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Here’s Riz is in his own words:

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🚨👇Devastating impacts of global heating whilst scale of the deception with UK road emissions is starkly clear👉twitter.com/Andrew9Boswell) Next week, I take UK Govt to Court for making #ClimateChange worse with new roads, support here👉crowdjustice.com/case/stop-road #ClimateLitigation

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Nahel Belgherze

@WxNB_

BREAKING: Vietnam

and Laos

have both set a new national heat record today. This comes just 3 weeks after Thailand

measured over 45°C for the first time in its history, setting a new national heat record. Absolutely brutal.

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GIF

New Economy Organisers Network

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Your Front Page news y/w ✨

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Extinction Rebellion UK

@XRebellionUK

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Yesterday a king was crowned. Yesterday, under repressive new laws,dissent was crushed & our broken nation lurched further to authoritarianism. Meanwhile... (checks notes) IT'S STILL A CLIMATE EMERGENCY WE'RE STILL FUCKED NO MONARCHY ON A DEAD PLANET theguardian.com/environment/20

They were unloading their placards. They were peaceful and law abiding. There was no disruptive protest and no reason to arrest. Thank you

@Raj_Chada

for speaking up for the rule of law against overreach by the state.

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I want to address the main absurdity, at the centre of the ecological and climate crisis. That is the apparent belief of most politicians, billionaires, CEOs and other powerful people, that there is the option of adapting and carrying on with business as usual. 1/🧵

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The police's disregard for basic human rights to freedom of expression and assembly is not just for coronations, it's an everyday occurrence. And with the Public Order Act, it's only going to get worse. Condemning this is not enough, we need to organise against it #DefendDissent

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Clare Saxon Ghauri @Cle@climatejustice.social

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imagine if something as silly as human extinction made this many headlines in one day, maybe we’d be able to stop everything and change our destiny 🔥

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We were going to do a song about the coronation of King Charles III today, which is obviously an important waypoint in the nation’s history, and the cause of...

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I’m fine by the way ✨💛💚💜

"Song from M*A*S*H" (or “Suicide Is Painless”) was written by Johnny Mandel (music) & Michael Altman (lyrics) for 1970 film M*A*S*H (sung by The Ron Hicklin Singers in title sequence) Haunting lyrics, anyone born in 50s/60s #vietnam Such a huge pain body #ecocide too #mash🎶

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Exactly this (As amply demonstrated yesterday compleat with carbon belching Chinooks) The ABSURDITY of the “… apparent belief of most politicians, billionaires, CEOs & other ‘powerful’ people, that there is the option of adapting & carrying on with business as usual” #mash🎶

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“we wanted to use a bit of the extra time we’ve been given to sing about something more important, and more urgent, and more relevant to the future. So we picked a topic that has always been close to the new King’s heart: the environment and the need to stop destroying it”

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We took a chunk out of #Coronation day to make a song about a topic very close to #KingCharlesIII's heart. So here's @OfficialSting's "Message in a Bottle" given a #ClimateEmergency twist. Don't expect laughs: youtu.be/m1mYjixyIaE. #TheBigOne @ChrisGPackham @JustStop_Oil

We took a chunk out of #Coronation day to make a song about a topic very close to #KingCharlesIII's heart. So here's

@OfficialSting

's "Message in a Bottle" given a #ClimateEmergency twist. Don't expect laughs: youtu.be/m1mYjixyIaE. #TheBigOne

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Love this Exquisite; so painful too. I pledge allegiance to all those taking real action on a commensurate scale with the situation we now face And may that include King Charles III 🙏 Whoever leads on this, I’ll follow. Those leaders who don’t, please get out of the way.

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Today 2 people sat on thrones draped in robes, regalia & jewels While ~50 people sat on police custody beds simply for exercising their right to peaceful protest Celebrate the latter; they actually care about you, your family & your future #DefendDissent #Coronation

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I have a duty to the truth — even if it puts me in prison

Please do not look away or dismiss this type of protest until you have read the testimony of my dear friend with whom I was once arrested, since then he has continued to provide a prophetic witness in the face of government negligence churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2023/ from

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churchtimes.co.uk

Mark Coleman, writing from HMP Thameside, calls on Christians to take a public stand against new oil and gas projects

Extremely sad. Leads me to wonder if some sports are more susceptible to greenwash than others, by companies that abuse, hidden in plain sight eg

@Shell

’s disgraceful sports washing of

@BritishCycling

Athletes keep quiet, as they are trained to?

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Cath Bishop

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