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Let us Swiftly address the biodiversity crisis and to reverse the declines in biodiversity. We need to start now, in a big way. No more tokenism. #BiodiversityDay @IPBES @GretaThunberg @HollyWildChild @GreeneIndy @GreenFGeorge @BBCSpringwatch @ChrisGPackham @MeganMcCubbin

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Sep 15
"Trump officials reportedly ask Congress for $58m in security after Kirk shooting"

I suppose this extra security will only be for Trump, his allies and at best Republicans.

1/🧵theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s…
Remember, it is only just over 2 weeks ago, that Trump vindictively withdrew Secret Service protection for Kamala Harris. Trump has recklessly endangered Democratic, and other progressive figures, for falsely blaming them for Charlie Kirk's death.

2/bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Donald Trump, rejected calls for national unity, and made it clear that he intends to carry on inciting political violence against what he calls the radical left, which seems to mean anyone who disagrees with.

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Sep 14
In this febrile political situation, caused by the populist right, blaming the "left" for the killing of their hero, who was ironically killed by a lone gun nut, not a left conspiracy, is the use of the term "left" as if it is a collective entity, collectively responsible.
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Notice how I used the term populist right, not just right wing or Conservative. Because this modern faction, is only loosely connected to conservatism. In other words, I defined what I was talking about. But their use of "left" is not defined at all.
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The "left" is a massive spectrum of different groups and factions, which have little to do with each other and are often rivals and opponents. It ranges from centrist neoliberals to revolutionary Marxists, with a massive gulf in between.
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Sep 14
The modern right are not believers in democracy, unless it puts them in power. The modern populist right are totally intolerant of any other perspective but their own. They even attack, moderate Conservatives. By the left, they mean everyone but them.
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I must make it very clear that I am not ideological and that I am not conventionally left wing, even if I have similar principles of social justice and equality. My guiding principle is ecological sustainability i.e. avoiding the ecological collapse of our societies.
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My reason for attack the right is most are now climate change deniers, attacking the natural systems that sustain us. I am a lot more sympathetic to the left, because their policy is more in line with sustainability, but not totally.
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Sep 13
"some of whom have clashed with riot police and could be seen throwing objects at the police line. The group seem agitated, with lots of shouting and shoving."

I've yet to see a report of any far right rally, when they have not attacked the police.

1/🧵theguardian.com/politics/live/…
But bizarrely arrests are always low, and the police never invoke the powers they have under protest legislation.

Yet the police make mass arrests of entirely peaceful climate activists and those protesting against genocide in Gaza.
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Bizarrely the far right makes false claims of 2-tier policing, and them being persecuted by the authorities, despite perpetrating violence, and making threats of violence, that have always been illegal. Not illegal under recent made up laws to make peaceful protest illegal.
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Sep 13
There is something very important to understand about the Charlie Kirk murder. All the evidence shows that he was killed by a disaffected* lone gun nut, acting on their own initiative, which happens every day in the US. It was not part of some coordinated political movement.
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Any attempt to blame it on the "radical left", Democrats or whatever, is an opportunistic, mendacious lie, of the type that the Nazis and other fascistic dictators use, to take violent action against their political opponents.
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In the US, because of their lax gun laws, almost every day, gun nuts go out and shoot other people, because of an incoherent personal grievance. Sometimes mass shootings. The victims can even be innocent young children.
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Sep 11
"Donald Trump blamed “the radical left” for the shooting and promised a crackdown"

The man who tried to shoot Donald Trump, was a registered Republican, and so was his family. This is Nazi style lying and hijacking of a murder for political reasons.

1/🧵theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…
The biggest instigator of political violence, in America is Donald Trump. He instigated a violent attempted coup on 6 January, in which a police officer died, to overthrow a legitimate election result.
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Currently, Trump is instigating militaristic invasions of states and cities run by political rivals, on entirely false and made up grounds, to intimidate them. He did it in California, then Washington DC, and is now threatening it in Chicago.
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