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A useful and disturbing article about Elon Musk's fascism, only slightly spoilt by the fact that, when you get to the bottom, you see that the first named author, the excellent @gregsargent.bsky.social, is still on X. We really need to walk the talk on this issue. newrepublic.com/article/2135...

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

Our discussion on why governments fiddle while the world burns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQat...

You deceive yourself if you imagine the two axes can be separated. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Spotlight’s @kamilakingstone.bsky.social joined @georgemonbiot.bsky.social & @elliechowns.bsky.social for an Assemble discussion on how to tackle political corruption. They explored why stronger lobbying rules, political finance reform & tougher enforcement matter.

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Actually, I suspect they are compounding, but have not yet been able to prove it.

One day, I also intend to uncover the Law of Waistbands, which somehow ensures that my trousers shrink in the winter and expand again in the summer. This is some deep phsysics, which has so far resisted explanation.

As you prepare for your holiday outings, please remember Monbiot’s Inviolable Law on Leaving the House: T = 2A² + 5C² Where T is time in minutes, A is adults and C is children.

One thing I'd add is that when someone says "I've gone beyond left and right", in most cases it means they've drifted to the far right. Russell Brand is one of many examples.

Wise words from @doctorow.pluralistic.net "'Post-political' movements are made up of people who don't know what politics are. A 'centrist' is ultimately a rightist, because the foundation of rightism is the supremacy of property." pluralistic.net/2026/07/08/w...

The continuing claims by the police that all this is the work of a "rogue unit" or a "few bad apples" are yet more lies piled on top of 50 years of lying. The state surveillance, state rape and state cover-ups are institutional and systemic. It's not over. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

I made y'all a guide so you can decide whether to post your reply, inspired by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.

Always this. "Protect our women and children from those people" is pure projection. The beast is the man in the mirror. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The greatest global threat to both peace and a habitable planet is the government of the USA. It has been so for a long time, but Trump has nixed the deniability. We should stop treating it as an ally that has mysteriously gone astray and start treating it as a hazard to be avoided and contained.

See the alternating warm and cold patches in the Northern mid-latitudes? That's the imprint of a quasi-stationary Rossby wave (i.e. oscillations in the jet stream). It's rare to see it so clearly in a monthly-average temperature map.

Authoritarians are powerless alone. Only with the help of people like you, attempting justifications however outrageous the case, can they succeed and dominate. Unfortunately, such people are to be found in every society.

Perhaps you are unaware that barristers have been making such choices for centuries, but as far as we know this is the first time one has faced prosecution. But sure, nothing to see here. There's a term for this tendency, and it underpins every authoritarian regime. System justification.