Baroness Suki Stockwell 🦔🐸🐝🐦🪱🐛🦋🌻🍄🐀🦠🐾🧑‍🌾 🌊

Communities must be given the right to own environmental assets like rivers, woods & peat bogs

Thanks to @jenny4suffcoast.bsky.social & other MPs for writing this letter to Ministers, urging them to amend Community Right to Buy rules whilst there's still time:
www.wildlifetrusts.org/sites/defaul...

Badenoch denies calling for UK to join US-Israeli war on Iran Conservative leader accused of taking confusing position after she said Starmer should ‘do more than catch arrows’

At the most basic level of 'have some self-respect', Conservative MPs should not put forward someone who visibly is not intellectually equipped to be prime minister as their candidate to be prime minister.

Alina Habba condemns Kamala Harris’s remarks at Reggie Jackson’s funeral. (It was Jesse Jackson).

Also known as "using insider knowledge for war profiteering."

Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity

Some nice news for once.

I'm not sure she's thought it through properly.

How patriotic is it to fly the flag on a public toilet?

I like to think of that as a "flag of convenience".

Keep it going...

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

T. rex took 40 years to reach full size, study finds Tyrannosaurus rex may have taken far longer to grow up than scientists once thought. By analyzing growth rings in fossilized leg bones from 17 tyrannosaur specimens and using new statistical methods, ...

That's because they coddle them too much now. Back in my day, it only took 20 years for T-Rexes to fully mature, because they had discipline. Spare the rod, spoil the terrible tyrant lizard.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Any time soon they'll be embracing 15 minute cities

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity

Amidst the gloom, a small shaft of light: Large tortoiseshell butterflies confirmed no longer extinct in the UK!

Lovely piece by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’ve heard reports of high-level meetings to discuss the surge in oil prices.

I have an idea.

Get the US and Israel to stop bombing oil depots and refineries in Iran.

It would help.

When I first started out as a journalist I thought it paid to have a background in US history when covering America. Then I thought it would probably be better to be a constitutional lawyer with expertise in jurisprudence. Now I think it would be useful to be a psychiatrist.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:

Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down

Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace

Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs

Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Federal judge to hear arguments about Pentagon’s restrictions on press access Defense Department policy instituted last year prohibits the gathering or publication of any information that is not authorized by the government, including declassified information and off-the-record conversations.

We filed a brief supporting this lawsuit from the New York Times against the Defense Department's policy banning journalists from the Pentagon who report in a way the Trump administration doesn't like.

Reporters don't have to be mouthpieces for the government.

It's rather difficult listening to a smart, kind president when we currently have a mean-spirited simpleton in the White House.

But congratulations! I'm certain Donald will be able to find space in a hair extensions kiosk at a regional mall to serve as his library—for that one book he almost read.

Today, Michelle and I are proud to announce that we will be hosting the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center on June 18th in Chicago, and welcoming the public on June 19th.

We can’t wait for you to visit. Go to obama.org to learn more.

Oh joy.

Naz Shah talking a lot of sense on Newsnight about domestic violence and honour. Her book sounds like it will be a good but harrowing read.

This is what Badenoch, Farage, the Murdoch press, and Paul Marshall's stable of GB News weirdos want us to get behind, and you know what I'm good, thanks...

I know everyone’s having a great time criticising the expats, but people should remember that people across the region have been working in the Gulf for decades now in often less starry ways, too, and the potential loss of remittances in e.g. Egypt isn’t going to be a positive.

Why did they call it Watership Down and not Warren Peace

The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

The competition for the dumbest member of the United States Senate has just heated up with the elimination of one its strongest contestants!!

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Protect caterpillars as UK’s moth population plummets, urge charities Instead of removing plant-munching caterpillars, gardeners asked to take relaxed attitude to support the moths many of them grow into

In the guardian today asking gardeners to take the tiny hit from a few caterpillars.. Avoid pesticides, use manual removal, physical barriers and pruning. To help restore moth populations. It's not too much to ask.
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I remember the lead up to the 2nd Gulf war very well indeed.

All the WMD stuff and the "if we don't stop them now they'll nuke us" lies.

It was absolute bollocks and obviously so, and this repeat version of it being pushed by pro Trump pro war factions is dangerous, fanciful nonsense.