@katewaltersartist
Artist, writer, teacher. Interested in animals and visionary states; creativity; interconnectedness. Lover of Italy and wild places. Musical; book lover. Anti Brexit. Arusha Gallery Artist 2014-2025. Published by Guillemot Press and Dark Mountain.
Adolf Hitler invaded the Rhineland, then Austria, then Czechoslavakia.
Then he invaded the western ally, Poland.
Then he invaded the West, France.
Donald Trump has invaded Venezuela, Iran, just now he confirmed Cuba is next.
After that Greenland.
Then it will be Europe.
Farage: - Cut Benefits. - Cut Minimum Wage. - Raise Retirement Age. - Means Test Pensions, - Privatise NHS - Oppose a Wealth Tax. Yet we are told he is on the side of the WORKING-CLASS?
Keep Farage as far away from power as possible!
#NeverVoteReform
Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?
Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy.
Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists?
Noem: My condolences to their families
Raskin: You lied about them.
America's pronounced selfishness and greed has hugely disproportionately contributed to a substantial reduction in the quality of life of everyone else and now seriously threatens the continued existence of our civilisation
It's not sufficient compensation that Americans themselves will also suffer
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
If it’s true Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson Robert Jenrick told a business audience last night that renewable companies are "screwed" if Reform get in, it tells you everything about their readiness to inflict national self-harm in pursuit of ideological war on climate action.
Daily Mail headline: IRAN WAR: DAY FOUR U.S. lambasts 'hand-wringing, pearl-clutching' Starmer as Kemi says he's 'scared' of his own voters
The Sun: INACTION THIS DAY PM wont hit Iran back Rift grows with US Prez
Have we woken up in America? The deeply unpatriotic Daily Mail and Sun seem to now be supporting a menace of a foreign leader over our own govt and national security. They are really only loyal to their own vested interests. Which are a direct threat to our own. The routine betrayal is sickening.
Recommended reading: The Ocean as System – Overcoming policy fragmentation in the fight against ocean acidification.
An essay from the Back to Blue Initiative on ocean policy and why ocean and planetary stewardship matters:
backtoblueinitiative.com/the-ocean-as...
the fact the president of the united states is even thinking about asserting emergency powers to disrupt an election - just a few years after he incited an armed coup attempt - should be the top issue. but the media mostly shrugs and the opposition doesnt focus on it.
This morning, UK media will no doubt focus on Labour and Reform, and what the defeat means for both and either, instead of analysing what The Greens and Hannah Spencer have achieved, why and how.
And it's this negative, sensationalist attitude that we're all so thoroughly tired of.
In a battle between hope and hate, hope won out.
Why voters rejected the hateful politics of Reform and instead embraced the "Green Menace" in Gorton and Denton
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...
BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election.
Congratulations!
@sanchezcastejon (PM Sanchez) posted on X Translated from Spanish The far right and the ultra-right have been announcing the end of this Government from the very first day. Now, on top of that, they're spreading hoaxes about my health. The mud machine always works the same way: they launch the hoax from a pseudo-media outlet, their MPs amplify it, and their pundits muddy the public conversation. I don't suffer from any cardiovascular disease, but even if I did, there wouldn't be any problem. There are millions of people who do suffer from them and lead normal lives thanks to the public services that you dismantle. If your only way of doing opposition is through lies, it means we're really doing a good job. There's Government left for a good while. Rate this translation: 11:15 AM Feb 26, 2026.
This is how you push back against far-right, populist scheming - confidently, firmly, head-on. Calling them out, uncovering the strategy, explaining to people what they're up to. Refusing to be put on the back foot. The response is not: But you can't do that. It's: You're lying & I will expose you.
Sophie Blanchard 1778 – 1819 was a French aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard. She was the first woman to work as a professional balloonist, and after her husband's death she continued his work, making more than 60 ascents. #CelebratingWomen
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is humanity and pronounced yuhwee ahnayhuh
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
mankind was once immortal until put on trial by the other creatures.
One of those occasional reminders that Farage's gang are mostly entitled 'Thatcherite+' people.
“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.”
NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.
Address by the President of #Ukraine on the Fourth Anniversary of the Beginning of russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine 24.02.2026
Full address www.president.gov.ua/en/news/zver...
The findings that come from an DNA studies fascinate me. The fact that DNA can even be extracted from ancient bones (and sometimes teeth) is amazing.
Ancient DNA Reveals Europe’s Last Hunter-Gatherers Survived Thousands of Years Longer Than Expected share.google/WJYszOE4b4PE...
If you want to know how Farage's Reform will govern if they take power after next UK election, see how they govern in local areas
Against poll preferences of locals, the Reform Mayor of Lincolnshire cultivates fracking companies to see if they can come & operate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
peterwalker99.bsky.social posted on Reform UK's press conference: We've had questions from three broadcasters so far, and they have all been about the practicalities and costs. None has asked about the legal/moral issue of retrospectively changing laws so huge numbers of people who have made their lives in the UK will be expelled. 11:54 23 Feb 2026
This. @peterwalker99.bsky.social here with an excellent point.
From Brexit to Rwanda, from Reform to Labour to UK media, the focus on financial aspects of policies that violate human rights & hurt the lives of innocent people seems cynical & callous & an already shift of our values.
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Photo of Yusuf at a lectern saying “shadow Home Secretary” (Wot?) Reform's plan for a 'British ICE' combines cruelty with stupidity
Project forward to 2036 under a majority Reform government and the picture darkens further. Britain would be smaller, older and whiter; more isolated from Europe; paradoxically, more vulnerable to foreign interterence and less able to fund its own defence. The welfare state would shrink to a skeleton. Charity would fill the gaps. Flags would proliferate; rights would not. The police and courts would be politicised. The BBC could disappear. The NHS would survive only as a minimal safety net. Protections against discrimination would erode - you might indeed be sacked for being disabled. Migrants and even their British-born children could find their rights curtailed unless they were deemed to "contribute" sufficiently. Meanwhile, the wealthiest would enjoy a generous, low-tax regime.
“Rarely has a British political party unveiled a programme that combines cruelty with impracticality on such an extravagant scale.”
Chilling on Reform’s increasingly confident fascism. High on viciousness and greed. Very low on wisdom. A ruinous combination.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/zia-y...
BREAKING: Richard Tice is to announce Reform UK's plans to introduce a "Great Repeal Bill" that will scrap Labour's Employment Rights' Act and rent reforms
JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
What crazed the light
has silvered
into prayer;
the water’s argument
with heaven,
unresolved.
The air changes
to salt, and
salt to air,
and all the churning
deep is
somehow
absolved.
#vss365
2016: Nigel Farage - "Vote Brexit to secure our borders"
2026: Zia Yusuf - "Vote Reform to secure our borders"
We are being treated as mugs
#PoliticsLive
If you want concentration camps in the UK, people being grabbed off the streets, or murdered on them, five year olds being separated from their parents and locked up #VoteReform
This week's blog is published. The Witch is waiting with freshly brewed tea, an array of flying art, and her trusty ginger cats. Join her for a moment of peace.
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#Writing #Poetry #SundayFringe ##GreekMythology #Art
"The situation in Gaza remains catastrophic. Palestinians are still dying from Israeli fire, cold, hunger, and treatable diseases. The aid allowed in is not enough to meet the massive needs," Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, addressing the 61st session of the Human Rights Council
