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The Far Right riot in Belfast last night was nothing less than “a race-based pogrom”, Belfast MP and leader of the SDLP Claire Hanna said. The mob hunted down non-whites and set fire to their homes. Carl Whyte, a local councillor, called it “a hard Far Right element”.

"A pastor at the scene where multiple houses were on fire said people were being put out of houses "because they're black". In another scene, 100 masked men made their way down a street & kicked in doors & broke windows.They said they were "getting the foreigners out"" www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

On one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says.

Interesting opportunity for climate types! @marchudson.bsky.social is great to work with and I have found the newsletters fascinating/maddening.

Miami now leads the nation in home purchases paid for in all cash, with investors showing up and buying out longtime Black-owned homes. It’s partly because with rising seas threatening oceanfront properties, developers are rebranding inland, long-neglected Black neighborhoods as the new safe bet.

As sea-level rise makes once-desirable neighborhoods untenable, Black Miami residents face rising rents and land grabs.

“Anti-fascist Dad” podcast is worth a listen, even if you are not a breeder podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

I used to like the “quiet riot” podcast, albeit warily and wearily for its shallow centrism. Won’t listen anymore - they are lazy laundering the Labour Together rebrand (“ThinkLabour”). Fuck that shit, as the kids used to say

@cavu4ever.bsky.social you might be interested in my climate histories project - @allouryesterdays.bsky.social

What with (waves at everything) and El Nino about to smack us really hard, it seems like a good time to up my “We’re in the Fafocene, people” campaign. Please feel free to use any of the images below,...

Conflict and cuts in funding have left World Food Programme ‘taking from the hungry to feed the starving’ The continuing US-Israel war on Iran has compounded other global disasters to drive record numbers of people into hunger at a time when funding to combat famine has fallen dramatically, the head of the UN World Food Programme has said. The WFP says 363 million people around the world are now at risk of acute hunger, 45 million of them as a result of conflict in the Middle East and the consequent oil price spike. Continue reading...

Senior medical staff call for solutions to tackle root causes of excess deaths amid tenfold increase in a decade

Help! I want to have historians, activists, sociologists, natural scientists etc ETC write 800 word responses to 8-page CO2 Newsletters (there are 10 more to be uploaded this year). Please DM me/comment if you know someone or ARE someone who'd be up for it.