The Presiding Officer’s name is Alison Johnstone.

Many networks saying Trump is about to escalate to war crimes, ignoring the 165 schoolgirls he killed in a double tap strike. On day one. The single greatest US military atrocity since My Lai in Vietnam has been relegated to an afterthought. Mainstream media has horrifically failed us.

Pls sign & share. I grew up under this law. School never mentioned lesbian or gay life or relationships, somehow everyone was still called a poof or a lemon though. The only time school mentioned it was telling us about "the gay disease" (HIV). Really. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

This this this this this. So much this. Right now. Can’t believe I open this app for distraction and THIS is what the universe lands! 😳

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment? "Pull factors" on steroids. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Epstein wasn’t a “bad apple” He didn’t “slip through the cracks” He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest. Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him. He was protected & enabled by institutions of power. 1/n

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‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

the 3D printers making whistles now are the modern equivalent of the ladies from WWII sewing flags and uniforms for the war effort

In Minneapolis

🔎 From February 2025 Trump Isn't Joking About Lebensraum Trump's plans for Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada and Mexico aren't just idle talk. A senior US insider tells us what to expect www.bylinesupplement.com/p/trump-isnt...

Trump's actions in Venezuela shows why it was wrong to dismiss his threats to Greenland. If he's willing to do this, he will be willing to do anything

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

A Scottish charity head has rejected an MBE, saying the UK Government is 'demonising disabled people'

This - from @clamc.bsky.social lists concrete steps to take to advocate for the lives of those on hunger strike and perilously near death. Remember none have been found guilty and they are innocent until a verdict is passed. 👇🏼 I’m adding weblinks for contact below The actions are uncontroversial

Another point I made on Scotland Tonight on Wednesday, though given tight timeslot I didn't add that parties of centre shifting right on immigration is what raises the salience of such issues and then encourages their voters to vote for "stronger" voice on that. Result today further proof in pudding

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

A different view of Maria Corina Machado #nobelpeaceprize

In England and Wales. @policescotland.bsky.social

This is grim & dangerous over reach. This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent. Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

It is 20 years since Conor Gearty gave the Hamlyn Lectures on Can Human Rights Survive? As a mark of respect following the dreadful news of his, Cambridge University Press & Assessment has made these lectures Open Access for the remainder of the year. You can find them here: lnkd.in/e5Xrt2G5

This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3

💥LAUNCHED TODAY💥 'Investing in Women, Transforming Communities': Engender's Manifesto for Holyrood 2026. Read it here: www.engender.org.uk/holyrood-2026/

The council got rid of the benches at the foot of Leith walk and the locals have responded appropriately...

Just a reminder that I wrote you a whole book about how to take action, build community, and stay hopeful in times like these. (And it’s really pretty) www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/shann...

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Powerful exploration of the dangerous and deluded idea of "parental alienation", discredited but still being widely deployed, mostly against women, denying the agency of children www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/the-harmful-...

The Fringe, the Orange Order, and Oasis all competing for Edinburgh city centre at the same time is like a public planning joke with no punchline

We’ve got some great jobs going @opfs.org.uk. Please do take a look. We’re a lovely group of people to work with. Looking for a Head of Corporate Services and a Head of Policy, Strategy and Comms to join our Senior Leadership Team. opfs.org.uk/get-involved...

Please read and share this passionate, angry piece by my dear sister comrade @talatyaqoob.bsky.social She articulates what so many of us feel about the cowardice and complicity of ‘world leaders’ archive.ph/2025.07.30-1...

A friend in Gaza sent this. It is from the staff at Nasser Hospital. Please share

Caster Semenya calls for athletes’ rights to be put first as court rules in her favour

I have never reported the man who raped me or any of the men who have sexually assaulted me to the police. Neither have many of the women I know who have survived such violence. And that's just what's reported – let alone who gets charged, or, god forbid, actually convicted.

I spend days running through chunks of my cobbler together dataset, coding the recorded actions of groups from the SNP to the Tamil Tigers, from Parti Québécois to ETA, and once you strip away the politics of the moment I think you'd fail your PhD viva if you argued that what PA did was violence.

I've spent, what, a decade now, studying the tactics used by political organisations engaging in contentious politics. At no point have Palestine Action engaged in anything I'd remotely consider to cross the line between non-violent and violent tactics. Never mind terrorism.

"Protesting has never been easy, but over my career I have watched laws steadily tighten, step by boiled frog step. Now, every detail seems to fall under police control." #democracy - it would be a good idea www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Having read Home Secretary’s rationale for proscription it will be all churches next; they too have “cell groups” studying ways to end violence and they too call up collective, even Trinitarian power, to beat swords into plough shares.

“When I began publishing, Liz Lochhead, now 77, was the only properly visible woman poet in Scotland...” ~ @kathleenjamie.bsky.social ‘At the Canongate Wall’ (writing on the @lrb.co.uk blog): www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju... @asls.org.uk @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @scottishpen.bsky.social

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

A huge loss to Scotland, Prof. Palmer was an intellectual powerhouse and exceptional advocate on anti-racism and the need for honest recognition of Scotland’s role in slavery. www.scotsman.com/education/si...

Enjoy hearing Pete and his pals Annie Patterson and Peter Blood talking about the power of singing together to change the world for the better. This is a 23 minute documentary avaiable to watch online for free until June 15th. Enjoy! #PeteSeeger #RiseUpSinging watch.showandtell.film/watch/webega...

Fwiw, I do not think this is what Tim Berners Lee had in mind

The University of Dundee is currently trying to make 100% of female research Professors in the School of Science and Engineering redundant. 100% OF FEMALE RESEARCH PROFESSORS! Only one female professor (teaching and scholarship) from that School will remain working on our UK campuses.

Happy Birthday Pete - why not sing yourself happy birthday?! #PeteSeeger #HappyBirthday youtu.be/nHZZ0XRv8p8?...