What a day yesterday.Token of recognition for my late husband Derek at Paralympics GB Community reunion today. So glad that his achievements finally recognised. He was an early paralympian,paving the way for others. @paralympicsgb.bsky.social

At our next Members' event we'll meet with @mareetodd.bsky.social on 15 May 12-1.30 pm. Join us over lunch at The Albany, #Glasgow to discuss social care and support for older and disabled people. Places are very limited, but please email [email protected] if you are interested in joining.

Details of UK Gov consultation events now out for 'Pathways to Work' - only one event in Glasgow which I suspect will be full pretty quickly. bit.ly/3R5tBrZ

Check the state of this - actually using my calf muscle as her pillow. #Cats

Nero played the violin. Trump plays golf.

Here he is today, deeply concerned about economic hardship caused by his tariff scheme.

He’s tanking the economy, destroying our standing in the world, depriving women and LGBTQ communities of their fundamental rights, attacking the environment, disappearing legal immigrants, gutting Veteran’s benefits and Social Security. And he’s making you pay for his golf trips while he’s at it.

@scaramucci.bsky.social @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social - have you seen this? @restispoliticsus.bsky.social

If you still support Trump after this, you’ve no fecking soul. Shame on you and shame on that excuse of a human being inhabiting the White House.

#ThirdSector funders increasingly ask applicants to demonstrate how they approach human rights and equalities through their work. 👀@thre-equal.bsky.social shares practical advice, resources and a webinar recording to help you when preparing for funding applications👉https://bit.ly/4iUGJMl

💡 Our Partnership and Membership Coordinator, Lynn Williams, breaks down the key announcements and their impact, including concerns around benefits cuts and rising costs. Read the full analysis and sector response on our new page bit.ly/4ce1IaW

What does the #SpringStatement mean for you? The Chancellor’s announcements have major implications for social security, economic growth, and public spending. But what do the changes really mean - especially for people in Glasgow, and for Scotland's third sector? 👉 bit.ly/4ce1IaW

Cuts to Carers Allowance are part of the #DisabilityBenefits cuts. I now really want to see how @uklabour.bsky.social Scottish MPs respond - if at all.

@glasgowcvs.bsky.social #SpringStatement #DisabilityBenefits response:

3/3 In December, we called for a benefits system, that is sufficient, compassionate and which enables people to work where they can – but which also offers a good quality of life for those who can’t. Today’s announcements feel like a step away from, instead of towards, that vision.

2/3 These changes will hinder the city's ambition to reduce child poverty. Our sector will inevitably face increased demand for information and crisis support from individuals and families. This will happen at a time when the #ThirdSector already faces financial challenges.

1/3 Like many of our members, we are dismayed at the planned cuts to social security. These changes will have a devastating effect on people in #Glasgow. This is borne out by the Government’s own impact assessment, which shows more people – including children – will be pushed into absolute poverty.

Donald Trump's Tariffs Could Wipe Out All Of Rachel Reeves' Spare Cash www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald...

Trump too!

Are you listening Keir Starmer?

I suspect all may not be well at Mar a Lago tonight. Good stuff! #MarkCarney

This is the way. Write your pension fund, school, city comptroller and demand divestment from Tesla.

If the US had continued to support Ukraine, we may have been months away from the end of the war. The Russians would not have been able to continue to fight for much longer. They were making almost no progress, taking huge casualties.

There is no question that deep welfare cuts from @uklabourparty.bsky.social will be both devastating and economically counterproductive. Look at the impact of austerity over the last 14 years. More austerity = more health/social damage = less productivity & more unable to work.

The markets are crashing, we can't afford eggs anymore, the economy is shrinking, our allies are abandoning us... But we'll always have the Gulf of America.

Good stuff. Bravo people!

Honestly, it must be hard work for Trump to be such a malicious, unfeeling, total sh*t.

Cap doffed. Legend

2025 can feck right off - and it’s not even March. #widowhood is a steaming pile of sh*t.

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

What I miss most about Biden is the not worryingevery morning about the next bit of madness inflicted on us by a crazy, greedy, racist and misogynistic orange megalomaniac.

What I miss most about Biden is not worrying every morning about the next bit of madness inflicted on us by a crazy,greedy, racist and misogynistic orange megalomaniac.

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social on the reliability or otherwise of the USA as an ally. Seems quite a shift to treat enemies as friends and friends as enemies. Plus the Navalny legacy alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/373-...

The Prime Minister must know that he has no real influence or power here. Trump/Putin are in it for themselves - and they don’t give a shit about their own citizens.

My mum would’ve cheered this para from Tressa Burke. Any muppet who thinks support for disabled people is generous should read every word of this by @neilmackay.bsky.social Freedom from poverty and basic dignity are the minimum in any decent society www.heraldscotland.com/news/2493865...

Indeed.

America What have you done

I see Vance was talking about free speech today without an iota of self awareness.

I’ve been pulling together info for @paralympicsgb.bsky.social on my late husband Derek’s sporting achievements. Here is his medal haul from the 74 Commonwealths, New Zealand. Yes, that is a gold medal at the top.

Trump put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers and, on Musk’s instruction, fired the FAA chief early without replacing him. This should be the only thing Dems are saying today. They should all be out on media saying this.

He’s going after disabled people now - what a total sh*t. Trump links diversity hiring at government agency to deadly Washington plane crash - Sky News

Work alone is not enough to protect many people from poverty ❌ 68% of working age adults in poverty live in working households. 22% of part-time employees 8% of full-time employees 21% of full-time self-employed workers 12% of people in work are in poverty 7/9

The UK social housing sector is systematically ablest, it doesn't look good for a trade rag to afford Rooftop Housing Group (the bad landlord who failed a child with cancer) anonymity, if the Ombudsman can name them so should the press. #ukhousing

And ppl don’t realise that they’re eligible for the flu vax or are confused by pretty poor messaging . If they see any info at all.

Influenza running riot in community, hospitals and care homes. Questions being asked about the absence of pro-active vaccination of health and social care workers this year, which seems to have evaporated in some organisations, or come too late. @rcphysicians.bsky.social @gerisoc.bsky.social

Let’s hope she gets nowhere near the hearing.

New grants up to £50k are available from Glasgow City Council to support environmental projects in the city through the Low Emission Zone Community Support Fund. #NationalLottery has also launched new funding programmes. For more funding news and advice, sign up for our Bulletin at bit.ly/your-news

The voluntary sector really is on a knife edge in Scotland - and without it many families would literally have nowhere else to turn. What happens when frontline orgs start to fold? Over to you Rachel Reeves and Shona Robison. Esp if you genuinely believe in equality.

Keir Starmer declares war on benefits Britain. A war on the poor, sick, old, disabled. 16.1m have disabilities, 2.8m chronically ill, 6.34m await hospital appointments, 16m live in poverty. No war on corporate welfare, no wealth taxes or redistribution. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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