Closes on 12th Feb 👇

Nice to get out to the Lagoons today. Spring can't come soon enough #EastLothian

"I just joined a European Citizens’ Initiative to force the EU Commission to officially address the suspension of trade with Israel. Can you add your name so they can't ignore us? It only takes a minute: actions.eko.org/a/1-million-...

This is the report I spoke of on #bbcaq just now - ministers tried to suppress it, were finally forced to release it after an FoI, but shamefully only published a redacted version. The first duty of Govt is to protect its citizens - that starts with being honest with us about scale of threat we face

The only trans people mentioned in the epstein files are victims. Hundreds of known anti-trans people are in them, though, either rubbing shoulders with the rape-cult, an active part of the clique, or trying to gain access. Are you getting it yet?

My original repost had an error. Queer AF has worked tirelessly to establish these facts. Trans ppl make up ~0.5% of the population but account for ~7% of U18 suicide. Clear evidence of the fatal consequences of the anti-trans efforts of successive governments, media and groups like Sex Matters

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Channel 4 advertising the Melania movie. No thanks 🤢. Wish we could block some ads.

Lovely, just lovely. More of this please!

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This is beyond shocking - how can this be allowed to happen? Why on earth can’t they be released on bail? They have a right to a fair trial, appropriate medical treatment, & the removal of punitive Prison Service conditions. Govt’s ban on Palestine Action is simply intolerable

Nice quick read 👇

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Patrick can always be relied on to keep the receipts. Worth a follow. # ScottishIndependence

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Thank you for all the kind words and support. Can I please ask a favour? Can you spread this story as far and wide as you can. Share it with people you know, forward it to your MP's, anyone in the public eye that might be supportive. This is unbelievably horrific, and no one knows about it..

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Disgusting main headline on BBC News @ 10. BBC demonising migrants yet again, surprise surprise. I'm sure there are more news worthy things happening in the world. The last time I cancelled my TV license was after Laura K was fawning over Theresa May dancing onto a stage. Next cancellation incoming!

Every day thousands of new members are joining the Green Party. And solidarity to our friends in @scottishgreens.org who are also rapidly growing as a party! Get involved: Greens.scot/join

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly. I wonder how they got to this editorial decision? Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again. join.greenparty.org.uk

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'The guys who run Reform are absolute chancers. The people who make our lives more difficult arrive in private jets, not dinghies.' @ross-greer.bsky.social on #bbcdn

I liked this, particularly how it offers to prospective Reform voters that Reform is not actually any different (but likely worse) than what we have had for the last decade plus. Reform pretends to be radically different to what we have, but it is anything but. #votegreen

BREAKING: Peaceful protestors arrested outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool Yet more peaceful protesters are being arrested today and hauled from the streets by police - a scene which just a few months ago would have been shocking but is quickly becoming the norm... 🧵

“Free speech is an inalienable right.” Unless you want to protest genocide, refer to someone with their correct pronouns, criticise someone for being a bigot, boycott an organisation for their human rights abuses, etc. Then politicians aggressively try to regulate and police speech. It’s perverse.

NION have now launched a website: notinourname.org.uk 53,171 have signed. Let's get to 100,000

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Glasgow always outnumbers racists and I’ve never been prouder of my city 🥹

No refugees is ‘illegal’. That’s human rights law. Everyone has the right to seek asylum & every state has the right to investigate that claim. A practical person would ask why candidates are not given fast & fair investigation as quickly as possible instead of warehousing people for years?

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

This whole summer only one story has dominated our entire politics & it comes down to literally 30,000 people in hotels. Ridiculous. The government needs to get a GRIP it’s pathetic.

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

I’m sick of Westminster politicians blaming migration for their failures. Immigrants are our NHS staff, our carers, our neighbours. We are a welcoming nation and I’m proud of that. It’s not migration that pushed down living standards - it’s Brexit, austerity and rising bills.

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Male cleaners have unfettered access. Where’s the GC outcry over that? Nowhere, that’s where. Because none of this is about safety.

🧵 It struck me today that we hear a lot about cancel culture & free speech. Yet there are so many day to day issues in life that are not discussed. So let’s take the example of the false transphobic conspiracy that dominates UK & now US media, it’s over 1000 negative paper articles a month [1]

Much needed inquiry. Good to see this happening. Lets hope they take notice.

If the UK government wants to defend Israel militarily, put it to a vote in Parliament. Let the country see which MPs support a genocidal state.

This proposal by the BBC is explicitly anti-democratic. As @natashadevon.bsky.social and others have pointed out, more women are moving to the Green party than are men going to Reform - yet the national broadcaster is falling over itself to pander to the extreme right. Why?

The state of this

This petition is fast closing in on 10,000 in less than 48 hours. Loads of cis women saying “not in our name” to establishment transphobia.

A lawyer representing the victim in a horrific mass rape case in France slammed the apparent lack of interest from male lawmakers at a hearing today.

The level of surveillance and policing demanded by transphobia will always be more disruptive to your life than the rights and demands of trans people ourselves

I have spoken to 2 people in the last few days, who in the past considered themselves left wing. They are repeating right wing sound bites and have believed what they are hearing. How can the left get better at messaging? This seems key to fighting the far right.

If you have kids or work with young people you know how much harder they have it and how much better than previous generation they have to be. Streeting and Phillipson know it too. But they find it easier to play to right-wing tropes of mental fragility than to address the real problems.

My response to the decision of Glasgow Pride to suspend participation by political parties. In short, the culture war against our community has gone on far too long, and needs to end.