But who will speak for the Dow?

Trump isn’t going to have a presidential library, hotel or not. When all this is over he will be subject to damnatio memoriae like every atrocious emperor.

"The UK-French agreements on border security do not work as a deterrent, but they do kill." www.lbc.co.uk/article/migr...

A pretty solid motion! “The government’s refusal to acknowledge the existence of trans & non-binary children, its weaponisation of schools to restrict access to knowledge and to put trans & non-binary children at risk of abuse, is an attempt to erase and eradicate trans & non-binary children.”

This is well worth considering. Maybe you lobe Harry Potter but its creator is an awful human being - don’t fund her!

“The Greens promises are an illusion,” might work better if your party wasn’t busy creating such a miserable reality.

The US administration has clearly been surprised by this war. It doesn’t surprise me that they confused ‘most powerful nation’ with ’all powerful nation’ but it’s been a lesson for them that those two things are not the same. They won’t learn from it, they’re the type to never learn anything.

Was pleased to see in the article ferries will be included as well. I know I’m central-belt based but I do think we, as a nation, neglect the needs of the islands somewhat.

Countries across Europe have already banned these cruel devices, it's time for Scotland to do the same.

It's more crucial than ever that we take our future into our own hands. With independence we could end years of cuts and chaos, reject the anti-migrant agenda, protect our planet and re-join the European Union. That’s why independence will always be at the heart of our vision for Scotland. 💚

School uniforms that are free for families, fair for workers and better for the climate. It's a win-win for people and planet. Scottish Green councillors are working across Scotland to build fairer, greener society.

Looks like the right wing press have decided that printing our policies doesn’t work, ‘dirt‘ on Zack’s past doesn’t work (most people just find it funny, rather than outrageous), so now they’re just telling blatant lies about us.

Yes, it was those dastardly Greens who persuaded Netanyahu and Trump to invade Iran. Zack meets with Trump on a regular basis and we are famously pro-war. Especially pointless war, can’t get enough of that. 🙄

Not invaded, true, but still stares at the camera in Scots.

Our campaign has been featured in @scotnational.bsky.social today. Contact your candidates - this can be the year a ban on conversion practices is finally delivered. www.thenational.scot/news/2596056...

This is hardly the worst thing about it but I hate that Israel’s atrocities have given cover to antisemitism. I’ve seen so many cartoons of Netanyahu that put me in mind of Jews in Nazi imagery. Can they not be quite so gleeful at getting to portray a Jewish man that way?

Widen your gaze and look upon Lebanon. Nearly a million people have been displaced by Israel in the past 3 weeks. They've been told not to return. That's ethnic cleansing. The last time Israel occupied Southern Lebanon, Hezbollah was born. What horrors will be unleashed now?

Surely a global energy crisis will mean the end of AI. Unless it is what governments mandate to be switched off first there’ll be riots - you can’t use your computer due to rolling blackouts but they still pump energy into the lie machine for when you can? That’s an absurd proposition.

Greens are being proven right about everything: That NATO is a dysfunctional alliance. That an oil-and-infinite growth based economy is a disaster waiting to happen. That we should have invested in renewables much more and sooner. Yet Labour activists are still talking about how unrealistic we are.

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

Note this is the poll with no tactical voting, which would be unnecessary if we had PR instead of FPTP and would give Grn/Lab/LD quite a big majority over Reform/Tory. So if Starmer is serious about stopping Reform, he should bring in PR in time for the next election.

And it passed! Fantastic news as all parties (except the tories) backed this proposal - there will be a report brought to the Planning Committee in June setting out how Edinburgh could implement a moratorium on data centres🥳

Today is a Full Council meeting in Edinburgh and our Green Group have a busy agenda including discussing: 🤖Data Centres and AI 🟰Equality for traveller communities 🏘️Short-term lets enforcement 🪺Protecting nesting skylarks 👶Affordable childcare and more! democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/ieListDocume...

I could understand not voting for the assisted dying bill on the grounds palliative care is not good enough… were it not for the fact it is the job of every person who voted that way to MAKE it good enough. (With, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, an honourable exception for Miles Briggs.)

I could understand not voting for the assisted dying bill on the grounds palliative care is not good enough… were it not for the fact it is the job of every person who voted that way to MAKE it good enough. (With, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, an honourable exception for Miles Briggs.)

I believe life is precious. I believe life is a gift. I believe deeply that all life has inherent worth. That worth does not diminish with illness, with disability, or with proximity to death. But valuing life is not the same as insisting that life must be prolonged at all costs, 1/2

This think tank is deluded if they think loads more women would happily be having children at 24 if only their male partners would agree to it. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

It’s quite funny that Robert blocked this because he just KNEW if he didn’t he’d get a thousand replies saying, “They’re the same person.” Bluesky, where everyone is out to kill a joke.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

When I am given the option to ‘continue’ it should mean to continue with what *I* was doing, not what the website/app/device wants me to be doing.

Keir Starmer is a terrible prime minister but fortunately for him the biggest opposition party can’t help but chew the scenery over nothing.

The media will gleefully interrogate any politician that suggests any policy that’s even remotely progressive with ‘how will you afford this?’ But not ask the same for a war that’s costing a billion a day. Weird complicit bastards

From mandatory ID cards to arresting pensioners for holding up cardboard signs to cosy deals with US tech spy firms: It's good to see lawyers pushing back on their increasingly authoritarian Govenrment. We must protect jury trials.

I’ll admit, I thought Labour planned to abolish many jury trials and replace them with a judge’s decision. That would be bad enough. But that in cases of max sentences of 2 years they would be heard by Magistrates is truly frightening.

I’m normally a laissez-faire kinda person, less given to banning things than many. But this stuff absolutely disgusts me, it’s used to demonstrate power over women and girls in a completely violating way. I’ll be filling in this consultation with that in mind, and I urge you too as well.

Remember when the Scottish Tories tried to make this International Pothole Day? What a time to be alive. Anyway, happy International Women’s Day.

Yes. I think the best thing Blair can bring to this conversation is silence.

The Edinburgh Labour admin, backed by the Tories and Libdems, just voted in the lowest revenue gaining budget in the country whilst this shameful statistic landed at their feet www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

One of the best ST:TNG episodes is the one where luminaries of the Federation get together to have a long legal and philosophical debate as to whether Data counts as a sapient being with rights.

What with this and what’s happened in Scotland it’s a bad day to be a transphobic politician. Throw in the Green victory at the by-election and it’s been a bad week for them.

The ‘abuse’ is people who study here perfectly legally seeking asylum from oppressive regimes. Apparently they are ‘exploiting our generosity’. Maybe for mine and yours that’s possible but it’s clear that Mahmood doesn’t have any generosity to exploit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a welcoming account. 🏳️‍⚧️

Absolutely brutal. Not a surprise from this US administration, but a horror nonetheless.

Let’s make this meeting an email. Let’s turn this family dinner into a quick zoom. Let’s move this wedding to slack.

Around 5600 people claim unemployment benefits in G&D. Greens got just under 15,000 votes. These are easily verifiable stats. researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB... Not that it matters. Unemployed people deserve a say in a democracy and Farage is incredibly workshy as an MP.

Nigel Farage thinks it’s literally illegal for Reform to lose a by-election. Even Starmer isn’t that bad.

It’s worth noting that nobody, on either side, made a big deal of Galloway‘s endorsement until Labour lost. It wasn’t a big deal for the Greens and it didn’t make Labour lose 10,000 votes.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Am I out of touch? No, it’s the voters who are wrong!

Keir Starmer HAS brought unity - everybody hates him.