This is Renee Good. She was a mother of a six-year-old child. She was an American citizen. She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.” And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.

Occupying and extortion is not a way any President should conduct foreign affairs. This is colonialism with the sole purpose of extracting oil and increasing profits for US corporations.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

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.

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

Always nice to wake up to a new war....👀 Big test incoming for Starmer, will this be his Blair moment?

Heba Muraisi has now been on hunger strike for 60 days. At this point the likelihood of sudden death is very high. The first "positive change" Keir Starmer should be making is granting immediate bail to these remand prisoners before he has even more blood on his hands.

I reckon 2026 could finally be the year a certain anti-trans lobby group may falter. Beware though of what and who comes next, there are more nasty and more dangerous actors waiting in the wings. Brace yourselves.

"Judge me on what I do" say new EHRC chair as she defends a segregationist's charter that will land thousands of corporations and services across the country in legal quagmires whilst seeking to drive trans people from public life as "legally sound" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.

I am always alarmed at how readily those who are anti-migrant, anti-trans and anti-diversity call people that oppose their views paedophiles. This rhetoric is rarely called out by those in powerful positions, yet it has become so commonly used it is almost the expected retort when you dare engage.

Mary-Ann Stephenson assumes - either from ignorance or malice - that trans people have no legal rights as trans. That is deeply troubling from someone holding her role - although hardly surprising given her history. Awful - and hopelessly out of her depth (just as two Select Committees concluded).

Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, who supported and donated to Allison Bailey's case and signed gender critical letters, was vetted by two committees of MPs, and both advised the minister, Bridget Phillipson, NOT to appoint her to the chair of the EHRC. Phillipson ignored that advice. So here we are.

I was concerned that Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson might try and be smarter about transphobia than her predecessors and leave trans people in a shit place than was harder to rectify because it wasn’t so obvious. Today dispelled those worries. Labour have appointed a second raving bigot to run the EHRC.

I have been saying for a while that Reform will surprise us in a number of areas. With SNP down a bit and Labour/Tories collapsing reform could win more than we reckon by wafer thin margins and on very low % of vote. Concerning and 3 big parties better start paying attention.

I hope today's ruling gives Dr Beth Upton some peace. This has been an utterly appalling display of harassment and abuse of an innocent individual who was merely getting ready for their shift. Those who stoked this, included Anas Sarwar & Jackie Baillie. Let's never forget that.

The first is, who stays on as EHRC Commissioners? The terms of both Akua Rheindorf and Alastair Henderson are soon up. Both are ideologically aligned with Faulkner and taint the EHRC. Will MAS support or oppose their renewal as Commissioners? /3

This has become a common refrain from the EHRC recently: "Stop complaining about your rights. You don't have any". It is hardly a winning argument to tell trans and non-binary individuals that we should just accept having fewer rights.

Letting trans and non-binary just live our lives in peace and without harassment isn't going to turn everyone either trans or non-binary. This is just like the "gay panic" of the 80's/90's. The ECHR draft guidance was so poor and illiterate they had to delete it. www.thetimes.com/article/3d81...

Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good

Once a symbol of unity and hope across Europe, the Eurovision Song Contest has been turned into a pink-washing front for war criminals in Israel. After today's decision, there must be a global boycott of Eurovision.

Looks like *that* country will be allowed to compete in Eurovision 2026, so it looks like it'll be a boycott for me. Spain, Netherlands, and Ireland won't compete anyway if they do, so it's gonna be lame af compared to previous years. So yeah, nah, I'm gonna likely sit this one out. #eurovision

I see Naomi Cunningham’s latest case has been dismissed on all grounds (Kelly v Leonardo tribunal). Judge says claimant was making ideological claims and faced no real detriment. Transphobes fail again assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69303e...

Maria Kelly (an engineering and HR lead at aerospace firm Leonardo UK, represented by Sex Matter’s Naomi Cunningham) challenged her employer over transgender colleagues using female toilets. She lost.

Wow, the anti-migrant protest leaders in Aberdeen are incredibly dangerous. This is white supremacy, and it is alive and well in Scotland. #Disclosure

Controversial as this may be, the Triple Lock on pensions needs to go. It is costing an enormous sum of money which will only increase as the population continues to age. The working age population of the UK is really struggling yet pensioners, irrespective of wealth, are protected.

Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary." Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%? When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?

The gaslighting from Labour politicians is off the scale following the Budget. Apparently all of these measures are helping the cost of living crisis. How? Nobodies costs are reducing. This Budget is tinkering around the edges to appease Labour backbenchers not genuinely help anyone.

When the time comes that people have to at least act as if they care about trans people, do not forget and do not forgive a single person associated with this who isn’t speaking out about it now. Don’t let them say it was a different time. Don’t let them say they didn’t know. We know.

It shows clear intent that they believe anti-trans campaigning should be rewarded and celebrated. We will not stand for this. As such, we will not work with The Herald or Scottish Power. Any requests for their attendance at Stirling Pride events will be refused including participation in marches.

If you value my work and appreciate the fact that I put basic human decency and respect for human rights over my potential income, I'd really appreciate if you chipped into said crowdfunder here: gofund.me/55e3a6cf4

Looks like I'll have to add two grand to my pre-election poll crowdfunder because I certainly won't be working with this rag again. Absolutely disgraceful, awarding a hate campaign that is out to destroy my community and kill my best friend like this. Shame on you.

Absolutely disgraceful decision from the Herald. Do their sponsors agree with bigotry and hate being rewarded in this manner?

For the first time in 28 years, Scotland will be at the World Cup!

For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable. A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.

Didn’t vote Labour, didn’t trust them. But I still thought they would be better than the Tories. I could never have imagined them being this much worse.

Labour's proposals on changes to the asylum system are deeply disturbing. Mahmood says this isnt about pandering to the far right but if that were true I doubt they would be taking inspiration from the cruel Danish system.

It is a very good thing Tom Harris is no longer an MP. What a foul attitude to take to young people taking an interest in politics and the House of Commons making space to accommodate them, as any serious democracy should. "This lot"? A sublime encapsulation of the bitter ageism blighting politics.

This speech from Rachel Reeves is kind of frustrating because it shows that the Government can command the airwaves when it wants That's something it has almost totally failed to do so far - over challenging racism, boosting the laws it has passed, tackling Reform, rebutting Tory ILR plans, etc etc

Andrew being stripped of his Princehood, has taken far too long. Be in no doubt, this is a decision based on preservation of the monarchy. The media are determined to spin this as a moral decision by the King. If this had been the case it would have happened over a decade ago.

Jimmy Carr is a transphobic kn*b, so of course he does! *Elmo shrugging gif*

Excellent news coming out of Ireland. Well done Catherine Connolly.

Well done Caerphilly. Clear message to Labour and thankfully a rejection of Reform.

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

Emma Watson is the adult in this story.

Farage says jump... Starmer asks how high?

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Starmer should not be meeting with Herzog in London. He should instead be seeking his arrest for his part in the genocide in Gaza.