who the greens choose to accept as defectors from the labour party will be a big test for their moral and ideological backbone. Most labour MPs shouldn't be touched with a ten foot pole, and have chosen to stay in the trans genocide Enoch Powell party for several years at this point

A reminder that in 2021, @patrickfreyne.bsky.social wrote the best explanatory lede regarding colonialism and monarchy that I have ever seen. www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

don't forget the true, original meaning of international women's day: workers of the world, unite.

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones. Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes start to have benefits cut in UK after accepting compensation | Ireland | The Guardian share.google/UhKBh9lyp9Uy...

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

Telling a Catholic man from Belfast that the British army protects his right to protest the govt 💀

Oh my god. Perfection

"Northern Ireland most dangerous place in the UK for women and girls" [Sunday Life]

"it's perfectly normal" *almost walks headfirst into wall"

I just got out of a call with @laziah.bsky.social (thank you again, Sophie, for accommodating our time difference and sharing with me ❤️) and I need to encourage everyone to rally around her and her community. I can't stress enough that this is vital for trans allyship/solidarity: gofund.me/5c7123cd8

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour was us asking nicely for your permission to improve matters somewhat, for everyone. I don’t know who the next guy will be but having seen how the lads dealt with us asking nice, we won’t ask so nicely, next time.

If you don't want the city centre of Belfast to further resemble a half dead shopping mall comprised of soulless chains, you can spend a minute of your time filling this survey out in defence of Yallaa who have been doing an unreal job running their cafe in 2 Royal Avenue. We've enough Starbucks.

Anyone else remember when Israel blew up the Evin Prison in August, killing over 100 transgender prisoners in the largest single-day slaughter of trans people in human history

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LET A FINE GAELER RUN THE LABOUR PARTY

It is still happening. No country is stepping in. Cuba has helped so many movements and people around the world and they are being abandoned to die

Whew boy, “Iran planted the frozen bodies of dead children in the school and then blew it up themselves” is a fucking HELLL of a take

Oh he's GONE holy shit

his killer being a man who murdered three people including a pregnant woman who he also raped is a perfect demonstration of how ‘paedophile hunters’ are just violent men looking for a socially acceptable target for their violence

Every time a "progressive" Dem gets elected I feel deeply cynical about what they will do with their power and every time I'm proved right, and I can't even feel smug because the consequences are real human suffering. Democratic party needs to die the same way Labour have, it's unreformable.

"I didn't see a single building standing the entire time I was in Gaza. I didn't see one building intact or standing. Everything was flattened. And when I mean flattened, it was hard to even tell that they were buildings there before." www.instagram.com/reels/DVMK-u...

This is why the Green position is no new nuclear. Like trees, the best time to build a nuclear power plant was 20 years ago. Unlike trees, the second best time doesn’t seem to be now.

straightforwardly, unambiguously evil shit

boy have I got good news for you

Israel has just issued a demand that all of Beirut’s southern suburbs, an area roughly the size of central Berlin or lower Manhattan, run for their lives. Tens of thousands are forced to flee- again. Real fears that they will level much of southern Beirut- an area where more than 500,000 live.

Andrew Tate has been detained in Saudi Arabia. I've heard they are pretty strict there.

I still can’t believe Joani Reid’s husband is an alleged Chinese spy and an Alba plant snuck into the number one spot on the Labour Lothian list and Anas Sarwar tried and failed to coup Starmer. What a month for the Scottish Labour Party.

I loved watching Labour crater into third place as much as the next communist, however these are important questions that Greens will need to answer

On my Starmer arc because I'm breaking a pledge and doing a quick politics video, but I promise it's for a good reason. Which is that no, the Greens didn't win that by-election because of Sectarianism, what are you on about? youtu.be/EmMOhb2cbEI

"we are living through unprecedented times". bro these times have so much precedent. these are some of the most precedented times of all time.

Utterly cruel, pointless and harmful. It does not minimise how bad Conservatives were to say Labour are now the most anti-asylum government in most people's living memory. This prevents people feeling any sense of safety and security after fleeing persecution. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Fascinating how these Labour MPs have found moral standing as soon as they realise their seats might be at threat. It's almost like they are careerists with no values. Don't get me wrong, opposing Mahmood's immigration proposals is good. But where were they when these heinous proposals were made?

The irony being that by far the biggest crooks and criminals in the City are the City Bosses themselves

It’s wrong to vaporize school children even if Congress votes to approve it.

these 'spycops' raped those women. let's not with the euphemisms. they lied about who they were. they coerced. they raped.

We, your leaders, got a fuckton of British squaddies killed for no sane reason in America’s deranged wars. Vote for us to get more soldiers killed to curry favour with America’s mad emperor, who we worship because we are horrific wankers. Thank you.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

like genuinely stop being so western brained for five seconds, I understand intention is good but for real, it's just so...I don't even have the words for it, to see someone feeling like they have to say "hey they are like us, they deserve freedom" EVERYONE DESERVES FREEDOM. EVERYONE.

The essential thing is not merely to prevent war, but to utilise the crisis created by war in order to hasten the overthrow of the bourgeoisie.

Labour’s response to the by-election tracker: 1, Starmer sends a letter saying the voters are bastards, I sense the hand of Galloway behind this 2, Mahmood statement: we’re going to be even more cartoonishly evil 3, we’re going to actively support more war crimes

This kind of thing is why the "just build more houses (don't worry about who owns them)" people aren't right. These homes exist already, people live in them, and this one guy, if he gets his way, will take thousands of homes away. Who owns things *matters*.

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all. Thanks, Zack Polanski

the people of manchester have spoken: britain demands trans rights and drug liberalisation

It's nice isn't it, the jubilation

If Reform win this by-election Labour are gonna get so much worse. If the Greens win Labour are gonna get so much worse. If Labour win, Labour are gonna get so much worse

The Electoral Commission is but one of several paper regulators who are merely there to give the impression of rules and rules enforcement. Anyway, speaks to the absolute desperation of the Labour Party to at least come second in this byelection. I hope they come deep fucking third.

I have no idea who will win today and it's not impossible it will be Labour. It doesn't matter. The Labour Party is dead and buried in a grave it dug for itself.

Writer Alan O'Gorman, accepting the IFTA for best film for Christy, talked about the importance recognising and destigmatising the experience of being in the care system, said "Free Palestine, Free Palestine, Saoirse don Phalaistín, get the US army out of Shannon." RTÉ cut this part of his speech..