aargh journalists you do not get to say "Many experts are sceptical" in the face of this bullshit, you say "This is not true". You are at a rare point, maybe a few years every century, where your willingness to doing your actual job would be crucial and heroic, and you're blowing it

Oh my fucking Christ stop with this empty 'but how?' retort. You can't oppose fascism by pulling apart the logistics. It doesn't matter that it would be impractical, or expensive. The cruelty is the motive, payment and reward. Everything else is irrelevant.

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I wonder why spending on schools in Northern Ireland has fallen so far behind GB since 2020.

Fair play to a local champion in Barry!

as @electionlit.bsky.social kindly pointed out, Dublin Friday, Drogheda Thursday! Silly me

@electionlit.bsky.social I would DM you, but that's not allowed in the UK without age verification, so: Would you like me to bring some leaflets of mine to the gig on Saturday, for your collection? :)

Good to see the UK government finally make the decision to recognise the state of Palestine 🇵🇸 However, it's frankly the bare minimum at a time when the UK still arms the genocidal Israeli government. There should be nothing short of a full arms embargo! #FreePalestine

if anyone on here from Ireland is interested in some queer punk gigs this week, my band Strange New Places are playing in Drogheda on Friday and Dublin on Saturday. it's gonna be fun (dog willing) www.skiddle.com/whats-on/eve... #irishmusic

This is what I mean when I say they can't fix it. it's not broken, it's structurally indifferent to truth It's built on "likely" Sometimes likely = true Often it isn't

So regularly destroyed is trans stuff that it's an obscure fact that 2 words beginning with trans (transfeminate and transection) were in English dictionaries to describe someone who 'changed sex' from the mid 1600s until well into the 20th century.

You don't win a flag shagging argument against flag shaggers by flag shagging

Northern Ireland is caught in a brutal cycle - poverty and division grow while elites and their political allies manipulate sectarian games to protect obscene wealth and unaccountable power. As they enrich themselves, local communities are left behind with broken promises and few opportunities.

Fascinating data. There are three things here that really matter to people, and they think matter to everyone: Healthcare Economy Prices There is ONE thing that they assume matters to everyone, because it dominates so much of the narrative, but it is NOT affecting them personally: Immigration

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

mfer is literally named "rob tombs", did they summon the spirit of the british museum into an op ed writer

i'm Very Sure the right wing freeze peach brigade will treat this as the censorship of protest that it is :)

I will also say, being the president of a student union in 2009 puts you firmly in the "should know better" camp.

News nobody cares about: MP nobody has heard of leaves party nobody thinks about for party nobody likes.

The BBC must join the growing list of European broadcasters who won't take part in Eurovision if apartheid Israel is allowed to compete. Together with @zackpolanski.bsky.social, Mal O'Hara and @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social I've made this call to the BBC Director General.

Palestine, 2025. english.palinfo.com/news/2025/04...

Mad that there will be fewer arrests after this than when a bunch of pensioners and nuns stand quietly with a sign.

Proud to stand with the trans community today. Greens show up, speak out, and won’t back down on equality - trans rights are human rights. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

New poll putting Greens at 13% with women (to Labour's 14%) and 24% among 18-29 year olds - first place! @zackpolanski.bsky.social's messaging cutting through

Trans people belong and are valued in every part of our community. Living authentically is powerful. Every person deserves respect, dignity, and to be celebrated just as they are. Solidarity always - trans rights are human rights. Greens meet 12:00 steps of St Anne’s Cathedral.

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

in the US conservative mindset cishet conservative white men are top of the hierarchy and thus it is bad to shoot them, but also they are allowed to shoot people, so if one kills another it's just a wash. cancels out. thoughts and prayers, nothing to see here

western counter far right“experts”are not willing to actually talk about the threat in realistic ways because to do so would imperil their institutional funding and disrupt the narrative of lonewolf Nazi violence vs the reality of a decentralized network of Nazis and fascists at war against society

WSJ owes an explanation, as does the FBI. Who dumped that crap into their bulletins? If not the same person, who leaked it? Why does either person still have a job? Congress should demand answers immediately.

BBC website leads with live coverage of the Kirk murder and 4 articles. Former President of one of the biggest democracies in the world, Brazil, being sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup? One piece placed after Kirk. Simply embarrassing prioritisation for a major news organisation.

Wots this then

idk sadiq i feel like quibbling over minor linguistic and procedural specifics doesn't help your case if you just answer the substance of the question there's much less zack can post from the interaction

Our Co-Chairs Adam & Deirdre, alongside our International Liaison Officer Ash, had the privilege of meeting with Mr. Baker M.B. Hijazi, Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of the State of Palestine.

i have a ticket and can no longer attend, if anyone wants to buy an early-bird ticket from me!

Gaza West Bank Lebanon Yemen Syria Iran Iraq Tunisia Qatar All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year. Insane. Rogue state.

if Aiken can't recognise he's being patronising, and becomes incensed at being called out, why did he go for the position of Deputy Speaker in the first place?

i have a ticket and can no longer attend, if anyone wants to buy an early-bird ticket from me!

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!" just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement it's 95% now you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

27 years of failing our schools—SEN support collapsing, classrooms overcrowded, teachers leaving. And the DUP? Obsessed with policing trans kids’ toilets. This isn’t policy, it’s wholesale bullying and a cheap distraction. We stand with trans kids. Always. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

I've just seen the letter sent out to schools by the NI Dept. of Education. it says "Neither pupils nor teachers should be compelled to use pronouns other than those which reflect biological sex" along with banning trans kids from the correct toilets/changing rooms and sports.

This pull quote: 1. There they go again with their agenda against Civic engagement of any kind 2. Deeply ironic given Givan's defence of this becoming guidance in 2019 was that the Executive was down at the time and therefore Ministers aren't responsible. The thing is down half the flipping time.

Indian government minister threatening a temporary resignation to pressure in favour of trans rights Absolutely unthinkable that a government politician would do this in UK and Ireland

you know the UK is in a grim place when Banksy art becomes pointed commentary

I'm assuming we'll have vigilante groups patrolling outside scout meetings now and a big protest in Portadown... Oh no wait we won't because he's a middle aged white man who has lived here all his life just like the vast majority of men who are actually a risk to children and women.

love watching americans referring to glinner as a brit like yes yes, he’s one of theirs, we don’t know him

The Daily Mail resorts to personal attacks because they’re rattled. Nazi backing rags protecting their super rich owners. And Keir Starmer’s randomly ranting about me in Parliament. Best way to respond to this desperation? 👉🏼 join.greenparty.org.uk

The answer may shock you

In my statement for @greenpartyni.org: "Nesbitt is clearly attempting to shore up conservative support within his own party and the media and is happy to throw transgender people under the bus for the ease of his political career. We don't need another review. We need healthcare."