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Donald Trump has threatened to slap a 100 per cent import tariff on the UK over its digital services tax on American social media firms 🚨

Long post about conversion therapy. We need to understand; 1. There is nothing to celebrate about the Non-Ban 2. The REAL purpose of the Non-Ban 3. No-one will persuade Labour to close its loopholes, like cruelty, they are the point. Instead we should get on with opposing CT's use in the NHS.

Alex Bramham. Who he? 🤔

Reversed, wrong-headed, lied; unhinged, wrong-headed, deprived.

Clear blue sky over Glasgow and the sound of thunder in the middle distance. Make it make sense Checks Hampden diary... Metallica, ergo soundcheck 🎶 Might get a free gig this evening if we leave the windows open 🎶 🤘

Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel and Jordan Peterson walk into a "responsible citizens" event - that's it, that's the whole joke https://www.desmog.com/2026/06/24/revealed-the-trump-donors-reform-backing-billionaires-and-oil-companies-funding-the-alliance-for-responsible-citizenship/

Tim Shipman in The Spectator.

Folks, there's a fundraiser for the families of the trans kids who were with WellBN but are being stripped of their healthcare and it urgently needs eyes and wallets on it. Full details on the fundraiser page. Please share. www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...

Any UK trans people living abroad or who are proposing to live abroad soon, please DM me if you want to get involved in some UK-focused trans activism from abroad. Understandably many trans people are thinking of moving abroad. We can still do - very effective - trans activism from outside the UK.

Dassault wins EU legal claim that private jets can be environmentally sustainable ft.trib.al/ccrOV5G

Oxfordshire County Council here provides more interesting detail on the injunction news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/council-secu...

Far right EWTN reporter looks at new Catholic UK PM. www.ncregister.com/news/uk-s-st...

🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 Oh dear, what can the matter be Three auld biddies, Their snouts in our lavatories

Since the TSA mass lobby is cancelled due to extreme heat, I ask everyone to get friends and family to sign this. No, I’m not asking you to sign. I’m asking you to ask others to sign. Individually. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

BBC: Trans inmates leaving women's prisons following court ruling 2026-06-23 Tuesday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Outstanding article by @owenjones.bsky.social, completely eviscerating the “journalists” and MPs claiming Starmer was “decent”. Forensic and detailed. This is how Starmer should be remembered. Not decent, a corrupt, bigoted dictatorial oppressor and bully. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

Today, on the tenth anniversary of the disastrous Brexit referendum, I'm preparing to chair the first meeting of Holyrood's Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee. And I'll be wearing this.

Can confirm that no trouble is expected this evening in Belfast after Jeffrey Donaldson was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting two children.

More BBC innumeracy in a weather report "A red alert has been issued for the Basque country, with highs in San Sebastian forecast to rise to 40C, almost double its average for this time of year." Temperature is measured from absolute zero 0K or -273.15C www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A final note: your tickets will almost certainly be refundable. When there is a national advisory that it's unsafe to travel this is usually the case, even if your tickets are usually of a non-refundable nature.

"It must have been a bad weekend for Starmer and his family" says Beth Rigby. Now, ask how bad the weekend was for the families of the trans kids who are dead because of his government.

My timeline is reporting insufferable temperatures across the south of the UK. Here in Glasgow it has been 22C and I could have left the fleece at home. Pleasantly sunny and there have been bumble bees everywhere

Foreign assassins in the UK www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The tale of the ruler whose reflection turned to slime is beyond what even the Brothers Grimm conceived. This is Angela Carter or Italo Calvino territory, and it is wonderful.

(on a related note, happy communist witchcraft antifascist solstice to all who celebrate!)

I saw this GENIUS term on a sign at Edinburgh Pride yesterday and this is the only other mention of it I can find. Petition to make "Khazi Stazi*" the new "AI Slop", ie a perfect description that really pisses off the shitweasels on the receiving end. (*basically, toilet fascists)

As a matter of URGENCY, PLEASE could 100,000 of you sign this petition in the next week: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

The driver for changing away from this blanket policy was the deaths of 4 trans women in prisons around 2015/16. Now the courts seem to be saying trans people dying doesn't matter, ideology is more important, and more cruelty ensures.

Years ago my very pretty flatmate was kept in solitary for months for her own protection while on remand for a trivial charge of which she was eventually acquitted in minutes. Her mental health never recovered. Her story is a significant part of what motivates me.

The world is full of Kings and Queens Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 And they'll tell you black is really white The moon is just the sun at night

Looking forward to this is I could do with knowing more about Welsh politics

1/🧵 I haven’t seen anyone posting a judge pic today, so I am doing it. Lady Ross, or Morag Ross KC, made that shocking judgment that trans prisoners do not have human rights at all. Her CV is certainly interesting…

Great news! We can make our own decisions about our bodies without church or state interference. We need to keep fighting because the American zealots are investing huge amounts of money into rolling back our rights www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Over and over they insist on proving there is no realistic hope of justice for the trans community in a UK court. They don’t see us as human - most of these judges treat animals better than they treat us.

Matthew Elliott has a book out "Ten Years On" "The Untold Story of Brexit – Reflections on a Life of Campaigning" www.theportobellobookshop.com/9781837360758

“I hadn’t even posted about the works publicly, only in our private Facebook group. So it seems like there’s EA spies in our Facebook group, spying on local people restoring a river.”

Right, my guest house in spains remain available to those who need help escaping.

This is disgusting. Cis allies need to work out how to put a ring of protection around trans folks. The Government and courts are colluding to revoke their basic human rights, deny them health care, criminalise their existence, then torture and traffic them when incarcerated. Can't let it happen.🤬

it is now government policy to sex traffick trans women into men's prisons to be raped as part of their punishment

1/🧵 I took the time to read the judgment. I’m literally throwing up right now. It it vile. Quotes follow:

A judge has ruled that prison guidance which allows some transgender prisoners to be held in jails matching their gender identity, rather than their sex at birth, is unlawful (Klaxon: BBC language) Links to court service PDF www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Corporate attendees this year will include Johnson & Johnson, Palantir, BP, Philip Morris International, Rio Tinto, Airbus, Sanofi, the US investment fund RedBird Capital and DP World, owned by the Dubai government" Come, friendly asteroid, and fall on London (w/apols to Betjemen)

NEW What the Palestine Action appeal decision tells us about terrorism law An already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers The Weekly Constitutional at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

⚠️WARNING - Twins of Evil: Free Zones and Data Centres. The devastating components of 'second empire building in post-Brexit UK. The UK's data centre boom is the largest peacetime seizure of community land and energy resources in modern British history. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/european...

It's time we all asked for a refund on our National Insurance. We shouldn't be paying for a service that we're being denied

I learned a lot from editing this important piece by Lee Hurley (@hleehurley.com) and I hope you do the same by reading it.

👀 https://www.politico.eu/article/french-spy-service-drops-palantir/

During big moments I like to try and give myself some scale. Anyway five years ago I had 1847 subscribers and today I have 105,193 subscribers. I was told nobody would read long form and that I could not do this without legacy media experience a hundred times. Never stop posting