We need all the support we can get to stand up for our communities, if you have even £5 to spare, please donate to help put us in contention for the first Scottish Green-led council www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/turnedinbu...

Celebrating the first day of recess in this excellent t-shirt and repping the Green Women's Network in some conversations about party culture 💚🏳️‍⚧️

Repost for the morning crowd! It’s me! HOORAY!

Edinburgh council just agreed to condemn the proposed EHRC Guidance as discriminatory against trans people, unworkable and potentially incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

There must be no more delays on ending conversion therapy in Scotland. LGBTQ+ people deserve an apology, but they also deserve an end to their pain. We need to urgently bring a Conversion Practices Bill to the Scottish Parliament, and ensure it leaves no-one behind.

There are already serious concerns with the flaws in the UK Bill. More than loopholes, these look like deliberate defects. The Scottish Greens are calling for legislation here in Scotland, so that we get this right. greens.scot/news/no-more...

Schools closed, events cancelled, travel warnings, and lives lost. This is the direct result of political choices made in our parliaments. The cost of climate inaction is incalculable.

Almost 5,000 people have joined our call for a halt to new hyperscale data centres in Scotland. Have you? The 24 applications in so far would require 1.5 times as much energy as all of Scotland uses at peak demand. We can't let this free-for-all continue. greens.scot/datacentres

Scotland is facing a wave of applications for hyperscale data centres. If the 24 announced so far were approved they'd take up more than 1.5 times Scotland's peak demand in electricity. We need an immediate pause until a clear national strategy is set out. 👉 greens.scot/datacentres

The arts need urgent support. With arts and culture sector organisations and grassroots associations, I will be holding a stakeholder meeting at the Scottish Parliament to discuss the proposed Culture Bill and listen to artistic communities on demands for a minimum income guarantee for artists.

In last month's election, Edinburgh backed the Scottish Greens' agenda of progressive policies that cut people’s bills and tackle the climate emergency.

There should be a 100% wealth tax on everyone whose wealth exceeds £999m. Simply eradicate the concept of British billionaires. There is no reality that excuses or legitimises such obscene hoarding of wealth.

✊ Solidarity with University of Edinburgh staff taking action for better conditions, and with everyone organising, supporting each other and refusing to be divided.

My MP, Mary Glindon, voted against equal marriage. But I still wrote to her asking that she supports EDM 240 to disapprove the draft EHRC Code of Practice. Please write to your MP. We have few levers we can pull. But this is one. equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

Edinburgh by-elections due on the 3rd of September. In 2022, Labour beat Greens by 2% after transfers. Given what happened last month, Greens should surely be ahead. If they win, that'd be only their second by-election win ever. Curveball: Lib Dems have a formidable local machine.

Real change isn't going to be delivered by the status quo Labour Party - no matter the leader. 🥀 It's no surprise that yet another Labour politician is happy to cosplay as a socialist, but will mimic the worst of Tory policies to gain power.

I'd already spent too much time being hopeful then disappointed with Labour. Blair nailed it for me and over 20 yrs ago I joined the @scottishgreens.org. If you don't want to be disappointed again, vote for what you believe in and for the world you want to see. #VoteGreen and www.greens.scot/join

🚨 An AI data centre in Fife could be built without a proper environmental assessment! This can't be allowed to happen. Scottish Greens MSP @markruskell.bsky.social is calling on Fife Council to reject these monstrous proposals.

Do you know someone who deserves special recognition? I'm seeking nominations for a local hero to be my guest at the official opening of The Scottish Parliament on Sat 27 June. They must live in the Edinburgh and Lothians East region. Email [email protected] with your suggestions 💚

We're in it to win both of the Edinburgh by-elections called today 💪💚 If you're a @scottishgreens.org member or supporter in/anywhere near the city, keep an eye out for @edinburghgreens.bsky.social's plans to see how you can help! edinburgh.greens.scot/news/scottis...

Far too many fans are being priced out of football. That’s why the @scottishgreens.org want to work with Scottish Premier League clubs to introduce a price cap of £25 for away fans. I’m calling on MSPs from every party to back a price cap and work with clubs to make football more affordable.

Help us fight back against the fossil fuel status quo. A better Aberdeen is possible. Chip in today www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lets-elect...

Please donate if you can, and help turn the Tories' worst nightmare into reality... www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/DlX6zAj...

The final trailer for House of the Dragon S3 just dropped! Watch close and you'll see me covered in gore running a guy through with a sword! 🤣⚔️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JlM...

Lovely day trip to support Aberdeen Greens and our candidate Jorg ahead of the Aberdeen South by-election 💚☀️ (I'm intrigued by the one guy who accused us of manufacturing bioweapons and committing treason though. We barely have enough time to do our actual jobs 🤔)

I'm hiring! I'm looking for a kind, compassionate and caring caseworker, based in the North East region, to join my team. Find out more here: open.substack.com/pu...

First week of parliament business and we’re already delivering Scottish Green manifesto commitments 💚🙌

If Council Tax is not replaced or at least reformed this term, the next election will take place around the 40th anniversary of when the property values for the current system are from. That's an absolute absurdity: how have we ended up with a property tax based on historic, not recent, values?!

Spot the difference between "Tony Blair says" and "Nigel Farage says"

Do you like stopping Reform? Edinburgh Greens beat Reform to the last seat for Edinburgh & Lothians East at Holyrood, and can beat them again in next year’s local elections. Donate to support the campaign! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/turnedinbu...

The guidance issued yesterday is a disgrace, and shows just how low Labour have sunk since the days when they believed in equality and human rights. But this is far from over. Legally, politically and practically, this can and will be fought. greens.scot/news/ehrc-gu...

Another reason we need independence.

Very interested to see if any Scottish Labour MSPs or MPs bother to even vaguely dissent from the bigotry their party is now defined by: seeing as they all stood and campaigned on the most queerphobic manifesto of my lifetime a couple of weeks ago with nary a peep, I won't hold my breath

Would drinking on the job be tolerated in any other line of work? Why do we accept it for our law-makers?

✅ Pro-independence majority ✅ Pro-Europe majority ✅ Pro-immigration majority The Scottish Parliament must now begin building the fairer, kinder, more welcoming country that people voted for.

Have been watching the FM debate & Anas Sarwar has some cheek talking about ending a politics of us vs them when he’s presided over a Labour Party that has sought to segregate and bully trans people out of public life. The sheer audacity of the man to treat my community like this.

Let's go Edinburgh! Even former a Tory councillor is admitting that the @scottishgreens.org have a historic chance to govern Edinburgh in next year’s council elections.

We made history last week, but to transform Scotland the @scottishgreens.org need your help. Join our movement today and be part of building a fairer, greener, kinder Scotland ✍️👇 members.greens.scot/join/standar...

Tax them all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every party that believes in fair elections should back our call for an urgent investigation into Independent Green Voice and the Electoral Commission’s handling of this disgrace. greens.scot/news/far-rig...

Keir Starmer will be remembered for keeping children in poverty, attacking disabled people and arming Israel’s genocide in Gaza. But Wes Streeting is no better. The change Scotland needs is to be an independent country in control of our own future.

While Streeting contemplates what he does next, here is a brief look at his role in undermining Trans+ healthcare in the UK, since becoming Health Secretary. Plus a look at how in 2022, he said: "my Christian Anglican faith definitely informs my politics"🧵

It was my privilege and honour to be sworn in as a member of the Scottish Parliament today. Over the next 5 years I promise to work tirelessly to improve our standard of living in Glasgow 💚 Thank you for your trust in me ✊🏾

We need your support to run our best ever council campaign. That will also make it our most expensive yet, so we need your help to make it happen!

Disability rights campaigners have made their voices heard for the second time in recent months over Glasgow’s subway network, where only two of the 15 existing stations are wheelchair accessible www.heraldscotland.com/news...

I've mentioned this on here somewhere else but I was at the count on Friday and after telling the woman at the door that I was Scottish Greens she looked through the passes on the table and handed me one for IGV. She heard green and picked up green. There were 2 IGV passes there.

He couldn't. Why? Because he knew under the leadership of Starmer and Sarwar he couldn't be a candidate for the Labour Party and stand on any principle not to use the law as a weapon to crush marginalised people. That's why we hate Starmer. That's why he has to go. It's not complicated!

Every one of us in Mid Scotland and Fife put in such a good effort and demonstrably did enough work to elect Mags, if IGV weren’t there. It is disgraceful the electoral commission let this “party” continue.

GPEW have massively increased their number of councillors over the past 10 years. Next year, it's our turn to become entrenched in councils across Scotland