Picked a weirdly appropriate day to start watching Our Friends in the North again. Incredibly salient.

Whisper it but SNP potentially on track to a majority with 60%+ seats not yet declared. Reform have not won in the most pro Brexit bits of Scotland (Moray, Banff and Buchan) and seem to have been a bit flat in more marginalised areas they would have been targeting. Reverse of English Council

Many thanks to @irishnews.com for covering the launch of the RISE tool last week, and as always to our amazing activists for bravely sharing their stories 💛 These powerful testimonies are not just isolated incidents, in recent years racially motivated hate crime has increased dramatically.

“We are moving from being ‘victims’ of a system, to being the authors of our own safety.” Thank you to everyone that came along to the Black Box yesterday to help us launch werisetogether.ie - a new community developed tool to monitor racist hate crime across NI.

This year saw the highest ever reported levels of race hate crime in the north. Today @ppr-org.bsky.social launched a brand new online monitoring tool allowing everyone to track race hate in their area and hold public bodies and politicians to account. www.werisetogether.ie

The fact that the Good Law Project won their legal challenge against the guidance the EHRC tried so hard to ram down the country’s throat hasn’t been reported widely. So here is GLP’s own message to supporters. Remembering that the EHRC is still captured by […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

Belfast Live have released a soft music video of far-right Steven Baker’s co-option of ‘fuel protest’ in the North. It is imperative that media outlets report the full story. - Who called the protests? - Who created the graphic? - Who has been aggressively promoting the protests? [1/2]

Hugh Ellis on proposals to remove elected reps from planning decisions. “Neither…. is it for professionals to assume that they know best about the future development needs of communities. That knowledge & trust requires an investment in real public participation based on mutual respect.”

Did you catch #TakeBacktheCity on the radio last weekend? 👂📻 PPR’s Assistant Director Marissa spoke to Radio Ulster about the development of the Take Back the City campaign, for an episode of Consumer Fight Back on housing. Listen to the full episode here 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Los derechos no son automáticos ni individuales. Son el resultado de la acción colectiva. “Los derechos no te van a llegar desde tu casa… tienes que salir a peleártelos con otras.” www.escr-net.org/es/news/2026...

Delegation to officers will rob the community of its minimal rights to raise issues at the planning committee & remove any meaningful way for councillors to exercise their fundamental constitutional role of offering democratic oversight, warns the TCPA's Hugh Ellis. www.tcpa.org.uk/central-gove...

This story lays out in black & white not only the power & control loyalist paramilitary groups continue to have over who gets to live where in NI based on identity but also the negotiation the state continues to make with terror groups. 28 years post GFA. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/...

“An arrangement had earlier been negotiated between the terror gang & a mediator acting on behalf of residents.” www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/...

www.irishnews.com/news/norther... Almost fifth (18%) of NIHE stock is damp & unfit for purpose. The most financially vulnerable people paying the price of Stormont dithering & failure to invest. Meanwhile, NIHE is facing an own-initiative investigation by NIPSO for its response to complaints.

www.irishnews.com/news/norther... Continuing the pattern of imaginary homes; unfortunately homeless families left behind are far from imaginary.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/opin... “The limp language used in Washington on the Minab massacre is striking. “We’re investigating that,” said Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday.” Just like the IDF are constantly ‘investigating’ the murder of civilians killed in Gaza.

Funny how abiding by international law vv important to PM in non-commission of force but less of a concern in ensuring the rights of refugees.

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.” Sounds accurate to me.

John Carroll says his nighttime rounds are protecting the community. Critics say his “abhorrent” views on Hitler, the Holocaust and race are incompatible with his adopted role. https://www.theferret.scot/self-styled-nightwatchmen-patrol-a-scottish-village-their-leader-is-a-nazi

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c... “President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.”

Glasgow City Council getting the bit between its teeth: making public land available for new homes AND renovating derelict properties. Lessons to be learned for Belfast City Council, NIHE the Minister for Communities in Northern Ireland: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2583228...

“Racial profiling is the practice of law enforcement relying, to any degree, on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin as the basis for subjecting persons to investigatory activities or for determining whether an individual is engaged in criminal activity.” www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Almost 50 children referred to social services following NI race riots @ismiseliam.bsky.social Child criminal exploitation by racist thugs. To force other children from their homes through violence. The self-styled 'defenders of women and children'. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

You can donate to the Immigrant Law Centre of Minnesota right here: www.ilcm.org/donate/ If anyone knows any ways to get resources to community organising there maybe reply to this thread?

“What you have is moms, grandmas, teenagers out on the streets day in and day out doing everything that they can to protect their communities, so that we can go to bed with a clean conscience,” said Andrew Falstrom, a longtime community organiser.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

viewdigital.org/comment-is-i... ‘International protection has survived world wars and mass displacement. Its greatest threat today is not irrelevance, but deliberate narrowing.’ Suleiman Abdulahi

Excellent www.scottishhumanrights.com/news/the-sco...

The fact that Starmer is in talks to limit the human rights of destitute Black people fleeing war, on International Human Rights Day, tells you everything you need to know about him and the Labour Party. Doing Farage’s work without him lifting a finger. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Important and timely to in-depth discussion between @neilmackay.bsky.social and Angela O’Hagan, SHRC Chair on the need to defend human rights laws and the urgent need to use rights based tools to address poverty and inequality: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567821...

From the other half “Scotland can actively cultivate both the openness to disruption that drives growth and the institutional protections that safeguard dignity during periods of change.” www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567297...

The Ferret covering the increasingly threatening & well-organised activity of the far-right at sites across Scotland, frightening people seeking safety, sharing racist tropes & narratives & attempting to smear anti-racism activists through false accusations, a powerful read: bsky.app/profile/thef...

From Falkirk to Aberdeen, Dundee to Inverness. Far right groups are attending anti-asylum protests across Scotland. We spent three months investigating. People doxxed, attacked, threatened. And communities standing firm. Our first monthly long read. bit.ly/ferret-long-...

Leaving aside the legal problems of rescinding refugee status, frankly, given the levels of capacity and competence currently existing in UKHO, the idea that they will be a)able to reassess refugee claims b) be able to fairly assess the situation in a person’s country of origin and make a non

I mean it’s almost like they haven’t considered the devolved legal context at all. 🧐🤔🫠 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Ok so not the most technical of exercises but can find no mention of ‘Northern Ireland’, ‘Windsor Framework’, ‘devolution’ or ‘Article 2’ in a quick search: www.gov.uk/government/p...

Probability of UK Gov having considered Article 2 considerations? What do you reckon? www.gov.uk/government/p...

We wanted to share some more updates following April’s Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010, and some ways that you can help. Read our full update here: www.scottishtrans.org/supreme-cour...

Applications for the School for Everyday Democracy CLOSE on Sunday! 🎓 This is a UK-wide programme that empowers people with the skills, connections and opportunities they need to bring about positive change locally and beyond. 🔗 Find out more and apply here: everydaydemocracy.org.uk

Responding to Gavin Robinson’s decision to back Rupert Lowe’s Early Day Motion calling for ‘mass deportation’ on today’s @stephennolan.bsky.social: x.com/stephennolan...

It’s actually very refreshing to see two independent pieces in different newspapers in support of maintaining the UK’s membership of the Council of Europe & adherence to the European Convention on Human Rights in one week, one by @stephengethins.bsky.social and the other by @peatworrier.bsky.social

“The same people who routinely contend that the UK isn’t protecting freedom of expression are proposing to abolish the only scant protection in law currently available for it- and apparently haven’t noticed the glaring contradiction in their position.” www.thenational.scot/politics/255...