✅ A new poll released today shows Scottish businesses trust the SNP government more than the Labour government. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Good timing - First Minister @johnswinney.bsky.social was out meeting with businesses all across Edinburgh today. 🧵👇

Mayor Mamdani: Our approach to public safety is working. Crime continues to decrease in NYC. In the first 3 months of the year, we have the fewest murders and shootings since we began tracking these numbers decades ago. Since January 1st, the NYPD has taken more than 1,000 guns off the streets

As you continue hearing about the new COVID-19 variant (the “cicada” variant) in the news, remember the protection remains the same! Wear the best mask available to you, keep indoor air clean, & stay up to date on vaccines to protect yourself & others from infection & serious illness from COVID-19!

Meryl Streep: The SAVE America Act will make it harder for women who have changed their names to vote She’s right. Text SAVE to 63033 to tell your senators to vote no on the SAVE America Act.

Thousands of detainees in Iran, including political prisoners and children, are at risk of injury and death from US and Israeli strikes, as well as atrocities by Iran’s authorities, including mass, secret, and arbitrary executions. New from HRW: https://bit.ly/417Izmj

How well do you remember lockdown and how do you feel about it now? Please take part in our short survey, which takes about 10-15 mins. It’s so much harder to get participants these days so please do take part if you can and do ask friends or family to do it too: research.sc/participant/...

In case you’re wondering what inspired this, it’s Covid’s direct association with Parkinson’s and Parkinsonisms But people don’t want to hear that we have 998 research papers on unassailable facts

We know he would.

Scotland is at 'Breaking Point' because we're sick of the racists whipping up hate. Feck off Reform. Criticise someone because of their policies and not because of the colour of their skin.

ICE Is Criminalizing Clothing To Keep Families Apart

"The deal was within reach." EXCLUSIVE: The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Dr Esmaeil Baghaei told me he agrees with Omani & UK sources that Iran & the US were close to a nuclear deal & on diluting uranium, in Geneva on the eve of war, in an interview with Zeteo. Full: zeteo.com/p/esmaeil-ba...

In three months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by fast food and delivery companies -Cracked down on bad landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets This is what leadership looks like.

***Leaked White House Video*** Trump criticized “stupid” Republican Supreme Court justices, even ones that he appointed, for being independent and ruling against him

well, that was weird

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

They took this down. Would be a shame if a lot of people saw it and reposted

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country, we have 50 states, all these people, we're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things

The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

You’d Never Vote for This… Right? #bothvotessnp #scottishindependence #votesnp #johnswinney

🌤️ Great to welcome the First Minister to my hometown of Westhill, where I was born, raised, and still proudly call home in Aberdeenshire West. 💪 Our area is full of potential, powered by strong communities, and I’m determined to help it thrive.

I encounter similar at the rheumatologist’s office. At my last visit, someone brought along their teenaged kids who were sick and coughing all over the waiting room. Exactly what you want to see at a specialist’s whose patients are largely all on some form of immunosuppressant (myself included).

He forgot that Congress is a thing. TBF, Congress also forgot that Congress is a thing...

How I wish I still lived in Wales to vote for this. Still, nice of Reform to do Plaid Cymru and Y Blaid Werdd’s campaigning for them.

Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t

THIS perfectly describes most of today’s media bias and failure!

It's been 66 days since agents killed Alex Pretti. DHS has body-cam footage. They haven't released it. 66 days and counting. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

I could'nt have put this any better myself. Just what will it take for unionists in Scotland to vote for their country? How much asset stripping & cost of living are they prepared to put up with for the sake of their precious union of unequals??? #AreYouYesYet #WhyNotScotland #DissolveTheUnion

They’re not hiding it. The goal is to flip the midterms before a single vote is cast.

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance. gofund.me/f7704eb98 Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...

This🧵by Zdenek (H/t Babs) was getting renewed attention today. Link: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19709...

And in horrifying news, Idaho's governor has signed the felony bathroom ban, with 5 year penalties for second offense bathroom usage, into law. This is the most significant criminalization of trans people to date. On trans day of visibility no less. It will require a new "Do not travel" warning.

“Even as the cost of infrastructure for active transportation is being used as a reason for inaction, evidence is accumulating that when the full economic cost is considered, driving costs society more, while cycling and other forms of active transportation save society money.”— @sflkirk.bsky.social

while the us blockade against cuba is supposed to be invisible by design, these last 3 months of trumps vulgarity around the oil blockade has made its existence undeniable. i visited cuba to see how everyday life is impacted by 60 years of economic terrorism. minidoc out soon

Although the scientific community first acknowledged the existence of #LongCOVID in late 2020, & the disability burden of Long COVID lies between that of Alzheimer’s & asthma - in the US, Long COVID received just 14% of its disability commensurate funding: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

1/ A clean air schools initiative that remarkably manages not to mention #COVID once - www.transform-our-world.org/get-involved...

Right-Wing Regret: Why This Top Pundit Is Done with Trump

Look, we're just going to make this case about who gets impeached. If you vote against birthright citizenship, you get impeached. It's that simple. Democratic senators should be saying this loudly.

In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Someone on Twitter said our world is so boring we don’t even have vampires or mermaids or werewolves and someone replied ya’ll couldn’t even handle different skin colors

🇬🇧 ‘british Labour in Scotland’ are happy to do deals with the british fascist party in order to overturn the democratic will of the people of Scotland 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺

Europe deserves a hell of a lot more credit than its getting for this. But the US are proper scum, arent they? While I gather there is some intel sharing and they're selling weapons, but hard not to see this a betrayal of an ally

🗣️ 'It's properly absurd that people are facing this situation where their energy bills are gonna continue to spiral out of control' SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn explains why energy is one of the strongest reasons for Scottish independence on our podcast 🎙️

This is exactly why they won't let go of us. Shame on all the stupid people who think this is good.

Regardless of the issue, it's always the same story: commercial interests allowed to ride roughshod over everything and everyone else. Faced with the urgent need for action, successive governments twiddle their thumbs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good story, but too awkward for a paper south of the border — even those hostile to Starmer — to lead on since it gets into a complex set of allegiances and financial obligations.