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I am now safe after being detained and interrogated by Israeli forces and denied entry to Palestine alongside other activists and elected representatives. I will share a fuller statement tomorrow. The @scottishgreens.org stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

Can we get started on binning Labour et al now? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone who’s had this will tell you the same story and it is IMO important to understand the terror of transgender people as sex offenders is much the same thing as black-clad lads in the street shouting against migrants as sex offenders. They are different facets of the same reactionary project.

Palantir being given access to this stuff is basically treason.

Technology doesn't control society, humans do. Powerful voices are pushing AI into every corner of our lives, from classrooms to jobs. But despite what they say, AI is not inevitable. It is a political choice and we can choose a different future. #TechEthics #SystemChange #YouthVoices

Burnham was Labour's last chance at plausibly being anything other than continuity Thacherism. The same bankrupt ideology that privatised water, outsourced the NHS, created the housing crisis and much more. They have no answers and can't ever pretend to from now on.

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

Remember all the wailing about Turning Point simply being a bunch of young activists … well …

im so tired, man

Burnham is sending UK troops to Saudi Arabia to back their horrific bombing campaign in Yemen. The Saudi's have committed horrific war crimes in Yemen, causing a famine and cholera outbreak. The UK shouldn't be backing them under any circumstances.

Finneas (Billie Eilish's brother) who was one of the first to leave Ed Sheeran's concert after Palestine was censored, RT this. "I'd rather see the world set ablaze in protest than watch it die under the boot of fascists and pedophiles."

French Police charge in, then run away when the much larger crowd does not back an inch.

Should they? Yes. Will they? Absolutely fucking not. www.thenational.scot/news/2665079...

The only unskilled jobs are Billionaire, Banker, Landlord, Politician. Because they aren't jobs and if they disappeared all that would happen is everyone else would get richer.

Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)

I really enjoyed talking to Naz from Byline Times about the role the media *should* be playing in fighting the far right, and the media’s culpability in the rise of extremism

You may have seen reports about the campaign for charities to be more 'transparent' about who funds them. Well it turns out the mysterious new right-wing think tank behind it won't say who funds or runs them, and used fake names for the authors of the report which launched their campaign

The Supreme Court burns to the ground in Albania, Parliament and the Department of Education has been stormed, the Prime Minister is in hiding and the country is effectively in the hands of the rebels. Albania rejects blatant corruption and their country being sold.

So here we have it, what we all know but here's the proof. In Burnhams Britain it's all about connections. It's not what you know, it's who. Or who you're married to.

This is a Labour peer interviewing a Labour minister, here. It makes it helpfully clear how we are governed, does it not.

Why isn't this happening in the UK? This should be happening everywhere As the rich get richer, everyone else gets poorer IT IS NOT OK 💪 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

We've known this for years. Probably means it's coming in the next year or two. Yay. www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...

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Civil servant transgender guidelines leak just dropped:

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An announcement from the society of microwrites authors

'We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets'

Want to know who killed the British high street? Look to the gangsters of American private equity. They’ve plundered British retail companies and asset stripped our country. Right now they’re ready to offload Morrisons, PizzaExpress, Waterstones and even Poundland In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Why can’t we be more like the French? In France, young people are punching up at those in power demanding better education not decline and more cuts In Britain, middle-aged masked men with criminal records for domestic abuse punch down an at anyone who isn’t white In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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Reading the news, it would be easy to believe that the Green Party has adopted a policy to expel its Jewish members, prevent them from attending synagogue or at the very least scrutinise their activities outside the party. *None of that has happened* 🧵

This all sounds nice, but the party remains under the control of people who regard e.g. slashing benefits, giving the US a zillion pounds for missiles and AI bullshit and war, and those people have a proven track record of blowing up any attempts to achieve any of this kind of stuff.

Then we might have a chance of policy-making that reflects the public interest, of the dog wagging the tail, of discussion and argument leading to better outcomes, rather than being used as a distraction from the real nature of power. Thank you.

We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.

That’s because the decision has already been made. The issue being debated is merely the post-hoc justification. Where decisions happen and where debate happens are different places. The idea that debate leads to policy outcomes is a fiction designed to create an impression of democratic consent.

Then the government must find a find of selling this policy, which might be very harmful. It will argue that it’s essential for “growth”, “jobs”, “international standing” etc. Opponents will then argue these claims, engaging in the great democratic tradition of “debate”. But debate is irrelevant.

Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵

Some tradionally left wing institutions like the Guardian and the Labour Party are now to the right of Margaret Thatcher and lots of people choose to ignore it in order to feel progressive.

This is in response to several "what the hell are you on about?" replies to a post today. But these are just the latest examples of a widespread determination not to know.