HarriettMB

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2025-08-17 08:01:42 UTC

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It will end when there are a bunch of court cases and the judges throw them out; or it will end with PA win their legal action challenging Cooper’s proscription of the organisation. @npub12pw…zvxn posted two opinions from the Observer this morning - one is Cooper’s defence; the other is PA’s defence. Both are well worth reading - no paywall.
In the meantime the cops are not looking good, nor is the government - those racists harassing people in immigration centres are not being challenged, and in some cases are actually getting into the centres to broadcast more partisan lies about the occupants detained there. See Robinson-Yaxley-Lennon post this morning.

2025-08-17 06:00:08 UTC

In view of all the information in this article, one has to wonder why Tories, Labour and Reform UK commit so much self-harm and so much damage to the economy and the country by continually demonising immigrants in so many ways. https://mastodon.social/@BylinesEast/115042440300266617

2025-08-16 07:24:38 UTC

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Do you remember those hideous ads during Brexit? Where a ballet dancer retrained as an electrician, or an artist retrained as a carer?
This is exactly what they wanted - no arts, just practical. And that snuffs out all the joy and creativity in everyone, including the electricians and carers.

2025-08-15 20:02:11 UTC

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Wonder what Putin is grimacing at?

2025-08-15 08:35:54 UTC

If you ever wanted more reason, evidence and justification to abolish the HoL, this is it. And do it in such a way that Farage [should he ever be PM] cannot replace it. Create one made by different rules and that never includes politicians from the HoC - so communities, minorities, environment and such are represented instead.
Nigel Farage urges PM to appoint Reform peers to House of Lords - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8der86r6n0o

2025-08-14 19:03:12 UTC

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What a girl Summer is! Such good manners too; didn’t even think of eating any of the food right there, but went to get some help instead. Hope your back recovers soon.

2025-08-13 16:56:47 UTC

This seems a bit mad. Surely any business has a right to feature whoever it wishes? Isn’t that what the whole Free Speech thing is about, never mind removing all the rules around DEI?
I would like to think he will lose this case, and Apple will ignore him in he meantime.
Like a toddler having a temper tantrum - PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!! https://flipboard.com/@chicagotribune/nation-world-boehccnpz/-/a-M39BhfCZRvCV7VHUa5_yuw%3Aa%3A56578555-%2F0

2025-08-13 09:28:58 UTC

Jeez - this government are such awful liars. What else could FRT be about except total surveillance society? There’s cameras in so many places already - buildings, banks, streets, transport…. Why is yet another layer of surveillance even deemed necessary? That FRT is very poor on identifying people of colour is alarming to say the least - it will lead to even more discrimination and wrongful exclusion for those people, just based on the colour of their skin.
Facial recognition technology not about ‘total surveillance society’ – minister | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/facial-recognition-technology-not-about-total-surveillance-society-minister/a1564550877.html

2025-08-12 22:34:19 UTC

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This is exactly what every other country, university, and big business should have done. He keeps extending their time and no tariffs implemented : now it’s another 90 days. China knows how to play the long game. I think Lula in Brazil does similar, because he’s basically ignoring Trumps threats. That’s how you deal with a mobster, a bully, a thug. Trump is all of those.

2025-08-12 18:50:04 UTC

What’s the problem JD?
Tory party leader too brown and too female?
Some ‘family holiday’ he’s having, meeting up with the whitest racists possible,
As well as ‘salmon fishing on the Yemen’ with David Lammy.
The UK is being taken over by the USA, in case anyone has not noticed already.
Starmer is seemingly fine with this.
JD Vance expected to host Robert Jenrick during UK trip – but not Tory leader | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/jd-vance-expected-to-host-robert-jenrick-during-uk-trip-but-not-tory-leader/a443606978.html

2025-08-12 18:17:03 UTC

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What camera and kit have you got? I’m just starting photography and have a Nikon Z fc with a 30-50 & a 50-200 lens. I’m learning a lot - haven’t taken anything like the picture you show here. It’s very interesting. I hope you have a wonderful time photographing all kinds of stuff from interesting angles.

2025-08-12 15:49:53 UTC

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Will SCOTUS _ever_ stop the march of a Trump dictatorship and military control? Do they not see the dangers, even to themselves, as this continues and increases? It will be too late, if they ever wake up.

2025-08-12 12:39:25 UTC

Would the Occupied Six counties of Northern Ireland be ‘absolutely crucial for the UK’ because of Brexit, and NI’s access to the EU?
Or is it because the Colonial Occupier mentality is still so strong?
Don’t forget the Good Friday Agreement, and our right to the ECHR, as these comments are being promoted in unthinking media.
Northern Ireland ‘absolutely crucial’ for UK’s growth prospects – Chancellor | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/northern-ireland-absolutely-crucial-for-uks-growth-prospects-chancellor/a346107720.html

2025-08-11 07:47:02 UTC

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I was just about to post this same good news… 👍

2025-08-10 18:06:50 UTC

Well, there you have it. Pro-Israel demo in London today and it seems no one was arrested under any kind of anti-terrorism or any other act.
Could the partisan behaviour of the British police and government be any clearer?
A couple of people who objected to this and shouted for Palestine were led away and arrested.
That over 60K have been murdered in Gaza means nothing, that Israel is starving everyone in Gaza, including the hostages means nothing.
🤬 So much hipocrisy
Pro-Israel protest sees hundreds march through central London - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g66x4xr6zo

2025-08-10 16:58:16 UTC

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I’ve just read a report when someone at a racist protest was briefly detained and then given a ‘community order notice’. It seems to me the fash are being treated very differently than people carrying a poster and not endorsing violence in any way. Starmer and his ministers are taking the UK on a very dark and dangerous path indeed, given their current close relationship with Donald Trump and this American administration.

2025-08-10 16:28:34 UTC

Are MetPol pleased with themselves?
Doing a good job job keeping Britain safe?
Are these cops speeding comfortably in their beds every night?
How courageous and brave they are - arresting pensioners, magistrates, priests, elderly women in a great many cases, ‘to keep Britain safe’
Or are they nothing more than conscienceless automatons ‘just following orders’
Meanwhile thugs, bullies, racists, and the majority accused of or with records of domestic violence or sexual assault continue to intimidate and threaten immigrants held in various accomodation units around the country, and it’s perfectly fine.
Or those taking part in large marches with bands, while waving flags and supporting proscribed paramilitary organisations like the UVF [Ulster Volunteer Force] can continue to do so, and not a single one will be arrested or charged with supporting terrorism.
Carry a placard, and sit silently, and you are so, so dangerous…….
Shame on Labour. Shame on the police. Shame on their neighbours and families for supporting them in this.
Arrests reach 522 following Palestine protest in London https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0810/1527785-london-protest-arrests/

2025-08-10 08:55:15 UTC

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I asked the same last weekend, and there’s been nothing; and no one seems to know if she’s OK. I hope all is well. 💖

2025-08-09 19:22:25 UTC

No cops arresting people as ‘terrorists’ as these racist thugs, many with DV and assault criminal records terrorise and intimidate residents in accomodation, placed there by the UK government.
But stand or sit silently with a poster protesting Genocide in Gaza or Action for a State of Palestine, and the bill come for you.
This ‘LABOUR’ government is abhorrent - no conscience, no empathy, no soul - an operation endorsing racists, criminals and thugs. Utterly shameful. https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-z4HnFWPzTTaaEjvI7-m0BQ%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0

2025-08-08 08:23:13 UTC

:alert: :bigfoot:
#Toodles #Transphobe #TransRights
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2025-08-07 15:44:56 UTC

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I believe some Democrats have now gone to Mexico or somewhere out of the USA…….
Just how far will this administration go in trying to force them back?
Will they create an international incident?

2025-08-07 12:16:49 UTC

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There is so much to see in our respective home countries that we are unaware of. We have made a commitment to explore much more of Ireland and Wales for the rest of our lives. At a stretch we could take a ferry to Europe if we really wanted to: but with fewer remaining years and much of Ireland unexplored, we probably won’t ever want to.

2025-08-07 11:18:56 UTC

71 year olds….. I hope the judge takes lumps out of MetPol and the government for this. 🤬
Three charged with supporting Palestine Action at London rally | UK news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/07/three-charged-with-supporting-palestine-action-at-london-rally

2025-08-06 19:40:43 UTC

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So many countries should be more Lula. Excellent leader.

2025-08-06 09:31:51 UTC

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I love your posts here. You are articulate, kind and warm. You have such a wonderful empathy and immense compassion for those less fortunate; even as you deal with your husbands challenges for his health every single day. We need more people like you and your family in this world. 💖💖

2025-08-05 23:20:44 UTC

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What republicans fail to understand is these actions can happen to them also, should new politicians be elected in due course. Opposition should (and must) be prepared to get just as down and dirty at the first opportunity available. Holding the high moral ground isn’t going to fix this.

2025-08-04 22:06:45 UTC

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He had the begging bowl out the day after he left the UK - ostensibly for the upcoming event in September; but IMO more likely to pay for his short holiday in Tenerife. They really need to throw away the key and remove his social media forever.

2025-08-04 17:25:03 UTC

Absolutely disgraceful. PSNI pandering to ingorance and hatred. How about educating people instead? If someone doesn’t like an event, no one is holding them by the neck and forcing them to attend. I more than willing to bet the people protesting did not have children listening to the stories.
The PSNI could not have made a worse decision if they tried.
One of NI’s political parties is behind this hate - the #TUV led by MP Jim Allister who sits in House of Commons.
This is the consequence of attacking trans rights; then they come for gay rights, they come for womens rights, and immigrants, and transient people. Until they have come for everyone except white men.
#Pride #HumanRights. #TransRights #Immigrants
Drag queens escorted from Holywood Arches Library by PSNI after protest at children storytelling event | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/row-erupts-as-psni-escort-drag-queens-from-venue-after-protest-at-children-storytelling-event/a174642881.html

2025-08-04 13:29:37 UTC

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British exceptionalism, writ large. Getting an exceptionally large bill for his stupidity and apparent sign blindness.

2025-08-04 12:08:34 UTC

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Unfit for his role, and should be removed. He’s joined a bunch of arrant racists, far worse than the ones he left.

2025-08-03 17:06:57 UTC

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The way the USA is being dismantled, I would not even bet on JDVance taking over from Trump when the inevitable happens. It would not surprise me at all to hear that another Trump has been appointed his successor; JD continues to be the VP, only stepping in occasionally to support his boss. That David Lammy had a whole article in media about how he bonded with JD because of their dysfunctional childhoods is chilling. JDVance is coming to the Cotswolds some time during August on a ‘family holiday’. How many meetings will he have with various ministers and interested businesses while here? Trump came to Scotland on a ‘family holiday’ and held plenty of such meetings, even though his were very public. And Trump is back in September for a ‘Royal Visit’, when I understand there is a possibility of him being offered the Freedom of London. This is insanely stupid, and he will take full advantage if any such offer is confirmed. It’s more than enough that the UK has a monarchy that increasing numbers don’t want; having two many annoy Charles and his successors.

2025-08-03 09:37:32 UTC

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Philipsons recent requests that [white] British women should breed more, are disgusting. She had a whole article in The Guardian about it.

2025-08-01 10:14:21 UTC

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It looks like it inflates inside the vaginal canal - hopefully NOT inside the actual uterus.

2025-07-30 08:52:30 UTC

Every single world of this. @npub1j79…rc5v said exactly what is in my head. Starmer is granting licence to further genocide and validating those committing it. #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #WarCrimes #Starvation https://mas.to/@RichardJMurphy/114940857687371217

2025-07-29 18:52:18 UTC

It appears Labour and the SNP have backed a wrong ‘un.
Will they continue or will they simply retreat into a monastic silence?
#TERF #Transphobia #Racism #Bigotry
H/T - The National Scot
SCOTTISH Labour have fallen completely silent on their support for NHS nurse Sandie Peggie after a series of her racist and transphobic remarks became public.
Anas Sarwar, his deputy Jackie Baillie, and other parliamentarians in the group had given their full backing to Peggie amid an ongoing employment tribunal, sparked after the nurse was suspended following allegations of bullying and harassment against trans doctor Beth Upton.
Peggie had taken issue with sharing a changing room with Upton at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on Christmas Eve 2023 – and later lodged a complaint against NHS [[Fife]] citing harassment related to a protected belief.
On Monday, the tribunal heard that Peggie had made a series of transphobic and racist remarks, including referring to Upton as "weirdo", "freak" and "it".
READ MORE: Sandie Peggie denies making racist comment as new allegation emerges
It further heard that she had shared a series of racist jokes about Pakistani people and Muslims to a group chat, including mocking the victims of floods that killed thousands in 2022, saying the country would look like a “bowl of coco pops”.
Other so-called jokes shared by Peggie to a group chat said “I bet little Mohammed isn’t having to walk 3 miles to fetch water now” and “the Queen … wanted to mention that Britain has plenty of spare P****”. She was also accused of using the racist slur “Ch***”.
Scottish Labour politicians including MP Melanie Ward, MSP Claire Baker, and MSP Carol Mochan had all spoken out in support of Peggie in the seven days before her racist comments were made public.
All three failed to respond when approached about Monday’s tribunal hearing.
This morning @clairebakermsp & I met with Sandie Peggie, who I have spoken in support of in Parliament.
Sandie has 30 years’ service as a nurse at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy & should never have had to take legal action to uphold her right to change in a single sex space. pic.twitter.com/pPRNAUe3OY
— Melanie Ward MP (@melanie_ward) July 21, 2025
Sarwar and Baillie had told the Holyrood Sources podcast earlier in 2025 that they supported Peggie in the tribunal – at the same time as they U-turned on support for gender reform.
Neither their Scottish Labour nor UK Labour responded to repeated requests for comment on Monday’s tribunal hearing.
The Scottish Conservatives, who have equally been vocal in their support of Peggie, also failed to respond when approached.
Jess O'Thomson, the community outreach lead for Good Law Project, said: "The comments alleged to have been made by Ms Peggie are plainly obscene.
"These Labour politicians should consider how they have ended up championing the side of bigotry against vulnerable minorities.
“It is surely a shameful position they have found themselves in."
Edinburgh-based trans rights activist Tristan Grayford said that [[Scottish Labour]] politicians appeared to believe that “being transphobic is more important than standing up to racism”.
“I think what we're seeing from Scottish Labour politicians is atrocious behaviour,” he said.
“They're basically attacking our NHS for daring to have any kind of limits on whether or not someone can be unpleasant to a colleague based on transphobia.”
Grayford said the issues extended beyond politicians, telling The National: “Yes, the racism is horrific, but the fact that we as a society, and especially a lot of our media, treat that kind of language to trans people as just normal, as something that should be defended and even promoted, is a horrifying indictment of how normalised transphobia has become in our media in a way that they seem capable of seeing that racism shouldn't be.”
On social media, Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie (above) shared a post reporting some of Peggie’s comments about trans people – as well as allegations she had said she was minded to post bacon through the letterbox of a mosque in Kirkcaldy.
“This is the person Scottish Labour is lining up to defend, and who the entire [gender critical] movement has turned into their hero,” the post read.
Sex Matters, the anti-trans campaign group supporting Peggie in her legal case, have moved to distance themselves from her comments on race.
Maya Forstater, the group’s chief executive, said: "Obviously, Sex Matters in no way defends the sentiments regarding the victims of the Pakistan floods, or remarks about a mosque attributed to her by a witness this afternoon.
READ MORE: NHS Fife staff 'facing violent threats' amid Sandie Peggie tribunal
“The content of private group messages, however unpleasant, do not change the facts at the heart of this case: that a female nurse is seeking justice after suffering discrimination and harassment because she didn’t want to share changing facilities with a male doctor."
Former SNP MP Joanna Cherry, a prominent gender-critical activist, was pictured shaking Peggie’s hand as she arrived at the tribunal on Tuesday.
Giving evidence, Peggie said she did not remember making the comments about the mosque and posting it bacon. However, she did say of the mosque: "I can't say I didn't like it, but I had a fear of it being built."
She admitted sending “offensive” jokes about the deaths of Pakistani people in floods, but said it was “dark humour”.
Peggie further admitted using the words “P***” and “Ch***”, but said that the Pakistani and Chinese people she knew had not taken offence.
The tribunal continues.

2025-07-26 15:23:38 UTC

:alert: :bigfoot: #Toodles #Scam
There’s a bunch of these appearing on peoples accounts. Anyone posting this message is a scammer. Ignore, report, screenshot, block, share to everyone. The message is always pretty much the same but there loads of these appearing from so many instances
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/114/920/221/418/335/156/original/8cbf9a484947cdb1.jpeg

2025-07-20 16:41:12 UTC

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It’s not the world that is remaining silent. There are objections and protests in virtually every country. It’s the governments, who are repressing their own citizens, criminalising them, arresting them for supporting Palestinians, and demanding some justice for those starving under a genocide in Gaza.

2025-07-19 16:55:08 UTC

The more people [especially pensioners] the police and this stupid government arrest for allegedly supporting a non-violent organisation, the more foolish and out of control this stupid government appears. The behaviour and mindset of colonial occupiers has never won, never been popular, and never overcomes the facts and the truth.
I hope the judges and the courts and juries will see the utter nonsense and futility of this; and see how much taxpayers monies are being wasted pursuing something that is not a crime. Meanwhile there are people who committed serious crime, people who are the victims of crime and their cases are piling up.
It’s not justice. In this climate the law is an ass.
55 arrested during Palestine Action march in London https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0719/1524324-palestine-action-uk/

2025-07-17 09:40:48 UTC

:alert: :alert: :alert: :alert: :alert: :alert: :alert:
Someone I was mutuals with, and who shall remain nameless for now, has posted my bio over on BlueSky and they never asked me if this was OK. I’m not on Bluesky and have no intention of ever being there.
As a result I have removed my photo - I will replace it with something else in due course; and I have changed my settings here.
I was badly doxxed and stalked when I was on Twitter, and I never want to go through the hell I went though back there - ever again.
It seems that not only have they posted my bio over there, but done it in such a way that my entire timeline appears over there.
I’m shocked, feel a bit sick, and I’m very upset/angry about this.
UPDATE
I’ve had no response from my [now] former mutual. I have blocked him.
In these screenshots are the DM I sent him, and his bio. I note in his bio it does not mention that he uses BlueSky or that he bridges there.
So, if anyone wants to report him to their moderators; or to block him for their own privacy & protection, now you know who it is.
I’m surprised also because he’s in Denmark, and should know about consent, privacy, and data protection.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/114/869/939/657/474/481/original/60b99f60a9989006.jpeg
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2025-07-17 08:26:29 UTC

It is vindictive, childish, and petty. It shows a government who refuses to listen to what its membership and its MPs are telling it; one that prefers an authoritarian approach. It is everything #Labour should never be. The big question is - will increasingly disenfranchised members remain in the party and grumble, or will they actually do something? They could take action to have a VONC in Starmer and remain in a newly energised and differently led party; OR they could leave, join the Greens [who are the only party around with actual Labour values] or they could joing the growing crowd in Independents with Zara Sultana.
Labour sackings: exuding authority or petty and vindictive? - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedg44wj47go

2025-07-17 07:47:59 UTC

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When these market crashes happen, do they benefit anyone at all? Or is mainly the smaller investors who get destroyed?

2025-07-16 08:50:06 UTC

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#Labour are doing badly because people voted based on these promises; and Labour immediately broke every single one within a couple of months. They have continued to betray every standard Labour stood for, under the appalling ‘leadership’ of #Starmer, who is puppet for Blair, Mandelson and big American business like Palantir etc.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/114/862/050/868/857/111/original/f114c893a73aa6be.png

2025-07-13 16:17:50 UTC

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Good morning, from a ridiculously over heated Ireland. It’s around 30 degrees here, which no-one is used to. Your beach looks cool and inviting.

2025-07-13 07:54:34 UTC

Are you all stupid? You cannot reason with this level of stupidity, stubbornness and greed. Make deals elsewhere, and ignore the USA, until it regains some measure of sanity.
Any ‘deal’ Trump makes will only be to his personal benefit, or that of his wealthy business backers - never to anyone else.
The EU and Mexico criticise Donald Trump for proposed 30% tariff https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvj13d9ylpo

2025-07-09 15:38:33 UTC

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I know, and Blair is involved in the hideous Israeli genocide in Gaza too; and the prison they want to build there for remaining Gazans - one they cannot leave. I bet he’s also involved in Trump & Netanyahu’s plan for ‘luxury beachfront properties’. Blair should have been in The Hague beside Bush and the rest a generation ago.
It sickens me that he’s pulling all the strings while Starmer dances to his tune and seems to comfortable with this. ‘Human Rights Lawyer’ - 🤬

2025-07-09 15:12:50 UTC

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UK govt under Starmer so far up Trump’s rear end he’s viewing his tonsils; and Starmer is bringing all the worst decisions into the UK.
Just look at that proscription a few days ago.
Just look at the increasingly hostile attitude to immigrants.
Just look at the disgusting decision and comment against trans people.
And they continue to discuss leaving the ECHR as if that were easy. It’s baked into the Good Friday Agreement, and it’s part of Scotland’s Devolved governance.🤬

2025-07-09 14:33:41 UTC

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There’s still that contrary and pesky impediment of membership of the ECHR being written into the Good Friday Agreement - an internationally recognised agreement. It’s also written into Scottish Devolution, but Westminster still retains power over that. They keep avoiding this issue as they repeatedly bring up the prospect of leaving the ECHR.

2025-07-09 07:50:15 UTC

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Imo judge only is not the answer. There were Diplock Courts in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. A lot of innocent people got lengthy spells in jail then. Perhaps streamlining courts so there are specially trained prosecutors and judges for assault, rape and stalking cases and they are seen within (say) 15 months. Shoplifting and minor drug offences or minor public offences like urination, littering, alcohol in another specialised court: etc. there needs to be more courts and more judges and longer hours. This happens in other countries. The only winners in long delays are the perpetrators, never their victims. Making courts judge only suits authoritarian government like this Labour administration: it is a betrayal of our (admittedly imperfect) judicial system which requires a jury.

2025-07-08 19:25:53 UTC

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The entire administration is mad. Whatever education they had clearly hasn’t taught them anything at all, except hate, racism, Botox money and how to use / twist religion to suit their own ends.

2025-07-08 09:45:39 UTC

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Farmers have been polluting forever - those nitrates and slurry spreading derogations; the poisons they use for raptors, for badgers, for foxes etc; the pesticides and insecticides on crops, some of which are used to just ripen cereal crops for harvesting; monocultures, drainage, and worst of all the inhumane and cruelly polluting and disgusting factory farms for cows, beef, pigs and chickens. They also use lots of medications, antimicrobials and antibiotics to keep the animals ‘healthy’ until slaughter.
Opposing any intensive agriculture operation rarely results in a win, until it’s years down the line and everyone can see the opponents were correct all along - think of the River Wye as just one example.

2025-07-07 17:32:14 UTC

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Those are called JAIL in most countries, afaik

2025-07-06 18:41:49 UTC

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Thoughts and prayers, and not his fault. It’s the fault of the local administrations, who claim they out out notice in plenty of time. JD Vance also offered thoughts and an actual prayer for those impacted and bereaved. I don’t think they have offered any state assistance.
People voted for this, and many impacted would still vote for Trump and his administration; I guess they will be expected to deal with it as ‘Gods Will’.

2025-07-06 08:37:23 UTC

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The UK under this reprehensible Labour administration tries to maintain the fiction by designating a non-violent protest organisation as a terrorist threat and thus anyone appearing to support or name the group can be arrested and given up to 14 years in jail. The MetPol arrested twenty or so in silent protest yesterday in London for this including an 80+yo priest named Rev Sue Parfitt. The MetPol also posted on their social media asking people to dob in their neighbours or anyone saying or seeming to support the organisation, or looking ‘suspicious’. The organisation seems to have been renamed #YvetteCooper after the minister who banned it #WeAreAllYvetteCooper
Here’s her truly abysmal voting record.
https://www.mpwarcrimes.co.uk/parliament/yvette-cooper

2025-07-06 07:55:22 UTC

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Announced by Bridget ‘breed more babies’ Phillipson. Yuck

2025-07-05 18:16:16 UTC

Especially for the #Labour administration in the UK; the Supreme Court in the UK, all the #TERF and Terf adjacent people out there, the media, especially the #Guardian.
#Rights #HumanRights #ProChoice #Autonomy #Biology #Facts
Once again, for those still quoting primary school level science:
Rebecca Helm, a biologist and an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Asheville US writes:
"Friendly neighborhood biologist here. I see a lot of people are talking about biological sexes and gender right now. Lots of folks make biological sex sex seem really simple. Well, since it’s so simple, let’s find the biological roots, shall we? Let’s talk about sex...[a thread]
If you know a bit about biology you will probably say that biological sex is caused by chromosomes, XX and you’re female, XY and you’re male. This is “chromosomal sex” but is it “biological sex”? Well...
Turns out there is only ONE GENE on the Y chromosome that really matters to sex. It’s called the SRY gene. During human embryonic development the SRY protein turns on male-associated genes. Having an SRY gene makes you “genetically male”. But is this “biological sex”?
Sometimes that SRY gene pops off the Y chromosome and over to an X chromosome. Surprise! So now you’ve got an X with an SRY and a Y without an SRY. What does this mean?
A Y with no SRY means physically you’re female, chromosomally you’re male (XY) and genetically you’re female (no SRY). An X with an SRY means you’re physically male, chromsomally female (XX) and genetically male (SRY). But biological sex is simple! There must be another answer...
Sex-related genes ultimately turn on hormones in specifics areas on the body, and reception of those hormones by cells throughout the body. Is this the root of “biological sex”??
“Hormonal male” means you produce ‘normal’ levels of male-associated hormones. Except some percentage of females will have higher levels of ‘male’ hormones than some percentage of males. Ditto ditto ‘female’ hormones. And...
...if you’re developing, your body may not produce enough hormones for your genetic sex. Leading you to be genetically male or female, chromosomally male or female, hormonally non-binary, and physically non-binary. Well, except cells have something to say about this...
Maybe cells are the answer to “biological sex”?? Right?? Cells have receptors that “hear” the signal from sex hormones. But sometimes those receptors don’t work. Like a mobile phone that’s on “do not disturb’. Call and cell, they will not answer.
What does this all mean?
It means you may be genetically male or female, chromosomally male or female, hormonally male/female/non-binary, with cells that may or may not hear the male/female/non-binary call, and all this leading to a body that can be male/non-binary/female.
Try out some combinations for yourself. Notice how confusing it gets? Can you point to what the absolute cause of biological sex is? Is it fair to judge people by it?
Of course you could try appealing to the numbers. “Most people are either male or female” you say. Except that as a biologist professor I will tell you...
The reason I don’t have my students look at their own chromosome in class is because people could learn that their chromosomal sex doesn’t match their physical sex, and learning that in the middle of a 10-point assignment is JUST NOT THE TIME.
Biological sex is complicated. Before you discriminate against someone on the basis of “biological sex” & identity, ask yourself: have you seen YOUR chromosomes? Do you know the genes of the people you love? The hormones of the people you work with? The state of their cells?
Since the answer will obviously be no, please be kind, respect people’s right to tell you who they are, and remember that you don’t have all the answers. Again: biology is complicated. Kindness and respect don’t have to be.
Note: Biological classifications exist. XX, XY, XXY XXYY and all manner of variation which is why sex isn't classified as binary. You can't have a binary classification system with more than two configurations even if two of those configurations are more common than others.
Biology is a shitshow. Be kind to people."
Many thanks to Traci Drake for finding this.

2025-07-05 15:13:48 UTC

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This #Labour administration have made a massive and stupid mistake which will come back to haunt them and the population in many unexpected ways. Should Labour lose the next election, there’s nothing to stop the subsequent winning party declaring Labour or Tories or Greens etc some kind of terrorist organisation because they backed different policies and non-violent action, and arresting them.
Labour and their associates in the Supreme Court have opened a very dangerous Pandora’s Box.
I wonder have they even looked at the proposed march and assembly currently being promoted by Robinson-Yaxley-Lennon for 13th September, and considered banning that and arresting all the participants, like they are doing today? Will the 13th September assembly of racists, bigots, patriots, homophobes etc be in line with the Labour administrations thinking; particularly as they support the IDF and the ongoing genocide in Gaza?
Is waving some version of an English flag sufficient to avoid the tag of enabling violence, death, destruction and terrorism?
#Fascism #WeAreAllPalestinians #WeAreAllYvetteCooper

2025-07-05 08:47:58 UTC

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He’s indefensible, because he and the party flat out lied to everyone. Voted for in slim numbers because a great many people already saw through Starmer, and those that did now feel very betrayed. His articles in media like The Sun, his recent Enoch Powell speech, his reversal of all environmental policies, the parties acceptance of millions in ‘donations’ is sickening. As for his complete betrayal of human rights - that really is the bridge too far. Whether he’s cancelling the very existence of trans people, or pronouncing peaceful action as terrorism - it’s the opposite of everything Labour ever stood for. That’s before we even look at taking money from pensioners, keeping families in a two-child cap, and being unimaginably cruel to those disabled and to carers.
And then there’s his alignment with Donald Trump and understanding his ‘family values’. Starmer makes me sick and very angry.

2025-07-05 08:33:58 UTC

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Meanwhile, Rod Liddell writes an article which Michel Gove publishes in the Spectator, suggesting that Brighton should be bombed because the place is full of lefties. Will they proscribe The Spectator now? That’s much more violent than anything #YvetteCooper ever did when painting a plane.

2025-07-05 08:27:41 UTC

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Corbyn isn’t the only voice in this alliance; and he’s always promoted a kind of group think, so I suspect he would be outvoted on this. The left will only do better when they lose the ego and work together as a co-operative. They won’t get everything right - no party does; but it gives them a much better chance of reducing the right and re-balancing politics, environment, rights.

2025-07-03 19:23:38 UTC

Now -#WeAreAllYvetteCooper
The Guardian view on proscribing Palestine Action: blurring civil disobedience and terrorism is a dangerous step | Editorial | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/03/the-guardian-view-on-proscribing-palestine-action-blurring-civil-disobedience-and-terrorism-is-a-dangerous-step

2025-07-03 09:26:40 UTC

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😂 @npub1h8v…sn4a has a couple of names for groups who want a piece of the #PalestineAction - Yvette Cooper’s Silky Panties / Starmers Cheesy Knob …….. caught spray painting a plane, and up in parliament for banning. Imagine the conversation in HoC. 🤣 how to beat them at their own game.

2025-07-03 09:17:10 UTC

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Way to go!!! Let’s see if Parliament will now ban Yvette Cooper. Once they do, there’s plenty more names on the list to keep this going.
#weAreAllYvetteCooper

2025-07-03 08:52:47 UTC

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They spent decades closing local hospitals, shrinking GP surgeries, and moving everything into big hospital centralised places; Streeting’s big plan is to shrink all the big PublicPrivatePartnership hospitals and create a lot smaller PPP’s instead? This is a massive waste of resources, and a distraction while he implements AI and other dodgy practices that sponsored him and his corrupt party.

2025-07-02 22:09:20 UTC

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These colours have also been hijacked by some #TERF. It’s a gross betrayal of every woman there has been and will be in the UK. To have these women vote to proscribe a non-violent organisation, as well as support the erasure of #Trans people is perverse.

2025-07-02 09:05:29 UTC

I can only hope this results in the mutually assured destruction of destruction of both these utterly monstrous individuals.
#Musk #Trump
US President threatens Musk with deportation https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0702/1521390-donald-trump-elon-musk/

2025-07-02 08:19:31 UTC

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Iran will be the target, and they will continue wrecking the West Bank. No doubt Starmer also approves. 🤬

2025-07-01 08:47:55 UTC

Given the £22 billion of unclaimed benefits apparently in the system, there is absolutely no need whatsoever for the government to reduce benefits for people with disabilities or who develop a life changing illness in two years time.
#KeirStarmer #Disabled #LabourParty #LabourCuts #WelfareNotWarfare #welfarereformBill
Liz Kendall is a listening kind of woman but can’t seem to hear Labour discontent on welfare bill | John Crace | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/30/liz-kendall-labour-welfare-bill

2025-06-30 19:34:53 UTC

People objecting to this kind of mass murder are what Starmer and the current Labour administration are calling ‘anti-Semitic’ or ‘terrorist’. He’s got a very twisted view of justice and rights - particularly offensive govern his previous career as a ‘human rights lawyer’. https://beige.party/@ned/114773891010985184

2025-06-30 15:40:44 UTC

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He’s one nasty, unfeeling, unconscionable b*****d. No conscience. No soul. No consideration for anyone. I hope the up and coming legal cases against these hateful repressive laws he’s so keen on win every single time. The current case for #PalestineAuthority, the one for #TransRights, the one for #Kneecap, and there’s bound to be one for #DisabledRights too. He’s not a king, or a dictator but seems to believe he has such powers.

2025-06-30 12:59:57 UTC

Looks like proscribing #PalestineAction may not be the quick solution Starmers government would like.
It seems similar lack of consultation and engagement as that not done with Human Rights, medical and trans groups and supporters is happening.
And it’s markedly similar to the lack of consultation over the negative effects of the proposed slashing of PIPs and other benefits for disabled people.
A wake-up call to people, not to let an authoritarian government ride rough-shod over all our basic human rights. As a former Human Rights Lawyer, this should be elementary for Kier Starmer PM.
#HumanRights #Autonomy #Starmer #Labour #UKPolitics
Judge grants Palestine Action urgent hearing to try to stop ban taking effect | Counter-terrorism policy | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/30/palestine-action-ban-judge-court-hearing

2025-06-30 09:51:56 UTC

Israel steps up Gaza bombardment ahead of ceasefire talks https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0630/1521026-israel-gaza/

2025-06-30 08:49:42 UTC

Do fvck off Bridget. That’s a choice people make, and the Labour government is ensuring it’s financially impossible. Add in the lack of decent homes, high rents, job insecurity, two child allowance cap, health service, etc ad nauseum.
Here’s an idea for Bridget - give up her highly paid employment and stay home popping them out, one every twelve months. Her predecessor, Rees-Mogg fathered six, and then his wife clearly and unequivocally said ‘ENOUGH’. When multi-millionaires aren’t prepared to have vast families [with the notable exception of Elon Musk], why should the rest of us?
#Autonomy #ProChoice #MyBodyMyChoice
Bridget Phillipson says she wants more young people in UK to have children | Bridget Phillipson | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/30/falling-birthrate-bridget-phillipson-education-secretary-labour

2025-06-29 22:01:39 UTC

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In both cases the answer should be a resounding NO. Our so-called Labour MPs have become something else if they approve and vote for either measure. Passing either (or both) puts the UK very firmly in the same political position as that of the Trump administration. I truly hope enough Labour and other MPs can see the risks and the dangers and vote these down. Otherwise there must be expensive and time consuming legal actions to row these measures back - which will make a government led by a former Human Rights Lawyer look like the fools they are.

2025-06-29 17:22:10 UTC

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In so deep with Trump and his hideous regime, it’s terrifying. That Big Ugly Bill was passed in the middle of the night by the Senate, and it’s going to bring massive misery, poverty and death to millions of Americans, while the wealthy benefit from tax advantages.

2025-06-29 12:39:47 UTC

Oh dear, Glastonbury have caved and are concerned by what Bob Vylan said on stage. This isn’t good. As for the cops - there’s nothing to find, as all the viewers know. But the thin-skinned Starmer and the JB of D want heads on spikes.
Kneecap, Bob Vylan Glastonbury shows examined by police https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0629/1520889-kneecap-glastonbury/

2025-06-28 19:53:29 UTC

Seems the thin-skinned #Starmer really is digging into his authoritarian tendencies. He’s now got #MetPol investigating #Kneecap and #BobVylan after their stage performances at #Glastonbury. He’s learned nothing about Irish history, or oppression anywhere in the world, or how the British State creates heroes by attempting to suppress people fighting for rights and the truth.
Police 'assessing' comments made by Kneecap and Bob Vylan at Glastonbury - Manchester Evening News https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-investigate-comments-made-kneecap-31954405

2025-06-28 16:06:24 UTC

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I knew they would. Someone had a go at me this morning like I was being mean or unfair to the BBC. I called it correctly. Cowards, under the thumb of Starmer, Robbie Gibb & The Jewish Board of Deputies. All they are doing is making #Kneecap more popular with this carry on.

2025-06-28 11:34:45 UTC

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Someone somewhere must be doing a livestream, surely? If not, hopefully #Kneecap are having it recorded and will release it on YouTube or somesuch?

2025-06-28 06:45:50 UTC

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America and the UK are rapidly returning to that time, when people cannot have personal and private lives or even autonomy over their own bodies.

2025-06-27 20:09:57 UTC

Great sweary stuff from the lads in #Kneecap You can watch them tomorrow from 4-5pm live on stage at ##Glastonbury, but not on the #BBC. They won’t be broadcasting from Glastonbury at that time
‘We just want to stop people being murdered’: Kneecap on Palestine, protest and provocation | Kneecap | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/27/kneecap-on-palestine-protest-and-their-satirical-intent

2025-06-27 13:48:48 UTC

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Even the watered down version should be voted out. Shameful that Labour MPs will accept this for future disabled people. It’s not acceptable for anyone. #labour #Starmer

2025-06-27 09:03:14 UTC

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If Starmer fixed the voting system to ranked choice, single transferable vote, or PR, that would deal with Reform Ltd and the grip any one belief system had on government and policy. It would most likely give Labour more seats after the next GE than they are currently on track to get under FPTP

2025-06-27 06:50:41 UTC

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Well…. While they appear to be executing some of their promises, they are doing so in the worst way that damages people’s lives, hopes and ambitions. The bad or unexpected decisions like removing the cold weather payment, keeping the two child cap, making PA a terrorist organisation, abandoning environmental values, etc far outweigh the promises they are keeping.

2025-06-26 16:25:05 UTC

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I’ve just been reading @npub1z6y…qah3 thread about what’s happening with Planned Parenthood.That’s going to be a lot of unnecessarily dead women and girls. #ProLifeMyAss

2025-06-26 08:47:31 UTC

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I was happy to read that Emily Eavis certainly isn’t backing down and will be giving #Kneecap the stage and set as arranged. She was clear that #Glastonbury is a place where other views are heard and happily permitted. The establishment and its bullying can do one.
Although, someone needs to educate Andrée’s spellchecker…. It should be using ‘yoke’ not ‘yolk. The first one is control . The second one is the yellow part of an egg.

2025-06-25 07:41:52 UTC

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How does she fit Starmer’s big spend on foreign planes into her Fiscal Rules, since there’s no money for any essentials for running the country and keeping people alive, well, and safe? His nuclear, military investment isn’t creating a single employment or tax take in the UK.

2025-06-24 09:25:25 UTC

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Turning into the thing they were set up never to be.

2025-06-23 22:42:51 UTC

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Yes. So much unusable land, so much more famine, poverty and displacement. So much pollution. There’s still land in Cambodia and Vietnam that no one and no animal dare cross if they wish to live. Add in the likes of Chernobyl, Fukushima, Gaza, Afghanistan and all the other Middle East countries Israel, USA, UK etc are too fond of invading and destroying.

2025-06-23 21:35:08 UTC

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Can Labour MPs vote against this? I looked up the definition of terrorism according to UK govt, and what P A did is nowhere near that definition. It’s so dangerous if that is passed - effectively our UK government will be behaving like the US one, and acting as some kind of authoritarian autocracy.

2025-06-23 19:02:57 UTC

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We all know he just won’t. And the fools around him won’t talk him down either.

2025-06-23 14:28:49 UTC

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PA doesn’t meet the government definition of terrorism. Neither did holding up a blank sheet of A4 paper outside a court , or meeting in a church hall for a conversation, etc. this government is repressive beyond anything the repellent Tories even considered: and they are supposed to a a Labour government.

2025-06-23 07:03:33 UTC

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You wonder how the squabs (baby pigeons/doves) survive in a nest that’s just a loose assembly of twigs, which looks like it could fall apart in a passing breeze.

2025-06-22 13:51:49 UTC

There’s lies, damned lies and American lies..
No rise in radiation detected, suggests the Americans certainly didn’t bomb an active nuclear facility with bombs that would be ‘ready in weeks’.
Either there’s no bombs at all, which is what the inspectors have noted for years, or Iran’s nukes are somewhere they will not be found, until they use them. https://flipboard.com/@aljazeera/us-canada-news-010sv4dcz/-/a-prRdffFWRcCnl4A_d5Euxg%3Aa%3A3199698-%2F0

2025-06-22 13:11:39 UTC

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The populations in so many countries are deeply upset about all this, but when they raise objections or protest peacefully they are being arrested, criminalised, and in some cases their association is being proscribed as terrorist. You only have to look at what ICE are doing in the USA, and what Starmer/Badenoch are doing and saying in the UK to see this. Germany is by no means innocent in this either. Our governments are ignoring the voice of their peoples and enforcing a very dangerous agenda. In the end it won’t protect those in the governments, as history has repeatedly shown.

2025-06-22 12:55:49 UTC

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I’m sure you’ll stay safe, wherever you are, as you go about the castles and ruins and share all the information on here.

2025-06-22 12:34:52 UTC

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I’m equally horrified and terrified by all of this. There are also all kinds of lies being told about the damage allegedly done or not by these bombers. I fear the US action with the complicity of the UK, Israel and others has put targets on the backs of every citizen.

2025-06-22 07:25:24 UTC

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Another illegal war: Starmer complicit, as the Blair/Mandelson creatures slither around in the background. All Trump’s talk of waiting two weeks, and wanting a Nobel Peace Prize was a lying distraction. Congress wasn’t asked and didn’t authorise this: but undoubtedly will give agreement after the fact. Utterly reprehensible that UK has any involvement given the Iraq war previously and given throwing red paint on a plane is deemed the act of an organisation to be proscribed as a terrorist one. Can Starmer and his government not see or hear their appalling hypocrisy ?

2025-06-21 17:13:35 UTC

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That used to be the case. these days Trump announces something, or shows off a signature on something, and the sheeple all fall in line. Congress will agree when they are obliged to. There is no democratic process in the USA any more. Masked & armed gangs kidnap people off the street, from their homes, from their work, from their recreational place and disappear them - it seems it’s all perfectly fine. Trump announces some incomprehensible word salad, and the media agree, without question.

2025-06-18 19:22:54 UTC

Horrifying and dangerous ruling.
There are laws criminalising women for making choices concerning their bodily autonomy.
There are laws about only using a birth name for voting records which again will affect women.
Now there are laws against trans people, the medication and treatment they can no longer have.
To date, I have not seen a single law curtailing the rights of any men, especially Caucasian men.
#Gilead #ProChoice #Autonomy #TransRights
Court’s gender-affirming care ruling will impair all sex-based rights, say critics | US supreme court | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/supreme-court-gender-affirming-care-decision

2025-06-18 12:04:16 UTC

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The crowd outside the court is fantastic! And talk about getting free advertising and more fans. Whatever the Brits never learned, they certainly never learned that supression doesn’t work when it comes to dealing with Ireland and its people. #Kneecap are doing a Wembley concert in September, and announced it right there.