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News alert - “Former neo-Nazi withdraws as Tory council election candidate - and Kemi Badenoch offers him new role”. How can this even be real? 😩

Andrew Tate’s lawyer is claiming they will be executed in the U.K. Unfortunately MAGAs will believe anything so just to be really clear, there is no such thing as the death penalty in the U.K. and there hasn’t been for many decades.

🧵Scottish anti-abortion groups are still attempting to make this disinformation take off in MAGA occupied 🇺🇸 No, a teacher was not ‘sacked’ for being anti-abortion. She was not sacked at all. She’s now being booked for speaking gigs 🙄Please share to debunk… www.thenational.scot/politics/264...

Respecting freedom of speech does not mean a removal of consequences

REPORTS have been circulating of a teacher supposedly being sacked on the same day she told children that she opposes abortion. As a teacher, I am…

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Andrew Tate wants books and fan mail. I thought it would be funny to send feminist books. But do you know what’s even better? Donating to help his U.K. victims get him extradited and jailed here www.crowdjustice.com/case/hold-an...

Bring Andrew Tate to Justice in the UK

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Gadget@gadget44027447.bsky.social · yesterday

Andrew Tate says he is receiving thousands of letters in jail, his own cart just for him. Even though only two guys can be seen outside his detention centre protesting. And even though most of his fans are schoolchildren who have never sent a letter in their life.

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Police question Wings Over Scotland blogger Stuart Campbell 'under threat of arrest'

WINGS Over Scotland blogger Stuart Campbell has said that he was questioned by police under threat of arrest over posts he made on social media ...

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Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d ago

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Actual protections not transphobia camouflage.

Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️@gemmaclark.bsky.social · 2d ago

🧵Public consultations are used to craft new laws and really worth your while! This one is about protections for women and girls in the justice system. If you have or work with children, bear with me on this thread 🙏 consult.gov.scot/justice/prot...

(Just clarifying that this is actual protections, against AI generated images and nudes etc, not something transphobic). An important thread.

Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️@gemmaclark.bsky.social · 2d ago

🧵Public consultations are used to craft new laws and really worth your while! This one is about protections for women and girls in the justice system. If you have or work with children, bear with me on this thread 🙏 consult.gov.scot/justice/prot...

🧵Public consultations are used to craft new laws and really worth your while! This one is about protections for women and girls in the justice system. If you have or work with children, bear with me on this thread 🙏 consult.gov.scot/justice/prot...

A statement from the teachers being targeted by lawyers in London who appear to think it’s ok to reject United Nation investigations on Gaza. educatorsforpeace.co.uk/public-state...

Andrew Tate’s lawyer seems to be very worried that other inmates will do to Tate what Tate has done to women 🧐

I’ve noticed professional transphobes really don’t care how badly a man behaves as long as he shares their foaming hatred of trans people. Not exactly a revelation, I know. I also notice that water is wet.

Atheists don’t have equality in this country. Humanists in England still can’t have a marriage that aligns with their ethos and its 2026.

Humanists UK@humanists.uk · 2d ago

Rather than allowing humanists to contribute to Radio 4's Thought for the Day, the BBC's current format requires all speakers to frame political and current affairs commentary through a religious or scriptural lens. Yet half of the UK is non-religious so why not let us speak?

I love it when something that *actually helps women happens. www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...

Scots domestic abuse victims to be given protection to remain in their homes

New legal provisions are set to come into effect on Saturday that will aim to help some domestic abuse victims to remain in their home.

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Honestly loved the Commonwealth Game closing ceremony last night. Didn’t know I’d get to see Delta Goodrem and Diversity 💜 Loved the passing on to the country who have the world yoga from the country who gave the world traffic cones on statues 🤣 #loutsflowersandtrafficcones

🧵A group of London lawyers are targeting workers who agree with the United Nations that Israel are committing a genocide in Gaza. Teachers work with and care about children. It is NOT radical to believe that all children have the right to live. I don’t understand why anyone wants to intimidate

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 4d ago

EXCLUSIVE: A group of Scottish educators advocating for peace in Palestine have been forced to seek legal advice after a targeted campaign by pro-Israel lawyers

My academic book, ‘JK Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic,’ is out September 2026. It is my analysis of the moral panic from Edinburgh, the ‘city of JK Rowling,’ where I study and work at JKR’s former university as it became a hub for anti-trans organizing … ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic

Weaves the author’s lived experience as a trans woman with pop culture and media analysis to dissect J. K. Rowling’s emergence as an anti-trans activist within the context of the UK’s anti-trans moral...

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Solidarity to Laura. The National are on the right side of history. The Woman Protectors are, of course, threatening her.

Laura Webster@lauraewebster.bsky.social · 5d ago

Written a bit about the massive influx of abuse, threats and targeted harassment I've received due to The National reporting accurately on the far-right's activities and aims. TLDR: The National won't be silenced. www.thenational.scot/politics/264...

Nigel Farage's image is cracking. After questions about an undeclared £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire, and money from a convicted fraudster, the public is seeing through the "outsider" act.

THIS!!! Of course school closures were painful at the time but imagine how many more children would have lost PARENTS and how much worse that would have been in the long run. There was no fun and convenient way to deal with a new lethal virus. The lockdowns were needed.

Dr Attercop@drattercop.bsky.social · 4d ago

My children caught covid at school and as a result nearly lost one of their parents. Other children were not as lucky. Covid was definitely a threat to them.

We are doing 45 minutes of silent reading together online tonight at 10 pm UK time / 5 pm Eastern / 2 pm Pacific. Come along and read with a group of invisibly encouraging strangers! Take back the internet from short-form video! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

LIVE SOON: Silent reading together for 45 minutes

Starting Aug 2 at 5:00 PM EDT

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What is notable about pieces like this is they identify trans rights as a faultline, but I don't think I've ever seen a single Scottish political journalist ever acknowledge that for a centre-left party to take the grotesquely anti-trans position Scottish and UK Labour have is completely abnormal.

Inside Scottish Labour's civil war: Indyref2 and trans rights 'ripping' party apart

Scottish Labour's civil war is about more than just who replaces Anas Sarwar as leader. There are fears the party could be left…

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Yeah this is essentially north west Morocco we are talking about. The media would have you thinking it’s Gibraltar or something.

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4d ago

RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.

This sounds about right.

Paul Hutcheon@paulhutcheon.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Labour MSP Monica Lennon says leadership contest reeks of “misogyny and male entitlement”.

🧵I had cognitive dissonance about Ariana Grande. I totally agree nobody should comment on her body. But I also worry about young girls who see her as Glenda. I thought the recent photos with her ribs really visible were ai. They aren’t. They are from her new music video.

Glad to hear Police Scotland are going to arrest the scum who were throwing Nazi salutes on Saturday. There should be zero tolerance for any kind of hate news.stv.tv/west-central...

Police chief warns protesters they will be arrested for making Nazi salutes

Senior Police Scotland officer tells STV News that officers are working to identify those involved in Glasgow disorder

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But anyway help fund @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com who actually do the work to stand up for the community and report on issues despite threats.

JK Rowling offered to bankroll legal action against Féile Belfast, because JK Rowling is the GCs legal "heavy" when it comes to threatening organisations. "We're backed by a billionaire," is a very scary threat to most orgs, which is why Rowling was so snide and confident here. But, they lost.