In case anyone wanted to know where the future of the active left is in Scotland, @niallchristie1.bsky.social got nearly twice as many votes for the Your Party executive committee as Ross Greer got for co-leader of the Greens.

The balance of coverage, save a few outlets, of the illegal bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president has been so bad that saying this is almost a defiant act. Read many news outlets you will see the words captured with few mentions anymore of the indiscriminate bombing of innocents.

Without a background in international law, on the surface what Trump and the US government have done in Venezuela is an even more blatant violation of international law than what Russia committed in Ukraine. Happy to be corrected. If so, should isolation and sanctions be appropriate?

Venezuelans have suffered enough at the hands of a corrupt government and Western Imperialism. Now we have open warfare, civilian deaths and illegal regime change. Keir Starmer and this Labour government will be complicit if we do not force them to act against US actions.

Tyranny will never bring democracy to Venezuela. The US installed Pinochet in Chile and Videla in Argentina and many others in Latin America, bloody dictators. Trump can try illegally install his neo-liberalist puppet through bloodshed but it will only cause more pain and suffering.

It’s refreshing having the UKs two biggest unions led by strong willed women who can stand up to feeble men like Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting. Battle lines are being drawn and we need to all unionise and fight a rampaging right after the Tories followed Labour and next could be Reform.

I am standing with the Village Hotels and Starbucks workers who are challenging the company’s discriminatory low pay structure and fighting for recognition after CEO Gary Davis stated that “money is not a problem” under Blackstone. I will join them on the picket next week on Thursday 18th December✊🏽

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

Australia Social Media Ban 🧵 The teenage social media ban in Australia might be one of the dummest policies I've seen all year. It took me literally 2 mins of scrolling on reels to find an Australian influencer telling her underage followers to move to a Discord server. (1/6)

Pretty hilarious that a court in Dundee, my much maligned home town by the middle classes and typical elites, can see through this grifters bullshit better than the supposed highest court in the land. If I had submitted supporting evidence like this for an attic conversion I’d be embarrassed.

EXCLUSIVE: Protesters have gathered in Glasgow to demand the end of the mainstream media’s 'censorship' and 'silence' on the pro-Palestine activists who are on hunger strike in prison

Glasgow protesters demand 'media silence end' on Palestine prisoners hunger strike

thenational.scot

Omfg 🤣

Moon-Watcher@bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Who has made this 🤣

It’s very refreshing for someone to be out there talking about what we all know and believe needs done. Our economy needs dramatic change and not adaptation or tinkering. Nationalisation will take back control from a small cabal of wealthy people and into all our hands for greater public good.

Zarah Sultana MP@zarahsultana.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We need to nationalise our economy because the working class can run society better than the billionaires, the profiteers and the war criminals who rule over us today.

Live in Glasgow South? Come along to our next meeting on Tuesday evening at 7pm in the Roma Cultural Centre, Nithsdale Street. See you there.

To speak another language is to defy fascism. It was true in Basque Country and Catalunya during Franco. As for indigenous people globally. As it was for Scots who were forced off their land during the highland clearances. Embrace every Glaswegian with their different tongues one and all.

The owner of Reform UK ltd - Farage, has accepted £9m from Thailand resident Harborne. Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations: "He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?" Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia

Here is something the right can’t answer. If you are all about growth, how do you get growth if your customer base have no money. They will talk about freeing up business and empowering entrepreneurs through tax and regulation cuts. However, if everyone else is broke, who buys their shit?

“Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise: “teenage Farage would sidle up and say “Hitler was right” & “gas them”sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas chambers. Eight contemporaries have corroborated the claim.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments

Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy

theguardian.com

Glasgow again showing it has the absolute worst of a bad lot of Labour MPs. Chinese racism one week and selling our health records to private firms for them profit off the next.

I am here for the artistic polemic about why someone stuck a pigeon on top of the Wellington. Nice try. For what it is worth, the next move needs to be a bigger cone to cover the pigeon. Ensuring a traffic cone wholly sits a top the head of this statue is the primary civic endeavour of the city.

You can’t stay here if you don’t speak English. You aren’t allowed to learn English here either. The impossible asks we make of people who came here thinking they had escaped persecution.

Cllr Anthony Carroll@anthonycarroll.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Dalmarnock Primary's been offering family learning for years. It's sad *some* parents are boycotting a school cause asylum seeker families get that support too via ESOL. Funny how certain folk never raised PVG concerns for other family learning on offer... www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2564201...

Interesting read. Happens against the backdrop of a backlash from LinkedIn users who have seen their engagement stifled in favour of monetised “boosting” of posts. Major issue with these platforms and the power they wield and the lack of accountability they have to any public good.

Bro boost: women say their LinkedIn traffic increases if they pretend to be men

Collective experiment found switching profile to ‘male’ and ‘bro-coding’ text led to big increase in reach, though site denies favouring posts by men

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The Labour Party favour oligarchs and billionaires over teachers and doctors. Rascist, favouring some ethnic groups over others such as Ukrainians and Hong Kongers over Afghans or Latin Americans. They hate refugees. Live here 20-30 years with the fear of being sent back potentially to die.

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The answer is yes, you total coward. We will allow most likely traumatised people to come here and then we will force them to feel the trauma of being uprooted from their new home. There is no real reason to do this other than cowardice to challenge people’s misconceptions and in some cases racism.

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“Is it possible that you could have a life here, a job here, maybe kids going to school, a family here, then after 19 years if your country is then considered safe you get booted out and sent home?”

In a week that feels like a month I missed that the BBC had Kelvin McKenzie on to talk about journalistic standards. The man who wrongly editorialised the working class fans as the culprits at Hillsborough when they were victims. Why is it all apologies for Trump and 0 Fs given to the rest of us.

I remember post 911 the warnings about the impact of new anti-terror laws on human rights. UK bombing other countries is what has radicalised a generation of terrorists. How about stopping that! Now we are locking up grannies and throwing away the key for holding a sign and opposing genocide.

Zarah Sultana MP@zarahsultana.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Opposing genocide is the moral duty of our time. Yet Palestine Action activists have been held in prison for over a year without trial. Six are now on hunger strike. Detaining peaceful protesters under counter-terror powers is indefensible. This is political imprisonment in all but name.

Governing on slogans or vibes. Really good piece this. Our justice system still does not reduce re-offending. Shoplifting isn’t a threat to our safety. It’s a symptom of a broken societal contract. Prisons are expensive, we shouldn’t build more but modernise and humanise our existing ones.

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 9mo ago

How can Scotland have a 'soft touch' approach to crime, and the biggest prison population in history, hitting just under 8400 last month? asks Andrew Tickell ✍️ www.thenational.scot/politi...

Waiting on a train, minding my own business. Some women gets off and gives me the dirtiest look. I clock her red poppy and she clearly took massive offence at me wearing a white one. Like common, we can all agree that working for peace and not murdering each other is a good thing surely.

We need to talk about asset prices. We don’t just have an affordability crisis. We have a wealth hoarding one too.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 9mo ago

“It’s kind of a shocking number." The median age of first-time home buyers in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40 in 2025, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. nyti.ms/4hKc58V