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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 3h

Solidarity means we support them, and in return we get spit in our face. And if we’re not grateful for it, well we must be the problem right?

Yeah nah. They need us, we don’t need them. There are far better alternatives.

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 3h

I know what socialism is. Socialism is the solidarity of the workers - well, I’m a working trans woman, and after two years of attacks on my rights and thinly veiled homophobic bigotry I’m not feeling the solidarity am I?

Labour think solidarity is a one way street. They think that 1/

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 4h

I think it’s too late honestly? Starmer’s advisors might have fucked up but it was his choice to hire them, and the buck has to stop with him.

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 4h

You can bury your head in the sand if you like but Labour will have to answer to face the music eventually. I’ll be amazed if Starmer is still in charge by then.

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 4h

Personally I think cars are ugly but they’re all over the place. It’s weird how we just accept that.

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 4h

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Shamefully, RTE doesn’t seem to think it’s worth mentioning that this attack was a transphobic hate crime, and it got no mention in their version of the article. Here is the Irish times sort of half mentioning it.

Man who robbed, punched, kicked and threw woman (86) into wheelie bin is jailed

Alex Bailey sentenced to 2.5 years for attack on woman who got lost on way back to her Ranelagh home

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 4h

Transphobia gets women killed, and not just trans women.

Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 8h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 8h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

share.google

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 4h

I’m a fan of the manifesto - it’s all the transphobia, racism and crackdowns on protests which were not in the manifesto which I’m not a fan of.

I feel like the manifesto pledged a completely different party, with different values. I feel like the manifesto was labour, and the party is reform.

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 4h

I’m more concerned about the stuff that they’re doing which was not on their manifesto - such their uncritical embrace of hard right transphobia and racism. Or arresting people at pro Palestine protests.

This wasn’t in the manifesto but here it is.

Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 4h

Labour are actually neck and neck with greens now. So actually, imo Labour are the third-party spoiler vote.

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 4h

Imo at this point, labour are damaging greens.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 4h

God damn. I would love it if we could have free groceries can we vote for that please??

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Dismantling the VRA is their plan. An all out attack on black/brown representation that would give Republicans a hammer-lock on power.

A potentially 20-plus house seat shift. Pay attention.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h

The Labour Party have spent no time at all criticising Nigel Farage and Reform.

When I took Reform on - Labour sat their silently.

They're now spending their time attacking me and the Green Party.

Lower bills. Tax billionaires. (And rebuild European alliances.)

Join.greenparty.org.uk

UK labour. I definitely do not support NATO - quote from Zack.

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 6h

“Daily express slams Polanski” - reports daily express.

A news reporter having an opinion is not “news”, it’s just the Express being their own staff’s glorified Twitter page.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

"Polanski slammed” reports the Daily Express. The person doing that “slamming” is, err, Daily Express journalist Carole Malone.

And the reason? Because I want us to follow a science led public health approach to regulate drug use.

Polanski slammed over bid to legalise drugs

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 6h

Winning my vote.

Instead think of the value proposition we can pitch. Stuff they want in their communities, ways we can benefit them. Lower energy bills, lower cost of living, etc.

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 6h

Also let me tell you, as someone who come from a minority background, no amount of berating people who are different and under privileged will *ever* bring them to your side.

It doesn’t matter how much people tell me not wanting to vote for Labour’s transphobia is helping Farage win, it’s not 1/

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 6h

You’re right, there is class division, it is easy to dismiss what we’re saying as so much “privileged elite city nonsense”. Even though I think this isn’t the case.

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 6h

Indeed. But there’s no point promising what you can’t deliver. There’s stakeholders in this besides the U.K.

Having said that - an unequivocal “we will begin the rejoin process and get there as soon as possible” - that you can deliver, and it would manage expectations about when it can happen.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7h

When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them. I meant it.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll showing labour and greens neck and neck.

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Robin (fka Jade) Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 7h

That thing takes the space of what, one parked car? To store six bikes? What’s the real wasteful use of space here?

Besides I personally live in an urban area, I have to drag my bike up a flight of stairs at the end of each day. This would suit me great.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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