Lesley McG
@lesleymac.bsky.social
Social justice warrior, Scottish Independence, I want my EU citizenship back. She/her tree hugger, in the words of the great Mr Weller once a mod always a mod. No DM's please Anti-racist Anti-fascist Trans Ally free palestine Woke As Fuck
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The actual story in the copy: SNP is "clear ahead" of Scottish Labour in this poll, there is "recent evidence that Reform's support has peaked".
The framing: Reform surges ahead of Labour
I am *so* fed up of this
The framing: Reform surges ahead of Labour
I am *so* fed up of this
January 29, 2026 at 4:23 PM
The actual story in the copy: SNP is "clear ahead" of Scottish Labour in this poll, there is "recent evidence that Reform's support has peaked".
The framing: Reform surges ahead of Labour
I am *so* fed up of this
The framing: Reform surges ahead of Labour
I am *so* fed up of this
Grouse shooting next
January 29, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Grouse shooting next
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How did a US spy tech firm used to target migrants under Trump get inside Britain’s public services?
Palantir, explained ⬇️
citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-e...
Palantir, explained ⬇️
citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-e...
Palantir, explained - and sign our petition calling for an urgent debate in parliament!
At a glance, Palantir sells software. In practice, it provides government with the infrastructure to monitor, investigate and target people at scale.
citizensreunited.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:11 PM
How did a US spy tech firm used to target migrants under Trump get inside Britain’s public services?
Palantir, explained ⬇️
citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-e...
Palantir, explained ⬇️
citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-e...
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This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”
January 29, 2026 at 1:54 AM
This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”
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Comrade Stalin visited me in my dream ordering me to move to the new USSR. He is very proud how they keep his legacy well and alive.
The UK govt is investing £140 million in a new AI centre, moving surveillance technologies from trial phase into full implementation
Alarmingly, AI will be responsible for the equivalent workload of 3,000 police officers
Alarmingly, AI will be responsible for the equivalent workload of 3,000 police officers
Shabana Mahmoud is turning the UK into a prison with transparent walls
In a recent conversation with Tony Blair, home secretary Shabana Mahmoud boasted that her vision for the UK has always been a “panopticon”.
open.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Comrade Stalin visited me in my dream ordering me to move to the new USSR. He is very proud how they keep his legacy well and alive.
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Ex-Labour Cllr Sean Morton
Charged in 2017 for possessing indecent images of children & extreme pornography
Convicted, placed on sex offenders register
He reoffended, & was jailed in 2024/2025 for further possession of indecent child images
Pam still a Labour MSP
x.com/pjwoodside/s...
Charged in 2017 for possessing indecent images of children & extreme pornography
Convicted, placed on sex offenders register
He reoffended, & was jailed in 2024/2025 for further possession of indecent child images
Pam still a Labour MSP
x.com/pjwoodside/s...
January 25, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Ex-Labour Cllr Sean Morton
Charged in 2017 for possessing indecent images of children & extreme pornography
Convicted, placed on sex offenders register
He reoffended, & was jailed in 2024/2025 for further possession of indecent child images
Pam still a Labour MSP
x.com/pjwoodside/s...
Charged in 2017 for possessing indecent images of children & extreme pornography
Convicted, placed on sex offenders register
He reoffended, & was jailed in 2024/2025 for further possession of indecent child images
Pam still a Labour MSP
x.com/pjwoodside/s...
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🚨 “You’re not safe, you’ll be murdered by migrant men of fighting age, we’re all doomed” Farage, Reform, Lowe etc all claim
Fact 👉🏼👉🏼 homicides are at the lowest level in nearly 50 years in England..
What’s the Far Right to do.. 🤷🏼♂️
“England’s too safe” doesn’t fit their agenda of talking down the UK
Fact 👉🏼👉🏼 homicides are at the lowest level in nearly 50 years in England..
What’s the Far Right to do.. 🤷🏼♂️
“England’s too safe” doesn’t fit their agenda of talking down the UK
Homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS statistics show
The 499 homicide cases in the year to September were the lowest in England and Wales since 1977.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 3:28 PM
🚨 “You’re not safe, you’ll be murdered by migrant men of fighting age, we’re all doomed” Farage, Reform, Lowe etc all claim
Fact 👉🏼👉🏼 homicides are at the lowest level in nearly 50 years in England..
What’s the Far Right to do.. 🤷🏼♂️
“England’s too safe” doesn’t fit their agenda of talking down the UK
Fact 👉🏼👉🏼 homicides are at the lowest level in nearly 50 years in England..
What’s the Far Right to do.. 🤷🏼♂️
“England’s too safe” doesn’t fit their agenda of talking down the UK
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Shitcanning a security assessment for being "too negative" is like a bad parody, something Trump would do, but of course Labour's eyes will sullenly glaze over at any report that doesn't simply say "Smash the immigrants, smash the shirkers, smash the protestors, smash the left".
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Shitcanning a security assessment for being "too negative" is like a bad parody, something Trump would do, but of course Labour's eyes will sullenly glaze over at any report that doesn't simply say "Smash the immigrants, smash the shirkers, smash the protestors, smash the left".
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The tech bros get their way on everything... The US is leading a huge global surge in new gas-fired power generation that will cause a major leap in planet-heating emissions, with this record boom driven by the expansion of energy-hungry datacenters to service AI, according to a new forecast.
US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate
Projects in development expected to grow global capacity by nearly 50% amid growing concern over impact on planet
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM
The tech bros get their way on everything... The US is leading a huge global surge in new gas-fired power generation that will cause a major leap in planet-heating emissions, with this record boom driven by the expansion of energy-hungry datacenters to service AI, according to a new forecast.
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Prior to the UK General Election, Labour politicians lined up to back the WASPI women & pledged to support their campaign for compensation.
Labour lied!
Today, they betrayed the WASPI women in a dishonourable, despicable & detestable way.
Labour lied!
Today, they betrayed the WASPI women in a dishonourable, despicable & detestable way.
January 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Prior to the UK General Election, Labour politicians lined up to back the WASPI women & pledged to support their campaign for compensation.
Labour lied!
Today, they betrayed the WASPI women in a dishonourable, despicable & detestable way.
Labour lied!
Today, they betrayed the WASPI women in a dishonourable, despicable & detestable way.
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"These songs tell stories—about power, sacrifice, fear, and consequence—that strike at the core of what a soldier is asked to do."
@markhertling.bsky.social on Bruce Springsteen and protest songs: lnk.thebulwark.com/4683FDM
@markhertling.bsky.social on Bruce Springsteen and protest songs: lnk.thebulwark.com/4683FDM
Bruce Springsteen and What Protest Songs Sound Like to Soldiers
What the rock icon’s new song about Minneapolis asks of us.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:31 PM
"These songs tell stories—about power, sacrifice, fear, and consequence—that strike at the core of what a soldier is asked to do."
@markhertling.bsky.social on Bruce Springsteen and protest songs: lnk.thebulwark.com/4683FDM
@markhertling.bsky.social on Bruce Springsteen and protest songs: lnk.thebulwark.com/4683FDM
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Remember Scotland Reform now have almost all of Boris’s Ex Cabinet.
Once a Tory always a Tory.
Don’t let them in Scotland vote SNP 1&2
#reformout #EndTheUnion #independence #snp
Once a Tory always a Tory.
Don’t let them in Scotland vote SNP 1&2
#reformout #EndTheUnion #independence #snp
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Remember Scotland Reform now have almost all of Boris’s Ex Cabinet.
Once a Tory always a Tory.
Don’t let them in Scotland vote SNP 1&2
#reformout #EndTheUnion #independence #snp
Once a Tory always a Tory.
Don’t let them in Scotland vote SNP 1&2
#reformout #EndTheUnion #independence #snp
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ICE is torturing kids.
Trump's violating the Flores binding national standard for the detention, treatment & release of kids in federal custody.
The government MUST place children in the least restrictive detention within 3–5 days, & release them to parents within 20 days."
#ICELawlessness
Trump's violating the Flores binding national standard for the detention, treatment & release of kids in federal custody.
The government MUST place children in the least restrictive detention within 3–5 days, & release them to parents within 20 days."
#ICELawlessness
January 29, 2026 at 3:34 PM
ICE is torturing kids.
Trump's violating the Flores binding national standard for the detention, treatment & release of kids in federal custody.
The government MUST place children in the least restrictive detention within 3–5 days, & release them to parents within 20 days."
#ICELawlessness
Trump's violating the Flores binding national standard for the detention, treatment & release of kids in federal custody.
The government MUST place children in the least restrictive detention within 3–5 days, & release them to parents within 20 days."
#ICELawlessness
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Watch as John Swinney reacts to the UK Government’s announcement that Waspi women will not receive compensation 👇
🗣️ 'It's just another example of the betrayal of individuals in this country by this Labour Government'
🗣️ 'It's just another example of the betrayal of individuals in this country by this Labour Government'
January 29, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Watch as John Swinney reacts to the UK Government’s announcement that Waspi women will not receive compensation 👇
🗣️ 'It's just another example of the betrayal of individuals in this country by this Labour Government'
🗣️ 'It's just another example of the betrayal of individuals in this country by this Labour Government'
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Florida "edits" a sociology textbook that reduces mention of trans people from 68 times to 1 and racism 115 times to 6 and erases the genocide of native Americans.
Fascism is always about cultural and educational impoverishment.
Florida now twinning with North Korea...
Fascism is always about cultural and educational impoverishment.
Florida now twinning with North Korea...
January 29, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Florida "edits" a sociology textbook that reduces mention of trans people from 68 times to 1 and racism 115 times to 6 and erases the genocide of native Americans.
Fascism is always about cultural and educational impoverishment.
Florida now twinning with North Korea...
Fascism is always about cultural and educational impoverishment.
Florida now twinning with North Korea...
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The failure of the puppet EHRC to operate intersectionality (here at the intersection of sex/gender and age) is why things like this have gone under the radar for so long…
The harm caused by an inept, ineffective and puppet EHRC is not restricted to its more obvious campaign against trans people.
The harm caused by an inept, ineffective and puppet EHRC is not restricted to its more obvious campaign against trans people.
Survey of over-50s women finds almost two in three struggle with mental health
Of those affected by midlife challenges such as menopause, nine in 10 do not seek help, therapists’ organisation says
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:32 AM
The failure of the puppet EHRC to operate intersectionality (here at the intersection of sex/gender and age) is why things like this have gone under the radar for so long…
The harm caused by an inept, ineffective and puppet EHRC is not restricted to its more obvious campaign against trans people.
The harm caused by an inept, ineffective and puppet EHRC is not restricted to its more obvious campaign against trans people.
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Palantir’s stated mission is to defend America. Peter Thiel is a radical libertarian who does not believe ‘freedom & democracy are compatible’.
Yet, the UK is overwhelmingly dependent on Palantir’s services. As a national security threat, this is off the charts.
@thenerve.news
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Yet, the UK is overwhelmingly dependent on Palantir’s services. As a national security threat, this is off the charts.
@thenerve.news
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January 28, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Palantir’s stated mission is to defend America. Peter Thiel is a radical libertarian who does not believe ‘freedom & democracy are compatible’.
Yet, the UK is overwhelmingly dependent on Palantir’s services. As a national security threat, this is off the charts.
@thenerve.news
2/
Yet, the UK is overwhelmingly dependent on Palantir’s services. As a national security threat, this is off the charts.
@thenerve.news
2/
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Please read the piece with comments from tech & national security experts.
We have no national security while we rely on highly political US Silicon Valley firms that are enmeshed in Trump’s increasing fascistic administration.
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We have no national security while we rely on highly political US Silicon Valley firms that are enmeshed in Trump’s increasing fascistic administration.
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January 28, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Please read the piece with comments from tech & national security experts.
We have no national security while we rely on highly political US Silicon Valley firms that are enmeshed in Trump’s increasing fascistic administration.
3/
We have no national security while we rely on highly political US Silicon Valley firms that are enmeshed in Trump’s increasing fascistic administration.
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Donald J. Trump said that Alex Pretti should have not had a gun when he was killed by Border Patrol agents. Pretti didn't touch or brandish his legal weapon. During has campaign for president Trump claimed he was a champion of the Second Amendment - I provide receipts.
January 29, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Donald J. Trump said that Alex Pretti should have not had a gun when he was killed by Border Patrol agents. Pretti didn't touch or brandish his legal weapon. During has campaign for president Trump claimed he was a champion of the Second Amendment - I provide receipts.
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We can’t allow illegal faith schools to opt out of the very regulations meant to identify and stop them. Children only get one chance at an education, and these unregulated ‘schools’ are failing them – with unqualified teachers, a narrow curriculum, and no safeguarding.
humanists.uk/2026/01/29/c...
humanists.uk/2026/01/29/c...
Children’s Wellbeing Bill: Peers warn against ‘carve-outs’ for religious-only education settings
Peers warned the Government that allowing religious schools to dodge new regulations would undermine child protection.
humanists.uk
January 29, 2026 at 11:14 AM
We can’t allow illegal faith schools to opt out of the very regulations meant to identify and stop them. Children only get one chance at an education, and these unregulated ‘schools’ are failing them – with unqualified teachers, a narrow curriculum, and no safeguarding.
humanists.uk/2026/01/29/c...
humanists.uk/2026/01/29/c...
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As the slaughter continues, it's obvious that it remains the ambition of the US & Israel for no Palestinians to remain in Gaza— & for Trump to build a holiday resort for oligarchs, tanning themselves above the skeletons of Palestinian children
We have a responsibility to speak out
We have a responsibility to speak out
Don't forget Gaza
Hideous new data underlines the scale of this abomination
open.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:14 AM
As the slaughter continues, it's obvious that it remains the ambition of the US & Israel for no Palestinians to remain in Gaza— & for Trump to build a holiday resort for oligarchs, tanning themselves above the skeletons of Palestinian children
We have a responsibility to speak out
We have a responsibility to speak out
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86% of people (out of 38,000!) want to keep the Hampstead Ponds trans-inclusive. It’s almost as if TERFs are a hate-driven minority well out of step with decent society.
Striking numbers which demonstrate, in spades, how tiny is the popular support for the culture of hate that Britain's institutions seem determined to impose on a kind and accepting majority.
(Expect the BBC to ignore it or qualify it to oblivion.)
(Expect the BBC to ignore it or qualify it to oblivion.)
January 29, 2026 at 11:01 AM
86% of people (out of 38,000!) want to keep the Hampstead Ponds trans-inclusive. It’s almost as if TERFs are a hate-driven minority well out of step with decent society.