Reposted by LennieKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 4hI think we have enough data to show if you're arresting elderly human rights lawyers you are not the good guys in this story. 8835158
Reposted by LennieJosep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 2hMashhour Yassin, 51, killed in an Israeli settler attack on Yassuf, east of Salfit. 043
Reposted by LennieKate Nevens (she/her) @katenevens.bsky.social · 2hLast week in parliament, I asked Cabinet Secretary Gillian Martin MSP what engagement she has had with the government's Humanitarian Emergency Fund team about increasing support to countries affected by climate-induced emergencies, and whether any funds would be directed to Nepal. 153
Reposted by LennieEdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com · 10h🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. Thursday’s headlines: New events series for Ross Bandstand, Leith shop ceiling collapse drama, Portobello bar The Espy is not closing + Tom Kelly's monthly Water of Leith wildlife update ⏰ Edinburgh’s ad-free local newsletter: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg... 0133
Reposted by LennieThe Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 8h❝ Trump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill ❞ — Jonathan Cookmiddleeasteye.netThe West wants Netanyahu gone - so Palestinians can be killed more quietly againTrump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill 0105
Reposted by LennieDaniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · 9hSome news... 1. If We Tolerate This sold just shy of 5,000 copies in its first two months. Thanks to everyone who has read, responded to or shared the book so far. 2. If you haven't yet, it's only 99p on kindle for the whole of October. Get involved! www.amazon.co.uk/If-We-Tolera... 510134
Reposted by LennieAndy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 8hThis has been on the cards about a decade. It's inevitable sadly - numbers are the owners can make £11-15 million selling plot for redevelopment but tenants only pay ~£130k annual rent. Arts organisations just can't compete with a distorted market like that and a laissez-faire planning environment 3246
Reposted by LennieBlue Ted @vicsq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It has taken too long. And too late for hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians. But better late than never. substack.com/@peoplemustb...substack.comFree All Humans (@peoplemustbefree)The Irish President declares Israel a Terror State 👏👏 thank you Catherine Connolly👇. Common Irish Americans, your power in sheer numbers in overwhelming in the America, there are more than 33 Million... 617867
Reposted by LennieSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED 61668711548
Reposted by LennieThe New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister was among more than 80 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool while demonstrating in support of Palestine Action. The arrests came as Ed Miliband told critics of the government’s policy on Palestine: “We hear you. You were right" 11428931257
Reposted by LenniePocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today before Senate. 477154214828
Reposted by LennieRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 150161155394
Reposted by LennieAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 690277549472
Reposted by LennieDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895439936
Reposted by LennieGilgamesh Bot @gilgameshbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026At the axe of my kind amulet there lay a dark. All the people of the cedar forest asked what it could mean. 021
Reposted by LennieSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026the 80's were the 70's without hope, now the 20's are the 80's without money 810516
Reposted by LennieNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead Seven people - three men, one woman & three children - were killed by loyalist terrorists because of Drumcree in the 1990s. I covered the terrible events. Is this forgotten? What’s happening now mocks their loss. In @heraldscotland.bsky.socialheraldscotland.comShame on them: Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the deadOur Writer at Large covered the Northern Ireland Troubles extensively. Here, he remembers the lives lost over Drumcree and says Loyalist protestors… 514677
Reposted by LennieOutspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees. 288135564526
Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Now that's how you make a public monument site. oyustonecircles.explorekazuno.jp/en/oyustonecircles.explorekazuno.jpNationally Designated Special Historic Site | The Oyu Stone CirclesThe Oyu Stone Circles consist of two stone circles that represent our nation's Jomon remains. 010
Reposted by LennieEdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com · 28/09/2026☀️ Good morning Edinburgh. Monday’s headlines: Five-weeks of uni strikes begin today, MP to quit over ageism and sexism, Southside community centre reopening + new music series at Brown's of Leith ⏰ Read more in Edinburgh’s ad-free local newsletter: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg... 1136
Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't have much time for Christine Jardine as a politician but as a person she should not be treated like this. She has every right to stand for election and a functioning representative democracy must have space for older women (not just old men). www.heraldscotland.com/news/2658516...heraldscotland.com65-year-old Scottish Lib Dem MP told she's 'too old' to stand for re-electionChristine Jardine, MP for Edinburgh West since 2017, says she was told she was too old to stand again and calls the attitude 'quite… 030
Reposted by LennieGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comEd Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell shortForeign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’ 821699504
Reposted by Lennie👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I've known this dude for 20 years. One of the first friends I made in Bristol, he taught me what it means to be an antifascist. If there's dinner, he's cooking, if there's a benefit gig, he's flyposting, and if there's fash, he's first in, last out. I have literally bled alongside this man. 17656
Reposted by LennieAndy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 23/09/2026The actual best website on the internet by a country mile. 88121
Reposted by LennieBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Telegraph are racist scumbags. Pass it on. 57926
Reposted by LennieNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Nationalise everything he owns and ban him from Britain. He’s a threat to national securitybbc.co.ukSir Jim Ratcliffe suspends production at key UK plants blaming high gas pricesIneos said natural gas in the UK is twelve times more expensive than in the US. 1016348
Reposted by Lennie👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Thank you to everyone who has donated so far. We've cracked £4k so we're well over 1/3rd of the way there in 24 hours! I know I'm asking you to put your trust in me and @bristolantifascist.bsky.social, ao thank you. Every donation is a real, meaningful act of solidarity to a comrade and his family. 22617
Reposted by LennieResist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Palestinian child Mais Khamis Bazazo is killed by the israelis using tank artillery in Gaza after taking part in a theatre programme at her school (Sarah Wilkinson) 12218
Reposted by LennieMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY 256143826810
Reposted by LennieGrace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 22/09/2026This story is about so much more than one man and one company. It’s about the corruption of our British democracy through the subtle intermingling of the financial and political interests of our political class and the world’s most powerful corporations. open.substack.com/pub/zeteouk/...open.substack.comWhy Is a Labour Lord Now Paid by Palantir – and What Does it Mean For Our Democracy?Ex-Labour deputy leader Tom Watson just got hired by a controversial US tech company seeking taxpayer-funded state contracts. The intermingling of politicians and corporations corrupts our democracy. 23505274
Reposted by LennieThe Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026❝ The UK, France and Canada have banned trade with the settlements while sparing the state that built, armed and rewarded them. ❞ — Joseph Massadmiddleeasteye.netIn defence of Israel's Jewish settlers in the West BankThe UK, France and Canada have banned trade with the settlements while sparing the state that built, armed and rewarded them 1109
Reposted by LennieCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Israel killed children today. You’re supporting a country that’s committing a genocide. 720279
Reposted by LennieNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Guess how the BBC just framed the government promise to give statutory leave to workers who have suffered a bereavement? As extra bureaucracy and cost for corporations... What an utter disgrace the BBC has become. It's simply a tool of billionaire malice now 138928
Reposted by Lennie👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Remember that when people treat anarchism as some "rebellious phase" you should have grown out of after uni, you are part of a proud working class liberationist movement that has had a name for a century and a half and traces its roots back for millenia, and which people dedicate their lives to. 13910
Reposted by LennieOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Does the Israeli-arming Friends of Israel Labour Cabinet really think Israel's 'right to defend itself' justifies this level of callousness and brutality ... "Israel Blocking Hundreds of Wheelchairs for Injured Children From Entering Gaza" www.commondreams.org/news/israel-... 5141110
Reposted by LennieBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Israel has been found guilty today in Geneva of war crimes including extermination, forcible transfer, starvation, torture and false imprisonment, sexual violence including rape... and many more If it was any other country than Israel all of Europe would boycott them. Instead there will be silence 721609800
Reposted by LennieJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published 541632391
Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 22/09/2026University of Edinburgh's vice-chancellor wants to close textiles courses at the Edinburgh College of Art? What the hell? 140
Reposted by LennieMerchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 22/09/2026Three amazing things about this 16th century letter: 1. It is written in code. 2. It complains about pirates. 3. It is written by King Henry VIII! 415635
Reposted by Lenniemattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/09/2026great news! | patreon.com/lubchansky 111730349
Reposted by LennieMillions of Chopped Landlord Pieces @thirteentwelve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Charlotte Church roasting Ed Sheeran over a Dead Kennedy's cover 31995331
Reposted by LennieThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: Train drivers have warned they will boycott vehicles manufactured by a company linked to illegal Israeli settlements www.thenational.scot/news/2... 1011346
Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There was an interview, on BBC Radio Scotland, with the outgoing Chief Exec of Edinburgh airport about the airport expansion. Not a single mention of climate crisis. I suspect this must mean there's no longer a climate crisis. #WhatHasTheBbcDoneForUs 020
Reposted by LennieMatt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on 101034381
Reposted by LennieLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/09/2026‘It is essential to the image of the English as a mild, unobtrusive race that the British Empire should be thought of as a kind of accident.’ Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukFerdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched StrangersIn the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It... 02310
Reposted by LennieJosep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Israeli gunfire targeting tents in Bir 19, south of Khan Younis, killed child Obada Osama Sheikh Eid. 061
