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On the fence about: >Scrapping the triple lock in next manifesto (might save money for better things but also might hurt the poorest pensioners so I don’t know)

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Cons: >Opening new oil/gas fields >Palestine Action still a “terrorist organisation” >Not doing enough to protect trans people (eg. amending equality act, gender recognition reform, unbanning puberty blockers) >STILL hasn’t banned conversion “therapy” yet

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Pros: >Overtook Reform in the polls >Sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements >Restrictions on right-to-buy >VAT removed on energy bills >Promises of future electoral reform >National care service (depends on what it *actually* is) >VAT cut from energy bills >£2 bus fare cap

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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

current Burnham-o-meter 🧵 Overall doing quite a good job (certainly compared to his predecessors) but still work to be done. See thread for my reasoning.

A bar going from green (very positive) to red (very negative) with 4 sections in between, the indicator is currently in the “mostly positive” section.

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This is good, important reporting. If the situation were reversed though, I doubt 'Terrorist attack' would be in quotation marks. The Guardian would be perfectly comfortable calling it what it is in the headline.

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 28/09/2026

⛽️problem. 🚌solution.

BBC News Article: UK diesel price hits all-time high

Morning star article: Scottish Greens call for £2 bus fare cap

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Roderick Kennedy @mrrod1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

more people using buses will probably decrease the price of petrol for people who need it anyway since less of it’ll be getting used up by others

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026

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Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 25/09/2026

Glasgow's drug consumption room has dealt with 195 medical emergencies since it opened last year. It saves lives. Drug addiction and misuse is a health crisis. We need a major expansion of harm reduction and treatment services, including safe consumption facilities.

The National. Experts reject attacks on The Thistle and call for bolder drug death action. Experts have agreed that drug consumption rooms like The Thistle are "without a doubt" saving lives.

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Roderick Kennedy @mrrod1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scottish Labour being one of the good guys feels… weird

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 22/09/2026

Democracy isn't a one time event. So why do unionist politicians keep telling the people Scotland, that they can't have a say on Scotland's future?

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two state elections in Germany today, guess which one will be written up as representative of Germany/Europe and which one will be portrayed as unique to that specific state?

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Roderick Kennedy @mrrod1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I would like to express my personal congratulations to J. K. Rowling for winning the Scottish Labour Leadership election.

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Roderick Kennedy @mrrod1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Me: “Your Party was a split off from Labour, so surely Labour will be second or third after the Greens and maybe an independent” the 8.9% of them who chose Reform: “YOU FOOL YOU HAVE FALLEN RIGHT INTO MY TRAP”

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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hundreds of people have been arrested and accused of terrorism offences for holding signs saying they support Palestine Action. But apparently this organised campaign to literally terrorise lifeboat crews and endanger lives isn't terrorism?

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

To say this leadership race went nowhere would be giving it too much credit. It started nowhere and went backwards.

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Roderick Kennedy @mrrod1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your friend’s net worth just tripled from the amount of money people would probably give to buy that.

𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

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we asked the cookie monster: are cookies addictive?

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Roderick Kennedy @mrrod1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes, energy prices are a huge problem, I agree. Remind me again whose government just opposed the motion for a moratorium on the AI data centres that would increase Scotland’s peak energy consumption by 150%? Oh yeah, yours.

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

God this is so embarrassing

SNP minister Tom Arthur is now concluding for the Scottish Government.

He says: "We are in the early days of a parliamentary term where it is quite possible that artificial intelligence will be something that we will have to contend with, and I do not think it is hyperbolic or an exaggeration to say that this may be one of the most profound moments, not just in recent history but in human history, where we have developed technology which is cognitively equal to us, if not superior to us."

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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

People in the mainstream parties of the centre will really be like "you believe in taking an uncompromisingly hard line against fascism? That pales in effectiveness to my strategy, challenging it in the marketplace of ideas" and then not challenge it in the marketplace of ideas

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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

MSPs are debating tackling violence against women & girls. Reform have dismissed the assault of a young woman at their conference with 'She shouldn't have been there'. We've heard that before. She shouldn't have walked down that dark street. She shouldn't have worn that. Victim blaming at its worst

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Forward Democracy @fwddem.com · 14/09/2026

We will not let them redefine Britain as angry, isolated and afraid. Britain should be liberal, internationalist and a beacon of democracy - a country that leads the world, not one that retreats from it. We want Britain. Not Trump’s oligarchic America with a Union Jack stuck on it.

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I was mostly intending it to be taken as a joke, I was not at all arguing that it proved *in and of itself* that Zohran isn’t antisemitic. I could list a variety of *actual* reasons why calling him an antisemite would be a completely baseless allegation but I shalln’t patronise you.

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That certainly wasn’t my intention, you possibly misunderstood the meaning behind my original comment.

current Burnham-o-meter Pros: >Overtook Reform in the polls >Sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements >Restriction on future right-to-buy >VAT removed on energy bills Cons: >Opening new oil/gas fields >Palestine Action still a “terrorist organisation” >Not doing enough to protect trans people

I get it would be weird if it was just the children, of course. But the focus of the video is around the mayor and his support for Jewish New Yorkers, so it seems perfectly appropriate to make a comment about how he is sometimes misconstrued by people as an antisemite.

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 11/09/2026

it has never been more over for the “zOhRAn iS aNTiSemiTIc” gang

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New oil and gas licences: ➡️ will not take a penny off bills ➡️ cannot make us energy secure ➡️ will only accelerate the worsening climate crisis Words straight from Labour's 2024 manifesto. So why are they now preparing to approve the Jackdaw and Rosebank developments?

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Jackdaw and Rosebank will not secure Scotland’s energy future

SCOTLAND’S energy debate has once again been reduced to two words: Jackdaw and Rosebank

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Roderick Kennedy @mrrod1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

John truly is a master of using a lot of words to say nothing