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No one says the media shouldn't hold the SNP & ScotGov to account, but when only 1 newspaper out of 38 dailies & weeklies in Scotland supports indy, which has majority support in most polls, & pro-indy parties have won majorities in Holyrood since 2011, there's a huge problem of media imbalance.

Tom Swarbrick out batting for the billionaires again #LBC

Under Lulu, Amazon deforestation rates have been plummeting—by 41%. The planet won tonight. www.bbc.com/news/article...

We hear plenty about young people struggling to find work. But what about the over-50s? Nearly 3 million people below pension age are out of work, education or training – and many want to work. Why are they getting so little attention? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

A reminder of some of Toby Young's previous output www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

The people of Serbia celebrating the defeat of the dictator who held full authoritarian control of their country for nearly 14 years. This is what democracy looks like.

First Serbia, and now an even more seismic election result for the geopolitics of now. Hard to overstate how important Brazil bucking the far right trend in Latin America is - also a huge blow to Trump www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Growth that kills its host isn’t growth. It’s cancer with good PR.

In the great news from Brazil, don't sleep on this Reuters investigation which found that Darren Beattie, a racist activist who was fired during the first Trump administration, directly worked to increase tariffs on Brazil to harm the country in hopes that it would elect Flavio Bolsonaro

Serbia finally got rid of Vučić, just like Hungary got rid of Orbán a few months ago. It's always encouraging to see, especially as both were supported by both the Kremlin and the White House, and still lost pathetically

Trump is straight up saying during speeches that he wants white people coming to the country but not black. I don’t know what else people need to see.

Republicans spent years investigating the dick pics found on Hunter Biden's laptop but are refusing to do anything about the treason found on Jared Kushner's phone.

I'm utterly shocked at Reform being abusive and misogynistic- I mean it was bloody obvious

Leave her alone, for pity’s sake

“elitist to its core” bsky.app/profile/lgbt...

News just broke that Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in the Ellison family's Skydance, which owns CBS and CNN. Anoher step toward right-wing "media capture," as I wrote about recently in my Stop the Presses newsletter.

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

London does it, Manchester does it, Liverpool does it. Wales and the West Midlands are about to do it. So why is it only in Scotland that the media loses its mind over plans to bring buses into public control? Answer: because it’s an SNP policy and the Scottish media has lost all sense of balance

Photographer Marie Bell found that Taiwan blue magpies had developed an unusual nest-building behaviour using coat hangers. These magpies are found only in Taiwan and traditionally inhabit mountains. They are now moving into cities, and are showing their resourcefulness as they adapt to urban life.

My view at the time was a lot less “ah, sunshine is the best disinfectant” and a lot more “what the fuck are you dangerously feckless idiots playing at”, and it turns out the answer was “almost two decades of the mainstream appropriating this man’s politics and rhetoric, for their own ends”.

Everything for sale. Australia investors buy 19 UK ports, previously owned by investors from Canada, Singapore, Kuwait. City of London prefers speculation. Profits will be exported. Unlike many other countries, UK doesn't levy tax on dividends paid to foreign investors. archive.ph/oYm8k

The Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea is owned and operated by Adura, a joint venture between the energy giant Shell and Norway's state-owned energy company, Equinor. No mention of this in any reporting.

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Not beating the racism allegations

Al Jazeera analysed how every party in the Knesset voted on the most consequential measures affecting Palestinians.

The "we'll just import it if we don't extract it" argument to more North Sea oil and gas extraction dismissed in one post...

"With a seeming flick of a switch, Musk has the power to alter the course of a deadly conflict. " Nobody should have that kind of power www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

I think people might be confusing the BBC Scotland channel with BBC Scotland the organisation- and its Pacific Quay hq.

These people just make up shit.....every day. Everything that comes out of their mouths is lies. How do they say it with a straight face. And so called journalists the world over are letting all of us down.

The violence experienced by our colleague, barriers to reaching medical care and growing restrictions imposed on Palestinian communities are not coincidental. Read our statement: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...

You know, Elon, if you just paid your taxes, we could give those kids food and healthcare, things far more valuable than stock in a government-welfare-dependent company that is bound to go bankrupt eventually.

Just wondering... do people still use Facebook?

The Trump administration is trying to get as many Ukrainian civilians killed as possible

Me coming home from kindergarten

Please, alt-right dorks, I am begging you, just one history book. Just open it. Maybe you will learn something by osmosis.

The Second World War ended 81 years ago. To have fought in it, you’d need to be about 100 years old. The number of people aged over 100 is 0.024% of the UK population Which is a long way of saying this is clickbait racist shite

The saddest thing about this is that I really think RL believes it. Others on the far right are just saying whatever they know will go down well with their paymasters and increasingly radicalised followings.I really think he thinks he’s some sort of crusader who’ll be remembered in the history books

Had political journos done their jobs, this rampant racism from a conspiratorial transphobe wouldn’t be news to them and could’ve maybe prevented this washed up bigot from being part of the legislature.

And still nothing will be done about it.!!!

This is a Labour peer interviewing a Labour minister, here. It makes it helpfully clear how we are governed, does it not.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

On this day 20 years ago, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Putin’s 54th birthday. She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing atrocities committed during Russia’s war in Chechnya. Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work under Putin.

Could we be more specific about the imminent Day Of Reckoning when everyone will be forced to sacrifice and do things they don’t want to do, for the army. Much, much more specific than this, please.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Yeah that’ll do it 🙄 They make me sick. They have no idea what’s going on and how to solve it.