The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle��s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
Just read someone say new HA “sounds like AI”
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that’s because I am the fucking blueprint motherfucker 😭😭
AI sounds like me bc it scraped my shit smoove off don’t do me like that 😭😭😭😭
Glasgow deserves better than periodic ritual condemnation.
If I hadn’t spent real time in Glasgow; walking those streets at 3am feeling safer than in most European cities; I might have swallowed the latest BBC framing wholesale.
But I have been there. I’ve seen the city at night, felt its pulse, and known its people. So when pieces like this reduce Glasgow to drugs, violence and racism, it lands as something more than journalism. It feels like a selective, recurring campaign that shows little regard for the community it claims to examine.
Every city has problems that demand honest attention and real solutions. Pretending otherwise helps no one. Glasgow is no exception. But painting an entire city and its people through the darkest lens available, while treating occasional disorder as defining character, is not balance. It is disregard.
Glaswegians have long punched above their weight. The “People Make Glasgow” ethos is not empty branding; it is lived reality.
Problems exist and should be confronted without denial. But reducing a complex, resilient city to a weekly dossier of its worst moments, while soft-pedalling the everyday dignity, creativity and solidarity of its people, is not serious analysis. It is a narrative that erodes more than it illuminates. Again, Glasgow deserves better than periodic ritual condemnation.
| #Glasgow #Scotland #PeopleMakeGlasgow
I renew my appeal for an end to the ongoing violence against the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank, and I urgently call on the international community to work toward advancing the two-state solution, for a just and lasting peace.
Farmers are reporting that data centres are destroying their bees. I don't think people understand how important this is. Bees pollinate about one in every three bites of food we eat. They're far more important to humanity than any Al tool or data centre.
We Told You J.K. Rowling Would Come for the Gay Rights Movement Next. Now She Has.
J.K. Rowling is now attacking the gay rights movement, and gay men and lesbians need to understand exactly what that means. Transgender people, gay people and lesbians have warned for years that this campaign would not stop with transgender rights. We were mocked, shouted down and accused of hysteria. We were told that it was only about language, only about sport, only about prisons, only about toilets and only about “protecting women.” We said that once the removal of one minority’s rights became publicly acceptable, the campaign would widen. We were right.
Rowling has now written that the gay rights movement is “host to a cannibalising ideology.” Those are her words, not an interpretation invented by transgender activists. She is no longer merely commenting on one transgender policy or one court case. She is publicly portraying the gay rights movement as corrupted and destructive because so many gay men and lesbians continue to stand beside transgender people.
As a gay man, I regard that as homophobic. She is attacking my movement, my history, my family and the community that fought for people like me to live openly. She does not get to stand outside our community and decide which members belong within it. She does not get to tell gay men and lesbians that our solidarity with transgender people has contaminated our own liberation movement.
We told you this would happen.
This progression did not appear overnight. It began with what was presented as an accidental social-media interaction—a “slip of the finger.” People were told not to overreact. Rowling then insisted that she respected transgender people and did not wish them harm. But the occasional post became a sustained political campaign. Her enormous platform helped move hostility towards transgender people from the margins into Britain’s newspapers, political parties, courts and public institutions.
She did not do this alone, and saying so would let too many institutions escape responsibility. Governments, judges, regulators, newspapers, broadcasters, campaign organisations and political parties all made decisions of their own. But Rowling was not a powerless observer. She amplified campaigners to millions of followers and financially supported the For Women Scotland litigation that featured in the process leading to the Supreme Court’s restrictive interpretation of “sex” under the Equality Act.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention explicitly referred to Rowling’s financial support for that litigation in its June 2025 Red Flag Alert concerning anti-transgender and anti-intersex developments in Britain. It warned about identity erasure, segregation and the removal of protections. That alert is the Institute’s human-rights assessment, not a judicial determination that genocide has legally occurred. It is nevertheless an exceptionally serious warning from an organisation established to identify dangerous patterns before they escalate further.
Amnesty International UK has also investigated the growth and influence of the organised gender-critical movement. Its May 2026 report, Like a Snowball, describes a movement that has gained substantial influence over British politics and media and places anti-trans campaigning within a wider anti-rights environment. Amnesty does not treat this as a neutral academic disagreement in which both sides are merely debating definitions. It examines how a minority’s protections, dignity and participation in public life have been systematically challenged.
The last time Spain lost a competitive game was to Scotland 3 years ago in March 2023, so Scotland are the real winners of the tournament imo. I don’t make the rules
Before #FIFA start pumping the propaganda tonight and telling us all how amazing this #WorldCup has been, let’s remember they oversaw:
- highest ticket prices ever and took a cut from resale sites.
- did nothing about Somalian referee and dozens of staff who were banned from entering the US for no legitimate reason.
- stood by as Iran were forced to train outside the US and travel in on match days.
- overturned red cards after phone calls with the president.
- Americanised the beautiful game with hydration (TV) breaks and 25 mins half time in the final
- guided Argentina through the tournament with less travel, VAR support and blatantly turning a blind due to their aggression and foul play.