Tom Scott 🇺🇦

Writer, editor, former lecturer, occasional poet, Green Party person, #Xdissenter. Views here not all party positions. On Bluesky @ Tom--Scott.

[Tom Scott 🇺🇦 @Tom___Scott]

I'm now posting more on Bluesky than on Elon Musk's bully pulpit. Hope to see you over on the brighter side.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

Here’s another clip of a woman reading Trump’s words verbatim from a recent rally in Mississippi that puts a giant magnifying glass over how gone he is cognitively and unfit he is for office.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

Ok, so this is completely wrong from @TiceRichard . Making up obvious falsehoods about journalists is truly appalling. @declassifiedUK has broken a number of stories alleging UK complicity in the Gaza genocide. That’s not “antisemitic” that’s simply reporting you don’t like.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

This is the key story today

[Rose Matthews @NortherlyRose]

I’m now a p/t PhD student at Durham Uni researching how Autistic people 65+ navigate life transitions.
So many of you helped me reach this point and I’m very grateful.
“It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end."
Ursula K. Le Guin

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Andy Burnham is asked about Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields.

He says "Use of our resources can support and accelerate a clean energy future"

We are truly down the rabbit hole with this utter nonsense.

Invest in renewables, insulate homes & say no to fossil fuels.

[Tom Scott 🇺🇦 @Tom___Scott]

Not sure that this was an accidental slip. It may have been a sly (and cruel) way of underlining how Healey has won a Cabinet battle against Miatta Fahnbulleh - a colleague who takes the climate emergency more seriously than he does.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: John Healey accidentally says the Energy Secretary "opposed" the Jackdaw gas field

"Errr... approved"

#Budget

[Adrian Ramsay MP @AdrianRamsay]

While I welcome the support for high streets and hospitality businesses, I am hugely concerned about the new rules for data centres.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

John Healey promised it would be a "continuity Labour government with a change of leader".

His Budget has delivered exactly that.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Increasing defence spending by slashing the Warm Homes Plan is profoundly short-sighted. Real security means helping households to get off dependence on costly & volatile gas, not leaving them vulnerable to global market shocks & rising fuel poverty #Budget2026

[Danny Shaw @DannyShawNews]

NEW Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - AKA Tommy Robinson - found guilty of harassing two journalists to the point where they feared violence.
Important court case - response from @CPSUK which brought the prosecution, here:

[Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley]

0.1% of people on the planet emit more CO2 than the poorest 3.5 billion people combined.

One year’s worth of emissions from the top 1% will result in an estimated 1.3 million excess deaths from extreme heat.

Just a few stats from Oxfam's incredible new report.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

The Brazilian Supreme Court also calls for an investigation into:

— Allegations that influencers were paid to promote pro-Bolsonaro Polymarket predictions.

— Whether Meta’s algorithms unfairly boosted Bolsonaro and restricted Lula.

— Reports of paid AI-generated fake accounts, deepfakes, and coordinated disinformation operations.

[kenny @kennystrikes1st]

Brazilian activism against far-right in english. Simple version now. Better version coming in the future.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

On the “prepare 3 days worth of rations, in case of emergency” — I keep seeing people ask “what they know” — but it’s not some secret, these threats or a combination of them have all been hurtling towards us:

FOOD AND CLIMATE

• El Niño crop failures, worsened by fertiliser shortages and storms
• Extreme heat and flooding hitting already fragile food systems

WAR

• Trump loses the midterms badly, then attacks Iran again, risking nuclear war
• Wider escalation involving Russia or China

TECHNOLOGY

• An AI-engineered bioweapon
• AI-enabled attacks on national infrastructure
• AI job loss on a massive scale, with no plan for unemployment, leading to mass social conflict

DISEASE

• Pneumonic plague that appeared in Russia, in the news for a day, then dropped
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Weakened pandemic response as aid budgets are cut

INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMY

• Collapse of the UN and the humanitarian system, leading to mass refugee flows and global instability
• Another massive and worse sovereign debt or financial crisis

[Tom Scott 🇺🇦 @Tom___Scott]

Many of us will have seen aged relatives lose their grip on reality. Fortunately, not many of them will have millions of social media followers, as John Cleese does.

[Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🕊️ 🇵🇸 @portraitinflesh]

What's really wounding about 2020s-era John Cleese, for those of us who once admired him, isn't just his shift to the far right, but his total want of any wit, subtlety or guile. He's now so gullible and uncritical, those fake Nigerian prince guys could make a fortune out of him.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Today, you'll be flooded with Israeli propaganda about "we're a true democracy, not an apartheid"

All of their talking points are copied from Apartheid South Africa's propaganda (watch👇)

Apartheid South Africa's Tricameral Parliament was 42% colored & Indian in 1983, after the regime allowed 2.8 million colored & 850,000 Indian citizens to vote (while excluding 22.7 million black South Africans). Colored representatives even held ministerial positions, but without portfolios (i.e. no real power).

This is just like Israel allowing 2 million Palestinian citizens to vote while excluding 6 million in the occupied territory & 8 million in exile. The less than 15% of Israel's Knesset that is Arab are excluded from power (both Netanyahu & the opposition parties refuse to form a government with Arab parties).

Apartheid South Africa had black policemen, soldiers, engineers, doctors, & professors whom they loved to show in propaganda videos to claim "we're a cosmopolitan society". But that was only a fig leaf to hide the disenfranchisement of the overwhelming majority of blacks.

Apartheid South Africa also claimed a God-given right to the land. They also screamed "we're facing an existential threat" & are "surrounded by enemies who want to destroy us".

They also bragged "we're the only democracy in Africa", "we have Western values", "we're the only industrialized state in Africa", "we're one of the 20 most developed states on earth"... It was still an Apartheid!

Don't fall for Israel's recycled apartheid propaganda!

[BrianMier @BrianMteleSUR]

Brazil's Federal Police are opening an investigation into possible illegal collusion between the Thiel/Vance associated Rockbridge Network, Meta corporation and the Bolsonaro campaign. At stake: facilitated tech bro access to Brazil's rare earth minerals https://t.co/98nFEVb5kh

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

🚨 Quick call an ambulance: Nigel Farage has been involved in a major car crash on national TV🚨

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

New from @VerdantThinking: we estimate 1 in 9 UK households can't afford the government's recommended food stockpile - 6.4m people, 2.2m of them children.

Link below...

[The Finance Guy @OneFinanceGuy]

WOW! Where did I hear this story before? A politically well connected individual laundering money via Curacao online casino, including the use of fintechs to move the money. Nope, not TetherBet and Oneify, but a similar modus operandi by the Bolsonaros.
They moved NINE HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS in less than 2 years!
Thanks for flagging @lewisbaaron
Fyi @LilithWittmann