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Steph Paton

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Glasgow left journo writing about politics, LGBTQ+ liberation and environmentalism. Columnist for @ScotNational. They/Them πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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Newsrooms are strapped for cash because their profits are sucked up by investors so they lowered payroll

04.03.2026 12:58 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

RIP journalism

04.03.2026 12:52 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 5
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Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party.

The Green bump makes absolute sense. For years, Green campaigners have been told on the doors that folk would love to vote from them, but they don't want to waste their vote on a party that would never win.

Gorton and Denton showed that that is no longer true.
news.sky.com/story/greens...

03.03.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. β€” Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

03.03.2026 12:05 πŸ‘ 3583 πŸ” 1637 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 267
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One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

02.03.2026 10:20 πŸ‘ 13384 πŸ” 4255 πŸ’¬ 131 πŸ“Œ 173

There is not a single headline across British media about this.

A major medical academic has been outed from a Government institution and major medical trial due to aggressive bigotry on his social media and... silence.

Absolutely brazen institutional complicity.

28.02.2026 09:58 πŸ‘ 413 πŸ” 185 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

'Oh we must learned from this'
*two seconds later*
'If you think about it, George Galloway did this.'

28.02.2026 10:52 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Its a long way of saying that Labour has learned nothing from the by-election defeat.

28.02.2026 10:51 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

So @cathynewman.bsky.social has exposed the transphobic views of the head of the Puberty Blocker trials and he's gone.

Shame the MHRA's quick action hasn't been mirrored by quick action against the much criticized Cass review.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

27.02.2026 18:23 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4

Woah. Turns out that abandoning all principle, scapegoating minorities, and lashing out at everyone around you does NOT create an election winning party.

27.02.2026 08:44 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Leaves me wondering how badly Scottish Labour will debase itself for the Holyrood election.

26.02.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah this whole thing is appalling. You can even edit out swearing during a live broadcast so the BBC made a choice here.

25.02.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

26.02.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 8536 πŸ” 4249 πŸ’¬ 320 πŸ“Œ 746

Jesse Singal is a lying hack and needs to be dropped from publication

25.02.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 251 πŸ” 57 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

UK embarrassing itself as usual

26.02.2026 07:48 πŸ‘ 186 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 0

Terms and conditions apply*

*Does not apply to trans people, especially in the UK. Indeed we will do everything we possibly can to deny trans people their human dignity (as well as human rights) including lying about the law.

26.02.2026 09:14 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s live! Our #AnnualReview2026 is out now.

This year’s findings are stark. What started as attacks on LGBTI communities has evolved into something much broader.

The full picture is now public. Read, share, and use it πŸ‘‰ ilga-europe.org/report/annual-review-2026/

26.02.2026 07:02 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5

Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives

If Brits think β€œit won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!

26.02.2026 08:59 πŸ‘ 3390 πŸ” 914 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 40

It's actually embarrassing to campaign for Labour...

26.02.2026 09:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what I need cis folks to understand.

It's been a decade.

Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

26.02.2026 05:28 πŸ‘ 7347 πŸ” 3404 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 32
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Steph Paton: Excesses of rich will leave us with a broken country and planet CLIMATE anxiety has, for many, I suspect, taken a bit of a backseat in recent times. As an issue, it has been steamrolled by the immediacy of the…

These are the actions of a death cult. Profit before people is its motto. And few political parties can say they do not tolerate, if not outright endorse, its message.
www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

24.02.2026 09:17 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Playgrounds would become β€˜crack dens’ if Greens were in power, policing minister says The Green Party has previously campaigned to decriminalise drug possession

Saying something this profoundly stupid should get you barred from politics for life.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

21.02.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

But will anyone notice?

21.02.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Incredible how the British press have managed to publish report after report on Hillary Cass' interview with Laura Kuenssberg over the weekend, and have failed to provide any counterpoint or balance to what was said.

Just printed, near wholesale, without criticism or thought.

18.02.2026 11:47 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

In other words, ACTUAL solutions to the problems we face - instead of the collective hallucination that current AI trends will do anything other than put more power into the hands of those who already hold it.

18.02.2026 11:24 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.

Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

16.02.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 2750 πŸ” 613 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 69
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Fernhill School owed a parent Β£1.8m. Then its accounts stopped being filed The Β£20k a year Rutherglen private school, overseen by two Scottish hospitality titans, is closing amid a β€˜misconduct’ probe

πŸ—žοΈ Why does an exclusive private school in Rutherglen owe a parent Β£1.8m? Why have its accounts not been filed for 3 years?

And what does one of Glasgow's biggest restauranters have to do with it?

Read our digging into Fernhill School's closure, now.

16.02.2026 09:43 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Steph Paton: Rats will flee but Labour’s ship has already sunk OF all the conspiracy theories that could have turned out to be true, the world being run by a corporate paedophilic elite was not the one I had my…

The old way is collapsing, and the fascists are at the door. Epstein got the broken Britain he dreamed of – and funnily enough, it just happened to be delivered by an old friend of his...
www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

10.02.2026 11:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Headline: Harry Potter series set to be the streaming event of the decade

Headline: Harry Potter series set to be the streaming event of the decade

I would bet it's not going to get past three seasons.

09.02.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full

🚨 This evening, a notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news wire, to all media across the UK

We believe it is strongly in the public interest to publish this memo. This is it in full πŸ‘‡

06.02.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 515 πŸ” 258 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 142