I have just been looking around my SM platforms and noticing the tirade of anti LGBTQ comments almost everywhere nowadays.

I know this isn't new.
Most commenters proudly show their own colours or badges of allegiance as if we should be frightened into submission by their ill informed and generally irrelevant issuings...

There is much noise about why Pride exisits, yada, yada.

I came across a handy little visual earlier with simple words and phrases for the homophobes to be able to read.

😊

What element of how the #filton4 were tried makes you think we don’t live under a rightwing authoritarian regime?

‘The activists were acquitted of aggravated burglary at an initial trial in February, by which point they had already spent 18 months in prison on remand, having been found guilty of no crime.

At a retrial in May, a jury convicted the activists of criminal damage, with no knowledge that a terror connection would later be applied by a judge at sentencing.’

https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/12/palestine-action-activists-will-be-sentenced-as-terrorists-court-confirms/

Four Palestine Action activists have been sentenced not on the basis of the convictions for criminal damage (through a jury trial) but on the basis their crime *really* was terrorism (a subsequent decision by the presiding judge).

This not only violates the sanctity of jury trials (the jury was not informed of this possibility), it also is a retrospective legal decision, essentially violating the Rule of Law.

Its a direct attack on civil liberties!

#politics #protest
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce950111xk7o

RT: @tayab_ali_ 🚨 In more than 25 years of working on terrorism cases, I never thought I would see terrorism legislation used in a way that blurs the line between genuine national security concerns and the policing of political expression and protest.

The sentencing of the Filton 4 raises profound questions about the direction of our justice system. Counter-terrorism laws exist to protect the public from serious threats, not to chill political dissent, including direct action protest.

If we are not careful, we risk setting a dangerous precedent, one that many will view as driven not by principle, but by a desire to shield Israel from criticism.

I strongly oppose what happened in this case today.