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#ScottishIndependence
#CND
& Partick Thistle Rock Music & Science Retired Semicon Ops Manager
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Where is Scotland Secretary Douglas Alexander after his election disaster?
AS ministers line up to resign from Keir Starmer's government following a disastrous set of election results, the noise around the Prime Minister's…
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26100061.scottish-secretary-douglas-alexander/?ref=li
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Neil Mackay
11 days ago
The Scottish people have spoken … and now Westminster will ignore our voice A pro-independence majority will be elected once again in the Scottish Parliament. And once again, London will deny a referendum This is a democratic outrage and it must be resisted My
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The people have spoken – there will be a pro-indy majority but it will be ignored
Scotland faces another pro-independence Holyrood majority, yet another referendum remains impossible - trapping democracy in constitutional limbo.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/26091191.will-pro-independence-majority-will-ignored/
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Ballot Box Scotland
12 days ago
Excited to share the BBS results page for the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. True to form, there's going to be more data on here than you can shake a stick at, giving you the most in-depth rundown available anywhere! This will all update automatically throughout the day, so refresh often!
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2026 Scottish Parliament Election Results
Quick links: Seats Won and Count Progress Constituency Results Regional Results (by Constituency) Regional Results (by Region) Vote Swings by Constituency Whilst you wait for results, you can chec…
https://ballotbox.scot/scottish-parliament/sp26-results
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Believe in Scotland
11 days ago
🏴 Scotland has returned a Pro-Independence majority. ✊ Now it's time to join the 28,000+ Believe in Scotland supporters as we fight like hell to deliver Scotland's independence:
www.believeinscotland.org/
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Laura Webster
11 days ago
Tomorrow's front page This is the main story of these elections. It will only surprise you if you haven't been paying attention. Westminster parties can bury their heads in the sand all they want: The truth is the UK's days are numbered. "A future beyond the constraints of the Union" 🙏
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2024 - Starmer's
#Liebour
Party win 63.4% of availlable seats, landslide win w/ huge majority 2026 - @theSNP win 78.1% of available seats - likely minority government What London-HQ'ed media cannot or choose not to understand
#indyref2
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Saul Staniforth
23 days ago
Well done to
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
for calling out the fact he was being interviewed by a former Lab minister & husband of the current foreign secretary
#GMB
is now produced by
@itvnews.bsky.social
. How can they think this is tenable? Oh & Ed took it in good grace (not)
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Neil Mackay
23 days ago
Two news stories today which tell the tale of what Britain has become: first, the collapse of health and life expectancy in the UK; and second, government MPs going on the attack for being called out for voting on legislation whilst they’re drunk They down champagne, while the poor die young
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Me @BazzaCC
about 2 months ago
She's a great cartoonist
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
about 2 months ago
Last few spaces remaining on the London coach to join the Lakenheath peace camp this Saturday: book now to join us for a demo and blockade of the base which likely hosts American nuclear weapons and from where American jets could be heading for Iran.
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Angry
about 2 months ago
I think the “bomb them back to the Stone Age” comments already ruined the pro-American thing Pretty good way to send the Iranian people back into the arms of the regime.
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Jen 🏴 🏴
about 2 months ago
War crimes for the US is normal now & in plain sight, just like it is for Israel. Why would NATO members want a nation as unstable as the US, run by a senile old paedophile rapist Analysts say carpet bombing countries is a war crime. But it wouldn’t be new for the US.
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‘Bomb back to the Stone Age’: US history of threats and carpet bombing
Analysts say carpet bombing countries is a war crime. But it wouldn't be new for the US.
https://aje.news/gup651
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Staggering just how Starmer's Labour can get one decision & priority wrong, again & again
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It's almost like Trump is Putin's 🐩.....
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)
about 2 months ago
Marco Rubio declared that under the Constitution being born in the USA does not make you a citizen unless your parents are citizens. Marco Rubio's parents were Cuban immigrants who were NOT citizens at the time of his birth. Do you think Marco will now self-deport?
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Global Justice Now
about 2 months ago
People in Cumbria fought against a coal mine and won. But corporate courts mean that’s not the end of the story. Our new film produced by Planet House Productions in collaboration with us,
@tradejusticemov.bsky.social
and
@friends-earth.bsky.social
earth – out now.
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The National
about 2 months ago
Even the richest people in Scotland strongly support higher taxes on the wealthy, new polling has found ⬇️
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Scotland 'absolutely right to stand up to Westminster bullying on nuclear ban'
SCOTLAND has it “absolutely right” on nuclear power, according to the author of a new book against the energy source.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25954826.leading-campaigner-says-scottish-nuclear-ban-absolutely-right/?ref=li
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Greenpeace International 🌍
3 months ago
So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms. But we will not be silenced.
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What a US$ 345 million judgment means for Greenpeace - Greenpeace International
A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay US$ 345 million.
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/81860/what-345-million-judgment-means-greenpeace/
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Irvine Welsh
6 months ago
It’s bullshit. Who pays the piper calls the tune.
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Jim Russell 🏴.
4 months ago
Why the 'union' is so precious to Westminster
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Neil Mackay
4 months ago
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'Drivel': Anger as Douglas Alexander blames Scottish voters for Labour's decline
SCOTTISH Secretary Douglas Alexander has been accused of spouting “condescending drivel” after he appeared to blame Scots voters for not voting…
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25812791.douglas-alexander-blames-scottish-voters-labours-decline/?ref=li
4 months ago
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Bruce Springsteen
4 months ago
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?si=7ciYwNLv34RrdD1p
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George Monbiot
4 months ago
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/07/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-government
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Anita
4 months ago
My thoughts today are with the security people and police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 and have been treated with such distain since by the GOP. For them and the Democratic leadership who lived through such chaos and no doubt continue to carry the scars within. We will not forget.
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Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
5 months ago
2025 in Review: "Stop the Nuclear Nightmare: Build Scotland for People and Peace" - Scottish CND were joined by representatives from the Scottish Greens, SNP and Scottish Labour at our conference on November 1st 2025.
#peace
#scotland
#glasgow
#peacenotwar
#nonuclear
#nuclearban
#UnitedNations
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Zack Polanski
4 months ago
Outrageous. Ministers should be listening to scientists, frontline communities and those working towards a green transition – not hosting the interests of oil giants in their own offices. ✍🏼 -
@adamramsay.bsky.social
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Revealed: oil industry lobbyist working inside UK’s climate department
Polanski slams arrangement; experts warn of 'corporate infiltration antithetical to democracy'
https://abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/revealed-oil-industry-lobbyist-working
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BladeoftheSun
4 months ago
Hugo Chavez was the best thing to happen to Venezuela, he took extreme poverty from 67% to just 6% in a decade. He was so successful in fact that the USA decided they had to destroy Venezuela or they would lose South America to Socialism. That is what actually happened.
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George Takei
4 months ago
No rule by the ghoul. Stephen Miller is dragging us to the upside down.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
4 months ago
I’m running for Congress in NY-12, my home. We have a demented, criminal president running the country like a mob operation—government by the boss, for the boss. We need Democratic fighters who will defend the rule of law and deliver government by the people. Join us.
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George Monbiot
4 months ago
Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
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The Tennessee Holler
4 months ago
Never forget. 🇺🇸
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MeidasTouch
4 months ago
This is where we are. Read this joint statement by France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Denmark on Greenland: "Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland."
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Mark Hamill
4 months ago
FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated.
#ShameOnUS🇺🇸
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#Liebour
UK Cannot afford To address
#ChildPoverty
To fix energy bills
#WinterFuelPayment
#WASPI
reparations Eliminate
#TwoChildLimit
/
#RapeClause
or
#BedroomTax
#OverseasAid
Address
#ClimateChange
CAN afford Nuclear-armed fighter jets WMD's &
#Trident
replacement Billions spent but missiles USA
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Esquiver
6 months ago
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Adrian Littlejohn
6 months ago
Immigrants to the US commit far fewer crimes than people born there... Below are some *facts*. Things that hate-filled neo-nazis like
#Trump
(and
#Farage
) loathe almost as much as they do immigrants. Their irrational, racist loathings can't be allowed to win 🤮
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump’s hate-filled rant ignores facts on immigrant crime and economic benefits
In the wake of the deadly Washington DC shooting, Trump claimed immigrants are ‘destroying everything America stands for’. Here’s what the data shows
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/29/trumps-hate-filled-rant-ignores-facts-on-immigrant-and-economic-benefits?CMP=share_btn_url
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#Liebour
UK Cannot afford To address
#ChildPoverty
To fix energy bills
#WinterFuelPayment
#WASPI
reparations Eliminate
#TwoChildLimit
/
#RapeClause
or
#BedroomTax
#OverseasAid
Address
#ClimateChange
CAN afford Nuclear-armed fighter jets WMD's &
#Trident
replacement Billions spent but missiles USA
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The National
6 months ago
Britain's high-profile purchase of fighter jets armed with nuclear bombs is a primarily political move which gives the country no obvious military advantage, a new report has warned
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RAF nuclear fighter jet purchase 'is £1bn thank you to Uncle Sam'
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25602017.raf-nuclear-fighter-jet-purchase-is-1bn-thank-uncle-sam/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762440853-1
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The National
6 months ago
A billboard campaign is aiming to raise awareness of the royal family’s multi-million pound cash cow property hoardings
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'Ditch the Duchies' campaign seeks to expose 'royal scam' that lines King's pockets
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25602392.republic-launch-ditch-duchies-campaign-expose-royal-scam/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762455926-2
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The National
6 months ago
The SNP have promised a 'bold, optimistic vision for Scotland’s future' as Friday marks six months until the 2026 Holyrood election
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'A better future in Scotland’s hands’: SNP set out vision for 2026 Holyrood vote
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25603483.snp-promise-bold-vision-6-months-holyrood-vote/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762510892-1
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Scotland can learn from other countries on land tax, report finds
Lessons from around the world could help Scotland modernise the way it values land and property, according to a new report
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25589263.scotland-can-learn-countries-land-tax-report-finds/?ref=li
7 months ago
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#NetworkRail
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Prem Sikka
7 months ago
Alan Bates agrees multi-million-pound payout over Post Office scandal. Great news. All victims deserve a just settlement. No contribution to compensation made by the Post Office, its execs; Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers. No one prosecuted for hounding innocent people. Will they ever be?
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Sir Alan Bates agrees multimillion-pound settlement over Post Office scandal
Government settles claim from former post office operator more than 20 years after he began his campaign for justice
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/04/sir-alan-bates-settlement-post-office-scandal
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Kath
7 months ago
Bloody foreigners coming over here and saving peoples lives.
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Neil Young Archives
NYA contains the complete archives of Neil Young. The site is designed for a chronological exploration of artist output including music, books, films, & videos. Music is streamed in high-res with Xstr...
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John Swinney
7 months ago
Rising bills. Falling living standards. The UK economic model is broken. Independence is the fresh start for Scotland - so we can build a wealthier, fairer nation shaped by the people who live here. 🏴👉
yes.scot/decide
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Peter Geoghegan
8 months ago
The full interview with
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
is also up on Democracy for Sale's YouTube - which I'd recommend subscribing to! George is such an articulate, passionate voice about who money corrupts democracy - and what needs to happen to change it. Must watch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JHO...
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Inside the Tony Blair Institute: Larry Ellison’s Money, NHS Data, and Democracy at Risk
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JHOg7XdxIk&t=6s
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