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Tam @tammckenna.bsky.social · 14h

Well played, Norway. 👏👏

Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 16h

FIFA is too cowardly to kick the occupation state from all competitions so countries are making sure they don’t advance by trashing them. Norway won their match today 5-0 and Norway’s soccer federation says it will donate all profits from this World Cup qualifying game to aid work in Gaza.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 17h

“A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."

–Eleanor Roosevelt ☕️

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 13h

Nowhere in this report have you said Israel did this. It wasn’t result of a hurricane or an accident that caused this destruction in Gaza. It was Israel and Netanyahu.
Tell it like it is Sky News. Israel destroyed these homes, towns, hospitals, universities, schools.
Israel is committing genocide.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 14h

Drones capture staggering images of Gaza devastation - as people find nothing left

Drones have been a common sight in Gaza for a long time, but they have always been military.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 16h

As John Swinney said earlier - the only permission Scotland needs is the permission of the Scottish people.

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Verminous Scot @etkwebster.bsky.social · 16h

Scotland does need independence but how do we get it? Asking WM permission to even have a vote will be met with a no as Starmer has repeatedly said. This is no union, this is a prison that Scotland needs to free itself from somehow.

Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 18h

The SNP's Stephen Flynn spelled it out clearly today: Scotland needs a fresh start - Scotland needs Independence.

(video stream: @broadcastscot.bsky.social )

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 13h

Good Morning Scotland has become 'stale' and fixated on echoing 'uninformed comments' from listeners, which has led to the show's potential axing, insiders have reportedly claimed

Good Morning Scotland fixated on echoing 'uninformed comments', BBC insider claims

www.thenational.scot

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 17h

When will the biased Fiona Bruce be dropped by the bbc? I haven’t been able to watch bbcqt since she took the chair. It’s absolutely shit with her hosting it, isn’t it?

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Alastair Παν 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷🇪🇺 @alastair-pandelus.bsky.social · 13h

Good Morning Scotland has indeed become 'stale' and is fixated with running Scotland down.

Is there any other country in the world where its national broadcaster is against its own country?

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Indy lass @pixie11.bsky.social · 15h

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 15h

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The Sunday National 📰

Members back FM's indyref plan

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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 3d

SHOCK – More than TWICE as many Scots trust the SNP Government in Edinburgh as trust the UK (Con or Lab) Government! talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/09/s...

SHOCK – More than TWICE as many Scots trust the SNP Government in Edinburgh as trust the UK (Con or Lab) Government!

in trust in the Scottish Government since the start of devolution, with less than half of respondents saying it acts in the country’s best interests. Professor John Robertson OBA What were th…

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 3d

In Scotland two families own more wealth than 1.3 million people.

We're one of the wealthiest countries in history, but that wealth is concentrated in the hands of a tiny few.

That's why a wealth tax on the super-rich is supported by an overwhelming majority of Scots.

STV News. Wealth tax on ten richest Scots 'could lift 30,000 children out of poverty'. A tax of 2% levied against those with assets worth £10m or more could bring in £492m a year from Scotland's ten richest families, study finds.

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mactakeshi.bsky.social @mactakeshi.bsky.social · 2d

@lbc.co.uk
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If the devolved nations do not receive an allocation of inward immigrants to settle for a minimum of 5yrs, then it is another Clearance that Westminster is complicit in...

mactakeshi.bsky.social @mactakeshi.bsky.social · 2d

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Does Scotland's population growth hinge on more immigration? - BBC News

Deaths have outnumbered births in Scotland for a decade but record levels of immigration mean the population is still rising.

www.bbc.co.uk

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · Jun 23

As english politics leans even further to the right, with LAB now questioning the EHCR, alongside "Island of Strangers" & pro brexit rhetoric, here's a quick thread on how the Far Right utterly collapsed in Finland.

TL;DR: "r/w voters: I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face".

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screen grab of the PERUS-S party leader - Finlands Reform party - alongside a polls graph depicting a catastrophic drop in support.

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G @brotherguerilla.bsky.social · 3d

John Swinney: Devolution has reached its limits & UK Government holds Scotland back #ScottishIndependence www.thenational.scot/news/2552637...

John Swinney: Devolution has reached its limits and UK Government holds Scotland back

FIRST Minister John Swinney has said that devolution has “reached its limits” and that the UK government is holding Scotland back ...

www.thenational.scot

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Dougie Taylor @dubhglas4.bsky.social · 2d

Findlay can back what he likes. He will just have to keep in mind how totally irrelevant he, his opinion, and his loathsome party is and always will be.

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mactakeshi.bsky.social @mactakeshi.bsky.social · 2d

Are the bbc having a giraffe.
Of course Scotlands population growth is effected by not having control over inward immigration. The irony that the S/E of England has brought us to the reform party on the verge of power, shows how Westminster is failing.

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 2d

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Infant and neo-natal mortality significantly lower in Scotland to save hundreds every year

Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to one of the TuS Anons for alerting me to this. In the Guardian today, the above and: At the start of Baby Loss Awareness Week, we should remember that the numb…

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Zelenskyy playing Trump like a fiddle. (Politico)

NEWS > POLITICS
Zelenskyy: If Trump gives us Tomahawks, we'll lobby for Nobel Peace Prize
Long-range missiles and a ceasefire with Russia is all it would take for a nomination from Kyiv, Ukrainian leader says.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

Religious hate crime recorded by police in England and Wales has reached a record high, new figures have shown

news.sky.com/story/hate-c...

Hate crime rises in England and Wales with religiously-motivated offences at record level

Hate crimes targeted at Muslims rose by almost a fifth, with the Home Office noting a “clear spike” in these offences after the Southport murders and riots that followed last summer.

news.sky.com

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Haunsupforindy @haunsupforindy.bsky.social · 2d

BBC MIS-REPORTING SCOTLAND

IT COULDN'T POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN INTENTIONAL COULD IT!

Chris @cjnmcg.bsky.social · 2d

You can only push "Scotland is shit" for so long until you get caught making shit up.

BBC issues correction after exaggerating Scotland drug death figures
www.thenational.scot/news/2553069...

BBC issues correction after exaggerating Scotland drug death figures

The BBC has been forced to issue a correction after exaggerating the number of drug deaths in Scotland ...

www.thenational.scot

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Sandra. @sandratofriends.bsky.social · 2d

BBC and WM use Scotlands figures to hide their own worsening figures.

“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 2d

🇬🇧 Another bbc twisted Headline, concealing a large decrease in homeless deaths in Scotland, within rocketing levels within England (uk)

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Mary Hepburn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @loobyloo55.bsky.social · 4d

Yes - people just don't get it, either.

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 10d

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Scottish and uk Governments must demand that Israel immediately release our Scottish HOSTAGES, illegally abducted from international waters

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 12d

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NHS Scotland has more beds and nearly 30% more, per head, than NHS England, to cope better with future pandemics and reveal this kind of thing to be mince

By Silver Fox Hot Takes 2 years ago Professor John Robertson OBA From Acute hospital activity and NHS beds information (annual) Year ending 31 March 2025 published today: In 2024/25, the average nu…

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