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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · Sep 18

How to tackle the global far right - Expert Panel Discussion from #NewInternationalist

Please check it out: some great insights

#FarRight #Fascism #Hope #Rhetoric

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How To Tackle the Global Far Right: Expert Panel

How can we turn the tide on the global far right? Watch our recent "Ask Us Anything" discussion with the editor and contributors to our latest edition of New Internationalist. We were so lucky to…

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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · 1d

The Fourteenth Book is entitled, “What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?” It doesn’t take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: “Nothing.
#SoItGoes

there's a headline saying they made ice that froze at room temperature, and a picture of a worried monkey because that's how they world was destroyed in the jury Vonnegut book "Cat's cradle"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · 4d

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Hands off socks, Hands on Clocks!
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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · 5d

Our disposable culture & planned obsolescence are the root of many problems - as is isolation from lack of community.

Reduced environmental impact, mutual aid and tackling the cost of living crisis all intersect at Repair Café!

My piece is in the Carluke and Lanark Gazette this week.

a picture of a newspaper clipping of the headline of my article about repair cafés which was published on 22nd October by the Carluke and Lanark Gazette

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 15d

"The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 26d

“You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against & everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it
means, because it doesn’t mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy?” Noam Chomsky

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 26d

This was me in 2016

That made Mercieca laugh.
"What makes you think he's going to stand for being impeached?"
But how would he, how could he, resist it?
JM: "I don't know. I don't know. He has not allowed anybody to hold him accountable yet. He has prevented every single institution from holding him accountable."

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 17d

I took this photo in 2014.

Library Book Check out card for Max Lerner, "It's Later Than You Think," all of the check out stamps are from 1939.

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Ece Temelkuran @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social · 16d

See you on Thusday in #London at #intelligencesquared with #cocokhan It is a good time to talk about Fascism and how we are going to stand against it. No? www.intelligencesquared.com/events/how-t...

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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · 18d

The Trump administration is simultaneously claiming that #Antifa is 100 years old, AND that they have "arrested the girlfriend of one of the founders."

#MakeItMakeSense #Politics

Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · 23d

Africa needs a just transition. There have been over 330 incidents of violence in the last few years related to mineral extraction. Hear Alaka Lugonzo speak;

#Cobalt #DRC #Africa #Politics

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · 27d

Ece Temelkuran @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social · 28d

From X 👇🏼 Hoping that @bsky.app will be a better digital home soon, for it seems I’ll have to exile myself from X as many have already done.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 27d

f*ck yeah

Anu @jobuna.bsky.social · 27d

The proper response

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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · 28d

A message from Hungary on political realism and the need for Solidarity to fight through #FarRight.

#politics #szikra #green #left

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Political Realism & Solidarity Against the Far Right

Balász Turcsán of the Green / Left Hungarian Szikra movement, spoke at our recent event on tackling the global far right, talking of the need for solidarity and political realism. Subscribe and…

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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · 27d

Wow, so much for being 'thrilled' about £4.5 million funding - works out that's less than a tenner per patient per year! 🤬 #LongCovid

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Scottish Government Funding Fails Long Covid & ME Patients | Our 2025 Survey Results #longcovid

This week the Scottish Government celebrated it's funding announcement -Annual funding is welcome, however when £4.5 million divided by the Scots with Long Covid, ME and CFS is only £9.70 per…

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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · 28d

A message from Hungary on political realism and the need for Solidarity to fight through #FarRight.

#politics #szikra #green #left

youtube.com/shorts/kAST5...

Political Realism & Solidarity Against the Far Right

Balász Turcsán of the Green / Left Hungarian Szikra movement, spoke at our recent event on tackling the global far right, talking of the need for solidarity and political realism. Subscribe and…

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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · 28d

Seed of an idea; If they bring in ID cards what if, en mass, we all deed poll our names to Winston Smith in protest?

Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · 29d

If you want inspiration, but a break from the news: check out my friends podcast.

Kelly takes you on a tour of Paris, in series one each station tells the tale of the French Resistance hero it is named after.

#Resist #Antifa #Podcast #France #Inspiring
metrostoppodcast.podbean.com

a screengrab of the Metrostop podcast playing on Spotify

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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · Jun 26

Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.

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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · Sep 28

Seven major issues with the latest #Scotgov funding for #LongCovid and #mecfs 🤬🤬

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WHAT YOU MUST KNOW: 7 Secrets about ScotGov Funding For Long Covid & ME/CFS in 2025

What is really going on with the recent funding announcement from ScotGov for Long Covid and MECFS ( and possibly other conditions - they are unclear) Here's seven major potential problems we see -…

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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · Sep 29

"Neoliberalism feeds fascism: fascism is embedded in neoliberalism." - Ece Temelkuran

#Fascism #Politics #Neoliberalism #NewInternationalist

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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · Sep 28

Seven major issues with the latest #Scotgov funding for #LongCovid and #mecfs 🤬🤬

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WHAT YOU MUST KNOW: 7 Secrets about ScotGov Funding For Long Covid & ME/CFS in 2025

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · Sep 26

Maria's fundraiser for Breast Cancer
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My aunty is raising money for breast cancer. She has stage 4 breast cancer that spread to her brain. Last year part of her skull had to be removed so she has to wear a helmet. This year she's crocheted a helmet hat 🥰

Two panel picture of my aunty. In the first picture, she is wearing a black leather jacket, glasses, and a white helmet with a gothy rose sticker on it. in the second picture she has a crocheted pink stripy hat over her helmet with a crocheted pink scarf and a pink t shirt, smiling

Me and my aunty sitting next to each other with one arm round each other smiling

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Michiel @murtoz.bsky.social · Sep 26

Yes I'm concerned that at least here in Argyll & Bute it looks like the funding is going to be used for yet another bacme style mild ME 'rehabilitation' service - an utter waste of money.

And of course the health boards never ask for input from lived experience. Yet another thing done TO us.

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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · Sep 26

Here's the full response from Long COVID Scotland. This funding is not only a drop from £11 per patient to £7 per patient - it isn't even funding medical treatment, just symptom management.

www.longcovid.scot/blog

Blog 1 — Long Covid Scotland