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duncan2024.bsky.social @duncan2024.bsky.social · 6h

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Correcting the BBC – UK Government is not paying to build warships on the Clyde, Norway is

By Liz S MSM Monitor posted this on ‘X’ on 12/10/25 in respect to a Laura Kuenssberg interview with John Swinney on her Sunday Politics programme……. “Laura Kuenssberg twice claimed the UK Govt…

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 12h

invoking the Insurrection Act would be a ploy so immensely, transparently bogus that even Elon Musk and his twitterati would struggle to defend it.

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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 13h

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 14h

oofft...The National, unlike most journalism these days, is no f*cking about...😮

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 16h

"Since his appointment, Starbuck has baselessly claimed that individual shooters in the US were motivated by leftist ideology, described faith-based protest groups as communists, and without evidence tied Democratic lawmakers to murders."

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Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

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Truth To Power Ⓥ 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇷 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇭🇰 @truthtopower.bsky.social · 1d

Today's video on the reasons why I've bet £100 that Trump won't survive as president to the end of his term is proving rather popular.
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My £100 Bet: Why Trump Won't See Out His Term

YouTube video by Truth To Power

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 1d

during the entire 4-hours of queuing, Brexit-voting Brits should be compelled to recite "this delay is caused by the Brexit I voted for."

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 1d

"The same folk who routinely contend that the UK isn’t protecting free expression are proposing to abolish the only scant protection in law currently available for it [ie the ECHR] – and apparently haven’t noticed the glaring contradictions in their position."

www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

Andrew Tickell: Scrapping the ECHR would be a threat to our freedom of expression

I LIKE to think of them as Messiah policies: always promised but never appearing. The art of a good Messiah policy is that it should always be just…

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 1d

"Many of the deep-pocketed litigants who actually use the ECHR in our courts aren’t the foreign rapists, murderers and paedophiles of fevered tabloid imagination. Often as not, they’re powerful interest groups.. supported by the Scottish Tories."

www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

Andrew Tickell: Scrapping the ECHR would be a threat to our freedom of expression

I LIKE to think of them as Messiah policies: always promised but never appearing. The art of a good Messiah policy is that it should always be just…

www.thenational.scot

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 1d

glad someone referenced the hypnotoads..

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thesteelavenger.bsky.social @thesteelavenger.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon of a frog with the words all glory to the hypnotoad below it

ALT: a cartoon of a frog with the words all glory to the hypnotoad below it

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 2d

"In Stephen Miller, we see that Maga will not simply end with Trump.. Because – while this may be hard to fathom – if the US ends up with Miller as its dictator, we are in even deeper trouble than we are with Trump, and it could last a lot longer."

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Stephen Miller is the most dangerous man in the Trump administration | Judith Levine

In the White House deputy chief of staff, we see that Maga will not simply end with Trump. We must keep our eyes on Miller

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 2d

say what, now.?😳

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 2d

*cracks knuckles, opens popcorn*

Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 2d

oh.

Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 2d

gosh, can't wait.. 🙄

Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 2d

imho, I reckon Epicurus had it sussed..

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 2d

oh.

Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 2d

as someone who stopped listening to Good Morning Scotland's endless litany of anti-independence/ anti-SNP propaganda some time ago,
this will not upset me much..

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 3d

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 has gone to Maria Corina Machado. The committee lauded "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

Trump:

a cartoon character with a very angry face is wearing a tie and a white shirt .

ALT: a cartoon character with a very angry face is wearing a tie and a white shirt .

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 3d

particularly liked the "1831 Peasants Revolt."😂

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 3d

"The UK Government would be unable to prevent its preparatory work, McCormick said, because it would be independent of the Scottish Government and Parliament and would signal to Westminster that it had to negotiate."

www.thenational.scot/news/2553117...

SNP members to vote on 'provisional government' in independence strategy battle

SNP members will vote on the creation of a provisional government to run in parallel with the Scottish Parliament as part of a plan to push forward…

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 4d

The winter Olympics we actually want to watch.

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