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James Aithie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamesaithie.bsky.social · 1d

#FreeGaza #FreePalestine

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

Watch as Scottish flotilla activists Sid Khan and Jim Hickey address a crowd at Glasgow Airport

The pair were imprisoned by Israel for almost one week

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Robbie Duff (Jack O'Byte) @robbieduff.bsky.social · 1d

STVNews gets more desperate every day
SNHS waiting times far lower than England- SNHS has failed, it's total shite

SNP are a long way ahead in the polls - ScotGov have failed- it's total shite

Scotland desperately needs it's own news channel instead of 2 Westminster propaganda channels

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Trump pressure to hike UK drug prices could cost NHS billions.

Corporate profits will increase. NHS budget will buy less. People to pay higher taxes or face public service cuts.

To avoid bullying UK Govt must produce cheaper generic drugs.

Who governs UK - Govt, Trump, Corporations?

Trump pressure to hike UK drug prices could cost NHS billions, experts warn

Anew deal will only trigger further increased price demands and make healthcare in the UK more expensive, say experts

www.independent.co.uk

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

It may very well finally change, especially in the US, but the last two years have demonstrated that in both America and Germany the multi-partisan consensus is that Israel ought to have free rein to do as it pleases and for as long as it pleases. Cursory disagreement on how to present it at best.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

After two years it is no question in my mind that there is essentially no red line for the US or Germany.

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 1d

Ways to Get Rich in the UK (2025 Edition)

1⃣ Be born into a rich family
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Inequality is obscene and becoming more and more entrenched. We need a #WealthTax.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/almo...

Almost impossible for Brits to work their way to being rich, says report | LBC

The average worker would need to toil away and bring in more than a lifetime's worth of earnings in order to become wealthy, according to analysis by a think tank.

www.lbc.co.uk

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Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (cms48X) @cms48.bsky.social · 1d

The Establishment and their donors need you to focus on immigration, as they drain the coffers.
NOT SO MUCH A POLITICAL SYSTEM, MORE LIKE A CRIME SYNDICATE!
"This country actually harbours the largest tax avoidance havens in the world." Jon Snow

"I think tax avoidance is actually a very complicated subject, particularly for the British media because, of course, this country actually harbours the largest tax avoidance havens in the world; we have at least 13 of them which are directly connected to the crown, directly connected to the government."

Jon Snow

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Felix Sylvestris @felixsylvestris.bsky.social · 1d

For Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Scottish Farmer @thescottishfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Scotland’s First Minister opens a major energy transition hub in Aberdeen to reskill oil and gas workers for careers in renewables.

Swinney launches skills hub to boost energy transition

www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 1d

A couple of weeks ago I heard an Israeli Govt spokesperson on Piers Morgan’s show…

He said Israel had killed 20,000 Hamas terrorists

This week we learn:

18,457 children confirmed dead

55,000 children acutely malnourished

So a war on children as much as a war on Hamas.

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 1d

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Leunig, a former gov adviser, said scrapping it — while it would boost growth and productivity — would be “a very, very big tax cut for rich people”. One effect would be to boost house prices, making the main beneficiaries the existing owners of expensive properties in the south-east of England.

Should stamp duty be scrapped in the UK?

Conservative party says property tax deters people from moving house and stifles productivity

www.ft.com

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 1d

Mass shootings by year and country.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

it is wild how much people just lie lol

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 1d

10/8/25😳GRETA: “They said they were going to gas us”🇵🇸🙏

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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 2d

David Bowie 2002. Prescient. Thoughtful.
"One of the dangers of the American way is that it's America first in everything it does. There is virtually no interest in the ambitions, feelings, needs or sensitivities of any other nation.. It's one of the things that makes us resent Americans much"

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((Wee G )) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 1d

News you won’t hear – Support for struggling households from SNP Government 👇
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/08/n...

News you won’t hear – Support for struggling households from SNP Government

Housing Secretary Màiri McAllan Professor John Robertson OBA From Scottish Government News today with only the Daily Record covering it: A record £99 million will be invested in Discretionary Housi…

talkingupscotlandtwo.com

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 1d

Crazy how Israel’s biggest support base in America are the gun-toting red state Christians who would with 100% certainty take up arms and turn into Redneck Hamas if a bunch of foreigners showed up and kicked them off their land.

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Lesley McG @lesleymac.bsky.social · 1d

And a Tory mp, a Labour mp and a "journalist" from the Torygraph. The kind of deck stacking that the bbc usually reserve for the SNP, they must be rattled.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

www.bbc.co.uk

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 1d

"By the time former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed, in 2023, to deprive Gaza’s 'human animals' of electricity, food and fuel, the move had become customary." Samer Badawi reflects on two years of Israel's war, in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

The Burden of Metaphor in Gaza

Beyond a lasting ceasefire, what Gaza needs most is to be understood on its own terms — and for its people to be heard

newlinesmag.com

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 6d

The Burden of Privilege: Why Greta Thunberg is a Model, Not a Hypocrite.

by Karen Orr

leftungagged.org/2025/10/03/w...

The Burden of Privilege: Why Greta Thunberg is a Model, Not a Hypocrite. - Ungagged!

By Karen Orr The jungle is a cruel, magnificent teacher. You see an orangutan, born with the strength and protection of a dominant mother, and you expect her to simply feast on the ripest fruit and r...

leftungagged.org

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Wokerati International Brigades #FreePalestine #JustStopOil @wokeinter.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch, Keir Starmer, Nigel Farage, they're all singling from the same hymn sheet of racist lies and hate-mongering.

Zack Polanski is one of the few voices of reason left in this country.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Lesley McG @lesleymac.bsky.social · 1d

Wow that kind of right wing war chest is usually only deployed for the SNP . Zac really is rattling the cages

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"I'm attacked every time I do my job" -- it's the victimhood olympics today at the White House

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 1d

@greenparty.org.uk just hit 93,000 members, with 1,000 ppl joining a day but if only they were Reform there’d be headlines on BBC, Sky, ITV

Mason would do special Report “The Green Army Marching on No 10”

Kuenssberg would write “Starmer Green with Envy over members”

But they’re not so… 🤷🏼‍♂️

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

We just hit 93,000 members.

We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.

Over 1000 people joining a day!

Join our movement.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

This is hilarious. Now I want to watch this show

A rightwing late-night show may have bombed – but the funding behind it is no laughing matter

Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshow

www.theguardian.com

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