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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · Dec 1

Like others, I’m getting many Palestinian gofundme followers. I’d like to support them, but apart from scam risk, I just can’t afford to help them all.
Instead I donate to UNRWA and condemn Israel and its allies in constantly breaking international laws.
Know that people are helping, how they can. 🇵🇸

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 59m

No, so let’s push for independence in 2026 John, no more waiting!

Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 1h

It’s sickening to listen to the mutual appreciation society that is Trump and Netanyahu congratulating themselves for this pause in killing in Gaza. (imo it will resume after hostages are released)

Even if this was a lasting peace, one good act, doesn’t wipe away their crimes. #ICJ

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Israeli PM Netanyahu thanks Trump and US team for ceasefire role

Israel’s government has approved “phase one” of the agreement, which will see captives exchanged and Israel withdraw.

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 16h

😂😂

Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe they’ll make an exception, after all, how many wars has he ended now? 😂

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 17h

This from SkyNews.

Is this whole ceasefire being stage managed to get Trump a photo op with the hostages, to enhance his Nobel Prize chances?

Nobel Awards would be seriously devalued if they gave one to Trump.

If Trump stopped supplying bombs/money to Israel, killing would’ve stopped already.

Donald Trump could well visit Gaza but not immediately, our US correspondent Mark Stone says during our Q&A about the peace deal - which you can watch back at the top of the page.
"He's not going to want to get his boots dusty just yet... what a photo opportunity that would be," he says.
"Of course, him with the hostages would be an extraordinary moment when it happens, but Trump in Gaza, well, that would be something that he and his team would want to make happen at some point."

And a photo of Gaza being bombed.

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 19h

Starmer is a waste of space as a PM grovelling to appease Trump, instead of standing up to him.

Starmer was happy because he got a deal for high end car makers that wealthy folk can well afford, saving them money.
But NHS supporting ordinary folk takes a hit.

www.thenational.scot/news/2553124...

Labour to hike Scottish drug prices to 'appease' Donald Trump

LABOUR’S plans to "appease" Donald Trump will hike Scottish drug prices, The National can reveal.

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 19h

Patrick Harvey: “There must be accountability and justice for the war crimes that have been inflicted and for those who have enabled them. The world has stood by as genocide has been perpetrated.”

www.thenational.scot/news/2552995...

'Long overdue': Scottish politicians react to Gaza ceasefire deal

Scottish politicians have reacted to the news of a ceasefire agreement in Gaza ...

www.thenational.scot

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 19h

This sounds like a very positive plan, but it’s the opposite of what John Swinney and SNP want.

SNP partnering with Believe in Scotland seems like an attempt to reinforce SNP 1+2 in that BiS are about building support.

SNP Conference will be interesting.

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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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 1d

Greece, Italy, France all have digital id systems, yet have big problems with illegal migration.

We’re supposed to believe it’ll stop folk entering UK illegally.
Folk don’t need id to get temp work.

Is there another agenda?
Are the right wing that gullible?

www.thenational.scot/news/2552905...

Keir Starmer plans to expand digital ID to 'bills and benefits'

Keir Starmer has said he wants to expand his plans for a mandatory digital ID to include managing public services such as benefits and bill payments.

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 1d

“…agreed to pause fighting…”

“Yet Israeli strikes still continued after news of a ceasefire was announced.

…“series of intense air strikes" on Gaza City.”

Once hostages are freed will Israel resume bombing, or will they finally stop?
My money’s on the former.
www.thenational.scot/news/2552899...

Israel and Hamas agree to first phase of Gaza ceasefire deal

Israel and Hamas have agreed to pause fighting in Gaza so that the remaining hostages there can be freed in the coming days in exchange for…

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 2d

It’s ridiculous that this is still an issue , #UEFA #FIFA should have banned Israel from all competitions before now. Israel should not be getting special privileges to play ‘home’ matches in Hungary either.

#SanctionIsrael
#BoycottIsrael

Ban Israel from international events.

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Italy-Israel World Cup tie faces security concerns amid protests

Italy host Israel in an October 14 World Cup qualifier, in Udine where the football stadium only holds 6,000 spectators.

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 3d

Labour backing big corporations, the wealthy, Israeli terrorist government—

all while constantly squeezing
ordinary folk who need help in UK.
High energy bills, cost of living, food, fuel, pensioner support, disability support.

Labour only care about power and their own ambitions.

Labour blasted for disability payment 'cuts by stealth'
Tightening up' of Accessto Work grants is leaving people struggling
EXCLUSIVE
BY HAMISH MORRISON
SNP MSP Elena Whitham told The
helped into work if appropriate. They
National: "When Labour were plan-
certainly shouldn't be punished into
ABOUR have been criticised for imposing "cuts by stealth" on a benefit designed to help disabled
people get back into work.
Social Security Minister Stephen Timms has confirmed that the Department for Work and Pensions
(DWP) has tightened up its process for approving Access to Work support payments since his party came to office.
In an interview with Disability
News Service,
he said that it was
"likely" he had approved a departmental policy change to impose the rules around the scheme to be applied "more scrupulously". He previously admitted in the House of Commons that the changes were resulting in it being harder to get the payment.
Access to Work gives grants to help disabled people get and stay in jobs by covering costs such as specialist equipment and software packages, support workers and the costs of trav-elling to work.
Asked on September 1 by Liberal Democrat MP Steve Darling about to Access to Work,
said: "There has been a big increase in demand for it, and reform is need-ed. We are looking at the consultation responses at the moment. There may have been instances in the past
ning on making swingeing cuts to ben-
it with the threat of cuts. This deci-
efits for disabled people they claimed that they would support people to get
sion should be immediately reversed
into employment - now it turns out
with full compensation for everyone who has been affected."
that they are also making cuts to the
Shani Dhanda,
very service designed to do this."
She added: "The Labour minister's
Access to Work Collective, a group
glib response won't wash with the
set up to help get disabled people into
"Disabled people have
thousands of people waiting for assistance through this service. La…

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 3d

Tory Russell Findlay not happy with Holyrood List system, because his party is more toxic than ever and MSPs/councillors are leaving, (some to even more toxic parties).

Doesn’t realise problem isn’t the List.

However, do agree with any Party members defecting to other parties, forcing by-election.

T
HE Scottish Conservative
Recent polling suggests the Scottish
of the list, the party list. That also ap-
Tories, currently Holyrood's second-
leader has suggested MSPs defecting from his party are
largest party, could be pushed into
plies to those who have defected.
"I think there's something very far
fourth place at next year's election by
wrong where people who vote for the
motivated by "self interest" and called for Holyrood's propor-
a surging Reform UK.
Scottish Conservative Party, or any
Appearing on the BBC's Good
other party for that matter, and they
tional list system to be "looked at" Russell Findlay said party members
Morning Scotland programme, from the UK Conservative Party confer-
duly get a representative having voted for them, then lose them to another."
were unhappy at the recent bout of ence in Manchester, Findlay suggest-
The politician was also asked if
"disloyalty"
". He further said it was
ed that it was unfair that the rules
the defections were a reflection on
wrong that MSPs elected on a party
around list voting at Holyrood meant
his leadership.
list could later defect to another party
MSPs could change party without
"No," he said. "I think a lot of our
and still keep their seat.
facing the electorate, despite having
Findlay has lost three MSPs this
been elected under the party list.
members - I couldn't possibly say on broadcast what their views are about
year: Graham Simpson, who joined
But he defended his leadership of
those who defect -they are really not
Reform UK; Jamie Greene, who defected to the Liberal Democrats, and
the Scottish Tories, saying that other all happy about this disloyalty, and
parties had lost MSPs too.
they believe that, in the main, these
Jeremy Balfour, who now sits as an
He added: "I think what needs to
Independent.
be looked at is the list system, the
defections are motivated by self-
Meanwhile,
the party has been proportional system.
interest. I think most people looking
seen a wave of defections to Reform
at t…

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PJ @septemberrising.bsky.social · 3d

Get out and protest in numbers, don’t be silenced by this genocide complicit UK Labour Party government.

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 3d

This is how serious UK government is about a ceasefire in Gaza.
Empty, meaningless words Starmer spouts about peace in Gaza, while supplying the Israeli killers with weapons.
He must be aware Israel doesn’t care about the hostages. Netanyahu wants Palestine.
www.thenational.scot/news/2552258...

UK arms exports to Israel 'hit record high' in recent months

UK Government arms exports to Israel hit a "record high" in recent months, analysis has found.

www.thenational.scot

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 3d

Starmer branding his “un-British“ at folk protesting.

He doesn’t seem to realise some of us are glad to be called “un-British”, it’s almost a compliment.

www.thenational.scot/news/2552244...

Keir Starmer tells students not to protest on anniversary of Hamas attacks

Keir Starmer has urged students not to protest on the second anniversary of the October 7 attacks ...

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 3d

Two grown men pinning a child to the ground. Where’s the threat? Only them.
The more I see of what’s going on in America the more I’m glad I don’t live there, and I’m unlikely to ever visit again.
It’s become the Wild West again, only the outlaws have taken control.

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 3d

Have found similar in contacting MPs/MSPs on social media or by email, they just don’t respond.
I’m curious about the position of the Scottish Greens, they are sounding more proactive than the SNP, to the point where they actually seem serious about Indy.
Not sure why you should get heat from folk.

Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 3d

Not that I’m aware of, in fact have been quite positive about their attitude towards Indy.

Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely this. Eloquently stated.

Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 4d

Superb messaging here. Scottish (and UK) politicians take note. #ZohranMamdani

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 4d

Noticed a number of folk following have their accounts suspended, which is unfortunate.
However I also notice a few indy accounts unfollow regularly too, and I wondered if this is deliberate on their part or is there something else going on here?
No problem, just curious
@mastermelrose.bsky.social

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · Jul 19

Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 4d

Perhaps this wasn’t so much the ‘Jewish community’ and more the ‘Zionist community’ that didn’t like what Swinney said about Palestine being an independent state.

He talked about Oct Hamas attack, but didn’t mention death toll in Gaza has exceeded 66,000.

www.thenational.scot/news/2551971...

John Swinney booed and heckled during speech to Jewish community in Edinburgh

FIRST Minister John Swinney was booed and heckled outside the Scottish Parliament as he spoke about recognising Palestine at an event for the Jewish…

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 4d

Scottish Currency Group: EU fiscal rules threaten austerity for independent Scotland

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

Scottish Currency Group: EU fiscal rules threaten austerity for independent Scotland

THE Scottish Currency Group (SCG) endorses the analysis and conclusions of the report The Economic Impact of Adopting the European Union’s…

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 4d

Key voices gather to discuss routes to an independent Scotland

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

Key voices gather to discuss routes to an independent Scotland

ALL of a sudden, we’re only weeks away from Independence Forum Scotland’s Autumn Convention on Scotland’s Future