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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 12h

Just wow 🤩🐸

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 12h

Sickening

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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 12h

I see some are unhappy that their books were not labelled as ‘banned’ maybe because they weren’t actually banned

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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 12h

The link sends to 404 unfortunately

siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 12h

Also the quoted headline in Mckenna’s piece today.
Are the minutes available from the recent meeting:I couldn’t see them or was this from a previous meeting?

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12h

Journalist: Why didn't Trump get it?

Nobel Peace Prize Committee say they only give the prize to those with courage and integrity

More integrity that every politician sucking up to Trump

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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 12h

The EHRC springs to mind.

siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 12h

And the Faculty were hugely criticised+sanctioned by the Scottish Legal Complaints Committee over the leniency shown to KC McConnachie in his heinous behaviour towards Sandy Brindley and ordered to improve their complaints procedures.

siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 14h

That was my first thought too

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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 14h

I suppose the timing is pre- Alba conference this month but she clearly had made the decision some time ago despite the puff pieces in the press suggesting otherwise.

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 14h

Interesting claim in Alba's response to this news: Regan apparently had not even put herself forward for the party's selection process for next year.

I'd wondered whether MacAskill might have been set to defeat her for top spot on the Edinburgh and Lothians East list, but didn't even get that far!

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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 14h

Expertly summarised

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 15h

Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, candidate for SNP leader in 2023 and subsequently Alba leader in 2025, has now quit Alba citing it's "direction". She becomes an Independent and is re-standing as one next year. Alba's - never earned, only defected - parliamentary representation is ended.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 17h

Truly we live in the most Trump-brained timeline. Maybe, just maybe the Nobel Prize committee gave María Corina Machado the peace prize on her own merits, rather than so as not to give Trump the award while making it impossible for him to criticise their choice.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17h

He’s trolling Trump

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 17h

Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY

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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Any thoughts of working with the Scottish Green Party before the Holyrood Elections next year? I know the 2 parties are currently separate but perhaps even stronger working together? @zackpolanski.bsky.social
@ross-greer.bsky.social
@gillianmacmsp.bsky.social

siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

The usual suspects are misrepresenting and providing clickbait misleading headlines from Nicola Sturgeon’s interview last night- here’s what she actually said - from the journalist who did the interview

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d

Woahhhhhh.

A poll that shows the Greens surging to 15% - and just 2 points behind the Labour party.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: Journalist Peter Oborne sat down with The National ahead of his soon-to-be released book, Complict: Britain's Role In The Destruction Of Gaza

🗣️'The way in which the British public were being lied to about what’s been happening is beyond belief'

Read more: tinyurl.com/3rmx858p

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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

It does seem very very personal, a bit like the ‘destroyer’ t- shirt

siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, there is a video interview of her post release available in the National.

siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

‘Curated hatred’ sums it all up, doesn’t it

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Shami's Speakeasy @shamisspeakeasy.bsky.social · 8d

25 years ago, the Human Rights Act came into force. It incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law, meaning we could defend our rights in courts, here at home - rather than going to the European Court.

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Shami's Speakeasy @shamisspeakeasy.bsky.social · 3d

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