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🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺Totally unapologetic eco ‘saboteur Remoaner’ and woke af. Outsider settled in Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and happy to help build the border wall with Perma-Tory™️ England once Scotland’s independence is regained 😘. Stakeholder Member of @BelieveInScotland.bsky.social

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Andy_European🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy-s-64.bsky.social · Aug 16

You can stop funding Israel’s genocide by boycotting it and any person/entity that helps it commit genocide in Palestine.

Join the BDS movement: bdsmovement.net

Download the BoyCat App

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BDS MOVEMENT

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement works to end international support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians.

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Andy_European🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy-s-64.bsky.social · 3h

Then it’ll be the going (gouging) rate for public chargers.

When were these granted planning, must be years ago if each property doesn’t have its own charge point…

Andy_European🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy-s-64.bsky.social · 3h

AI hasn’t delivered what it promised. Its output is soooo shit people have lost their jobs relying on it.

Students have been kicked of lad courses because of the garbage AI spews.

Good riddance.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3h

Bank of England warns of growing risk of a “sudden correction” in global markets - financial crash.

AI boom will burst.
Share prices inflated
Real economy weak.
Trump creating uncertainties.
Shadow banking unregulated.
Govt deregulating banking.

Bankers get bonuses, people will pick up the tab.

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3h

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

One of Trump's biggest financial supporters, Timothy Mellon, is obsessed with Earhart .... hence this.

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/u...

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Andy_European🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy-s-64.bsky.social · 3h

Only in England — here in Scotland we own our water company.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills Millions of households in England will see their water bills increase by even more than expected, after the competition regulator gave the green light for five water suppliers to raise charges to customers – but rejected most of the companies’ demands. An independent group of experts appointed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally decided to allow the companies to charge customers an extra £556m over the next five years, it said on Thursday. That was only 21% of the £2.7bn that the firms requested. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3h

Nigel Farage before the crypto lobby started funding Reform UK

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 3h

The UK's four largest banks (HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds, and NatWest) are on track to report record £48 billion profits in 2025.

What do bankers think of a windfall tax on the banks?

www.bigissue.com

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Andy_European🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy-s-64.bsky.social · 3h

If they’re linked to the property they should be hooked up to the house electrics so you choose your tariff.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13h

Reform UK in the dock ⚖

9th October Andy Osborn.
14th October Neil Stevens, Tony Stevens, and Rob Sheridan.
15th October Sarah White.
21st November Nathan Gill.
16th December Mandy Clare.
22nd May 2026 Daniel Taylor.

Under investigation:
Joseph Boam.
Lee Duffy.
George Cottrell.

#ReformInTheDock

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump is fighting for his life to stay awake during Andy Ngo's speech

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump's mouth starts drooping as he struggles to stay awake during this antifa roundtable

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Cheeto Voodoo @cheetovoodo.bsky.social · 9d

Does anyone think Mike Johnson met his "adopted" 40-year-old "son" on GRINDR? The RUMORS are rampant!

Oh my!

House Speaker Mike Johnson's adopted son on drug charge

Michael Tirrell James, was due to appear in a Los Angeles court on charges of running an illegal cannabis business and possessing brass knuckles.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

Setting aside the absurdly xenophobic framing, once again, there is ZERO truth to any of this. Everyone qualifies for Emergency Medicaid equally. Hospitals do not receive more for treating undocumented immigrants in an emergency than Americans. Speaker Johnson is flatly wrong.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

Senate Dems plan to force a vote on President Trump’s extrajudicial military strikes on foreign vessels he claims are smuggling drugs. trib.al/ghYcfgy

“If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force."

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CNN @cnn.com · 15h

Denmark will move to ban social media for children under 15, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, saying the online platforms are “stealing our children’s childhood.”

Denmark plans to ban social media for users under 15, as PM says platforms are ‘stealing childhood’ | CNN Business

Denmark will move to ban social media for children under 15, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Tuesday, saying the online platforms are “stealing our children’s childhood.”

www.cnn.com

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15h

Navarro: 'we are just in the most beautiful place we've been I think ever with respect to trade'

*In Q2 2024, China bought over $3 billion in soybeans from U.S. farmers. This year, they’ve bought $0.

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Justice Connection @justiceconnection.bsky.social · 15h

Legal experts from across the political spectrum who have worked for every president since Reagan, say President Trump and AG Bondi have used the DOJ to punish their enemies and help their friends.

‘Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency

www.nytimes.com

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 15h

The TUC has warned that the Tory plan to withdraw from the (ECHR) ‘isn’t about migration, it’s about dismantling the legal protections that ordinary people rely on every day’.
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/tuc-...

TUC warns Tory plan to leave the ECHR is an attack on workers’ rights

The TUC has warned that the Tory plan to withdraw from the (ECHR) ‘isn’t about migration, it’s about dismantling the legal protections that ordinary people rely on every day’.

leftfootforward.org

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Euractiv @euractiv.com · 15h

Spanish parliament backs Sánchez’s arms embargo on Israel

Podemos joins government in backing permanent ban on arms and military exports to Israel

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

It’s not enough to round up and detain those here illegally; video of it must be shot, edited, dramatized, and disseminated. ICE is now in the content creation business.

The latest edition of Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-propag...

The ICE Propaganda Campaign Goes Into Overdrive

MAGA commentators are stepping up as soldiers in Trump’s culture war to provoke confrontations against “Antifa” with the backing of DHS.

www.thebulwark.com

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Meidas Scotland 🏴EU @sovereign.scot · 15h

So, Herr Starmer is going to be visiting Scotland more often then eh?

Here's a satirical take on his visit to reprimand Sarwar and BBC Scotland.👇

Meidas Scotland 🏴EU @sovereign.scot · 1d

So, Herr Starmer is going to be visiting Scotland more often then eh?

Here's a satirical take on his visit to reprimand Sarwar and BBC Scotland.

youtu.be/JmYE1FW37Dc?...

Written by
@para-handy.bsky.social
Produced by Meidas Scotland

Part 2 to follow in a few days.

Sound on and up.

Sarwar and Starmers Downfall - Part 1

YouTube video by Media Scotland Network

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Tory Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes.

A code for more austerity, public service cuts. What do they think will happen when £47bn is removed from the economy?

Silence on taxing the rich, windfall taxes, ending corporate welfare, tax havens.

Same old Tories.

Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes

In a conference speech, the Tory leader will say the Conservatives are the only party

www.bbc.co.uk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

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NPR @npr.org · 15h

The price of gold hit $4,000 per ounce for the first time ever. It's a bad sign for the U.S. economy n.pr/4mYSvqy

Why gold is having its best year since 1979

The price of gold hit $4,000 per ounce for the first time ever. It's a bad sign for the U.S. economy

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