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YRoy

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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum #ANTIFA Woke & Feminist she/her. Scot-Irish Mam&Gran, Pro-Scottish Indy, TU Officer, Mediator, ex-lawyer - child protection, employment, and mental health law. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇮 www.aglaiketstirk.wordpress.com

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YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · Feb 3

This:
"The oligarchs have no plan to govern. They will take what they can, and disable the rest. The destruction is the point. They don’t want to control the existing order. They want disorder in which their relative power will grow."

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 2

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

The Logic of Destruction

And how to resist it

snyder.substack.com

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YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 1h

My first undergraduate degree was an MA(Hons) in English Literature and Religious Studies.

Best subject choices I ever made - and they equipped me well for the later LLB and legal career.

Neil is right. Beware the Tory barbarism.

Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 4h

If you want to create a docile, obedient nation, first attack the arts so you deskill children of critical thinking. Once you’ve done that the people can be moulded as their rulers please. Beware this barbarism. It’s a path to demagoguery and authoritarianism

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 11h

Plenary power = complete and absolute power

The US is a frightening place right now.

Rick or Treat | The D-Pad @ricdesi.dpad.fm · 13h

Interesting, now how about an explanation for this?

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 11h

Triggered bouts of acute pancreatitis in me.

It's a dreadful med.

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 11h

Filling the swamp with more swamp.

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 12h

Jessica Allen, deputy director at University College London's Institute of Health Equity, explains the eight Marmot Principles.

How the eight Marmot principles could transform our health

www.bigissue.com

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 12h

"Middle East Eye takes a look at the toll of #Israel's genocide on Palestinians in #Gaza."

The toll on Palestinians: Two years of Israel's genocide in Gaza
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXO8...

#FreePalestine #GazaNews #GazaStrip #IsraelNews #MiddleEast #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews

The toll on Palestinians: Two years of Israel's genocide in Gaza | MEE Live

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

www.youtube.com

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YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 12h

He WANTS Civil War.

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 12h

Ooft. Coked up to the gills.

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 12h

Intimidating.

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 1d

There's not a thing about the US system that I understand.

How can paychecks go unpaid?

How can a system as poor as this have survived so long?

It's a wonder to me that there's been no 'Trump' before now.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Shutdown threatens to drag on for days as positions harden

Some are eyeing October 15 — when active-duty military members could miss a paycheck — as the next deadline for action.

Shutdown threatens to drag on for days as positions harden

Some are eyeing Oct. 15 — when active-duty military members could miss a paycheck — as the next deadline for action.

www.politico.com

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously?

We've gone back to 1861. But with a twist.

Texas is now waging war on behalf of the Union.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing Glasgow band ♥️

Saw Paul Buchanan in a rare solo performance last year - part of Celtic Connections at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 2d

I am shocked and appalled by the arson attack on a mosque in Peacehaven, where two people were inside.

No community should be terrorised for their faith or in their place of worship.

At a time when Islamophobia hits record levels, we need urgent action from the top of government to confront it.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

For shame. 😡

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Gary Neville, "Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country"

"The messaging is getting dangerous"

"All these idiots out there spreading hate speech in any form, abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them"

"And get back to a country of love, peace and harmony"

"And become a team again"

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

President Donald Trump wants Americans to think that the artificial intelligence videos he's posted on social media are just jokes, but they serve a much more nefarious purpose, according to one former Trump world insider.

'These aren't jokes': Ex-insider warns Trump is 'fracturing' the 'foundation' of America

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 2d

I counted 6 explosions so far in Kharkiv‼️Russia is a terrorist state!

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YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 3d

Kicked in the head by several related horses - called Putin, White Ethnonationalism and Thiel.

www.wired.com/story/the-re...

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 2d

"The six-kilometre march drew roughly 250,000 participants...

Protesters accused the #Netherlands of complicity through arms trade and political silence, calling for sanctions on Israel and a ceasefire in #Gaza."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Skf...

#GazaStrip #Israel #News #Palestine #WorldNews

Hundreds of thousands of people protest in Amsterdam against Israel’s Gaza war

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

www.youtube.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism

So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

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YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 3d

Kicked in the head by several related horses - called Putin, White Ethnonationalism and Thiel.

www.wired.com/story/the-re...

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YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 3d

Inexorably building to very open, very real and physical, war.

Putin has finally removed the last restraint - the US is at war with itself.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

Norwegian F-35s have been deployed to patrol Polish airspace.

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Ricky Hale @councilestatemedia.bsky.social · 4d

The UK has arrested 1,775 people for protesting against genocide since the proscription of Palestine Action.

The UK has not arrested a single person since October 7 for their participation in that genocide.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic: “Everyone is preparing for war. It's just a question of which side someone belongs to.

“We would like to avoid wars and conflicts, but I'm afraid no one wants to listen anymore. Everyone is really and seriously preparing for wars.”

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