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Fiona McGregor @fionamcgregor.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a good discussion - especially if you are worried about the far right

Scottish Independence Podcasts @scottishindypod.bsky.social · 1d

just started over on YT - come and join in the comments!

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Can PR De-Fang Farage?

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Fiona McGregor @fionamcgregor.bsky.social · 2d

Storm #Amy has been playing on our cycle track...

Cycle track with large tree blown across it

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Fiona McGregor @fionamcgregor.bsky.social · 3d

We're having an indy art exhibition! ALL welcome...

Scottish Independence Podcasts @scottishindypod.bsky.social · 3d

Calling all artists!
Independent Artists Exhibition in Alloa 31st Oct - 3rd Nov - see the Yes slates display and take part in a Boulders and Blethers stone painting workshop!
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Scottish Independent Artists exhibition and sale - Alloa 31st oct - 3rd Nov

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Fiona McGregor @fionamcgregor.bsky.social · 4d

Great chat about housing issues here too www.podbean.com/ep/pb-kknjs-...

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 5d

Labour's official party political broadcast wasn't broadcast in Scotland. Perhaps this segment would not have gone down well in Grangemouth...

(MSM Monitor)

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 5d

FIFA has decided to take no action against Israel.

President says "FIFA cannot resolve geopolitical issues."

FIFA has and still bans Russia.

FIFA is a disgrace, Israel need to be banned.

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Fiona McGregor @fionamcgregor.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting. The pursuit of profit beyond reason. Wonder if any of the tenants are retired teachers?

Fiona McGregor @fionamcgregor.bsky.social · 5d

That Canadian teachers' pension fund is looking pretty good...

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Fiona McGregor @fionamcgregor.bsky.social · 5d

So just the rich old shouty white men left standing then? Why am I not surprised?

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 6d

The last remaining female Reform UK branch chair in Wales has resigned, citing ‘personal reasons’, amid an internal row over the lack of elections for senior party positions ✍️ Emily Price

Reform UK's last female Welsh branch chair resigns

Emily Price The last remaining female Reform UK branch chair in Wales has resigned, citing ‘personal reasons’, amid an internal row over the lack of elections for senior party positions. The announce...

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Fiona McGregor @fionamcgregor.bsky.social · 5d

Exactly so. Re-Nationalise the lot and stop the extraction of profits abroad.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5d

London Heathrow airport owned by private/state investors from Australia, China, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain.

Similar to steel, auto, ports, shipbuilding, care homes, hospitals, GP surgeries, veterinary services.

Dividends not taxed in the UK. Govts have fewer economic levers.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 5d

Oooo - please share, tree nerds

@cairngormsnews.bsky.social
@cairngormsceo.bsky.social
@dendrochronicle.bsky.social
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Olivier Honnay @olivierhonnay.bsky.social · 5d

📢 Vacancy: I am urgently recruiting a PhD candidate to join a project on selection processes in pedunculate oak.
📅 Start date: no later than December 1st.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 6d

Hundreds of activists have gathered inside Glasgow Central Station to protest against the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla 👇

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Meidas Scotland 🏴EU @sovereign.scot · 7d

I now urgently need to hear from YES Groups and individual Indy campaigners what YOU would like by way of media resources for your own local campaigns. More banners? Large posters? Correx Boards? Larger window stickers? A mobile Advan touring your town but with a static banner?

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Meidas Scotland 🏴EU @sovereign.scot · 7d

Please, please communicate your ideas with me and I’ll do my utmost to deliver value for the donations already made. I delivered on the first campaign, and I'll do it again.

You can also leave long (polite) comments on our website free-scotland.scot ‘Latest News’ / ‘Campaign’ / ‘Leave a Comment’

free-scotland.scot | Home

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Kevin Stewart SNP @kevinstewartsnp.bsky.social · 7d

Today, your household energy costs will rise once again.

Labour pledged to cut bills by £300, but instead bills have increased by £287 since Starmer entered Downing Street.

Westminster isn’t working for Scotland - it’s time for independence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 7d

A question to direct at avery unionist MSP, MP and politician - If the UK really is a “voluntary union” what is the process for Scotland leaving it?
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Our Right to Choose - Indy PosterBoy

Download this design as a printable PDF document, perfect for printing using your home inkjet or laser colour printer at A5, A4 or even as big as A3 size.

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Fiona McGregor @fionamcgregor.bsky.social · 7d

Lena certainly helped us think more deeply about some key issues!

Scottish Independence Podcasts @scottishindypod.bsky.social · 7d

Enjoyed our lively discussion with Lena Swedlow - watch here or catch the audio podcast version out on Friday
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Power, Politics and Possibilities

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 7d

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Fuel poverty – in Scotland, it need not be this way.

Will it be food in the house? Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland in their BBC Breakfast insert have the above story minus of course the hugely significant consideration that, in Scotland, it…

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8d

Oh yes, this is clearly now.

A post on X by Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan
) expresses frustration, asking how anyone can read a definition of fascism and not be alarmed, emphasizing that it is happening now. The post includes a quote from Cody Johnston (@drmistercody
) from one day ago, defining fascism as a form of political behavior marked by an obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, and compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity. The definition describes a mass-based party of nationalist militants working with traditional elites, abandoning democratic liberties, and pursuing redemptive violence for internal cleansing and external expansion without ethical or legal restraints.

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Fiona McGregor @fionamcgregor.bsky.social · 8d

Join us in the comments from 8pm

Scottish Independence Podcasts @scottishindypod.bsky.social · 8d

Join us for tonight's podcast premiere from 8pm

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Power, Politics and Possibilities

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Scottish Independence Podcasts @scottishindypod.bsky.social · 8d

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Colin Fox: Much has changed – and so must the case for independence

The “Better Together” case in 2014 rested on the view that Scotland could, of course, be a successful, small independent state ...

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The Daily Politik @dailypolitik.bsky.social · 8d

Reform MP Richard Tice has travelled to Israel to APOLOGISE to foreign minister and war criminal, Gideon Sa'ar
for Labour's recognition of a Palestinian state

Bowing and scraping before some of the worst people on this earth. If Reform are your heroes you need to take a look at yourselves.