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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 17h

Massive fall in number of children in care as progressive policies work to reduce poverty and as violent crime reduces but, hey, you don’t need to know that do you? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/08/m...

Massive fall in number of children in care as progressive policies work to reduce poverty and as violent crime reduces but, hey, you don’t need to know that do you?

Scotland’s system for children in care. Professor John Robertson OBA There’s something important missing from the above ‘news’ today on children in care in Scotland – …

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says "freedom-loving" like posting a picture of Hitler, you absolute bell-end.

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to this interview of Glasgow Friends of Israel spokesperson Sammy Stein by the BBC’s Hayley Miller (from around 15 to 17 mins in). Stein states that pro-Palestine students are celebrating the murder of children and rape of young women. Miller says nothing.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Lunchtime Live - 07/10/2025 - BBC Sounds

News updates from Scotland and beyond, plus all your lunchtime sport, travel and weather.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 1d

It's pretty clear from the monthly Westminster polling subsamples that the rise of Reform is coming from other unionist parties. The SNP and Green vote has held firm since January; while the Tories (-5) and UK Labour (-4) have lost ground. This backs up the excellent analysis by Ballot Box Scotland.

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to this interview of Glasgow Friends of Israel spokesperson Sammy Stein by the BBC’s Hayley Miller (from around 15 to 17 mins in). Stein states that pro-Palestine students are celebrating the murder of children and rape of young women. Miller says nothing.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Lunchtime Live - 07/10/2025 - BBC Sounds

News updates from Scotland and beyond, plus all your lunchtime sport, travel and weather.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 1d

It's pretty clear from the monthly Westminster polling subsamples that the rise of Reform is coming from other unionist parties. The SNP and Green vote has held firm since January; while the Tories (-5) and UK Labour (-4) have lost ground. This backs up the excellent analysis by Ballot Box Scotland.

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve made an official complaint, not that it will make a blind bit of difference!

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 1d

If we're going with: democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, and tolerance being the 'British' values; I would have thought sending arms to a genocidal state that has broken almost every international law and is ethnically cleansing illegally occupied land is 'un-British'!

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d

What should be ‘un-British’ is the heavy-handed policing and proscription of Palestine Action.

Sadly, however, if follows a longstanding British tradition, from the suppression of the Peasants’ Revolt via the Peterloo massacre to the Battle of Orgreave.

pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 2d

Starmer calling pro-Palestine protestors "un-British" barely counts as a dogwhistle tbh, it's straight up racism.

I don't remember him calling Just Stop Oil "un-British" no matter how annoyed he got

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 2d

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Scottish gran back home after ‘hellish’ Israeli jail ordeal on Gaza aid flotilla

Margaret Pacetta, 70, was a part of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), which attempted to break Israel's sea blockade of the war-torn region with over 40 boats and around 500 people on board.

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 2d

She’s actually back in Glasgow, saw her being interviewed last night.

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently the BBC’s favoured Zionist spokesman, Sammy Stein of Glasgow friends of Israel, attended the far-right gathering against asylum seekers at Buchanan steps a couple of weeks ago.

Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely disgraceful that BBC Scotland is giving airtime to an extremist Zionist commentator who is allowed to characterise anti-genocide protests as “celebrating the murder of Jews” without any pushback from the ‘interviewer’.

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely disgraceful that BBC Scotland is giving airtime to an extremist Zionist commentator who is allowed to characterise anti-genocide protests as “celebrating the murder of Jews” without any pushback from the ‘interviewer’.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

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Tobi @tobifrenzen.bsky.social · 2d

Fascists Hate This Image

Share it and bookmark for the next “Both Sides” argument!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 3d

100% this ⬇️

Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 3d

All subsidies of house buying are a complete waste of public money as they simply put the price up and benefit sellers. so this is a completely stupid policy from the Conservatives. Build more social housing. Make rental rules fairer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Conservatives announce £5,000 tax rebate for young home buyers

Speaking at the party's conference, Shadow chancellor Mel Stride will say the proposal will be funded by cuts to public spending worth £47bn.

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 4d

SP26: Where are Reform's votes coming from?

A longer read for the weekend, taking a look at the rise of Reform. If you're the Conservatives or Labour, this isn't good news. The SNP meanwhile lose few voters and benefit from the split elsewhere.

SP26: Where are Reform’s votes coming from?

With Reform on the rise, how has that affected other parties? In short, Reform are lapping up the 2021 Conservative and 2024 Labour votes, but barely registering amongst past SNP voters.

ballotbox.scot

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 4d

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 4d

If you drive a 2025/2026 Tesla or still use X, there really isn't an excuse. You really are just an asshole that looks the other way.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨✊🏼ICE agents OUTNUMBERED by PEOPLE, forced to retreat! Share this! If Chicago can do this, we can ALL do this. 🚨1/2

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 3d

Yet we get BBC news mainstreaming genocide apologists and bringing in headlines and commentators from the Times, Telegraph & Mail. It’s a right-wing circle wank. And it’s dragging the ‘normal’ POV rightwards.

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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 5d

I like what I’m hearing from the Greens on Scottish independence.
We need to be bolder, challenging, rather than meek and accepting.

www.thenational.scot/news/2551643...

Scottish Greens to unveil new 'brave and combative' independence strategy

THE Scottish Greens will unveil a new “brave and combative” independence strategy, Ross Greer has said ...

www.thenational.scot

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 5d

Jesus! This is like Chile under Pinochet.
The disappeared!

Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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