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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 18h

Spanish law now forbids selling any weapons to Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spanish-law-now-forbids-selling-any-weapons-israel

Spanish law now forbids selling any weapons to Israel

<article data-history-node-id="429843" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spanish-law-now-forbids-selling-any-weapons-israel" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spanish-law-now-forbids-selling-any-weapons-israel" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Spanish law now forbids selling any weapons to Israel</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A Spanish arms embargo was voted into law Wednesday that bans all weapons sales to Israel, fuel transits, and also the adveritising of products that come from the occupied Palestinian territories, Al Jazeera reported. </p> <p>There will be exceptions made to the law if anything is deemed harmful to the Spanish national interest. </p> <p>The prime minister said Wednesday's vote "consolidates into law" the previous weapons ban made two years ago. </p> </div> </div> </article>

www.middleeasteye.net

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((Wee G )) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 18h

News you won’t hear – Support for struggling households from SNP Government 👇
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/08/n...

News you won’t hear – Support for struggling households from SNP Government

Housing Secretary Màiri McAllan Professor John Robertson OBA From Scottish Government News today with only the Daily Record covering it: A record £99 million will be invested in Discretionary Housi…

talkingupscotlandtwo.com

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shabbygamster.bsky.social @shabbygamster.bsky.social · 20h

What is the actual point of BBC Scotland? We pay them millions of £ every year

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shabbygamster.bsky.social @shabbygamster.bsky.social · 20h

They are pretending that it’s not going to happen …
It is going to happen !SNP 1 Green 2

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shabbygamster.bsky.social @shabbygamster.bsky.social · 21h

OMG… what a mess our friends in America have become

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 1d

Anas Sarwar was confronted at a Labour event by a Labour party member who was *furious* at Labour's plans to open up the NHS to the private sector. Of course the BBC in Scotland refused to pick up this story.

(video: MSM Monitor)

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 1d

The UK hostages Israel terrorised and abducted were thrown under the bus by Starmer's cronies

While the UK government looked the other way, as it has with Israel's genocide in Gaza in general, the Canary wants to highlight the hostages' stories
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

The UK hostages Israel terrorised and abducted were thrown under the bus by Starmer's cronies

While the UK government looked the other way, as it has with Israel's genocide in Gaza in general, we want to highlight the hostages' stories

www.thecanary.co

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asparagusnextleft @asparagusnextleft.bsky.social · 2d

There are 533 MP's representing english seats in the HoC's.
Not a single one of them advocates for english independence.
Funny, that.

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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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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH:

djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey."

Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it."

djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret."

And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children.

#PedoPrez

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shabbygamster.bsky.social @shabbygamster.bsky.social · 1d

Ways to sell a paper #1

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shabbygamster.bsky.social @shabbygamster.bsky.social · 1d

Israel just invited Tommy Robinson … it sound crazy… it is not.

www.jpost.com/diaspora/art...

Tommy Robinson speaks out for Israel | The Jerusalem Post

"I've never had any financial benefit from Israel," he said, confirming that he will not be paid for his upcoming trip to Israel following a personal invite from Minister Amichai Chikli.

www.jpost.com

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Dave_58 @davekidd-58.bsky.social · 1d

Hey @pressandjournal.co.uk, this is your patch, have you asked Bowie about the purpose of and feedback from his trip?

Dr Robert 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @raibeart.bsky.social · 4d

Andrew Bowie MP accepted paid trip to Israel during the demolition of Gaza by Israeli Govt.
www.thenational.scot/news/2551562...

Scottish Tory MP took £4k all-expenses-paid trip to Israel in middle of Gaza genocide

A SCOTTISH Tory MP’s £4200 trip to Israel during the genocide in Gaza has been branded “sickening”.

www.thenational.scot

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George Futers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @wee-jordi.bsky.social · 3d

If you can't understand why SNP 1&2 will not work, read the following.
HR26: vote SNP 1 and Scottish Greens 2 for an Indy majority.
Vote sensibly not loyally 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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shabbygamster.bsky.social @shabbygamster.bsky.social · 1d

Labour want us to build more “experimental” reactors in Scotch Land.. fuck them … vote SNP 1 - Green 2

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shabbygamster.bsky.social @shabbygamster.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot think of anything that would help the SNP more… the ma is a hollow bell end

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

You should be able to have a party which says "actually these are reasonable ideas... and the only thing holding it back is people not having faith and confidence that enough other people support those ideas" 👏👏👏

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shabbygamster.bsky.social @shabbygamster.bsky.social · 1d

No surprise the BBC banned him… very impressive speaker

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

An Israeli prison guard deliberately slammed a metal door on the already broken leg of a 70-year-old Scottish woman who was abducted from the flotilla.

Torture.

THIS IS SAD ❗❗

"That prison was awful. No food, no water. My broken leg, the girl said to me, "Ah, what happened to your leg?" I said, "it's broke." She slammed the metal door on it and went, "Oh, sorry"

Margaret Pacetta, 70, from Glasgow, Scotland, is one of four Scots who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Pacetta arrived in Istanbul Airport on Saturday afternoon along with 136 other activists.

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 2d

💕 I am blown away by Greta Thunberg’s courage. They covered up her arm to hide her injuries, she refused to make it about her after 72 hours of Israeli torture and determined, delivered another plea for world leaders and media to grow a conscience. This is what world leadership looks like:

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 3d

Superb messaging here. Scottish (and UK) politicians take note. #ZohranMamdani

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 4d

In 2021, in the Regional List:

40.3% vote for the SNP returned 2 seats out of 56

23.1% vote for the Blue Tories “won” 24 seat out of 56

The SNP are currently projected to return ZERO List seats at HR26

If we can get 25% to vote for Greens (not SNP) in the List, it’ll mean 80-90 Indy MSPs

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 3d

As far as we know, the BBC didn't officially refused to interview @greenparty.org.uk leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social during conference - but leaving out our Jewish party leader in the week a terrorist murdered and terrorised Jewish people in his own city feels like a very deliberate editorial call

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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