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Family is foremost, followed by curiosity and critical thinking. Love art, music, and nature (in any order). Have always believed that an open mind is one that receives the most benefits. Buchanty is my pen name - Colin Hope-Murray my birth name.
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It is uncertain if the Taco Wacko is attempting to imitate Robespierre and the Reign of Terror in revolutionary France. Instead the US is saddled with RobsthePoor and the Reign of Error.

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This cover of “America” is quite touching.

submitted 42 days ago • 35 comments

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

submitted 65 days ago • 854 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 73 days ago • 1028 comments

Today, we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before. But the greed of the oligarchs never stops.  Now, in order to get huge tax breaks, they want to cut back on Social Security, Medicaid and veterans programs. Together we can stop them. We must stop them.

submitted 91 days ago • 618 comments

@bsky.app CEO @jay.bsky.team details how the platform utilizes open networks to allow users to craft their own social media experience while maintaining their personal privacy.

submitted 97 days ago • 90 comments

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

submitted 103 days ago • 1797 comments

Formations and flow on the River Orchy, Glen Orchy #Scotland #Argyll #Highlands www.damianshields.com

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments

The Marsh Family perfectly capture European reaction to the Brute A-Lister shakedown of Zelensky. youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE?...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Scotland’s a sense of change, an endless becoming for which there was never a kind of wholeness or ultimate category. Scotland’s an attitude of mind. —Maurice Lindsay, “Speaking of Scotland” published in COLLECTED POEMS 1940–1990 Just in case anyone was wondering about being Scottish…

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

🚨BREAKING: Ninth Circuit AFFIRMS lower court decision striking down Arizona voter suppression law H.B. 2492 which imposed unconstitutional and burdensome proof of citizenship requirements. A big victory for our clients and the voters of Arizona. A stinging defeat for the RNC.

submitted 110 days ago • 896 comments

Super wealth is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, greed, and abuse....at the expense of the public wellbeing. History has proved that gross imbalance in wealth is a recipe for national decline.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Totally agree. It's like tasting a delicious but never before imagined recipe perfectly executed. Time stops, and all thought turns to repeating that sensation.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Beinn a' Ghlò and Strathtay from Aberfeldy #Scotland #Aberfeldy #Grampians www.damianshields.com

submitted 114 days ago • 4 comments

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it tends towards justice", while attributed to MLK (he quoted it) was published over a 100 years earlier by Theodore Parker (1853), a minister and abolitionist. Several years later the same thought and sentiment could be found in a Scottish Mason's tract:

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

One should have no respect, and especially no allegiance, for those who break their oaths to defend the constitution. Resistance is a duty against "Not my President" and his fellow parasites.

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

Just received this execrable invitation to respond. Please help me out with suitable ripostes

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Wow! We're at 1k followers! We're so grateful for your support! 🧡 As a thanks, we are giving away one of our popular tartan scarves! To be in with a chance to win, you need to: 1. Be following us 2. Share this post ** Competition closes 3pm tomorrow. Winner announced at 5pm! ** Best of luck! 😃

submitted 129 days ago • 22 comments

"The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin." - Adam Smith Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.

submitted 133 days ago • 598 comments

I thought it's time to liberate the term woke, as a label of only one faction. Humans are born without prejudices and preconceived ideas, and through education we awaken to the dark or the light. Education in the halls of dogma awakens the former, while exposure to challenging thought the latter.

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Excerpts from "Thieves of State" Day 9: Erasmus 1466-1536 "To reduce poor people to hunger and servitude is both very cruel and very risky." At some point, "the last straw breaks the camel's back, and revolution eventually flares up when people's patience is exhausted." Not if, but when....

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