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At a time of massive inequality, Trump's budget is breathtaking in its degree of cruelty. It slashes funding for health care, housing & education that the working class desperately needs in order to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires & the Pentagon. That is morally obscene.

Today's results offer a golden opportunity to the SNP and the wider Scottish independence movement to make the case that no help is coming from south of the border, writes James Kelly ✍️

Despite what mainstream media would have you believe, Keir Starmer's 'landslide' election victory was built on a lower % of the vote than any other single-party post-war government. That's not a landslide, it's a landslip in political engagement. Today's the day you can give him a bloody nose!

The Labour government has allocated funds from a £2.5 billion steel fund to support the Scunthorpe steelworks, to prevent the closure of the Chinese owned Steel plant, and is also providing a £600M loan guarantee for the Ineos refinery in Belgium. Meanwhile Grangemouth closes!

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Campaigners have staged a huge protest near Donald Trump's Turnberry golf course

Dozens of Wisconsin and national elected officials have condemned the arrest of Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan — in one of the loudest objections yet to Trump’s assault on the judiciary.

Let’s be clear. Trump's arrest of Judge Dugan in Milwaukee has nothing to do with immigration. This latest attack is about one thing: unchecked power. It is time for my colleagues in the Republican Party to stand up to his growing authoritarianism.

I had to cancel my plan to kayak in my local river last weekend because the water was full of sewage. I'm sick of all these immigrants and benefit scroungers ruining everything for everyone...

🎙️✨This weeks Celtic Women’s Football Show is OUT NOW Finally able to talk about a win against but was it convincing enough to turn things around? We discuss the result and performance as well as the state of women’s football at the club as a whole #celticfcwomen #celticfc 🎙️ tinyurl.com/2yx8x7ek

BREAKING: Liz Kendall has declared the Pope fit for work x

It's been 51 days since ANY humanitarian aid has entered Gaza. Israeli Minister of Defense Katz has said: "Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza."   This is a war crime.   We must end our complicity. NO more military aid for Netanyahu's war machine.

UnitedHealth reported $6.29B in profit for Q1, and blamed actually having to provide healthcare to their customers for not making more. Reminder that health insurance companies are most profitable when they’re letting the most customers die, or driving them into debt.

#AreYouYesYet

Do not read this unless you are feeling strong... www.normalisland.co.uk/p/devastatin...

So will the long promised trade deal involve overt hostility to China, agricultural concessions, and threats to the NHS from Big Pharma?

If only

BREAKING: I must bring you the upsetting news that Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has lost his appeal against his 18-month prison sentence for contempt of court. Who would've guessed that gambling away the money he raised for lawyer fees would have backfired?😭😭😭

This propaganda is becoming relentless #scrpthemonarchy

Why is this allowed?

BREAKING: Israel has promised to investigate itself for bombing a school full of kids and then bombing it again when rescuers arrived. It is confident it will find itself not guilty x

If she’s not out of the country in one day, deport her, ban her from reentry for life and seize all her assets in the UK. Time to quit fucking around when it comes to these people

Ex-SNP MP and former Gaza surgeon Dr Philippa Whitford has been appointed as a trustee of Medical Aid for Palestinians

Well isn’t that a shocker … the 12% of Canadians who are pro-American and won’t boycott regime good, are the worst educated in the country. Seems wherever you go it’s the dumb bastards destroying things for the rest of us … vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/03/28/b...

It has been a month since any aid entered Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel has announced its intention to seize large areas of Palestinian territory. Our government's response? To continue to allow the supply of arms to Israel.

“When you have a player of the calibre of Amy Gallacher dropping off so dramatically and hardly getting a touch of the ball, serious questions need to be answered.” ✍️MARCH ROUNDUP ARTICLE Available now FREE thecynic.co/writing/marc...

The "Scottish" labour tactic of a minion raising a devolved issue at #PMQs so that Starmer can have a free hit at @snp.org is getting a bit boring now. Obviously Sarwar isn't up to the job of taking on @johnswinney.bsky.social directly, when he can ( and does ) answer back !

Yet again a Scottish Labour MP smugly criticised the Scottish NHS supported by Starmer during PMQ’s. No opportunity for the @snp.org to respond. This is not democracy and we desperately need #ScottishIndepence starting with a majority vote in 2026 at Holyrood.

I'm so proud of him x www.normalisland.co.uk/p/starmer-se...

⚽️ NEW EPISODE ⚽️ A manager under pressure. We discuss the bad run of results in particular looking through the recent defeat to Glasgow City in this weeks show @90minutecynic.bsky.social thecynic.co/podcasts/the... #celticfc #celticfcwomen #swpl #scottishwomensfootball #elenasadiku

BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer has explained the reason your energy provider is increasing your bill is because he didn't feel like stopping them x

BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump are close to finalising a trade deal that will mean loosening our food safety laws to allow the sale of chlorinated chicken in the UK. Isn't this exciting? x

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

A Labour Party whip who is pushing through disability cuts claims ‘rent’ expenses for her pet cockapoo dog. If this doesn’t fill you cold fury, nothing will. Our ‘rulers’ would step over our dead bodies while drinking champagne and eating lobster. I hold the entire political class in utter contempt