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The brown shirt is on point. (Yes, these are unidentified individuals blocking congresspeople from entering a department Trump and Musk want to illegally shut down. It’s a coup.)

Dear lord...

Thank goodness the SNP-led Scottish Government runs NHS Scotland. Shocking move from Labour-run NHS England...

💷 On the fifth anniversary of The Promise, the Scottish Government is investing £38 million in Whole Family Wellbeing funding. 💛 This increase of £6 million will help local Children's Services Planning Partnerships to support families. 👉 More: https://buff.ly/4hKAMRr

On a positive note, it’s a good reminder that ALL AI can be gamed by the people who create it.

Govts for Sale. UK Govt invites lobbyists and their clients to play major role in the deregulatory agenda. Govt wants ‘growth at all costs’, agenda driven by corporations. Govt pushing PFI, corporate profits guaranteed. Any chance of social justice, equitable distribution of income/wealth?

There are half a dozen new things 'beyond parody' emanating from Trump's White house most days it seems...

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/06/n...

Almost unbelievable....

Operation Branchform was kicked off by a complaint to the police that funds raised for a 2nd Indy Referendum were instead used by the SNP for running expenses which contributors had absolutely no problem with, the police investigation is clearly political and orchestrated #ScottishIndependence

Prestwick Airport posted its 5th successive year of profit in 2023/24 at £3.2m. Remember when the Unionist parties demanded it should be closed to save money. Just think of all the jobs and direct services which would have been lost. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"When our 'public square' [social media] is governed by mob dynamics unrestrained by due process, we don’t get justice and inclusion; we get a society that ignores context, proportionality, mercy, and truth." Get past the daft title...long read but sound analysis.

Might be worth a few seconds to sign this...

Please consider signing. If food packaging has a Scottish Saltire on it, I want it to be made from Scottish ingredients; supporting Scottish farmers and growers. Same with a British flag. If it's on the food I want the food to be from the UK.

Caps on political donations? I hope so and about time. But Labour not too keen it seems...and Conservatives kicked an excellent study on this and its strong recommendations to cap into the long grass a few years ago.

Unbelievable, if not criminal recklessness.

"America may soon find out that in a globalised world, you can’t just cut yourself off: a report last year found Brexit reduced the average UK wage by £2,000. We continued to trade with the EU, we just did it with more red tape – ironically, exactly what we left the EU to avoid."

The answer to USA exeptionalism..? www.facebook.com/share/r/1EDb...

Florida felon rescinds Biden's census order, clearing a path for reshaping election maps. It was issued in response to Trump's attempt during the national tally in 2020 to exclude millions of U.S. residents without legal status. #ETTD #TurdReichRedux www.npr.org/2025/01/20/n...

Unbelievable video. "Gaza's a phenomenal location - on the sea - the best weather, you know everythings good'- 'but you can't have the people that were there...most of them are dead.' Shocking to listen to. Completely oblivious of his own total insensitivity. Like he's planning a new golf course.

For all the doubters, how are these not the same?

What The Guardian fails to mention, naturally, is that whilst the Scottish Government has only reached 18% of the 30% nature restoration target by 2030, Westminster has only achieved 3% in England. The usual standard of UK journalism. wcl.org.uk/assets/uploa... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Jackie Kemp on the 'justice delayed is justice denied' situation with Operation Branchform.

Palestinians, those who are left that is, deserve to have at least this.

Starmer’s plan to cut the massive waiting list is a disastrous and irreversible acceleration of the privatisation process in the NHS. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture which showed that over 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. were killed by H5N1 bird flu in the last quarter of 2024.

"Finland’s critical thinking curriculum was revised in 2016 to prioritize the skills students need to spot the sort of disinformation that has clouded recent election campaigns in the US and across Europe."

Stephen Flynn MP: "The collective punishment of the Palestinian people will not be forgotten by history... "All those who sat silent, who encouraged, and who armed the extremists in the Israeli government will be judged by history too". #DCUKParliament

The unelected members of the House of Lords number 799 - nearly 100 more than the total number of members of the European Parliament, each of whom have been elected by voters in their own countries.

We should keep rp this fact

Will the Gaza-Israel ceasefire allow international press in to confirm or deny the existence of 'thousands of miles of tunnels under all hospitals & schools'? And will it maintain the international community's obligation to investigate Israel's atrocities via a war crimes court in ICC?

Ferries? Nothing remotely like the scale of Westminster waste. £5.5billion spent developing the Ajax armoured vehicle with problems that injured soldiers testing them. Not likely to be ready until the end of the decade, over 10 years late. 9 more 'defence' waste examples👇 Where the BBC on all this?

Absolutely, this👇

This is a well-researched must-read if you want to understand why, in Scotland, not far off a THIRD of people are in fuel poverty-more than twice Wales and way more than the 13% of English...despite Scotland producing 16% of UK energy from the coldest part of Britain(with only 8% of the population.)

During last year’s election campaign, Anas Sarwar told me: “read my lips, no austerity under Labour”. The reports of Labour’s planned cuts are deeply concerning, and any more Westminster austerity would push more people into poverty.