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Happily married with 2 sons. Passionate re Scottish Indy, pro-Palestine & socialist! Into politics, protect vulnerable/disabled, love arts esp music, film, painting & comedy, People/animals more important than things! Hate corruption! No DMs! Be kind!
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#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

BREAKING: Donald Trump purged the Military to install loyalists, his Administration suffered a significant loss at the Supreme Court, and Republicans are being held accountable by their constituents. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

you named your clothes drop-shipping company w h a t ?

Fight. Resist. Call your Senator & House Representative. Let them know what you think. Leave messages & flood their phone lines. Do we allow these bullies to destroy our lives or do we fight back?

It's all it ever was. If any of you thought differently, you're the rubes.

I see many mentions of guillotines as a way to sort out the current mess in the US. Not too keen on them but... Is it prudent to call on guillotine blades to fall when most states and the Federal state are at the hands of MAGAts with some in charge who won't shy at trying to prosecute opponents

I hate that the "finding out" phase is hurting the rest of us too.

Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.

Let’s be honest he’s firing women and people of color. White supremacist that it’s core.

Even my Republican coworker who “doesn’t pay attention to politics” is hearing about Ukraine. Our message is finally cutting through the noise. Don’t stop talking about Ukraine

❗️Trump's team asked Ukraine to withdraw a resolution condemning Putin for waging war. Kyiv was shocked: Zelensky refused, — Washington Post cites European diplomats.

DOGE is getting a whole lot of headlines mainly because our brains aren't wired to make sense of millions, billions, or trillions of dollars. Lemme help: Math out the DOGE numbers and you'll discover that your DOGE dividend may buy you a coffee or two. The problem: There's just not that much waste.

Wise man…

Well that was a delicious Saturday morning read. 👇🏽 “What actually sets humans apart is not our rationality — or rather, lack thereof — but our adaptability. After all, we are shaped more by culture than by anything else...” #gendermatters #evolution open.substack.com/pub/thenoosp...

My mood since November 5, 2025 and it is getting worse by the hour😡😡😡😡😡😡🥲🥲🥲🥲🙏🙏🙏🙏

Damn, I don't think I've seen a protest this large outside a party conference ever. Really embarrassing for Scottish Labour, but fantastic solidarity for Palestinians and workers.

NEW: Trump's military purge likely isn't over A draft list of other officers who might be fired circulated this week on Capitol Hill, and it had a focus on Black and female officers The list isn’t final and is subject to the whims of POTUS and SecDef www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Labour will privatise the NHS. Streeting receives funding from Health companies!

Outstanding ……………🤭

Trump is always a liar when it comes to the economy. Discover. #Resist #EconSky youtu.be/u5-yEsQBqPE?...

We haven't seen the promised benefits of trickle-down economics, so it's time for trickle-up policies. #EconSky

Question for today: Canada has a comparative advantage in aluminum production largely because Canadian hydropower is plentiful and cheap. Data centers for AI are also incredibly energy intensive. Wouldn't Canada also have the comparative advantage in AI data centers? #Econsky

“Labour has helped normalise a far-right legal framework. What if a hard-right government sought to capitalise on that? It doesn’t take a leap of imagination to see what will happen if the two things come together.” #Labour #Starmer #fascistenablers www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

Tories blatantly snatch the poorest's hard earned cash straight out of your hands , whilst Labour barge into you and pick your pocket , surreptitiously , behind your back ! . Though sometimes the reverse is true . Whichever way , both are equally devoid of any modicum of conscience whatsoever ! .

I mean, this is dire, but none of the other main "democratic" parties are exactly responsive to their members cough Labour cough BBC News - Nigel Farage gives up ownership of Reform UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

I mean current Labour response to neo-Nazis like Farage seems to be to try and emulate them, so not very hopeful. Genuinely depressed by Labour. So much hope squandered.

Odd view given Reform UK are Tories, want to replace the NHS with insurance like in US and will do nothing for ordinary workers!

“Far from being dismissed as a useful idiot to hostile foreign powers, the British press continues to allow Farage to portray himself as a true British patriot, while he spends as much time as he possibly can outside of this country telling lies about us for money” open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

Brown had to go - he was serving his country while black.

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” —Rosa Parks

A couple of weeks ago, my kids and I started talking about old proverbs that were later proven scientifically true. In Part 1 we talked about how and why smells are stronger just before a rain. Today's post continues the conversation on rainy proverbs/sayings that turned out true #science #kids 🧪💙📚

‘Flow,’ nominated for 2 Oscars, is now streaming on Max https://www.byteseu.com/768216/ LOS ANGELES — A courageous cat, a capybara, a lemur, a bird and a dog. Five distinct animals come together to survive after their homes are devastated by a great flood in a thrilling animated spectacle with …

'WTP' call him the TRAITOR, 'Krasnov'

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

"The imagined offenses attributed to a few fictional Haitians living in Ohio have somehow metastasized into an indiscriminate attack on the legal status of hundreds of thousands of people."

cherish your health, friends. i've spent most of the last week resting in bed with construction muffs on to recover from an ME/CFS crash. but today i feel rejuvenated and reborn, and will pace my future activities carefully. the executive capacity to /do things/ means everything.

Been looking around #MEcfs a bit today. The stagnation in M.E is shocking. It's like nothing has been achieved since 2016.

Today’s quotes

Today’s quotes

Pete Buttigieg: “Even the greatest country, if it loses the rule of law, will not have much left.” REPOST if you stand with Pete Buttigieg!

Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets.

Super Bowl attendees, you know what to do.

‘Americans Can and Will Die from This’: USAID Worker Details Dangers, Chaos The sudden scapegoating of the once-bipartisan agency has left front-line workers in foreign countries stunned and abandoned, without even a contact in Washington.

Dr. Biden just landed in New Orleans to cheer on the Philadelphia Eagles — Yes, the Biden Family are Eagles fans! Fly Eagles Fly! 🦅

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

In Germany over 200,000 protestors in Munich gathered against the Musk backed far-right / neo-Nazi AfD ahead of the German election. Thousands chanted "Save Democracy" and "Oppose Nazis" #3E