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gypitneep.bsky.social
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🐈‍⬛ Salty, GenX, Scot. Politically homeless leftie, despite what my kids say. Cuppa tea, please. No DMs.
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SHARE this as a reminder to EVERY member of our military: “We don't take an oath to a King. We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator” “We take an oath to the Constitution." #FreedomToDissent #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

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RIP to the great Sly Stone. A monumental loss. His PR just sent this out.

submitted 23 hours ago • 669 comments

When President Johnson activated the Nat'l Guard in Alabama in 1965 over Gov. Wallace's objection he did it to protect protesters advocating for voting rights for Black people who had previously met violence at the hands of state troopers. Very different situation.

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I didn’t know I needed this video of Jonathan Groff singing his heart out, standing over Keanu Reeves and leaning down to caress him but I did???????

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AYMAN: "Should ICE be abolished?" @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social sky.social: "I believe it should."

submitted 1 day ago • 182 comments

Will someone please hand El Taco Gordo a tub of Ben & Jerry’s and a copy of The Notebook so he’ll lose interest in deploying troops against Americans to soothe his anger over his breakup with Elmo?

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Zelenskyy: "Trust me, we understand the Russians much better, the mentality of the Russians, than the Americans understand the Russians. I know for sure Putin doesn't want to stop the war."

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Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

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To quote my distant friend Imran MacLeod, “A man with no culture has no identity”… —Hamid Shami, “Lost” published in Wish I Was Here: a Scottish multicultural anthology (pocketbooks, 2000) #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/lost/

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Melon: time to drop the really big bomb - was Starlink used to manipulate the 2024 election?

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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 4 days ago • 1698 comments

Happy 40th to the Greatest Day Off

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“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” — Greek proverb

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

Don’t let the renaming of Navy Ships distract you from what they are doing. They want women to die! Read that again!

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

Today is polling day in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election. Katy Loudon has shown she would be an outstanding MSP. This is now a two-horse race between the SNP and Farage. #VoteSNP to stop Farage and to build a better Scotland. Vote @katyloudonsnp.bsky.social today.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the 1975 referendum where we embraced Europe. Superb piece by Alan Johnson who remembers it well 👇https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/lets-forget-the-culture-war-over-europe-and-embrace-harold-wilsons-spirit-of-1975

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

DeLauro uses her opening statement to tear Russ Vought a new one

submitted 6 days ago • 567 comments

Very Well Said…. Let’s Do This!😊💙

submitted 6 days ago • 393 comments

"Nigel Farage wants to leave the ECHR to make YOU considerably poorer. No state pension. No minimum wage. No state benefits. No maternity pay. No holiday pay. No sick pay. And ultimately, no NHS. Nigel Farage is not on your side. Wake-up!" via Sarah

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth

submitted 7 days ago • 341 comments

Once you reach a certain level of wealth, you get no incremental happiness The difference between a $30k & a $50k household is enormous in the well-being of that household Kids in lower income households have higher resting blood pressure 🧵 @profgalloway.com

submitted 9 days ago • 49 comments

Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo

submitted 8 days ago • 322 comments

I know, like, and admire Jacinda Ardern and can’t wait to see #PrimeMinisterDoc, in theaters June 13. primeministerdoc.com

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments