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Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini

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Stop giving tax breaks to wealthy people. They don't pay anywhere near their fair share of tax. That's the main reason everything is broken. Corporation tax needs to rise, too! As does capital gains tax. Why should wealthy ppl pay less than the lowest rate of income tax on investments?

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Nigel Farage "You can't say anything in my country or you will end up in jail." But he said a lot more than 'anything'. So why isn't he in jail?

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“We are not going to let them forget” on the promises made to the @waspicampaign.bsky.social before the general election last year. Campaigners outside the Labour conference in Glasgow. youtu.be/h-pXC3wkfl4

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I’m in 👍

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Per @scaramucci.bsky.social: “He just fired the Joint Chief of Staff. Wants to install a puppet. For those who think that he is contemplating leaving, they don’t understand what happened on January 6.”

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Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

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🥀 Make no mistake - Labour’s disastrous PFI/PPP schemes left Scotland paying billions for sub par infrastructure. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 That’s why we scrapped it - saving the Scottish tax payer almost £8 billion. 😱 Now, rumours are circulating that Labour want to reintroduce it - no chance.

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SCOTLAND has 90% of the UK’s fresh water and, with England forecast to run dry in 25 years, a New Scot is warning that our water could be stolen as big-money corporations target our supply in their search for new avenues to make their mega fortunes. www.thenational.scot/news/1951523...

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When your boss's income has risen 937% since 1978 and yours has increased by only 5.7%, it's time to stop blaming minorities for your woes.

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Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’ www.theguardian.com/environment/... Big oil spent $445m in the last election cycle to influence Trump and Congress, This is political corruption on a monumental scale. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

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water is becoming the new oil. and guess what Scotland has abundance of it why it will be next to be stolen.. just like our oil gas energy whisky etc because Loch Ness holds more water than all the lakes, rivers, canals and reservoirs in the whole of England and Wales combined

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BREAKING, Republican lawmaker warns that Putin is a 'cancer' in fiery speech. "So, when I tell you that Putin is a liar, a murderer and a man responsible for ordering the systematic torture, kidnapping, and rape of innocent civilians, believe me because the evidence is mile high"

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Since last week, the United States is now pro-Russia, anti-NATO, and anti-democracy. Everything we feared is real. What can we do about this? Where do we go from here? @djrothkopf.bsky.social and @normornstein.bsky.social tackle all of these pressing questions. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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He nails it.

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Sara Salyers of Salvo talking to Norrie Hunter on decolonising Scotland, and becoming an independent country. The ball has started rolling on that, and Salvo and Liberation Scotland have been the driving force. #SaorAlba www.youtube.com/live/TOUqHch...

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Musk called USAID a criminal organization that could have funded research on “biological weapons,” including COVID-19 Musk was echoing Russia's lies about American bioweapons in Ukraine. Musk, Trump & Vance are traitors serving Putin. unn.ua/en/news/musk...

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Well worth sponsoring for as little as £5/mth... Scotland's Charity Air Ambulances reach any area of Scotland within minutes, 365 days a year. www.scaa.org.uk/our-mission/...

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Russia's disinformation war has spread its tentacles everywhere: www.thenational.scot/politics/249...

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talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/22/i...

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Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%. That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.

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. General Mark Milley was right . . . ... and he's still right ! 💠 👊 💠

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Any time someone mentions taxing the rapacious super rich, the apologists crawl out of the bot woodwork. Very much like with any post on climate change or vaccines. Odd that. Blockity block.

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I'm maybe an insignificant Scot, but as long as I live and breathe, I will never accept an English Crown or Govt.

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Given recent revelations regarding Trump shouldnt or security services be looking at Johnson Given that he slipped his security detail and travelled to Spain to meet aretired KGB agent and no one knows what was discussed needs looking into The KGB agent was the father of the man he gave a peerage to

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Was it ever published?

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If BBC Scotland reporter Kirsten Campbell knows the 'single sex spaces' issue is caused by the Equality Act 2010 then why is she pushing Unionist propaganda blaming the SNP? NHS bodies across the UK are interpreting this legislation the same way and issuing identical guidelines. (MSM Monitor)

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"Betrayed. First Zelensky, and soon us? The radical rejection of the US by its allies" – today's cover of the German Der Spiegel

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Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king And a king ain't satisfied 'Til he rules everything #BruceSpringsteen www.youtube.com/watch?v=biPb...

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I guess that’s why Vietnam went so well for us. “Firepower advantage.”

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Nae Direction

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This letter is exquisite. No notes

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Putinization of America

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Resistance libs taking the murder is wrong stance on Luigi while championing a genocide and a party that puts up no opposition to the current admin. Great morals dummies.

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Mcfadden betting on the wrong horse

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Scottish Labour delegates have voted -not- to support the Cass review. They rejected a motion backed by Anas Sarwar which called on the party to "impose single-sex spaces … based on biology" in Scottish schools. Is Sarwar heading for the door?

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‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones

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