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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 23h

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 5h

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 4h

Just a shame that Britain has gutted its local newspaper industry so there's nobody to investigate Reform councils, or tell voters just how fucking useless, dangerous and dysfunctional Reform are when in power...

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 6h

If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6h

Has Israel stopped starving & murdering Palestinians? Have all the Palestinian hostages been released? Are the settlements being dismantled? Is the occupation over? Do Palestinians have the right to return to their homes? Do we have accountability &justice for Israels war crimes?

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Amanda @iwishididnaekerr.bsky.social · 8h

SNP have been voted in by the Scottish people despite the UK gov using all the levers they can to try and stop any indy party being able to have a majority. As soon as any UK party get a hold of Holywood it will be dismantled mark my words fellow Scots. Dinnae be daft vote SNP

Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 14h

The current rhetoric from Labour is that they see themselves best placed to stop another SNP term of office as 19years of SNP governance has been enough.

Contrast that argument that since 1708 we have been dominated by unionist rule from Westminster that currently has NO majority within Holyrood.

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Anne Roberts @anneroberts54.bsky.social · 5h

It's especially galling given that the guy who shot Kirk was NOT an alien. He was born and raised in the US in a Republican family, yet still they insist on weaponising it.

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Anne Roberts @anneroberts54.bsky.social · 23h

Love Portland ❤️

Anne Roberts @anneroberts54.bsky.social · 1d

Well I guess thay means those of us educated in Scotland are not eligible. Honestly, the bloody arrogance of them. 🤬

Anne Roberts @anneroberts54.bsky.social · 1d

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 1d

The photographer deserves a medal.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Anne Roberts @anneroberts54.bsky.social · 1d

Well when I worked for DWP the exclusion was 6 weeks. It's probably worse now.

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Anne Roberts @anneroberts54.bsky.social · 1d

(2/2)... call a general strike anytime, but unless workers are prepared to undertake civil disobedience and break TU laws, it will get nowhere. So bloody depressing.

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Anne Roberts @anneroberts54.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly you're quite right. As someone who was a TU activist through the 80s and 90s, it's sad to see unions so decimated. Successive anti-union legislation from Thatcher through to the present day, together with the rise in precarious employment have left millions of workers powerless. TUC may (1/2)

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 1d

For the avoidance of any doubt:

TRUMP CONFIRMS HE WAS AN ACTIVE PARTNER IN THE GENOCIDE:

'Bibi Netanyahu would call me so many times asking for weapons I never even heard of, but we got them here didn’t we? You used them very well" (the 'ceasefire' press conference 13/10/25).

Also :

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Anne Roberts @anneroberts54.bsky.social · 1d

Show off.

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Hetty (arty) @indyhetty.bsky.social · 1d

It's the English Green party, Scottish Green party are seperate and registered officially in Scotland. Get facts right pls.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social · 1d

The UK Labour Government will allow the Welsh Labour Government to decide where the Welsh share of the so-called 'Shared Prosperity Fund' is spent. In contrast, the Scottish Government is bypassed. Spend in Scotland is dictated by Westminster.

Union of equals, my arse.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wales to get £540m to boost economy over three years

Ministers in Cardiff to decide how to spend cash intended to replace EU economic aid.

www.bbc.co.uk

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FireHorseLioness @firehorselioness.bsky.social · 1d

The similarities are striking.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Anne Roberts @anneroberts54.bsky.social · 2d

Time for the men in white coats to come and take Trumpy away.

Laurence - Epstein's invisible friend @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 2d

Let's see if I have this right. *Biden*, who wasn't yet president and had no power whatsoever over the FBI, planted 274 (very exact) special agents to induce peace-loving "good people" to violently attack the Capitol so as to stop *Biden* being formally adopted as president.

You're barking, Donald!

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Anne Roberts @anneroberts54.bsky.social · 2d

Because they know that there’s a real possibility of majority support for Scottish #Indy , whereas they still think it’ll never get majority support in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 so they don’t think they need to push the union in Wales so much as they think they do in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. I think they’re in for a huge shock.

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Anne Roberts @anneroberts54.bsky.social · 2d

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Anne Roberts @anneroberts54.bsky.social · 2d

Good. Shut the bastards down. Whole damn lot of them. They're of absolutely no benefit to society whatsoever...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes

Evoke considering the plans before expected tax increases in budget, with up to 1,500 jobs potentially affected

www.theguardian.com

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