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Alex Gallagher

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Retired Jack of no trades. UK/Scottish politics, other politics, Football, Cricket (UK), almost any sport, Science, History and other random stuff. Views my own. Inc the above view from my upstairs window.

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Alex Gallagher @alexgallagher.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 18h

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Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 7h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Alex Gallagher @alexgallagher.bsky.social · 6h

More likely self-delusion ...

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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 16h

The irony meter just broke again

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 19h

In the event of independence the question of if and how iScotland could join the EU has never had *anything* to do with how supportive some MEPs are. This is a deliberate sleight of hand intended to distract from the real questions which are about how we would meet the Copenhagen criteria.

Yes for EU @yesforeu.bsky.social · 2d

In April we teamed up with @europeforscotland.bsky.social to visit the European Parliament to find out whether the current MEPs will welcome Scotland into the EU, once we are independent
@snp.org
@johnswinney.bsky.social
@alynsmith.bsky.social
@greens-efa.eu

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www.yesforeu.scot

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16h

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 11h

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟑 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥, 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧, 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫,

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 19h

I have a lot of time for Richard Walker and he talks a lot of sense in this article.

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Private equity has wrecked the high street, says Iceland boss

Richard Walker says private buyers take out costs and fail to invest then sell to the highest bidder in a cycle that makes retailers steadily worse

www.thetimes.com

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 9h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Alex Gallagher @alexgallagher.bsky.social · 8h

They're not lies if he believes them.

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Humza’s Missing Brain @humzas-brain.bsky.social · 18h

Listened to ’honest’ John Swinney on the BBC this morning. Never heard so many lies in a single interview about Scotland’s govt and economy since the dark days of the Sturgeon disinformation machine.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 9h

An MP investigating claims of Russian interference in the Brexit vote has said the founder of Leave.EU must explain his contact with the country.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

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Leave.EU donor Arron Banks 'must explain Russia link'

It is reported that leave campaigner Arron Banks held undisclosed meetings with Russia in 2016.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 12h

I guess we can all get vaccinated now that the cult leader gave the stamp of approval, right?
Note: he received the Covid AND Flu shot.
It is good timing as we barrel into respiratory season. 🤧
Get vaccinated!
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man. Diane Keaton. Yes - the first two Godfather movies. But, come on, her performance as Louise Bryant in Reds is formidable and in a just world everyone would recognise this.

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mabelsblanket.bsky.social @mabelsblanket.bsky.social · 18h

The media are no better than traitors. They care not about us, our NHS & other vital services. They only care about being on the side of ppl who will protect their billions & use their jackboots to take away our Democracy.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 15h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 9h

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arykab1956.bsky.social @arykab1956.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 13h

They read, but they don’t understand. At all.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Dave Thompson 🇨🇦 @davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 1d

The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy: Andrew Coyne
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy

Today’s uber-rich have converted their obscene wealth into outsize power, wielded in the name of bizarre millenarian ideologies

www.theglobeandmail.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12h

Portland, OR, 2025

Protester in frog costume stands in front of tank (meme of Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”)

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Alex Gallagher @alexgallagher.bsky.social · 9h

And freedom from Hamas and Iran.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

JORDAN: Comey is where weaponization all started. 9 years ago he took the dossier--

BASH: But that's not what he's being prosecuted for

JORDAN: I'm just saying, you want to talk about weaponization, that's where it started

BASH: So this is retribution then

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