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Dotair Raibeart 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @raibeart.bsky.social · 9h

Let’s be clear: she was smeared. They attempted to destroy, probably the most honest & competent politician in these islands. They tried to silence her vision. Nicola Sturgeon didn’t just lead the SNP, she ignited a movement that will prevail. Scotland’s future remains Yes. #ScottishIndependence

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 20h

Westminster caused this cost of living crisis - and they’re unable and unwilling to fix it.

Independence is how we raise your living standards, grow our economy and make Scotland’s energy wealth work for the people who live here.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

He speaks like a poet.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 10h

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 15h

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸 Thank you, Ambassador Zomlot.

Scotland will always proudly stand with the people of Palestine, in the pursuit of peace, justice and a lasting two-state solution.

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bridgetpf.bsky.social @bridgetpf.bsky.social · 11h

Always the hard way for us supporters

Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 12h

Scotland top our group in the World Cup qualifiers, with all games live on free-to-view TV thanks to a fan-backed campaign. 🙌

Football is for all of us. After these qualifiers our national games must remain free-to-view, not hidden behind a paywall.

The table for Scotland's World Cup qualifying group. Scotland 10, Denmark 7, Greece 3, Belarus 0. Denmark and Greece have a game in hand.

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Grantass 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 11h

💯 I screamed at the telly. She should have been corrected on the spot. Absolutely infuriating

Dotair Raibeart 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @raibeart.bsky.social · 13h

Laura Kuenssberg aggressively defending UKGovt today with incompetent questions for the FM. She twice claimed UKGovt was paying £10bn to build warships on the Clyde. This is false. The £10bn will come from *Norwegian Govt* after it signed a deal with BAE systems. The UKGovt isn't supplying any cash.

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glassrod57.bsky.social @glassrod57.bsky.social · 18h

This why we should vote SNP 1 Scottish Greens 2 in 2026. Not a pitiful 6 seats majority but a stonking massive majority of 59 seats!!

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Dotair Raibeart 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @raibeart.bsky.social · 14h

An incredibly powerful speech from Palestinian ambassador Husam Zomlot at SNP conference.

He thanks the people of Scotland for their assistance in securing a ceasefire.

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The National on X: "An incredibly powerful speech from Palestinian ambassador Husam Zomlot at SNP conference. He thanks the people of Scotland for their assistance in securing a ceasefire. https://t.co/V9xmRkwMiQ" / X

An incredibly powerful speech from Palestinian ambassador Husam Zomlot at SNP conference. He thanks the people of Scotland for their assistance in securing a ceasefire. https://t.co/V9xmRkwMiQ

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Dan Paris @danparis.bsky.social · 12h

Really great discussion at SNP conference on climate and nature policy - Scotland needs strong leadership and a real focus on delivery in the next parliament.

Stop Climate Chaos Scotland @sccscot.bsky.social · 12h

Great to have a full house for our event at #SNP25 on credible climate and nature leadership with
@alasdairallanmsp.bsky.social, @scotlink.bsky.social,
@oxfamscotland.bsky.social and @climateoutreach.bsky.social

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12h

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: We need to talk about Russia.

So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.

My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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bridgetpf.bsky.social @bridgetpf.bsky.social · 11h

With so much going on it is easy for the outside world to forget these horrors but we must not and the Russians have to be held to account

Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 11h

The Mariupol massacre is a wound in my heart that will never heal.

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 11h

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/12/c...

Correcting the BBC – UK Government is not paying to build warships on the Clyde, Norway is

By Liz S MSM Monitor posted this on ‘X’ on 12/10/25 in respect to a Laura Kuenssberg interview with John Swinney on her Sunday Politics programme……. “Laura Kuenssberg twice claimed the UK Govt…

talkingupscotlandtwo.com

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bridgetpf.bsky.social @bridgetpf.bsky.social · 11h

Confession time for this good Catholic

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11h

JD Vance, "Crime is down in Chicago and Portland because they're so overwhelmed at local level, they're not even keeping the statistics properly"

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Seagal @seagalmaz.bsky.social · 9d

So proud to see the Italian solidarity with Palestine.. Palestina libera! 🇮🇹 🇵🇸 ✊

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 11h

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/12/o...

Once you are identified as being a news source that consistently promotes misinformation then it should really be ‘Game Over

By Liz S MSM Monitor posted this on ‘X’ in respect to the BBC Sunday show: “The Sunday Show lined up Douglas Alexander and Margaret Curran to follow John Swinney’s conference interview. T…

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PStott @peterstott.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, we just need a majority of indy-supporting parties.

The SNP cannot claim exclusive rights to independence.

I'll be voting SNP 1, Greens 2 to support the independence movement.

Robert F @chippyman.bsky.social · 12h

If John Swinney has a secret plan to secure independence with an SNP majority, couldn’t that same plan work for a majority of pro-independence parties?

Does it also mean that if he fails to win the near-impossible SNP majority, we can kiss independence goodbye for at least another five years?

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 11h

Nicola Sturgeon has said it would be 'unthinkable' for the Promise not to be delivered

It would be unthinkable for care Promise not to be delivered, says Nicola Sturgeon

www.thenational.scot

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bridgetpf.bsky.social @bridgetpf.bsky.social · 21h

Appalling woman

Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 2d

The planet is on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster, but we’ve run out of time to discuss that I’m afraid.

#bbcqt @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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bridgetpf.bsky.social @bridgetpf.bsky.social · 21h

Please make it simple for people like me and the vast majority of voters How do we get independence majority ? That’s all we need to know

Blairer @haggisblarer.bsky.social · 23h

……Constituency vote similar to Westminster's 'First Past The Post system (deciding 73 Holyrood seats)
Regional/List vote, which uses the Additional Member System to select extra MSPs from a party list (deciding 56 Holyrood seats). A party may stand only for list seat votes if it wishes……

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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 1d

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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 23h

Israel has said it will not release two detained Palestinian doctors, including pediatrician Hussam Abu Safiya, as part of the ceasefire deal, So really, It is NOT an end to the war in Palestine if one part is not willing to release ALL hostages.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

Israel will not release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya as part of Gaza deal

Hamas official says kidnapped doctor from Gaza not included among those to be released following ceasefire

www.middleeasteye.net

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Robert F @chippyman.bsky.social · 23h

The more people who vote SNP first and Scottish Greens second, the more pro-independence seats will be won and the fewer Unionist seats will be secured. 👍

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socialistnan123 @socialistnan123.bsky.social · 23h

#SocialistSunday ✌️✊ to all.

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