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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 9h

Scotland has zero influence on Scotch Whisky. Nothing.

It's been a UK Cashcow for 202 years.

We need Independence to create a Scotch Whisky Tourism Strategy and Budget. It's the only way.

Scotch for Scotland.

At the moment, it's an English thing.

I’d like to be involved in UK-US trade talks, says Swinney

The First Minister has been pushing for an exemption from tariffs for Scotch whisky.

uk.finance.yahoo.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 20h

In case you missed it ...
France and Germany want us back in the Single Market at the very least. They were even willing to pursue the idea of an "associate EU membership" for us to enable it.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 21h

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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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 21h

And the Green Party😀

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 22h

I just watched a minute or so of this but, being Canadian, it’s not my circus, so I’m gonna share it.

But I said MONTHS ago to look at Chairman Mao. His system made prisoners of everyone they hated — professors, artists, etc — & forced into labour.

30 to 150 million people died of starvation.

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 22h

If you've been thinking "How are they gonna run their farms after Trump arrests their workers?"

don't worry, they planned ahead for that 💀

youtu.be/zdWrHb8b-c0

ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 6d

Larry Ellison and his son just destroyed 98 years worth of news reporting by appointing a propagandist they require for their fascism.

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Hayloft Publishing @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 22h

Dementia in real time

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Hayloft Publishing @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 22h

Wouldn’t believe a word LK says anyway

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para-handy.bsky.social @para-handy.bsky.social · 22h

John Swinney stated he has a secret plan to achieve Scottish independence if the party wins a majority in next year’s Holyrood election.
Saying he had “tactics” he would deploy to override Sir Keir Starmer’s veto to another vote.
“Keep watching because Scotland’s on the journey to independence.”
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Hayloft Publishing @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 22h

This is not a Labour Govt. It’s Tory & only decent pro-EU parties left are LibDems & SNP

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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 23h

#FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

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

www.cbsnews.com

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MickieMorganfield @mickiedances.bsky.social · 1d

share.google/wggONbROb7kf... The Judge Pressler Law School collapsed, no students enrolled, accused of financial impropriety, unaccredited. Judge Pressler opposed gay rights and abortion. Pressler settled multiple charges of pedophilia, rape of children in his church group and office interns.

House Speaker Mike Johnson was once the dean of a Christian law school. It never opened its doors

Before House Speaker Mike Johnson was elected to public office, he was the dean of a small Baptist law school that didn’t exist.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h

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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Hayloft Publishing @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 22h

What a surprise

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

I keep seeing this get posted. The AZ electors were charged a year and a half ago. The AZ Superior Court ENDED the case five months ago. The AZ AG will have to appeal to the AZ Supreme Court or go back and start again with a grand jury. Please stop sharing this.

Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 23h

By Hafez Abu Sabra after the murder of his journalist colleague Saleh al-Jawrafi today in #GazaCity:

"We cry for you"

بنبكي عليكم
www.instagram.com/p/DPt9Om8DMK3/

www.youtube.com/shorts/hxFnb...

#FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaNews #GazaStrip #Israel #Journalism #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #Press

By Hafez Abu Sabra after the murder of his journalist colleague Saleh al-Jawrafi

YouTube video by Raimo Kangasniemi

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Hayloft Publishing @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 22h

@C&WHerald my old newspaper…
"Man in court accused of hare coursing & sheep worrying crimes, A man has appeared in court accused of involvement in hare coursing & being the owner of a dog which worried cattle on land in the Eden Valley."
A man who worries sheep & cattle is a serious menace

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Kamala Harris: "I think he has a vengeance campaign, which is really exposing the petty nature of who he is and his deep level of insecurity."

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

When we say “No Kings” this should include the nasty billionaires who use their money to control all media and the government.

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Hayloft Publishing @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 23h

Tho I never voted Conservative have always admired Heseltine - he seems a man unpolluted by toxic tories

Hayloft Publishing @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 23h

As a former local journalist was always wary of Independents… they were almost always some type of conservative in ‘disguise’

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t ignore reality for ever…

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 1d

When Farage and I were growing up (similar age) Russia was the enemy, we were both in cadets, Russia was the Army’s foe

Villains in Movies & books were Russian.. those who helped Russia were traitors

Since 2010 Farage has been on Russian TV at least 17 times talking the West down
#FaragePutinsPet

Nigel Farage's relationship with Russian media comes under scrutiny

The Ukip leader's Euroscepticism makes him a shoo-in at the Russian state broadcaster that is often called Putin's mouthpiece

www.theguardian.com

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