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Roseanna Cunningham @strathearnrose.bsky.social · 1d

Santander quick off the mark today emailing out to customers that they offer all the safe and necessary options - and I only remark on it because I’d heard you on the radio earlier in the day and was amused at them having picked up on it.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

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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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 3d

This is Chicago Pastor David Black. Trump’s fascist thugs targeted and then shot him in the head with a pepper bullet because he was praying outside an ICE facility.

Resist this kind of government violence from becoming America’s new normal.

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 3d

Father Larry Dowling's account of leading Eucharistic Procession ice #prisoners in Broadview (near Chicago) and being stopped.

"No one from [DHS] could stand in…presence of…Monstrance holding…Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. #Evil is repelled…"

#USpol #Catholic #ice #religion #good #dhs #Christian

Larry Dowling

I had…privilege…of leading…Eucharistic Procession… to…ICE Detention Center in Broadview…to pray…bring Holy Communion…to…men & women detained…under inhumane conditions.

Over 1,000 Catholics…marched in peaceful prayer & song, facilitated by…Police Departments &…State Police. I cannot speak more highly of…public safety officers in providing us safe passage.

Upon arrival…was…different…no ICE or Federal representatives…When requesting to talk w/…representative…over…phone, After…brief wait…answer came back…clearly:

NO, YOU CANNOT BRING A HINT OF COMPASSION & PRAYER INTO THIS PLACE!
NO, YOU CANNOT OFFER…SOLACE TO…MEN & WOMEN FEARFUL & SUFFERING INSIDE!
NO, YOU CANNOT BRING JESUS…SON OF GOD…LOVE OF GOD, INTO THIS PLACE!

No one had…courage to speak…to us. No one from [DHS] could stand in…presence of…Monstrance holding…Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in…presence of Christ.

…been able to do for detainees for…past…written into…law, was refused…

"Father, forgive…ones who do not know what they are doing."
"Have mercy on…souls of those who know exactly what they're doing. Touch their hearts & transform them from stony…into fleshy, life-giving…"
"Only through, w/& in God will hearts be changed!"

…battle for hearts…minds, compassion…mercy, continues...

Please pray especially for…children…mothers & fathers…being treated inhumanely…Silence is supporting this abuse of these members of God's family.

Peace! Fr. Larry Dowling

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Roseanna Cunningham @strathearnrose.bsky.social · 3d

I really like the look of what you’re doing *Xmas in mind!

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Roseanna Cunningham @strathearnrose.bsky.social · 3d

How/where are you selling these??

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Roseanna Cunningham @strathearnrose.bsky.social · 3d

Puddocks for Portland!

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 4d

It feels like we're in an epistemological death spiral.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 4d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 6d

The social teaching of the Catholic Church is the largest - or the last global organization - left to speak about the poor, and in this way, about their dignity, hope, liberation and aspirations.

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Roseanna Cunningham @strathearnrose.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t know anyone who wants to live in the USA.

Most people I know wouldn’t even visit the USA now - including me

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 13d

This is better from the Courier. Helping to tackle misinformation and defuse tensions. One of the most common lies peddled by those trying to divide our communities over asylum is this rubbish about criminality. The police in Perthshire confirm - there is absolutely no evidence.

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Sarcophagus Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 13d

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

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Gordon Macdonald SNP @gmacdonaldsnp.bsky.social · 15d

Met with John Lee of @TOMRAGroup in parliament to talk all things reverse vending.

UK DRS scheme will not be up and running before 2027. DRS is already up and running in Ireland, where 1 BILLION bottles and cans were recycled in its first year.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 17d

I want the world to read
these numbers about the night attack

Ukrainian Air Force downed or jammed 611 russian drones and missiles out of 643:
• 566 drones out of 593
• 2 jet-propelled drones
• 35 Kh-101 missiles out of 38
• 8 Kalibr missiles
• 0 Kinzhal missiles out of 2

The main target was Kyiv

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Roseanna Cunningham @strathearnrose.bsky.social · 17d

EC are not the police. Police investigations would have to be triggered by a complaint. Has there been one?

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Roseanna Cunningham @strathearnrose.bsky.social · 18d

Covid test required!

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18d

‘As the far right’s use of deepfakes shows, fact-checking and correcting discrete lies is as unlikely to push back fascism as “stopping the boats” is to fix the NHS.’

@clairelwilmot.bsky.social on AI-generated misinformation, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines

Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 18d

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “From a Railway Carriage”
in A CHILD’S GADEN OF VERSES (1885)
#BookWormSat
#poem #poetry
💙📚 🚂

XXXVII

From a Railway Carriage
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.

Here is the child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And there is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone forever!

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Roseanna Cunningham @strathearnrose.bsky.social · 19d

Do they though? I asked a Dutch friend today and he says they don’t have them in the Netherlands

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Roseanna Cunningham @strathearnrose.bsky.social · 19d

If you see this, post a bridge

Pulteney Bridge in Bath over the River Avon on a sunny day. One of only a handful of bridges in the world with buildings on both sides - in this case mainly cafes and restaurants. There are three clearly seen arches and the rather boring exteriors of the various buildings

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Roseanna Cunningham @strathearnrose.bsky.social · 28d

Blimey!

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Roseanna Cunningham @strathearnrose.bsky.social · Sep 14

It would be helpful to know what newspaper this is from & when was the YouGov polling done

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duncan2024.bsky.social @duncan2024.bsky.social · Sep 12

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/09/12/s...

SNP Government brings 10 times more vacant and derelict land back into use than Labour ever did – will any Environment Correspondent tell you this? Fat chance

More than FOUR times as much vacant and derelict land back into use than Labour ever did! Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: or by direct…

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · Sep 12

Russia attacks Poland deliberately, the Trump response…”It could’ve been a mistake.”
Any European state basing its defense plans on the US defending it from a Russian attack is living in a fantasy world and deliberately exposing its citizens to great risk.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 11

REPORTER: What's your reaction to Russia's drone incursion into Poland?

TRUMP: It could've been a mistake

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