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weegingerdug.bsky.social
Your Party has voted to become a pro-indy party. 63% of delegates to their Scottish conference approved the motion "Your Party Scotland believes that an independent Scotland is the best route to improve the lives of people in Scotland and achieve socialism."

www.thenational.scot/news/2583628...
Your Party Scotland votes to officially become pro-independence party
Your Party Scotland have voted to officially become a pro-independence party
www.thenational.scot
February 8, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."
seachanger.bsky.social malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 2d
message from MN
From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here. From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.
February 8, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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womenriseup2026.bsky.social
#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles
February 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
NEW EPSTEIN SURVIVORS AD: “3 million files still not released — stand with us. Tell AG Pam Bondi to release the files. It’s time for the truth.”
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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goodlawproject.org
The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.
February 8, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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alexhh.bsky.social
This series of articles by Peter Oborne is so spot on - withering about McSweeney - and his obsessive focus on party politics, scheming and tactics, at expense of policy conducive to the national interest - and in process ultimately ruining Starmer’s govt.
February 8, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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tpgroberts.bsky.social
Right, but just to clarify, you did not appoint Peter Mandelson, because you were not Prime Minister.
lewisgoodall.com Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d
NEW: PM’s Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney resigns

“After careful reflection, I have decided to resign from the government. The decision to appoint Peter Mandelson was wrong. He has damaged our party, our country and trust in politics itself.”
February 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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fisherandrew79.bsky.social
Advisers advise, politicians decide.

It might be the right decision, but it won't ease the pressure on Keir Starmer
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Keir Starmer's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney resigns
PM's top aide faced mounting criticism from Labour MPs over his part in appointing Peter Mandelson as US ambassador
inews.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 2:42 PM
johncdg.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/niallhar...
People Just Want To Be Happy And Kind
Kindness matters
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:09 PM
johncdg.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=qUus... Lisa O’Neill - Homeless In The Thousands
Lisa O'Neill: Homeless In The Thousands | The Tommy Tiernan Show
YouTube video by RTÉ Player
youtube.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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vamospeat.bsky.social
sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed
February 6, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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pronounced-ing.bsky.social
People kept telling me this is exactly the old Muppet Show and they were absolutely correct. A pure joy to watch. (And I'm VERY picky about my muppet canon.)
vamospeat.bsky.social ☀️ @vamospeat.bsky.social · 3d
sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed
February 7, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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gerryhassan.bsky.social
"How we cover corruption in Britain": Mandelson at the height of the scandal around him & The Times.
petergeoghegan.bsky.social Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d
I had to check the date on this three times

‘At home with Peter Mandelson’ in Times magazine *today*

This is how we cover corruption in Britain? Seriously??
February 7, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
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Patrick Wintour • @patrickwintour X.com Striking that it is from outside government in the shape of Gordon Brown that a plan is laid out to end the systematic abuse of power revealed by Mandelson scandal. Much of it derived from Transparency International and Brown's own report A New Britain. (Emphasis) Current anti-corruption Tsar Margaret Hodge (emphasis) upgraded to independent parliament appointed anti corruption commission with power to seize assets; controls on political lobbying including 91 peers currently paid to give political advice; existing Ethics and Integrity Commission to be given statutory powers to investigate bank accounts and initiate investigations; public select committee hearings to vet appointment of senior diplomats; end to MPs second jobs (with professional training exceptions) & controls on ministerial private external communications. Brown says Starmer could introduce a comprehensive bill within 3 months.
February 7, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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marklemley.bsky.social
Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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eoinhiggins.bsky.social
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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drdvus.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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gerryhassan.bsky.social
"A Labour leadership contest will mean instant financial crisis" says the Telegraph. Funny then that the Tories changed leaders four times in their 14 years in office. And Labour have twice before switched leaders while in government.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
In California:
February 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Oh dear oh no... said absolutely no-one
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d
Morgan McSweeney is on the brink of resigning "on his own terms," according to the Sunday Times www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
February 7, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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gerryhassan.bsky.social
Peter Mandelson trying to present himself as a victim of Jeffrey Epstein. WTF are @thetimes.com & Katy Balls doing colluding in such debased client journalism & at such an inappropriate time?
February 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM
johncdg.bsky.social
jackie125.substack.com/p/scotland-h... Scotland has a proudly mongrel tradition - Being Scottish has never been about ethnicity
Scotland has a proudly mongrel tradition
Being Scottish has never been about ethnicity
jackie125.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
BBC News, "Greater Manchester Police are investigating a report that Reform UK broke electoral law in the Gorton & Denton by-election"

"It's been reported that the party sent a letter to voters that didn't include an imprint identifying the promoter of the material"
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 PM
johncdg.bsky.social
Much thanks to The National
February 7, 2026 at 1:39 PM