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Rod McMillan
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Freelance Journalist: https://muckrack.com/rod-w-mcmillan Blog:
https://morewretchthansage.substack.com/
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Separation Anxiety - Who Watches The Dog Watchers?

My exposé into the dangers of pet sitting apps, this month in 'Dogs Today' magazine.

How loopholes, poor enforcement, and profiteering put pets in danger.

#Dog #Dogs #Pets #Exposé #DogsToday

free2read.dogstodaymagazine.co.uk/dogstoday_37...
a screengrab of the article
November 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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The Fourteenth Book is entitled, “What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?” It doesn’t take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: “Nothing.
#SoItGoes
there's a headline saying they made ice that froze at room temperature, and a picture of a worried monkey because that's how they world was destroyed in the jury Vonnegut book "Cat's cradle"
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Our disposable culture & planned obsolescence are the root of many problems - as is isolation from lack of community.

Reduced environmental impact, mutual aid and tackling the cost of living crisis all intersect at Repair Café!

My piece is in the Carluke and Lanark Gazette this week.
a picture of a newspaper clipping of the headline of my article about repair cafés which was published on 22nd October by the Carluke and Lanark Gazette
October 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Seed of an idea; If they bring in ID cards what if, en mass, we all deed poll our names to Winston Smith in protest?
October 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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If you want inspiration, but a break from the news: check out my friends podcast.

Kelly takes you on a tour of Paris, in series one each station tells the tale of the French Resistance hero it is named after.

#Resist #Antifa #Podcast #France #Inspiring
metrostoppodcast.podbean.com
a screengrab of the Metrostop podcast playing on Spotify
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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#Gaza #freepalastine #Palestine #Gazaunderattack #gazaattack #gazawar #gazagenocide #gaza_strip #gazanews #Victoria Rose

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screengrab of TikTok video with image of surgeon looking at camera, with quote "the only people I've seen with guns in my hospital is the IDF"
September 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Every Interview in the US should now open with this question: "Are you pro-fascist, or are you anti-fascist"

That is now the American political spectrum. #AntiFa #AntiFascist #Trump #MAGA
Graphic with a black and red split background. At the top, white Gothic-style text reads: “Every Interview in the US Should Now Open With The Question…”. In the centre, a large white speech bubble contains blue text: “ARE YOU PRO-FASCIST OR ARE YOU ANTI-FASCIST?”. At the bottom, white Gothic-style text reads: “That is now the American Political Spectrum.”
September 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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First they came for the late night hosts...
September 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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This is sadly quite true of a lot of people. #News
screengrabs of a fake newspaper article making the point people will believe anything made to look like a news arricle
September 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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A Time of Monsters - Sobering article from Bethany Rielly at #NewInternationalist on how to turn the tide on the global #FarRight #Trump and #Farage take up a lot of the headspece, obvs, but it's also important to see the Global Far Right context

newint.org/society/2025...

#Politics #Anarchists
In an age of crisis, despair is the currency of the global far right. How, asks Bethany Rielly, can we turn this reactionary tide? It was January 2017 and I’d just had my first brush with ‘the fash’. After hearing that a $20 million mansion in London’s affluent Belgravia was being squatted by anarchists, I’d decided to head over there with my notepad and pen. Left empty for years by its Russian oligarch owner, the five-story property was now being used to house the local homeless and host radical workshops. But I wasn’t the only one with the idea of visiting 102 Eaton Square that day.
September 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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"It's Furiosā, not Furiosar...." 🙄
the Furiosanfilm poster with Hermione
September 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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NEW JOB: I'm pleased to announce I have started working for New Internationalist Magazine, and as one of my first tasks - would like to invite you to a free webinar on how to fight the global Far Right.

#Resist #FarRight #AntiFa #Solidarity

open.substack.com/pub/morewret...
September 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Pentagon authorizes up to 600 pizzas per side per night... 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕

#Pizzagate #Trump #Pentagon
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September 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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@jenmercieca.bsky.social You might find this interesting, I wanted to examine the self-awareness of far right (Reform) voters in the UK, so I asked a question, and am analysing 500+ interactions.

I'm finding the mostly boil down to the same few paths and rhetorical techniques.
A flowchart analysing far right responses to a question
August 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"If Reform really cared about 'protecting women and children,' they wouldn't be planning to deport them to the Taliban."
a gurning picture of Nigel Farage, over it the quote from Rod McMillan - If Reform really cared about 'protecting women and children,' they wouldn't be planning to deport them to the Taliban.
August 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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August 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I've designed an anti-nationalist cosmopolitan global flag, not to scale, it shows the sun and Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" #Flag #PaleBlueDot #Cosmopolitan
a dark blue background, off to the left is a large yellow circle representing the sun, then off to the right is a tiny blue dot representing the earth
August 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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If he had only used Walkers crisps, it would have been the perfect crime.
August 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Do disruptive technological leaps - from the steam engine to ai - destroy our general understanding of how the world works, ushering in a move to autocracy?
August 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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This putrid administration rotted from the head.

#Trump #Immigration #FuckICE
"Instagram post by theresistance1789. The post features a dark blue background with bold white text quoting Miles Taylor, former Trump administration official. The quote reads: 'Slice their skin. Burn their hands. Zap them. Gas them. Shoot their legs. Just SOME of the ways I heard Trump and his team talk about torturing migrants — real human beings. Not made up. Not “just a joke.”' Below, in a yellow highlighted box, the text reads: 'The President is a cruel and sick person.' At the bottom right is a black-and-white image of Donald Trump sitting with hands folded, looking down grimly. A small circular image of Miles Taylor appears with his name and title. The Resistance logo, a rainbow-coloured stylised face, appears twice in the image."
August 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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No notes. Social media perfection. 👌
picture of woman in cowboy hat. note introduces her as Camilla, the genius begind Gavin Newsomes social media posts trolling tiny handed taco trump.
August 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Only 1.5% of Universal Credit claimants are refugees.

#RefugeesWelcome
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August 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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And taken to it's logical extreme - as with IngSoc in 1984, they believe in "collective solipsism" - That there is no reality except that as defined by the party.

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August 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I have written to my MP today, asking how his previous statements on Childhood Malnutrition, Aid, and International Law are being converted into action for #Gaza.

 #Palestine

open.substack.com/pub/morewret...

#Gaza #Palestine #EndGenocide
I have written today to my MP about Gaza.
August 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The next edition of New Internationalist is about fighting the rise of the global #FarRight

They are independent, reader-owned, journalism. If you check out one issue, make it this one. 💪

#50501 #AntiFa #FightTheRight

newint.org/issues/2025/...
screengrab of the cover of the next edition of New Internationalist which is about the Global Far Right
August 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM