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Billy MacInnes

@billymac1964.bsky.social
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Journalist, songwriter, music lover, husband, father of 4, Scot living in Ireland, 1 dog, 3 cats.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 02/04/2026
The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz
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Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide
The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"If even the fractional number of known contractor injuries is added to the tally, the casualty count for Americans and those on U.S. bases may top 13,600."
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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
False. However, you are the only country stupid enough to elect a convicted felon and accused pedophile, whose only claim to fame is that as a third rate reality TV star.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Krasnov sold US out.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Day 1499 of my 3 day war. I've lost 1.4 million dead & wounded to keep NATO, a harmless paper tiger, away from Russia. So it was worth doing. I remain a master strategist
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Billy MacInnes @billymac1964.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
In an interview with Reuters news agency, Donald Trump said the US will be “out of Iran pretty quickly” but could return for “spot hits”. Sounds like the kind of guy you could reliably make a deal with, knowing he'd never renege on it.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Really unusual. - NYT & BBC: US military struck sports hall/school in Lamerd, Iran with a new weapon never before used in war (the PrSM) - DoD: denies any US strike in Lamerd and claims video "does not show" that weapon - Then great @bellingcat.com's Trevor Ball refutes DoD claim about the video
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The thing I can’t forgive America for is that there’s no particular hidden matter with this man. He overtly talks like a rapist and revels in his corruption and thuggery.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
NEW: The family of a British aid worker killed by an Israeli drone strike in Gaza have used the second anniversary of his death to appeal directly to the Foreign Secretary to contact them
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Family of aid worker killed by Israel seek contact with Foreign Secretary
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Reminder that Trump has, since returning to office, committed a grand total of zero new dollars in military aid to Ukraine (the tiny amount at the start of 2025 was agreed under the Biden administration). www.kielinstitut.de/topics/war-a...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
France condemns efforts by countries including Saudi Arabia to delay major IPCC climate science report #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.lemonde.fr/en/climate/a...
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France condemns effort to delay major IPCC climate report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change publishes reports every five to seven years whose findings on the science of global warming are the benchmark reference for the United Nations.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/04/2026
Tony Blair says the left is in ‘unholy alliance’ with Islamists. It’s a desperate last ploy to quell the anger over Gaza | Owen Jones
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Tony Blair says the left is in ‘unholy alliance’ with Islamists. It’s a desperate last ploy to quell the anger over Gaza | Owen Jones
The former PM has no valid response when progressives raise a voice over war crimes, so he seeks to mute them. But we’ll take no moral lectures from him, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is an extraordinary front page for a British newspaper to run. Donald Trump’s delinquency, derangement & imperilling of international security is somehow a stick with which to beat our own Prime Minister, who has negotiated the current horror show rather well. It is actually sickening.
Daily Mail front page attacking Keir Starmer for Donald Trump’s disgusting behaviour…
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The US was a racial dictatorship until 1965 and a not small measure of US politics since then has been an attempt, or resistance against the attempt, to return us to being one
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Think about this: A retired game show host may end the world as we know it. Only a master satirist could write this scenario, but Mark Twain is dead.
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Billy MacInnes @billymac1964.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump added that the US has been there for countries that needed its support, including Ukraine, even though it “wasn’t our problem”. Since he was re-elected, US support and aid for Ukraine has declined to near zero. www.theguardian.com/world/middle...
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Middle East crisis live: Trump claims Iran war will end in ‘two or three weeks’ ahead of address to the nation
US president will give an update later today as he tells the Telegraph he is considering pulling out of Nato
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Billy MacInnes @billymac1964.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
So it was an excursion after all? www.theguardian.com/world/middle...
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Middle East crisis live: Trump claims Iran war will end in ‘two or three weeks’ ahead of address to the nation
US president will give an update later today as he tells the Telegraph he is considering pulling out of Nato
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
If any other president had pardoned - pardoned! - a man like this, they would have probably been impeached by now. Trump gets away with this kind of gross shit, day after day: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Billy MacInnes @billymac1964.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Well said, Mark Carney. "“It’s a violation of their [Lebanon's] territorial sovereignty, … so we condemn it,” he told reporters. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Iran says US-Israeli strikes in Isfahan hit ‘military sites’
Saudi, Qatari, Jordanian leaders meet as Iran continues to retaliate for US-Israeli raids with attacks on Gulf nations.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
RUBIO: “Imagine if Iran spent billions on its people instead of weapons... They’d have a much different country.”🤔😕 Unreal. @marcorubio Do you even hear yourselves? Your shameless hypocrisy is killing us
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/03/2026
it's just crazy how *watchable* tony scott's movies are. you'll never have a bad time throwing one on.
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Billy MacInnes @billymac1964.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Waiting for Farage and Badenoch to weigh in behind Trump. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Trump tells UK ‘go get your own oil’ in latest extraordinary tirade over Iran war
US President hits out at Labour government and tells prime minister Sir Keir Starmer to get some ‘courage’ and go and ‘TAKE’ fuel from the Strait of Hormuz
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Billy MacInnes @billymac1964.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Trump: “We won’t be there to help you any more.” Starmer: “Thank fuck for that!” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Trump tells UK ‘go get your own oil’ in latest extraordinary tirade over Iran war
US President hits out at Labour government and tells prime minister Sir Keir Starmer to get some ‘courage’ and go and ‘TAKE’ fuel from the Strait of Hormuz
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
NEW: Israel becomes the first state in history to write INTO LAW the death sentence for one, specific ethnic group. This is Cabinet member Ben Gvir celebrating with champagne after the vote. This is not a government, it is a death cult. They won’t serve champagne in The Hague. (🎥 Cradle Media)
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Donald Trump talks about plans to commit war crimes by obliterating civilian desalination plants in Iran, and the FTSE 100 celebrates by pushing up share valuations. I always thought there was no logic to stock markets. Now I know that they are places of callous indifference to human suffering.
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Emily Iona Stewart @eionastewart.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Global Witness signed this letter condemning the unconscionable decision by the US to use the withdrawal of lifesaving medicine as a lever for a minerals trade deal. It’s not ‘woke’ to believe in human life and dignity.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 31/03/2026
"All this time Putin had, and still has, a mole in all European and NATO official meetings. If the integrity of these meetings is to be maintained, it would be appropriate to ban Hungary from all of them. Every generation has a Kim Philby” theins.press/en/inv/29091...
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Kremlin hotline: Hungary colluded with Russia to delist sanctioned oligarchs, companies and banks
A hotline between Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave Moscow strategic information on critical EU…
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is Apartheid. It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide. To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Emirates must figure they can demand this given how much $$ they've invested into the Clown Prince & Witkoff. Again, this is why it is UTTERLY CRUCIAL to get those fucking bozos out of this issue. They're working for Gulf States, effectively, & have a financial incentive to risk American lives.
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Verminous Scot @etkwebster.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I'm sorry but football isn't the be all and end all, some things are far more important and what Trump is doing is one of them, showing we are against him and his actions is more important than a fecking game.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball
Headline: 
Dow rises 300 points after Trump says U.S. in ‘serious' talks to end operation in Iran
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Israel has pushed ground forces into multiple areas of southern Lebanon They've displaced huge numbers of civilians... Yet it barely registers. Russia did the same in Ukraine and the world responded with sanctions, outrage and coordinated pressure The double standards are UNFORGIVABLE.
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Per BBC VERIFY & NY TIMES — as a 🇺🇸 bomb struck a girls’ elementary school and killed 165… another 🇺🇸 missile struck a sports hall where children were playing volleyball, killing 21 people (including kids). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Spain has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved ​in attacks on Iran, a step beyond its ‌previous denial of use of jointly-operated military bases, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said on Monday."
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Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, defence minister says
It's a step beyond Spain's ‌previous denial of use of jointly-operated military bases.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The World Cup risks becoming 'a stage for repression and a platform for authoritarian practices' unless urgent action is taken to respect human rights across the United States, Canada and Mexico, according to a new report from Amnesty International
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World Cup risks becoming 'stage for repression and authoritarianism', Amnesty warns
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Laurie Macfarlane @lmacfarlane.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NEW: We often hear that Scotland’s more progressive income tax is “driving people out the country.” New HMRC data shows the opposite. Far more taxpayers are moving to Scotland than leaving it. Let’s look at the data 🧵
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
State control of big media is one of the first steps to total consolidation of power.
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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Epstein's operation had three layers of protection. The banks moved the money. The lawyers hid the evidence. The DOJ looked the other way. All three layers are now exposed in the files. None have led to new charges.
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Billy MacInnes @billymac1964.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Pretty hard to sell a ceasefire to Iran when this is still happening in the Gaza “ceasefire”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Exhausted Palestinians struggle to put lives back together as world’s gaze fixes on Iran
Five months after a ceasefire was announced in Gaza, airstrikes are still killing civilians and the humanitarian situation remains dire
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Rather than inflict a global energy crisis that will affect the world's poorest the most, Iran should negotiate with the nuclear power that has attacked it. Apparently that's how this works.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Europe chose to look the other way, and is reaping what it sowed. - Shona Murray @shonamurray.bsky.social
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Shona Murray: European leaders lack backbone when dealing with Israel
Failing to put pressure on Israel following their continued assault on Gaza set the stage for the country's attack on Iran
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Cops have twice raided Quaker meeting houses to arrest people- and seize their phones/laptops - without so far charging anyone. Are we seeing pre-emptive policing to make the very idea of protest impossible? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/identi...
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Britain has stopped believing in freedom of protest
Recent police raids show the authorities are clamping down not just on protest, but the very idea of it
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Pope Leo on Palm Sunday: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’ (Is 1:15).”
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The SNP @snp.org · 28/03/2026
From the streets to the skyline, the message is clear: Scotland needs a fresh start with independence. Make it #bothvotessnp on May 7th to deliver it.
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tiredofcrap.bsky.social @tiredofcrap.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I like this No kings rally sign
No heart , no courage , no brains 
Case for no kings
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Kim @kmbrly.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Today’s protest was the largest single‑day protest in U.S. history. Millions stood up to say no to the pedophile-in-chief and his regime of INEPTstein assholes.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Best Twitter riposte of the day.
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