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Jane MacKinnon

@fjreims.bsky.social
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Can we build a world of enlightened kindness? #StandWithUkraine See its official fundraising site: u24.gov.ua My petition: c.org/h4LY78xsVx europeforscotland.com/open-letter #ScotAbroad I do not respond to DMs.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The hot political takes coming out of the West, whose bottom line is that the solution to every problem is letting Russia murder enough Ukrainians to break our resistance, are honestly horrifying. ​Western democracies’ refusal to recognize Russia-paid influencers as a real threat is
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇
A throwback to Tom Watson’s days as the MP fighting back against Facebook after the Nerve team published the Cambridge Analytica investigation at the Observer 
(Tom’s standing, with investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr on right and whistleblower Chris Wyler 2nd from left)🏁
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🇺🇦💔 Mykola Davydiuk, Ukrainian political scientist, politician and MP: "Russians are committing genocide in Oleshky, not allowing people to evacuate. Our volunteers recently tried to break through and bring food. The locals are catching wild birds and acorns because they are trying to survive…
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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Please don’t stop talking about OLESHKY 🚨 People need to be evacuated. There is HUNGER there.
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A humanitarian tunnel must be declared and created for Oleshky.👇 Please support the Ukrainian people by sharing. ✊🇺🇦✊
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Proscribe the extreme far right groups before it's too late" via The UK Against Hate
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”
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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You cannot reward aggression and call it peace🤬
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Quite.
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This system is very, very wrong indeed. 'Former' politicians open backchannels in return for a synecure. It's a win-win for everyone but the taxpayers.
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Pissed-Off Scientist @rockney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
VOTE !!!!!!!
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/o...
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Opinion | Trump Has Untethered Himself From Reality
The president’s distortions have an impact on much more than belief in his claims about what he was doing on Sept. 11.
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Breneke @breneke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Leopards . . . faces . . . etc.
Cartoon of a people impaled on sticks, one saying to the other 'I voted for him because I liked his impalement policy, but I never thought this would happen.'
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is an historic moment.👇
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 10/09/2026
Thank you for the music that raises money to hand out EU flags each year at 'The Proms' - each year they do really well, and the televised show is full of blue. We have several members who have joined them in the past to take part, and you can support their work with a small donation here.
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Donate - Thank Eu For The Music
Join us in preserving the cherished tradition of displaying EU Flags at the proms! We’re excited to announce our fundraising campaign to secure EU Flags for the 2025 Proms and delightful ‘bEUets’. You...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The bust of Sir John Gordon by Edmé Bouchardon is the first of a beautiful sculpted trio of Invergordon lairds that the Highland Council is selling off. Why is it so intent on breaking up Invergordon's heritage? If this story touches you, please share far and wide. See www.change.org/.../stop-thi...
Invergordon's trio of 18th and 19th c. sculpted lairds:
Sir John Gordon, Roderick MacLeod IV, and Robert Bruce Aeneas MacLeod V
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Perhaps we should consider this more carefully?👇
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🔥Jewish Actor Mandy Patinkin (brillant in Homeland) gets really passionate about Gaza and the child killer Benjamin Netanyahu. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
French EDF Energy in talks to buy British So Energy as UK supply market consolidates. EDF is owned by the French govt. UK profits exported to reduce French household energy bills. Nationalisation of energy would give UK govt more economic options.
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French EDF Energy in talks to acquire smaller British rival So Energy
France's EDF Energy is reportedly in discussions to buy So Energy, the smaller British supplier whose Irish parent company has put it up for sale, in a deal that would add to a renewed wave of consoli...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised
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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This 👇
Cartoon by Nurk
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can't remember a clearer smoking gun than that Channel 4 News footage. Nigel Farage and his senior aides all filmed discussing apparent plans to break the law by funnelling foreign money into British politics, plans which at least partly went ahead. A criminal investigation surely must follow
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
God Bless those who stand up.
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I Study Successful People. They Have One Habit in Common. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...
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Opinion | I Study Successful People. They Have One Habit in Common.
Being a successful self-starter doesn’t mean pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🌱 "We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." —Aldo Leopold
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I just signed Greenpeace’s pledge to stand with David Attenborough as an Ocean Defender. Industrial fishing, oil drilling, rising temperatures, and plastic pollution are driving our ocean toward collapse. Will you join me in speaking up to help save our oceans? act.gp/43b291r
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Stand with Attenborough
Join David Attenborough in calling for urgent action to protect our ocean
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Congratulations to MapQuest for becoming the #1 navigation app in the App Store. And thanks for being the navigation app of the resistance! ✊
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🇩🇪 Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil at G20: “Russia bears responsibility for ending this war, and Russia alone bears that responsibility, not Russia and Ukraine. Signal of receiving Russian finance minister at G20 is one I find irritating. We cannot simply return to normality.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/08/2026
Spotted outside The Penthouse Nightclub in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. REUTERS/Chris Helgren.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Belgium must reopen this door. Russia is counting on next year's European elections to gain an ally like Orban, so we must act before that happens.
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Scottish Independence Podcasts @scottishindypod.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This week's podcast - listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: #podcast #hiroshima81years #scnd scottishindypod.scot/peace-securi...
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81 Years After Hiroshima - The Third Nuclear Age - Scottish Indy Podcasts
The Third Nuclear Age : 81 Years After Hiroshima - Scottish CND Commemorates & Campaigns for Nuclear Disarmament This August, Scottish CND marked the 81st anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing with two...
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Karen Noé - Peace Advocate, Animal Ally, Psychic Medium, Author @karennoeauthor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Beautifully said. xoxo
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 29/08/2026
Bailing out the banks doubled Britain’s national debt overnight. Tories saw in this disaster a chance to implement their most cherished ideological fantasy. Blame Labour then sweep to electoral victory in 2010 - then they slashed the state to the bone and blame all the subsequent pain on Labour.
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The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain
The absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Greenland Canada 🇨🇦 Kanada
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
May I suggest that Andy Burnham consults Feargal Sharkey and @weownit.org.uk for cheap ways to discard the corrupt profiteering water company liars ...
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
See why the Bouchardon bust of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon truly belongs in Invergordon. www.change.org/p/stop-this-...
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Wouldn’t the Bust be Out of Place in the Invergordon Museum? No, It Would Not, and Here’s Why
(veuillez scroller en bas pour la vf) Summary: While some might think the Invergordon Museum has no business fighting for the Bouchardon Bust of Sir John Gordon, nothing could be further from the truth. The bust is intimately connected to the town's history, and two sculptures already in the museum's collections prove just how much Sir John's place there makes sense. The portrait busts are of …
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We built modern society on a single, unspoken commandment: Thou shalt grow the GDP forever. We optimized everything for this number. But we forgot one critical detail. The denominator is fixed. 🧵👇
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Carpe diem!
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Clacton, vote for a fresh new start with the bin🙏 This is your moment to completely overturn English politics.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🇺🇦🇺🇸❄️ Zelensky: "If the US sells us 5% of Patriot interceptors, we will survive the winter and save people's lives. If they can sell us 10%, we will destroy all of Russia's ballistic missiles. I have 1%."
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
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Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.
It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Source: The Scotsman share.google/eR4l6eCaOmcc...
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Teenager from Afghanistan who fled to Scotland unable to speak English celebrates six exam passes
Masi Aymaq missed four years of school because of the conflict in Afghanistan and came to Scotland in 2024 unable to speak or read English
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Jane MacKinnon @fjreims.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Every little action counts, while governments hesitate and wait."
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