Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialCrazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 10hApparently a game-worn Michael Jordan jersey just sold for $14 million. Nothing against Michael Jordan, or Da Bulls, but...can we talk about what's wrong with a society where enough rich people can cheerfully drive the price on a basketball jersey to 8 figures while children go sick and hungry? 2115
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 7hUkraine has hit a huge Russian data centre linked to bot farms. In unrelated news, does anyone know why every Reform account on Twitter is getting hardly any likes and shares? 20868225
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/10/2026SOMEBODY EXPLAIN HOW THIS MAN STILL HAS A JOB? Brenden Cuni, the same ICE agent seen on video brandishing a rifle at the scene of the shooting in NY, where officers shot an unarmed man in front of his 5-year-old child, was also filmed kneeling on a pregnant woman in Minneapolis last December. 63877824212
grumpyscot.bsky.social @grumpyscot.bsky.social · 05/07/2026youtu.be/eQ67oapo-To?...youtu.be"Star-Spangled Banner" - Marsh Family adaptation of the US National Anthem for 250th 4th of July DayYouTube video by Marsh Family 021
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialHush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026"You'll never reach 25K followers with a very niche aviation site purely for obsessives" Prove this right or wrong by sharing or not as you wish. 814364
grumpyscot.bsky.social @grumpyscot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The New York Times is about the only decent News Vendor left on the other side of the Pond. It should be ashamed of itself. 000
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialPascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 13/06/2026A reminder that if Rupert Lowe becomes Prime Minister, he will change the law as follows: - reintroduce the death penalty and make the reintroduction retrospective: applied to cases that preceded, sometimes by many years, the change of law - make minors at the time of their crimes eligible for it 51612
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Difficult to express the visceral disgust I feel at Musk, his fascism, his hideous and cruel abuse of power with cuts to aid that are responsible for death and suffering worldwide, his support for the repulsive Lowe and the way he’s shit-stirring in our country’s democracy and wellbeing. 08124
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/05/2026Assigned to Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo (Obama). 673042564
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Make #FarageCamps trend on every available platform. Nobody wants their name associated with evil crap like that 51845403
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Mastercard is sponsoring Trump's Freedom 250 and its Christian nationalist Rededicate 250 event on May 17 where Pete Hegseth and Mike Johnson will headline: "rededicating our country as One Nation under God." I noticed my REI credit card is a Mastercard. I've reached out to REI for comment. 22112
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Oh excellent. Another think tank grifting for foreign money to buy our democracy and put Farage in No. 10 - via a pact with the unelectable Tory party, a manifesto modelled on Trump’s Project 2025 and the strong hope that - with helpful media cover - voters will be stupid enough to fall for it. 36365152
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Really?🤦🏼♀️ These posts pop up periodically and are mind numbingly tedious. Is TFL being “racist against white people” by offering an internship to those with a minority ethnic background? Or is it possible there’s more to this than the screenshot and tweet suggest?🤷🏼♀️ 🧵1/10 114569
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialZoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Should we follow Putin out of the ECHR? Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear? 80827282
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialthe3million @the3million.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Júlia followed every rule, but the UK’s immigration system trapped her in bureaucratic limbo for 7 months. Now, she faces being forced to leave. This is the reality of an immigration system that isn’t working. We can do better. Read her full story: the3million.org.uk/julia-storythe3million.org.ukthe3million | Júlia Story | Giving a voice to EU citizens in the UK 045
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Canada has shown the world how to stand up to the gangster regime. The United States is losing $12.5 billion in travel as Trump turns them into an international pariah. This is the "find out" phase of international relations. Keep the boycott strong. #FAFO #elbowsup www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/t...nytimes.comAs Foreign Tourists Stay Away, U.S. Could Lose $12.5 Billion This Year, Tourism Group Says 62997266
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialweegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 01/06/2025A vote for Reform is not a vote for anything new, disruptive, or ground changing. It's not a vote for working class representation. It's a vote for Tories who left the Tory party because it wasn't cruel and nasty enough. 21712257
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialRick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 01/06/2025He nailed it! 320206325871
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialJustin Ling @justinling.ca · 26/05/2025Holy crap that's fascinating. www.economist.com/europe/2025/... 19469184
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialNPR @npr.org · 24/05/2025Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.npr.orgJustice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scramblingHundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs. 1220111884861
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025We’ve asked Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate the health department's refusal to release information about KPMG's £8million Palantir contract We will keep pushing this case - and many others Sign up to Democracy for Sale to help us democracyforsale.substack.com/subscribedemocracyforsale.substack.comSubscribe to Democracy for SaleA newsletter dedicated to revealing how dark money and hidden influence threaten our democracy. Click to read Democracy for Sale, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. 26229
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Trump delays tariffs on EU until July 9th www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTrump extends deadline for EU trade deal until 9 JulyTrump said he granted the request to extend the 1 June deadline after a 15249
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialCharles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 19/05/2025For the hard of thinking - Jill Biden holds a Doctorate in Education, not a medical degree. 1920637
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Come for "the batshit signal", stay for the final line 69728
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialHelene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 19/05/2025The hysterical reaction of certain commentators to today’s UK-EU agreement is something to behold. The “surrender” of using e-gates when you go on holiday. The contempt for the “will of the people” of making education abroad more accessible. Rigorous debate is good. This nonsense is a waste of time. 622393436
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Can I ask those many journalists who ignored, ridiculed or minimised Carole Cadwalladr’s revelations about Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Russian election interference — You won’t apologise. Journos never do. But please acknowledge and fight against big tech and disinformation 261089310
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Johnson put a border in the Irish Sea, sold out the fishing industry, all SMEs trading with the EU, our farmers, universities, musicians, young people, scientists, all of us… And now he sits in the mess he made throwing insults at those who are clearing up after him. What a monumental piece of shit. 722119562
grumpyscot.bsky.social @grumpyscot.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Ukraine is 'not our war' says JD Vance news.sky.com/video/share-... Ah, crawl back in your ditch of historical ignorance, son Yankee Generation ‘Y’ is even more dumb than Generation ‘X’. How embarrassed are Americans to have this stinking pile of 💩 cluttering up their ‘Great Sidewalk of Life’?news.sky.comUS Vice president says Ukraine conflict is 'not our war' as Trump calls PutinJD Vance told reporters 'we should be able to move beyond the mistakes of the past' but will walk away if the US isn't able to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. 130
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialCovid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry. The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale. Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs. 1/2 351058632
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025It’s so much easier to tear something down than to build something better. Farage will only ever destroy. Because his ideologies don’t work. They divide, they harm, they cost, they isolate. He doesn’t want a better EU deal. He *needs* the failure. His power relies on the anger that creates. 1061023315
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialMike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Her 150th anniversary was this week. Born in poverty, she became a journalist, photographer, screenwriter and the first woman to fly the Channel. She was also famous for her beauty. Harriet Quimby - an American story. #harrietquimby #historymikerobbinsnyc.blogspot.comThe Spectacular Story of Harriet QuimbyJournalist, photographer, screenwriter and early aviator; the short but spectacular life of Harriet Quimby 077
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/05/2025A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY! Trump cut global food aid, now enough rations to feed 3.5 million people are rotting in warehouses. People are starving, but this man’s legacy will be cruelty in bulk. 15328171222
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/05/2025BREAKING: A massive explosion from a bomb has destroyed American Reproductive Centers, an IVF and fertility center in Palm Springs, CA. At least one person is dead. Authorities are investigating whether terrorism played a role. 118769632841
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialCaptain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Food for millions wasted, children left to go hungry, and America’s reputation permanently damaged.reuters.comExclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storageThe food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs. 671051429
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialEffie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 13/05/2025This op-ed is freaking beautiful and everyone should read it www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...mcsweeneys.netAn Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a TragedyDear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That... 27588225
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Just hope that the bacteria and sewage recovered 4742749
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/05/2025A U.S.-funded charter plane carrying dozens of white South Africans who claim to have been victims of discrimination in their home country left Johannesburg on Sunday, heading for the U.S., where the Trump administration is welcoming them as refugees.nytimes.comWhite South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump Leave for U.S. 192321168
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 07/05/2025I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did. 10033071242
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/05/2025When "required by law" becomes just a suggestion. 36749711073
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialUrsula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 09/05/2025No anthem played over Red Square today can cover the sound of justice coming. Today, on Europe Day, a special tribunal for the Crime of Aggression is launched in Lviv. Justice for Ukraine begins to take shape. Justice is the foundation of a long-lasting peace. → europa.eu/!G9GkXT 32880173
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/05/2025Breaking News: Newark's mayor, Ras Baraka, was arrested while he and three members of Congress from New Jersey were protesting at an immigration detention center in the city. He was taken to an ICE facility in Newark, his aides said. nyti.ms/3Z680Un 3761600639
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialJonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Donald Trump has the habits of the vandal, the autocrat, the gangster and the fool - for proof, look no further than Ukraine. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comUkraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool | Jonathan FreedlandThis presidency places authoritarian ambition above all – and now the people of Ukraine are paying the price, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland 410133
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025URGENT: This is not a crime A judge has the authority in her courthouse to excuse a defendant for God's sake Trump tried this in 1st term & he was thrown out of court 👉 www.courtlistener.com/docket/14997... PS the violation here was Patel's tweet & that's why he deleted. I'll be filing complaint 26970222355
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/04/2025“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...blackpressusa.comThe Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black ResistanceCritics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity. 10925931716
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025I would love to hear the argument that any gang member in the history of the United States has caused more death and destruction with their conduct than Donald Trump—because just on the pandemic alone, Trump has all of gang and mafia history beat by at least 500,000 dead bodies. 472000419
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialMatt Johansen @mattjay.com · 18/04/2025🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony: 324139347301
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialNick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The USA has voted against a UN resolution on cooperation with the Council of Europe because it included the words "condemnation of Russian aggression against Ukraine" Only 8 other states voted against: - Russia - Belarus - North Korea - Eritrea - Mali - Nicaragua - Niger - Sudan 12416
Reposted by @grumpyscot.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Starmer told UK must repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people or lose Trump trade deal. Plus sacrifice the NHS, food and environmental standards, worker rights. Who governs? No thank you. Don't want to be the 51st state, or US slaves. Better to join the EU and Single Market.independent.co.ukStarmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but sources say his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘are still a red line’ 1611421579