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Mairead O Muiraedhaigh.

@jediduke.bsky.social
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I’m Irish living in Scotland - love dogs, any sport, woodwork, gardening and. Christmas. Believe in the reunification of Ireland and Scottish Independence. Social Democrat and SNP member. Anti-fascist, pro choice.

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WOFAVA @wofava.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Donald Trump won this district in Louisiana by 13 points in 2024. The Democrat just crushed a Republican extremist in this district by 24 points. Folks, that’s a 37 point swing to the left. We can compete everywhere and win anywhere. Let’s keep this up!
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Hard to believe that this is coming up in the news again. Trump wants to disrupt the midterms because he knows he’s going to lose. There was nothing to find then and nothing today. Trump has unraveled. He is unstable. He is unfit. Miller is pulling the strings.
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Dear voter, sick of the other parties and tempted by Reform UK? Don’t be daft. Don’t do it. They’re not your friends. Unless you are already rich, this report proves that they will only make your life and your family’s lives worse talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/28/d...
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Dear voter, sick of the other parties and tempted by Reform UK? Don’t be daft. Don’t do it. They’re not your friends. Unless you are already rich, this report proves that they will only make your life...
From the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) yesterday: Reform UK have announced plans for cuts to income tax in Scotland if they were to win the Scottish Parliament elections in May. They say they …
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
BBC Politics Scotland is currently broadcasting a look at nuclear energy which is a blatant puff piece for Labour's pro-nuclear policy, talking about the 'brain drain' from Scotland due to the Scottish Government's opposition to nuclear energy.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
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Jim Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
When @theSNP took power 18 years ago, the top 20 most deprived areas of the UK, were ALL in Scotland. Today, The top 20 most deprived areas of the UK, are ALL in England. I’ll take that as a positive governance of Scotland.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Sanctuary policies are legal. The Supreme Court has been clear for decades that the federal government cannot commandeer state or local governments to enforce federal immigration law. This isn’t “playing with fire.” It’s constitutional law.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
While Gregory Bovino and the two CBP officers who shot and killed Alex Pretti have been pulled out of Minnesota, that is not justice. All three were immediately sent back out on the street in another American city to terrorize, and possibly even murder, more Americans. Congress needs to act!
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“if you raise your voice I will erase your voice” is an unlawful threat. PAXIS.app confirms this violates the 4th and 5th Amdt and a color of law offense (18 U.S.C. § 242). Act: • Document details • Record if safe • Report to DHS OIG • Contact a civil rights att Support PAXIS: gofund.me/c8c1fbab9
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
My latest blog piece, Reform UK's blueprint for an authoritarian power grab. The biggest threat to democracy and the rule of law ever seen in modern Britain and a reason why the need for Scottish independence is so urgent. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/r...
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Reform UK’s authoritarian project for power
The American author and poet Maya Anjelou famously wrote: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” That has never been more true than where we are now in Brit…
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/01/2026
This is testimony… 📌 Stella Carlson, “Pink coat lady”, speaks on the murder of Alex Pretti. “After the shooting, they (ICE) decided to just scatter and save themselves.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The Secretary of Homeland Security is asserting that the Deputy White House Chief of Staff ultimately bears responsibility for the murder of two American citizens, which is something that would normally generate a dozen congressional inquiries.
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🗝️🐍🦉🌙 Dolly 🗡️ Dagger 🍉🇺🇦📚🌈 @dollydagger6.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
You can’t just say “Abolish ICE”. You also have to say “Abolish ICE and throw every person working in the agency into federal prison for crimes against humanity”.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Disappointing to see people on here talking about their ideal ICE/CBP reforms. It is a terrorism organization that is conducting terror campaigns. Abolish. At minimum. That's it.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Thank you, Mr. President.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.
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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal @us-political-news.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This ICE has no business at the Winter Olympics www.dailykos.com/story/2026/1/28/23…
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This ICE has no business at the Winter Olympics
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is going to provide security at the Olympics.� No, silly, not at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles — at the Winter Olympics next month in Milano Cortina, ...
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RealMattHopkins @realmatthopkins.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
America is completely out of control. A vile and inhumane government with a weak and largely complicit opposition party. It shocks me to see how little the American people are doing to stop this insanity. How can any of us ever trust this country again? Ever?
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EDC🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇰🇨🇦🇦🇺🇵🇹🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇮🇸🇪 @simplyedc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution. - Thomas Jefferson
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Six former cabinet ministers and almost a dozen junior ministers have defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK. It's not Reform, it’s the Tories Reframed, writes Paul Kavanagh ✍️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/01/2026
Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Neil Young. Still showing us the way all these years later.. If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free - Rolling Stone
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Reform slammed for 'rent-an-extremist' by-election choice - all you need to know
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Reform slammed for 'rent-an-extremist' by-election choice - all you need to know
Reform UK has been accused of selecting a “dangerous” right-wing activist and GB News commentator as its candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 28/01/2026
“The rightwing politicians keep saying they know the will of the people. But the will of the people we’ve seen has been very different. In the last 900 miles we’ve seen nothing but compassion, kindness and generosity. "
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Scotland welcomes Sudanese fund raisers
Sudanese friends walk 900 miles through Britain, raising £90k for refugee schools and proving the nation’s heart is full of welcome
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Mar-rick @marrickg.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN! Do not fund the government until a full investigation is performed for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The agents responsible for their execution must be removed from duty and put on trial. The American people demand accountability and an end to ICE & DHS brutality!!!
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Scots is often wrapped up in classism and labelled as 'weird' or 'uneducated', but by every standard it is its own language with its own grammar, syntax and words, and should be respected as such, writes Emma Grae ✍️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/commen...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
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Rep. Judy Chu @chu.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Bovino was forced out of Minnesota because the American people stood firm. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in below-freezing temps to peacefully defend their neighbors & freedoms. We’ll keep fighting. No more deaths at the hands of rogue DHS agents.
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Greg Bovino Loses His Job
The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.
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Mairead O Muiraedhaigh. @jediduke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Any Scottish Independence supporters deleted their X Account recently? If you have, has Bluesky been able to replace the info you accessed on Independence?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/01/2026
Clean up on aisle 47
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
HOLY CRAP! Trump is literally falling in and out of consciousness as his Military commander speaks about kidnapping Maduro and taking over Venezuela. What a sh-tshow!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
58 billionaire spenders have spent over $18.4M in the NYC mayoral race to boost Cuomo and attack Zohran Mamdani. Why are they so scared of Zohran? Because they know he will end their unchecked power over working people and build a city that works for the working class.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 12/10/2025
Just like the BBC in Scotland, Laura Kuenssberg is stepping up the deliberate errors to knock The SNP. Twice she claimed the UK Gov was supplying £10bn to build warships on the Clyde. This is false. The £10bn will come from Norway after it signed a deal with BAE systems. (video MSM Monitor)
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Blairer @haggisblarer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"Was this peace agreement reached with the purpose of protecting Palestine rebuilding the destruction caused by Israel? ? If the answer to those questions is no, then I think you should contemplate the complicity of Trump snd Netanhanyu. WIFT? Money. Palestine? Zilch.
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D Mcguire @dmcguirecfc67.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
New Zealand !! all these Countries around the World showing Humanity in the many images I have shared so far ! Yet Starmer ,Trump and Israhell would have you believe that people back Israhell !!!! The World is not as fecked when you have many showing Humanity ! Good will always overcome Evil !!
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Leigh G @yogaleigh.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Can I tell you a secret? I don't care if there are undocumented immigrants in this country. I think it's a non-issue.  Without social security numbers they're not getting the welfare people claim they're getting, the vast majority of them are normal people trying to live a better life.
This whole wall deport-the-illegals bullshit is just the one percent convincing the working poor to blame a subset of the working poor for the fact that they're all poor, instead of realizing they're all poor due to vast income inequality and resource price inflation in combination with wage stagnation.
The existence of another poor person is not why you're poor. It's because the people who control everything refuse to increase your wages.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Raibeart #YES 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @raibeart.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Lots achieved by the SNP Scottish Govt that has made Scotland a better homeplace. Don’t let Labour diminish our decency & remove our progress, our rights & our support systems. Lots more to do with a fresh start called independence. x.com/JohnSwinney/...
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John Swinney on X: "Lots done, lots more to do. We will keep delivering progress for the people of Scotland. #SNP25 https://t.co/6T1xgCR8qQ" / X
Lots done, lots more to do. We will keep delivering progress for the people of Scotland. #SNP25 https://t.co/6T1xgCR8qQ
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Jockyfox @jockyfox.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
We can build a society free from poverty. We can use our energy wealth to lower bills. And we can transform lives across Scotland. It’s time for independence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Kaukab Stewart @kaukabstewart.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Absolutely inspiring speech from the First Minister to wrap up SNP conference, and a strong - and timely - reminder of our values. Building cohesive and welcoming communities for EVERYONE in Scotland is at the heart of what the SNP is all about.
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Mairead O Muiraedhaigh. @jediduke.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Say No To Digital ID
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Mairead O Muiraedhaigh. @jediduke.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
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Mairead O Muiraedhaigh. @jediduke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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