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Morag Macpherson

@momacp.bsky.social
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Creativity, culture, communities, cycling, music, urbanism, coproduction & connection. Views are personal.

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Glasgow Times @glasgowtimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚴 More people than ever are choosing to cycle in Glasgow. New figures show cycling journeys in the city have surged by 74% in just two years, with more than 6.3 million trips recorded so far this year.
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Why cycling journeys are soaring across Glasgow as millions take to two wheels
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave. “Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way.” If you want people to choose not to drive, make the non-driving trip better & easier for them. It’s as simple as that, really.
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‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave
Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Let the record show that Cabo Verde didn’t lose in regulation time to either of the World Cup finalists
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Morag Macpherson @momacp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
For the first time ever, I am enjoying Nigel Farage doing politics #countbinface #clacton
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Minnesota United's Own Goal
Alt: Minnesota United's Own Goal - goalie goes to throw ball out, instead throws it into his own net and has to chase after it, ending up sliding into the goal after the ball
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Behind-the-scenes 🧵 on this story revealing that the American Museum of Natural History in New York is holding thousands of hair samples taken from Native Americans, including children at residential schools - despite knowing their names. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/a...
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Decades Late, Museum Scrambles to Return 2,700 Native Remains
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Anna Forringer-Beal @annaf-b.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
hi hello modern slavery expert here 👋👋 requiring asylum and refugee seekers to pay back support is precisely how traffickers keep victims in debt bondage. this exposes people to even greater re-trafficking risks. is the uk government trying to stop trafficking or learn from criminals?
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Labour's anti-asylum measures are the most hostile for a generation and some of the most inhumane across Europe. Not only are they barbarically cruel, they're also unworkable and pointless. These are measures designed to cause harm and grab headlines, nothing else www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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More than half of asylum seekers rejected under tightened laws will remain in UK
Home Office assessment shows new limits on human rights route based on family ties could result in another 11,700 claims turned down
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Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thanks Time Out for spotlighting Gallovidian Gravel. From rugged coastlines & forest trails to welcoming towns and villages, this new route is set to attract more visitors to Dumfries & Galloway, supporting local businesses and communities. bit.ly/4g0II3v
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A first of its kind bikepacking route has launched in the UK with 300 kilometres of seaside and forests
Cycling UK has launched its very first entirely Scottish route.
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Morag Macpherson @momacp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Three days in Aberfoyle when you hit the weather jackpot is 😎👌🏼 #aberfoyle #scotland #gravel #cycling #bikesky
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Morag Macpherson @momacp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Absolutely this 👇🏻 There needs to be urgent regulation of how vapes are packaged like sweets, and shops that sell nothing but sweets and vapes (there’s one along the road from me) should be sent into orbit
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> for the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \
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Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
10 years ago, days before the Brexit referendum. There was a deadly terrorist attack in Britain. Afterwards, nothing happened and very few people today will refer to what happened by its name. 1/
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Morag Macpherson @momacp.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It’s not just a disco nap, it’s a WORLD CUP disco nap. Snoozing for Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #scotland #worldcup
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Iggle Piggle Wakes Up in the Night Garden
Alt: Iggle Piggle from in the Night Garden going for a nap
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
Photo of a small group of mostly men wearing black, with masks and balaclavas, surrounded by a Police Scotland cordon in the bottom of the photo, in the foreground. In the background, a very large colourful crowd of people with saltires, trade union banners, and hand-made signs in support of migrants and against racism have turned up to gather to show solidarity, and the far right guys were hoping to thwart that. They didn't.
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Morag Macpherson @momacp.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Glasgow turns out to say no to facism #glasgow #scotland #antiracism
Protestors holding signs that say ‘love Scotland hate racism’ and ‘log off x racism’Crowd of protestors from behind, looking up Buchanan StreetSea of anti-facism protestorsWider view of Buchanan Street , protestors with flags and banners
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Morag Macpherson @momacp.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Outnumbered by thousands
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Job! Creative Manchester Research Associate (Maternity Leave Cover) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRV865/c...
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Creative Manchester Research Associate (Maternity Leave Cover) at The University of Manchester
Apply for the Creative Manchester Research Associate (Maternity Leave Cover) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Love Glasgow Hate Racism @lghr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Your racism isn't concern. Its racism. #LoveGlasgowHateRacism
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Morag Macpherson @momacp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Just about recovered from a weekend bikepacking around central Scotland - Dunblane, Callander, Glen Artney, Comrie, Glen Almond, Loch Tay, Glen Ogle back on the cycle track #bikesky #scotland #bikepacking
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I'm going to travel back in time and tell myself how in 2026 there's a website run by a white nationalist supervillain, a website he uses to meddle in domestic affairs and foment racial violence, but all the governments of the world still use it for official posts like it's no big deal.
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Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We utterly condemn the violence being seen in Belfast and Glasgow. These are not "protests" they are race riots. They are far right fuelled attacks against communities, leaving people in fear. Women and children trapped in their homes by hostile mobs who threaten violence against them.
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Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Expert on extremism here: In 2025, there were 1798 right-wing extremism referrals to Prevent, the UK counter-extremism programme. This is *double* the amount of Islamic extremism referrals (870). And yet, the government is incapable of seeing far-right extremism as a threat. Why? 1/
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Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
NEW: We’re launching the Trump World Cup Chaos Tracker to compile a record of how Trump’s racist, violent policies - coupled with FIFA’s corruption - are impacting this tournament. 1/3
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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Nobody should be on twitter/x. Those who still are need to accept what it is they're a part of and stop asking to be absolved and made to feel better about propping up a fascist, violence-inciting cesspit under the guise of being a voice of opposition. You're a collaborator. For what, footy bants?
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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Glasgow has long had its own distinct "far right" anti-immigrant base that cannot be understood without understanding unionist loyalism. This truth is often dismissed - that's different, it's just about football here etc - but I reckon it's going to become increasingly impossible to deny.
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CPAG in Scotland @cpagscotland.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
EXCITING JOB OPPORTUNITY - ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY! Do you have the skills and experience to lead our brilliant welfare rights team in Scotland? We'd love to hear from you! More details on our Head of Advice and Rights (Scotland) role here cpag.org.uk/jobs/current...
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Current job vacancies
Find out about the latest job vacancies at Child Poverty Action Group.
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Morag Macpherson @momacp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Lunchtime business
Grass with dandelions & daisiesGreen tree in parkView over Paisley from Barshaw ParkTree in park
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Morag Macpherson @momacp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Amazing turnout for the Love Paisley Hate Racism march, rally & music still on at County Square for the next couple hours
People gathering in park for rallyMarch going along Glasgow RoadMarch in front of Paisley Town HallRally at County Square
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir. The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm So we’re taking legal action. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...
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BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir
Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 23/03/2026
genuinely why does anyone report anything he says at all as if it means anything still
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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych @nick-carmody.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Trump's ego-based insecurities and need to be liked has been a national security risk for a decade. This is why the mental health field has been so vocal: 8/ www.patreon.com/posts/30865781
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Morag Macpherson @momacp.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
12 hours of daylight 👇🏻 🌺 🌱😎🙏
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Morag Macpherson @momacp.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
👇🏻 💯
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]

From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:

NEWSREADER:

Extraordinary images here 

of an expat in Dubai 

[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]

…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.

[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. 

CLIVE MYRIE:

To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent

DAVID JONES:

Clive, this is momentous

It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.

[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]

You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.

It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.

CLIVE MYRIE:

Which are…?

DAVID JONES:

You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, 
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.

CLIVE MYRIE:

And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?

DAVID JONES:

I think we can expect to see:

“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”

CLIVE MYRIE:

Mmm. 

[Ends]
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
As oil and gas companies see rocketing revenues, and more people face job insecurity, now is the time for the government to end tax breaks for fossil fuel companies, and support oil and gas workers into green jobs instead. Sign my petition here👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
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End tax breaks on oil and gas
Sign the petition to stop the giveaway and demand a fair jobs plan needs major people power right now.
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
New study of media collision reporting from @patrickrerat.bsky.social "Cyclists are placed at the center of the narrative, while motorists are either omitted or reduced to their vehicles... Making these biases visible is essential for challenging motonormativity" findingspress.org/article/1575...
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Blaming Cyclists, Invisibilising Drivers: How Motonormativity Shapes Swiss Media Collision Reports | Published in Findings
By Lucca Reymond, Patrick Rérat. In Swiss media reports on collisions between cyclists and motorists, cyclists tend to be foregrounded, while motorists are often rendered invisible. Such reporting imp...
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Brian Gallagher @bgallaghercoll.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Kingfisher in the catkins. River Kelvin, Glasgow. #birds
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
We really should be asking ourselves why one rich twat’s racist opinion can become headline news in this country While the perspectives of thousands of volunteers welcoming migrants in their communities & mixed migrant/British families are never heard?
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.
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Jeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government
The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The Argyle Street Ash Tree in Glasgow is in the running to be voted European Tree of the Year for 2026. If you're a fan of this tree, you can vote for it at www.treeoftheyear.org/vote/argyle-.... #glasgow #europeantreeoftheyear #tree #argylestreet #argylestreetashtree
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Morag Macpherson @momacp.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A report out today from the Scottish Human Rights Commission calls for a programme of reparations for Scotland’s Gypsy Travellers subjected to decades of forced assimilation and on-going harm under policies known as the ‘Tinker Experiment’. #humanrights www.scottishhumanrights.com/news/call-fo...
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Call for redress as Scottish Human Rights Commission exposes lasting harm to Scotland’s Gypsy Travellers
Call for redress as Scottish Human Rights Commission exposes lasting harm to Scotland’s Gypsy Travellers
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A 77% increase in immigration raids, 83% increase in arrests, coupled with undermining modern slavery protections and a call to remove basic ECHR rights from migrants. If you think what is happening with ICE in the US can't happen here I have a bridge to sell you. 1/ www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Illegal working raids reach highest level in UK history
Enforcement raids skyrocket by 77% since the government came to power leading to an 83% increase in arrests.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 27/01/2026
“If these children need me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in days of darkness?” —Jane Haining “In Days of Darkness”, a poem by Stuart A. Paterson for #HolocaustMemorialDay #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/days-da...
In Days of Darkness
Stuart A. Paterson

“If these children need me in days of sunshine,
how much more do they need me in days of darkness?”
—Jane Haining

You rose each day at 5 a.m. to go
to market for their food, sliced your leather
luggage into strips they’d use for soles
on worn-out shoes, paid for everything
on trips to beach or town, sewed clothes
back into life for those in need of more
than hand-me-downs, you, the second mother.

Two days before your death, you wrote
There is not much to report from here.
There wouldn’t be, no excursions to arrange
to forest or museum or picture house,
no growing hands & fingernails to inspect,
only memories of how you wept
along with them when stitching yellow stars
onto their uniforms, refused to leave
for safety, stayed right to the very end
for & alongside them, your girls.

You lived & breathed your school motto, learning elevates,
a missionary not just for church but life
itself passed on from Lochenhead, Dumfries,
Glasgow all the way to Budapest
& into every small, attentive head
you ever turned away from darker days
toward the brightness of an opened book.

Streets, stained glass windows, a commemorative
cairn exist to honour you who saw mountains
on the way not just to Heaven but to Auschwitz.
And yet a little girl of ninety-seven
is your true memorial, carries you
as surely as you carried her into
that sunshine, smiles still as she talks of times
Miss Haining took the girls on woodland walks
or to see the latest Judy Garland;
tributes of smile, of breath, of memory
that she paid for everything so they could live.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25/01/2026
“On the dirt roads of Arkansas I first met Robert Burns…” Currently on the BBC iPlayer: writer, poet, & activist Dr Maya Angelou goes on a pilgrimage to the home of Robert Burns (originally broadcast in 1996 to mark the bicentenary of Burns’s death) #BurnsNight #C18 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Two - Angelou on Burns
Writer and poet Maya Angelou goes on a pilgrimage to Burns Country in Scotland.
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Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
🚨EMERGENCY PROTEST Mon 26 Jan 5:30pm 📍Buchanan Steps, Glasgow Yesterday ICE shot & killed Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse. People are rising up across the US in response. Stand in solidarity with them, against deportations everywhere & to fight Farage’s Trumpism in Britain
Solidarity with Minneapolis: stop ICE murders, no deportations. Monday 26 Jan 5.30pm Buchanan steps glasgow
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Heather Clark @heatherjc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
US Consulate in Edinburgh on Monday 26th Jan- Solidarity with Minneapolis.
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