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Cat lover, anti-imperialist republican socialist, autistic academic. They/them. Free Scotland and Free Palestine!

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Talking-up Scotland posts 168 fully researched rebuttals and encouragements in February 2026 alone – More than 50 000 visit to read more than 100 000 times – please join the 251 who have contributed s...
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Talking-up Scotland has 1 600 subscribers and …
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
ABSOLUTELY AGREE 💯%.......
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Fight The Right… 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏿 @wtafc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2026
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents."
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para-handy.bsky.social @para-handy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
BBC Bullshit exposed by BBC www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdVR...
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The BBC has admitted the household budget myth is wrong – so why do they still use it?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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The Antony Loewenstein Podcast: What the Media Won't Say About The Israeli President's Visit
YouTube video by Antony Loewenstein
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
UK companies breaking Equality Act over use of Nimbus Disability Access Cards What sort of world are we living in when companies force disabled people to carry the Nimbus card to prove they're disabled enough? @wordsbyhg.bsky.social knows... www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/02/1...
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UK companies breaking Equality Act over use of Nimbus Disability Access Cards
What sort of world are we living in when companies force disabled people to carry the Nimbus card to prove they're disabled enough?
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Help Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...
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Help Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize
Students protest against ICE during a walkout at the University of Minnesota, on January 26, 2026 (Brandon Bell / Getty Images) The editors of The Nation are formally nominating the city of Minneapo...
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Alliance to Liberate Scotland Is Officially Registered After a long battle, the Alliance to Liberate Scotland has now been officially registered with the Electoral Commission. This is a political breakthrough that even some within Scotland’s own political class, worked desperately to prevent.
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"The Israel lobby exerts control not only over Westminster, which we knew, but also over its Holyrood mini-me. I’d add that jewish zionists also control our media, including The National, purportedly Scotland’s only independence-supporting newspaper."
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
A Palestinian brewer has visited Scotland to launch a lager brewed in partnership with a Scottish company
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'Nice to be free': Palestinian brewer visits Glasgow to launch beer
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people. Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people. We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Reposted as Labour panic leads them to try, with vague unconvincing promises, to stop Waspi women voting SNP: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/24/l...
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Labour letting the Waspi women die in poverty is just business for my local Labour MP, the BBC and BBC Scotland, as they shield Sarwar
By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS In the Guardian today: Campaigners have threatened the government with legal action unless it reconsiders i…
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
There would be many out of a job and facing jail time if we had the same rules. But what is good for the goose should be just as good for the gander. It should equally apply to the SNP & the Green party. #EndLondonRule #AreYouYesYet #WhyNotScotland
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has published another report containing utterly horrifying testimonies of gang rapes and sodomisation of Palestinian men and women abducted from Gaza and detained in various Israeli dungeons.
palestinewillbefree.substack.com
Palestinians in Gaza systematically subjected to horrific rape and sexual abuse by Israelis, reveals report
"I wished for death every moment."
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
"...northern igneous/granite locations are actually less safe than deep clay beds."
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
Research – the safest place by far to bury high-level nuclear waste is in the deep clay beds of the South-East around London
The location of Mullwharchar, the granite Scottish mountain where it was first planned to bury high-level nuclear waste in 1980 among the hard igneous rocks of the North of Britain and where succes…
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Cancel SPOTIFY. They are running ICE ads. F them. www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...
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Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts
The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms — not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
In totally shocking news that nobody saw coming that is a complete coincidence… Andrew Peodo is named in the new #Epstein files on #Epstein’s flight logs, less than 24 hours after giving pretense of giving up his titles. How very honorable of Andrew and king.... 🤔 #RoyalScandals #NotMyRoyalFamily
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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Telegraph, Mail, Express, Jeremy Clarkson etc, please stop saying nasty things about Zack Polanski; the Green Party membership system is struggling to keep up
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/10/2025
Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Just imagine........
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Those backing the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans visiting Birmingham were smeared as antisemites. Then Tel Aviv police banned the city's derby after riots. This whole saga is defined by lies and smears. Here's the truth 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/maccabi-te...
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Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans: lies, smears - and the truth
Tel Aviv's police ban the city's derby after Maccabi hooligans rioted. You cannot make this sh*t up.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!' Read my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...
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A tale of two chants: Why Starmer now casts even the British police as antisemitic
Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!'
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Not one of these statements has happened and in most cases the opposite has happened.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
A Labour minister has admitted that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans barred from going to a football match in England are 'reprehensible' – after pledging that their attendance would be ensured by the Government
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Lisa Nandy: Maccabi fans 'reprehensible' – but must be allowed into Birmingham
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
"According to a new report on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, the ongoing genocide in Gaza represents a collective crime, perpetuated by the complicity of powerful Third States that have allowed Israel to commit long-standing systemic violations of international law."
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The Architecture of Complicity: Understanding Third State Responsibility in Gaza Genocide - 21st Century Wire
21WIRE | When third states cross the threshold from passive observation to active complicity.
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"Here is how the UK electricity (and energy) market works including a hugely unfair policy called marginal pricing which is why gas prices drive up all electricity prices, even when in Scotland all of our generation needs are met from low-cost renewables."
believeinscotland.org
Scottish customers are being ripped off by the UK energy system
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
1,142 deaths were in England, an increase of 16% on the year before. In Northern Ireland, deaths increased by more than a third between 2023 and 2024; Wales saw a small annual decrease. In Scotland there was an 18% reduction overall. Deaths in both Glasgow and Edinburgh fell by around 40%.
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
Homeless deaths in Scotland fall as they climb in other parts due to lack of national leadership
Professor John Robertson OBA Once again, I’m grateful to Brenda Robb for finding this and researching it for us. From BBC UK today but ignored by BBC Scotland, the above and: The figures show…
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
A group of Palestinians has served a legal petition asking the UK to take responsibility for what they call “serial international law violations”, including war crimes committed during the British occupation of Palestine from 1917 to 1948, the consequences of which it says still reverberate today.
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England’s War Violations
A group of Palestinians has served a legal petition asking the UK to take responsibility for what they call “serial international law violations”, including war crimes committed during the British …
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Watching elderly & disabled people dragged into the back of police vans for holding up signs is becoming a weekly occurrence. The criminalisation of protest is pushing more and more people to break the law. And once you’ve broken one law, you're likely to start questioning the legitimacy of others.
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Hyper-Normalisation and the Criminalistion of Protest
The UK government is planning to clamp down even harder on peaceful protest against the genocide in Gaza. Given their support of the Israel — through the supply of weapons parts, troop training and…
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"Instead of holding Israel accountable and pursuing legal action against its leaders, and sanctioning Israel economically and politically, the initiative by . most Western nations could be seen as diverting attention from the crisis to an imaginary future somewhere in the distance."
21stcenturywire.com
Most Americans oppose Syria strike, says latest Washington Post-ABC poll - 21st Century Wire
POST + ABC | It looks like more chemical weapons propaganda is needed from the mainstream media.
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"The government is arresting little old ladies for holding signs supporting one proscribed organisation, Palestine Action, while it admits it has been actively supporting another proscribed organisation."
craigmurray.org.uk
Staggering Hypocrisy - Craig Murray
The outgoing Head of MI6 Richard Moore has formally admitted in a public speech in Istanbul that MI6 has been cooperating with HTS in Syria – a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act – for ye...
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
youtu.be/INMZy5C8SPU?... Worried Y. Cooper? Listen in
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Intel Leak Shreds Cooper’s Terror Claims - And Her Credibility
YouTube video by KernowDamo
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Spider-Man has begun filming in Glasgow – the latest in a series of blockbusters to be shot in Scotland. But filmmakers here in Scotland say they aren't receiving enough support to work on homegrown projects
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While Hollywood visits Scotland, homegrown filmmakers are at ‘breaking point’
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
"The Labour government is moving fast to the tactics of the fascists in the 1930’s suppressing our rights to free speech and protest, even against a genocide."
councilestatemedia.uk
The UK is putting grandmas under house arrest for peacefully protesting against genocide
A wave of protests against Israel's genocide has kept UK counter-terrorism police rather busy because they have decided peaceful protesters count as terrorists.
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Dems confused about why they're polling lower than GOPs? Think of it this way: one side is vile, rabid vermin - the other side let them in the house, feeds them, doesn't discipline them, dotes on them, responds to their needs, often takes their side in territorial disputes, asks you for $5.00 often.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Why the UK economy depends on migrants youtu.be/kp7pDedYWEo?... As boomers retire, there aren’t enough young people born in the UK to replace them. That’s why migrants are stepping in — and why we need them. In this video I show how migration supports our economy, pensions, and future security.
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Why the UK economy depends on migrants
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXsk…
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The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 25/07/2025
Schrodingers Scotland: simultaneously not a colony, but not enough of an equal partner to be able to decide its own future without permission of its neighbour.
Poster pointing out that the UK not permitting Scotland to decides its own future clearly means we are not an equal parter, with information about the UN definition of a colony and the rights such a colony has.
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The teenagers tampered with passenger safety equipment, disrupted the safety demonstration, and “repeatedly disobeyed crew instructions.” Cabin crew gave “increasingly serious warnings” before, due to safety reasons, requesting support from the police.
thecanary.co
No, the Telegraph - a load of teenagers were not kicked off a plane because they were Jewish
The Zionist regime and the MSM have once again attempted to spin the appalling behaviour of Israelis as other people's antisemitism
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Sonny_R 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🏳‍🌈 @sonoyami.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
O'Brien can either issue the most grovelling apology & hope he is allowed to keep his job. Or he can leave LBC & hope to make it in independent media. If he attempts the latter and starts talking like a Gaza freedom fighter, don't fall for it for one second. The man is a complete and utter fraud.
councilestatemedia.uk
And then they came for James O'Brien... and I laughed because it was James O'Brien
Looks like James O'Brien has found himself in a spot of bother.
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indyscotslass7.bsky.social @indyscotslass7.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
👇🏻 FAIL #LabourOut #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Green Party policy is to institute a 4 day working week. This is because we are evidence led and evidence shows it improves the quality of life, and mental and physical health of workers without adversely affecting productivity. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Nearly 1,000 Britons adopt permanently shorter working week after trial
All 17 businesses in six-month pilot to continue with either four-day week or nine-day fortnight
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
There are many British commentators who have made several posts showing deep concern for Rachel Reeves over the last 24 hours but apparently lost their phones whilst hundreds of thousands of disabled people were terrified of losing the benefits they need to live.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Scottish independence campaigners have restored the faded memorial stone of independence patriot Wendy Wood
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Scottish independence activists restore memorial to campaigner Wendy Wood
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