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I wrote a couple of western novels a few years back. Sadly out of print now. Fervent believer in independence for Scotland. I am spone to proonerisms - er, prone to spoonerisms.

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Mrs Cellophane...

08.10.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.

This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

07.10.2025 14:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2034    ๐Ÿ” 676    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 94    ๐Ÿ“Œ 60
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Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

07.10.2025 23:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24011    ๐Ÿ” 7400    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4434    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1558
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A Fresh Start with Independence This paper sets out why Scotland should become an independent country, and what an independent Scotland could look like. It provides details of this Scottish Governmentโ€™s proposals for an independent ...

A Fresh Start with Independence
www.gov.scot/publications...

08.10.2025 10:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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Speaker Mike Johnsonโ€™s press conference was cut off the air by MSNBC, after he once again lied about Obamacare subsidies. Host Ana set the record straight: โ€œJust to make sure we donโ€™t offer misleading information ... There is no access for undocumented immigrants to get Obamacare....โ€

08.10.2025 03:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 574    ๐Ÿ” 181    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Here Starmer
Do you know what really is "Un-British?
Supporting a genocidal regime

07.10.2025 10:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

07.10.2025 23:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 50369    ๐Ÿ” 19180    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1575    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1127
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Brutal.

07.10.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3946    ๐Ÿ” 767    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 87    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21
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In a nutshell.

08.10.2025 05:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6060    ๐Ÿ” 2438    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 95    ๐Ÿ“Œ 95
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I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

07.10.2025 23:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5678    ๐Ÿ” 1638    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 124    ๐Ÿ“Œ 67
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Update from the war zone in Portland.

07.10.2025 23:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14298    ๐Ÿ” 4382    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 915    ๐Ÿ“Œ 303

Well, USA that right to bear arms to prevent tyranny and dictatorship is working out very well. Not.

07.10.2025 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 127    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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I forget-- who controls the White House, Senate, and House?

07.10.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12828    ๐Ÿ” 3667    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 852    ๐Ÿ“Œ 267
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This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

07.10.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20837    ๐Ÿ” 7946    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1053    ๐Ÿ“Œ 518

You know who never turned the military on American citizens? Every president this country has ever had.....except ONE.

07.10.2025 02:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 822    ๐Ÿ” 206    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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The Minister of Propaganda with a Christian Cross around her neck spreading lies! Goebbels would be proud.

06.10.2025 18:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 258    ๐Ÿ” 141    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 48    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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WATCH โ€” @whitehouse.senate.gov : โ€œWhat became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?โ€

AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ

07.10.2025 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12227    ๐Ÿ” 4580    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1098    ๐Ÿ“Œ 442
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Jimmy Kimmel has an idea to improve POTUS' sad approval numbers and 77% of Americans agree!

07.10.2025 17:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
What happens when ยฃ47 billion disappears from Britainโ€™s economy?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy What happens when ยฃ47 billion disappears from Britainโ€™s economy?

What happens when ยฃ47 billion disappears from Britainโ€™s economy? youtu.be/tFwmfxMP1hs?...

Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take ยฃ47 billion out of the UK economy โ€” mostly by cutting benefits for migrants and those with mental ill health. That isnโ€™t prudence. Itโ€™s managed decline.

07.10.2025 06:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 174    ๐Ÿ” 78    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

07.10.2025 02:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9008    ๐Ÿ” 2855    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 207    ๐Ÿ“Œ 105
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Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families โ€” and weโ€™re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

Weโ€™ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Letโ€™s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

06.10.2025 19:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14060    ๐Ÿ” 7702    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 708    ๐Ÿ“Œ 463
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I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

NEW: For the last several months, I have written and spoken regularly about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. This is not something I ever envisioned for myself โ€” and it is certainly not something my ancestors envisioned for their great grandchildren.

06.10.2025 21:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8628    ๐Ÿ” 2877    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 165    ๐Ÿ“Œ 81
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Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

06.10.2025 23:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22993    ๐Ÿ” 14805    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 771    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1010
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History is totally repeating its self. After 80 years, we have learned from history, what we have not learned from history.

06.10.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 172    ๐Ÿ” 91    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Detention of flotilla activists 'matter for Israeli government', says No 10 KEIR Starmerโ€™s spokesman has said that the detention of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters is โ€œa matter for theโ€ฆ

' KEIR Starmerโ€™s spokesman has said that the detention of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters is โ€œa matter for the Israeli governmentโ€. '

Four of those activists are Scots.

www.thenational.scot/news/2552184...

06.10.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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The RepubliKKKans Have Let All
This Happen,Starting With Letting
Chump Be Their Candidate, To
The Failed Impeachments........

06.10.2025 12:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 523    ๐Ÿ” 264    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

Imagine being branded โ€œdomestic terrorists โ€œ for caring about the welfare and health of your fellow Americans!
Wow!๐Ÿ˜ฎ

06.10.2025 16:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 56    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Trumpโ€™s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Letโ€™s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

07.10.2025 01:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20803    ๐Ÿ” 5107    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 588    ๐Ÿ“Œ 158
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Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do โ€” hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

06.10.2025 20:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14195    ๐Ÿ” 5878    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 456    ๐Ÿ“Œ 336

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