Mrs Cellophane...
08.10.2025 14:28 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@alvinford.bsky.social
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.
Mrs Cellophane...
08.10.2025 14:28 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A 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.
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
07.10.2025 23:22 โ ๐ 24011 ๐ 7400 ๐ฌ 4434 ๐ 1558A Fresh Start with Independence
www.gov.scot/publications...
scottdworkin
Speaker Mike Johnsonโs press conference was cut off the air by MSNBC, after he once again lied about Obamacare subsidies. Host Ana set the record straight: โJust to make sure we donโt offer misleading information ... There is no access for undocumented immigrants to get Obamacare....โ
Here Starmer
Do you know what really is "Un-British?
Supporting a genocidal regime
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 ๐ 50369 ๐ 19180 ๐ฌ 1575 ๐ 1127Brutal.
07.10.2025 21:07 โ ๐ 3946 ๐ 767 ๐ฌ 87 ๐ 21In a nutshell.
08.10.2025 05:29 โ ๐ 6060 ๐ 2438 ๐ฌ 95 ๐ 95I 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...
Update from the war zone in Portland.
07.10.2025 23:09 โ ๐ 14298 ๐ 4382 ๐ฌ 915 ๐ 303Well, USA that right to bear arms to prevent tyranny and dictatorship is working out very well. Not.
07.10.2025 08:31 โ ๐ 127 ๐ 25 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 1I forget-- who controls the White House, Senate, and House?
07.10.2025 21:14 โ ๐ 12828 ๐ 3667 ๐ฌ 852 ๐ 267This 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.
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 ๐ 822 ๐ 206 ๐ฌ 30 ๐ 17The Minister of Propaganda with a Christian Cross around her neck spreading lies! Goebbels would be proud.
06.10.2025 18:20 โ ๐ 258 ๐ 141 ๐ฌ 48 ๐ 10WATCH โ @whitehouse.senate.gov : โWhat 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* ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ
Jimmy Kimmel has an idea to improve POTUS' sad approval numbers and 77% of Americans agree!
07.10.2025 17:22 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What happens when ยฃ47 billion disappears from Britainโs 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 isnโt prudence. Itโs managed decline.
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...
Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families โ and weโre making that crystal clear by giving you the data.
Weโve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.
Letโs start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):
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 ๐ 8628 ๐ 2877 ๐ฌ 165 ๐ 81Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social
06.10.2025 23:00 โ ๐ 22993 ๐ 14805 ๐ฌ 771 ๐ 1010History 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 ๐ 172 ๐ 91 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 7' KEIR Starmerโs spokesman has said that the detention of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters is โa matter for the Israeli governmentโ. '
Four of those activists are Scots.
www.thenational.scot/news/2552184...
The RepubliKKKans Have Let All
This Happen,Starting With Letting
Chump Be Their Candidate, To
The Failed Impeachments........
Imagine being branded โdomestic terrorists โ for caring about the welfare and health of your fellow Americans!
Wow!๐ฎ
Trumpโs 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. Letโs 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 ๐ 20803 ๐ 5107 ๐ฌ 588 ๐ 158Journalist 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.