Yep
Still there
@marilynlaverty.bsky.social
Lives in Scotland, loves nature, gardening, travelling to Europe and visiting family in Australia. Strongly support Scottish Independence
Yep
Still there
Let me be the first person to say it Zohran Mamdani for president 2028 youtube.com/shorts/p_iQZ...
08.11.2025 17:35 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 2Swifts have declined 70% since 1994.
They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites.
A ยฃ35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings.
The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it.
Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.
As of today I have been a Wikipedia editor for 20 years
๐งตof my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
Here in Scotland my young granddaughter was excited to tell me about how pleased she was about Mamdani's election win, and why.
Yet this Labour cabinet minister claims never to have heard of him. Out of touch, or simply avoiding having to comment?
Hegseth, "You are not our enemies. You are our allies. You are Obi Wan Kenobi. You are our only hope"
08.11.2025 18:27 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 18 ๐ 1Trump Quietly Dishes Out More Tax Breaks to Rich Investors While Slashing Food Aid for Millions www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...
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08.11.2025 14:32 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Great and demoralizing assessment
08.11.2025 18:38 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew
Then came the backlash. Legal threats. Palace sources told journalists not to speak to him
Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers.
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...
It makes no difference to us here in ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ..
Or ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ for that matter..
Support your right to choose next May via democratic mandate
The bombshell report from the UNโs human rights expert on the Occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, says that the government lied about spy flights over Gaza being about hostage rescue, that the UK played โa key role in military collaboration with Israel."
24.10.2025 21:24 โ ๐ 146 ๐ 54 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1Sir Keir Starmer has been specifically named in a UN report for complicity in Israel's genocide.
The report states that the UK government played "a key role in military collaboration with Israel... a collective crime... with detailed knowledge and cooperation in the destruction of Gaza." ๐งต
#Scottishindependence
08.11.2025 07:05 โ ๐ 37 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Of all the bullshit takes youโre going to see today, this is the peak of the dung pile.
07.11.2025 15:44 โ ๐ 66 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 27 ๐ 1Trump also just released the guy who lied to the FBI about the Bidens taking bribes.
He has ties to Russian intelligence โ and Trumpโs businesses.
Again: The law does not apply to them.
newrepublic.com/post/202897/...
It won't even be in the news up here.
08.11.2025 10:02 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Itโs a curious dark witchcraft that still has 30% of the British public enchanted with Farage, a man who appears to engineer disaster in order to proffer further disaster as a remedy. Like a national munchausen's by proxy.
08.11.2025 08:43 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Have to say.. very tired of this now. We all know Brexit is a shitshow. Nothing is better. No one is happier.
No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.
โThe SNP isnโt a threat to the Security of any Nation I want to be part ofโ
โLabour's attempts to brand the Scottish National Party a threat to the UKโs national security is a drastic escalation of Labourโs anti-independence rhetoric, argues Adam Ramsayโ
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
In New Jersey, a single mother struggled to figure out how to feed her two young sons with $50. In Oklahoma, a 61-year-old woman questioned whether driving to a food pantry was worth the gas money. And in Colorado, a woman grabbed food from a Walmart dumpster.
Richest nation in human history
07.11.2025 11:52 โ ๐ 7586 ๐ 2402 ๐ฌ 188 ๐ 174October 2025 had the highest number of Israeli settler attacks since we began tracking them in 2006. One in every five Palestinians that Israeli forces killed so far in 2025 across the #WestBank was a child.
October 2025 had the highest number of Israeli settler attacks since we began tracking them in 2006.
One in every five Palestinians that Israeli forces killed so far in 2025 across the West Bank was a child.
(OCHA)
Wow!
08.11.2025 14:01 โ ๐ 4018 ๐ 835 ๐ฌ 75 ๐ 56#Unabhรคngigkeit ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
07.11.2025 23:04 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 22 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1If this evidence ever sees the light of day, I want prosecutors, judges, and juries to see it, but I have absolutely no interest in viewing any of it.
07.11.2025 18:46 โ ๐ 11361 ๐ 3484 ๐ฌ 620 ๐ 181I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
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