ProScot

Sadly leaving "my" Toronto 🇨🇦 this pm.
Takeaways: since #Trump the national cohesion & pride of being #Canadian is amazing. My other ½ in #Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 feels our #Scots heritage everywhere.

In 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 divided to hell. Far right loons strutting like castrated ostriches.

@snp.org It's time.

Police investigate Reform UK over 'electoral law breach' in key by-election

Police are investigating claims Reform UK broke electoral law in campaign material for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election

Heading up the sodden road for Finland film screening at Nairn Community Centre 2.30pm. Still a few tix. Also Eden Court Monday 7pm - Q&A with filmmaker & local lad Gavin Hanigan back specially from Helsinki. Details lesleyriddoch.com/events

Maybe it'd be best to adopt either or both of the two best tried & tested push-backs against a racist bully like Trump:

1) Laugh at him, make jokes about him, skewer him with ridicule & satire;
2) Ignore his idiotic ramblings totally.

No self-admiring bully likes any of that.

Maybe it'd be best to adopt either or both of the two best tried & tested push-backs against a racist bully like Trump:
1) Laugh at him, make jokes about him, skewer him with ridicule & satire;
2) Ignore his idiotic ramblings totally.

This is overt racism. Full stop. There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released.

Where's the tent, and the the three vans full of uniform officers?

Well said.

Stark difference between Peter Mandelson and Nicola Sturgeon police home searches Officers erected a forensic tent outside of the former first minister's home, did Peter Mandelson get the same treatment?

www.thenational.scot/news/2583434...
And she was innocent

‘A stain on our history’: outrage after Trump shares racist video about Obamas as White House attempts to brush off the post – live Former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes slams Trump for posting racist video on Truth Social; Karoline Leavitt says criticism is ‘fake outrage’

Bang on the money:

“Let it haunt Trump and his racist followers that future Americans will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history.”

Trump is determined to be remembered as a 'great man'.
His curse is that he won't be.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

What the Crackdown Has Done to Minneapolis Children

Trump’s campaign of retribution is hitting children the hardest.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Well, at least China has long got rid of the traditional practice of binding the feet of aristocratic girl babies, so that in adult life they were able to show their wealth & status by having to be carried everywhere.

I'm so excited for this weekend.

It's hate Vs hope.

Let's get Hannah Spencer elected! 💚🙌🏼

Public ownership of water is the only way to deliver security, efficiency, investment and value for money 37 years of privatisation has been a disaster

Public ownership of water in England would mean no dividends to pay, £85bn paid since privatization.

Cost of borrowing would be around half, guaranteed by govt.

Reduction in consultant fees, don't need so many.

Simpler regulation, no shareholders to appease.

Result: more investment, lower bills.

Water should be a Human Right, not a privatised resource to make already ultra-rich even more mega-rich.
How could any normal human being with any human conscience disagree with @premnsikka.bsky.social here?

Fortunately, here in Scotland, our water is still publicly owed.
So - continue to vote SNP?

I can't stop thinking about what Bezos has done to the Washington Post. But I also don't know why I & anyone else is shocked. I went undercover in an Amazon 'fulfilment centre' in 2013 and saw first-hand exactly who Bezos is.

We have all been SO naive.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

To speak frankly, if I may, any month that Ms Leavitt assigns as black, white, green, yellow, turquoise ...
Clearly, Ms Leavitt has no idea.

Well, terrible!
But never mind.
We'll set up Parliamentary Commission!
Or a Royal Commission!
And the judge we appoint will be bound to come to our view in the end.

Well, neither former UK PM Thatcher nor US president Reagan was of anything like so base as the level of depravity as current POTUS.
And I do hope that anything I've posted here on Bluesky (or elsehere) has never been "elevating this sick, twisted, incompetent, dysfunct moron" called Trump.

Possible test for a pro-Scottish vote in May:
For a candidate who comes to your door, just ask:
Whit can gae up a lum doon but cannae gae doon a lum up?
If correct answer, it's worthwhile asking about their policies.
Otherwise: Maybe just a Brit-Nat pro-Westminster stooge. So ask them accordingly.

An image featuring a photo of Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and Prince Andrew at a social event. Layered over the bottom of the photo is a social media post from an account named Amber Woods. The text of the post reads: "Zero 'illegal criminal aliens' in the Epstein files so far. Just billionaires. Royals. CEOs. Politicians. Funny how that works."

Makes you think, huh..?

BREAKING: Mandelson quits Labour

Zack Polanski, "If I was working with other politicians I'd want some obvious demands"

"A wealth tax on multimillionaires and billionaires"

"Proper action on the climate crisis"

"Proportional Representation where people's votes actually count"

Monarchy is such a ridiculous system in the 21st century

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic ‘STATE SPONSORED TORTURE’ - the UK’s shocking IPP Scandal

“This isn’t North Korea we’re talking about - this is state sponsored torture in THIS country - happening right now”

youtu.be/yo27emO72g8?...

Two journalists, Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, were arrested in the United States while covering events in a public space, reportedly detained by federal law-enforcement agents during a reporting assignment. They were not interfering: they were doing their job.

I remember a time (1950s, 60s, 70s) when the UK Sec of State for Scotland was Our Advocate in Westminster, fighting for Scotland's interests.

But that was aeons ago, pre-Thatcher.

Since then, the Scottish Secretary (whether Tory or Labour) has been unequivocally Their Man to Undermine Scotland.

I remember a time (1950s, 60s, 70s) when the UK Sec of State for Scotland was Our Advocate in Westminster, fighting for Scotland's interests.

But that was aeons ago, pre-Thatcher.

Since then, the Scottish Secretary (whether Tory or Labour) has been unequivocally Their Man to Undermine Scotland.