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Historical Fiction author writing in the medieval period. I love Scotland and its fight for independence. Also hiking, gardening, and my Westie. (I do not accept messages in Chat) You can join my mailing list and receive a free novel at @jrtomlin.com.
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Illinois governor, hero. puppy assassin, zero. www.jefftiedrich.com/p/illinois-g...
RFK Jr. is a clear and present danger. From the people who know: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
At least 50 National Guard with long guns around Audi field and Navy Yard metro station as I leave the Washington Spirit soccer game. Free DC.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Your state gets a military occupation! And your state gets a military occupation! And yours! And...
Scottish independence hub officially opens in Prestwick www.thenational.scot/news/2542939...
Further, if it were really a matter of large bills being counterfeited, stop accepting large bills, which would not require banning ALL Scottish currency. It is a slap at Scotland and Scots, not a necessary step.
Is he ill? Hiding in Florida?
Britain’s toxic press is the real driver of division in this country www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
Scottish island’s £10m observatory rises from the ashes in style www.thenational.scot/news/2542877...
Even with a medical background, you can't diagnose children with “mitochondrial challenges” (which is not even a recognised medical term) by walking past them at a distance. 🤪
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders wants RFK Jr. under oath. He’s demanding a special Senate hearing on the CDC disaster RFK Jr. helped create. Go Bernie!
Exactly!
This is far-right terror. End UK Gov appeasement now. 'Five people have been arrested at a protest in London where a group of masked men attempted to enter a hotel housing asylum seekers on Saturday. At about noon, two groups marched to the Crowne Plaza in Stockley Rd, London, and a group ..[1/3]
If Republicans really think there is a national emergency to justify the tariffs, why don’t they just pass them in Congress like they are supposed to under the constitution. This is supposedly a national emergency, but they are gambling on the Supreme Court while doing nothing?
BBC's double standards laid bare by Palestine and far-right protests www.thenational.scot/news/2542766...
Help Talking-up Scotland tell the truth about Scotland (especially about its biased media) Prof. Robertson cannot continue doing this without our help so if you can, please do. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talki...
Scottish drug deaths fall again and BBC Scotland deliberately lie in an effort to reverse the actual trend and mask the English figures revealed as an massive understatement talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/08/31/s...
The values of the government of Florida are the values of the third reich. The values of the Ku Klux Klan. They demand an erasure of all other races, all other peoples, all other creeds. They will demand all others be made legally subordinate, as they already have done to trans folks.
💥Florida Senate District 15💥 SPECIAL ELECTION! TUES 9/2 Get your vote on for: LaVon Bracy Davis! Every vote matters! Let’s do this! #ProudBlue #OneV1 #ResistanceUnited
We can do better for this #furry baby with reposts to find her a foster before she’s euthanized @nycacc.bsky.social ! JUDY NEEDS YOU! Her life depends on you! She hates Florida politics too! DeathSantis is a tyrant! She wants to live anywhere but there! Pls repost her! URGENT ‼️
This is actually the one thing Trump is doing that I am fine with. It has always really been a Department of War. Why not call it what it is and always has been?
While some of the anti-immigrant 'protesters' (actually violent bigots) in Scotland are Scots, most are members of Britain First, etc., bused in from England.
I'm up for that
Oddly enough, I do not cheer on the slaughter of children. That would be you, you Zionist monster.
Chicago Mayor Johnson (Well done, sir!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-i3...
It is exactly what Hitler did in Germany, 'other' the hated group until they are no longer looked at as human beings. But what it does is turm them into monsters.
🏴🏴🏴💙💙💙 Saor Alba
They blame it on Scots notes being 'counterfeit' as though England does not have counterfeiters as well.
Precies dit!
Zionists are racists and murderers.
This is an example of an individual who has COMPLETELY lost his sense of empathy ‼️👇 Justifying the murder of a 6 year old girl, this is the definition of dehumanization, in Nazi Germany we saw similar stuff You're more than welcome to report her profile here - @tessa678.bsky.social
Chicago cordially invites the Mad King to go fuck himself www.jefftiedrich.com/p/chicago-co...
Wetherspoon bans Scottish banknotes across hundreds of pubs There is a simple solution. Ban Westhersppon Pubs from where you go. There are plenty of better pubs out there than this chain. www.thenational.scot/news/2542947...
Tour #Scotland #Summer travel video Blog of a road trip drive West on A977 route and #Alloa road through #Kennet on #ancestry, #genealogy, family #history visit to Clackmannan in #Clackmannanshire. #Gaelic: Clach Mhanainn means Stone of Manau tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2018/07/tour...
Most of my life I’ve seen crazy people with signs saying UN Out of US!, and sadly now I have to completely agree with them.
my post here in norwegian says i think maybe the UN headqarters need to move to another country fairly soon
the US, as host country, is expected to facilitate travel for officials of all countries wishing to visit the UN headquarters.
They claim the same about me just because I support his redistricting bill and don't attack him at every turn. He isn't even running for the position at the present, and if he does, I will support AOC against him.
@LePapillonBlu2 Maya We are living in the dumbest timeline in human history. 😳
CHICAGO…
ANGRY protesters who descended on a Falkirk hotel which they believed to house asylum seekers were met by hundreds of anti-racism activists on Saturday ... www.thenational.scot/news/2542872...
Agree
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP8A...
And that still will only put Westminster in an uncomfortable position to continue denying it. It may well take mass demonstrations and even work stoppages. Just my opinion, obviously.
Sorry if my reply sounded sarcastic, but that is my reaction. No, saying 'vote for us' does not mean that the SNP is against independence. The route to independence is proving a rocky one but getting there will at the least require a majority of people *voting* for indie parties not polls or MSPs.
Looks terrified.
The BBC's parroting of a genocidal state’s lies isn’t balance -- by @owenjones.bsky.social www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
The SNP should absolutely not ‘tool up for dirty fight to death with Reform UK’. It should focus on its demonstrable and many strengths talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/08/30/t...
Peter Thiel is the delightful person who thinks that women should not even have the right to vote.
And, @johnwenger.bsky.social, in case you have not figured this out, a majority of MSPs from SNP alone or of various independence supporting parties will *not* give a referendum or independence so your argument does not even make sense.
No, it implies that the SNP is acting like a normal political party. If people want to vote split, that is up to them. No party is going to tell voters to do so.
this week in stupid: August 30 edition www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-week-...
BREAKING: Yemen’s Houthis have confirmed that an Israeli air strike killed the prime minister of the group’s government in the capital Sanaa aje.io/9b4j4f
A federal appeals court has ruled that US President Donald Trump had no legal right to impose sweeping tariffs on almost every country on earth
I do not know any political party that officially tells voters to go out and vote for someone else. Expecting it of the SNP strikes me as ridiculous. There is also the fact that recently the Green leadership showed itself to be considerably less than trustworthy. We will see if this one is better.
How many political parties do you know that tell voters, please go out and vote someone else? I would appreciate your pointing them out to me.
You're right, although I object to the word 'excuse'. The Green leadership was at fault for the collapse of the Bute House agreement and some people rightfully chose not to vote for them. Let's see how their actions in the coming days and they may earn back the votes they lost.
Who's Afraid of the Farageist Wolf? www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/whos-afrai...
Trump Throws PUBLIC FIT As Court Drops BOMB On His Tariffs🚨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDZA...
Sen. Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, we hardly knew ye.
To save you a click— “Showrunner” is the name of the AI company. The person behind it is Edward Saatchi, whose last job was making content for Oculus for Meta. Which is not a job that exists anymore. Anyway this looks horrific
"While many were created by users...Reuters discovered that a Meta employee had produced at least three, including two Taylor Swift “parody” bots." Related: I hate how "parody" gets used as a get out of jail free card by unfunny writers and people who steal likenesses and copyrighted material
These age verification laws are in effect a lock-in that means we only can use Meta products, or from companies that will follow their economic model, and the idea of an open source open protocol solution is impossible. It’s all about combining state and corporate power.
If you are an author, the chances are Anthropic has stolen your work. A settlement is being reached in one of the class action suits against them. I suggest going to Authors Guild to check how to take part in the award or join in other suits. authorsguild.org/news/ai-clas...
Fuck Netenyahu, murdering bastard, i hope he rots in eternal hell.
Apparently recent 'protest' in Dundee I think fact is seems they were not local folks..no one knew them...likley bussed in & we will see a lot lot more in the coming months...Britnats' attempt to stoke up violence in Scotland etc...there's an election coming up!
That's exactly what I suspected. There may have been 1 or 2 locals, but almost all were a bused-in bunch of thugs.
BREAKING US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit AFFIRMS lower court ruling, holds, 7-4, that Trump DOES NOT have emergency powers under IEEPA to raise tariffs more TK storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Meet the groups supporting refugees in Scotland amid a rise in threats www.thenational.scot/news/2542144...
Trump team promises to 'honor' another notorious Confederate leader www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Page One in Miami. @miamiherald.com
The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.
Kim Jung-un, eat your heart out.
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Hard to avoid the conclusion that the BBC - whether by accident or design - is increasingly a footsoldier for Farage
The BBC seemingly determined to see Farage win the 2029 general election. Below could give us some idea why...
Israel declares Gaza City a ‘combat zone’ and suspends aid ceasefires www.thenational.scot/news/2542569...
Websites that are pimping Walmart are now off my list of sites to use.
10 positive stories from my 30 years of working with refugees www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
'All of us have a responsibility to debunk myths targeting refugees' www.thenational.scot/news/2542469...
These are the descendants of the English who celebrated the slaughter of 50% the French population out of conviction that France should belong to them, so... changed? Maybe...
Who promotes 💀Reform more in Scotland - GB News or the BBC? (MSM Monitor)
The UKs Minister for Extraordinary Eyebrows, Alastair Darling, famously made a big deal about Scotland being *DUMPED OUT OF THE EU*, if they voted for independence and the Scottish £ currency was doomed to failure. 11 years later and that argument hasn't held up well. 3/7
Good News: The SNP Scottish Government is scrapping peak rail fares!
Scotland gives England 1.5 billion unaccounted for, but supposedly has a 'deficit'.
Scotland’s net exports of electricity to other UK nations in 2023 amounted to 15.9 TWh (Terrawatt-hour is a unit of energy which represents one trillion watts of power used for one hour.) and worth £1.5billion. theorkneynews.scot/2024/03/30/s... All we need to do is fit a meter after independence.
Rest ma case
BREAKING: The BBC won't be sacking Rylan Clark because its presenters are only forbidden from expressing political opinions that are unreasonable, such as objection to genocide x
The pettiness and cruelty are the point.
Dear England. 'O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion' As a people the English uou have changed into a strange lot.
How long did 'terrorists' Palestine Action get locked up for criminal damage? Why do we have Two Tiers?
An Independent Scotland would be one of the Richest Countries in Europe.
Bumper apple crop at Kellie Castle. Amazing colour and taste.
www.thenational.scot/news/2542791...
Thanks!