Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
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view profile on Bluesky Freethinkers United (@freethinkersunited.bsky.social) reposted
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
A PM?
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
Alan Dershowitz in the WSJ basically saying all men, women and children in Gaza are terrorists and hence legitimate targets. Supports the scorched earth approach of the IDF then questions the number of dead. Horrific. 💀
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Clinton named. Trump named.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Next one raped then charged when she reported Epstein to police. Boyfriend murdered. 👀
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Housing Minister. Treasury next door. Quick call...
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
"This is a welcome investment that’s been made by the Norwegian government,” Swinney said. “It demonstrates the strength and the capability of the BAE yard in Govan and the strength of the skills within Scotland." John Swinney @keirstarmer lied ... again... about... Him in Parliament.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Another describing his she was groomed and raped at 14 and was too ashamed to tell Anyone.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Smooth...
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Now Virginia Roberts Guiffre family members talking. The pain imposed by monsters on these poor children....
Talking-up Scotland (@talking-upscotland.bsky.social) reposted
We're working really hard on your behalf today, as every day, to tool you up for debate with doubters but lack of support threatens that in the near future.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Outstanding. Or is it out standing?
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
The Epstein Rape and Child Sexual Abuse Victims are speaking. It is horrific what he was allowed to get away with. Industrial scale rape. Many of them 14-17 years old. Many of them sued the USA only to find out that the paedophile had immunity.
Prof Bob Davis (@rokewood.bsky.social) reposted
an absolutely shocking story of a system forgetting how to care. Resignation-level imv. & both my parents had great NHS care in their last days. The patient’s widow spoke with such dignity & composure on BBCRadioScot #bbcgms this morning. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Do not clone DEAR LEADER!
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
As housing minister, she should have got a top team from Hmrc to check her arrangements before implementation.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
Orange Walks spouting hate about Catholics. Graham Linehans nasty tweets. One needs five armed police to apprehended. One Gers a police escort.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I respect this guys stated motives but to say we're all united behind his flag...
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
CTE opening event @sstatradeunion.bsky.social present. Vice President, President and AGS. We wish this endeavour every success.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Ps... Auld Willie is alright.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Fomenting civil war.
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
This is the most important news of the day. Sending Texas guardsmen to Illinois is an intentional, unprecedented provocation. It should be immediately challenged in court. Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking news and updates on this developing story. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
Thirtieth anniversary of Braveheart. Love how it triggers so many into frothing about how inaccurate it is while everything Shakespeare is held up as inviolable art....
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
Looking forward to the launch of the Centre for Teacher Excellence at University of Glasgow. Representing @sstatradeunion.bsky.social as Vice President with President Dreon Goold. Maybe see old pals Jenny Gilruth and especially the polymathic @rokewood.bsky.social and @physicsdrew.bsky.social
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
Please don't laugh. I didn't. 🤣
Talking-up Scotland (@talking-upscotland.bsky.social) reposted
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Freethinkers United (@freethinkersunited.bsky.social) reposted
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Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Plenty if right wingers at Celtic. Lawwell Nicholson Wilson
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
😅😅😅😅😅
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
A dangerous playbook endorsed by Peter Thiel. Demands we use God and Anglo American Conservatism to govern. Points out we need the Hebrew Bible as an ethical basis but it's fine cis there are checks and balances against rogue leaders.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Keir Starmer is appealing to imaginary Mail readers. He is urinating on an electric fence and being surprised at the shock. He is wasting a mandate. A big mandate. The biggest mandate in a generation. Scotland needs out.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Yiu should read @neilmackay.bsky.social today.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey you! 😁
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
I am reminded of David Torrance and his assertion that a referendum could cause the Ulsterisation of Scotland. Yet here we are, once again the British State accommodates and condones othering and Ulsterisation as a panacea for its failures.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
“Northern reticence, the tight gag of place And times: yes, yes. Of the 'wee six' I sing Where to be saved you only must save face And whatever you say, you say nothing.”
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
And when you see the raw racism if the two adult women and their three ferally conditioned children attacking NHS workers because they are black….the horror is here.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
A much needed exercise in bravery. To even use that word demonstrates how far we have fallen
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
@neilmackay.bsky.social Tomorrow’s letters page…Green Ink Gang assemble….
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
“Where did my ball go? That was a beautiful drive!” “In the rough to the right sir!” “Call out the National Guard”
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Wee hint Elon Cost of living precariousness driven by greedy billionaires has a lot to do with this
Brian Goldstone (@brian-goldstone.bsky.social) reposted
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Josiah Mortimer (@josiah.writes.news) reposted
ICYMI: Heathrow Airport has been unveiled as a "major sponsor" of Reform UK's conference this coming weekend. Reform says "big businesses flock to the Party they perceive to be most likely to form the next Government." (Heathrow is majority owned by state-owned sovereign wealth funds - inc. Qatar)
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
That era was magnificent, same album also has production by Was Not Was!
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
Meiselas: Xi Jinping and Modi and Putin and all these world leaders are gathering in China, and they're laughing. You know when Donald Trump says the world was laughing at us — the world was not laughing at us before. The world is quite literally laughing at us right now.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
The behaviour of Labour over the last few months has shown they only abide by one value: media influenced reactive politics. They only want power for the sake of it.
Duncan Jones (@manmademoon.bsky.social) reposted
Anyone here even aware that this happened on Sunday? Literally a Russian attack on the head of the EU. Barely a whisper. Europe, you in danger, girl. Get your shit together. You may not think you are at war, but Putin's Russia sure does. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Trevor Stables 🇨🇵 🔶🏳️🌈 (@trevor0257.bsky.social) reposted
@paulbrand.bsky.social Disgraceful how much coverage #itv are giving to Farage/Reform with 4 MPs. #libdems on 72 seats & being ignored. #libdems have more councillors and Councils than Reform. Farage & Reform have had more coverage in the last 7 days than #libdems have had in the past 20 years!
Mark Nixon (@fatbadger442.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
They *are* setting the political agenda. Yvette Cooper has spent more than a decade making it clear that she is an anti-immigrant racist. Liz Kendall has always been clear about her disdain for those in poverty and her wish for disabled people to have more difficult lives. 1/2
Mark Nixon (@fatbadger442.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Starmer's support for white supremacy, at least in West Asia, has been clear since the beginning of his political career. Wes Streeting has been very open about his self-hating anti-LGBTQ+ attitudes. This is who they are. 2/2
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
It is without doubt the most crack handed and infuriating window ever. And Lawwell….
Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@gemmaclark.bsky.social) reposted
Becoming more and more convinced schools shouldn’t be posting kids online. Especially when it’s for inspectors’ benefit more than anything else www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey! More respect for the PM of England!
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Too many lickspittles
John Swinney (@johnswinney.bsky.social) reposted
We have scrapped peak rail fares across Scotland, for good. It means cheaper, fairer fares - and more money in your pocket on your commute. ✅
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.bsky.social) reposted
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Neil Mackay (@neilmackay.bsky.social) reposted
Next up: the Prime Minister fellates the English Defence League www.thenational.scot/news/2543204...
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
@celticfc.bsky.social If you think Lawwell’s interview tonight has helped, you are in bigger trouble than you know. Perfect example of making a big club small. No ambition, no plan and no hope of improving. I’m 61 and have seen three good windows. Lennon around 2010 Postecoglou’s first and second.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
@celticfc.bsky.social have sold Hoopy the Huddlehound in a late deal.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
ITV feature on Reform local councils. Main points. Once in power they... Cut jobs Start removing g pension provision Take down Ukraine flags Want to stop bet zero but demand the net zero money for fracking
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
Watching the Sky News report interviewing an ethnic man in an English Town. Two adult women and their children calling him racist names with one of the adults boozing on the street Mr Finch of Reform from the same town, “calling people protesting illegal migration and protecting their women is bad
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
Why doesn't Russia invade America? Doesn't need to when Tam head Trump is invading his own cities.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
Putin, Xi, Modi all being pushed together by the banal stupidity of Trump. Putin purring at Trumps tarrifs on India suiting his new world agenda.
Neil Drysdale (@neildrysdale.bsky.social) reposted
It's 40 years today since a little cricket team from Fife travelled to Lord's and emerged as champions. I was there when Freuchie won the Village Cup in 1985 and it remains one of the greatest exploits in Scotland's sporting history! www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/531...
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Starmer dumps more pledges than Mr Sheen
Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov.bsky.social) reposted
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Any politician taking money from abroad is compromised.
Monster Slayer Quinn (@gypsy--1639.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
Match Summary: "B 0-0. b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0, b 0-0..."
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Smuggling people into the country so you can shout at them. So Angleterre…😆
BladeoftheSun (@bladeofthes.bsky.social) reposted
The man who has put up the most England flags in Manchester was caught in 2016 trying to smuggle 4 Vietnamese people into the UK. Now he is out of prison hanging up flags. Any old grift.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
I would have sympathy if Labour did not get in bed with the same press Barons in Scotland for the same purpose
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Savile Row tailor
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Wonder if they get a medal with Oak Leaf cluster?
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
RFK Jr. likes to claim that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD). So I wonder if he’d like to explain how the rates of ASD diagnoses in the U.S. have kept going up when thimerosal was removed from all childhood vaccines in 2001?
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
Mia Farrow (@miafarrow.bsky.social) reposted
Network of hospitals and cancer centers halt enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it will no longer provide funding . www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The customers must have some unmet need.
waferbaby (Adept) (@wafer.baby) reposted
Why call them "tarrifs" when "the land of the fee" was right there?
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait…are they hanging themselves from lampposts to show how staunch they are?
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
…you will be getting bullied to fix it on two years time.
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
And demand to see the research that backs the development. And ask for the time, staffing and resources required for the development. And demand assurances that the learning activities will be resourced. Cos if anyone asks you one of these requirements is not being guaranteed…
Paul Cochrane (@mrdissent.bsky.social) reply parent
Why? To build CVs and get the next promotion. Not for the kids. And so the schismatic fault lines continue to widen, because if anyone asks you to do curricular development, you need to determine the length of the course and treble it to decide how much time is required