GaryE1869
@garye1869.bsky.social
Twitter refugee. Maybe I'll find some of my old buddies here, although prob won't even post that much. Pro Indy and Scottish culture. Metal head. Walker of hills, grower of veg, occasional writer.
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INSANITY: As measles tears through West Texas — infecting hundreds, hospitalizing dozens and claiming the lives of two children — some state lawmakers are pushing bills to roll back vaccine requirements and expand access to exemptions under the banner of “choice.”
#Measles
#Measles
Push for Texas to weaken vaccine mandates persists as measles surge
Much of the outbreak is concentrated in the districts of Texas House leaders, including Speaker Dustin Burrows. The crisis appears to have done little to change support for “vaccine choice.”
www.texastribune.org
April 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
INSANITY: As measles tears through West Texas — infecting hundreds, hospitalizing dozens and claiming the lives of two children — some state lawmakers are pushing bills to roll back vaccine requirements and expand access to exemptions under the banner of “choice.”
#Measles
#Measles
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Elon, JD Vance and Marjorie Taylor Green out here babbling about Free Speech in Britain being under attack.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is *threatening Amazon* to get them to remove books that are critical of Golf-Cart Mugabe - a direct breach of First Amendment and obvious censorship.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is *threatening Amazon* to get them to remove books that are critical of Golf-Cart Mugabe - a direct breach of First Amendment and obvious censorship.
April 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Elon, JD Vance and Marjorie Taylor Green out here babbling about Free Speech in Britain being under attack.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is *threatening Amazon* to get them to remove books that are critical of Golf-Cart Mugabe - a direct breach of First Amendment and obvious censorship.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is *threatening Amazon* to get them to remove books that are critical of Golf-Cart Mugabe - a direct breach of First Amendment and obvious censorship.
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Don't be blind to your impact.
It's super dry conditions out there. Extensive wildfires have been raging in Galloway, Arran, and Assynt/Coigach, whilst muirburn continues in the Cairngorms.
Learn how to respect nature and communities better: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/lets-ke...
Please no fires!
It's super dry conditions out there. Extensive wildfires have been raging in Galloway, Arran, and Assynt/Coigach, whilst muirburn continues in the Cairngorms.
Learn how to respect nature and communities better: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/lets-ke...
Please no fires!
April 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Don't be blind to your impact.
It's super dry conditions out there. Extensive wildfires have been raging in Galloway, Arran, and Assynt/Coigach, whilst muirburn continues in the Cairngorms.
Learn how to respect nature and communities better: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/lets-ke...
Please no fires!
It's super dry conditions out there. Extensive wildfires have been raging in Galloway, Arran, and Assynt/Coigach, whilst muirburn continues in the Cairngorms.
Learn how to respect nature and communities better: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/lets-ke...
Please no fires!
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Flowers bringing some early season joy to the garden. Lots of spinach and kales getting picked in the polytunnel. Sent a few bags up to the Sunflower Pantry this morning and welcomed another new grower to the garden.
March 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Flowers bringing some early season joy to the garden. Lots of spinach and kales getting picked in the polytunnel. Sent a few bags up to the Sunflower Pantry this morning and welcomed another new grower to the garden.
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While working as national security adviser, I set up a group chat on an open source app to coordinate a strike in Yemen, potentially violating the US Espionage Act. Even worse, I also inadvertently included the editor of a US news outlet, who reported detail of the conversations.
March 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
While working as national security adviser, I set up a group chat on an open source app to coordinate a strike in Yemen, potentially violating the US Espionage Act. Even worse, I also inadvertently included the editor of a US news outlet, who reported detail of the conversations.
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![HEY PSST! ZOOM IN. [wee text] Labour's £5BN cut to welfare spending is "austerity by stealth" - Labour MP Clive Lewis, 23/03/2025](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uspcpbk6hkjkp3ulka2gqyp2/bafkreibdr5qwa7ui5jz6pnrsxtkvtdud3hcfcg45rhgmokdn3zq2sxn6si@jpeg)
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Less than 2 weeks ago
Trump's Director of National Intelligence less than 2 weeks ago
"Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such."
18 people were on the Signal group chat, including Tulsi Gabbard
"Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such."
18 people were on the Signal group chat, including Tulsi Gabbard
March 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Less than 2 weeks ago
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Story yesterday about support for charging Tuition Fees for University, is a complete misuse and mis representation of what data actually said. The 48% quoted a supporting tuition fees was in response to questions where free tuition fees were no longer available. www.ipsos.com/sites/defaul...
March 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Story yesterday about support for charging Tuition Fees for University, is a complete misuse and mis representation of what data actually said. The 48% quoted a supporting tuition fees was in response to questions where free tuition fees were no longer available. www.ipsos.com/sites/defaul...
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But then - this US regime is populated by stupid people
March 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
But then - this US regime is populated by stupid people
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Stupid of US regime to use Signal for conversations about military action - even if they'd not included a journalist in the group
Signal encryption is no defence against Israeli Pegasus phone hacking software - sold to multiple regimes
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Signal encryption is no defence against Israeli Pegasus phone hacking software - sold to multiple regimes
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist
In extraordinary blunder top Trump cabinet members added Atlantic editor to chat discussing strikes on Houthis
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Stupid of US regime to use Signal for conversations about military action - even if they'd not included a journalist in the group
Signal encryption is no defence against Israeli Pegasus phone hacking software - sold to multiple regimes
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Signal encryption is no defence against Israeli Pegasus phone hacking software - sold to multiple regimes
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Just a reminder, the EU has been operating a naval mission in the seas around Yemen to keep freedom of navigation open "at great cost" since 2008. A number of non-EU countries have contributed, including Ukraine... not the US though. I guess you could call that American free-loading. eunavfor.eu
March 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Just a reminder, the EU has been operating a naval mission in the seas around Yemen to keep freedom of navigation open "at great cost" since 2008. A number of non-EU countries have contributed, including Ukraine... not the US though. I guess you could call that American free-loading. eunavfor.eu
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Who can look at the state of the rampant tax free profiteering that goes on in the UK, and think that what we need to do is cut school meals for 6-7 year olds?
March 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Who can look at the state of the rampant tax free profiteering that goes on in the UK, and think that what we need to do is cut school meals for 6-7 year olds?
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Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.
March 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.
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I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year
March 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year
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A former director of Labour Friends of Israel (@lfisrael.bsky.social) endorses Trump’s genocidal plan for Gaza.
Astounding.
Astounding.
March 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
A former director of Labour Friends of Israel (@lfisrael.bsky.social) endorses Trump’s genocidal plan for Gaza.
Astounding.
Astounding.
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I Have to Agree and I Am A Huge Sports Fan….
March 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I Have to Agree and I Am A Huge Sports Fan….
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Fair piece:
"... after millions of pounds of public money, Nicola Sturgeon’s reputation has been dragged through the dirt for no reason. ... while vast industrial scale sums of money seem to have been money-laundered through the covid crisis with little or no inquiry or prosecution."
"... after millions of pounds of public money, Nicola Sturgeon’s reputation has been dragged through the dirt for no reason. ... while vast industrial scale sums of money seem to have been money-laundered through the covid crisis with little or no inquiry or prosecution."
Nicola Sturgeon, lessons and legacy bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/23/n...
Nicola Sturgeon, lessons and legacy
Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement that she was standing down next year came as a surprise to no-one. She, like a great many of her colleagues and peers, is giving up on politics to turn their at…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
March 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Fair piece:
"... after millions of pounds of public money, Nicola Sturgeon’s reputation has been dragged through the dirt for no reason. ... while vast industrial scale sums of money seem to have been money-laundered through the covid crisis with little or no inquiry or prosecution."
"... after millions of pounds of public money, Nicola Sturgeon’s reputation has been dragged through the dirt for no reason. ... while vast industrial scale sums of money seem to have been money-laundered through the covid crisis with little or no inquiry or prosecution."
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Rachel Reeves copied and pasted this from a Tory paper on deregulation from 2005.
Tthe impact of red tape costs could be 3 -4% of GDP, around £70 billion'.
Labour and Tories are neoliberals through and through.
From @privateeyenews.bsky.social
Tthe impact of red tape costs could be 3 -4% of GDP, around £70 billion'.
Labour and Tories are neoliberals through and through.
From @privateeyenews.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Rachel Reeves copied and pasted this from a Tory paper on deregulation from 2005.
Tthe impact of red tape costs could be 3 -4% of GDP, around £70 billion'.
Labour and Tories are neoliberals through and through.
From @privateeyenews.bsky.social
Tthe impact of red tape costs could be 3 -4% of GDP, around £70 billion'.
Labour and Tories are neoliberals through and through.
From @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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It is fast becoming so.
Is independence in the EU now an economic necessity for Scotland? bylines.scot/news/economi...
Is Independence in the EU an economic necessity for Scotland?
Labour’s hard right Brexit project is too toxic, even for Europe’s most extreme right-wing politicians
bylines.scot
March 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
It is fast becoming so.
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Republicans: after years of whining about dark-money billionaires puppeteering our political system, what do you have to say about Elon Musk buying the Presidency - and now the Wisconsin Supreme Court?
He's Not Like Us
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
www.youtube.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Republicans: after years of whining about dark-money billionaires puppeteering our political system, what do you have to say about Elon Musk buying the Presidency - and now the Wisconsin Supreme Court?