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@JAMESJO88457532 It’s obvious innit. Wan o’ thae wee arra peepul 🤪

@heraldscotland The morons who vote SNP, don't care about him protecting a known nonce. Resign Swinney.

'Why are the SNP likely to win another election, despite being soaked in scandal and shiftiness?' || Kevin McKenna 👇 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴

Tesla received billions in government loans, tax credits and subsidies, making Elon Musk the world's richest person. The public? No equity stake, no profit-sharing, no guarantee of affordable access. My working paper with @rodrikdani has now been published in Industrial and Corporate Change. It explores the conditionalities—profit-sharing, reinvestment requirements, knowledge transfer—that can ensure industrial policy delivers public value, not just private wealth. [LINK IN NEXT POST]

The President of the United States woke up this morning and posted a 150-word personal attack on Bruce Springsteen. Not on Iran. Not on the tariffs crashing global markets. Not on the recession warnings. Bruce Springsteen. There is a standard psychological tool called the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. It has 20 items scored on a scale from 0 to 40. The cutoff for a diagnosis of psychopathy is 30.  The average person scores around 4. The average maximum security prisoner scores 22.  A panel of eminent psychiatrists assessed Trump before his 2024 sentencing in New York. He scored 36 out of 40.  The 25th Amendment exists precisely for this. Section 4 allows the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president unable to carry out his duties.  It has never been used. In any normally functioning democracy, the bar would be far lower. Most leaders in that position resign themselves. Instead, this one is on Truth Social at 7:58 AM calling a rock legend a dried-up prune. America is fighting a war it cannot exit in Iran. Markets are in freefall. Allies are making alternative plans. And the man with the nuclear codes is writing concert reviews. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

This is the same guy who said it wouldn’t matter if self-ID caused a “slight spike” in the murders of women.

Thames Water ‘close to deal that would spare it Ofwat fines until 2030’. Anything given to TW can't be denied to others. No pressure points to end sewage dumping, cash extraction, customer fleecing. One law for us, another for corporations and capital. theguardian.com/business/2026/…

1820 Radical Uprising: Captain Mitchell to Lord Liverpool “The severity of punishment, which must be harsh - would quench all thought of patriotic pride & Radical feeling among the disaffected Scots.” The plan was to draw out the Radicals using agents-provocateurs & disrupters & liars for the England trading as the “British State” & hang, behead & transport them. This is yet another massacre and what the did to put down the Scots and you never hear about it in your School history. Why? - to contain Scotland through generational amnesia so you don’t know who you really are and what has been done to our nation.

💊 15 years ago, @TheSNP made prescriptions free in Scotland. 💪 For as long as the SNP is in government, we will always protect free prescriptions. 🗳️ On May 7th, make it #BothVotesSNP.

Heartbreaking, cruel, despicable, and utterly outrageous: the American-Israeli aggressors have attacked the Pasteur Institute of Iran — the oldest and most prestigious research and public health center in Iran and the entire Middle East, founded in 1920 through an agreement between the Pasteur Institute of Paris and the Iranian government. This is not merely another war crime committed as part of an illegal war; it is a barbaric assault on basic human core values.

We need a mass world coalition to stop Israel’s genocidal march throughout the Middle East and the lawless terrorism and apartheid within its own borders. Boycott, Divest, and Sanction is the recipe to stop further violence. It’s Dr Martin Luther King’s strategy of peaceful change. We must deploy it en mass and create a coalition of those who we may not agree with politically on other fronts but find common ground on this rolling justice. It has awoken the moral center in most people.

The Scottish Government is viewed as doing a better job on business and the economy than the UK Government, an exclusive major poll of Scottish business leaders by The Herald reveals 👇 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴

Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes. $1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. Four to six times normal activity. One hour before the announcement. Simultaneously, $192 million in crude oil futures purchased at the same time. They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades. Trump claimed he spoke to an Iranian official to negotiate the moratorium. The Iranians said that person doesn't exist and the conversation never happened. This is not the first time. It has happened multiple times. He says something. The trade goes on. He says another thing. The market moves. But whatever you call it — they are laughing at you and they are laughing at me while they do it. Hunter Biden sold a painting and Washington lost its mind. These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world. I think we are dramatically underreporting how much money is actually being made here. This isn't politics anymore. This is a financial operation running out of the White House.

Blackrock have 677 registered entities at Companies House UK, possibly more, many of the addresses are from the Cayman Islands. Blackrock has 80% ownership in 3 British Freeports, Felixtowe, Harwich, and Thamesport, they are moving into critical public infrastructure. Blackrock also has 4.7% shares in Palantir. Palantir have 24 contracts with key UK public institutions, the NHS, the Ministry of Defence, the polices forces, the Cabinet Office, the DLUHC, and Coventry City Council whose contract is the 24th and was arranged by Keir Starmer this year. The UK is being privatised. …te.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=Black…

This is Henry Walter Wooten, who is serving 35 years in Texas for possessing 100g of weed, but this "pastor" pedophile who abused a 12-year-old girl was released after serving 6 months in Texas. This is what institutional racism is.

One of the foundational myths of the British State is that the 1707 union was voluntary and a 'partnership' of equals. Yet Labour/Con/Lib/Ref refuse to recognise a mandate for a referendum. So, as a partnership, how do Scots exercise their right to self determination?

I knew Dr. Kamal Kharazi from my time in cognitive science. He has a PhD in industrial psychology from the University of Houston, and he used his connections to build something like an NIH for cognitive science in Iran — funding research, founding institutes. Today, his home was bombed. His wife was killed. He is critically injured. Either this was indiscriminate — bombing residential neighborhoods — which is terrifying. Or it was targeted — assassinating an 80-year-old academic-diplomat in his home — which is also terrifying. There is no good version of this story. And now I'm thinking about my other colleagues still in Iran.

Labour Party is outraged at suggestions they are in cahoots with Reform in Fife and accuse the FM of lying. Picture shows Lab Leader Ross in a huddle with his Reform pals at a Fife Council Meeting cobbling together an amendment to thwart the SNP Group. They’re shameless.

Trump and Israel just dropped bombs on a livestock farm near Tabriz, Iran. Animals are now buried under rubble. This is happening across Iran — they’re destroying food source after food source. This is not accidental. They want to starve civilians into submission.

"The European position is not sufficient. Statements, concerns.. mean nothing to Israel. Unless we see punitive acts, sanctions imposed, Israel will not change.. 11,000 sanctions on Russia in less than 2mths, not a single sanction on Israel even when it committed genocide"

👉NEW VIDEO -- How Starmer helps Trump bomb Iran 'back to the Stone Age' Watch full film -- 👉youtube.com/watch?v=662BdM…

I am looking forward to the Seder service this evening on the eve of Passover I would like to make it clear that I - and VERY MANY British Jews - am sickened by the false allegations of antisemitism made against Polanski and previously against Corbyn In both cases these vile false allegations are made because these men rightly oppose the actions of Israel against the Palestinians