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#democraticsocialism #LGBTQally #transally #EU #independentScotland #antifascist #SOSNHS #FOSS
Male, retired. Equality for all, regardless of gender, colour or sexual orientation. Society without socialism is not society, but exploitation of the weakest. He/him Lives in Hawick, Scottish Borders bobjmsn@twitter.com
Header is a drone photo of my former home in Shetland.
Avatar is Aurora borealis over Loch of Voe Shetland

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bobjmsn, to history
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Photo of the Day

a lesson from the little drummer boy

His name was Jewett Curtis, a Vermont boy born in 1847.

When he was fourteen, he enlisted as a drummer with a New York infantry regiment.

The next year, on July 1, 1863, Jewett was one of 309 members of his unit to try, but fail, to hold the Union line on Oak Ridge, during the battle at Gettysburg.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-91e?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

bobjmsn, to random
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Harry's Last Stand

"I was determined to forge a path out of Poverty"
The working class battle to build a welfare state to prevent another Hitler.

Harry Leslie Smith’s The Green & Pleasant Land tells a true story about the lives of working class people who lived during a time of political and economic extremities.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/i-was-determined-to-forge-a-path?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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The Tale of Two Gynecologists

This is a bit long, and I've talked about this a lot lately, but it's something I'm thinking about a lot in the wake of so much hatred of female Healthcare. When my female troubles got bad enough that I finally talked to my doctor about it, he referred me to a gynecologist. I had already had several ultrasounds and an MRI at this point, and she had put me on some oral contraceptives for several months, (which made sick to my stomach no matter what I did) and had just done another ultrasound. She greeted me with "Well, you're really messed up inside, Honey.", which already had me pretty stressed out. Then told me I would probably need surgery to figure out exactly what was going on. She then asked me if I wanted children, and I said No. I had taken my husband with me to the appointment for moral support, and she glanced over at him, and then talked to me for 5 minutes about how many women my age could still have children, and I could definitely consider it, and that they would do everything they could to make sure I could stay viable. They could freeze my eggs if I had to do a hysterectomy, just on and on. She probably asked me directly 4-5 if I was sure I didn't want kids. Finally, I said, "Ma'am, my husband got a vasectomy over a decade ago, we are absolutely sure we don't want kids." After hubs had found me crying on the toliet, because my period was late again, he went to his doctor and said, "Hey doctor, I'm thinking about a vasectomy." The doctor gave him a pamphlet to read, and made him an appointment. The whole thing was done in a few weeks.

Anyhow, she finally referred me to a gynecological surgeon, and I was not looking forward to dealing with this again, and was just generally terrified of having surgery for the first time. I met with this woman and she was so efficient and practical. It is the longest doctor appointment I've ever had, since this surgery would be exploratory, she went over every possibility of what could happen when she was inside. She did a thorough exam, she went over all the scans that I had, and explained why she thought this needed done. Then she said she would like to put in a Mirena IUD during surgery. She said, "You're in pain half the month, and there's no reason for you to have a period if you don't want to have kids. You'll have some erratic bleeding for six months, but by a year most women have a very light or no period at all, there's no reason for you to needlessly suffer if you don't end up needing a hysterectomy."

It's interesting to me still, that one doctor was so focused on what my body could do, and another so focused on how I felt. I came out of the first appointment feeling scared and confused, and the second feeling heard and cared for. Feeling valued as a person and not a baby maker made the surgery much easier to go through, and the Mirena has been great btw. Women don't have to needlessly suffer.

bobjmsn,
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@RickiTarr Thank you for sharing this; it is such an important subject, especially now when women are being given less and less control over their own bodies. We truly live in a sick culture when half the population has less control over their sexual lives than the other half!

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Harry's Last Stand

Concentration camps for British asylum seekers is a fascist solution to the refugee crisis.

In June of 2018, Harry Leslie Smith predicted he would be dead before Christmas. He was 95, and his body was tired from old age and the relentless work schedule he undertook for the last five years of his life to do his Harry's Last Stand tour, "to not make his past our future."

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/concentration-camps-for-british-asylum?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

bobjmsn, to random
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Normal Island News

US police capture Hamas leader at US university with a bicycle
They stopped the 73 year old woman by shoving a bike in her face

In dramatic developments, police officers in Washington state have arrested the leader of a Hamas terror cell: 73-year-old presidential candidate Jill Stein.

The arrest of Stein is understood to be the most significant moment in the war on terror since the killing of Osama Bin Laden in 2011.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/us-police-capture-hamas-leader-at?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

bobjmsn, to history
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Photo of the Day

What is a dog for?

He was a stray.

A small mixed-breed dog with a short tail who needed a home and a friend.

And he found both when Robert Conroy, an infantry recruit undergoing basic training on the fields of Yale University, took him in.

Robert named the little dog "Stubby" and he became the unit mascot.

Stubby accompanied these young men out on the field.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-0f5?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

bobjmsn, to random
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Harry's Last Stand

A Greatest Generation is being born for the 21st century from the carnage of this immoral war, in Gaza.

Each generation has a moment that defines its time and place in the history of human development

My father's working class generation had greatness thrust upon them by the Great Depression which left them unemployed, starved, without access to medical care and living in precarious housing.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/a-greatest-generation-is-being-born?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

bobjmsn, to history
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Photo of the Day

the disappointing son

It wasn’t Thomas Stevenson who disappointed.

It was his wayward son, Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped.

This is an age-old story.

Thomas was born the son and grandson of Scotland’s most celebrated civil engineers.

Doing what was expected of him had propelled Thomas to the pinnacle of Scotland’s scientific community.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-bfe?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

bobjmsn, to random
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Harry's Last Stand

I don't know if we are too late to stop the construction of fascism as the dominant ideology in our own countries, anymore.

The weather this April felt worse than we deserved. It probably wasn't because even T.S. Eliot called it the cruellest month over a hundred years ago. Still, there is a sharp edge to April 2024.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/i-dont-know-if-we-are-too-late-to?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Normal Island News

American university students arrested for embarrassing Israel
This is definitely not cancel culture

In super-exciting news, the people who have unwaveringly backed Israel’s genocide from the start have proven they’re on the right side of history by sending masked cops to arrest students and professors who were committing the terrorist act of peaceful protest.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/american-university-students-arrested?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

bobjmsn, to history
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Photo of the Day

laugh or cry?

The Vietnam War, race riots, political assassinations, student strikes, conflict in the Middle East, Soviet tanks in Czechoslovakia.

There was so much trouble.

And all of it would land in the lap of the man chosen to be the next president in the November election.

And hardly anyone could confess to loving either Richard Nixon, the Republican candidate, or Democrat Hubert Humphrey.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-190?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

bobjmsn, to history
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Photo of the Day

1933… what a year!

The US unemployment rate peaks at 25.6 percent in May, with more than 15 million job-seekers out of work.

The agricultural sector of the US economy is in free-fall.

Farmers are more deeply in debt than any other economic sector.

Over-production has driven agricultural commodity prices down to 1890s levels.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-9ff?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

fkamiah17, to USpolitics
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I think the New York Times is becoming a Normal Island all of its own.

bobjmsn,
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@fkamiah17 Peace: lets send them lots of weapons! 😩

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Harry's Last Stand

Today it is concentration camps for asylum seekers looking for sanctuary in Britain. Tomorrow it will be you if you are poor, marginalised or homeless.

Five people drowned in the English Channel last night. They were refugee claimants who sought safety in Britain. The news media labelled them migrants because the term is a pejorative.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/today-it-is-concentration-camps-for?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

bobjmsn, to history
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Photo of the Day

a great American

Mark Twain met Ulysses S. Grant at a Civil War veterans’ reunion in Chicago in late 1879.

They became good friends, and a few years later, Twain published Grant’s acclaimed autobiography.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-e70?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

bobjmsn, to random
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Scottish Green party.

Many young trans people are rightly concerned about the effect of the decision by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to pause puberty blockers on their healthcare journey.

This afternoon the Minister for Public Health, Jenni Minto, laid out the work that the Scottish Government is doing to resolve the situation and to respond to the recent Cass report.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1782794153081864538.html

bobjmsn, to Scotland
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We Own It

Scottish party leaders: Commit to fight for our NHS

Open letter to all of Scotland's party leaders

To add your name:

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/scottish-party-leaders-commit-fight-our-nhs

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Normal Island News

World stunned as Israel fails to evidence the thing it made up
It could not support its allegations against Unrwa

In an astonishing turn of events, Israel has failed to provide evidence to back up its allegations against Unrwa for the UN’s final report... because that evidence doesn't exist. I know, my jaw dropped too!

Israel had made the totally plausible claim that 1 in 10 Unrwa workers are members of Hamas

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/world-stunned-as-israel-fails-to?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

bobjmsn, to random
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Link to current research on COVID.
h/t to @IPEdmonton

https://mstdn.ca/@IPEdmonton/112313695825998161

bobjmsn, to random
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Oh Jeremy Corbyn - the big lie

https://youtu.be/PXvaWz4gpTc?si=3t5Ff1OYEM8BQdjA

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Harry's Last Stand

If you are poor or working class mental illness will shorten your life by decades.

"My brother Peter, has been dead for over 14 years now. His death had a profound effect on both my dad and me. His death, along with my mum’s in 1999 was the catalyst for initiating Harry’s Last Stand. Now my dad, my mum and Peter are dead."

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/if-you-are-poor-or-working-class?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Normal Island News

Sunak has a solution to our problems: a war on disabled people
They are the cause of everything we used to blame on refugees
At a time when everything is unaffordable and the NHS is collapsing under a waiting list of 7.6 million and we are at the brink of World War III and the Tories can’t go two days without a sex scandal,the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has identified the solution to our problems: a war on disabled people

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/sunak-has-a-solution-to-our-problems?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Photo of the Day

The tyrant who threatens Europe.

August 8, 1939.

War will break out in Europe in four weeks.

And America, the behemoth, stands aloof, wrapped in the lazy slumber of isolationism.

Willfully blind to the threat fascism’s spread poses to its own democracy.

So, Winston Churchill, the visionary, spoke to the American people by radio on the gathering storm.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-2ff?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

bobjmsn, to history
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Photo of the Day

‘The world will fall to pieces.’

All the lands of the Spokane and Columbia River basins, covering 4,700 square miles, once belonged to the Spokane, a Native American group of about 2,500 people.

They had lived a semi-nomadic life there for more than nine thousand years.

In the warmer months, the Spokane roamed the region’s grassy lowlands

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-f45?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

bobjmsn, to random
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Harry's Last Stand

We have lost so much, including our democracy because capitalism insists that poverty is necessary for wealth creation

So much potential, so much happiness, so much living is lost through capitalism's insistence that poverty is necessary for wealth creation. We became the broken eggs for the 1% omelette of excess.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/we-have-lost-so-much-including-our?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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