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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 random
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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! 😩

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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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

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

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

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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 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

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

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

bobjmsn, to history
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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 random
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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

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

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

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Normal Island News

The US has decided only Israel can ratify Palestinian statehood
It's only fair its mortal enemy gets to decide this

The United States has vetoed Palestine’s bid for full UN membership, stating the UN is not the venue for recognition of a Palestinian state. Their representative clarified that Palestinian statehood is something that can only be ratified unilaterally by Palestine's mortal enemy: Israel.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/the-us-has-decided-only-israel-can?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

bobjmsn, to LGBTQ
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Lovely documentary about the lived experience of being a trans woman.

https://hugz.online/@Melissabeartrix/112221614083159525

fkamiah17, to Life
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It's raining. Again.
Bugger.

bobjmsn,
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@fkamiah17 No! Really?

bobjmsn, to history
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Photo of the Day

to save Ukraine

The Congressional delay in providing aid to Ukraine echoes an old story

When President Franklin Roosevelt sought Congressional approval to aid Britain in the opening days of World War II,he faced staunch opposition from Republicans in Congress,too

Nations were conquered, armies were destroyed and millions of civilians in Asia and Europe were killed before Congress finally passed the Lend-Lease Act in March 1941

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-fb9?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Photo of the Day

What happened to Bill?

On this date in 1966, Bill Tromp piloted an aircraft on a night bombing run near the city of Vinh in North Vietnam.

Bill located his target near the mouth of a river and dropped his bomb load.

He then radioed his wingman — the secondary aircraft on the mission — not to make his bombing run because he had spotted surface-to-air missiles in the area.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-971?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Normal Island News

New York Times confirms it does not count Palestinians as humans
It explained its controversial memo was backed up by science

There was inexplicable controversy this week when the New York Times sent a memo to its staff, reminding them of standard mainstream media guidelines regarding Israel and Palestine.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/new-york-times-confirms-it-does-not?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Harry's Last Stand

"In 1937, I despised the empire, the monarchy and the whole rotten system that held it together."

"The Harry’s Last Stand project which I worked on with my Dad for the last 10 years of his life was an attempt to use his life story as a template to effect political change by making the left remember and celebrate their working class heritage."

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/in-1937-i-despised-the-empire-the?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

bobjmsn, to humanrights
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Good Law Project

Facing prison for holding a placard

Trudi Warner held up a sign reminding jurors they could decide a verdict according to their conscience and now could face up to two years in prison. We’re helping her fight back.

https://goodlawproject.org/trudi-warner-climate-jury-facing-prison/?utm_source=Good+Law+Project&utm_campaign=9ffcc4c4ff-EMAIL_GaggingJuries_2024_04_17_04_36&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_db5adb9599-498098f916-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=9ffcc4c4ff&mc_eid=029f2a5337

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Photo of the Day

the eternal flame

An ancient symbol of remembrance and national gratitude.

Among religions, a sign of the eternal life of the soul of the departed.

Jacqueline Kennedy’s desire for an eternal flame at the grave of her husband arose on Sunday, November 24, 1963, two days after his assassination.

The idea came to her as she accompanied his body to the Capitol where it would lie in state in the Rotunda.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-31d?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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