Peter Arnott

Peter Arnott

@peterarnott.bsky.social

A playwright without a theatre is just a poet with a split personality. For permissions etc, Brennan Artists. https://www.brennanartists.com/

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"In the occupied West Bank, more than 500,000 Israeli settlers can vote. They live among 3.1 million Palestinians who are subject to military rule and do not have the right to vote." An immediate democratic remedy suggests itself, does it not?

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"Suicidal provocation of Russia while our armed forces are at their most woeful state since WW2". Mate, the Russian army is currently pulling T-55's out of storage and losing ~1,800 men a day in foot and motorcycle assaults that achieve nothing. This is "poke the bear" nonsense.

dmitryopines.substack.com‘Poking the Bear’: From Putin to TommoRejecting the world’s dumbest idiom.
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social

Well you can't get much clearer than that. Restore are Putin stooges.

The extent of Andy Burnham's ambition, it woud seem, is to secure for England what we already have in Scotland.

Alex G@alexgrigelis.bsky.social

I’ve co-signed @labourlewis.bsky.social’s letter to Andy Burnham calling for public ownership of water. We already have ‘public control’. It's failed. £85bn+ extracted by shareholders, sewage in our rivers, bills going up. We need public ownership. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/la...

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I was having conversations with journalists just a few months ago about whether democracy was doomed. Look at this year: Orban defeated. Vukic defeated. Bolsonaro Jr defeated. Trump heading to likely defeat in midterms. That’s the beauty of democracy. Voters can respond. Don’t count it out yet.

It CAN be done...

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

The Student List had no party machinery. It operated through university assemblies, protests and hiking between cities & towns. They had 2% of national TV political advertising airtime vs 93% for Vučić. This is one of the most remarkable grassroots democratic victories in modern European history.

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That's what it all goes back to The crux of all of this hell going back to 2012 Lie, birth certificates, and the policing of American identity

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

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Weird how this keeps happening

Mike Elk@mikeelk.bsky.social

A Brazilian union member complains that Meta blocked her union's account for supporting Lula (Subtitles)

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Bill Clinton: "I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace's bathroom"

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The Writers Guild on Musk blocking releasee of the documentary "Musk": "A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, and social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration over our news and media threatens democratic discourse."

This.

Neil Mackay@neilmackay.bsky.social

Torture, terror and extrajudicial executions: the Dirty War in Northern Ireland and my search for truth For decades I’ve investigated collusion between British military intelligence and terrorists One question has always remained: given the crimes committed how can Britain call itself a democracy?

"I have in my pocket a piece of paper with the names of 293 card carry ing communists working in the State Department"...and no, you CAN'T see anyof their names because so there nyah nyah nyah...

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking a federal court to immediately prevent California from counting the ballots of 20,000 people the Trump administration has accused of being noncitizens who illegally registered to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It doesn't matter that Voter Fraud doesn't ACTUALLY happen...what matters is you can actually use it tp undermine "real" elections...Ask anyone living in an autocracy how it works. They'll tell you. (Before they "fall£"out of a window.)

How may cases of noncitizen voting occurred in past elections? Senior Fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick breaks down the myths that surround noncitizen voting, revealing that cases are extraordinarily rare and never impacted the outcome of a single election.

It doesn't matter if a stolen election doesn't ACTUALLY happen. What matters is using it to undermine ALL elections...so that no result is ever accepted ever...

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

I'm back doing some video content! This one on noncitizen voting. Check it out!

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Good advice on Scotgov Comms too...really astonishingly bad...

Neil Mackay@neilmackay.bsky.social

London does it, Manchester does it, Liverpool does it. Wales and the West Midlands are about to do it. So why is it only in Scotland that the media loses its mind over plans to bring buses into public control? Answer: because it’s an SNP policy and the Scottish media has lost all sense of balance

That'll learn ye!

The National@scotnational.bsky.social

BREAKING: The UK Government has reportedly rejected John Swinney's plea for a new North Sea energy wealth fund to be ringfenced for the north east of Scotland The fund was announced as the Jackdaw gas field, off the coast of Aberdeen, was approved by ministers

This being packaged as "new" is face saving spin for Putin. (And Trump.) Zelenskyy has been calling for a freezeon thee lines for a long time.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

KILMEADE: Would you accept peace deal that freezes everything the way it is now, where you keep 75% or more of your country? ZELENSKYY: Yes. Right now, we have to freeze, & this is real way to end this war. Freeze and stop. This is minimum that we need from Russia. And we need security guarantees.

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If you only read the New York Times or watch CNN, you have no way of knowing this happened.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If you elected a Republican House and Senate on November 3, you're gonna get $5,000. And if we lose, you get nothing. You're gonna get nothing! If we lose, you get nothing. Make it a lot easier vote."

A man so demented he thinks being tested for dementia is a test of his IQ.

Matthias Eberl@eberlmat.bsky.social

The CDC defines the ability to correctly point to a bear in a book when being asked “Where is the bear?” as a key language/communication milestone for a 2-year old child.

One must never forget that this is a wholly selfish toddler. The explanation for his fealty to Putin may be kompromat...but I think it's just as likely that Vlad just plain scares him...because, like Don Corleone in Godfather 2, he can kill anybody...

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

⚡️Trump waives latest Russia sanctions amid growing Ukraine-US tensions. U.S. President Donald Trump issued a broad waiver of sanctions under the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act on Oct. 16.

He's so sentimental, so loyal to the memory of his friends...and not a selfish scared little shit in any way!

There is no honour among thieves.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Fox: Katie Zacharia did a series of interviews since that press briefing. However, it has not rehabilitated her in the eyes of Trump.

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MAGA and pro-Trump bots pushing Ukraine to surrender to Russia just three weeks before the US midterms suggest Trump's pro-Russian faction fears losing Republican control of Congress. This looks like a last-ditch effort to secure concessions for Moscow before its political investment loses leverage.

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The NHS Guidance on trans people in hospital will protect zero women but will badly harm trans people. What a hateful disgrace and will be remembered by future generations as a stain on us all.

As a writer I now have a rule of thumb...if I get an unsolicited email with lots of details of my life and career that really seems to care and understand my life's work...I KNOW it must be a scam, (generated with AI) and bin it immediately.

This is terrific.

Neil Mackay@neilmackay.bsky.social

Want to know who killed the British high street? Look to the gangsters of American private equity. They’ve plundered British retail companies and asset stripped our country. Right now they’re ready to offload Morrisons, PizzaExpress, Waterstones and even Poundland In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

My rule of thumb for spotting a writer-scam is as follows: if it appears to give a shit about you, your life and your work, it's a scam and to be avoided. No REAL agent or publisher gives a flying fuck at a rolling donut (as Kurt Vonnegut once said.)

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