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Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
Scots to pay for a steel works, a national care service, an illegal dumps clear-up, and homelessness reduction in England, all out of a reduced block grant talkingupscotlandtwo.com/202…
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
We just learned more about Trump’s Venezuela oil deal, and here’s everything you need to know:
1. This deal is structured to hide the identities of people who stand to profit from it.
You don’t hide that unless you have a reason to. And the man whose firm Trump just bought a 35% stake in? Alejandro Betancourt, a Venezuelan billionaire who has faced several money-laundering investigations around the world.
2. Don’t expect cheaper gas anytime soon.
Experts have been telling us for MONTHS that oil production in Venezuela isn’t going to lower U.S. gas prices anytime soon. Betancourt’s company is able to deliver as much oil in a year as the U.S. uses in a few days. Anyone promising this deal will bring down prices at the pump is selling you lies.
3. If there’s a legal fight over this agreement, it has to go through a Texas court that Trump’s DOJ has repeatedly turned to for favorable rulings.
4. This deal creates a board designed to be shielded from oversight and accountability. Trump’s own Treasury Secretary wasn’t able to give Congress basic answers or audits when he testified about Venezuela just last month. But we should blindly trust them now?
So let’s recap: Americans aren’t going to feel relief at the pump. The identity of the people involved is conveniently hidden from us. And legal disputes go to a specific court that disproportionately rules in Trump’s favor.
Whatever you think American foreign policy towards Venezuela should be, Congress and the public deserve to know who’s involved and where the money is going.
propublica.org/article/trump…
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
Nazis fled to Argentina in 1945.
In 2026, they flee to the United States.
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
Flavio Bolsonaro will live in a mansion with 24 hr security and free healthcare on American taxpayer's dime, and it pisses me off.
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
Poor Jessie has only ever wanted to be loved and belong and it’s heartbreaking that she now needs to find a new home
Sadly, after three years in a home this darling girl has come back to rescue
Jessie was brought back to kennels in #Lincolnshire
1dogatatimerescue.org
#Skegness
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
They are going after everyone who gave support for the rescue on March 15 - even people who just took photos. We will hear the evidence against all 51 defendants for the first time today!
#SaveTheDogs #RightToRescue
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
BREAKING: MAGA provocateurs James O’Keefe and Cam Higby have been hit with FELONY charges in Minnesota!
They allegedly impersonated REAL voters, dressed up as Muslims and tried to manufacture an election fraud scandal.
The irony is absolutely staggering.
These are the same people who have spent years screaming about election fraud, and now THEY are the ones facing felony election-related charges.
You cannot make this stuff up.
Hold them accountable!
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
.@jonstewart consults his cartoonishly evil word generator to get to the bottom of Ramaswamy's attack ad featuring Amy Acton's mother
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
Whilst Reform are talking about Sharia Law again let’s look back when Nigel Farage claimed that there are ‘ghettos in the UK that are under Sharia Law.’
When questioned about it he lied saying he was talking about France & was unable to provide any evidence to back up his claim.
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
In case you are wondering why Jeffrey Epstein's best friend Donald Trump and his allies in the US and Israel are so invested in Bolsonaro and their circle never being caught.
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
Me: I need to cancel my AT&T service.
AT&T: May I ask why?
Me: I’m moving.
AT&T: Where are you moving to?
Me: Somewhere else. Why do you need to know?
AT&T: It’s required for documentation purposes. It’s part of our cancellation process.
Me: Well, it’s not part of MY process. I’m asking you to cancel my service, not help me move.
AT&T: I’ll need your new address to proceed.
Me: You know what? Forget I said I was moving. I’m not moving anywhere. I simply want to cancel my service.
AT&T: Can you provide a reason for cancellation?
Me: Absolutely. Please document that AT&T is nosy, intrusive, unnecessarily complicated, and apparently believes canceling a service requires surrendering my future whereabouts.
AT&T: …
Me: …
AT&T: Okay, your service will be cancelled.
Me: So you CAN cancel it without knowing where I’m going?
AT&T: …
WHY DO COMPANIES MAKE IT SO DIFFICULT TO STOP PAYING THEM? 😭
Sometimes you just want to cancel a service without being interrogated like you’re applying for witness protection.
I don’t owe a company my life story just because I no longer want to be its customer. 😂
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
MIKE JOHNSON: There's no drag at all
RAJU: No drag!?!?
JOHNSON: No, no drag at all. The president is doing events and having huge turnout. It's just like 2024. I'm telling you, the polls are wrong.
RAJU: Then why are you in these deep red districts?
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese exposes the systematic killing of nearly 300 journalists in Gaza — the deadliest conflict for the press in history.
Israel has hunted journalists, destroyed media infrastructure, and killed hundreds of their family members to erase the evidence of its crimes. Western media has largely stayed silent or adopted the occupation’s narrative.
This is mediacide. The witnesses are being eliminated.
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
Russell Brand has just told court that he couldn't get ONE single person to come defend him in court.
If found guilty of all 7 charges he will get 15-19 years and be eligible for parole in roughly 2040.
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
The only investment they will make in Scotland is for what England needs and wants. Hence its WMD base and upgrades and of course Nuclear. They desperately want to locate their nuclear power stations here……..and no doubt their waste.
Feeling quite underwhelmed by #Budget2026
For Scots £200M for Grangemouth already cancelled. Today £200M for the Acorn Carbon Capture project cancelled. We really get nothing back for our industries, for all the energy we provide to rUK.
A spit in the wind for pensioners help
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
Madeley pushing the "welfare spending is out of control" narrative again this morning.
As a % of GDP, welfare spending is lower than it was 10 years ago.
Facts don't matter any more. They've been replaced by opinions. Often ill-informed opinions from prats like Madeley.
@GMB
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
Shouldn’t ICE be shoving them to the ground, waving guns in their faces, cuffing them, and deporting them to El Salvador?
Child of Alba 🏴 retweeted
Six years ago, Yaxley Lennon harassed Byline writers Mike Stuchbery and Tim Fenton so badly that they eventually left the country. (He also promised to pay me a visit!)
Anyone condoning these kinds of tactics doesn't believe in a free press. It's a license for thuggery.
