Brendan Traynor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

From Kinlochleven , Scotland

[Brendan Traynor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @Billygamble]

@Raised_OnCeltic I heard that this morning, they sneaked out the back door as they had bottled it!

[Ali Walker @AliWalker24]

Extraordinary night in downtown Boston.

Brazil, Morocco and Haiti fans + the Tartan Army moshing to NO SCOTLAND NO PARTY.

Only the World Cup.

[Being Scottish @BeingScots]

On this day in 1692: The Massacre of Glencoe took place in the Scottish Highlands. 38 members of the Clan MacDonald were brutally slaughtered by government troops they had hosted. Many women and children fled into the mountains, only to perish in the merciless grip of winter.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

This is what oligarchy looks like:

Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, spent $290 million to elect Trump.

Since Election Day, Musk became $548 billion richer while his companies (SpaceX & Tesla) paid $0 in federal income taxes last year after making $13.7 billion in profits.

[ScotNews @indyscotnews]

From #LiveOnTheFly

[Craig Murray] "The point I want to get over is the fact that Scotland continues to be economically throttled by England. We always say we are the only country in the whole world that ever discovered a lot of oil and got poorer.

But Scotland has more oil, always did have more oil than Norway. And yet the people of Norway are massively rich and Norway has a Sovereign Wealth Fund in the trillions of dollars. Whereas the people in Scotland, the ordinary people in Scotland, are amongst the poorest people in Europe.

We produce far more energy than we consume in Scotland. It's all exported to England. We get nothing for it.

[Randy] What?

And yet we pay literally the highest retail energy prices in the whole world. Professor Alf, give us a more, a more developed, if you like.

[Prof Alf Baird] So we are, as you say, the poorest country in north-west Europe. Yet at the same time we have enormous resources. We have enormous resources of oil and gas, renewable energy, agricultural, fisheries and so on. Aggregates, the biggest quarries in Europe.

So we have enormous resources and wonderful tourist product as well. The most significant tourist destination in the UK after London. So Scotland has enormous resources. So we have to then try and understand why we have a colonial balance sheet.

So there's an enormous leakage of wealth and resources, and particularly over the last 40 - 50 years. So the situation is pretty dire. And I've estimated that the loss of wealth, the loss of GDP is at least 100 billion pounds a year to Scotland. Scotland would be about 100 billion pounds a year richer if it had access to and control over its resources." @LiberationScot @ScotSalvo

[Brendan Traynor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @Billygamble]

@maryeilmicdom Looked like a shoulder to shoulder challenge to me.

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

Ireland is sitting on a surplus of €24bn.

UK is sitting on a black hole of £22bn.

Just saying.

https://t.co/26TiICBzsZ

[Forgotten Football Clubs @_forgottenfooty]

What Jimmy Johnstone could do opens up a whole new discussion on ball control.

My favourite story about him is that he would train with his dad’s mining boots on to hone his skills.

Here he is with Celtic in 1967 tormenting Real Madrid.

[Brendan Traynor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @Billygamble]

@FionaDrane @theiaincameron Barra sprung to mind immediately

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

Nobody does it like Scotland fans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👏

(@RalphGoldmann)

https://t.co/neXpePFvuE

[Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 @arthistorynews]

Image fees - EXCELLENT news: the National Galleries of Scotland no longer claim copyright in digital images of historic artworks. These high-res images are therefore now in the public domain, and free to use. 🧵

[HermitageAcadPE @HermitageAcadPE]

Results in from Balloch XC!! Great performances all round!! S1 Girls - 1st&2nd. S1 Boys - 1st&2nd. S2 Girls - 2nd & 3rd. S2 Boys - 1st & 3rd. S3 Girls 1st & 3rd. S3 Boys - 2nd & 3rd. Congratulations to all 😁😁

[HermitageAcadPE @HermitageAcadPE]

Balloch Cross Country.
Well done S1 Boys 😊😊😊

[The Irish at War @irelandbattles]

#OnThisDay 1916 James Connolly was taken from the State Apartments in Dublin Castle, taken to Kilmainham Gaol, tied to a chair & executed. Before he was shot Connolly said to his wife Lillie,
“Hasn’t it been a full life Lillie, and isn’t this is a good end?”
#Ireland #History

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

Average pay offer for nurses.
Scotland - 7%
England - 4.75%
Wales - 4.75%

Average salary for nurses.
Scotland - £36,641
England - £33,384
Wales - £36,636

Which party is responsible?
Scotland - SNP
England - Conservative
Wales - Labour

This is important context. Please share.

[Peter Geoghegan @PeterKGeoghegan]

Truss is *deep* with Heritage Foundation, an outfit that has done more than almost any other to push Trumpism

Yesterday Truss was out in DC speaking at Heritage

Last year Heritage paid Truss to give its ‘Margaret Thatcher memorial lecture’.

Heritage also paid for her to travel to the autocrat friendly International Democracy Union

And who funds Heritage? Kochs, Scaifes and a host of US dark money donors
https://t.co/B8bciCHnK3

[Dr Gordon Caldwell @doctorcaldwell]

On the bonnie banks of Loch Leven, litter picking.

Visit and take your rubbish home!

[APRS @APRScotland]

The Celtic Rainforest, cup and ring marked rocks and Hill House – the celebrated Arts and Crafts masterpiece designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret MacDonald.

All part of @glasgow_kat most recent Green Belt Blog.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/JbHSHQopm0

[joycemcmillan @joycemcm]

Hi @Scotrail. I am in a barely heated section of a 3 coach train between Helensburgh & Edinburgh, a journey of more than 2 hrs. Not only is the train cold, but there is no functioning toilet at all. This is disgusting, & the train not fit for purpose. What do you suggest?