Rob Gibson

Historian and land reform activist, trad music singer and Scottish indy campaigner

[Brand Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Scotland]

Next week, November 30, is St Andrew’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It’s a great chance to reflect on how Scotland comes together to make great things happen.

But who was St Andrew, and why is he Scotland’s patron saint? - https://t.co/Bb1c73HFYB

#StAndrewsDay #StAndrewsDay24

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[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Happy Thanksgiving week, everyone.
We've been spending the last few days addressing food insecurity across NYC.

Shout out to our supporters, small-dollar donors, & volunteers who make this happen and help us support similar efforts across the country.

I’m grateful ♥️ Thank you.

[The National @ScotNational]

BREAKING: Kate Forbes is to take on a new role as Scotland's 'investment champion'.

The Deputy First Minister said she will help Scotland 'work better, smarter and quicker'.

[Focus North @_focusnorth]

An unique opportunity has arisen to join @CommunityLandSc as a Finance Advisor.

This is a full time post, based in Glasgow or partnering locations in the Highlands or South of Scotland.

See below for more details:
https://t.co/rcXRjo4S0B

[First Minister @ScotGovFM]

First Minister @JohnSwinney congratulated Viewlands Primary pupils who helped named a new turbine that will power @AvivaPLC’s Pitheavlis HQ.

He joined CEO Amanda Blanc to officially open the turbine, demonstrating the opportunity to harness natural resources for energy needs.

[Gordon Macdonald SNP @GMacdonaldSNP]

Winter Flu and COVID-19 vaccinations are being offered to people who are eligible. It’s strongly recommended you get vaccinated if you’re eligible this winter.
https://t.co/Fj4drpIgTG

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is. The billionaire Scott Trust is preparing to push a core part of the Guardian over the cliff into the hands of speculators & profiteers

[Lorna Finn @LornaFinn]

These guys not ‘Scottish Labour’ then?

The mental gymnastics required for any of this to make sense is extreme.

🥀Labour in Scotland are taking us all for bams!

They all voted to scrap it! Every single Scottish MP.

[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

Delighted to be ⁦@avivaplc⁩ in #Perth for the inauguration of their wind turbine - named Aurora - which, along with solar panels, will help the site on its journey to Net Zero.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Why have the Guardian & Observer's journalists voted overwhelming to go on strike? I've attempted to summarise our concerns, the reports so far & why a Scott Trust board meeting tomorrow is a pivotal moment for press freedom & the future of journalism.
https://t.co/NHqmDYx24l

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The occupiers continue to attack regions across Ukraine. Currently, a rescue operation is underway in Kharkiv following a missile strike. So far, we know of 19 casualties. Dozens of strike drones attacked Zaporizhzhia, injuring a child. Odesa was also hit, with missile fragments falling and causing damage. And this is just one day of Russian terror against Ukraine.

Since last evening alone, Russia has launched nearly 150 strike drones, aerial bombs, and missiles, targeting over ten of our regions. Combat operations are still ongoing against aerial targets that remain in the air. I thank the defenders of our skies for the shoot-downs and round-the-clock work to ensure our people's safety.

These Russian strikes on Ukrainian lives can be stopped—with pressure, with sanctions, by blocking the occupiers’ access to the components they use to manufacture the means of this terror, by providing arms packages for Ukraine, and with a determination that must be unwavering.

[Ariane Burgess @ArianeBurgessHI]

📢From today, snares are banned in Scotland!🎉
I was delighted to introduce an amendment to the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill which secured the ban.

Thank you to @LeagueACS, @OneKindTweet, @ScottishBadgers, @ScottishSPCA and all campaigners for all your work.

[Neil Gray MSP @neilcgray]

If this transpires will leave us hundreds of millions short of £500m+ cost for directly employed public services. Means Scottish public services will be paying UK Treasury for UK tax rise. Also doesn’t cover contractors - GPs, pharmacists, social care & 3rd sector - so damaging

[Mhairi Hunter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @MhairiHunter]

Our recurring reminder that the Lib Dems are neither liberal nor democrats.

[Bernie Linnane 🏳️‍⚧️ @Berlinnaeus]

In the end, it wasn’t Conor McGregor who showed the world what it means to be a fighter. It was Nikita Hand.
#ConorMcGregorIsARapist
https://t.co/faaacycAFR

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

At the entrance to Kyiv's memorial park, a haunting sculpture depicts a very thin girl with a very sad look and a handful of wheat. Behind her stands a giant Candle of Remembrance of the Holodomor, a man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians.

In the aftermath of World War I, Ukraine was independent. However, in 1919, the Soviet Union forcibly annexed the nation. Ukrainians, yearning for self-determination, were seen as a threat to Moscow's imperial ambitions.

In 1932, not wanting to lose control of Europe's main source of grain, Stalin confiscated the grain-producing land from Ukrainian peasants and took all the grain, creating an artificial famine. The goal was to "teach Ukrainians a lesson" so they would no longer oppose Moscow. The people who produced the most grain in Europe were left without a crumb of bread.

The height of this horrific event was in the spring of 1933, when millions of Ukrainians perished from hunger.

My late grandfather was a child, only 9, during the Holodomor. He recounted witnessing people starving to death in the streets, or just collapsing, their bodies eventually collected and disposed of in mass graves. Both dead and those still dying. In rare moments when he'd open up about it, it was very clear that the event deeply scarred him for life.

To conceal the extent of the genocide, Stalin's regime erased evidence, executed census takers, and resettled russian populations in Ukrainian villages. For decades, the Holodomor remained a silenced history, buried beneath layers of Soviet propaganda.

The Holodomor at that time broke the Ukrainian resistance, but it made the desire for Ukraine's independence eternal, forever imprinting it in our DNA.

As russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine continues, the specter of the Holodomor looms large. Every fourth Saturday of November, we light a candle to remember the victims of the Holodomor. This year, I ask you to light a candle with us and share information about the bloody genocide of the Ukrainian people that is happening yet again.

[Alastair McIntosh @alastairmci]

@LorneOban I feel for Great Bernera.

[Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs @CzechMFA]

We remember the victims of the Holodomor, a tragedy inflicted by the Stalinist regime. Just as the resilience of the Ukrainian people could not be broken then, today's Russian aggressors will not succeed. Ukraine now stands with loyal friends who will support it in every way.

[Miranda Radley @radley_miranda]

An absolute honour to receive @theSNP Councillor of the Year award at the St Andrew’s awards dinner last night

I couldn’t do what I do without the support of the fantastic Team @AberdeenSNP