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Such a hypocrite.

There may come a day when the BBC puts on air one of the other 29,999 headteachers currently estimated to be working in UK schools, but that day is not today

Looks like that "White van filled with men that will kidnap you" story that scared us when we were kids is now 100% true

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Good Morning ☀️🪻

Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings

Outrageous… a protester in LA quite clearly trying to bring down US National Guard helicopters with bubbles.. Pure evil.. what next.. a BBQ 🤷🏼‍♂️🙄😁

I feel safer already.

We still can’t get straight answers on why ICE agents are masked and refusing to ID themselves. On top of all that they appear to be lying about cause. Congress, do you see what’s happening? Don’t be silent! Call your Senators & Reps. Demand an investigation. ☎️ Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️‍🌈 Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.

Next week's bestseller 😃

#Books #BookSky #READ

He nailed it!

Hiding their faces, hiding their names by using pens to hold their pocket flaps up, hiding their names. ICE agents have “consciousness of guilt,” know they are committing crimes. They need to be unmasked, named, and charged #UnmaskICE

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

The Brexit mood music has changed. You can’t wang on about sovereignty and fish any more and expect people to care. Trade deals aren’t massively convincing either. People just don’t want hassle and higher bills. That’s all Brexit actually delivered. We’re very tired of the failure. (Letters, Times)

While Tories/Reform howl about the Brexit reset, just remember that Johnson’s dismal deal gave the EU favourable terms on fishing and made trading goods for us so much more difficult. So, if you want to talk ‘betrayal’, take it up with them. Most of us would rather fix the godawful mess they made.

Thank you Mark Cuban! Michael Woodruff

The Truth Of The Matter And They Are Not Bringing Jobs Back….

British scientists ‘over the moon’ with re-entry to funding scheme after losing out for three years www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Let’s just remind ourselves about Farage’s big meal ticket idea again. And no, this isn’t about how the Tories did it, this is just Brexit reality. And Farage would make the deal *even worse*. Pariah status, unreliable, ruined UK howling about immigration and moaning that everything is broken.

A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

On this day in 1909, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 8 Sep 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt and on the 22 Sep 1942 to Malý Trostinec (a Nazi German extermination site) where she was murdered. Her name was Ema Fleissigová

“He and his party have never run anything – a local council, a parish council. He’s spent a lifetime doing what he accuses others of doing, which is riding the political gravy train” Farage will take your votes and then take the piss. Don’t give him that chance. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

BREAKING: $1.4 trillion was wiped from the stock market today. The market is on pace for its worst April since 1932! Are you tired of winning yet?

AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

Without due process, this could be you. It could be me. It could be any or all of us. It doesn’t matter who you voted for. Or the color of your skin. You must understand what is truly at stake here. All tyranny needs to thrive is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

action.ciwf.org.uk/page/168942/....

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024. This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

THE song of 2025, courtesy of Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com, @indivisible515.bsky.social, Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke!

Trump punishing law firms that represent his “political enemies” demands far more attention! Trump is following the Nixon playbook open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...

💥 We’ve just launched European Movement Canada 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 …to rapidly build Canada & Europe closer together on all fronts. Video on it here —> vm.tiktok.com/ZNdeRmhEa/ Please share!

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This was posted as a full page paid advertisement in today’s New York Times