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This explains just why why increasing the wait for citizenship is so cruel and counterproductive. For people who may have already waited years in fear and uncertainty for an asylum decision, this extra wait is even more terrifying. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I never understood how Nazi ideology took hold amongst previously respectable Germans; now, I’m learning how vulnerable we are to US citizens doing unimaginable things to their fellow citizens - in this case ICE agents. Hitler had SS colluders. Trump has ICE, DOGE, MAGA. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

submitted 41 days ago • 44 comments

Today marks two years of brutal war in Sudan, which has taken countless lives and put the future of children like Syed on hold. Read his story: www.safepassage.org.uk/syeds-story

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent thread.

submitted 53 days ago • 21 comments

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

submitted 79 days ago • 33 comments

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

submitted 88 days ago • 145 comments

Full page ad in today’s New York Times:

submitted 95 days ago • 803 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 96 days ago • 3278 comments

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 98 days ago • 192 comments

Cutting the aid budget to play for defence feels like undercutting significant soft power in the hope of getting a defence spend Trump will like. Might be a necessary evil, but it’s an evil all the same: people make a terrible case for aid but it works in our self-interest. It’s not just altruism.

submitted 101 days ago • 32 comments

Well this is entirely normal behaviour not at all fucked up. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 111 days ago • 22 comments

This should be changed asap. If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

submitted 114 days ago • 194 comments

This is pretty spot on by @labourlewis.bsky.social. As @zoejardiniere.bsky.social pointed out on LBC earlier, there is something very Trumpian, and just generally sickening, about effectively live streaming people in distress for the entertainment of racists. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 115 days ago • 19 comments

LOL, yep, all day every day

submitted 123 days ago • 248 comments

Manchester currently has one of the highest numbers of people sleeping rough outside of London. As that number grows, we’re seeing a rise in referrals and no longer have any hosts available to take in single male guests. If you can help, please send us a message or email [email protected].

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

This is important & necessary. I’d add only that a) It’s clear many of the political & media figures deliberately ignoring these facts are playing with the sort of fire we saw on our streets this summer & b) Laura Kuenssberg’s failure to point this out to Farage was an appalling dereliction of duty.

submitted 152 days ago • 130 comments

Important thread on the Home Office’s ongoing refusal to implement a firewall between the police and immigration enforcement, despite a wealth of evidence on its necessity and the serious consequences of continuing to pass on tape victims’ data

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

submitted 167 days ago • 1052 comments