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i am not being pollyannish when i insist that the people who sign up do not sign up to advance a president’s domestic political agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It’s ICE and the cops, you dipshits

John McDonnell schooled Richard Tice on his false claim that refugees are economic migrants : “They’ll make a huge contribution to the UK economy..You’re talking to the grandchild of an Irish migrant, we built the country. We built the roads, we started the NHS” leftfootforward.org/2025/06/john...

Cop kneeling on a woman's neck while other cops use bikes to shield him from cameras. Philadelphia, PA 6/10/25 #ICEprotests #ACAB

Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more

Yet another lie. 🤥 www.mediaite.com/media/tv/lap...

Emily Thornberry, "I have to admit that when Brexit happened I thought the problem of Gibraltar was going to be so difficult that I really couldn't see how we would ever get over it" So basically the UK continues to celebrate the end of FOM with the EU, while Gibraltar is celebrating FOM 👍

Scottish Government 'short-changed by £1bn 👇 www.thenational.scot

Right now there are more U.S. troops deployed to Los Angeles than there are to Syria and Iraq combined.

I'm glad Gibraltars Economy won't be fecked completely by Brexit like Scotlands is. Both Spain and Gibraltar didn't vote for Brexit. Nor did London or NI. Gibraltar got a deal & rightly so. NI got a deal & rightly so. Scotland didn't despite the Scottish Government calling to be allowed for a deal

OMG absolute car crash interview on the Today programme with Kemi Badenoch. Emma Barnett is taking her apart despite Badenoch’s steam roller answer-avoiding monologue. Well worth listening to on catch up.

I still don’t understand why people can’t just come here from other countries & stay. Personally, the fraud, & waste is all the money spent adjudicating citizenship. Think of all the money we’d save & tax revenue that would generate. It’s like private health insurance companies. Like, whyyyy?

Linda Mamoun— "This is what the West is defending." nytimes.com/2025/06/10/opi…

via Kay Meades

Mel Stride, "We wouldn't have talked down the economy and damaged growth" Robert Peston, "Hang on.. You had close to zero living standards growth for the 14 years you were in power.. Labour inherited a stagnant economy, that was your fault"

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Just a little reminder in the midst of the debate about budgets, spending reviews, tax, borrowing, and the state of public finances: Brexit costs £40 billion a year in lost tax revenues!

When will BBC journalists like Amol Rajan get into their thick skulls that their endless NHS postcode lottery stories are the SAME story? Drives me mad. Thatcher split the NHS into Trusts, with LOCAL PRIORITIES, THIRTY-FIVE YEARS ago in 1990.

American friends, here’s Umberto Eco’s famous checklist for signs of fascism. It makes for disturbing reading regarding your current situation.

this is good

I’m simply awed by the exceptional political strategizing that ensures the farmers who never voted for Labour will continue to not vote for Labour, while the urban majority who might vote for Labour join the farmers in not voting for them

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. ☎️ 1-877-447-4487 From #veterans to #activeduty personnel.

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This isn’t even remotely legal what he is doing.

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.

Whenever law enforcement agents are given a quota of a specific number of people to arrest or detain, especially with the WH policy director screaming at their superiors to hit those target numbers, bad things are going to happen. Quotas always result in civil rights violations.

Isn’t it incredible (and frightening) how quickly and easily it is to order people open fire on their fellow citizens.

I don’t think people should engage in violence and vandalism and I don’t think federal agents should provoke people to engage in violence and vandalism. Too many law enforcement officers sworn to protect and serve now look and act like they are in Fallujah.

Clive Lewis Labour MP speaks out in @bylinetimes.bsky.social ‘A consultation saw 88% of 28,000 respondents back public water ownership Yet, these voices have been systematically marginalised by a Govt determined to operate within narrowly enforced ideological boundaries’

Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth

DEVELOPING: No warning. No reason. NYPD officers rushed into the crowd and tackled a protester this weekend. His body was limp. He couldn’t move. He said, “I can’t feel my legs.” He might never walk again. For showing up. This is brutality. This is America.

Good to see Richard Tice back on TV. It's about time Laura Kuenssberg did her bit to normalise Reform policies by platforming a party with only 5 MPs almost every week.

What would the world be like if we set out to eliminate the causes of war? We've tried it before. Why can't we try again? youtu.be/v0CWfJrXJS0?...

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.