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My unoriginal comment is that this will not end well. Easier to start wars than end them, let alone on your terms. (As Hamas found out). Unforeseen consequences. What’s the Israel/US strategy for the day after? Do they even have one? I have zero confidence in Trump’s national security team.

submitted 9 hours ago • 18 comments

Keir Starmer endorses an attack which his own Attorney General has advised may be illegal

submitted 3 hours ago • 136 comments

Kind of incredible to be an adviser to the president and be at your tequila launch party as he bombs another country and enters a war.

submitted 3 hours ago • 19 comments

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

submitted 9 hours ago • 604 comments

I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic No such luck

submitted 8 hours ago • 769 comments

Trump's bigoted facism now spreading its poisonous tentacles to sport. Senegal is not on any US 'blacklist'. FIFA will still let US host the 2026 World Cup, though 🙃 www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

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AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.

submitted 13 hours ago • 408 comments

This is the energy we need #Chicago #FUCKICE

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

#Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said he’ll have ice arrested if they try to engage in their unlawful nazi kidnappings. Not sure if the Chgo racist cops will comply, but I appreciate his straight forward talk. #immigration

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We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1123 comments

BREAKING: The US says it is optimistic that the Iran war will be as quick and easy as the 20-year war with Afghanistan when we replaced the Taliban with the Taliban ♥️

submitted 16 hours ago • 80 comments

Yes. Stephen Miller literally overrode the Secretary of Agriculture on worksite raids. She convinced Trump to back her, he publicly announced a new policy, and Miller got that entire thing overturned in a matter of days and made Trump publicly back his vision instead.

submitted 17 hours ago • 110 comments

Brexit: the next phase. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With the Gibraltar agreement ending the A50 issues, and the Reset Summit over, we're entering a period of technical adjustments. Thoughts on that, and the 9th anniversary of the Referendum: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/brex...

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just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.

submitted 17 hours ago • 850 comments

Dismissed police officer now standing as Reform UK candidate Read this. Sounds like a nice guy... www.bathecho.co.uk/news/politic...

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Concerning…

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BBC Admits ‘Regret’ After Again Failing to Disclose British Colonel’s Links to Israeli Defence Force The broadcaster failed to inform listeners of Colonel Richard Kemp’s connections to the IDF, despite an earlier rebuke from the Charity Commission. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/20/b...

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It’s time to talk about Brexit again. Pro-Europeans have a small window to get ready for the next battles over Britain’s place in Europe. With the right strategy, they can make fixing Brexit feel inevitable and the only viable option. lukemcgee.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

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“Job Garcia, a doctoral student, was picking up an order at Home Depot. He texted his brother Elias Garcia: ‘Hey Elias me agarro ICE,’ it read. ICE got me. “Elias has not been able to talk to his brother to find out why he was arrested. “Job is a U.S. citizen.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

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After sitting on this film for months, the BBC finally announce they won't broadcast it after its Director says Israel is committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in Gaza (they are). BBC says this isn't impartial because "Israel has denied accusations of war crimes" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Meanwhile a journalist who promotes Great Replacement Theory, supports ethnic cleansing and is cited in the manifesto of two Islamophobic mass murderers is a regular on BBC Radio 4

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I’m still waiting for CNN to devote multiple programming days to Trump’s obvious cognitive decline and dangerous mental instability.

submitted 1 day ago • 476 comments

As an illustration, I just debated a young "thinktank researcher" who said the fall in white British % was concerning, not for racist reasons, because we wanted to think that people we passed in the street had a "familial connection" to the country. Seriously, who the fuck thinks like this???

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ICE took this man’s gardeners from his front yard. They left the lawnmower running, and left the gardeners’ truck standing open in the driveway, keys and cell phones thrown on the front seat. Neither the client nor the gardeners’ families know how to reach them. youtu.be/1DhkUiTJN5A?...

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Tulsi caves. More important to her to be in the boys club than 100s dying because of a lie

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BREAKING: A federal court has ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student detained as punishment for his advocacy for Palestinian human rights. Mahmoud spent over 3 months in ICE detention, during which time he missed the birth of his first child and his own graduation.

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Why are Tories suddenly using the term "white british" in debates on immgration and citizenship? www.ft.com/content/aceb...

submitted 2 days ago • 121 comments

I'm delighted to host a guest substack post this week by Bea Dutton, a textile artist and part time registrar in the UK - she wrote movingly about her experiences of conducting citizenship ceremonies. This is Britain at its best. have a read! christinapagel.substack.com/p/guest-post...

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🥵 Plus de 36 °C atteints aujourd'hui sur une large partie ouest et dans le sud-est, une quinzaine de stations dépassent même 38 °C. Les températures vont encore grimper et le pic de #chaleur y sera demain, avant un rafraichissement. Dans le centre-est, le pic sera dimanche.

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According to World Weather Attribution, "climate change has made a 32C day in the UK 100 times more likely than in the pre-industrial era. A June heatwave of three consecutive days above 28C was 10 times more likely to occur now." www.ft.com/content/650c...

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Actually, Bomber Command faced a lot of scrutiny over Dresden at the time and for decades after the war ended. Despite ordering the attack on Dresden, Winston Churchill would distance himself from it and Bomber Command as the 1945 election was approaching. For decades after, Dresden was scrutinized.

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Hmmm, wonder if BBC News got the message, given this morning's radio bulletins included an item on the heinous murder by Israeli troops of Palestians trying to get to food aid - which is ongoing - that, for the first time, was scripted sympathetically and was mildly critical of Israel...🤔 👀

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Feels like quite a few people have been waiting their whole lives for the moment when being openly racist in print is no longer career ending and are determined to make the most of it.

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Somewhat strange to hear @bbcnickrobinson haranguing an NHS Consultant for being on “over £100,000” and claiming to channel the feelings of ordinary people. His salary in 2024 was between £345,000 - £349,000. For presenting radio programs. Which never saved anyone’s life?

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I cannot emphasize enough how needlessly cruel the UK immigration system is to ordinary people who want a family life together and aren't well-off already, and anyone wanting to make it worse should be shunned.

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Astonishing: 3% of UK people take 30% of all flights According to a new report, these ultra-frequent-flyers, UFFs (>6 flights/yr) were responsible for 63% of new passenger traffic over the last 20 years. New infrastructure is largely fulfilling the carbon burning habits of this tiny minority

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

So many genuine problems facing the UK - neither the government nor individuals have enough money, poor public services, threats from hostile foreign powers. That parts of the right obssess about "too many brown people in London" speaks volumes about their lack of solutions to the real problems.

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Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

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Politico: Up to 170 Labour MPs are thought to have signed letters to the whips opposing benefit cuts — "and they’re not too happy with...threats to kick them out of the parliamentary party if they defy orders" “You can’t do that to 170 MPs,” one Lab MP said. “We’ll just go off and form Labour 2” 👀

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Here is the LAPD telling ICE to GTFO of Dodger Stadium. The only reason they came was to start a riot. What they got was the boot. More of this, California.

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(1/2) With a heavy heart, I have written to the Prime Minister to tender my resignation as a whip. Whilst I will continue to support the government in delivering the change the country so desperately needs, I cannot vote in favour of the proposed reforms to disability benefits.

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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

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🚨🚨 Whilst the EU-UK deal was a clear improvement and win for Starmer, we should not forget that it does not change the major premises of relationship which is enshrined in the TCA and that #brexit still is a long and dragging beast of misery and pain. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/brit...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments