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There's a rumour that Nigel Farage is keeping his head down because he's off to a Trump cheerleading conference over the weekend. I’m afraid I’m being proved right- Farage is far more interested in Trump's success than British security. He is a bootlicker and a plastic patriot.

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The truth too unpalatable for politicians to lay out is if you cant see a GP, the likelihood is that it isn’t an immigrant – who is on average younger and healthier than you – ahead in the queue, but one of the growing number of older people. Me for @metrouk.bsky.social metro.co.uk/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

We're days or maybe hours away from Trump explicitly stating "I am the king and rule by divine right" while Schumer and Hakeem argue they have no options except to find areas of agreement

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

This is what just happened and its the most fucking insane thing I've ever seen. 1) Article below comes out where the GOP is freaking out about working Friday. 2) Suddenly, MULTIPLE Trump nominees are fast tracked by unanimous consent. Now the Senate is on course to leave Thursday.

submitted 9 days ago • 77 comments

On a more serious note today is one of those days in the calendar when sometimes it’s not all love and roses. If some of this sounds familiar get in contact with refuge or safe lives. refuge.org.uk/i-need-help-...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 8 days ago • 678 comments

I recommend everyone read that letter. Even if you don't know much about the law, it's abundantly clear what's going on and is clear-eyed about the moment. We need more of this from those in the agencies and departments being compromised.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

You may be looking to pundits to tell you where all this is going. Well, I have not a clue, other than US is nearing a constitutional crisis. And if so: nobody can know what will happen next. For that is the nature of any genuine crisis: it is a situation the outcome of which cannot be foreseen.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

submitted 10 days ago • 702 comments

What’s the point in refusing citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’? What’s the point in publishing footage of people being deported? I’m sorry to say that this is simply a continuation of the performative cruelty we saw from the Conservatives.

submitted 10 days ago • 100 comments

Writing this with a heavy heart: the refugee citizenship ban is the single most unconscionable policy Labour has proposed since it entered power. It’s the moment that I felt my support for this administration begin to crumble inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...

submitted 10 days ago • 302 comments

This is appalling. A major decision with profound implications for refugees can't even be debated in parliament. Because it's not primary or even secondary legislation it doesn't pass the attorney general's desk. Zero scrutiny. Zero accountability.

submitted 10 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 11 days ago • 194 comments

What you are seeing this morning over the refugee decision is Labour alienating and offending its remaining liberal supporters without bringing any new voters onside.

submitted 10 days ago • 252 comments

Trump, on the terms of his own EO, has not given DOGE any power to cut spending or shut down agencies, and Musk is not even officially in charge of DOGE. The power he is seizing is completely without any formal basis, much less constitutional. He has no legal authority whatsoever.

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

11 February 1943 | A transport of 1,184 Jewish men, women and children arrived at #Auschwitz from Westerbork in the occupied Netherlands. After arrival selection, 113 men and 66 women were registered in the camp. The remaining 1,005 people were murdered in gas chambers.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Trying to figure out what leverage you have? Sir, we literally wrote it down for you: indivisible.org/resource/exp...

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

Sheldon Whitehouse voted to confirm the CIA director, secretary of transportation, secretary of the interior, and secretary of state.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

The wave of anti-migrant politics we are seeing across the West belies a simple truth: Our welfare states & pensions cannot be sustained without immigrant workers. Africans should rightly have power in this dynamic. They don’t because of persistent racist structures in our visa & asylum systems.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

10 February 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl Sura Ferencz was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in the gas chamber.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Someone to listen carefully to: @johnwdean.bsky.social was a White House lawyer under Nixon, no less.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is bragging that Canadians think so little of their own birth right that they are begging to join his gangster crew. Looks like people in Canada aren't buying his bullshit. The boycott is strong. Do not spend one cent in America until the tyranny is gone. Keep it up.

submitted 13 days ago • 274 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 16 days ago • 6591 comments

8 February 1942 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Eliezer Hirsh, was born in Szatmárnémeti. In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

This is ghoulish from Labour. Using people's suffering to try and appease Reform, which is something no-one will ever go far enough for. Labour has the potential to actually be doing something to reduce hostility. Instead they are stoking anti-migrant attitudes just like the Conservatives did.

submitted 14 days ago • 62 comments

4 February 1925 | A French Jewish woman, Ginette Kolinka (née Cherkasky), was born in Paris. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy in April 1944. She was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and then to Theresienstadt. She survived. Today she turns 100.

submitted 18 days ago • 42 comments

"And due to a terrible miscalculation of scale, the entire US-Canada trade war was accidentally swallowed by a small Fentanyl Czar."

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

The ultimate power of any court is in its coercive orders - and a machinery to readily enforce those orders. But once those coercive orders are defied without sanction, there is nothing left. That’s it: game over. Just pieces of paper with fancy words and writing.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

submitted 19 days ago • 746 comments

At the heart of Canadian national memory is the awareness that Canadians twice came to the UK's aid in world wars years before the Americans showed up. It will not be forgottem if the Brits now hide in a corner and say nothing when Canada faces existential threats.

submitted 20 days ago • 107 comments

30 January 1931 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Béla Lörincz, was born in Szamoskrassó (Cărășeu). In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

Calvin Robinson has been defrocked by the Anglican Catholic church for emulating Musk's salute, one of several small churches he has bounced in and out of in the last 5 years

submitted 23 days ago • 53 comments

Shut down the Senate: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 24 days ago • 171 comments

To every Senate Dem: Shut it the fuck down. Trump’s unconstitutional chaos will kill people. 1️⃣ Oppose all nominees until OMB reverses the freeze. 2️⃣ Deny Unanimous Consent to slow Senate proceedings. 3️⃣ Vote no on all Cloture. 4️⃣ Force Quorum Calls at every opportunity. It's time to fight.

submitted 25 days ago • 171 comments