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Jane Pickersgill
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Artist. Never stop asking HOW, never stop asking WHY. #FBPE
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Not only is Trump's regime going after those protesting ICE's brutality.

Now they're going after the journalists who cover the protests.

It's an all-out assault on the First Amendment.
January 31, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.

TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.

Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.

Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Meanwhile the pavements of Blackheath are hemmed in by railings giving deference to cars and creating an unpleasant pedestrian environment. No celebrity petition to fix that as a solution for declining high street trade!
January 28, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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MELANIA has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography in the FIFA Oscars
January 28, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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90,000 properties in England/Wales are owned by offshore companies. Almost half unlawfully hide their true ownership

We've found them, mapped them, and published everything

▶️ This 60-second video shows how to find secretly owned property near you

📊 Details & stats below
January 29, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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Effectively, I wrote about this for @bylinetimes.bsky.social three years ago, in a piece was on the mainstreaming of conspiracism—which is basically what Question Time does when it regularly platforms ethnonationalists or genocide-deniers.
January 30, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Be in no doubt: the far right in the UK - Reform, Farage, Tommy Robinson and their supporters - are looking at what is happening in the US and saying: “That’s what we must have here.”
These ICE executions are an inevitable result of recruiting an army of inadequately vetted and trained people.

Trump knew ICE would attract violent racists and psychopaths.

He did not care because he wanted to deter opposition by striking terror in the populace.

It’s what fascist regimes do.
January 26, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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Indeed. Combined left/ilberal/Remain bloc in London much larger than the right/nationalist/Leave bloc. And London's overall demographics are v Reform unfriendly (lots and lots of graduates, young voters, ethnic minorities etc).
Nigel Farage is talking up Reform's chances of winning the next London mayoral election. But the fact that Labour are restoring the supplementary vote system for mayoral elections makes it pretty unlikely this would happen, I would have thought.
January 7, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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The debate on immigration has become so toxic that we are in danger of not being able to talk about it at all - we need to change that because otherwise we could make the situation worse for all concerned. However hard it is, I won’t stop trying to change the conversation. If you agree please share.
January 4, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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What just happened ...

Comedy: Jamie Kaler
January 4, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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#Zelenskyy responds to Maduro news:

"Well, what can I say? If it's possible to deal with dictators like that then the United States of America knows what to do next."

[verified - see ALT text]
January 4, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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So much bigotry is the outer expression of inner self-loathing. Contented people don't need scapegoats.
December 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Been in the centre of town.

Lucky to get out alive from what I've read on threads.

You can see what has happened to this city under Sadiq Khan.
December 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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This is becoming a very very shameful episode - and a tragedy for these young and courageous people and their friends and families

filtonactionists.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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This, of course is the newspaper that pretends to be feminist to attack trans people but has called Trump a "feminist hero" and "feminist champion" and celebrated the overturning of the constitutional right to an abortion.
December 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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"When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realise, too late, that wealth is not in the bank accounts and that you can't eat money" Alanis Obomsawin
#ClimateChange #Greed #inequalities #PrivateJets #ThamesWater
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
No, #cantpaywontpay. My bill is 30% higher even after the government bailout with taxpayers money. Why should I pay twice. I'm withholding the waste water part of the charge - maintaing they are not delivering this safely or responsibly. #makepolluterspay
Does this seem fair to you?

#ThamesWater #CostOfLiving
December 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Chortle popped up a little bit of a recording of my resignation from Monkey Cage - it’s here

www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/12...
Robin Ince forced to quit Radio 4 over pro-trans views : News 2025 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
Robin Ince forced to quit Radio 4 over pro-trans views - Comic leaves Infinite Monkey Cage after pressure from bosses
www.chortle.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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tax the rich until they cant afford this shit.
December 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
"#DailyMail hates everyone, everything. Entering their website I like flushing yourself down the toilet.
Poles returning to their "booming homeland" - booming because they're enjoying EU support - and leaving UK which has been destroyed by Brexit.
December 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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⚡️ SHOCKING! Chris Bryant’s huge Brexit admission:

🫨16,000 fewer 🇬🇧 biz exporters after Brexit. Brexit crippled 🇬🇧 biz

That’s why
France/Germany are outperforming 🇬🇧
👉growth is weaker
👉wages are under pressure

Brexit used sovereignty as bait to deliver self-harm which benefits Russian 🇷🇺 aggression.
December 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Remember how they said we needed Brexit to save our fishing fleet?

The number of fishing boats operating out of Hastings has decreased from 60 in 2016 to 16 today.

Brilliant!
December 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.

Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM