Mick Brooks
@mick666.bsky.social
Call me anything but Mike. Poole-based, retired from the NHS, with birdy, movie, music and politics interests 🏳️🌈🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️. Ex-Labour now Green. Ex-union rep (Unite). PhD in neutron physics.
Full bird list on eBird.com
Films: https://boxd.it/mBT
Full bird list on eBird.com
Films: https://boxd.it/mBT
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Completed holiday horror-comedy CATNIP, starring Bruce Dern, Chevy Chase, Jake Busey and Joey Lauren Adams. Written and directed by Nyle Cavazos Garcia, it's about family terrorized by feral cats at Christmas. No, really.
February 14, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Completed holiday horror-comedy CATNIP, starring Bruce Dern, Chevy Chase, Jake Busey and Joey Lauren Adams. Written and directed by Nyle Cavazos Garcia, it's about family terrorized by feral cats at Christmas. No, really.
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President Trump is considering allowing companies to lease more than 113 million acres of waters off Alaska for seabed mining. Alaska is home to Indigenous peoples with ancestral ties to the ocean, and the proposal is raising cultural and environmental concerns, shares Grist.
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Trump’s call for deep-sea mining off Alaska raises Indigenous concerns - High Country News
“Whatever happens in the ocean, it really does affect our way of life.”
www.hcn.org
February 14, 2026 at 3:52 PM
President Trump is considering allowing companies to lease more than 113 million acres of waters off Alaska for seabed mining. Alaska is home to Indigenous peoples with ancestral ties to the ocean, and the proposal is raising cultural and environmental concerns, shares Grist.
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February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Happy Valentine's Day 💌
February 14, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Happy Valentine's Day 💌
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"Trump has become a parody of a 1980s televangelist, openly grifting his followers for massive amounts of cash. (His ballroom is practically his own Heritage USA.) But Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart put on a more convincing show." — @playtyperguy.com
Trump is clowning his evangelical base
He's not even bothering to pretend anymore.
www.publicnotice.co
February 14, 2026 at 5:50 PM
"Trump has become a parody of a 1980s televangelist, openly grifting his followers for massive amounts of cash. (His ballroom is practically his own Heritage USA.) But Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart put on a more convincing show." — @playtyperguy.com
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Cuba has addressed the UNSG regarding “aggressive escalation by the current US Admin against Cuba, including the EO signed by President Trump on 1/29 with the aim of imposing a total blockade
on fuel supplies to the country”.
Document 2/4/26: documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...
on fuel supplies to the country”.
Document 2/4/26: documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...
February 14, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Cuba has addressed the UNSG regarding “aggressive escalation by the current US Admin against Cuba, including the EO signed by President Trump on 1/29 with the aim of imposing a total blockade
on fuel supplies to the country”.
Document 2/4/26: documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...
on fuel supplies to the country”.
Document 2/4/26: documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...
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The sign (left)
The book (right)
It's also in a bunch of essays I wrote. It got me thrown off TV for a time after I said it on air in early 2019.
I'm fine with folks quoting it! I don't like it when they attribute it to another author or when it's plagiarized, which happens often in the AI era.
The book (right)
It's also in a bunch of essays I wrote. It got me thrown off TV for a time after I said it on air in early 2019.
I'm fine with folks quoting it! I don't like it when they attribute it to another author or when it's plagiarized, which happens often in the AI era.
February 14, 2026 at 2:19 PM
The sign (left)
The book (right)
It's also in a bunch of essays I wrote. It got me thrown off TV for a time after I said it on air in early 2019.
I'm fine with folks quoting it! I don't like it when they attribute it to another author or when it's plagiarized, which happens often in the AI era.
The book (right)
It's also in a bunch of essays I wrote. It got me thrown off TV for a time after I said it on air in early 2019.
I'm fine with folks quoting it! I don't like it when they attribute it to another author or when it's plagiarized, which happens often in the AI era.
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What is Labour's targeted harassment of trans kids doing for their mental health? Labour's new school guidance seeks to ban trans kids from using toilets, changing rooms and school trip accommodation. It frames trans kids as mentally ill and a risk to other children while threatening to out them.
Loved chatting to year 6s from Kender Primary school for #Children'sMentalHealthWeek about wellbeing and Place2Be's theme, ‘This is My Place’.
Labour is providing more mental health support in schools to make sure the next generation grows up happier and more resilient.
Labour is providing more mental health support in schools to make sure the next generation grows up happier and more resilient.
February 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
What is Labour's targeted harassment of trans kids doing for their mental health? Labour's new school guidance seeks to ban trans kids from using toilets, changing rooms and school trip accommodation. It frames trans kids as mentally ill and a risk to other children while threatening to out them.
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BBC removes head of Arabic service to please racist Israel lobby...
BBC removes head of Arabic service to please racist Israel lobby
Removing the head of BBC Arabic panders to the Israeli lobby, which has repeatedly attacked its Gaza coverage
www.thecanary.co
February 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
BBC removes head of Arabic service to please racist Israel lobby...
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"I sit just above the sternum, where Christ’s unblemished mercy meets freckled cleavage. I hang, heavily and blessedly, where divinity schmoozes décolletage on the clavicular altar of Florida’s own Evangelical Barbie."
I Am Pam Bondi’s Shiny Gold Cross Necklace
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was “accessorize.” I am equal parts holy relic and regional pageant tiara. I...
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February 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM
"I sit just above the sternum, where Christ’s unblemished mercy meets freckled cleavage. I hang, heavily and blessedly, where divinity schmoozes décolletage on the clavicular altar of Florida’s own Evangelical Barbie."
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We could literally have, like, healthcare instead of this. And roads and education and strong infrastructure. And commerce, actual jobs doing stuff and making things because people would be able to afford to buy them. And maybe putting cute little hearts on lattes for happy tourists who feel safe.
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:29 AM
We could literally have, like, healthcare instead of this. And roads and education and strong infrastructure. And commerce, actual jobs doing stuff and making things because people would be able to afford to buy them. And maybe putting cute little hearts on lattes for happy tourists who feel safe.
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The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
February 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
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In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
n.pr
February 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 14 ByLines:
In 2022 after Cass's Interim Report, The Times of London ran a lurid expose' “Tavistock Gender Clinic ‘To Be Sued by 1,000 families” saying there was a mass lawsuit by kids claiming GIDS rushed them into taking blockers. 1/2
In 2022 after Cass's Interim Report, The Times of London ran a lurid expose' “Tavistock Gender Clinic ‘To Be Sued by 1,000 families” saying there was a mass lawsuit by kids claiming GIDS rushed them into taking blockers. 1/2
The real Tavistock Clinic scandal: 1,000 court cases that never materialised
A FoI request for the data behind the media hysteria over the Tavistock Clinic presents quite a different picture
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 2:32 PM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 14 ByLines:
In 2022 after Cass's Interim Report, The Times of London ran a lurid expose' “Tavistock Gender Clinic ‘To Be Sued by 1,000 families” saying there was a mass lawsuit by kids claiming GIDS rushed them into taking blockers. 1/2
In 2022 after Cass's Interim Report, The Times of London ran a lurid expose' “Tavistock Gender Clinic ‘To Be Sued by 1,000 families” saying there was a mass lawsuit by kids claiming GIDS rushed them into taking blockers. 1/2
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Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox
February 14, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox
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My latest on Epstein: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...
Jackhammering Into the Sewer
A look through the Epstein files.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
My latest on Epstein: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...
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Rose are red,
Violets are blue…
Violets are blue…
February 14, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Rose are red,
Violets are blue…
Violets are blue…
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AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
February 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
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Out of the hundreds of essays I have written and published in the last few years, the ones that make MAGA incredibly angry aren’t about abortion or guns or trans rights.
The essays that make them lash out are about school funding and voting rights...
The essays that make them lash out are about school funding and voting rights...
February 14, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Out of the hundreds of essays I have written and published in the last few years, the ones that make MAGA incredibly angry aren’t about abortion or guns or trans rights.
The essays that make them lash out are about school funding and voting rights...
The essays that make them lash out are about school funding and voting rights...
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Am remembering the Telegraph's hideously anti-Semitic column / front page by Tory Shadow Lord Chancellor Nick Timothy. Wind your neck in, you horrible bigots. You don't speak for Jews.
February 14, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Am remembering the Telegraph's hideously anti-Semitic column / front page by Tory Shadow Lord Chancellor Nick Timothy. Wind your neck in, you horrible bigots. You don't speak for Jews.
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This is a powerful story for me. Several branches of the Women's Institute are closing across the UK in protest at the new trans-exclusionary ban against trans women. It cuts through the lie by the media and GC groups about speaking on behalf of women. Solidarity.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban
Members warn NFWI decision has opened up toxic culture that deters younger women from joining
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:06 PM
This is a powerful story for me. Several branches of the Women's Institute are closing across the UK in protest at the new trans-exclusionary ban against trans women. It cuts through the lie by the media and GC groups about speaking on behalf of women. Solidarity.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Free piece just released. Marco Rubio called on tolerant, democratic, liberal Europe to destroy itself and embrace a Trump-like future. He received a standing ovation and we are told some people are reassured. If so, Europe will deserve everything coming its way. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Rubio Calls For The End Of A Tolerant, Democratic Europe And The Crowd Goes Wild
Just over an hour ago, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for the end of a tolerant, democratic Europe and its break-up into a disparate group of smaller, Trumpist states, and the Europeans in t...
open.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Free piece just released. Marco Rubio called on tolerant, democratic, liberal Europe to destroy itself and embrace a Trump-like future. He received a standing ovation and we are told some people are reassured. If so, Europe will deserve everything coming its way. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...