Peter Rice
@ricepeterm.bsky.social
Open source software for bioinformatics (EMBOSS); tranSMART software; correspondence chess; bridge 3x a week. German tutor at U3AC. Will rejoice when we rejoinEU.
#MakeVotesMatter #FBPE #REJOINEU #FBPR #NHS 3.5% #StandUpToCancer
LFC YNWA. No DMs please.
#MakeVotesMatter #FBPE #REJOINEU #FBPR #NHS 3.5% #StandUpToCancer
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I've just signed "Back the National Commission Amendment" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc... @OpenBritainHQ
actionstorm.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:08 PM
I've just signed "Back the National Commission Amendment" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc... @OpenBritainHQ
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...
actionnetwork.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:05 PM
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
Scandal after scandal is eroding trust in our democracy. We need reforms to clean up Westminster. Please sign our letter.
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/186467/...
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/186467/...
Out of the darkness
Scandal after scandal is eroding trust in our democracy. We need reforms to clean up Westminster. Please sign our letter.
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk
February 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Scandal after scandal is eroding trust in our democracy. We need reforms to clean up Westminster. Please sign our letter.
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/186467/...
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/186467/...
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This latest Lord Mandelson controversy must trigger a full rethink on the House of Lords. We need a second chamber where the public decides who stays and who goes. Please sign the petition.
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This must trigger a rethink
This latest Lord Mandelson controversy must trigger a full rethink on the House of Lords. We need a second chamber where the public decides who stays and who goes. Please sign the petition.
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk
February 3, 2026 at 12:01 PM
This latest Lord Mandelson controversy must trigger a full rethink on the House of Lords. We need a second chamber where the public decides who stays and who goes. Please sign the petition.
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/185845/...
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/185845/...
Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
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First Past the Post means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament. Add your name now to demand a fairer voting system
It only takes 30 seconds
action.electoral-reform.org.uk
January 20, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
First Past the Post means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament. Add your name now to demand a fairer voting system
It only takes 30 seconds
action.electoral-reform.org.uk
January 20, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 16, 2026 at 6:04 PM
The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
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Kamala Harris was right. On October 29, 2024, she told a crowd that had come to hear her speak on the Ellipse, “In less than 90 days, either Donald Trump or I will be in the Oval Office, On day one, if elected, Donald Trump would walk into that office with an enemies list…
January 12, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Kamala Harris was right. On October 29, 2024, she told a crowd that had come to hear her speak on the Ellipse, “In less than 90 days, either Donald Trump or I will be in the Oval Office, On day one, if elected, Donald Trump would walk into that office with an enemies list…
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"The Justice Department has fired the No. 2 official in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia after he declined to lead a controversial prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey..."
www.ms.now/news/trump-d...
www.ms.now/news/trump-d...
Trump DOJ fires prosecutor who declined to pursue James Comey case
The prominent career prosecutor had become the No. 2 official in the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia.
www.ms.now
January 12, 2026 at 8:27 PM
"The Justice Department has fired the No. 2 official in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia after he declined to lead a controversial prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey..."
www.ms.now/news/trump-d...
www.ms.now/news/trump-d...
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There's no reason for ICE agents to have guns. Nobody is shooting at them.
January 11, 2026 at 10:23 PM
There's no reason for ICE agents to have guns. Nobody is shooting at them.
Reposted by Peter Rice
Cops say ICE account of shooting conflicts with results of investigation. "The ICE spokesperson said agents fired their weapons in self-defense, hitting the driver. ....the spokesperson said another individual, Solomon Antonio Serrano-Esquivel, ‘was in the passenger seat’." wjla.com/news/local/i...
ICE confirms passenger was in ICE-vehicle during Christmas Eve shooting in Glen Burnie
As the investigation into the ICE-involved shooting that happened in Glen Burnie on Christmas Eve continues, police released new information.
wjla.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Cops say ICE account of shooting conflicts with results of investigation. "The ICE spokesperson said agents fired their weapons in self-defense, hitting the driver. ....the spokesperson said another individual, Solomon Antonio Serrano-Esquivel, ‘was in the passenger seat’." wjla.com/news/local/i...
Reposted by Peter Rice
Reposted by Peter Rice
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
Reposted by Peter Rice
Reposted by Peter Rice
Reposted by Peter Rice
Dell, UPS, FedEx, Motorola, Comcast, LexisNexis, AT&T, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Amazon, Palantir
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
www.thenation.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Dell, UPS, FedEx, Motorola, Comcast, LexisNexis, AT&T, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Amazon, Palantir
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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Frey: "Last week a group of our city's Public Works employees were stopped by ICE agents. 3 of the 4 employees were not white. The ICE agents asked to see the IDs of the 3 non-white employees and didn't even bother to ask the white employee for identification."
January 12, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Frey: "Last week a group of our city's Public Works employees were stopped by ICE agents. 3 of the 4 employees were not white. The ICE agents asked to see the IDs of the 3 non-white employees and didn't even bother to ask the white employee for identification."