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Sheridan Flynn
@sheridanflynn.com
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Filmmaker. Space traveller. Proud democratic republican.
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Sheridan Flynn @sheridanflynn.com · Jul 8
Do we need airbags and crumple zones for online safety?

Me on the violence of the unregulated tech industry.
sheridanflynn.com Sheridan Flynn @sheridanflynn.com · Jul 7
From me: What can the violence of the automotive industry teach us about the harms of unregulated tech?https://sheridanflynn.substack.com/p/what-can-the-violence-of-the-automotive
What can the violence of the automotive industry teach us about the harms of unregulated tech?
From exploding Pintos to lethal algorithms: How Corporate Negligence Repeats Across Industries
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irishtimes.com
‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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A real pleasure to fiom this lovely fella for the brilliant @thenerve.news
February 8, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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petergeoghegan.bsky.social
In competence and venality of the old political elite is ushering in a class of oligarchic politicians that are backed by unprecedented levels of private wealth and driven by some batshit crazy ideas (that just happen to be good for their wealth…)

Thiel is a prime mover in this
February 8, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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lauraewebster.bsky.social
BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone.

He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein

We have published it in full.

www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...
Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full
LATE on Friday evening, this notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news…
www.thenational.scot
February 6, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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petergeoghegan.bsky.social
🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding

Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted

*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it

Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
NEW: Dear Washington Post journalists, I’ve written this for you.

Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked!

But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊
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February 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Zack Polanski, "Palantir.. £240 million contract last month"

"That was lobbied by Global Counsel which is Peter Mandelson's lobbying group"

"The idea that a defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson"
February 4, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 6d
Dear @washingtonpost.com
journalists. Solidarity on a terrible day. But also: it’s an opportunity. The @theguardian.com also fucked over its journalists last year.

Months later, 5 of us launched @thenerve.news - with zero £ - & it’s working! Rebuild your own media from the ground up 👊👊👊
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6d
Breaking News: The Washington Post began sweeping layoffs that were slated to shrink the scope of the publication.
February 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
February 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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davidheniguk.bsky.social
More I think about it, the more that Mandelson comes to define the first 18 months of this government. Not just the obvious error that was bringing him back, but also that this was considered necessary in the absence of better ideas.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How much did the Epstein poison infect Britain? Starmer had better find out, and fast | Gaby Hinsliff
Serious questions need to be asked about Mandelson, Andrew and what the PM knew when. The credibility of UK politics is on the line, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM.

It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.

My latest for @thenerve.news
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www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here
Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next
www.thenerve.news
February 1, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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peterjukes.bsky.social
Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them
February 1, 2026 at 11:25 AM
sheridanflynn.com
It’s astonishing how uninteresting my
Phone has become since I put it into black and white mode.
January 29, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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mc00.bsky.social
What's happening in the US right now can, and if these people are elected will, happen here.
implausibleblog.bsky.social Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15d
Suella Braverman, "There is a very strong case to increase the powers of any immigration enforcement officers that we deploy"

"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
January 27, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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writesbright.bsky.social
Jenrick - lawyer
Braverman - lawyer
Zahawi - owns £100m in real estate
Kruger - old Etonian

Definitely not part of the elite, though
January 27, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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davidgilbert.bsky.social
SCOOP

Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
Meta Is Blocking Users From Sharing Website Listing ICE Agents
Users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells BBC London that Nigel Farage is planning to give London boroughs like Havering "independence" from Sadiq Khan and City Hall
January 25, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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liamthorp.bsky.social
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
🔴‘Trump Has Already Rigged the 2028 Presidential Election’: US Defence Insider

Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues @brynntannehill.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
'Trump Has Already Rigged the 2028 Presidential Election': US Defence Insider
Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues Brynn Tannehill
bylinetimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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thenerve.news
Big thanks to Nerve fave Jason for doing the first video version of our Recommender slot 🙏

Shout out too to @roughtrade1976.bsky.social, & @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social for hosting

Film by @sheridanflynn.com

See the rest of Jason's picks on the full film on our YT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBLK...
The Recommender: Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods shares his current cultural favourites
YouTube video by The Nerve
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January 22, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Ever think of joining the EU?
January 21, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
Lavrov:

Crimea is no less important to the security of the Russian Federation than Greenland is to the United States.

And, of course, when what is happening around Greenland is justified by claims that otherwise it would be seized by Russia or China, there is no evidence to support such claims.
January 20, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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academicfascism84.bsky.social
This rhetoric emerged from revival movements that thrived during war, plagues, and social collapse, when death was constant and evangelism fed on fear.

So, creepy!
January 20, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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And the guy standing behind Vance is Peter Thiel.
January 18, 2026 at 10:35 AM