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Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Mum's outrage at Trump's vile slur after her soldier son's death at 18
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Mum's outrage at Trump's vile slur after her soldier son's death at 18

The US President dismissed the sacrifice of more than 400 Brits who served and died in Afghanistan - claiming they “stayed a little back, off the front line"

www.mirror.co.uk

January 22, 2026 at 7:58 PM

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Coach Finstock

@coachfinstock.bsky.social

Timeline cleanse

October 27, 2024 at 8:06 PM

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Fionna O’Leary

@fascinatorfun.bsky.social

How dare this draft dodging coward question the commitment - even to death- of our & other 🇪🇺troops?

This cowardly shit demanded Zelensky show proper gratitude & apologise for NOT WEARING A SUIT

Past time Trump show proper gratitude if he wants us to risk lives
Itwon’t be to save his worthless one

Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 4h

457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan.

Trump avoided military service 5 times.

How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.

January 22, 2026 at 9:37 PM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

1600 Pennsylvania Ave

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

Vance: If we're trying to find a sex offender, tell us where the guy lives.

January 22, 2026 at 9:58 PM

tadaaa.bsky.social

@tadaaa.bsky.social

A straight up death cult is running the US

Amazing

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 5h

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

Screenshot from STAT article that says

"What we're going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles," he said. "What is the new incidence of hospitalization? What's the incidence of death?"

January 22, 2026 at 9:54 PM

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Matt

@originalmattb.com

1600 Pennsylvania Ave

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

Vance: If we're trying to find a sex offender, tell us where the guy lives.

January 22, 2026 at 8:26 PM

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Rory Cellan-Jones

@rorycj.bsky.social

Perhaps Nigel Farage would like to explain to the families of British soldiers killed in Iraq why he’s such a good pal of Donald ‘bonespurs’ Trump?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

January 22, 2026 at 8:33 PM

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Ed Davey

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk

457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan.

Trump avoided military service 5 times.

How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.

January 22, 2026 at 8:00 PM

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Joe Adalian

@tvmojoe.bsky.social

The. Dumbest. Timeline.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 5h

The Trump administration today announced a new government-backed fossil fuel industry mascot.

Meet Coalie the lump of coal!

Drawing (AI Gen?) of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum next to an anthropomorphic lump of coal wearing an OSM vest

January 22, 2026 at 7:21 PM

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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

“The mad, delusional, ranting emperor has no clothes on. And yet there is no truth-telling child in sight. Just a coterie of shameless liars, grifters, and sycophants bent on engaging in a cover-up about the clear mental incompetence of the most powerful man on Earth.”

Check out ‘First Draft’:

Dementia vs. Davos

The US President has mashed potato brains, ICE kills again, and the late Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA threatens lawfare against Candace Owens.

zeteo.com

January 22, 2026 at 1:58 PM

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Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

.. at suppressing the Epstein files.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

BARTIROMO: Congratulations, Mr President

TRUMP: You've done a great job

BARTIROMO: Thank you. So have you

January 22, 2026 at 1:27 PM

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Snigdha

@snig.bsky.social

If you live in the UK and you were shocked to see the US ICE seize a 5 year old boy, don't forget this is what Nigel Farage and the Reform Party UK want for our country.

Liam Ramos, 5 years old, being seized by a masked ICE agent who has left his humanity and decency at home (if he ever had any)

Liam Ramos, a 5 year old child, in a little blue hat with ears and pom poms, is being put in an ICE van. The people who seized him belong in prison.

REFORMUK

AUG 2025

Operation Restoring Justice

Our plan to deport all illegal migrants in the UK, and secure our borders.

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 pow-er bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power ad-dresses 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

Farage, who had previously said mass deportations were a "political impossibility", said his party had now come up with "a credible plan, so that we can deport hundreds of thousands of people over the five years of a Reform government".

During the news conference, Farage asked Reform UK chair Zia Yusuf whether it was realistic to deport 500,000-600,000 people within the lifetime of the first Parliament under a Reform UK government, to which he replied "totally, yeah".

Reform, which currently has just four MPs although it is leading in many opinion polls, has not specified what proportion of this number would come from future arrivals, or people already in the country.

January 22, 2026 at 9:15 AM

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Helene von Bismarck

@helenebismarck.bsky.social

I have British friends who served in Afghanistan and lost friends during their time there.
This is an appalling thing to say.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

January 22, 2026 at 2:19 PM

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Ed Davey

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Trump's bootlicker in chief strikes again.

Farage is no patriot, he's just a stooge for the White House.

Headline: World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland, says Nigel Farage

January 22, 2026 at 1:30 PM

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Gabriel Milland

@gabrielmilland.bsky.social

Four VCs for UK forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two of them posthumous. An obvious question for his British admirers.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

January 22, 2026 at 1:38 PM

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Felicity Hannah

@felicityhannah.bsky.social

My brother fought in the infantry and lost soldiers in Afghanistan. The press used to report deaths before families had been told and I would check my phone over and over, scared it would ring.

I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

January 22, 2026 at 1:29 PM

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Glen O'Hara

@gsoh31.bsky.social

So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

How Badenoch’s meeting with Mike Johnson led to Trump’s Chagos deal rant

A brief encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in a public rebuff to the US president from Keir Starmer

www.theguardian.com

January 22, 2026 at 9:58 AM

tadaaa.bsky.social

@tadaaa.bsky.social

yep, tracks the Nazi's had a pretty dismissive attitude to their allies too

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

January 22, 2026 at 3:19 PM

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Rafael Behr

@rafaelbehr.bsky.social

Starmer maybe rightly doesn’t take bait each time but he needs an outrider - a semi-licensed “off message” attack dog - to make Haw-Haw Farage pay for sucking up to the guy who denigrates British war dead.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

January 22, 2026 at 1:46 PM

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Annika Brockschmidt

@ardenthistorian.bsky.social

Abuser logic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bessent: "Everyone take a deep breath. Do not escalate. Do not escalate. President Trump has a strategy here. Hear him out and then everything will be fine."

January 22, 2026 at 12:41 PM

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Andy Taylor

@andytaylor128.bsky.social

The hilarious thing is that two major members of this proposed "Board of Peace" cannot attend the ceremony as there is an international warrant out for their arrest for Genocide & War Crimes!
You couldn't make it up!

two hearts that say please join the peace board on them

ALT: two hearts that say please join the peace board on them

media.tenor.com

January 22, 2026 at 10:27 AM

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Mike Galsworthy

@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social

Trump’s America. 🤬

January 22, 2026 at 11:38 AM

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James O’Brien

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...