Toby Venables
@tobyvenables.bsky.social
Co-writer of #BAFTA winning #HisHouse. Fixer of broken things. Sometimes stories. Sometimes shelves.
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At the very least every Democratic officeholder or candidate should be calling for the impeachment and/or arrest of Noem, Homan, and Bovino.
Bare minimum.
Bare minimum.
January 24, 2026 at 4:53 PM
At the very least every Democratic officeholder or candidate should be calling for the impeachment and/or arrest of Noem, Homan, and Bovino.
Bare minimum.
Bare minimum.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "I don't know. You kill a man and then you just leave? You're law enforcement and you just leave? Is there a single case in American history where you just, like, walk away and say, 'I guess that just happened and we're not going to clean up our mess'?"
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "I don't know. You kill a man and then you just leave? You're law enforcement and you just leave? Is there a single case in American history where you just, like, walk away and say, 'I guess that just happened and we're not going to clean up our mess'?"
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Just boosting this again. Please do have a listen - leave a comment / like if you can.
The latest in our YouTube short story project is a reading of legendary sci-fi and fantasy author @aptshadow.bsky.social ’s The Face of the King. Al Barclay (Slow Horses, Deep Cover, The Crown) breathes new creative life into this brilliant dark fantasy story.
New YouTube short story: The Face of the King by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The latest in our YouTube short story project is a reading of legendary sci-fi and fantasy author Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Face of the King.
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January 24, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Just boosting this again. Please do have a listen - leave a comment / like if you can.
They are breaking the law. They are overturning the truth. They are shitting on the Constitution.
Tim Walz: "Stop calling ICE law enforcement. They are not law enforcement."
January 24, 2026 at 7:59 PM
They are breaking the law. They are overturning the truth. They are shitting on the Constitution.
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CNN cuts to reporter Sara Sidner, who is in distress: "I'm trying to breathe"
January 24, 2026 at 7:06 PM
CNN cuts to reporter Sara Sidner, who is in distress: "I'm trying to breathe"
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Have we checked registration on Pretti’s supposed gun?
Gun expert friend says it’s a model that was issued to ICE years ago then discontinued because it was unpredictable.
Gun expert friend says it’s a model that was issued to ICE years ago then discontinued because it was unpredictable.
January 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Have we checked registration on Pretti’s supposed gun?
Gun expert friend says it’s a model that was issued to ICE years ago then discontinued because it was unpredictable.
Gun expert friend says it’s a model that was issued to ICE years ago then discontinued because it was unpredictable.
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ICE / DHS employees: I know there’s way more alarm internally than is public. Text me via signal at 202-510-1268. I’ll protect your anonymity
January 24, 2026 at 7:44 PM
ICE / DHS employees: I know there’s way more alarm internally than is public. Text me via signal at 202-510-1268. I’ll protect your anonymity
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In the video from the person in the pink coat that @alexip718.com obtained, it appears to me that a registered nurse who worked with veterans was executed by ICE simply because he helped another protestor they physically assaulted.
January 24, 2026 at 7:28 PM
In the video from the person in the pink coat that @alexip718.com obtained, it appears to me that a registered nurse who worked with veterans was executed by ICE simply because he helped another protestor they physically assaulted.
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Once again, an f-bomb is presented as somehow worse than repeatedly shooting an unarmed person.
Bondi: "We sent Gov. Walz a very strong letter today. We had been working on this letter. We got it out saying that he better support President Trump. He better support the men and women in law enforcement because if he doesn't, we are, and that's what we're doing right now."
January 24, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Once again, an f-bomb is presented as somehow worse than repeatedly shooting an unarmed person.
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This is fascist propaganda. This is not a legitimate government.
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
This is fascist propaganda. This is not a legitimate government.
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Yep. I heard from somebody in my Discord that they immediately moved the body, which is illegal on so many levels it's frankly insane. And I assume is probably stated department policy to avoid investigation by the state.
January 24, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Yep. I heard from somebody in my Discord that they immediately moved the body, which is illegal on so many levels it's frankly insane. And I assume is probably stated department policy to avoid investigation by the state.
Trump has normalised the use of force and lies - even in the face of video flatly contradicting those lies. And this is the result.
All of it lies. Footage doesn't support any of this. Not one word.
Greg Bovino accuses the man that ICE just murdered in Minneapolis of "approaching them violently with a 9mm handgun" and says CBP "fired defensive shots" because "he wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement. Then 200 rioters arrived at the scene."
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Trump has normalised the use of force and lies - even in the face of video flatly contradicting those lies. And this is the result.
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Land of the free. The terrifying fall of the USA continues.
This is extrajudicial murder. It’s a paramilitary execution of an unarmed civilian in cold blood. Horrifying.
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
January 24, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Land of the free. The terrifying fall of the USA continues.
Too late.
January 24, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Too late.
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This is extrajudicial murder. It’s a paramilitary execution of an unarmed civilian in cold blood. Horrifying.
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
January 24, 2026 at 6:53 PM
This is extrajudicial murder. It’s a paramilitary execution of an unarmed civilian in cold blood. Horrifying.
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Minnesota is an open-carry state and at no point in any video is the murder victim shown threatening ICE. "He had a gun" is meaningless.
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Minnesota is an open-carry state and at no point in any video is the murder victim shown threatening ICE. "He had a gun" is meaningless.
The line has been crossed.
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 7:29 PM
The line has been crossed.
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NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
January 24, 2026 at 6:46 PM
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
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Minneapolis may have finally hit a breaking point, and I’ll be honest, watching this gets me emotional.
This has to stop.
A short time ago…
This has to stop.
A short time ago…
January 24, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Minneapolis may have finally hit a breaking point, and I’ll be honest, watching this gets me emotional.
This has to stop.
A short time ago…
This has to stop.
A short time ago…
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Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
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Thinking about two of my favourite Wipe-isms. Penny Mordaunt as “Catherine Deneuve if she worked in a big M&S” and Matt Hancock as “your sister’s first boyfriend with a car” and noticing that they both use a sort of “bathetic bounce” to achieve the effect. It’s clever.
January 24, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Thinking about two of my favourite Wipe-isms. Penny Mordaunt as “Catherine Deneuve if she worked in a big M&S” and Matt Hancock as “your sister’s first boyfriend with a car” and noticing that they both use a sort of “bathetic bounce” to achieve the effect. It’s clever.
He can’t even control his own bodily functions.
January 24, 2026 at 7:21 PM
He can’t even control his own bodily functions.
It’s not ‘sorry’ though, is it?
Trump is getting pushed back on every front. There’s a lesson here.
January 24, 2026 at 7:15 PM
It’s not ‘sorry’ though, is it?