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Angtha Thar
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Geek who stays on top on news and have a habit of reading/watching documentaries and play with cookies. Octavia Butler fan girl. Currently reading Sarah Kendzior. And don't worry, I'm not a bot and jerk-wad troll. She/her
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Angtha Thar @untamespirit.bsky.social · Jan 19
Hi @swordsjew.bsky.social and #booksky📚💙, I'm ready to do a book thread on Wild Faith. TW: Child abuse, sexual assult, antisemitism
swordsjew.bsky.social Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Jan 13
just a reminder that despite somewhat dismal sales numbers, people who've read my book said they found it important and clarifying, and emotionally resonant, and thoughtful, and well-written. and i hope you'll consider buying it as we move into the era it describes:
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America a book by Talia Lavin
Esquire Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are en...
bookshop.org
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jamellebouie.net
it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”
ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d
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 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
ICE has created an international incident:

“The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic immediately submitted a letter of protest to the United States Embassy in Ecuador to ensure that acts of this nature are not repeated in any of Ecuador's consular offices in the United States.”
January 28, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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ayoub.bsky.social
Trump is sending rapists and pedophiles to kidnap children and this is not an exaggeration
At least 20 of those individuals committed offenses with underage victims, according to the report. The 30 listed individuals have been charged with a wide litany of crimes, including gunpoint sexual assault, child sex trafficking, aggravated assault, robbery, rape, torture, kidnapping, sexual abuse of a minor, and possession and production of child sexual abuse materials. Their transgressions occurred between 2015 and 2025, with the bulk of abuse happening within the last two years. The delinquent officers include Minnesota-based ICE agent Alexander Steven Back, who was arrested in November for allegedly soliciting sex from a minor, in a multiagency sting referred to as "Operation Creep." "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys," Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges told reporters at the time of Back's capture. Elsewhere in the state, in June, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Timothy Ryan Gregg "attempted, coerced, and enticed a minor victim" in order to make child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota.
January 27, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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surlyamy.bsky.social
I do not accept the terms of service in general, with anything that’s happening right now.
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11h
Just deleted my TikTok account.

Please note that if you open TikTok on a web browser, it will ask you to accept a new TOS.

DO NOT ACCEPT THE TOS!

You can click through to settings and delete your account WITHOUT accepting the new TOS.
January 27, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
every time i think i grasp how fucking stupid ICE agents are, they do something to prove they’re actual much stupider.
January 28, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations—of which the US is a party—foreign state consular premises are considered “inviolable,” which means federal agents cannot enter without the permission of the mission's head.
dominicervolina.com Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10h
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis

ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone

They did not have a warrant
January 27, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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foxylustygrover.bsky.social
I CANAE BREATHE!!!
Melania documentary struggles in UK cinemas as Vue admits sales are ‘soft’ Only one ticket sold for premiere of film about US first lady at Vue’s flagship London branch as insiders question launch strategy
January 27, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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gregpak.net
Good.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h
Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”
Philip Glass pulls world premiere from Kennedy Center
The pioneering composer announced that “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message” of his Symphony No. 15: “Lincoln.”
wapo.st
January 27, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
Dear Ye: Get fucked.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d
Ye, fka Kanye West, takes out a full-page in the Wall Street Journal to apologize to the Black community, and for antisemitism:

“I lost touch with reality”
Twenty-five years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain. At the time, the focus was on the visible damage - the fracture, the swelling, and the immediate physical trauma. The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed. Comprehensive scans were not done, neurological exams were limited, and the possibility of a frontal-lobe injury was never raised. It wasn't properly diagnosed until 2023. That medical oversight caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type-l diagnosis. Bipolar disorder comes with its own defense system. Denial. When you're manic, you don't think you're sick. You think everyone else is overreacting. You feel like you're seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality you're losing your grip entirely. Once people label you as 'crazy', you feel as if you cannot contribute anything meaningful to the world. It's easy for people to joke and laugh it off when in fact this is a very serious debilitating disease you can die from. According to the World Health Organization and Cambridge University, people with bipolar disorder have a life expectancy that is shortened by ten to fifteen years on average, and a 2x-3x higher all-cause mortality rate than the general population. This is on par with severe heart disease, type-1 diabetes, HIV, and cancer-all lethal and fatal if left untreated. The scariest thing about this disorder is how persuasive it is when it tells you: You don't need help. It makes you blind, but convinced you have insight. You feel powerful, certain, and unstoppable. I lost touch with reality. Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem. I said and did things I deeply regret. Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst. You endured fear, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of trying to love someone who was at times, unrecognizable. Looking back, I became detached from my true self. In that fractured state. I gra…
January 27, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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yasharali.bsky.social
A note on Holocaust Remembrance Day posts.

There are obviously bad actors who do this intentionally, but I’ve learned over the years that many well-meaning people don’t realize how important it is to include this phrasing.
If you’re going to post about Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is critical that you explicitly state that millions of Jews were murdered. People assume that using “Holocaust” with a capital H automatically implies this, but it doesn’t. Neo-Nazis are obsessed with severing Jews from the industrial-scale murder that occurred. They love nothing more than making Jews —rather than the Nazis — the cause of millions of deaths across Europe, while simultaneously minimizing the murder of Jews by referring to them as “deaths” (often attributed to illness rather than murder and reduced to hundreds of thousands rather than millions). This is especially true of major media figures and elected officials. I have seen in real time how Neo-Nazis will notice a statement or social media post from someone prominent that does not explicitly mention the mass murder of millions of Jews in reference to the Holocaust and ask whether that person is secretly on their side, or if they’ve “woken up” or “noticed.”
January 27, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
I keep seeing these weird takes about Usha Vance being trapped in her marriage. Y'all, that's a grown ass adult. She made her choices, and she's made no effort to change direction. Respect her agency. She chose this. There is no need to make excuses for her complicity. That's weird and sexist.
January 27, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
DHS is seeking public comment on new regulations that reduce the privacy of visitors to the US, including biometric data. One weird aspect of this comment process is that it does not allow comments directly on the federal register. You have to email your comment to CBP, excluding anonymous comments.
SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). The information collection is published in the Federal Register to obtain comments from the public and affected agencies. DATES: Comments are encouraged and must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration. ADDRESSES: Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the item(s) contained in this notice must include the OMB Control Number 1651-0111 in the subject line and the agency name. Please submit written comments and/or suggestions in English. Please use the following method to submit comments: Email: Submit comments to: CBP_PRA@cbp.dhs.gov.
January 27, 2026 at 8:13 PM
untamespirit.bsky.social
I teared up about your grandfather and Alex dying on the same day Kristen, it's a overwhelming emotional gut punch. 😭
kristenradtke.bsky.social Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 15h
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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gobuxgal.bsky.social
Everyone still think athletes will avoid DHS (ICE, CBP etc) racial profiling?
#WorldCup ⚽️
Giants star Jung Hoo Lee detained by CBP
The South Korean was traveling to California on Wednesday to take part in a Giants FanFest tour stop in San Ramon.
sfstandard.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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taliajane.bsky.social
*they’re still dispersing cancer-causing chemical agents in a very toxic gas, but they don’t immediately impede vision, breathing, etc.

They’re troll canisters, basically.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What’s the deal with that scary-looking green gas ICE is using in Minneapolis?
There are toxic ingredients in all of this stuff, but looks may be deceiving.
www.motherjones.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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luckytran.com
The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced.

Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.
UK loses measles elimination status
Decision made after outbreaks in 2024, when there were nearly 3,000 cases in England and Wales.
www.bbc.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:23 AM
untamespirit.bsky.social
Today I learned that Microsoft stopped selling their films and TV shows yesterday and today last summer when watching Black Lagoon. Now looking forward to keep a copy of a Blu-ray very soon. 😡 #tv #anime 📺
a close up of a cartoon character with a ponytail and a tattoo on her arm
Alt: a close up of Revy with a ponytail and a tattoo on her arm
media.tenor.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
What’s that? GI Joke is leaving MN? Fuck Bovino and the rest of them.
January 27, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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moryan.bsky.social
Fuck that guy, fuck that guy, and also, related: fuck that guy forever. Save up for your Nuremberg trial, you tiny nightmare goon.
nickmiroff.bsky.social Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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cybeldp.bsky.social
I'm still boycotting Target. For household goods, I highly recommend folks peruse World Market. They always have items on sale. I just bought new dish towels that make me so happy (every home needs a pop of color). www.worldmarket.com/p/red-and-pi...
Red and Pink Jacquard Tiger Kitchen Towel - World Market
You'll love the Red and Pink Jacquard Tiger Kitchen Towel at World Market. Browse our entire collection of Kitchen Linens, available online or at one of our 270+ stores.
www.worldmarket.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
There’s growing momentum to boycott the FIFA World Cup.

What I want to know is why are Canada and Mexico still hosting alongside the US? Trump wants to annex Canada and Canada is still going along with sharing the World Cup? Trump obviously doesn’t believe in Mexican sovereignty either.
January 26, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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eladn.bsky.social
From someone who knows.

Now people understand what “strong borders” have meant in practice. Hopefully it will help them see the core of what we’re actually fighting: white supremacy morphing into widespread fascism.
jennbudd.bsky.social Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 2d
Please stop saying they are untrained! This is the training. You just didn’t care bc it was always on the border aimed at undocumented people. Now you care bc it is affecting white Americans. My work on Substack documents all of this.

This. Is. The. Training.
January 26, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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rude1.blacksky.team
> We’ve seen this with Blacksky, a community centering Black voices, and Gander, a platform in development for Canadians — both on AT Protocol. Could this approach work for all of Europe?
newpublic.org New_ Public @newpublic.org · 1d
Many Europeans want to be free of American and Chinese Big Tech apps.

Open, decentralized protocols like ActivityPub (powering Mastodon) and AT Protocol (powering Bluesky) may be the key to a new sovereign social media infrastructure.
🇪🇺🌐 The future of social media may be decided in Europe
A survey of European AT Protocol projects, including 4 mini case-studies
newpublic.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:07 PM