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malikalnasir.bsky.social
You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
February 14, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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andyscargill.bsky.social
My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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barrymalone.bsky.social
I'm holding a flash sale for annual subscriptions to my newsletter Proximities! Also, new rates for students.

www.proximities.news/p/proximitie...
Proximities flash sale! Plus student rate
Grab it while it's hot
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February 11, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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bsky.app
v1.116 is rolling out now!

For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.
A demonstration of where you can find the drafts feature in the top right corner of the post composer on Bluesky.
February 9, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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henrymance.ft.com
had no idea Tim Allen was advising Keir Starmer. in retrospect he hasn't done a film for ages
February 9, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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joenoonan.bsky.social
Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.

Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘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 6:36 AM
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ecowarriorss.bsky.social
Ireland
Not satisfied with destroying native forests wetlands hedges rivers and uplands
Its now time for Seaweed off the ocean coast to be obliterated too
Please sign and share
February 8, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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aselrod.bsky.social
Glorious
siliconrepublic.bsky.social Silicon Republic @siliconrepublic.bsky.social · 15d
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.
New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.
www.siliconrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
I thought I’d share the list of events I have coming up for my book, with details to be added for the Dublin launch on Tuesday 3 March. I promise that’ll be it after this. They’ll mostly be conversations, and I’d be glad to meet old friends and new. Thank you for sharing, and please do join us.
February 3, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
I usually hesitate to post obituaries but this one, of my literary agent, Georges Borchardt, born in 1928, is so unusual that it deserves to be widely shared.
An incredible 20th century life
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
Georges Borchardt, 97, Dies; Literary Agent Championed Wiesel’s ‘Night’
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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January 29, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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asadiablo.me
Once again, "Chuck Schumer" is a directive, not a name.
January 28, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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brucespringsteen.net
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d
Rep. Buddy Carter (also a Senate candidate) is reading the room and calling for Trump thugs to invade Atlanta. Bold strategy.
Carter op-ed: "We need a greater ICE presence in Atlanta"
January 26, 2026 at 9:18 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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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
January 26, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
It is publication today for Late Heaney I am told, although I imagine it’ll be a while before I see it between ice storms and the broad Atlantic. I thought I’d share a few thoughts about it, as it’s a different kind of book for me in form and style.

global.oup.com/academic/pro...
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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henrymance.ft.com
This is possibly my favourite quote about politics. paw.princeton.edu/article/stil...
January 26, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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praddenkeefe.bsky.social
On the counterproductivity of tear gas (and authoritarian brutality in general) from my book Say Nothing.
January 26, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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tupped.bsky.social
The images from Minneapolis are heavily redolent of those from Derry before Bloody Sunday.

The logic of challenged militarism, faced with civilian resistance, is to increase the violence levels.

That’s their one trick. Violence, or additional violence.
January 23, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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brianlyman.bsky.social
The abject failures of institutions and the people who run them have me moving from “We need a third Reconstruction” to “We need a second Constitution.” One that accepts the United States as a pluralistic nation and makes it much harder for powerful thugs to act on their whims.
unavaleable.bsky.social Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 24d
i do not know how this goes on for three more years
January 24, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the increasingly violent scenes of government thuggery and murder in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
January 24, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.

A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.

The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
January 23, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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jlcauvin.bsky.social
Reports are that Barron Trump stopped an assault on a woman by calling out "Dad, is that you?"
January 23, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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nltimes.nl
Around 40% of Dutch consider buying fewer American products amid political strains
Rising political and economic tensions between Europe and the United States are leading Dutch consumers to reconsider their purchases of American products.
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January 21, 2026 at 6:02 AM