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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 3d

I understand why racists want to conflate illegal with legal immigration, recently-arrived immigrants with long-term residents, UK-born minorities with non-UK born. They know they are a small minority, so they set up a cascade of equivalences to get from immigration control to mass deportation. 1/n

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

www.pewresearch.org

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Neil Atkins @atk79.bsky.social · 22d

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Neil Atkins @atk79.bsky.social · 22d

From “cancel culture is bad” to state sponsored cancel culture in the blink of an eye

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 27d

British right-wing politicians and their press allies are going to lionise someone most have never heard of & they won’t repeat what he actually said

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 29d

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed

Lawyers for Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book.

on.wsj.com

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · Sep 6

Private Eye, 6-18 Sept edition

NUMBER CRUNCHING
"Yvette Cooper and Labour thought they could dump immigrants into communities and turn a blind eye... empty hotels are being filled overnight with young foreign men."
- Shadow home secretary Chris Philp, Daily Express, 20 August

56,042 Asylum seekers being housed in hotels in September 2023, when Philp was a Home Office minister

32,059 Asylum seekers being housed in hotels in June 2025, the most recent month for which data is available

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · Sep 4

The failure of the government to denounce these thugs is completely fucking sickening.

Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

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Neil Atkins @atk79.bsky.social · Sep 3

Jeez

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Neil Atkins @atk79.bsky.social · Aug 26

Brits voted away their own free movement just to deny Europeans their free movement into Britain. I don’t think they’ve learnt anything since then.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · Jul 29

John Cazale mid-70's type run

same dog starred

Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) as Pink
Poodle
• The 'Burbs (1989) as Queenie
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991) as Precious
• Batman Returns (1992) as Ratty Poodle

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · Jul 27

DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

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Neil Atkins @atk79.bsky.social · Jul 25

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · Jul 24

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied.

The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory.

“I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled.

Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard.

“They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said.

Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said.

He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · Jul 22

got this quote at a neo-Nazi event at the University of Florida in 2017, & in the nearly 8 years since it goes viral like this every few months — I suspect because it's a pretty good summation of where the GOP has gone

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · Jul 22

"Basically, I'm just fed up with the fact that I'm cis-gendered, I'm a white male, and I lean right, towards the Republican side," said Fears, 28, wearing a pin of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS. "And I get demonized if I don't accept certain things."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Jul 8

Oh my god

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Jun 25

Since May:

Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.

Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.

A judiciary at war with itself.

Bar chart titled “The Supreme Court vs. The Lower Courts: Rulings on the Trump Administration” showing three horizontal bar charts for May 1-June 23, 2025. Federal District Courts: large red bar (82 cases, 94.3% against) with tiny green bar (5 cases, 5.7% for). Circuit Courts of Appeal: medium red bar (15 cases, 68.2% against) with smaller green bar (7 cases, 31.8% for). Supreme Court: tiny red bar (1 case, 6.3% against) with large green bar (15 cases, 93.7% for). Shows dramatic reversal from lower courts ruling against Trump administration to Supreme Court ruling for it.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · Jun 24

ICE is nabbing far more noncriminals off the streets than people with criminal convictions: four times more. cato.org/blog/ice-arr...

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Neil Atkins @atk79.bsky.social · Jun 1

Post a banger that's not in English

youtu.be/RY2YH9KjZhs?...

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · May 14

Andry Romero, a young gay man, was given an asylum appointment by the U.S. Government. When he showed up to the appointment we kidnapped him and sent him to a foreign prison.

I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · Apr 15

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Neil Atkins @atk79.bsky.social · Apr 10

The Sun's use of the word 'lag' instead of 'prisoner'.

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Neil Atkins @atk79.bsky.social · Apr 7

The dichotomy of the Trump voter who could explain away Trump's more extreme rhetoric by saying 'you're just being alarmist, he obviously won't do that, he's just shaking things up' but also professing to vote for someone who 'says it like it is'

Neil Atkins @atk79.bsky.social · Mar 30

That explains why the Octopus tracker is charging 44% below the electricity price cap today

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