David Winner
@dwinnera.bsky.social
Writer/journalist/ghost. Books include 'Brilliant Orange', 'Those Feet', 'Al Dente', 'Dennis Bergkamp: Stillness & Speed'. 'Excerpts from a New England: Gareth Southgate, Eight Years and Eighteen Episodes'
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
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It was so obvious at the time that he was lazy, corrupt, incompetent, breaking the rules and lying about it - but we were constantly spoon-fed crap about his domestic life instead
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It was so obvious at the time that he was lazy, corrupt, incompetent, breaking the rules and lying about it - but we were constantly spoon-fed crap about his domestic life instead
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We’ve long known it was a catastrophically perfect storm; the worst pandemic for over a century, overseen by the most incompetent prime minister in the nation’s history.
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We’ve long known it was a catastrophically perfect storm; the worst pandemic for over a century, overseen by the most incompetent prime minister in the nation’s history.
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Love to others,like my family, who shudder when headlines tell us 23,000 lives could have been saved. The chaotic,lazy Tory Gvt under Johnson,the worst Gvt at the worst time. Respect to all at @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social for giving us somewhere to go when there was nowhere to mark our loss. ❤️
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November 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Love to others,like my family, who shudder when headlines tell us 23,000 lives could have been saved. The chaotic,lazy Tory Gvt under Johnson,the worst Gvt at the worst time. Respect to all at @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social for giving us somewhere to go when there was nowhere to mark our loss. ❤️