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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 1h

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Work Rights Centre @workrights.bsky.social · 1h

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Detention Action @detentionaction.bsky.social · 4h

People seeking asylum are given only seven days to challenge their removal to France. Predictably, the system in place to provide legal support for people in detention is failing. Some are unable to obtain legal representation and end up missing crucial deadlines.

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Micro Rainbow @microrainbow.org · 4h

It's #InternationalLesbianDay today!

Celebrate lesbians today by reading about Virginia, a #lesbian woman from Kenya who lives in one of Micro Rainbow's safe houses for #LGBTQI people fleeing persecution.

microrainbow.org/lesbian-visi...

Lesbian Visibility Day: Let the shadow out

This Lesbian Visibility Day, read Virginia's story, and her poem, about owning and embracing being a lesbian. #changingLGBTQiLives

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Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social · 5h

New from Free Movement: Immigration roundup podcast: September 2025 | Sonia Lenegan

Immigration roundup podcast: September 2025 - Free Movement

To access previous Free Movement podcasts click here.

freemovement.org.uk

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 21h

Join Waltham Forest Migrant Action and Stories & Supper for a screening of Name Me Lawand.

📆 06 November

⏰ 6.30 pm

📍William Morris Gallery

🍹Refreshments and welcome talks from 6.30pm

🎬 Screening at 7pm

🧾 Tickets £10/ £5 concessions can be purchased here ➡️
bookwhen.com/storiesandsu...

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 19h

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21h

Honestly I hate Jenrick more than Farage. Far more sinister because of the speed of his transformation from off-the-shelf Tory mediocrity into dead-eyed National Front race-baiter

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Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social · 22h

New from Free Movement: Free Movement Weekly Newsletter #89 | Sonia Lenegan

Free Movement Weekly Newsletter #89 - Free Movement

Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter!

freemovement.org.uk

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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Detention Action @detentionaction.bsky.social · 1d

Many people we support who are facing removal to France speak little to no English. The Home Office only provides crucial information in English with very limited interpretation. People seeking asylum often don't know why they're detained, some even after weeks locked away.

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 1d

Oh no Kemi Badenoch is spelling out her immigration acrostic on the radio

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Your reminder that Robert Jenrick isn’t interested in judges being unbiased or apolitical: on the contrary, like the far right media, he wants to intimidate or control judges into making decisions which reflect *his* political biases

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 1d

More in the breathless, breaking stop-the-presses, and not at all confected story, that judges, before they were judges, were involved in practising law. Take 5 seconds to appreciate just how hard into "swivel-eyed loon" Robert Jenrick is being allowed to lean:

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @handle.invalid · 1d

Making lists of the judiciary always a good sign for a political figure

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 1d

More in the breathless, breaking stop-the-presses, and not at all confected story, that judges, before they were judges, were involved in practising law. Take 5 seconds to appreciate just how hard into "swivel-eyed loon" Robert Jenrick is being allowed to lean:

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Micro Rainbow @microrainbow.org · 1d

For Black History Month, our National Director Moud Goba shares 3 practical ways to push back against anti-refugee hate.

Support our work by becoming a Micro Rainbow ally👉 microrainbow.org/become-an-al...

#Refugees #BlackHistoryMonth #ChangingLGBTQILives #PowerAndPride2025

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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 2d

Oh - and I just remembered that I managed to provoke Barry into talking about his Most Famous case (the story of Theresa May and the dreaded cat)

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 2d

Podcast! Get your fresh podcast while it's still hot! open.spotify.com/episode/4O8o...

Immigration roundup: September 2025

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 2d

I do enjoy when they come out and complain how much its taking up of their resources to arrest people holding signs as terrorists. Like nooo bubu is it a lot of work to opress dissent? Is it wasting your time? Aww well best just continue as you were babe crush that free speech such hard work

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @handle.invalid · 2d

Also even if there is Top Secret material justifying a ban, it’s very difficult I think to argue that retired GPs and Quaker students holding up a cardboard sign are party to that information or responsible for it

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

When Yvette Cooper was Home Sec she hinted the govt had further material justifying a ban that they couldn’t reveal because of the legal process. If so, better to get that out in daylight ASAP. Because as things stand they have clearly not made the case for proscription to the public’s satisfaction.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

When Yvette Cooper was Home Sec she hinted the govt had further material justifying a ban that they couldn’t reveal because of the legal process. If so, better to get that out in daylight ASAP. Because as things stand they have clearly not made the case for proscription to the public’s satisfaction.

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

Australia lacks ‘legitimate objective’ in fast-tracking Nauru deportations, Labor-led committee finds

Parliamentary committee warns international human rights obligations could be breached under new regime * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government does not have a “legitimate objective” in denying fair hearings to those set to be deported to Nauru and could place Australia in breach of international human rights obligations, a Labor-chaired committee has found. The joint human rights committee’s scrutiny of the law said the changes would “likely exacerbate the underlying human rights concerns” with the regime to off-load more than 350 NZYQ-affected noncitizens to Nauru as part of a $2.5bn deal. Continue reading...

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d

"the Bad Faith Threshold" is a great coinage.

The first wave of comments on a post, from those who do actually follow you, is usually interesting or fun or both.

But the later waves are of scolds, humourless reply-guys, "sorry to be pedantics", "whatabouts", and "why are you insulting".

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, I see this post has crossed the Bad Faith Threshold: that indefinable moment on social media when people stop behaving as if you’re a normal human person who, say, loves your child and is making a mildly humorous observation, and start responding with wild criticisms and imagined slights.

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday my eleven-year-old daughter claimed that Taylor Swift had embraced a range of genres which included punk. The retribution was swift and included considerable mockery and a lesson on punk which probably took longer than she would have liked.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 5d

‘The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era.’

In his final piece for the LRB, Conor Gearty writes on the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the HRA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Lewis Graham @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s the Wolfson Report recommending the UK leaves the ECHR

www.conservatives.com/wolfson-fina...

Take a shot every time Policy Exchange is cited as authority for a dubious legal proposition and you’ll be drunk before the end of the first chapter

Wolfson Final Report | Conservatives

Wolfson Final Report

www.conservatives.com

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