Toby Hopwood
@tobyhopwood.bsky.social
Girldad. Sustainability, rewilding, nature, climbing, food.
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“Oh, we are just the first. This is the plan - to cause chaos, make the polls unsafe, militarise our voting”
Fulton County Commissioner gives stark warning ahead of midterms after FBI raids Georgia office over 2020 election.
Fulton County Commissioner gives stark warning ahead of midterms after FBI raids Georgia office over 2020 election.
January 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
“Oh, we are just the first. This is the plan - to cause chaos, make the polls unsafe, militarise our voting”
Fulton County Commissioner gives stark warning ahead of midterms after FBI raids Georgia office over 2020 election.
Fulton County Commissioner gives stark warning ahead of midterms after FBI raids Georgia office over 2020 election.
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Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids
January 30, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids
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Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!
January 30, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!
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The Trump administration appears to have arrested journalist Don Lemon for his coverage of the protests in Minnesota. The fact that they've chosen to target a Black, gay journalist is both predictable and significant.
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
January 30, 2026 at 1:32 PM
The Trump administration appears to have arrested journalist Don Lemon for his coverage of the protests in Minnesota. The fact that they've chosen to target a Black, gay journalist is both predictable and significant.
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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.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
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january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 AM
january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing
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This is a brutal critique of where the government has found itself, and it’s very hard to argue with. Repeated self harming strategies that are unsurprisingly causing considerable harm.
www.ft.com/content/1683...
www.ft.com/content/1683...
The abandonment of Labour’s moral crusade
The UK is taking a cynical but fruitless turn to the reactionary and insular on aid, immigration and trade
www.ft.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:05 PM
This is a brutal critique of where the government has found itself, and it’s very hard to argue with. Repeated self harming strategies that are unsurprisingly causing considerable harm.
www.ft.com/content/1683...
www.ft.com/content/1683...
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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The fox ain't just in the hen house. The fox gold-plated the hen house and put Putin on the wall and whatnot.
January 29, 2026 at 4:15 PM
The fox ain't just in the hen house. The fox gold-plated the hen house and put Putin on the wall and whatnot.
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"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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I can confirm that Sex Matters has been refused permission to bring its anti-democratic, exclusionary, and bigoted challenge to the inclusive space at Hampstead Ponds. More to follow.
January 29, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I can confirm that Sex Matters has been refused permission to bring its anti-democratic, exclusionary, and bigoted challenge to the inclusive space at Hampstead Ponds. More to follow.
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BREAKING: A gender-critical challenge the City of London's trans-inclusive arrangements at Hampstead Heath ponds has been refused permission, just as consultation responses show majority back trans inclusion pa.media/blogs/pa-edi...
January 29, 2026 at 11:48 AM
BREAKING: A gender-critical challenge the City of London's trans-inclusive arrangements at Hampstead Heath ponds has been refused permission, just as consultation responses show majority back trans inclusion pa.media/blogs/pa-edi...
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Storm Chandra:
Chandra?
That’s not a British name.
Why not Storm Colin?😤
Down here in Dorset we’ve been flooded out.
Jill in the village shop can’t get her yeast supplies for baking.
I can’t take Ramrod for a walk and Bunty is moist beyond belief!
Sort it out Starmer!
🤬
Chandra?
That’s not a British name.
Why not Storm Colin?😤
Down here in Dorset we’ve been flooded out.
Jill in the village shop can’t get her yeast supplies for baking.
I can’t take Ramrod for a walk and Bunty is moist beyond belief!
Sort it out Starmer!
🤬
January 29, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Storm Chandra:
Chandra?
That’s not a British name.
Why not Storm Colin?😤
Down here in Dorset we’ve been flooded out.
Jill in the village shop can’t get her yeast supplies for baking.
I can’t take Ramrod for a walk and Bunty is moist beyond belief!
Sort it out Starmer!
🤬
Chandra?
That’s not a British name.
Why not Storm Colin?😤
Down here in Dorset we’ve been flooded out.
Jill in the village shop can’t get her yeast supplies for baking.
I can’t take Ramrod for a walk and Bunty is moist beyond belief!
Sort it out Starmer!
🤬
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Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them:
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
January 29, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them:
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
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This campaign is built by women of all faiths and none. Muslim women, Christian women, Jewish women, secular women - all standing side by side to say: our voices will not be used to harm trans people.
Add your name, in confidence, to show you care.
✍️ Sign the letter at notinourname.org.uk
Add your name, in confidence, to show you care.
✍️ Sign the letter at notinourname.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:01 AM
This campaign is built by women of all faiths and none. Muslim women, Christian women, Jewish women, secular women - all standing side by side to say: our voices will not be used to harm trans people.
Add your name, in confidence, to show you care.
✍️ Sign the letter at notinourname.org.uk
Add your name, in confidence, to show you care.
✍️ Sign the letter at notinourname.org.uk
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I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
Donald Trump Is Frightened
Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.
newrepublic.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
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That sounds bad! 16 shootings without a charge is horrific!
But...
10 times worse, would be 160 shootings without a charge.
100 times worse, would be 1,600 shootings without a charge.
That's close to the number of Black people that US police kill every 5 years without charge.
100 times worse.
But...
10 times worse, would be 160 shootings without a charge.
100 times worse, would be 1,600 shootings without a charge.
That's close to the number of Black people that US police kill every 5 years without charge.
100 times worse.
January 28, 2026 at 9:37 AM
That sounds bad! 16 shootings without a charge is horrific!
But...
10 times worse, would be 160 shootings without a charge.
100 times worse, would be 1,600 shootings without a charge.
That's close to the number of Black people that US police kill every 5 years without charge.
100 times worse.
But...
10 times worse, would be 160 shootings without a charge.
100 times worse, would be 1,600 shootings without a charge.
That's close to the number of Black people that US police kill every 5 years without charge.
100 times worse.
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Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
January 26, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.
Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
www.wfaa.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 AM
there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.
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This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes?
We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.
www.londoncentric.media
January 24, 2026 at 6:55 AM
This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...