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Leeds voter. When Labour wins, we should all win. Climate First. Born at 310.9 ppm #EnoughIsEnough
14 Years! Result: Tory Broken Britain #SlavaUkraïni 🌻
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warrenoates1.bsky.social
One of the biggest issues we have in the media in the UK right now is the blurring between fact & opinion.

News headlines should be facts, not opinions.

Yet @lbc.co.uk news headlines at 10am included the opinion of the Shadow Foreign Secretary as stated in an article she wrote exclusively for LBC.
February 2, 2026 at 10:04 AM
value-added24.bsky.social
@lbc.co.uk Listeners haven't forgotten who broke Britain and it wasn't a Labour Government. It was 2010 - 2024, 14 years of Tory, ham fisted mishandling and austerity, with some lining their pockets.
marg67.bsky.social marg67.bsky.social @marg67.bsky.social · 13h
They also interviewed Mel Stride on the same Starmer bashing segment .
LBC getting as bad as the Daily Mail ,James 🤔
February 2, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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newrepublic.com
All this suggests “a politically motivated prosecution,” Matthew Seligman, legal scholar at Stanford Law School said.

Trump and Bondi are demonstrating that they “don’t care about the law and don’t care about the facts. They care about prosecuting their enemies.” trib.al/inPKthk
Trump’s Agents Arrested Don Lemon. Then the Story Got Even Darker.
Trump has been raging about the former CNN journalist. Attorney General Pam Bondi just had him arrested, a move one legal expert slammed as “highly irregular.”
trib.al
February 1, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Abolish. ice. 💔
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
🎯🎯🎯🎯
January 27, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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daveweigel.bsky.social
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
“This isn’t North Korea we’re talking about - this is state sponsored torture in THIS country - happening right now”

youtu.be/yo27emO72g8?...
‘STATE SPONSORED TORTURE’ - the UK’s shocking IPP Scandal
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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January 27, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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bremaininspain.com
Reform UK = fascists in waiting.
ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 7d
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 27, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
petition.parliament.uk
January 26, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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bestforbritain.org
🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK.

Another failed Tory joins Farage.

Vote for Reform UK, get the worst of the Tories.
January 26, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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nomadpaul.bsky.social
Splitters 😂
a group of men are sitting in front of a sign that says judean people 's front
ALT: a group of men are sitting in front of a sign that says judean people 's front
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January 26, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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thesocialistdad.bsky.social
Steve Reed, the man who helped form Labour Together an organisation funded by Zionist money to destroy Corbyn and to remove all critics of the apartheid state of Israel, a state currently committing genocide with a leader who is a wanted war criminal, from the Labour Party, that Steve Reed?
January 25, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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bremaininspain.com
Trump’s brutal regime wants their citizens terrorised and silenced. Afraid to act, defend or protest. Alex Pretti knew this and still chose to stand against it. His needless death is so incredibly sad. 💔
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8d
Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.

The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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barryjames.bsky.social
from bbc.co.uk
Other agents rush over. They drag Pretti away and several agents wrestle him to the floor. Pretti then tries to crawl away - he’s clearly not holding a gun.

An agent in a grey jacket is seen reaching for something from Pretti’s waist. Next to him, another agent draws his gun.
bbc.co
January 25, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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craigwiesner.bsky.social
Yes. When ICE is following people from supermarkets to see if they are delivering food to other folks who are too scared to leave their homes, comparisons to Anne Frank are spot on.
January 25, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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florafella.bsky.social
🎈🥳💙💛🎉🎈💙💛🎊🎈🍀
Happy Birthday, Mr. President 💝
BEST LEADER of the world🫡
We wish you all the best! May your wishes come true soon.🍀
January 25, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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bremaininspain.com
Tim Waltz nails it!

They are telling us not to believe our eyes & ears. With zero investigation/waiting for evidence, or footage, American citizens are being murdered & then labelled as assassins & domestic terrorists

This is fascism! We must all stand up & fight for our collective humanity
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Walz: "I don't care if you are conservative are flying a Donald Trump flag, a libertarian 'Don't Treat on Me,' a Democratic Socialist -- this an inflection point. If we cannot all agree that the smearing of a citizen and besmirching everything they stood for -- someone has to be accountable."
January 25, 2026 at 10:29 PM
value-added24.bsky.social
It feels wrong that an MP can get elected on one platform and then just... swap? 🤷‍♀️ I’ve signed this to demand a by-election when MPs cross the floor. Let's make sure our votes actually count. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
MPs shouldn't be able to switch parties without asking us first!
I just signed a petition calling for mandatory by-elections when an MP changes their political party. We vote for a specific manifesto and set of values—if that changes, we should get to vote again. I...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 25, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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liamthorp.bsky.social
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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jane-in-progress.bsky.social
Badenoch and Farage competing for the "Biggest Traitor to their Country" prize would be hilarious if it wasn't true.
January 24, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
"Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict the accounts of federal officials, who said Mr. Pretti approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and the intent to 'massacre' them. Video footage shows Mr. Pretti stepping between a woman and an agent who is pepper spraying her. ...
January 24, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...
January 24, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM