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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Barbara Chambers @wokinglass.bsky.social · 1d

Shame I was looking forward to becoming Finnish. 🤣

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the racist Robert Jenrick.

Letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to the racist Robert Jenrick.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Barbara Chambers @wokinglass.bsky.social · 1d

What drugs are these MAGA lunatics on?

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jan 15

How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded today when I asked which of the communities living in the UK she was referring to when she described them as "peasants"

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill”
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...

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justtim99.bsky.social @justtim99.bsky.social · 1d

And there this⬇️⬇️⬇️

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17d

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Barbara Chambers @wokinglass.bsky.social · 1d

It transpires that Jenrick lives in a white ghetto…155 of the 156 residents are white. He has not integrated at all. Fun fact : Jenrick’s constituency of Newark is an anagram of what he is!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Am I alone in suspecting he wears this wig quite a lot in more private moments?

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Jenrick delivers one of the most asinine speeches I have ever heard. He even brought along a prop, to explain how a judge becomes impartial setting aside personal views, then went on to attack judges for having views. His solution? Abolish tribunals. And who will adjudicate cases? Pfft. Details. ~AA

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Barbara Chambers @wokinglass.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking News. Honest Bob Jenrick lives in a white ghetto.

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Barbara Chambers @wokinglass.bsky.social · 1d

Rather apt that his constituency is an anagram of Wanker!!

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Barbara Chambers @wokinglass.bsky.social · 1d

Oh great the whole American government machinery looking into a non existent organisation. The Administration..every single member is as thick as pigshit.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

This is shocking racism from Jenrick and Badenoch should sack him immediately.

No further comment necessary.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

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Gary Gilligan #FBPE #KTTO @garygilligan.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting that the most reported things I have seen about the Tory Conference so far is about a spelling error on a chocolate bar and Jenrick ranting about white faces

Not exactly "cutting through" are they?

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 1d

We have an independent judiciary in this country. Robert Jenrick wants puppet judges.

The Conservative Party once believed in the rule of law and our shared British values - no longer.

Robert Jenrick holds up a judges wig like a puppet during his speech to the Conservative Party Conference.

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Barbara Chambers @wokinglass.bsky.social · 1d

Did he close his eyes during the 5 interviews of ….white… people? No interviews of different coloured people despite them being everywhere! How very very strange!!

Barbara Chambers @wokinglass.bsky.social · 1d

And yet Jenrick managed to interview 5 white people there and film it. The man is a racist and a liar.

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