Charles Leonard
@charles257.bsky.social
Progressive journalist, editor, podcaster, card-carrying Joburger, Arsenal fan, amateur DJ and obsessive record collector.
Unfortunately no gofund requests will be considered — I’m a poor journo.
Unfortunately no gofund requests will be considered — I’m a poor journo.
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Public ownership of water is the only way to deliver security, efficiency, investment and value for money leftfootforward.org/2026/01/publ...
February 2, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Public ownership of water is the only way to deliver security, efficiency, investment and value for money leftfootforward.org/2026/01/publ...
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NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:26 PM
NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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I love that Trump can’t win with his Kennedy center, so he’s just closing it for two years!
What the Kennedy family should do now is ask for their name to be taken off Trump‘s center and have some wealthy donors build a brand new Kennedy center.
What the Kennedy family should do now is ask for their name to be taken off Trump‘s center and have some wealthy donors build a brand new Kennedy center.
February 2, 2026 at 1:04 AM
I love that Trump can’t win with his Kennedy center, so he’s just closing it for two years!
What the Kennedy family should do now is ask for their name to be taken off Trump‘s center and have some wealthy donors build a brand new Kennedy center.
What the Kennedy family should do now is ask for their name to be taken off Trump‘s center and have some wealthy donors build a brand new Kennedy center.
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Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:
“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
February 2, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:
“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
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MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 AM
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
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NEW 🚨 🇵🇸 UpScrolled, a Palestinian-owned app, is a response to TikTok's content suppression — offering an alternative in times of ironclad censorship @skwawkbox.org writes.
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
Pro-Palestinian app Upscrolled tops charts, as users flee pro-Zionist TikTok
UpScrolled, a Palestinian-owned app, is a response to TikTok's content suppression — offering an alternative in times of ironclad censorship
www.thecanary.co
January 27, 2026 at 12:36 PM
NEW 🚨 🇵🇸 UpScrolled, a Palestinian-owned app, is a response to TikTok's content suppression — offering an alternative in times of ironclad censorship @skwawkbox.org writes.
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
January 25, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
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ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing?
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.
January 24, 2026 at 4:28 PM
ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing?
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.
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Abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who stays in it from this day forward as members of a criminal conspiracy to commit murder.
January 24, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who stays in it from this day forward as members of a criminal conspiracy to commit murder.
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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It seems as though ICE has been instructed to escalate the violence to justify more violence, and to create propaganda to make us forget we outnumber them 10,000 to 1.
🚨BREAKING: ICE unleashes ONSLAUGHT of flash bang grenades and chemical ammunition at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in WAR-LIKE attack. Several protesters struck. Our reporter @zdroberts.bsky.social struck in the head.
"I got hit in the head really bad." LIVE NOW ⬇️
"I got hit in the head really bad." LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 3:45 AM
It seems as though ICE has been instructed to escalate the violence to justify more violence, and to create propaganda to make us forget we outnumber them 10,000 to 1.
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First of all, good for her for calmly standing her ground and ignoring all the empty threats -- "we're gonna put you in the car and ID you!" -- until these goons give up and slink away.
Second, the irony of masked agents of the state with no name plates demanding *other* people identify themselves?
Second, the irony of masked agents of the state with no name plates demanding *other* people identify themselves?
January 12, 2026 at 8:55 PM
First of all, good for her for calmly standing her ground and ignoring all the empty threats -- "we're gonna put you in the car and ID you!" -- until these goons give up and slink away.
Second, the irony of masked agents of the state with no name plates demanding *other* people identify themselves?
Second, the irony of masked agents of the state with no name plates demanding *other* people identify themselves?
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Israelis don't just kill children, they torture them as well.
January 13, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Israelis don't just kill children, they torture them as well.
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Dave Smith: “We can prop up Israel as they slaughter like a hundred thousand innocent people, but coincidentally we become humanitarians when it's Israel's biggest regional rival [Iran]...it's too f*cking crazy.”
January 13, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Dave Smith: “We can prop up Israel as they slaughter like a hundred thousand innocent people, but coincidentally we become humanitarians when it's Israel's biggest regional rival [Iran]...it's too f*cking crazy.”
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Speaking through tears from Gaza, journalist Bisan Owda says destruction continues even without active bombardment.
Powerful winds and heavy rain caused partially destroyed buildings to collapse on sleeping families,
Powerful winds and heavy rain caused partially destroyed buildings to collapse on sleeping families,
January 13, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Speaking through tears from Gaza, journalist Bisan Owda says destruction continues even without active bombardment.
Powerful winds and heavy rain caused partially destroyed buildings to collapse on sleeping families,
Powerful winds and heavy rain caused partially destroyed buildings to collapse on sleeping families,
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During the night, Israeli occupation forces broke into the home of elderly Palestinian Maher Kharraz in the occupied West Bank and kidnapped him.
January 13, 2026 at 5:38 AM
During the night, Israeli occupation forces broke into the home of elderly Palestinian Maher Kharraz in the occupied West Bank and kidnapped him.
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The “problem” IS NOT that “Iran is protesting.”
The problem is that no one is listening to Iranians protest against American and Israeli imperialism. They don’t want to die from bombs for capitalism.
And the MSM ain’t gonna tell you that.
The problem is that no one is listening to Iranians protest against American and Israeli imperialism. They don’t want to die from bombs for capitalism.
And the MSM ain’t gonna tell you that.
January 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM
The “problem” IS NOT that “Iran is protesting.”
The problem is that no one is listening to Iranians protest against American and Israeli imperialism. They don’t want to die from bombs for capitalism.
And the MSM ain’t gonna tell you that.
The problem is that no one is listening to Iranians protest against American and Israeli imperialism. They don’t want to die from bombs for capitalism.
And the MSM ain’t gonna tell you that.
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The word Americans don’t wanna hear- Revolution.
January 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
The word Americans don’t wanna hear- Revolution.
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
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I like how they’ve chosen a picture of Musk where he looks like he’s been told no more wanking in the office.
Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI
Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI
Grok is being used to digitally remove women's clothing - something victims describe as "dehumanising".
www.bbc.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I like how they’ve chosen a picture of Musk where he looks like he’s been told no more wanking in the office.