Jonathan Kingham
@jonkingh.bsky.social
Immigration stuff mainly. Failed drummer. Qué arte tienes.
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A total failure of government communication.
January 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
A total failure of government communication.
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(3/3) @jamesbowes01.bsky.social analysis, on which the Times article is based, explains the numbers and why the government's "earned settlement" proposals are a disaster economically as well as morally. [end]
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
The coming collapse in immigration to the United Kingdom - UK in a changing Europe
James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.
ukandeu.ac.uk
January 10, 2026 at 3:57 AM
(3/3) @jamesbowes01.bsky.social analysis, on which the Times article is based, explains the numbers and why the government's "earned settlement" proposals are a disaster economically as well as morally. [end]
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
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I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
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Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread)
1. Pat Bagley
1. Pat Bagley
January 9, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread)
1. Pat Bagley
1. Pat Bagley
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Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
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UNHCR has published their observations on the government's proposed changes to asylum
www.unhcr.org/uk/media/unh...
www.unhcr.org/uk/media/unh...
January 9, 2026 at 3:03 PM
UNHCR has published their observations on the government's proposed changes to asylum
www.unhcr.org/uk/media/unh...
www.unhcr.org/uk/media/unh...
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January 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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1% of Reform UK voters have a favourable opinion of the Labour Party, compared to 98% seeing it unfavourably, including 89% who view the party *very* unfavourably.
Conservative voters are more sympathetic.
Conservative voters are more sympathetic.
Only Reform voters can save Labour
By Luke Akehurst
By Luke Akehurst
Only Reform voters can save Labour
A progressive coalition simply doesn't have the vote share
www.newstatesman.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:29 PM
1% of Reform UK voters have a favourable opinion of the Labour Party, compared to 98% seeing it unfavourably, including 89% who view the party *very* unfavourably.
Conservative voters are more sympathetic.
Conservative voters are more sympathetic.
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Jimmy Kimmel dug up a video of Stephen Miller in high school. He’s always been a complete asshole.
January 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Jimmy Kimmel dug up a video of Stephen Miller in high school. He’s always been a complete asshole.
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EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK"
The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
January 9, 2026 at 2:20 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK"
The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
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So his response to the criticism of his app generating sexual deep fakes of children is... to try to monetise it as a feature
January 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM
So his response to the criticism of his app generating sexual deep fakes of children is... to try to monetise it as a feature
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The U.S. is spending $37.5B on ICE this year—more than Canada’s entire military budget. That’s double the EPA, FDA, and OSHA combined.
It costs every household $300/yr for ICE to terrorize their neighbors. Even if ICE meets its cruel goal of 1M deportations, that’s $37.5K per person. For what?
It costs every household $300/yr for ICE to terrorize their neighbors. Even if ICE meets its cruel goal of 1M deportations, that’s $37.5K per person. For what?
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 PM
The U.S. is spending $37.5B on ICE this year—more than Canada’s entire military budget. That’s double the EPA, FDA, and OSHA combined.
It costs every household $300/yr for ICE to terrorize their neighbors. Even if ICE meets its cruel goal of 1M deportations, that’s $37.5K per person. For what?
It costs every household $300/yr for ICE to terrorize their neighbors. Even if ICE meets its cruel goal of 1M deportations, that’s $37.5K per person. For what?
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I’ve heard from multiple friends today about daycares being raided and parents being ripped out of cars (in one case with a child left behind in the backseat). Grim times here.
The situation in Minneapolis is insane: seemingly many large convoys of heavily armed masked men, blocking off streets at random, grabbing people nearly at random, racing around the city with no discernible plan or aim. Under attack by our own government the day after it killed someone
January 8, 2026 at 11:12 PM
I’ve heard from multiple friends today about daycares being raided and parents being ripped out of cars (in one case with a child left behind in the backseat). Grim times here.
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Things are awful, so a little treat for the real Crush-Heads. It is now eleven years since I got this printed in the Metro.
January 8, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Things are awful, so a little treat for the real Crush-Heads. It is now eleven years since I got this printed in the Metro.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe.
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:17 PM
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe.
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
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I keep going back to this. This is a taunt. They're taunting us. There is no other possible interpretation of what they're doing.
But media simply ignores this deranged behavior, because if they talk about it, one must conclude that DHS is a rogue agency, of villainous paramilitary thugs.
But media simply ignores this deranged behavior, because if they talk about it, one must conclude that DHS is a rogue agency, of villainous paramilitary thugs.
January 8, 2026 at 4:38 PM
I keep going back to this. This is a taunt. They're taunting us. There is no other possible interpretation of what they're doing.
But media simply ignores this deranged behavior, because if they talk about it, one must conclude that DHS is a rogue agency, of villainous paramilitary thugs.
But media simply ignores this deranged behavior, because if they talk about it, one must conclude that DHS is a rogue agency, of villainous paramilitary thugs.
I mean this is literally what will happen as a result of the Earned Settlement proposals?!?
Strong stuff from the Chancellor 💪🏻 One slight prob: her gov's NRPF policy (which restricts access to MOST benefits not just UC & which they're planning to extend to those w/ ILR) does precisely this: discriminates between children based on where parents are from www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
January 8, 2026 at 10:28 AM
I mean this is literally what will happen as a result of the Earned Settlement proposals?!?
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To be clear: this is a backlash to the perfect storm of the public failure of the neoliberal revolution in 2008, overlapping with public outrage at racist police violence and elite sex offending, all of which was intensely threatening to the personal freedom of wealthy reactionary arse-grabbers.
This was always the core proposition of right wing politics: there are special people who matter who have basically unlimited freedom, and that freedom includes a duty to batter fuck out of anyone who threatens their special status. This is what happens when the slider moves all the way right.
January 8, 2026 at 10:23 AM
To be clear: this is a backlash to the perfect storm of the public failure of the neoliberal revolution in 2008, overlapping with public outrage at racist police violence and elite sex offending, all of which was intensely threatening to the personal freedom of wealthy reactionary arse-grabbers.
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The rise of Trump has given them permission to be what they always wanted to be and to behave how they always wanted to behave. His entire sales pitch is: you don’t have to pretend any more, you can just say “I’m glad the cops, who represent me, are beating and killing people I hate”.
January 8, 2026 at 10:00 AM
The rise of Trump has given them permission to be what they always wanted to be and to behave how they always wanted to behave. His entire sales pitch is: you don’t have to pretend any more, you can just say “I’m glad the cops, who represent me, are beating and killing people I hate”.
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I appreciate a lot of us will think "they've always been like this" but the utter moral decay on the right in the last few years has been notable.
A shift from love the sinner, hate the sin fig leaf to "yeah, kill she/her, haha, pronouns in bio."
A shift from love the sinner, hate the sin fig leaf to "yeah, kill she/her, haha, pronouns in bio."
Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"
January 8, 2026 at 9:28 AM
I appreciate a lot of us will think "they've always been like this" but the utter moral decay on the right in the last few years has been notable.
A shift from love the sinner, hate the sin fig leaf to "yeah, kill she/her, haha, pronouns in bio."
A shift from love the sinner, hate the sin fig leaf to "yeah, kill she/her, haha, pronouns in bio."
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Essentially every country in the world in a party to the UN Convention on Climate Change. Including autocracies, coal and oil producers
All except one, now
Hard to have better evidence that the USA has become a rogue state
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
All except one, now
Hard to have better evidence that the USA has become a rogue state
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty and dozens of other groups
The White House says the decision was taken because those entities
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Essentially every country in the world in a party to the UN Convention on Climate Change. Including autocracies, coal and oil producers
All except one, now
Hard to have better evidence that the USA has become a rogue state
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
All except one, now
Hard to have better evidence that the USA has become a rogue state
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
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The US is pulling out of the International Law Commission, the single most important UN organ (after the International Court of Justice) dealing with, well, international law (by the way, an Austrian and my former boss August Reinisch is a member)
List of organizations, collaborations and treaties the US are pulling out of per presidential decree.
From security, climate, and peacekeeping to countless UN organizations.
Dismantling decades of work
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
From security, climate, and peacekeeping to countless UN organizations.
Dismantling decades of work
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 6:51 AM
The US is pulling out of the International Law Commission, the single most important UN organ (after the International Court of Justice) dealing with, well, international law (by the way, an Austrian and my former boss August Reinisch is a member)
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For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...
January 7, 2026 at 11:46 PM
For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...
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The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets.
It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.
It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.
January 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM
The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets.
It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.
It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.