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elia ayoub

@ayoub.bsky.social

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 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM

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Thought Bubble Festival

@thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social

Exhibitor applications are now open for Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2026!! Find all the information, and how to apply, here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/exhibit

The deadline is 11:59pm (GMT) on Sunday 8 February 2026.

January 21, 2026 at 1:02 PM

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Good Law Project

@goodlawproject.bsky.social

🚨 6 DAYS LEFT 🚨

We have just one week to stop Sex Matters infiltrating a vote to ban conversion therapy.

Over 5,000 have taken action. Will you join them?
https://action.goodlawproject.org/stop-sex-matters-infiltrating-the-council-of-europe

Stop Sex Matters infiltrating the Council of Europe

In just one week, the Council of Europe will be voting to ban conversion therapy. This would be an incredibly important step to stop the rollback in the rights of LGBTQ+ people. But Sex Matters is inf...

action.goodlawproject.org

January 25, 2026 at 10:32 AM

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Loui Stonehill

@louistonehill.bsky.social

For anyone outside the EU, please share anyway so there's a chance more europeans will see this.
Europe is one of the major contributors to Israel, keeping the state artificially afloat, and we're, a lot of us, sick of the complicity!

Let's get this thing rolling!!

Guy Pradel @pradaldi.bsky.social · 11d

For my followers in the EU, there is an European citizens’ initiative you can sign to demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
If you are for BDS this would be a huge step up.

eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Justice for Palestine
Stop EU trade with criminals

January 25, 2026 at 11:12 AM

Jules Scheele

@julesscheele.bsky.social

January 24, 2026 at 1:14 PM

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Adam Sawyer

@adamjst.bsky.social

If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.

It is the misfortune of Minnesota’s ICE contingent to have invaded the state with the second-highest levels of social trust, trailing only Utah. Many activist networks were formed in 2020; we are seeing, Petrus says, Minnesotans call upon the “muscle memory” of the George Floyd protests. In mid-January, a neighborhood organization for a part of town called Whittier put out a call for a meeting to organize a “Neighborhood ICE response”; more than 800 people showed up at the local elementary school and formed a tidy line extending well beyond the door. (“Why a line?” I ask someone later. “Because we are in Minnesota,” he says.) In the cafeteria, in their big coats, adults struggled to get their legs through benches attached to long lunch tables. Because there were too many Minnesotans to fit in a single room, officials and parents and teachers went room to room giving the same speeches about how to help neighbors in hiding. They then gridded out the rooms, dividing the neighborhood into smaller subdivisions. Close neighbors met one another (“Oh, you live on the other side of the museum”) and formed hyperlocal Signal groups. At the first sighting of an agent, someone could ping the group and draw them outside. Their favored tactic was noise. They would make it impossible for ICE to conduct raids in secret.

January 23, 2026 at 5:57 PM

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Elizabeth Lopatto

@lopatto.bsky.social

hey did you see a headline on google? turns out that headline might be an llm hallucination www.theverge.com/tech/865168/...

Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI

“This feature performs well for user satisfaction,” claims Google.

www.theverge.com

January 23, 2026 at 7:54 PM

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Marie Leanne Shrewsbury

@crapcerealandpills.bsky.social

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/numb...

Remember how The Times claimed there was a 1,000 family class action against the Tavistock clinic?

We got a FOI out of them, it never happened.

"The Trust confirms that it has not received any complaints which have been persued by law firm Pogust Goodhead"

Number of complaints by families about Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). - a Freedom of Information request to Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

With regards to the former Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). For the period between 2012 and 2022 please provide the following information. 1) Total number of complaints made about this cl...

www.whatdotheyknow.com

January 23, 2026 at 8:24 AM

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Natacha

@natacha.bsky.social

URGENT:

Very important action by @goodlawproject.bsky.social

Transphobes are trying to infiltrate the Council of Europe to roll back LGBTQ+ human rights by writing en masse to MPs on the CoE.

Please use this tool to write to those MPs to counter this.

Do it now. We have a week.

Please share.

Stop Sex Matters infiltrating the Council of Europe

In just one week, the Council of Europe will be voting to ban conversion therapy. This would be an incredibly important step to stop the rollback in the rights of LGBTQI+ people. But Sex Matters is in...

action.goodlawproject.org

January 23, 2026 at 1:35 PM

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rat-man

@affablebrian.bsky.social

They u-turned on digital ID, maybe we can get them to U-turn on working with the company named after a device of incomprehensible evil from the lord of the rings

Say no to Palantir in the NHS

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

notopalantir.goodlawproject.org

January 23, 2026 at 7:40 AM

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

@gavia.bsky.social

Out now on Overinvested, our long-awaited episode on HEATED RIVALRY, covering the show's brilliantly paced romantic storytelling, its depiction of hockey culture, and much more. www.overinvestedpodcast.com/episodes/202...

Ep. 331: Heated Rivalry — OVERINVESTED

Claire and Gavia share their thoughts on the hottest show of the moment, breaking down Heated Rivalry's pitch-perfect romantic structure, its subtly insightful depiction of hockey culture, the sizzlin...

www.overinvestedpodcast.com

January 19, 2026 at 11:57 PM

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s. e. smith

@sesmith.lol

'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5d

The idea that there are no protests in the US and no one is standing up to Trump is proving incredibly hard to kill over here in Germany. It’s become dogma, utterly detached from empirical reality.

I wonder if the people who keep talking like that understand they’re perpetuating regime propaganda.

January 21, 2026 at 3:48 PM

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Aurelien Mondon

@aurelmondon.bsky.social

This would not happen in a democracy, which is why, if we are serious about our commitment to it, we must accept we do not currently live in democracies and that moving towards such a system would require radical change rather than faith in the status quo

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam

Governments opting for oligarchy while brutally repressing protests over austerity and lack of jobs, charity report says

www.theguardian.com

January 19, 2026 at 7:34 AM

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Erika Price

@erikapriceart.bsky.social

If you like indie comics and visceral black and white horror art you should check out my work.

I sell print copies of my books at erikapriceart.bigcartel.com

Digital copies at erikapriceart.itch.io

And I have a patreon too www.patreon.com/c/erikaprice...

January 18, 2026 at 3:08 PM

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george ✨

@deejaygeejaygee.bsky.social

one year since David Lynch passed, happy friday and RIP big dawg

January 16, 2026 at 10:06 AM

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Lisa Severn

@lisasevern.uk

The Darlington nurses tribunal judgement is out, and the media is portraying it as a win for the nurses

I'd urge everyone to wait for a full analysis of the judgement so we can separate the issues particular to this case from those that might affect all of us

Don't let the propaganda get to you 💜

January 16, 2026 at 11:45 AM

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WIRED

@wired.com

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

WIRED @wired.com · 18d

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.

If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

www.wired.com

January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM

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Joey Esposito

@joeyesposito.bsky.social

think of all the cool art we’re missing out on because creators are constantly fighting to survive economically, fighting against corporations trying to automate creation, battling online trolls, nagging to get paid for work completed, learning to be being social media marketers, learning to be publ

January 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM

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depths of wikipedia

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM

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//Penumbra//

@sheeropacity.bsky.social

"During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night.

The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for."

Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12d

I'm gonna say this with all the kindness in my heart: you aren't going to survive if you don't let your life have room for other things.

This is not a short term fight where we can just go 24/7 and then it will be over. We've got YEARS ahead of us. Take a break. Hydrate. Go bake something. Breathe.

January 14, 2026 at 7:35 PM

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Robert Hutton

@roberthutton.co.uk

Artificial Unintelligence: the government is in full retreat over copyright, and the attempts to make it look dignified only make it funnier. My SKETCH.
thecritic.co.uk/arti...

Which brings us to the House of Lords Digital Committee, which is looking at the government’s brilliant idea of giving away everyone’s copyright to American artificial intelligence giants, in return for a bag of magic beans that can only be seen by the very wisest ministers. A consultation on this last year found it was supported by just three percent of respondents, which must be some kind of record. That’s even smaller than the number of people who believe that the Loch Ness monster is real, or that Keir Starmer is doing a good job.

On Tuesday, the committee was treated to a joint appearance from Technology Secretary Liz Kendall and Claims-To-Be-Culture-Secretary Lisa Nandy. Two secretaries of state at once! Or one-and-a-half, anyway. “I don’t think our secretaries of state need much introduction,” Committee Chair Baroness Keeley said. Other opinions are available.

They had come, it turned out, not to defend their own proposals, but to bury them. “We are having a genuine reset mom

January 13, 2026 at 8:34 PM

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mindflakes

@mindflakes.bsky.social

We're not supposed to know what goes on at the bottom of the ocean. I saw this thing that looked like a carrier bag full of eyes holding an umbrella. That's nobody's business

January 12, 2026 at 12:47 PM