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@fiona-webster22.bsky.social

I realize I haven't given Melania enough credit. She makes me laugh out loud—deep belly laughs... That's no small thing, in dark times.

And she gives brilliant editorial cartoonists like Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social much-needed grist for the mill...

January 28, 2026 at 10:33 PM

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Pat Bagley

@bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Malignant, dangerous people are ruining America

January 28, 2026 at 10:52 PM

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James O’Brien

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

Peter Cook on “those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War,” notwithstanding, fascists hate artists because empathy highlights their hatefulness & renders them ridiculous.

Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 16h

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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January 28, 2026 at 6:03 PM

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Rose Byrd

@rosame.bsky.social

Just imagine if Starmer was a self confessed sex pest, and convicted of just one crime, let alone 34, all in a court of law by due process, despite the best legal team (other people's) money could buy, would Piers Morgan even think of coming out with such utter tripe then?

I think not.

January 28, 2026 at 10:22 PM

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The Daily Show

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Some Republicans are speaking out against Trump's ICE operations, but Newsmax is holding strong... and stupid

January 28, 2026 at 10:46 PM

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Math F1

@mathf1.bsky.social

Who could ever have imagined this might turn into a massive security risk?

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Math F1 @mathf1.bsky.social · 11d

Nothing to see here!

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January 28, 2026 at 11:55 AM

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

@lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social who are the Traitors who enabled a foreign agent to have access to so much of our National Defence?

#ukpol #ukpolitics #peterthiel #thiel #palatnir #techbros #antichrist #siliconvalley #digitalsovereignty

January 28, 2026 at 2:50 PM

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Julia Smith #FBPE

@juliasm.bsky.social

Scary - especially if Trump sycophant Farage gets elected

Reform's proposed policies mirror what’s going on in the US right now

It states that they will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre which will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, Banks & police

January 28, 2026 at 11:38 AM

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Steve B

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I value the work of @thenerve.news so highly, that they are only one of a handful of news providers I now absolutely count on. Legacy media in the UK and US have capitulated - even once great titles.

So I support The Nerve how I can, including sharing their reports and voluntary subscription.

January 28, 2026 at 11:52 AM

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Carole Cadwalladr

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Thank you 🙏

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January 28, 2026 at 11:45 AM

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Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Please read the piece with comments from tech & national security experts.

We have no national security while we rely on highly political US Silicon Valley firms that are enmeshed in Trump’s increasing fascistic administration.
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January 28, 2026 at 11:44 AM

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Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Palantir’s stated mission is to defend America. Peter Thiel is a radical libertarian who does not believe ‘freedom & democracy are compatible’.

Yet, the UK is overwhelmingly dependent on Palantir’s services. As a national security threat, this is off the charts.
@thenerve.news
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January 28, 2026 at 11:35 AM

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Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.

It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

January 28, 2026 at 11:32 AM

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elia ayoub

@ayoub.bsky.social

I just finished reading and it is so much worse than I even imagined. Palantir effectively controls some of our most sensitive data - from nukes to the NHS - and Palantir is loyal to the US.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.

It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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January 28, 2026 at 9:11 PM

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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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tbeaumont.bsky.social

@tbeaumont.bsky.social

Noem also chose to stand behind this podium to make thase remarks.

January 28, 2026 at 12:38 PM

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Sarah Murphy

@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social

Lovely hatchet job on the monstrosity that is Suella Braverman. Crace covers it all;
her dishonesty, disloyalty, nastiness, incompetence, her wild vanity… and her deep stupidity.
How dare these utter arses think we’d be persuaded by their swaggering nonsense.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Suella makes the ultimate sacrifice as she ditches Tories for Reform | John Crace

Most of those at Monday’s event had to remind themselves that Braverman hadn’t defected long ago

www.theguardian.com

January 27, 2026 at 7:42 AM

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Ian Dunt

@iandunt.bsky.social

Full EU membership should be put to the public at the next election. It's time to return home.

inews.co.uk/opinion/rejo...

Rejoining the EU is the only way to stop Trump

It is time to return home

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January 27, 2026 at 10:54 AM

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Sarah Murphy

@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social

The ICE murders in Minneapolis are a “glimpse of what happens when fear and loathing of migrants curdles into toxic tribalism, another grim warning for all those European voters flirting with the far-right and dark forces of nationalism.”

That’s Reform in the UK.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/418...

Trump’s ICE spreads mayhem and misery – and sounds a dark warning for Europe

This is another glimpse of what happens when fear and loathing of migrants curdles into toxic tribalism

liveapp.inews.co.uk

January 26, 2026 at 7:22 AM

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Ian Dunt

@iandunt.bsky.social

Badenoch's strategic genius on full display here, telling centrist voters to fuck off, including in the 60+ seats the party lost to the Lib Dems, so she can focus on competing with an extreme right party ahead of her in the polls.

January 28, 2026 at 12:06 PM

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Bruce Springsteen

@brucespringsteen.net

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

youtu.be

January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM