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Marguerite
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She/Her. Long covid. Forever sci fi fan. Follower of Jesus. Mum. Trans inclusive feminist. Queer. 🌈
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peternimmo.bsky.social
Today was a good day for the UK government to announce we all had to take AI training...
paulwaldman.bsky.social Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 14h
"President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country." Such a courageous statement from Sam Altman to OpenAI employees.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
I love the US and its values of democracy and freedom and will be supportive of the country however I can; OpenAI will too. But part of loving the country is the American duty to push back against overreach. What’s happening with ICE is going too far. There is a big difference between deporting violent criminals and what’s happening now, and we need to get the distinction right. President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country. I am encouraged by the last few hours of response and hope to see trust rebuilt with transparent investigations. As a company, we aim to stick to our convictions and not get blown around by changing fashions too much. We didn’t become super woke when that was popular, we didn’t start talking about masculine corporate energy when that was popular, and we are not going to make a lot of performative statements now about safety or politics or anything else. But we are going to continue to try to figure out how to actually do the right thing as best as we can, engage with leaders and push for our values, and speak up clearly about it as needed.
January 28, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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norwichlgbtchurch.bsky.social
St Luke's in NR3 is starting a new, mid week Eucharist service called Manna. It'll be quiet and contemplative. Dinner will be served before the service. You're all very welcome, and please share with anyone you think would be interested in coming. #norwich #lgbt+ #anglican
January 28, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
If they don't want whistles let's bring back vuvuzelas
January 28, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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ilhanmn.bsky.social
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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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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georgetakei.bsky.social
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
What I want to know is where I can get a NON veritable smorgasbord. Those things are rare as fuck.
January 28, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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pandamoanimum.bsky.social
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
January 28, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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apiln.bsky.social
“I HOPE YOU’RE SATISFIED, THATCHER”
Police hunting milk thief with doorbell camera footage released
Police are appealing for help in identifying a man after milk delivered to Darlington homes was stolen
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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kieranhurley.bsky.social
they simply cannot and will not accept the public's casual refusal to embrace the descent into the sludge factory, they can only see it as a failure on our part that must be rectified at whatever expense
January 28, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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kitation.co.uk
The report is based on the assumption that the rise of “AI” is an inevitable part of progress and not, you know, a scam that’s going to implode.

We do not have to use AI, and we should not use AI as far as we are capable.
January 28, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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mattsteinglass.bsky.social
Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks
January 28, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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thomasig.bsky.social
Guardian headline: Cameron refuses to apologise to Ukip Ros Taylor Tue 4 Apr 2006 14.53 BST Share David Cameron today refused to apologise for describing the UK Independence party as "fruitcakes", "loonies" and "closet racists".
January 28, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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ewacat.bsky.social
if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good
January 28, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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okwonga.bsky.social
This interview made me dislike him even more, because he used the second chance that he was given at life to make his political career a monument to cruelty. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘It could be a shoe or a stick’: Sajid Javid on being beaten by his father, petty crime – and turning his life around
As a young teenager, Javid and his brother were caught stealing from slot machines, arrested and held in a cell. His future hung in the balance. How did he get from there to the top of UK politics?
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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petefrasermusic.bsky.social
This came up in my old posts today. Don’t know why, but it feels good to know that Andre 3000 specifically is this kind of guy.
Jason Roth @LucidJay Replying to @Hipstercrite Once Andre 3000 was on my ferry ride to Alcatraz and I said hi. My 6 y.o. autistic son came over and started talking his ear off about German Shepherds, his obsession at the time. Andre talked to him about dogs for like 20 mins. We exchanged numbers. 4 years later I got this text iMessage Aug 30, 2017, 9:38 PM Hi Jason. I was searching for a name and yours popped up. I remember our cool encounter on the boat. Ha . How's the kid ? I'm living in nyc now . So if you're ever here please reach out.
January 26, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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alexofbrown.bsky.social
After Suella Braverman's defection, 12.5% of Reform UK MPs have been photographed stepping on a guide dog
Suella Braverman standing on a dog Suella Braverman standing on a dog
January 26, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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silly.bsky.social
2028 Republican Presidential Slogan
tylerfromtheinternet.com Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 3d
"'everyone' is under arrest" Jesus Christ
acatwithnews.bsky.social Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 3d
Minneapolis, MN -

Many many more agents filing into the area around the hotel. Minneapolis PD announcing everyone is under arrest, telling them to sit down with their hands up. An ad hoc journalist squad being told to go further down the street. Chemicals irritant deployed in the road.
January 26, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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prufrockluvsong.bsky.social
This is discrimination against impatient people
Sign in front of medical building that says patient parking only
June 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
“WE HAVE COME HERE TO PROTECT YOU! AND IF KILLING YOU IS THE BEST WAY TO PROTECT YOU THEN SO BE IT” ICE MANIFESTO
January 26, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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vituperativeerb.bsky.social
I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
January 26, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
naomikritzer.bsky.social Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 3d
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
@GuntherEagleman on Twitter says, "BREAKING: The "No-Go-Zone" in Minneapolis is getting fully stocked like a pop-up leftist supply depot, free hand warmers, winter gear, coffee, food, milk, you name it. This is PROFESSIONAL-grade logistics. Someone is BANKROLLING this autonomous zone.
January 26, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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jackjenkins.me
NEW: I was one of 3 reporters granted access to the convening of 600+ clergy in Minneapolis this week.

It was a striking show of solidarity with MN clergy resisting ICE, but heralded something else: the emergence of a vast, faith-based network trained to resist ICE. religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...
Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE
(RNS)— Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement. Then they took to the streets and helped block t...
religionnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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dietrichb.bsky.social
We have citizen patrols checking empty cars like this for children and animals that were left behind in the negative temps because that’s where we are at as a society.
January 24, 2026 at 3:23 AM