Michael Sheldon 🌎
@michaelsheldo.bsky.social
Standing up for diversity, equity, inclusion, climate & social justice. InterBeing. Growing fruit & veggies. Parkrunner. Born at 319 ppm.
Apathy is the greatest ally of the authoritarian.
Silence is consent
Inaction is complicity
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Apathy is the greatest ally of the authoritarian.
Silence is consent
Inaction is complicity
NO DM'S
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‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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We need countries to send a powerful signal that Trump’s aggression and bullying won’t be tolerated.
Tell governments, football teams and sponsors to boycott the World Cup.
Boycott the World Cup action.eko.org/a/boycott-th...
We need countries to send a powerful signal that Trump’s aggression and bullying won’t be tolerated.
Tell governments, football teams and sponsors to boycott the World Cup.
Boycott the World Cup action.eko.org/a/boycott-th...
Boycott the World Cup
German officials say they might boycott the FIFA World Cup in a last ditch effort to stop Trump invading Greenland. A boycott would hit Trump where it hurts - reputation and money - and send a clear s
action.eko.org
January 21, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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We need countries to send a powerful signal that Trump’s aggression and bullying won’t be tolerated.
Tell governments, football teams and sponsors to boycott the World Cup.
Boycott the World Cup action.eko.org/a/boycott-th...
We need countries to send a powerful signal that Trump’s aggression and bullying won’t be tolerated.
Tell governments, football teams and sponsors to boycott the World Cup.
Boycott the World Cup action.eko.org/a/boycott-th...
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Horsley (Derbyshire) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 43.6% (+16.7)
➡️ RFM: 35.5% (+0.6)
🌳 CON: 13.9% (-9.0)
🌹 LAB: 3.8% (-6.5)
☑️ ADV: 1.9% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.4% (-2.0)
No Ind (-1.7) as previous.
Green GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🌍 GRN: 43.6% (+16.7)
➡️ RFM: 35.5% (+0.6)
🌳 CON: 13.9% (-9.0)
🌹 LAB: 3.8% (-6.5)
☑️ ADV: 1.9% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.4% (-2.0)
No Ind (-1.7) as previous.
Green GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
January 21, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Horsley (Derbyshire) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 43.6% (+16.7)
➡️ RFM: 35.5% (+0.6)
🌳 CON: 13.9% (-9.0)
🌹 LAB: 3.8% (-6.5)
☑️ ADV: 1.9% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.4% (-2.0)
No Ind (-1.7) as previous.
Green GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🌍 GRN: 43.6% (+16.7)
➡️ RFM: 35.5% (+0.6)
🌳 CON: 13.9% (-9.0)
🌹 LAB: 3.8% (-6.5)
☑️ ADV: 1.9% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.4% (-2.0)
No Ind (-1.7) as previous.
Green GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
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NEW | VIDEO
‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
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‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
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youtu.be/0goGamFRtO0
Europe needs a dramatic strategic revolution - now: historian Robert Kagan
YouTube video by The Nerve
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January 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM
NEW | VIDEO
‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
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‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
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Don't forget that Nigel Farage supported
megalomaniac, paedophile, fraudster
Donald Trump getting a 2nd term as president
"He's consistent at least… at getting things spectacularly wrong!"
via TEGAN DELETE THIS FFS
megalomaniac, paedophile, fraudster
Donald Trump getting a 2nd term as president
"He's consistent at least… at getting things spectacularly wrong!"
via TEGAN DELETE THIS FFS
January 21, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Don't forget that Nigel Farage supported
megalomaniac, paedophile, fraudster
Donald Trump getting a 2nd term as president
"He's consistent at least… at getting things spectacularly wrong!"
via TEGAN DELETE THIS FFS
megalomaniac, paedophile, fraudster
Donald Trump getting a 2nd term as president
"He's consistent at least… at getting things spectacularly wrong!"
via TEGAN DELETE THIS FFS
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This is what you do when you’re running death camps
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM
This is what you do when you’re running death camps
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Message from 1942.
1942.
Everything old is still here...
(transcript below)
1942.
Everything old is still here...
(transcript below)
January 19, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Message from 1942.
1942.
Everything old is still here...
(transcript below)
1942.
Everything old is still here...
(transcript below)
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Reposted by Michael Sheldon 🌎
Mine earlier today with @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk. After Starmer's press conference...now what?
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/883660...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/883660...
January 19, 2026 - Starmer aims for "calm discussion" with Trump to solve Greeenland crisis
Simon's live update from Washington for James O'Brien's morning programme on the UK's LBC. As Sir Keir Starmer vows to solve the Greeenland crisis via "calm discussion" with...
audioboom.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Mine earlier today with @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk. After Starmer's press conference...now what?
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/883660...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/883660...
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Donald Trump wants to steal Greenland and a group funded by tech billionaires wants to build a weird new tech city there.
Video explainer via The Nerd Reich
www.youtube.com/watch?v=07sK...
Video explainer via The Nerd Reich
www.youtube.com/watch?v=07sK...
Why Tech Billionaires Want to Seize Greenland | Gil Duran of The Nerd Reich Explains
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
www.youtube.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Donald Trump wants to steal Greenland and a group funded by tech billionaires wants to build a weird new tech city there.
Video explainer via The Nerd Reich
www.youtube.com/watch?v=07sK...
Video explainer via The Nerd Reich
www.youtube.com/watch?v=07sK...
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"Buried within the kind of crony capitalist network that has propelled Trump’s imperialism is something far stranger, and far darker, than simply seizing Greenland’s resources for financial gain."
@cjcmichel.bsky.social on the Network State and Greenland.
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
@cjcmichel.bsky.social on the Network State and Greenland.
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland
Trump’s fixation on filching the island territory from Denmark may seem like the demented ravings of a mad king. But to a cohort of plutocrat weirdos, it makes perfect sense.
newrepublic.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:34 PM
"Buried within the kind of crony capitalist network that has propelled Trump’s imperialism is something far stranger, and far darker, than simply seizing Greenland’s resources for financial gain."
@cjcmichel.bsky.social on the Network State and Greenland.
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
@cjcmichel.bsky.social on the Network State and Greenland.
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
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Just posted on @theguardian.com,
'When Starmer said,
"Any decision about the future status of Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland and Denmark alone. That right is fundamental."
Does that right extend to Palestine, if not what are the criteria for such rights?'
The post got deleted!
'When Starmer said,
"Any decision about the future status of Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland and Denmark alone. That right is fundamental."
Does that right extend to Palestine, if not what are the criteria for such rights?'
The post got deleted!
January 19, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Just posted on @theguardian.com,
'When Starmer said,
"Any decision about the future status of Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland and Denmark alone. That right is fundamental."
Does that right extend to Palestine, if not what are the criteria for such rights?'
The post got deleted!
'When Starmer said,
"Any decision about the future status of Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland and Denmark alone. That right is fundamental."
Does that right extend to Palestine, if not what are the criteria for such rights?'
The post got deleted!
🚨 NHS England is rolling out Palantir software for our health records - handing huge power to a US firm with a track record in surveillance, military technology and human rights abuses.
Email your local Trust and say NO to Palantir in the NHS: notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
Email your local Trust and say NO to Palantir in the NHS: notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
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 19, 2026 at 12:47 PM
🚨 NHS England is rolling out Palantir software for our health records - handing huge power to a US firm with a track record in surveillance, military technology and human rights abuses.
Email your local Trust and say NO to Palantir in the NHS: notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
Email your local Trust and say NO to Palantir in the NHS: notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
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Did anyone else note that Starmer says he spoke to Trump yesterday and said he welcomed the role he is playing in Gaza?
Pardon? What? He welcomes the post genocidal rebuidling of Gaza as a playground for the rich? Either Starmer is a fool, or he is very dangerous. He might, of course, be both.
Pardon? What? He welcomes the post genocidal rebuidling of Gaza as a playground for the rich? Either Starmer is a fool, or he is very dangerous. He might, of course, be both.
January 19, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Did anyone else note that Starmer says he spoke to Trump yesterday and said he welcomed the role he is playing in Gaza?
Pardon? What? He welcomes the post genocidal rebuidling of Gaza as a playground for the rich? Either Starmer is a fool, or he is very dangerous. He might, of course, be both.
Pardon? What? He welcomes the post genocidal rebuidling of Gaza as a playground for the rich? Either Starmer is a fool, or he is very dangerous. He might, of course, be both.
Can't help wondering if Starmer gave his lunch money to the Big Little Dick in the schoolyard everyday.
I hate to say it but Europe should not trust the UK under Starmer.
I hate to say it but Europe should not trust the UK under Starmer.
January 19, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Can't help wondering if Starmer gave his lunch money to the Big Little Dick in the schoolyard everyday.
I hate to say it but Europe should not trust the UK under Starmer.
I hate to say it but Europe should not trust the UK under Starmer.
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It was inevitable.
Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
techcrunch.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:02 AM
It was inevitable.
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The British far-right aren't making any secret of what they want for the UK. They're literally printing it in headlines.
Ceding all forms of autonomy to Trump is now a well-established position within Britain's media and among British media owners.
January 18, 2026 at 12:40 PM
The British far-right aren't making any secret of what they want for the UK. They're literally printing it in headlines.
Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social substack on the nail again.
I wonder how much our friends in the EU actually trust the UK vassal state.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social substack on the nail again.
I wonder how much our friends in the EU actually trust the UK vassal state.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster
broligarchy.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social substack on the nail again.
I wonder how much our friends in the EU actually trust the UK vassal state.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social substack on the nail again.
I wonder how much our friends in the EU actually trust the UK vassal state.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
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Thank you so much to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for inviting me onto his podcast. We talked about critical issues the media & political establishment is ignoring such as the extraordinarily dumb & dangerous UK defence deal with Peter Thiel’s Palantir
"Peter Thiel... the founder of this company, does not believe in democracy"
January 15, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Thank you so much to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for inviting me onto his podcast. We talked about critical issues the media & political establishment is ignoring such as the extraordinarily dumb & dangerous UK defence deal with Peter Thiel’s Palantir
The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 17, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
Trump is a bully but not a very good one.
Repeatedly shooting yourself in the foot with taxing your own citizens is not a great strategy.
Repeatedly shooting yourself in the foot with taxing your own citizens is not a great strategy.
BREAKING: Trump has imposed massive tariffs on Europe to try to force the annexation of Greenland.
At the same time, the largest protest in Greenland’s history is happening against Trump.
I spoke with someone live and on the ground in Greenland for exclusive coverage:
At the same time, the largest protest in Greenland’s history is happening against Trump.
I spoke with someone live and on the ground in Greenland for exclusive coverage:
NEWS: Trump Imposes Massive Tariffs on Europe to Force Annexation of Greenland, Live Exclusive Coverage From Greenland
Good afternoon everyone.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Trump is a bully but not a very good one.
Repeatedly shooting yourself in the foot with taxing your own citizens is not a great strategy.
Repeatedly shooting yourself in the foot with taxing your own citizens is not a great strategy.
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There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products.
I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits.
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I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits.
🤷♂️
January 17, 2026 at 5:09 PM
There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products.
I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits.
🤷♂️
I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits.
🤷♂️
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Here is the list of the MPs who were officers and supporters of Labour Friends of Israel before it suddenly removed this page from its website.
January 9, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Here is the list of the MPs who were officers and supporters of Labour Friends of Israel before it suddenly removed this page from its website.