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Rachel Taylor-Beales
@racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social
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Creative leftie- mostly singing, writing and painting.

https://racheltaylor-beales.bandcamp.com

https://www.racheltaylor-beales.com
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shirley-sings.bsky.social
I’m so looking forward to seeing what we create with this new collaborative project.

We’ll be starting new social media profiles over the coming days. Meantime, please consider a follow at theuntangledknot.bandcamp.com

@johnreed.bandcamp.com
@racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social
#BethPorter
February 14, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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johnreed.bandcamp.com
Our new collaboration begins. Work won't begin until 2 April, but we'd appreciate a follow on our page at theuntangledknot.bandcamp.com

I'm delighted to be working with @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social and #BethPorterCello on this exciting new project 😎 🎼🎤
February 14, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services.

Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.

Please do keep sharing!

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 13, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.

Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
February 13, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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kateosbornemp.bsky.social
The High Court today confirms that the EHRC's draft code of practice got the law wrong and must be changed.

Women's and men's toilets can be provided on a trans- inclusive basis for customers and service users.
February 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM
racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social
Introducing The Untangled Knot, a brand new collaborative community and performance project with alt-folk artists @johnreed.bandcamp.com @shirley-sings.bsky.social and Beth Porter. Please head over to our new bandcamp page, and give us a follow there. theuntangledknot.bandcamp.com/album/meet-t...
February 12, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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penfriendrocks.bsky.social
It’s Bandcamp Day, when the platform I’ve been releasing music on since 2009 celebrates their artists by taking 0% of sales. They are good eggs!

I’m celebrating with a set of live recordings made on my December tour.

Get your copy FREE / PWYW

➡️ penfriendrocks.bandcamp.com/album/franke...
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
I will probably get told off for sharing this - but it does give some perspective on why I was under so much pressure to leave Monkey Cage - I accept my career is dead so….

skepchick.org/2026/01/the-...
The BBC Chose Transphobia over Science
Transcript: Over the holidays, there was some news out of the UK that I wanted to highlight, lest it be lost in the news black hole that is Christmas and New Year: the British Broadcasting Corporat…
skepchick.org
February 1, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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womenriseup2026.bsky.social
#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles
January 29, 2026 at 5:03 PM
racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social
Thrilled to be part of this collaboration!!
johnreed.bandcamp.com John Reed Music 🎼 and Radio 📻 @johnreed.bandcamp.com · 16d
And so, a new collaboration begins. Work won't start until 2 April, but we'd appreciate you following our page at theuntangledknot.bandcamp.com Here's a flavour of what you'll find...

@johnreed.bandcamp.com
@shirley-sings.bsky.social
@racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social
#bethporter

#theuntangledknot
February 1, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
January 24, 2026
January 24, 2026
This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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mattmfm.bsky.social
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Alex Pretti seemed like an awesome guy who was doing what every person not being targeted by ICE should do. But even if he was an asshole, no one should be executed by government thugs in the streets. There is no statute of limitations on murder so their day will come.
January 24, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Link here action.goodlawproject.org/stop-sex-mat...
January 23, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Had a delightful time at Black Box in Belfast - now 4 hours sleep to then fly to Birmingham to take train to Cardiff to do show at 2pm tomorrow

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Go Faster Stripe Box Office
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January 23, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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stuhennigan.bsky.social
"Keshed is original, difficult and revelatory. There are echoes of James Kelman and Hubert Srlby Jr but Hennigan's voice is entirely his own."
January 23, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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verfassungsblog.de
Greenland is home to the Inuit, an Indigenous people with the right to self-determination under international law.

JØRGEN NYBERGET analyses what this means for a possible annexation.

verfassungsblog.de/inuit-greenl...
Quote from the piece by Jorgen Nyberget: “[A]ny annexation or other external decisions on sovereignty carried out without the express and freely given consent of the Greenlandic people would be illegal.”
January 22, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.

Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26d
ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.

It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
May 12, 2025 MEMORANDUM FOR: All ICE Personnel FROM: Todd Lyons Acting Director SUBJECT: Utilizing Form I-205, Warrant of Removal On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to "ensur[e] the successful enforcement of final orders of removal." 90 Fed. Reg. 8443, 8444 (Jan. 20, 2025) (E.O. 14159). Essential to the removal of aliens subject to final orders of removal is the ability to locate and arrest them. To this end, certain supervisory immigration officers within both Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are authorized to issue an administrative warrant, Form I-205, Warrant of Removal (Form 1-205), for the arrest of an alien with a final order of removal. 8 C.F.R. § 241.2(a)(1). All U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and deportation officers are authorized to execute Forms 1-205. 8 C.F.R. § 287.5(e)(3)(iii) - (y) Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose. Accordingly, in light of this legal determination, ICE immigration officers may arrest and detain aliens subject to a final under of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or a U.S. Arrow) district court judge or magistrate judge in their place of residence.23 ICE immigration officers should consider all available enforcement mechanisms, including the use of a Form 1-205 to arrest an alien in their place of residence, to achieve the requirements of E.O. 14159 in accordance with applicable law and policies. This guidance informs the use of Forms 1-205 and provides to ICE law enforcement personnel a reminder of the general limitations and exceptions that may apply when effectuating arrests in an alien's residence. General Guidelines ICE law enforcement officers receive extensive training on the legal and procedural requirements for making administrative and criminal arrests. ICE personnel must remain cognizant of all existing laws and policies pertaining to arrests when carrying out civil immigration enforcement actions. Prior to entering a residence to conduct an administrative immigration arrest pursuant to Form I-205, officers and agents must ensure the Form 1-205 is properly completed and is supported by a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge, the BIA, a U.S. district court, or a magistrate judge. This is essential because that order establishes probable cause. Officers and agents must also have reason to believe that the subject alien resides at and is currently located in the address where the Form I-205 is to be served.
January 21, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
The Power of Poetry   with things falling apart and anarchy let loose,   it was only poetry, he found, which had any use,   so he reached for his copy   of The Complete Works of Yeats   and bludgeoned the President of the United States Brian Bilston
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social
Awesome 5 star review of @billtaylor-beales.bsky.social and Phil Okwedy’s Blues Echoes show! I know I’m biased but - got to say I totally agree with everything that is said here!! www.buzzmag.co.uk/blues-echoes...
PHIL OKWEDY & BILL TAYLOR-BEALES splice storytelling and slide guitar as BLUES ECHOES
Bill Taylor-Beales and Phil Okwedy create a listening space where memory, folklore and music history are braided together with care.
www.buzzmag.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 PM
racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social
Superb musings on the nature of counterculture here.
January 18, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
It was a joy to go on this lovely podcast and talk of four songs that mean a lot to me - I decided to be half childhood and half 21st century - much great rebel music talked of

podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/4... #music
4 Songs and a Dream
Music Interviews Podcast · A podcast where creators pick 4 songs that are special to them in some way and chat about what makes them so special Think of it like Desert Island Discs without the financ...
podcasts.apple.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:20 PM
racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
Three Palestine Action activists end UK hunger strike
Prisoners for Palestine says move comes after subsidiary of Israeli arms manufacturer failed to win UK gov't contract.
www.aljazeera.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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mothinali.bsky.social
The hunger strikers have ended their 73-day strike after forcing the cancellation of Elbit’s £2 billion contract. This is a people-powered victory—but it comes at a horrific, lifelong cost.
January 15, 2026 at 6:32 AM