Rodger Kibble
rodgerkibble.bsky.social
Rodger Kibble
@rodgerkibble.bsky.social
Recovering academic, former IT type, artist and printmaker, Brighton
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In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal
Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.

Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Not a single thing we were told about #COVID turned out to be correct. A long thread 🧵
February 7, 2026 at 12:54 AM
"True leaders
Are hardly known to their followers.
Next after them are the leaders
they know and admire;
after them, those they fear;
after them, those they despise".

- Lao Tzu, Tao te ching, version by Ursula K Le Guin
Kristi Noem: "I always tell people that the days you don't hear about us are the days we were successful."
February 3, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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PRIVATE EYE NAMED IN EPSTEIN FILES

In the latest files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released by the US Justice Department, the Eye is denounced as “an absolute rag of a publication” by Epstein’s then lawyer, Paul Tweed…

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February 2, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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Question Time has platformed racist political commentator Konstantin Kisin tonight who previously said of Southampton born, Winchester educated, Rishi Sunak’s identity: “He’s a brown Hindu, how can he be English?!”
January 29, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Kendall: I for one welcome our new tech overlords
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 29, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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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
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I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
He says this like it's a bad thing 🤷
January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Trump lets another drug trafficker out of prison because his father happens to be a Republican member of Congress.
January 17, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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h/i David Grinspoon
January 16, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Another day in Trump's America
Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open
January 8, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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Metropolis (1927) is set in 2026.
January 1, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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Meet the new year, same as the old year.
January 1, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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December 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Dead of Night is streaming on Channel 4 until the end of today, in case you don't have other plans
December 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Happy tenth anniversary to photographer Joel Goodman’s classic image which by rights should be hanging in the Louvre.
December 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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“Let me just get some proof of delivery”

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December 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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NATO fighter jets were scrambled after Putin ordered Tu-95MS strategic bombers on a Christmas sortie toward northern Britain, according to the Mirror. The aircraft flew over the Norwegian Sea, prompting an air policing response amid concerns over a deliberate show of force near UK airspace.
December 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Delighted to hear that The Invisible Doctrine, the film by @peterhutchison.bsky.social and @lucas-sabean.bsky.social, is being offered free to view on YouTube for the holiday season. It's all yours! youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0
The secret history of Neoliberalism | The Invisible Doctrine | Full Film
YouTube video by Journeyman Pictures
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Is it? My understanding is that strictly speaking "defamatory" means harmful to one's reputation whether true or not; it becomes libellous/slanderous if false
[Setting aside that "false" is tautologous if you say it's defamatory...]
December 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
So it goes
December 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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“No less an authority than the United Kingdom’s former Prime Minister, Liz Truss”

That’s a real sentence that someone wrote, which made it into Trump’s legal filing.
December 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM