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Dylan Kerrigan
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Anthropologist, Caribbeanist, Sociologist. Peacebuilding
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gigixmelo.bsky.social
I don’t know if anyone seen this but Minnesota corrections has just released a massive update about “criminals” captured by ice and its WOW. mn.gov/doc/about/ne...
Minnesota Department of Corrections Releases New Evidence Showing DHS Is Publishing False Arrest Claims at Scale January 26, 2026
January 27, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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dailypolitik.bsky.social
Before he was elected as New York Mayor, Zohran Mamdani PLEDGED that should he be elected he would boycott and divest from entities linked to Israel.

He took office on 1 January 2026 and has already delivered on that pledge.

Seems there is an alternative to breaking every pledge you make Sir Keir…
January 27, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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oliverhouse.bsky.social
‘The most recent estimates show about 3.8 million UK people experienced destitution – a category even more extreme than very deep poverty, in which households cannot afford to stay warm, dry, clean, clothed and fed, the JRF said.’
Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows
Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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davidveevers.bsky.social
17,000 kids without parents. Jesus fucking Christ we all watched it and all our governments participated in it. Some point in the future history students will genuinely try and figure out why the fuck we allowed that.
saulstaniforth.bsky.social Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4h
"After two years of Israeli attacks, more than 39,000 children in Gaza have lost at least one parent. A further 17,000 kids have lost both parents. Nearly 2,600 of those children have been registered as what is known as 'WCNSF', wounded child no surviving family"

Genocide.
January 27, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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jensfoell.de
Heartless and cruel. Nobody who is involved with this should ever be allowed to make decisions that affect other people.
magaziner.house.gov Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 11h
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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jrf-uk.bsky.social
The data shows us that children suffer the highest rates of poverty within the different sections of the population.

📈 At the time the Labour government came to power, there were 4.5 million children in poverty, up 600,000 on pre-pandemic levels.

This is a damning statistic.
Graphic showing text 3 in 10 children in the UK are living in poverty and an image of a child and their colourful backpack text reads 1 in 5 working age adults in the UK are living in poverty, over an image of a person on the way to work text reads 1 in 6 pensioners in the UK are living in poverty over an image of an elderly woman facing away from the camera
January 27, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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jrf-uk.bsky.social
This means that almost half of everyone in poverty in the UK has less than 40% of the median income adjusted for their household type - the highest since records began.

📢 We found that Britain's poorest people are getting poorer. And poverty is hardening, not easing.
January 27, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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garvanwalshe.org
Security guarantees from Trump can’t be relied on. He treats any decision point as an opportunity for extortion.
January 27, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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sexabolition.blog
I just want to remind people that when we talk about creating a "British ICE" and a concentration camp as somehow copying America, we already had the previous Tory government set up a concentration camp run by British military personnel for asylum seekers rapidly shut down after legal battles.
ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 22h
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 27, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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louisathelast.bsky.social
(TW suicide) One person who died in ICE custody this year is someone I haven’t seen mentioned much—Chaofeng Ge. He was found hanging in a shower room at a processing center. It was declared suicide…even though his hands and feet were tied behind his back. ICE is refusing to give the family details
Autopsy raises questions about death at private ICE detention center
The family of a man discovered dead in the shower room of a privately owned immigration detention center says the Trump administration is refusing to provide the full story of what happened.
www.scrippsnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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autonomynews.co
Last week, ICE deported an asylum seeker to Colombia despite her being eight months pregnant and in medical distress. Two other pregnant women in detention allege that ICE is denying them prenatal care:
ICE Is Terrorizing Pregnant Women: January 26 News Roundup
Plus, what you missed on Autonomy News last week.
www.autonomynews.co
January 26, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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beardedgenius.bsky.social
Mocking someone's addiction relapse because they happen to be a Jewish person who treated Palestinians with a basic level of humanity is really really low. I honestly don't know how you can do that and still see yourself as a good person fighting the good fight.
January 27, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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ayoub.bsky.social
The Gestapo is being exported. This is why Abolishing ICE is a matter of global urgency.
January 27, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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andrespertierra.bsky.social
In late 2025, Cuba's main two sources of oil were Venezuela and Mexico, who combined still supplied far less than the island needed, leading to 20+ hour a day blackouts on most of the island

In less than a month Cuba has lost both. Unclear what reserves remain

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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sheencr.bsky.social
Moderna have announced that they won't run new phase three trials now with massive impacts for new vaccine development- why- its because of RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine campaigns and cancelling mRNA vaccine research which affect the sales the company can then make 🧪🧵 #PublicHealth
Moderna Won’t Run Phase III Vaccine Trials as Skepticism Grows in US: Bloomberg
Growing opposition to vaccines in the U.S., driven by recent government policy changes, makes it difficult to see a return on investment in vaccine development, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said this w...
www.biospace.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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ravenstromdans.bsky.social
Considering there are over a thousand accounts of sexual assault by ICE, women defending themselves from ICE "agents" by whatever means at their disposal falls squarely in the justification of "self defense".
startribune.com Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 12h
Two women have been charged with biting the fingers of U.S. Border Patrol officers moments after federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis over the weekend near the scene of an immigration enforcement action.
Women accused of biting agents’ fingers moments after Alex Pretti was killed; one had tip bitten off
The biting occurred while the women struggled with the agents, according to the charges.
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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thejoytuckclub.bsky.social
This is insane, but expected thanks to all that “clarity.”
One caller told the charity she was followed into the women's toilet, pushed into a cubicle and touched by two men. According to Chana, the men had justified it by saying the court "gave them a right to check if you're a man or woman"
January 27, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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javierespinosa.bsky.social
Ministerio de Salud de Gaza: 1.268 pacientes murieron porque Israel les negó permiso para viajar y recibir tratamiento fuera de la Franja de Gaza. Se trata de continuar el genocidio a cámara lenta.
January 27, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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sexabolition.blog
The fundamental problem is that we have no effective regulation of the media here, our public service broadcaster is just very obviously regime media and our major privately run news publications are all owned by billionaires with editorial agendas that distort reality and degrade human rights.
erikfrechette.bsky.social Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 3h
Reading about the rise of Reform while living in the self-immolating US feels like an out of body experience. That anyone outside the US could look at a country collapsing in on itself and say, “Yes, some of that for us please!” is just surreal.
January 27, 2026 at 8:50 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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dcjohnson.bsky.social
Add the role of social media to this. Cambridge Analytics did the data work to target people on social media. Russia provided the accounts, strategy and propaganda expertise.

Social media companies looked the other way. Facebook famously took payment in rubles.
peterjukes.bsky.social Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d
The 'Monster Power' of Misogyny: How Trump, Bannon and Putin Beat Hilary Clinton in 2016

Cambridge Analytica and Russian troll farms weaponised migration to win the EU referendum. Six months later, the same forces used another deep-seated fear to propel Trump

open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
The 'Monster Power' of Misogyny: How Trump, Bannon and Putin Beat Hilary Clinton in 2016
Cambridge Analytica and Russian troll farms weaponised migration to win the EU referendum. Six months later, the same forces used another deep-seated fear to propel Trump to power - misogyny
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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nbedera.bsky.social
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.
January 26, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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harmscommitted.com
"10 infants under the age of 1 have died from hypothermia and extreme cold this winter."

"Medical experts in Gaza have coined a new term." "[W]et tent syndrome."

"Israel is preventing caravans, temporary housing [..] from entering Gaza."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Aid #Healthcare #Housing #Genocide
'Wet tent syndrome' is killing Gaza's infants
Israel's restrictions on shelter and medicine have left displaced families helpless as newborns succumb to exposure and preventable disease.
www.972mag.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
"DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately," CNN reports
Wow. Per @priscialva, DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately. He spent yesterday responding to people who were criticizing him and raising questions about his unverified claims about Pretti.
January 27, 2026 at 12:31 AM