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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪
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Climate, Sustainability. Ex-DFID, RCCClimate, BirdLife, Earthwatch Europe, WildCRU University of Oxford

Photo is of my two daughters' shadows above Loch Leven, a shallow lake seriously affected by climate change
The immigration consultation clearly led to punitive conclusions. Adding 10-20 years extra uncertainty for already vulnerable groups is NOT about "fairness". It will gut the care sector. Personally, it affects my partner heading to retirement. Her firm cocked up her visa in 2020 so the clock resets.
The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...
February 20, 2026 at 1:32 PM
This is excellent on the proposed changes to immigration policy and practice.

I commented on the consultation. It was obviously framed with a conclusion in mind. As the Lords committee said: “This appears to us to be a change in policy stance that potentially preempts the results of the review"
The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...
February 20, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us.
February 20, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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Seems like a useful opportunity for professors teaching Intro to Sociology to explain what state indoctrination looks like
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
February 20, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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BREAKING: A memorial for Kristi Noem’s dog has been erected in Chicago
February 19, 2026 at 4:53 PM
"Sex-traffickers are great for networking ..."
February 19, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Happy Arrest of the Andrew formerly known as Prince Randy to all who celebrate. And as always, thank you feminism.
February 19, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.”

This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate."

#TrumpSyndicate
February 19, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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I received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office.

ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for.

We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.
February 19, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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February 19, 2026 at 7:17 PM
😊
February 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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In 1997, Tory MP Rupert Allason lost his seat to a Lib Dem by 12 votes.

A week before the election he and his team failed to tip waitstaff after having dinner at a restaurant leading to all of them collectively agreeing to vote Lib Dem.

That was 14 votes.

This is very, very common.
One of the most surreal answers I've ever been given.
February 19, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.”

When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?

www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...
Reform UK suspends by-election campaign activist over ‘antisemitic and misogynistic’ posts
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Mitula, Reform UK’s interim campaign manager in Tameside, has been assisting Matt Goodwin's Gorton and Denton by-election campaign
www.jewishnews.co.uk
February 19, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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For all my country's manifold problems, I am very grateful to live in a place where even the very rich and powerful are not beyond the long arm of the law.

Not even the late Queen's favourite son.

Look on and weep America.
February 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Grad school is hard enough without a supremacist government kidnapping you for weeks & then trying to deport you for months. A heroic accomplishment!

Congratulations, Dr. Öztürk! 🥳
February 19, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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I doubt that there's a more effective way to capture unitary executive theory in an image.

And because it's the DOJ building, it also captures the notion that the President is above the law.
Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building
February 19, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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he's stealing billions of dollars of taxpayer money for his personal slush fund

the most corrupt, criminal administration in history and despite how high a bar that is it isn't particularly close
Trump: "I want to let you know that United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace." (Congress has not appropriated this money!)
February 19, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building
February 19, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Has anyone checked on the number of ravens left at the Tower of London?
February 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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"The Parliament drew a very precise line: if a feature sends your data to someone else’s server for AI processing, it gets turned off."
February 19, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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that's silly, it's not going to work, trains are too fast for that
February 19, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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Actual Olympic GOAT:
February 19, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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The narrative is: vote for the other guy and you'll get drafted into the war
The latest AI-generated campaign video of Orbán's Fidesz party shows a Budapest at war, with a father being shot in the head while his family weeps. Boundless cynicism to use this image, actually experienced daily by Ukrainians, but also an indicator of how little Fidesz has to say about Hungary.
February 19, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The Andrew who was formerly a prince is apparently about to see some luxury accommodation in the form of a police interview room.
February 19, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Well, birthday boy Andrew M-W arrested over alleged misconduct in public office and sharing of confidential UK material with Epstein seems like Capone arrested for tax irregularities.

Charles R: "Let me state clearly: the law must take its course."

William must be thumping a wall somewhere.
Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office as King says 'law must take its course' - live updates
It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 19, 2026 at 1:03 PM