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jamelle

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it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

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 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM

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Remember Gaza

@remembergaza.bsky.social

In memory of:

Mohammed Abdel Aziz Mohammed Abu Ghaza / محمد عبد العزيز محمد ابو غزه
Age: 3

We will not forget you.

January 28, 2026 at 2:00 AM

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𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐝 🇵🇸🇲🇲🇬🇱🇻🇪

@jensgam.bsky.social

Det er veldokumenteret, at IBM har medvirket til folkemord tidligere ..

January 27, 2026 at 4:03 AM

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Minnesota Mary

@minnesotamarys.bsky.social

😱😱😱

The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 3d

Detained Immigrants Detail Physical Abuse and Inhumane Conditions at Largest Immigration Detention Center in the U.S.

"...crushing their testicles during beatings..."

www.aclu.org/news/immigra...

January 27, 2026 at 4:01 AM

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Laurie Lipton

@laurielipton.bsky.social

ICE AGENT GROUP PHOTOS ("AMERICA! AMERICA! 2022", 5ft10"x7ft10", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

January 27, 2026 at 4:51 AM

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Remember Gaza

@remembergaza.bsky.social

In memory of:

Mahmoud Ismail Abdel Rahman Hamad / محمود اسماعيل عبد الرحمن حمد
Age: 33

We will not forget you.

January 27, 2026 at 5:00 AM

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ZEDtheRED

@zedthered.bsky.social

Good job, Alabama
You cowards
This state is so full of terds

January 27, 2026 at 2:29 AM

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Josep Goded

@josepgoded.bsky.social

Israeli military boats shelled a beach in the southern Gaza Strip all night.

January 27, 2026 at 5:13 AM

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Josep Goded

@josepgoded.bsky.social

An Israeli drone strike struck a car in Kfar Rumman, southern Lebanon, killing two Lebanese during the night.

January 27, 2026 at 5:17 AM

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Josep Goded

@josepgoded.bsky.social

Israeli artillery fired heavy shells into eastern Gaza City during the night.

January 27, 2026 at 5:18 AM

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Lucy Hamilton

@lucyham.bsky.social

This should be very familiar to any alert Australians. Our governments were locking up children til they were losing their teeth due to lack of vitamin C. Dying of resignation syndrome. Never forget #Auspol

www.theguardian.com/news/series/...

January 27, 2026 at 5:37 AM

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Remember Gaza

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In memory of:

Fayez Yaqoub Salam Abu Ziyada / فايز يعقوب سلام ابوزيادة
Age: 66

We will not forget you.

January 27, 2026 at 6:00 AM

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@gfelljones.bsky.social

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Only people with vested interests could possibly deny this genocide of the people from the beautiful, ancient land of Palestine.

Israel erases 2,700 families from Gaza’s civil registry in ongoing genocide open.substack.com/pub/palestin...

Israel erases 2,700 families from Gaza’s civil registry in ongoing genocide

A staggering 6,000 families have been left with just one survivor.

open.substack.com

January 27, 2026 at 1:33 AM

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Keyah 🦬

@sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month.

Statement from Standing Rock:

STATEMENT REGARDING DETENTION OF STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE MEMBER IN MINNESOTA

JANUARY 24, 2026

I was notified today, January 24, 2026, that a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member has been detained by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the state of Minnesota. Tribal leadership is actively working to locate the individual, gather accurate information, and coordinate with the appropriate authorities to secure their release.

At this time, details surrounding the detention remain limited. I urge the public to refrain from spreading unverified information while this matter is being reviewed.

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will continue to advocate for the protection of our citizen's rights and will provide updates as appropriate.

January 25, 2026 at 9:03 PM

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Josep Goded

@josepgoded.bsky.social

Three Palestinians, including two brothers, were abducted this morning by Israeli occupation forces from their homes in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.

January 27, 2026 at 6:17 AM

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1News NZ (Unofficial)

@1newsnz.nzcow.com

📢 Global voyagers brought back from the brink with the successful colony on Taiaroa Head near Dunedin.

'Amazing': Jubilation as 1000th toroa/albatross chick hatches in Otago

www.1news.co.nz

January 27, 2026 at 6:32 AM

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papaesoco.bsky.social

@papaesoco.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

7 Times Conservatives Praised Gun-Toting Protesters

They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here are some famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.

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January 27, 2026 at 5:31 AM

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papaesoco.bsky.social

@papaesoco.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Trump’s Comply-Or-Die Policing Isn’t New

What’s shocking is who’s getting shot

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January 27, 2026 at 5:34 AM

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maureen

@maureenf.bsky.social

A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 3d

The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.

@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...