Randeep Ramesh
@stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social
Chief leader writer, The Guardian. @tianran at the other place
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"There should be a pause in ICE and Border Patrol street operations anywhere in the country 'until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.'"
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January 28, 2026 at 2:39 PM
"There should be a pause in ICE and Border Patrol street operations anywhere in the country 'until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.'"
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Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3Z1B53d
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"Shortly after filing its Response to Rwanda’s Notice of Arbitration, the UK notified Rwanda of the termination of the treaty."
Oh dear.
Oh dear.
January 28, 2026 at 2:27 PM
"Shortly after filing its Response to Rwanda’s Notice of Arbitration, the UK notified Rwanda of the termination of the treaty."
Oh dear.
Oh dear.
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The Deutschland-Ticket (D-Ticket for short) lets you travel easily by all means of local public transport for €63 per month (1st until end of month). Not valid on ICE or IC / EC trains. Smart phone needed.
int.bahn.de/en/offers/re...
int.bahn.de/en/offers/re...
The Deutschland-Ticket
With the Deutschland-Ticket– D-Ticket for short – you can travel easily by all means of local public transport for just 63 euros per month.
int.bahn.de
January 27, 2026 at 5:23 PM
The Deutschland-Ticket (D-Ticket for short) lets you travel easily by all means of local public transport for €63 per month (1st until end of month). Not valid on ICE or IC / EC trains. Smart phone needed.
int.bahn.de/en/offers/re...
int.bahn.de/en/offers/re...
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This morning, Welsh FM Eluned Morgan refused to say Keir Starmer was a good PM when asked by the BBC
Welsh Labour is trying to distance itself from the Westminster party in its bid to avoid a Senedd wipeout
But, Tom Scotson reports, the party's Welsh MPs are currently hesitant about regime change
Welsh Labour is trying to distance itself from the Westminster party in its bid to avoid a Senedd wipeout
But, Tom Scotson reports, the party's Welsh MPs are currently hesitant about regime change
Welsh Labour MPs Hesitate About Regime Change Despite Risk of Senedd Wipeout
Labour faces seismic losses in Wales on 7 May, with some insiders fearing that First Minister Eluned Morgan could lose her Senedd seat. Despite the...
www.politicshome.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:37 AM
This morning, Welsh FM Eluned Morgan refused to say Keir Starmer was a good PM when asked by the BBC
Welsh Labour is trying to distance itself from the Westminster party in its bid to avoid a Senedd wipeout
But, Tom Scotson reports, the party's Welsh MPs are currently hesitant about regime change
Welsh Labour is trying to distance itself from the Westminster party in its bid to avoid a Senedd wipeout
But, Tom Scotson reports, the party's Welsh MPs are currently hesitant about regime change
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Absolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social.
To get more data, Anthropic:
* "destructively scanned" millions of books
* downloaded the shadow library LibGen
* hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!"
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
To get more data, Anthropic:
* "destructively scanned" millions of books
* downloaded the shadow library LibGen
* hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!"
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Absolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social.
To get more data, Anthropic:
* "destructively scanned" millions of books
* downloaded the shadow library LibGen
* hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!"
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
To get more data, Anthropic:
* "destructively scanned" millions of books
* downloaded the shadow library LibGen
* hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!"
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
January 26, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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It’s funny how Kemi Badenoch thinks “mental health” has impacted Suella Braverman’s behaviour. I thought Kemi didn’t really believe in anxiety or depression? I guess that’s just for benefit claimants.
January 26, 2026 at 8:21 PM
It’s funny how Kemi Badenoch thinks “mental health” has impacted Suella Braverman’s behaviour. I thought Kemi didn’t really believe in anxiety or depression? I guess that’s just for benefit claimants.
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Tim Walz: "What side do you want to be on? The side of an all-powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the streets, or the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness - the side of a mother whose last words were 'I'm not mad at you.'"
January 25, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Tim Walz: "What side do you want to be on? The side of an all-powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the streets, or the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness - the side of a mother whose last words were 'I'm not mad at you.'"
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British Airways, Air France and KLM have cancelled flights to the Middle East.
January 23, 2026 at 7:55 PM
British Airways, Air France and KLM have cancelled flights to the Middle East.
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The exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
January 23, 2026 at 1:56 AM
The exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
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the destruction of local news has done more damage than just about anything else to our ability to process reality as a country and this is a shining example of why
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 2:27 AM
the destruction of local news has done more damage than just about anything else to our ability to process reality as a country and this is a shining example of why
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NEW REPORT: the gov’s proposals for judge-only trials will deliver only marginal savings and distract from the real route out of this crisis: reversing recent falls in court productivity.
Trial and error?: The impact of restricting jury trials on court demand | Institute for Government
The government’s reforms will unlock only relatively modest reductions in demand.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 7:41 AM
NEW REPORT: the gov’s proposals for judge-only trials will deliver only marginal savings and distract from the real route out of this crisis: reversing recent falls in court productivity.
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Trump poodle Nigel Farage says
World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland.
Appeasement of Trump means all powerful nations are free to expand their borders. Years of conflict & unrest would follow.
UK needs political leaders, not poodles.
World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland.
Appeasement of Trump means all powerful nations are free to expand their borders. Years of conflict & unrest would follow.
UK needs political leaders, not poodles.
World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland, says Nigel Farage
Reform leader says he agrees ‘strategically’ with Trump but adds that views of Greenlanders must be respected
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:58 AM
Trump poodle Nigel Farage says
World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland.
Appeasement of Trump means all powerful nations are free to expand their borders. Years of conflict & unrest would follow.
UK needs political leaders, not poodles.
World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland.
Appeasement of Trump means all powerful nations are free to expand their borders. Years of conflict & unrest would follow.
UK needs political leaders, not poodles.
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Agriculture is only a tiny part of EU-Mercosur free-trade agreement
• EU tariff cuts on Mercosur-made meat will apply only to small share of European imports
• Real economic rationale of deal could lie in industrial and services trade, as well as mineral products
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
• EU tariff cuts on Mercosur-made meat will apply only to small share of European imports
• Real economic rationale of deal could lie in industrial and services trade, as well as mineral products
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
January 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Agriculture is only a tiny part of EU-Mercosur free-trade agreement
• EU tariff cuts on Mercosur-made meat will apply only to small share of European imports
• Real economic rationale of deal could lie in industrial and services trade, as well as mineral products
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
• EU tariff cuts on Mercosur-made meat will apply only to small share of European imports
• Real economic rationale of deal could lie in industrial and services trade, as well as mineral products
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
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A regime that finally backs down when confronted by a united Europe is still tough enough to kidnap a five year old after preschool.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:47 AM
A regime that finally backs down when confronted by a united Europe is still tough enough to kidnap a five year old after preschool.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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NEWS: Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko to join his so-called “Board of Peace” to oversee Gaza.
January 19, 2026 at 3:01 PM
NEWS: Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko to join his so-called “Board of Peace” to oversee Gaza.
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mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM
mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
Nixon shocked the system in 1971 because the system was coming apart. Today we have disorder, but Trump shocks the system because he seems to enjoy the spectacle www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on Trump and Greenland: get real! Bullying is not strength | Editorial
Editorial: Tariff threats over the Arctic island expose the limits of coercive diplomacy. Europe’s united response and pushback shows fear is fading
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Nixon shocked the system in 1971 because the system was coming apart. Today we have disorder, but Trump shocks the system because he seems to enjoy the spectacle www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Pape Gueye fires Senegal to Afcon glory against Morocco after walk-off chaos
Pape Gueye fires Senegal to Afcon glory against Morocco after walk-off chaos
This had been, by general agreement, the most predictable, least dramatic Cup of Nations in living memory. And that was true, until eight minutes into injury time in the final, when a video assistant referee decision contrived to produce perhaps the most ludicrous finale to any major final in history. Senegal won it, but that is a tiny detail in the denouement that erupted. There was a walk-off in protest, a missed Panenka and a brilliant winning goal from Pape Gueye.
The chaos began two minutes into injury time when Abdoulaye Seck was penalised for a slight push on Achraf Hakimi as he headed against the post. Ismaïla Sarr nodded in, but the whistle had already gone. Four minutes later, Adam Masina was penalised, following a VAR review, for a pull on Morocco’s Brahim Díaz as he defended a corner. For Senegal, already convinced there was a plot against them, that was too much and the majority of their players stormed off. Sadio Mané seemed notably reluctant to go, and it was he who eventually ran down the tunnel to bring them back from the dressing room after the veteran coach of multiple African sides Claude Le Roy materialised to act as an improbable peacemaker. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Pape Gueye fires Senegal to Afcon glory against Morocco after walk-off chaos
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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For this post to be about the United States and not Russia shows that there has been an absolute diplomatic revolution.
I spoke to the Secretary-General of NATO, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni.
Together we stand firm in our commitment to uphold the sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.
Together we stand firm in our commitment to uphold the sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.
January 18, 2026 at 9:42 PM
For this post to be about the United States and not Russia shows that there has been an absolute diplomatic revolution.
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Taxing Americans and alienating allies in the service of the Greenland fixation.
Trump says on Feb 1 he will impose a 10% tariff “on any and all goods sent” to US from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, & Finland, increasing to 25% June 1 “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”
January 17, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Taxing Americans and alienating allies in the service of the Greenland fixation.
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🇺🇬 Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said he escaped a police raid on his home and was in hiding as the country braced for the results of a fraught election held under an internet blackout.
➡️ u.afp.com/SBZ7
➡️ u.afp.com/SBZ7
January 17, 2026 at 12:30 PM
🇺🇬 Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said he escaped a police raid on his home and was in hiding as the country braced for the results of a fraught election held under an internet blackout.
➡️ u.afp.com/SBZ7
➡️ u.afp.com/SBZ7
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It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...