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Char. 💕 @charnotshar.bsky.social · 10h

TikTok users are deleting the app, with removals up 150% following U.S. joint venture
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TikTok users are deleting the app, with removals up 150% following U.S. joint venture

TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.

www.cnbc.com

January 28, 2026 at 1:57 AM

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid

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January 28, 2026 at 1:58 AM

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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 · 1d

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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SinnamonS

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Chipotle CEO donated 15k to 🧊 agents. Stop eating there kids!

January 28, 2026 at 12:43 AM

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OKSOTHICK.

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Any man
Who is not politically aligned
AND VOCAL about your rights

Does not. Deserve. Access.

To.

Your.

Body.

January 28, 2026 at 12:16 AM

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NPR

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The issue around the word "Epstein" comes as users experience outages and functionality problems since the popular video app was recently sold to a group of mostly U.S. investors, including Trump ally Larry Ellison. n.pr/4agbaLo

TikTok is investigating why some users can't write 'Epstein' in messages

The issue around the word "Epstein" comes as users experience outages and functionality problems since the popular video app was recently sold to a group of mostly U.S. investors, including Trump ally Larry Ellison.

n.pr

January 27, 2026 at 9:12 PM

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

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"Are the guys who keep marching with swatiskas comparable to Nazis?"

is a very stupid question, you guys

January 27, 2026 at 4:41 PM

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Give It Up Deelishis You Look Like A Man..🧍🏾‍♂️

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ICE was the problem, they were the solution.

January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM

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2016 vs 2026

January 27, 2026 at 11:34 PM

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⚜️New Logic

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January 27, 2026 at 5:03 PM

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Ebz

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In other news, I’d like to discuss the downfall of Young Money. Whose fault is it? Drake, Nicki or Lil Wayne?

January 27, 2026 at 5:16 PM

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

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bars

screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

January 27, 2026 at 6:11 PM

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Prisonculture

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It really appears that Alex Pretti was a real one who actually walked the walk.

January 27, 2026 at 6:18 PM

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Sbooks

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The go-to response has been become “all apps are tracking us” and yes they are. But the clock app is now a state sponsored propaganda machine.

This is a similar retort with AI adoption. “It’s in everything so live with it.”

No.

January 27, 2026 at 7:05 PM

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

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There's research suggesting that Black people need more sleep because of racism. Black women need even more because of the double whammy of racism and sexism.

Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 13h

Stress from oppression does shorten your life, a fact Black people have had to live with their entire lives. Work to counter the ensuing inflammation that stress causes can be a faster way to address this issue. And of course you keep fighting oppression. 🩺 #MedSky
source.washu.edu/2026/01/raci...

January 27, 2026 at 7:09 PM

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Phil Lewis

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"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota

Via DonHarris4/X

January 27, 2026 at 7:59 PM

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Erin Maye Quade

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After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 14h

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

January 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM

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what yall doin lol

January 27, 2026 at 11:18 PM

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Rayman (3D)

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Y’all are surprised your anti-fascist content is being suppressed on platforms that have shown their sole purpose is to platform and amplify fascist messaging? That’s the most shocked pikachu shit I’ve ever heard

January 27, 2026 at 10:05 PM