Ed Robinson
@edmundfrobinson.bsky.social
Immigrant living in Madrid.
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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⏰ It's time for change on immigration policy - We all agree on that much!
Labour so far have got it all wrong, chasing hostile headlines that will only make our system crueller, society more divided & immigrants easier to exploit.
BUT THERE IS ANOTHER WAY!!
My 9-point plan for a system that works👇
Labour so far have got it all wrong, chasing hostile headlines that will only make our system crueller, society more divided & immigrants easier to exploit.
BUT THERE IS ANOTHER WAY!!
My 9-point plan for a system that works👇
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
⏰ It's time for change on immigration policy - We all agree on that much!
Labour so far have got it all wrong, chasing hostile headlines that will only make our system crueller, society more divided & immigrants easier to exploit.
BUT THERE IS ANOTHER WAY!!
My 9-point plan for a system that works👇
Labour so far have got it all wrong, chasing hostile headlines that will only make our system crueller, society more divided & immigrants easier to exploit.
BUT THERE IS ANOTHER WAY!!
My 9-point plan for a system that works👇
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Agree with @jomichell.bsky.social here.
My earlier piece: "The claim that that MMT means that a future government can dodge hard choices about how to pay for decent public services is just plain nonsense."
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
My earlier piece: "The claim that that MMT means that a future government can dodge hard choices about how to pay for decent public services is just plain nonsense."
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Agree with @jomichell.bsky.social here.
My earlier piece: "The claim that that MMT means that a future government can dodge hard choices about how to pay for decent public services is just plain nonsense."
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
My earlier piece: "The claim that that MMT means that a future government can dodge hard choices about how to pay for decent public services is just plain nonsense."
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
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Israeli forces kill unarmed Palestinians as they surrender in occupied West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-kill-unarmed-palestinians-they-surrender-occupied-west
Israeli forces kill unarmed Palestinians as they surrender in occupied West Bank
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<p>Israeli security forces shot two Palestinian men on Thursday who appeared to be surrendering and unarmed during a raid in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestine TV news footage showed.</p>
<p>In the footage, the men are seen exiting a building surrounded by armed Israeli forces in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, lifting their shirts and lying on the ground in an apparent surrender. The forces then appeared to direct the men back inside the building before opening fire at close range.</p>
<p>A Reuters journalist in the vicinity saw the men leave the building, appearing to surrender, and later, after hearing shots fired, saw Israeli forces standing near what appeared to be a lifeless body.</p>
<p>The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that the two men were killed in the shooting, identifying them as 26-year-old Montasir Abdullah and 37-year-old Yusuf Asasa.</p>
<p>The Israeli military and Israel Police issued a joint statement announcing that they had opened an investigation after forces opened fire towards suspects who had exited a building.</p>
<p>The statement did not give any reason for why the forces opened fire, nor say that the two men had lain on the ground before they were directed back inside the building and shot.</p>
<p>- <em>Reporting by Reuters</em></p>
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November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Israeli forces kill unarmed Palestinians as they surrender in occupied West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-kill-unarmed-palestinians-they-surrender-occupied-west
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I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
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“There is no danger in Spain of Francoism coming back, but forgetting history can make you take for granted the democratic freedoms that need constant vigilance and protection.” My piece @theguardian.com on memory, unexplained history, the transition and my mom! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I grew up in Spain amid a collective amnesia about Franco. It is time we faced up to our dark past | María Ramírez
This week marks 50 years of Spanish democracy, but the failure to talk more about the crimes of the dictatorship leaves us vulnerable, says the journalist María Ramírez
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November 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
“There is no danger in Spain of Francoism coming back, but forgetting history can make you take for granted the democratic freedoms that need constant vigilance and protection.” My piece @theguardian.com on memory, unexplained history, the transition and my mom! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Please Rachel, don’t sacrifice workers’ pensions on.ft.com/4oG53Vu | opinion
Please Rachel, don’t sacrifice workers’ pensions
Dismembering salary sacrifice is a short-sighted tax grab that will accelerate the UK’s retirement savings crisis
on.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Please Rachel, don’t sacrifice workers’ pensions on.ft.com/4oG53Vu | opinion
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Very interesting piece, including the extract below which has the ring of truth
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Very interesting piece, including the extract below which has the ring of truth
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BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-trump-row-gaza-genocide-whitewashing-israel-bias
BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal
The corporation stands at a crossroads. Down one path lies self-censorship and hollow apologies; down the other lies the public it was built to serve
www.middleeasteye.net
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-trump-row-gaza-genocide-whitewashing-israel-bias
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Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here
October 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here
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Just ignorant, ahistorical rubbish from Blair.
The average burden of direct taxes (income tax and employee NICs) has barely shifted in two decades. Was 21% of gross incomes in 2004, was 21% last year.
archive.ph/MVNMw
The average burden of direct taxes (income tax and employee NICs) has barely shifted in two decades. Was 21% of gross incomes in 2004, was 21% last year.
archive.ph/MVNMw
October 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Just ignorant, ahistorical rubbish from Blair.
The average burden of direct taxes (income tax and employee NICs) has barely shifted in two decades. Was 21% of gross incomes in 2004, was 21% last year.
archive.ph/MVNMw
The average burden of direct taxes (income tax and employee NICs) has barely shifted in two decades. Was 21% of gross incomes in 2004, was 21% last year.
archive.ph/MVNMw
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It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.
They should feel bad.
They should feel bad.
October 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.
They should feel bad.
They should feel bad.
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To be fair to Tommy Robinson, this has also been the Spectator/Jake Wallis-Simons/Telegraph line for some time.
Tommy Robinson blames "the elitist Jews" "the woke liberal elitist Jews like the Board of Deputies who are pro-Open Borders" & who are responsible for all of the problems Jews face, with their hugging up to Islam + open borders, not "like the real Zionist Jews"
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Heidi Bachram 🎗️ on X: "Jews were just murdered in an attack on a synagogue and Tommy Robinson is raving about the Board of Deputies and “elitist Jews” who are to blame for open borders. My husband works for the Board and fights for the community every moment at great risk. This man is not our friend. https://t.co/HR99sciFe0" / X
Jews were just murdered in an attack on a synagogue and Tommy Robinson is raving about the Board of Deputies and “elitist Jews” who are to blame for open borders. My husband works for the Board and fights for the community every moment at great risk. This man is not our friend. https://t.co/HR99sciFe0
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October 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
To be fair to Tommy Robinson, this has also been the Spectator/Jake Wallis-Simons/Telegraph line for some time.
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A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu
A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu
For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe
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October 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu
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Estos datos en el país de fuera de la región que más influencia tiene.
Una mayoría de los votantes estadounidenses se opone ahora a enviar más ayuda económica y militar a Israel, un giro sorprendente en la opinión pública desde los ataques del 7 de octubre de 2023.
El apoyo a Israel cae en EE. UU., según una encuesta Times/Siena
Una mayoría de los votantes estadounidenses se opone ahora a enviar más ayuda económica y militar a Israel, un giro sorprendente en la opinión pública desde los ataques del 7 de octubre de 2023.
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October 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Estos datos en el país de fuera de la región que más influencia tiene.
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“He prefers to be elected on our ideas, rather than fight for his own. In general, people prefer the original to the copy."*
*Jean-Marie Le Pen, 1990 re. former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
*Jean-Marie Le Pen, 1990 re. former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
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September 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“He prefers to be elected on our ideas, rather than fight for his own. In general, people prefer the original to the copy."*
*Jean-Marie Le Pen, 1990 re. former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
*Jean-Marie Le Pen, 1990 re. former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
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Las mentiras de Ayuso sobre el fraude fiscal de su pareja
www.eldiario.es/politica/par... Te lo cuenta Pedro Águeda
www.eldiario.es/politica/par... Te lo cuenta Pedro Águeda
September 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Las mentiras de Ayuso sobre el fraude fiscal de su pareja
www.eldiario.es/politica/par... Te lo cuenta Pedro Águeda
www.eldiario.es/politica/par... Te lo cuenta Pedro Águeda
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Trump’s hour-long speech at the UN missed a crucial point: The global body can only accomplish what its members support, @andreaskluth.bsky.social explains 🎥
Read the column: bit.ly/4nncG2s
Read the column: bit.ly/4nncG2s
September 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Trump’s hour-long speech at the UN missed a crucial point: The global body can only accomplish what its members support, @andreaskluth.bsky.social explains 🎥
Read the column: bit.ly/4nncG2s
Read the column: bit.ly/4nncG2s
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What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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📹 VÍDEO | El Rey defiende en Egipto la creación de un Estado palestino viable con Gaza, Cisjordania y Jerusalén Este social.elpais.com/0boah4
September 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📹 VÍDEO | El Rey defiende en Egipto la creación de un Estado palestino viable con Gaza, Cisjordania y Jerusalén Este social.elpais.com/0boah4
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This is why they’re deleting studies
September 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is why they’re deleting studies