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Senior film writer for Globalcomment.com and one half of Zaitsev https://zaitsev.bandcamp.com
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Why won’t anyone stop ICE from masking?
Why won’t anyone stop ICE from masking?
Americans do not like masked secret police.
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January 25, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Back in August, I wrote this advice for social studies teachers teaching in this moment. Reposting in the wake of all that is happening now in Minnesota. Crucial to avoid the bothsidesism trap when dealing with fascism and state violence. christophermartell.blogspot.com/2025/08/teac...
Teaching About Human Rights in the Trump Era (Avoiding the "Both-Sides Trap")
Above: Protests have regularly occurred in opposition to the Trump administration's attacks on U.S. democracy, growing authoritarianism,...
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January 25, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Back in August, I wrote this advice for social studies teachers teaching in this moment. Reposting in the wake of all that is happening now in Minnesota. Crucial to avoid the bothsidesism trap when dealing with fascism and state violence. christophermartell.blogspot.com/2025/08/teac...
Well you Brexiteer shysters…who’d have thought 10 years ago that a belated Brexit benefit would be closer ties to the very Europe you demonised rather than licking the jackboots of a Fascist regime. We need to rejoin.
January 25, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Well you Brexiteer shysters…who’d have thought 10 years ago that a belated Brexit benefit would be closer ties to the very Europe you demonised rather than licking the jackboots of a Fascist regime. We need to rejoin.
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“Though ICE has never come close to meeting that daily goal, officers are rewarded for making arrests, even if the immigrants they take in are later released.” - Wall Street Journal with a good overview of ICE crimes. www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...
The Standoff That Has Turned Minnesota Into a Tinderbox
ICE agents with arrest quotas are colliding with angry Minneapolis residents, a compact city and a relatively small proportion of immigrants in the country illegally.
www.wsj.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:08 AM
“Though ICE has never come close to meeting that daily goal, officers are rewarded for making arrests, even if the immigrants they take in are later released.” - Wall Street Journal with a good overview of ICE crimes. www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...
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Those Brexity pro-Trump people in the U.K. are looking very silly right now. Completely misread almost everything and damaged this country beyond all reason in the process.
January 17, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Those Brexity pro-Trump people in the U.K. are looking very silly right now. Completely misread almost everything and damaged this country beyond all reason in the process.
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Keith Ellison: "These poorly trained, aggressive, and armed agents of the federal state have terrorized Minnesota with widespread unlawful conduct. They're making unconstitutional arrests and using excessive force ... this has to stop."
January 12, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Keith Ellison: "These poorly trained, aggressive, and armed agents of the federal state have terrorized Minnesota with widespread unlawful conduct. They're making unconstitutional arrests and using excessive force ... this has to stop."
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Week 1. We invaded Venezuela. We killed the ACA subsidies. We destroyed the Kennedy Center. We murdered a woman in cold blood over deportations. We threatened Greenland, now we are offering them $100,000 per person to allow us to take over their country.
First 7 days. Can we survive a year of this?
First 7 days. Can we survive a year of this?
January 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Week 1. We invaded Venezuela. We killed the ACA subsidies. We destroyed the Kennedy Center. We murdered a woman in cold blood over deportations. We threatened Greenland, now we are offering them $100,000 per person to allow us to take over their country.
First 7 days. Can we survive a year of this?
First 7 days. Can we survive a year of this?
Jesus Christ. Cuba next…
January 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Jesus Christ. Cuba next…
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Storyteller Jason Bard heads out on tour this Spring with an acclaimed new one-man performance of Sláine: The Horned God!
Tickets are onsale now: https://bit.ly/4hLDGGY
Tickets are onsale now: https://bit.ly/4hLDGGY
Don't Miss Sláine: The Horned God by Jason Buck - on Tour in 2026! | 2000 AD
“I am very excited about this!” Pat Mills, Sláine co-creator. Join professional storyteller Jason Buck for ‘Sláine: The Horned God’: a tale of ancient Celtic heroes and villains, monsters and magic, d...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Storyteller Jason Bard heads out on tour this Spring with an acclaimed new one-man performance of Sláine: The Horned God!
Tickets are onsale now: https://bit.ly/4hLDGGY
Tickets are onsale now: https://bit.ly/4hLDGGY
If you’ve never seen Gary Oldman’s finest performance it’s on BBC I-Player now. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Screen Two - The Firm
Drama about Bex, an estate agent with a seemingly respectable family life who is also a football hooligan leading a vicious 'firm' of thugs.
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September 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
If you’ve never seen Gary Oldman’s finest performance it’s on BBC I-Player now. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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The 10 Champions League winners of the 90s.
January 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The 10 Champions League winners of the 90s.