GillO
@gillo.bsky.social
Retired, escaped English/Drama teacher in the English Midlands. Now studying for the heck of it. EM drama, kidlit, Buffy, Rejoin. Cymraeg am byth!
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I follow back if I think I have something in common - if your bio's empty I probably won't follow you
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The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation.
“It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
“It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation.
“It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
“It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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Hold up!
I fell off my chair in the first paragraph.
She told the jury that Comey didn't have a right to NOT testify at his own trial? WTAF???? It's a constitutionally protected right to not testify against yourself!
Where did she get her law degree?
Yup, I never made it to the next paragraph.
I fell off my chair in the first paragraph.
She told the jury that Comey didn't have a right to NOT testify at his own trial? WTAF???? It's a constitutionally protected right to not testify against yourself!
Where did she get her law degree?
Yup, I never made it to the next paragraph.
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Hold up!
I fell off my chair in the first paragraph.
She told the jury that Comey didn't have a right to NOT testify at his own trial? WTAF???? It's a constitutionally protected right to not testify against yourself!
Where did she get her law degree?
Yup, I never made it to the next paragraph.
I fell off my chair in the first paragraph.
She told the jury that Comey didn't have a right to NOT testify at his own trial? WTAF???? It's a constitutionally protected right to not testify against yourself!
Where did she get her law degree?
Yup, I never made it to the next paragraph.
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This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
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State-endorsed robbery is no way to fix the asylum system.
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
State-endorsed robbery is no way to fix the asylum system.
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Top tip: Calling someone far right a clown, really, really, really upsets them.
If you check their replies to normal ppl, it’s their go-to emoji. They can’t cope with being mocked. Normal ppl think that being called a clown is a bit childish. But they flip out. 🤡
If you check their replies to normal ppl, it’s their go-to emoji. They can’t cope with being mocked. Normal ppl think that being called a clown is a bit childish. But they flip out. 🤡
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Top tip: Calling someone far right a clown, really, really, really upsets them.
If you check their replies to normal ppl, it’s their go-to emoji. They can’t cope with being mocked. Normal ppl think that being called a clown is a bit childish. But they flip out. 🤡
If you check their replies to normal ppl, it’s their go-to emoji. They can’t cope with being mocked. Normal ppl think that being called a clown is a bit childish. But they flip out. 🤡
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Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
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The same people obsessed with historic grooming gangs are not at all interested in the involvement of the powerful with historic grooming gangs
BBC is far from perfect but…people who’d rather have a media run by Murdoch and Paul Marshall will also decry elites in a time of billionaires & food banks
BBC is far from perfect but…people who’d rather have a media run by Murdoch and Paul Marshall will also decry elites in a time of billionaires & food banks
Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The same people obsessed with historic grooming gangs are not at all interested in the involvement of the powerful with historic grooming gangs
BBC is far from perfect but…people who’d rather have a media run by Murdoch and Paul Marshall will also decry elites in a time of billionaires & food banks
BBC is far from perfect but…people who’d rather have a media run by Murdoch and Paul Marshall will also decry elites in a time of billionaires & food banks
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Chris Philp would like the BBC to apologise for a bad edit which made 12 seconds of Trump's speech give the message which ran through the full, rambling 70 minutes.
#BBCLaurak
#BBCLaurak
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Chris Philp would like the BBC to apologise for a bad edit which made 12 seconds of Trump's speech give the message which ran through the full, rambling 70 minutes.
#BBCLaurak
#BBCLaurak
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So much for left wing bias at the BBC, Brexit is a right wing project and apparently it’s popular.
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
So much for left wing bias at the BBC, Brexit is a right wing project and apparently it’s popular.
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No Mr Dymond, the Conservative government dd not suggest sending asylum seekers to Rwanda "for processing".
They proposed sending people to Rwanda full stop.
They were to be handled by the Rwandan asylum system, and were explicitly forbidden to return to the UK.
#WATO
They proposed sending people to Rwanda full stop.
They were to be handled by the Rwandan asylum system, and were explicitly forbidden to return to the UK.
#WATO
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
No Mr Dymond, the Conservative government dd not suggest sending asylum seekers to Rwanda "for processing".
They proposed sending people to Rwanda full stop.
They were to be handled by the Rwandan asylum system, and were explicitly forbidden to return to the UK.
#WATO
They proposed sending people to Rwanda full stop.
They were to be handled by the Rwandan asylum system, and were explicitly forbidden to return to the UK.
#WATO
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When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.
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The Labour government's proposals on temporary protection seem very close indeed to Priti Patel's 2022 proposals in analysis, in spirit and content.
Where Mahmood and Starmer go harder than Patel and Johnson is by arguing 10 years is too short; could return refugees after 10-19 years in Britain
Where Mahmood and Starmer go harder than Patel and Johnson is by arguing 10 years is too short; could return refugees after 10-19 years in Britain
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Labour government's proposals on temporary protection seem very close indeed to Priti Patel's 2022 proposals in analysis, in spirit and content.
Where Mahmood and Starmer go harder than Patel and Johnson is by arguing 10 years is too short; could return refugees after 10-19 years in Britain
Where Mahmood and Starmer go harder than Patel and Johnson is by arguing 10 years is too short; could return refugees after 10-19 years in Britain
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This Reform jerk off has obviously never had a bad back in his life. Pure and persistent pain, just like him.
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This Reform jerk off has obviously never had a bad back in his life. Pure and persistent pain, just like him.
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Feeling physically sick to hear on the news Shabana Mahmood saying that “illegal migration is tearing the country apart” which she must know is not true. What’s “tearing the country apart” is the cynical entrepreneurs of fear and hate who have gleefully pushed this non-issue.
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Feeling physically sick to hear on the news Shabana Mahmood saying that “illegal migration is tearing the country apart” which she must know is not true. What’s “tearing the country apart” is the cynical entrepreneurs of fear and hate who have gleefully pushed this non-issue.
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I do hope those sensibles telling me that Labour's new policy was fair and sensible are enjoying Tommy Robinson's endorsement of it this morning.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I do hope those sensibles telling me that Labour's new policy was fair and sensible are enjoying Tommy Robinson's endorsement of it this morning.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
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Her portrayal of asylum seekers doesn't just respond to the racist narratives of the Far Right: by othering asylum seekers as unworthy winners of riches, in implicit contrast to struggling families, Shabana Mahmood actively promotes and feeds those Far Right lies.
For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Her portrayal of asylum seekers doesn't just respond to the racist narratives of the Far Right: by othering asylum seekers as unworthy winners of riches, in implicit contrast to struggling families, Shabana Mahmood actively promotes and feeds those Far Right lies.
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Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.
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Another right winger, Carl Benjamin aka "Sargon of Akkad", congratulating the Labour Home Secretary
November 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Another right winger, Carl Benjamin aka "Sargon of Akkad", congratulating the Labour Home Secretary
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You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way
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UK politicians are going to make a choice.
Stand with US President Trump.
Or
Stand with the BBC.
Stand with US President Trump.
Or
Stand with the BBC.
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 AM
UK politicians are going to make a choice.
Stand with US President Trump.
Or
Stand with the BBC.
Stand with US President Trump.
Or
Stand with the BBC.
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If you listen to Labour, their reasons for being cruel to refugees is twofold: a) to win the votes of bigots, b) to deter economic migrants. They think harming the most vulnerable is an acceptable price to pay to benefit themselves & deter the needy.
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
If you listen to Labour, their reasons for being cruel to refugees is twofold: a) to win the votes of bigots, b) to deter economic migrants. They think harming the most vulnerable is an acceptable price to pay to benefit themselves & deter the needy.