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Kathryn
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Love working with Oracle APEX. Dislike the office and the world of corporate office culture. Former geologist now concerned about climate change, the state of politics and the lack of connection between the two. Knit/frog as therapy.
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Thick as
January 25, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Wouldn't want to waste the electricity on her
January 25, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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Following the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE in Minneapolis, Kemi Badenoch's policy announcement from October 2025 in favour of a "British ICE" can definitely be dismissed as a massive gaffe. We don't want extra judicial murder on our streets, Kemi.
PBS NEWS Menu Live Leave your feedback By Associated Press Share Man shot and killed by federal officers in Minnesota was an ICU nurse, his parents say Nation Updated on Jan 24, 2026 11:32 PM EST - Published on Jan 24, 2026 3:41 PM EST MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Family members say the man killed by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday was an intensive care nurse at a VA hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in his city. Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed getting in adventures with Joule, his beloved Catahoula Leopard dog who also recently died. He worked for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and had participated in protests following the Jan. 7 killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs officer. "He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset," said Michael Pretti, Alex's father. "He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests." READ MORE: Police chief calls for calm after federal officers shot and killed a man during Minneapolis immigration crackdown There have been daily protests in the Twin Cities since the Jan. 7 shooting of 37-year- Private Autopsy Shows Renee Good Was Shot at Least 3 Times, Lawyers Say Lawyers for the family of Ms. Good, who was fatally shot by an immigration agent in Minneapolis, have said their firm was conducting an investigation into the shooting. A memorial for Renee Good was left on a snowy Minneapolis corner. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times By Julie Bosman Jan. 21, 2026 Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis this month, was shot at least three times, sustaining wounds to her head, arm and breast, a preliminary private autopsy found. Preliminary results of the autopsy were described by lawyers for Ms. Good's family on Wednesday. The lawyers' firm declined to release the full autopsy. Two of the gunshot wounds were not immediately life-threatening, the autopsy found. One bullet struck Ms. Good on her left forearm. Another bullet entered her body in the right breast but did not penetrate major organs. A third bullet struck her on the left side of her head near the temple, the autopsy said, and exited on the right side of her head. Ms. Good also suffered a graze wound "consistent with a firearm injury, but with no penetration," the autopsy found. The medical pathologist who conducted the autopsy was not named. Conservatives This article is more than 3 months old Explainer A British Ice and more stop and search: Badenoch's Tories set out new policies Shadow ministers have announced far-reaching and often radical proposals - here is a roundup of some of them Kiran Stacey Tue 7 Oct 2025 22.46 BST Share Kemi Badenoch warned her shadow cabinet in January not to expect any detailed policies until 2027. "We're not creating policies for 2028 in 2025," a Tory spokesperson said at the time. This week that changed. At the Conservative party's annual conference in Manchester, shadow ministers have lined up to announce detailed, far-reaching and often radical new policies. Yet with the party languishing at 17% in the polls, many of these announcements have struggled to gain traction. So here is a roundup of some of the most significant. 1. Leaving the ECHR and establishing a British Ice One of Kemi Badenoch's first announcements of the conference was that the Conservatives would take Britain out of the European convention on human rights if elected to lead the next government. Advertisement The announcement was part of the party's "borders" plan - a somewhat tortured acrostic that also included banning irregular migrants from ever claiming asylum. As part of the plan, the Tories would also repeal the Human Rights Act and leave the Council of Europe convention on action against trafficking. They would also end immigration trials and the right of people to claim legal aid to fight their immigration cases. The policy would also involve establishing a British version of Ice, the American immigration force that has been raiding communities and businesses across the US in search of illegal immigrants.
January 25, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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A gin maybe, but never a gun #fatfingers
January 25, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Why would you need a gin in a restaurant anyway. Such a broken society
January 25, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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As my mother would have said, "you're not sorry or you wouldn't have done it"
January 22, 2026 at 6:15 AM