Amanda
@stilhere.bsky.social
Several interesting careers. Anti-fascist tree hugger. Horticulture, politics, climate etc. Trained by Rodney the Podengo.
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Renée Nicole Good is one of at least nine people across the country who have been shot by immigration agents since September.
There is something every case has in common: Everyone was in a vehicle at the time of the shooting.
There is something every case has in common: Everyone was in a vehicle at the time of the shooting.
Cops are taught not to shoot into cars. ICE keeps doing it anyway.
Immigration agents have shot at least nine people since September. All of them have been in cars.
www.motherjones.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Renée Nicole Good is one of at least nine people across the country who have been shot by immigration agents since September.
There is something every case has in common: Everyone was in a vehicle at the time of the shooting.
There is something every case has in common: Everyone was in a vehicle at the time of the shooting.
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Legal experts smacked down Stephen Miller’s ominous message to ICE agents that they enjoy “federal immunity” and argued that he might have just opened himself up to impeachment proceedings.
Stephen Miller’s Dark Message to ICE Agents Immediately Backfires
The deputy White House chief of staff’s ignorance about the law was on full display.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Legal experts smacked down Stephen Miller’s ominous message to ICE agents that they enjoy “federal immunity” and argued that he might have just opened himself up to impeachment proceedings.
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a few blocks down Lake Street from me, feds abducted a father, his two daughters, and their dog from their car. they left the car running out on the street.
January 14, 2026 at 5:28 PM
a few blocks down Lake Street from me, feds abducted a father, his two daughters, and their dog from their car. they left the car running out on the street.
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Starmer must make Ofcom effective on the current climate.
This laissez-faire attitude to communications regulation is doing massive harm to our democracy.
This laissez-faire attitude to communications regulation is doing massive harm to our democracy.
January 14, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Starmer must make Ofcom effective on the current climate.
This laissez-faire attitude to communications regulation is doing massive harm to our democracy.
This laissez-faire attitude to communications regulation is doing massive harm to our democracy.
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YOU'RE LYING ABOUT JEWS!
Damien Egan wasn't banned from speaking at Bristol Brunel Academy because he's Jewish.
His visit was POSTPONED because he's a Vice Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, who support arming a genocide...
..and the planned protest would have disrupted the end of school.
Damien Egan wasn't banned from speaking at Bristol Brunel Academy because he's Jewish.
His visit was POSTPONED because he's a Vice Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, who support arming a genocide...
..and the planned protest would have disrupted the end of school.
Starmer vows to punish school over cancelled MP visit - Damien Egan
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:58 PM
YOU'RE LYING ABOUT JEWS!
Damien Egan wasn't banned from speaking at Bristol Brunel Academy because he's Jewish.
His visit was POSTPONED because he's a Vice Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, who support arming a genocide...
..and the planned protest would have disrupted the end of school.
Damien Egan wasn't banned from speaking at Bristol Brunel Academy because he's Jewish.
His visit was POSTPONED because he's a Vice Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, who support arming a genocide...
..and the planned protest would have disrupted the end of school.
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Our new database tracks Tory defections to Reform UK. The ease with which Tories are finding a home in the Reform UK party shows who the party serves.
Vote for Reform UK and get the very worst of the Tories.
https://www.bestforbritain.org/tory_reformuk_defection_tracker
Vote for Reform UK and get the very worst of the Tories.
https://www.bestforbritain.org/tory_reformuk_defection_tracker
January 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Our new database tracks Tory defections to Reform UK. The ease with which Tories are finding a home in the Reform UK party shows who the party serves.
Vote for Reform UK and get the very worst of the Tories.
https://www.bestforbritain.org/tory_reformuk_defection_tracker
Vote for Reform UK and get the very worst of the Tories.
https://www.bestforbritain.org/tory_reformuk_defection_tracker
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Global health systems are being cut just as the Global South sends vast sums in debt repayments to wealthy states. Resources out, health capacity down. This makes no one safer.
#GlobalJustice #AMR
#GlobalJustice #AMR
January 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Global health systems are being cut just as the Global South sends vast sums in debt repayments to wealthy states. Resources out, health capacity down. This makes no one safer.
#GlobalJustice #AMR
#GlobalJustice #AMR
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If you want to understand why the Ministry of Defence’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Palantir is so profoundly dangerous, please read my latest piece open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
January 13, 2026 at 7:26 PM
If you want to understand why the Ministry of Defence’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Palantir is so profoundly dangerous, please read my latest piece open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Political discourse takes another lurch downwards...
Blimey. Did I really just hear Keir Starmer say this
“They had more positions in 14 years than the Kama Sutra. No wonder they are knackered and they left the country screwed”
#PMQs
“They had more positions in 14 years than the Kama Sutra. No wonder they are knackered and they left the country screwed”
#PMQs
January 14, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Political discourse takes another lurch downwards...
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Good to see the government admitting they got wrong a key stat claimed in the discussion following my question in the Lords last week.
I noticed though that the govt was quicker to get back to the BBC querying this than they were to me following up with the minister querying it 😀
I noticed though that the govt was quicker to get back to the BBC querying this than they were to me following up with the minister querying it 😀
Did you see the claim from the Government in the House of Lords that "10.8 million families use X as their main news source"?
Well, the government has admitted it was wrong.
I investigated for Radio 4's More or Less - you can hear it here, starting at 14:55.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Well, the government has admitted it was wrong.
I investigated for Radio 4's More or Less - you can hear it here, starting at 14:55.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
More or Less - Have more than 100 private schools been forced to close because of VAT? - BBC Sounds
Tim Harford investigates closing schools, X users, Covid deaths and churchgoers
www.bbc.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Good to see the government admitting they got wrong a key stat claimed in the discussion following my question in the Lords last week.
I noticed though that the govt was quicker to get back to the BBC querying this than they were to me following up with the minister querying it 😀
I noticed though that the govt was quicker to get back to the BBC querying this than they were to me following up with the minister querying it 😀
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Do it @leedsunited.com it will be better for you. #lufc
January 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Do it @leedsunited.com it will be better for you. #lufc
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The Shah was a sadistic US /UK puppet who impoverished Iranians – the last thing they need is Son of Shah with added Trump and Netanyahu
January 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The Shah was a sadistic US /UK puppet who impoverished Iranians – the last thing they need is Son of Shah with added Trump and Netanyahu
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There are no heroes coming to save us.
We are it. Fighting to keep truth alive in this dark age of propaganda & misinformation.
We need to grow our resistance into numbers too big to silence and too defiant to intimidate.
It’s on each of us to make that happen.
This ends when the people unite.
We are it. Fighting to keep truth alive in this dark age of propaganda & misinformation.
We need to grow our resistance into numbers too big to silence and too defiant to intimidate.
It’s on each of us to make that happen.
This ends when the people unite.
January 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
There are no heroes coming to save us.
We are it. Fighting to keep truth alive in this dark age of propaganda & misinformation.
We need to grow our resistance into numbers too big to silence and too defiant to intimidate.
It’s on each of us to make that happen.
This ends when the people unite.
We are it. Fighting to keep truth alive in this dark age of propaganda & misinformation.
We need to grow our resistance into numbers too big to silence and too defiant to intimidate.
It’s on each of us to make that happen.
This ends when the people unite.
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Was really looking forward to appearing at the Adelaide festival. Now, needless to say, I will not be. The brilliant Louise Adler lays out what was at stake share.google/ZseW6MrhM0pb...
I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
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January 13, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Was really looking forward to appearing at the Adelaide festival. Now, needless to say, I will not be. The brilliant Louise Adler lays out what was at stake share.google/ZseW6MrhM0pb...
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While the Internet blackout is continuing, some people risk a lot by talking to the BBC from #Iran. Why do they do that?
"This grief and fury shouldn’t stay hidden," they say. "The world should know what’s happening to us inside."
V Ghoncheh Habibiazad, BBC Persian
"This grief and fury shouldn’t stay hidden," they say. "The world should know what’s happening to us inside."
V Ghoncheh Habibiazad, BBC Persian
January 12, 2026 at 12:44 PM
While the Internet blackout is continuing, some people risk a lot by talking to the BBC from #Iran. Why do they do that?
"This grief and fury shouldn’t stay hidden," they say. "The world should know what’s happening to us inside."
V Ghoncheh Habibiazad, BBC Persian
"This grief and fury shouldn’t stay hidden," they say. "The world should know what’s happening to us inside."
V Ghoncheh Habibiazad, BBC Persian
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oh and here's when Nadhim Zahawi compared Nigel Farage to, er Joseph Goebbels over his “deeply racist” call to allow employers to discriminate by colour
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic...
'Goebbels would be proud!' Tory fury over Nigel Farage's call to discriminate between workers
David Cameron leads condemnation of UKIP leader, who insists call for more discrimination has been misinterpreted
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 5:55 PM
oh and here's when Nadhim Zahawi compared Nigel Farage to, er Joseph Goebbels over his “deeply racist” call to allow employers to discriminate by colour
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic...
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The guy in the White House just posted that he's the acting president of Venezuela. Insane.
January 12, 2026 at 6:31 PM
The guy in the White House just posted that he's the acting president of Venezuela. Insane.
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This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny
It occurs to me all the yelling at ICE in MPLS isn't merely funny. Getting made fun of like this is awful for morale. ICE is losing field officers faster than it can wave them through training, and a big part of it is how little of this these little weasels can take.
January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
18 months in prison with no trial. 71 days without food.
Imprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: ‘I’m dying’
Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says ‘her body is shutting down’
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
18 months in prison with no trial. 71 days without food.
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From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
January 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans died to stop “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer"
80 years on, with Musk and Bannon saluting it, the enemy is truly within
80 years on, with Musk and Bannon saluting it, the enemy is truly within
January 11, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Hundreds of thousands of Americans died to stop “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer"
80 years on, with Musk and Bannon saluting it, the enemy is truly within
80 years on, with Musk and Bannon saluting it, the enemy is truly within
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Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel.
We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
January 11, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel.
We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...