Vicki Johnson
@vjohnson.bsky.social
Planning a rebellious retirement shouting about injustice, inhumanity, climate and environment and political insanity. Probably nobody will be listening.
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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Trump's own Chief of Staff just said he has an "alcoholic's personality" and called JD Vance a conspiracy theorist. If you want a peak behind the curtain at the chaos in the WH, listen to one of our archive LP Pod episodes with Chris Whipple: https://youtu.be/LVXyAciI9G4?si=SezFsNDRK9CsNT3G
December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Trump's own Chief of Staff just said he has an "alcoholic's personality" and called JD Vance a conspiracy theorist. If you want a peak behind the curtain at the chaos in the WH, listen to one of our archive LP Pod episodes with Chris Whipple: https://youtu.be/LVXyAciI9G4?si=SezFsNDRK9CsNT3G
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The regime has unleashed its goons on anyone with brown or black skin. It's morally repugnant, un-American and must end.
December 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The regime has unleashed its goons on anyone with brown or black skin. It's morally repugnant, un-American and must end.
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New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Deadly Israeli attack on Gaza brings death toll since ceasefire to 280
The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
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BREAKING: Israeli forces have shot and wounded an Al Jazeera journalist in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/z68e2t
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November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
BREAKING: Israeli forces have shot and wounded an Al Jazeera journalist in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/z68e2t
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/z68e2t
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So you've come to the UK fleeing war or persecution, you're granted refugee status, you live here for 18 years during which time you build a life, career and family, and then the govt deems the country you came from safe and deports you.
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
So you've come to the UK fleeing war or persecution, you're granted refugee status, you live here for 18 years during which time you build a life, career and family, and then the govt deems the country you came from safe and deports you.
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There have been 263 UK prisoners released in error over the last year, but apparently it's only newsworthy when they happen to be a non-UK national.
Offenders are not more dangerous by virtue of being 'foreign'.
Media outlets need to stop helping the far-right poison our discourse with xenophobia.
Offenders are not more dangerous by virtue of being 'foreign'.
Media outlets need to stop helping the far-right poison our discourse with xenophobia.
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
There have been 263 UK prisoners released in error over the last year, but apparently it's only newsworthy when they happen to be a non-UK national.
Offenders are not more dangerous by virtue of being 'foreign'.
Media outlets need to stop helping the far-right poison our discourse with xenophobia.
Offenders are not more dangerous by virtue of being 'foreign'.
Media outlets need to stop helping the far-right poison our discourse with xenophobia.
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Powerful questioning from my colleague @elliechowns.bsky.social, pinning the government on exactly what it needs to do - NOW - to bring about an end to the atrocities being committed in Sudan.
In the midst of horrific mass killings and violence, British-made military equipment has been found in Sudan.
It's clear our arms export licensing system is not fit for purpose; we need a full review, alongside an embargo on all arms exports to the UAE now.
It's clear our arms export licensing system is not fit for purpose; we need a full review, alongside an embargo on all arms exports to the UAE now.
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Powerful questioning from my colleague @elliechowns.bsky.social, pinning the government on exactly what it needs to do - NOW - to bring about an end to the atrocities being committed in Sudan.
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To be fair, they’re losing MPs at a much faster rate.
One in twenty Reform councillors elected in May 2025 has left by the Autumn
- half expelled/suspended
- a quarter resigned from council
- some defected
An "unusual rate" of attrition in 6 months, says Tony Travers
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
- half expelled/suspended
- a quarter resigned from council
- some defected
An "unusual rate" of attrition in 6 months, says Tony Travers
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Reform Is Losing Councillors Elected In May At An 'Unusual' Rate
Reform UK has lost more than 5 per cent of the councillors it had elected six months ago, an analysis by PoliticsHome has found.
www.politicshome.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
To be fair, they’re losing MPs at a much faster rate.
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President says US will prioritise white South Africans in move decried by refugee advocates as blatantly political.
Trump announces lowest refugee admission cap in US history at 7,500
President says US will prioritise white South Africans in move decried by refugee advocates as blatantly political.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
President says US will prioritise white South Africans in move decried by refugee advocates as blatantly political.
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It’s more than just bad priorities. It’s about lack of basic decency.
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It’s more than just bad priorities. It’s about lack of basic decency.
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Steve Bannon: Trump is "a vehicle for divine providence" & "an instrument of divine will".
This is such a classic part of the fascist playbook. I wrote about it last year for @bylinetimes.bsky.social.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/fascism-re...
This is such a classic part of the fascist playbook. I wrote about it last year for @bylinetimes.bsky.social.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/fascism-re...
October 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Steve Bannon: Trump is "a vehicle for divine providence" & "an instrument of divine will".
This is such a classic part of the fascist playbook. I wrote about it last year for @bylinetimes.bsky.social.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/fascism-re...
This is such a classic part of the fascist playbook. I wrote about it last year for @bylinetimes.bsky.social.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/fascism-re...
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Companies that donated to Labour awarded £138m in contracts, study finds
Companies that donated to Labour awarded £138m in contracts, study finds
Report raises fresh concerns about the link between political donations and public spending
Companies that have recently donated to Labour were awarded contracts worth almost £138m during the party’s first year in government, according to new research that raises fresh concerns about the relationship between political donations and public spending.
A report by the thinktank Autonomy Institute has identified more than 100 companies that have given money to political parties and then won government contracts, under both Conservative and Labour administrations. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Companies that donated to Labour awarded £138m in contracts, study finds
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Nigel Farage promised that Reform councils would cut local government "waste" in order to slash taxes.
Now the party's flagship Kent administration is set to actually raise taxes and has just started asking opposition parties for help after failing to identify the millions in savings they promised
Now the party's flagship Kent administration is set to actually raise taxes and has just started asking opposition parties for help after failing to identify the millions in savings they promised
Reform Council Asks Opposition for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short
Exclusive: Nigel Farage's struggling flagship Kent administration is now reaching out to other parties, after failing to identify the millions of pounds in savings they promised
bylinetimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Nigel Farage promised that Reform councils would cut local government "waste" in order to slash taxes.
Now the party's flagship Kent administration is set to actually raise taxes and has just started asking opposition parties for help after failing to identify the millions in savings they promised
Now the party's flagship Kent administration is set to actually raise taxes and has just started asking opposition parties for help after failing to identify the millions in savings they promised
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At last we are talking about this
October 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
At last we are talking about this
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“Only 5% of migration is from small boats, but it gets 95% of the headlines. It would be ludicrous to cut legal migration when we have 150,000 NHS vacancies."
Zack Polanski says politicians must stop fuelling fear and start telling the truth about immigration.
#Peston
Zack Polanski says politicians must stop fuelling fear and start telling the truth about immigration.
#Peston
October 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Only 5% of migration is from small boats, but it gets 95% of the headlines. It would be ludicrous to cut legal migration when we have 150,000 NHS vacancies."
Zack Polanski says politicians must stop fuelling fear and start telling the truth about immigration.
#Peston
Zack Polanski says politicians must stop fuelling fear and start telling the truth about immigration.
#Peston
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Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
April 22, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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In just 1 week (October 7-13) illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank:
Mounted at least 71 attacks on Palestinians
Murdered one Palestinian
Injured 99 Palestinians
Targeted 27 villages
Destroyed more than 1,400 olive trees
Mounted at least 71 attacks on Palestinians
Murdered one Palestinian
Injured 99 Palestinians
Targeted 27 villages
Destroyed more than 1,400 olive trees
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
In just 1 week (October 7-13) illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank:
Mounted at least 71 attacks on Palestinians
Murdered one Palestinian
Injured 99 Palestinians
Targeted 27 villages
Destroyed more than 1,400 olive trees
Mounted at least 71 attacks on Palestinians
Murdered one Palestinian
Injured 99 Palestinians
Targeted 27 villages
Destroyed more than 1,400 olive trees
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The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.
RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."
October 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.
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You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning
I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!
October 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning
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so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
www.404media.co
October 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
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Trump posts a deranged message to Pam Bondi pressuring her to prosecute his political enemies after a U.S. attorney quit because he refused to fabricate charges: “We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility.”
September 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Trump posts a deranged message to Pam Bondi pressuring her to prosecute his political enemies after a U.S. attorney quit because he refused to fabricate charges: “We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility.”
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We obtained a list of Israelis who graduated from the Royal College of Defence Studies in London.
👉 Britain trained Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza
www.declassifieduk.org/britain-trai...
👉 Britain trained Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza
www.declassifieduk.org/britain-trai...
Britain trained Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza
Exclusive: Declassified has obtained a list of Israelis who graduated from the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. We’re publishing it for the first time.
www.declassifieduk.org
September 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
We obtained a list of Israelis who graduated from the Royal College of Defence Studies in London.
👉 Britain trained Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza
www.declassifieduk.org/britain-trai...
👉 Britain trained Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza
www.declassifieduk.org/britain-trai...
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Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’
Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’
Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements
More than 100 of Donald Trump’s inaccurate statements are to be dissected by Channel 4 to coincide with his state visit, in what it described as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”.
The US president is expected to arrive in the UK on Tuesday night. He will enjoy a huge amount of special treatment as ministers attempt to preserve the special relationship, including a ceremonial welcome at Windsor Castle for Trump and his wife, Melania. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’