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John Foot
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Historian specialised in contemporary Italy - has published books on Italian football, radical psychiatry (Franco Basaglia), Fascism. Book on the Red Brigades out in 2025. John-foot.com

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John Mackintosh Foot is an English academic historian specialising in Italy.

Source: Wikipedia
Political science 38%
Sociology 32%
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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 1h
The Labour politbureu has spoken. Pathetic. Weak. Terrible own goal.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 2h
Not an ounce of humanity for the victim or their family from one single Republican. Monsters.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 2h
Yet the BBC seems to take a ‘bad people on both sides’ approach to Minnesota.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2h
Nigel Farage will bring ICE-style crackdown to Britain
Sadiq Khan: Nigel Farage will bring ICE-style crackdown to Britain
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has suggested that a Reform UK government would emulate the Trump administration’s ICE raids. Addressing a conference for the Fabian Society at the Guildhall in central London...
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2h
It's a good job Nigel Farage didn't inadvertently overclaim a fiver on Universal Credit, because he'd really be in trouble then

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3h
Unrolled thread on BBC online coverage of the shooting (and false claims about the shooting)
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The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.

It leads on "sharply contested narratives"

It has a dramatic skew to the US government

It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 14h
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the city has only had three homicides so far this year. “Two of them were ICE," he added.

“The relief we are asking for is stopping this Operation Metro Surge” immediately, he said.
Live: State officials decry fatal shooting. ‘We can’t live like this,’ Walz says
Protesters have swarmed the street where a man was shot and killed by federal agents Saturday. Republican Tom Emmer said Walz’s response was “dangerous.”
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 15h
Noem:

"An individual approached US border patrol officers... The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently."

Video footage from multiple angles proves that this is outright bullshit.

Alex Pretti did not approach ICE officers nor did he react violently.

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Aaron Lerner @aaronclerner.bsky.social · 15h
Fuck the tone and language policing pseudo-intellectual pedants who paved the road for fascism with their “don’t call them fascists” bullshit.

They were fascists then and they sure as hell are fascists now.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 15h
The new video is clear. Miller and Bovino are lying.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 15h
Miller is the assassin.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h
TV tonight: flawless prison drama is the first must-watch show of the year
TV tonight: flawless prison drama is the first must-watch show of the year
Josh Finan continues to be brilliant in Waiting for the Out. Plus: buckle up for the final double bill of Heated Rivalry. Here’s what to watch this evening
www.theguardian.com

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Jay Morg @jaymorg2025.bsky.social · 15h
Clearest video yet and you can clearly see one of the ICE agents running off with the Gun they revealed to be the victims right b4 they executed him!

He was UNARMED & EXECUTED!!

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 15h
I’m sure we can rely on Kristi Noem for a fair and balanced assessment of events.

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Dad In Detroit @dadindetroit.bsky.social · 16h
Just ignore all the videos that refute this headline and run whatever. Assholes.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 16h
According to Steven Miller, a domestic terrorist

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 16h
The speed at which Republican electeds and voters rush to justify ICE killings, despite clear evidence, makes me think that this country is irreparable. I’m sorry for the doomerism, but I’m more and more questioning what the hell am I doing in this country

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16h
“Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished”

Re-upping this piece of mine from last year, when things weren’t even half as bad as they are now.
Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished | Mehdi Hasan
Violent apprehensions, warrantless arrests, deported children: how many more abuses of power will it take for Democrats to speak up?
www.theguardian.com

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 17h
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026

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Simon @hantsravens.bsky.social · 17h
‘Ethan Nwaneri scores 13 minutes into his Marseille debut!!

#Arsenal #AFC #Gunners #Marseille

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 17h
Boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 17h
Walz criticized the narrative put out by the federal government about the shooting.

“Thank God we have video,” Walz said. “Because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them, or something.”
Live: Federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis man, DHS officials say he was armed
A bystander video shows several agents wrestled with man on a city sidewalk moments before the shooting. Police chief Brian O’Hara issued a plea for calm, as protesters gathered at the scene: “Please do not destroy our own city.”
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footymac.bsky.social
John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 17h
I wonder where that gun came from?

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 18h
The Department of Homeland Security said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him.

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amiemarie74.bsky.social @amiemarie74.bsky.social · 18h
His name was Alex Jeffrey Pretti. He was
37 years old, a licensed nurse and a federal government worker. He was executed.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 18h
Murdered for filming federal police operations.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 18h
Trump of course pardoned all the domestic terrorists from Jan 6.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18h
Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.