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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 13h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 8h

I can't believe this is real

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 3h

Exactly the same in the UK. Also, it seems the richer one becomes the more money & influence they have to lobby governments not to tax them 🤷‍♀️

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 1d

IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was murdered. Since then he has been held in one of Israel's torture facilities.

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 4h

Ah, I misread, but yes, the fact still remains!

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 4h

During the interview, Kuenssberg incorrectly referred to the Scottish Parliamentary elections taking place in 2017 and 2022 – but the Holyrood votes were in 2016 and 2021.

So here's the ex political editor at the BBC, & Scottish herself, getting the dates of our elections wrong 🤷‍♀️.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 5h

John Swinney was forced to correct the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg after she made two key errors about Scottish politics

John Swinney corrects Laura Kuenssberg over two key errors about Scottish politics

www.thenational.scot

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6h

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16h

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 5h

Priti Patel on #LBC lecturing about national security.

That'll be the same Priti Patel who resigned as UK international development secretary amid controversy over her unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials.

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 6h

Why are Sky acting like this is somehow a shock, we've been watching the devastation happening for months while constantly being told 'Israel has a right to defend itself'.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 17h

Drones capture staggering images of Gaza devastation - as people find nothing left

Drones have been a common sight in Gaza for a long time, but they have always been military.

news.sky.com

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 6h

Go for it, Americans have been putting them up since the beginning of September 😆

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h

Gaza journalist Maha Hussaini: “We have returned, like we’ll always do.”

A cat sits in a window. Beyond a completely destroyed city

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 6h

Let's not forget Kemi Badenoch wants to introduce a British ICE & bring scenes like this to the UK.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 20h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 7h

You wouldn't believe the number of morons on Twitter pretending that a temporary exhibition of vinyl stickers at Canterbury Cathedral is permanent graffiti, just so they can feel outraged. Then JD Vance joins in, because clearly this is an international crisis.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 7h

The framing of the Gaza ceasefire by Trevor Phillips as some sort of vindication of Trump in some ongoing battle with the Labour gov't is just so small, so English, and so misconceived as to be genuinely funny.

But, also, quite enough from him for another week.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20h

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu, but the Israelis gathered are constantly and consistently booing him

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 20h

Thousands of Palestinians have begun returning to Gaza City, weeks after fleeing Israel’s deadly offensive that turned their homes into rubble

'It has been reduced to dust': Thousands of Palestinians return to Gaza City

www.thenational.scot

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23h

Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?

Photo collage
➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3d

If your business model depends on stealing stuff without compensation, maybe it’s a bad business model and deserves to die.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

Number of deportations the ECHR have actually blocked since 1980 - 13 (THIRTEEN).

Please remember this next time some grifting populist claims us leaving the ECHR (and sacrificing the rights it gives us in the process) will allow us to ‘control our borders’.

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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 1d

NO doubt Laura Kuenssberg or Trevor Philips will be interviewing a Reform spot tomorrow morning - perhaps they could ask 🤔

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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