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Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮🌈✌🏼🌱💚🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼
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UK must move away from US and towards a 'more European NATO', Keir Starmer to say at defence summit

www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
February 14, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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When ministers defended Starmer over Mandelson’s links to Epstein this week, they rushed to X - a platform that lets users strip photos of women and girls.

Is it surely time for the government to log off X? And is social media too toxic for all of us?

My col: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it? | Frances Ryan
With so many platforms rife with racism, misogyny and far-right rhetoric, there must be a point where decent people walk away, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed.

Govt officials warned that the contract would not offer value for money, but Starmer and Streeting still went ahead.

Mandelson took Starmer to meet Palantir’s chief executive.
NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed
Exclusive: in 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in UK
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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Checking women for fertility and now suggestions of imposing a childless family tax. Add to this Farage's lifelong racist comments and we are not far from 1930's fascist Germany.
February 14, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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Zack Polanski, "2,600 have been arrested for standing with Palestine Action"

"Today the court found the proscription unlawful, it's time to release them"
February 13, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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Bank CEOs get huge pay rises, salaries back to pre-crash highs.

NatWest CEO pay up from £4.9m to £6.6m.

Lloyds Bank CEO, up 20% to £7.4m.

Govt abolished cap on on bankers' bonus, regulation weakened, licence to be reckless.

Bankruptcy risk for banks abolished because people always fund bailouts.
Bank bosses get huge pay rises in sign top City salaries back to pre-crash highs
Nat West CEO’s £6.6m pay package for 2025 is largest for group since disgraced Fred Goodwin’s £7.7m in 2006
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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Another example why no-one should trust Farage and his looney Reform party.
Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments
‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments
Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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Farage - "I have principles. I can't be bought" update

'Farage pocketed £40,000 to deliver a keynote speech in September for Nomad Capitalist – an organisation that encourages people to flee the UK for global tax havens’.

leftfootforward.org/2025/08/nige...
Nigel Farage took £40,000 to speak at conference helping wealthy people gain citizenship abroad
Farage ‘pocketed £40,000 to deliver a keynote speech in September for Nomad Capitalist – an organisation that encourages people to flee the UK for global tax havens’.
leftfootforward.org
February 13, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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Reform UK are coming for your womb.
February 13, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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February 12, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Jim Radcliffe got his numbers wrong! That should be mentioned whenever his recent comments are discussed.
He thinks the UK population has grown by 12m in 5 years. In reality that took 25 years. Big difference.
#r4today
February 13, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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Actually Farage my experience as an East Londoner is that I feel colonised by privately educated people from backgrounds like yours. #r4today
February 13, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff
If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff
A debating society didn’t want to invite two figures connected to the party to speak. Cue an authoritarian response, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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Another hero in Minneapolis—this US postal worker.

"They’re shooting tear gas...And I’m like: “Yeah, I know, but I gotta keep doing my job. I may have medicine. I don’t know what I have in my packages.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I’m a Minneapolis postal worker. This is what I saw.
Come rain, shine, tear gas, or ICE shootings, postal worker Bianca Sonnenberg is delivering the mail.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Project 2025 was written as a blueprint for a conservative president. Now, many of its authors are part of the Trump administration.

This week, journalist @dgraham.bsky.social talks to us about how Project 2025's policies could be just the beginning.
How Project 2025 is reshaping our country
Journalist David A. Graham says the policies from the conservative roadmap may be just the beginning.
revealnews.org
February 12, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
buff.ly
February 12, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
February 12, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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📽️ WATCH: We went inside the immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas.

Listen to what kids told reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind.

Read more: https://propub.li/4toqME6
February 13, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true.

(Published Oct. 2025)
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
February 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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Rand Paul to ICE officials on Pretti's killing: "Because people within the government made conclusions immediately that he was a terrorist and an assassin, people aren't believing that it's gonna be an honest investigation ... there has to ultimately be repercussions ... it's inexcusable."
February 12, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Minnesota, you won. Much of ICE are leaving. Don't trust this. They are trying to get the funding bill passed. Once the bill passes they'll be back at it either by you or someplace else.
February 12, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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February 12, 2026 at 3:28 PM