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Timothy Snyder

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?

Nazi Lies in Vance's America

snyder.substack.com

February 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM

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Faunabescherming

@faunabescherming.bsky.social

"Waarom loop je hier ook, raar wijf?" Zei de geoefend jager met jachtvergunning, toen hij haar hond had doodgeschoten
nos.nl/artikel/2600...

Hond doodgeschoten door man in Wapse, politie doet onderzoek

Rond middernacht lieten de eigenaar en haar zoon hun drie honden uit bij het zandpad voor hun woning. Een van de honden was vooruit gerend toen er twee schoten klonken.

nos.nl

February 1, 2026 at 8:11 AM

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Hans Rodenburg

@hansrodenburg.bsky.social

Dit akkoord is echt een keiharde klap voor oudere praktisch werkenden.

- Een jaar korter WW, terwijl ze nu al moeilijk een nieuwe baan vinden.

- Een hogere pensioenleeftijd, terwijl ze hem nu al vaak niet halen.

- Een hoger eigen risico, terwijl ze die nu al jaarlijks opmaken.

Elite-politiek.

January 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM

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Gillian Brockell

@gbrockell.bsky.social

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.

After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler

A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

www.motherjones.com

January 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM

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Piet Lekkerkerk

@pietlekkerkerk.bsky.social

Je zal toch het gore lef hebben om te schrijven dat het verkorten van de WW-duur tot één jaar, mensen meer financiële zekerheid en rust geeft.

Stuur deze sadistische neoliberealen naar huis na het debat over de regeringsverklaring.

January 30, 2026 at 6:14 PM

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Hidde Bouwmeester🇬🇱🇺🇦

@hiddebouwmeester.nl

Dit is een ongekende humanitaire crisis. Er vriezen mensen dood. Dat is een direct gevolg van Ruslands oorlogsmisdaden.

Normaalgesproken had dit tot nasale protesten en inzamelingsacties geleid. We lijken (de meerderheid) qua Oekraïne murw te zijn geslagen.

January 30, 2026 at 8:22 PM

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Piet Lekkerkerk

@pietlekkerkerk.bsky.social

Het criminele Kamerlid dat in opdracht van Wilders AI-afbeeldingen maakte waarna Timmermans met de dood bedreigd werd, krijgt nog drie jaar wachtgeld.
We zorgen in dit land beter voor nazi's dan voor zieken, arbeidsongeschikten en werklozen.

January 30, 2026 at 6:54 PM

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Piet Lekkerkerk

@pietlekkerkerk.bsky.social

Kabinet Yesilgöz I gaat een verzorgingsstaat voor het bedrijfsleven creëern.
Daartoe wordt doorbetaling bij ziekte geframed als nadelig voor werkzoekenden (meer rust in je portemonnee doordat hij leegraakt bij ziekte).
En de overheid wordt een soort internationaal uitzendbureau voor bedrijven.

January 30, 2026 at 6:08 PM

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Emine Uğur

@overlistener.bsky.social

Looking at you, linkse kiezers die strategisch D66 hebben gestemd in de hoop op een centrumlinks kabinet.

Sheila Sitalsing @sheilas.bsky.social · 4d

ik zei het al lieve jongens en meisjes: kneiterrechts

January 30, 2026 at 2:31 PM

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social

“After their humans were disappeared by ICE”

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 4d

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

January 30, 2026 at 4:07 PM

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Mathijs Bouman

@mathijsbouman.nl

Op tv worden nu 'gewone Nederlanders' geïnterviewd over een coalitieakkoord dat ze niet gelezen hebben...

January 30, 2026 at 1:07 PM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US

Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

www.bloomberg.com

January 30, 2026 at 4:47 PM

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social

We’ve seen haunting photos of post-abduction abandoned ghost cars on the streets of Minneapolis. Now it’s happening in Maine too:

Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 5d

A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.

ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.

January 29, 2026 at 5:16 PM

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Simon Gosden

@simongosden.bsky.social

Early reviews are in:
‘Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out’

January 28, 2026 at 7:29 AM

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Kirsten Verdel

@locuta.bsky.social

Visum vertraagd? Dan dit:

January 28, 2026 at 8:11 AM

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn

@badideas.bsky.social

At about 1m20 the most non-elite US mall ninja shows up with a bafflingly seemingly self inflicted bleeding nose, tucks a shotgun under his taint before tossing a munition canister god knows where, then starts shooting at journalists. If you saw this in a war videogame you’d think it was broken.

Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 8d

Federal officers just came in and cleared the protest with tear gas. One officer asked press why we didn’t call 911 when the protesters were destroying the hotel and told us that we are bad Americans. Full video to come on @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

January 26, 2026 at 6:11 AM

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Anton Gerashchenko

@antongerashchenko.bsky.social

A genocide against Ukrainians is unfolding right now.
It already has a name: "Kholodomor" (exhaustion through cold)

This crime is being deliberately committed by Russia.

In legal terms, it has a clear definition - genocide

January 26, 2026 at 2:07 PM

Denise McArthur

@dnsmcart.bsky.social

Children of Men, maar dan in het echt.

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 8d

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

January 26, 2026 at 2:04 PM

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Dumb Megan

@dmbmeg.bsky.social

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

January 25, 2026 at 5:20 PM

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Nutwerk🔻

@nutwerk.bsky.social

Er ist wieder da. #ICE #USA

January 25, 2026 at 5:24 PM

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Matthew Sheffield

@matthew.flux.community

Flashback: Secret Russian papers showed that Vladimir Putin and his underlings saw Donald Trump as "mentally unstable" and would foment American and global divisions while enabling Russia to have more geopolitical power.

This did not get enough play in 2021 when it was first reported.

Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House

Exclusive: Documents suggest Russia launched secret multi-agency effort to interfere in US democracy

www.theguardian.com

January 24, 2026 at 5:24 PM

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Eliot Higgins

@eliothiggins.bsky.social

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

January 24, 2026 at 5:08 PM

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Marieke Kuypers

@marieke.bsky.social

De NOS neemt hier desinformatie over omdat die door een ‘officieel’ orgaan wordt verspreid. Alex Pretti vormde geen dreiging, was niet gewelddadig en trok op geen enkel moment zijn wapen. Hij is naar de grond gewerkt, met een pistool geslagen en meerdere keren in zijn rug geschoten.

Wat heb je gemist?
In de Amerikaanse stad Minneapolis zijn de spanningen verder opgelopen nadat opnieuw iemand was doodgeschoten door agenten. Het waren dit keer agenten van de grenspolitie. Vanwege de onrust zijn sportwedstrijden en evenementen afgelast of uitgesteld en musea en theaters zijn dicht.
Degene die gisteren werd doodgeschoten is een man van 37, Alex Pretti. Volgens het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken schoten de agenten uit zelfverdediging omdat de man hen met een vuurwapen benaderde en zich hevig verzette.

January 25, 2026 at 9:14 AM

Denise McArthur

@dnsmcart.bsky.social

We mogen niet de situatie van Oekraïne uit het oog verliezen. Mensen en dieren hebben het vreselijk zwaar daar. #oekraine #oorlog #bombardementen
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