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William Shakespeare wrote this speech 400 years ago about people in London wishing that immigrants go back to where they came from, performed by Sir Ian McKellen on the Stephen Colbert show:

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

February 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM

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LisaTheLiberal 🦋

@lisatheliberal.bsky.social

February 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM

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Dr Adrian Colston

@dartmoorac.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3VC...

The Living Layer | Restoring peatland in the UK's South West

YouTube video by South West Peatland Partnership

www.youtube.com

February 2, 2026 at 11:32 AM

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Nick Miroff

@nickmiroff.bsky.social

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted

The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

www.theatlantic.com

January 26, 2026 at 11:40 PM

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Max Berger

@maxberger.bsky.social

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE

January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM

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elia ayoub

@ayoub.bsky.social

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 1:22 PM

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Tom Chance

@tomchance.bsky.social

Huge thanks to @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social and Baroness Freeman of Steventon for tabling amendments to the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill in the Lords, trying again to get Assets of Community Value to consider 'environmental interests' as well as social and economic.

January 29, 2026 at 2:28 PM

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Evan Urquhart

@evanurquhart.bsky.social

There have been many journalists arrested in the US before. I'm one of them.

This is still very different. Lemon wasn't arrested as part of a mass of arrests of people surrounding a protest as it was happening and released (as I was). Lemon is being re-arrested for having covered a protest.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7d

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

January 30, 2026 at 5:40 PM

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Dan Neidle

@danneidle.bsky.social

New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor.

Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.

A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

February 1, 2026 at 5:26 PM

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CNN

@cnn.com

On the ground in Minneapolis, residents and local officials say they see no de-escalation — and in some cases, an increased federal presence — as protests continue. https://cnn.it/4qVfCFn

February 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM

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Max Berger

@maxberger.bsky.social

The Minnesota civil resistance campaign has been remarkably successful:

- The GOP governor candidate dropped out
- Numerous DOJ officials resigned
- GOP members of Congress are speaking out; business feels pressure
- Noem has been relieved of operational responsibility

The campaign is winning.

January 26, 2026 at 4:19 PM

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Timothy Snyder

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

Worth knowing.
popular.info/p/the-corpor...

The corporate enablers of the ICE crackdown

How Amazon, AT&T, and Citizens Bank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign.

popular.info

January 27, 2026 at 11:40 PM

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Chris Bertram

@crookedfootball.bsky.social

Democratic politicians have, though, pursued growth in GDP at the expense of other values. One response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com pessimistic scenario is refocus on those values, combined with egalitarianism, sufficiency and quality of life. Not "it's the economy, stupid" but "it's the the society"

Is liberal democracy in terminal decline?

The old system worked under a set of conditions that are no longer present

www.ft.com

January 23, 2026 at 8:19 AM

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Nicholas Beuret

@nicholasbeuret.bsky.social

The vast majority of net zero businesses are small - net zero is, pace Dan Evans, a sector of shopkeepers. And far from making things, they generally just install stuff made somewhere else

tinyurl.com/4uf6p9ze

January 27, 2026 at 10:48 AM

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Leo Murray

@crisortunity.bsky.social

Chaser

Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 10d

Poverty is deepening.

🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning.

People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people.

This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.

January 27, 2026 at 8:49 AM

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The Canary

@thecanaryuk.bsky.social

NEW 🚨 ICE agents, marauding through Minneapolis' streets, are resorting to non-lethal rounds, as protesters continue to push back @skwawkbox.org

www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Video: ICE thugs fire 'non-lethal' round, severing woman's hand

ICE agents, marauding through Minneapolis' streets, are resorting to non-lethal rounds as protesters continue to push back

www.thecanary.co

January 27, 2026 at 11:20 AM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

ALEX PRETTI’S PARENTS: “He was a VA nurse who cared about people deeply, and he was very upset with what was happening with ICE... kidnapping children, grabbing people off the street — he knew it was wrong. He loved this country."

(H/T @katiecouric.bsky.social )

January 27, 2026 at 3:13 AM

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey

@rachelcdailey.bsky.social

The DWP has a secret team planting benefit fraud propaganda in the mainstream media

EXCELLENT investigation by my @thecanaryuk.bsky.social
colleague Hannah Sharland www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

EXCLUSIVE: the DWP has a secret team planting benefit fraud propaganda in the mainstream media

In an exclusive report, the Canary reveals that the DWP has internal guidance on placing propaganda in the MSM - including doxing claimants

www.thecanary.co

January 26, 2026 at 7:44 PM

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RSPB Action

@rspbaction.bsky.social

A National Security Assessment highlighted nature as a national security risk earlier this week.

Yet yesterday’s Habitats Regulations report shows many of England’s most important habitats are rapidly declining.

Just 3% are in good condition.

And half are in an unfavourable and worsening state 🧵