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Jenny Shepherd
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Biocentric and social/economic justice campaigns in Calderdale, West Yorkshire
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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:
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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February 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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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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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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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.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Chaser
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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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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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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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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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 🧵
January 23, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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In their unending crusade to force disabled people into work, the DWP are turning to a supposedly voluntary scheme

www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
DWP rolls out WorkWell despite no proof that it actually works well
In their unending crusade to force disabled people into work, the DWP are turning to a supposedly voluntary scheme
www.thecanary.co
January 23, 2026 at 1:02 PM