A wild story from Kentucky Public Radio alum Divya Karthikeyan about a man being detained by ICE based on a legal case his lawyers can't even find the existence of. theintercept.com/2025/09/26/i...

The kids are our only hope of salvation.

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

An astoundingly contradictory pile of bullshit here. #KeirMosley #DontVoteLabour

"oh but CCTV and mobile phones and you are tracked everywhere" This is just reasons why we shouldn't have more of this stuff. It's not in for a penny in for a pound. It's not "we have Tesco club card, so we may as well have checkpoints".

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Novel Orwellian technique aside, what an asshole.

We should never offer civility to fascists. #resist #boycott #fightback

What is the point of the Labour Party Conference? We know Starmer doesn’t implement anything that gets voted on anyway, but now he is stopping the debate. Add not allowing @declassifieduk.org access🤔 There is a word for that. Actually I think there are several leftfootforward.org/2025/09/two-...

This petition will not change the minds of people like Starmer and Mahmood. What we need to do is give Labour backbenchers pause for thought and to ensure that Opposition MPs stay opposed to it. For that, we need high numbers. sign and share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

⬇️ This is the first time a British politician will be found guilty under the UK Bribery Act.

And let us note what Wounded Knee was. A grim landmark along a road of formal, government-organised, genocide of Native American peoples, that had begun over half a century earlier, and ground on into a new century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

I'm seeing so many takes around parts of the "ID card" melange, I have to add a few. It's not about cards. It's about registers. A register is a definitive 'true source' of data, about people, places, buildings, whatever.

What did we say? We said: when these people talk about the idiot scum left and their moronic ideas that all patriotic Britons hate, they also meant Sensible Moderate liberals. They always despised you too - see, e.g. David Blunkett in the 2000s - and they were never shy about making that clear.

Today we've had this #Labour government announce an authoritarian measure on fake, racist grounds, consciously promise to complete Oswald Mosley's programme for government, and display incompetence in their attempt to prosecute a man for his opposition to a genocide that they support. #fascistUK

As an immigration lawyer, it seems to me that the only thing we talk about more than immigration is how we don’t talk about immigration

"Your attempts to silence us have failed because we're right and you're wrong." #Palestine #Kneecap #fascistUK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Superb www.bbc.com/news/article...

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‘Blue Labour’ and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b... Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes @nafeez.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social

Sky News reports that Kneecap's Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh/Mo Chara has arrived at Woolwich Crown Court. The report doesn't mention it, but the Met Police have banned supporters of Mo Chara from gathering outside the court in what is clearly a calculated political decision.

He knows what he is doing. #KeirMosley #NationalRenewal

Meanwhile today, absolutely appalling figures on sexual harassment in UK Higher Education, including the nauseating finding that fully ONE PERCENT of all students have been in an "intimate relationship" with a staff member involved in their assessment, IN THE LAST YEAR ALONE.

No better illustration of the far right’s incredible success in re-legitimising racism. No 'pensioner deportations' under Reform, says Kruger www.bbc.com/news/article...

"A plan for national renewal" literally is a #fascist phrase. #racistLabour #fascistUK #DontVoteLabour

That's right, give the job to a zionist and advocate of ethnic cleansing, and notorious killer of Arabs. That'll work. #racism #fascism #genocide www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Racist shitbags. Every single member of this Tory entryist clique is a racist shitbag.

Well over 600,000 since launching yesterday. Let's get it well over a million. #No2ID petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Well, this is a hot mess of dog whistles and utter nonsense. For a speech claiming to tackle "toxic" and "poisonous" rhetoric Starmer leans heavily into pandering to the usual misinformation about migrants and portraying anti-immigration ideals as "patriotic" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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How long before these ID cards have to say 'trans' or 'queer' or 'ADHD' or any one of a dozen other things, effectively legitimising judgement, exclusion and worse? Don't answer that

It appears that there is an increasingly high chance Israel will be banned next week from UEFA due to its genocide in Gaza, which would in turn effectively end its hopes of qualifying for the World Cup. I have heard this independently confirmed from another source. www.thetimes.com/article/11e9...

Transgender inmate sues South Africa prison officials www.washingtonblade.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Incomers: through the barricades – a matter of curiosity? Xenophobia fuels myths about migrants, but facts show asylum seekers enrich the UK and face hardship, not handouts or criminality By Jeremy Leslie-Spinks

Everyone: What's government doing about the cost of living crisis, the climate crisis, and the unfolding genocide in Gaza? Labour: "We will mandate people carry Brit cards". This government's priorities are painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.

UK PM Starmer urged to dump digital ID before it's announced https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/24/campaign_uk_digital_id/ Labour accused of sneaking in plans it denied before the general election

Quarter of a million signatures already. This could be Starmer kryptonite. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I mean, that the MacSweeney-created group which chose Starmer to lead the right-wing entryist clique could be corrupt is hardly surprising. I'd be gobsmacked if it was honest, given the people involved. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

gotta remember that no one likes this shit

We're in a cost of living crisis and Labour wants to bring in digital ID cards for everyone. They're risking turning the UK into a pre-crime state where we constantly have to prove who we are just to go about our daily lives. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Brit Card: Nobody asked for it, it wasn’t in the election manifesto, it’s unclear why anyone would want one and the malicious uses for it are obvious, and loads of people hate the idea, but you know what? *Fuck you*, that’s what. We’re in charge. Fuck. You.

lmao

Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming

Keir Starmer doesn't want to defeat the far-right, he wants to wave their successes in our faces so he can construct himself as the reasonable face of authoritarianism and racism.

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Using the fear of immigrants, in part whipped up this very same government, to introduce illiberal legislation targeting British citizens. You lot who have been taken in by fascists ... how does it feel now? #TheUKisFucked