Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

Also, they'll be getting Boris Johnson's cabinet. The former PM is like the Godfather of Reform.

Today marks the start of LGBTQ+ History Month, a moment to celebrate the incredible contributions LGBTQ+ people have made to our city across generations. My message to London’s LGBTQ+ communities is this: you are loved and wanted in our city. Happy LGBTQ+ History Month.

Homan's message: When we kill you, you have to be especially nice to us. Or else we will keep killing you.

Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders

As we're sifting through the latest Epstein Files release with all the bombshells about Elon, the Trump administration and even the new CBS News Zoo Crew, please remember that they still haven't released half of what they were supposed to release.

Morning.

"​How do you really tell the truth about this moment?" George Saunders on ghosts, mortality and Trump’s America for The Guardian. Vigil is out now. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/15/how-do-you-really-tell-the-truth-about-this-moment-george-saunders-on-ghosts-mortality-and-trumps-america

Marimar Martinez is a hero. She was shot 5 times by ICE. The agent told her to “do something b*tch” before opening fire. He later bragged “5 shots, 7 holes”. DHS tried to smear her reputation but video footage vindicated her. Next week she will testify in Washington about ICE’s brutality.

STATEMENT FROM ABBE LOWELL, ATTORNEY FOR DON LEMON

The arrest of Don Lemon is textbook fascism—a brazen attempt to silence reporting on a criminal regime. Stand up for Don, because our rights stand and fall with those of courageous journalists throughout this country.

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

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and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news

Are spitting at people and kicking cars offences that now carry a death sentence in the US?

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

I have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

@quietriotpod.bsky.social is always interesting, but I found this episode especially so. @pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social and regular guest on geopolitics @snellarthur.bsky.social seem to ask more nuanced questions than I find elsewhere. Enlightening.

NEW EPISODE: Deflections, defections & by-election selection reflections 🗳️ 26th Feb shenanigans agogo 🌎 Global chaos and re-alignment 🦬 Prehistoric lawnmowers return 💪 He-Man’s pronouns 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1nWM... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Spoke to Shleagh Fogarty yesterday sbout why the Chancellor is wrong: our “student loan” system is not remotely fair. It’s regressive and embedding inter and intra generational wealth inequality. It’s not a loan system, it’s a bad grad tax in all but name. youtu.be/uOC6Arrf2us?...

An important and wise thread

I'm German. I've been schooled in my country's history & crimes all my life. I'm also a political scientist, educated in Germany, the UK, & US. As the comparisons betw the situation in the US & Nazi Germany are increasing to frequent, allow me to comment. A 🧵

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

This is, tragically, the logical consequence of Donald Trump and the far-right running on "they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs" while legacy media and the reactionary elite treating the campaign promises of ethnic cleansing as a joke

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: “Targeted,” by Till Lauer.

@john-self.bsky.social I remember, somewhere, reading a list of the books that Anthony Burgess considered (in the late 80s?) to have been the best novels of the 20th Century. Have you compiled any similar list, say of books from the last 100 years, that a keen lay reader could refer to?

Tell me again how this BBC editorialising is just my cognitive bias... This isn't a quote from anywhere. It's just the BBC's description of this disgraced, divisive politician.

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Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here. What he said was fine. Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough. I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.

“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.” Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

UPDATE: TIKTOK IS COOKED. Our videos went from tens of thousands to 0. (seemingly a direct result of Trump & Bibi’s friends taking over)

Good to see Spain trolling … every other country, more or less. “Bucking a Global Trend, Spain Offers Undocumented Migrants a Legal Way to Stay” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...

Look out Tom and Dominic, this episode of @bunkerpod.bsky.social with @jonnelledge.bsky.social and @seththevoz.bsky.social discussing Trump’s attitude to foreign policy is fascinating. Informative and entertaining, and well worth your time. @nndroid.bsky.social

Wow. The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.

I think this thread might appeal to you, @jonnelledge.bsky.social?

I'm trying a new "see how well AI image gen is" test. This time I'm going to ask it to draw a map of the world, and then zoom in to Europe, the UK, Yorkshire and York to see when things start to get hazy. All of these are with the free models using the smart/thinking variants. 1/n

Superb guest and conversation on this episode of BTL. Bravo, @snellarthur.bsky.social! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

My great pleasure to speak to @samirpuri.bsky.social of @chathamhouse.org about how the world is moving on from Trump. open.spotify.com/episode/6zWO...

SCOOP Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads www.wired.com/story/meta-i...