Amyn Merchant
@amynmerchant.bsky.social
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Musician, Bookworm, Europhile, Family Man &
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Tim Dickinson
about 9 hours ago
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
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TheBossRoss 🧶
about 2 hours ago
Also, they'll be getting Boris Johnson's cabinet. The former PM is like the Godfather of Reform.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
about 4 hours ago
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.
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Timothy Snyder
about 18 hours ago
Homan's message: When we kill you, you have to be especially nice to us. Or else we will keep killing you.
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RevMelanieNOLA
about 16 hours ago
www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/u...
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Judge orders 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father released from immigration detention, source says | CNN
A federal judge has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejos Ramos and his father from the South Texas Family Detention Center in Dilley, Texas, according to a source with knowledge of the feder...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/us/liam-ramos-judge-release-ice-detention?cid=ios_app
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The Onion
about 18 hours ago
Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders
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Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders
WASHINGTON—Urging locals to “fully cooperate” with federal agents, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called on Minneapolis residents Monday to stop obstructing murders. “The brave ...
https://theonion.com/kristi-noem-calls-on-minneapolis-residents-to-stop-obstructing-murders/
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 19 hours ago
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.
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about 18 hours ago
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Roland Smith
about 24 hours ago
Morning.
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Bloomsbury Books UK
2 days ago
"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
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‘How do you really tell the truth about this moment?’: George Saunders on ghosts, mortality and Trump’s America
The Lincoln in the Bardo author is back with another metaphysical tale. He discusses Buddhism, partisan politics and the terrifying flight that changed his life
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
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Kelly
1 day ago
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.
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Chicago Woman Shot 5 Times By Border Agents Will Testify In Washington Next Week
Marimar Martinez will speak at a federal forum on immigration agents' use of force as she fights to unseal evidence in her now-dropped prosecution.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/29/chicago-woman-shot-5-times-by-border-agents-will-testify-in-washington-next-week/
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Adam Parkhomenko
2 days ago
STATEMENT FROM ABBE LOWELL, ATTORNEY FOR DON LEMON
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
1 day ago
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.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan
1 day ago
DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:
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Jim Pickard
1 day ago
and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news
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Are spitting at people and kicking cars offences that now carry a death sentence in the US?
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Don Lemon
2 days ago
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
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Kevin Church
3 days ago
I have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.
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paulpro
3 days ago
@adamzyglis.bsky.social
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Philip Bump
3 days ago
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.
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ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested
There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.
https://www.pbump.net/o/ices-excuse-for-wearing-masks-has-never-actually-manifested/
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Nicholas Grossman
3 days ago
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?
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Matt Thiessen
3 days ago
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@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.
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Quiet Riot
3 days ago
NEW EPISODE: Deflections, defections & by-election selection reflections 🗳️ 26th Feb shenanigans agogo 🌎 Global chaos and re-alignment 🦬 Prehistoric lawnmowers return 💪 He-Man’s pronouns 🎧
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Deflections, Defections, and By-election Selection Reflections
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1nWM8VbjrxDNL4NdXYA2UT?si=hL-Xa9d6Rx6-lbCVHp2IEw
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Lewis Goodall
3 days ago
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.
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Student loans are 'fair', says Rachel Reeves, amid backlash | LBC
YouTube video by LBC
https://youtu.be/uOC6Arrf2us?si=FLE0bNX0U3AFWjXw
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Peter Dyke
3 days ago
An important and wise thread
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TheBossRoss 🧶
4 days ago
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 🧵
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Matt Novak
4 days ago
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.
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George Takei
5 days ago
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.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖
3 days ago
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
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Will Stancil
3 days ago
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.
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Rachel Maddow
3 days ago
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The New Yorker
3 days ago
An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: “Targeted,” by Till Lauer.
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@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?
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Alex Andreou
4 days ago
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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James O’Brien
4 days ago
🐆 🍽️ 😬 🎉
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
4 days ago
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.
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Robert Reich
5 days ago
“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.” Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
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Aaron Rupar
4 days ago
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
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The Tennessee Holler
6 days ago
UPDATE: TIKTOK IS COOKED. Our videos went from tens of thousands to 0. (seemingly a direct result of Trump & Bibi’s friends taking over)
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Jo Wolff
5 days ago
Good to see Spain trolling … every other country, more or less. “Bucking a Global Trend, Spain Offers Undocumented Migrants a Legal Way to Stay”
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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
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News Eye
4 days ago
Wow. The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.
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I think this thread might appeal to you,
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Tautology
5 days ago
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
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Alex Andreou
5 days ago
Superb guest and conversation on this episode of BTL. Bravo,
@snellarthur.bsky.social
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Arthur Snell
5 days ago
My great pleasure to speak to
@samirpuri.bsky.social
of
@chathamhouse.org
about how the world is moving on from Trump.
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The Post Western World and the Trump Regime
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6zWO7ab8yLZXsc9F5ewhjt?si=jeyM_ZjgQT6oKEMvmjV1KA
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David Gilbert
5 days ago
SCOOP Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads
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Meta Is Blocking Users From Sharing Website Listing ICE Agents
Users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-blocking-links-to-ice-list-on-facebook-instagram-and-threads/
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