It’s a week later but I haven’t forgotten that President Trump is trying to arrest leaders in Congress who oppose him politically. Never before in the history of the country has this happened. And we shouldn’t normalize it.

February 23, 1977 – UK Chief Scientific Advisor worries about carbon dioxide build-up. allouryesterdays.info/2023/02/22/f...

Great thread. Reminds me of provocation video that did the rounds on far right twitter some years back, of a pop up gallery in a diverse part of London with extreme art works designed to provoke locals - with clips without context circulating. Glad there wasn’t the reaction this time.

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Talk about framing the question….

Yes fully agree very underhand of them - but it’s what they do, they are not playing fair at all.

Just beyond parody at this point

Extraordinary: Mandelson told Epstein that JP Morgan should "threaten" then cabinet colleague and chancellor Alistair Darling over tax on bankers' bonuses. In plain language: "Minister conspired with US bank against own government". More brilliant FT reporting www.ft.com/content/91e8...

Elon making plans to go to Epstein's island:

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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.

This couple are absolutely who I was writing about in my piece on Minneapolis today. These are decent, tough, and welcoming people up against an armed, chaotic rabble. benansell.substack.com/p/my-minneap...

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

Shout this from the rooftops. The single most common objection to building electrification I hear from residents is that they want gas in case of power outages. But gas appliances - and gas supplies - rely on electricity to operate!

When it rains, it now rains more. For those experiencing the flooding in south-west England, it is worth remembering that rainfall in winter has increased by about 25% overall. And, the rainfall has also become more intense: when it rains, it now rains more, increasing the risk of flooding.

Slightly moving away just to become a candidate for the party- sure its no biggie per the BBC - guess they will still pass him off as some kind of unbiased, independent commentator to help skew panels etc

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

This is insane, but expected thanks to all that “clarity.”

All they need now is Liz Truss and they have a full house….

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:

This makes me think of that 1990 interview Trump did with Playboy where he admitted that when it came to Tiananmen Square, he was rooting for the tanks.

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

Wearing helmets, gas masks and camouflage fatigues, the federal agents took aim and prepared to open fire. “It’s like Call of Duty,” one could be heard saying via a TV mic. “So cool, huh?” This was the scene on the streets of Minneapolis after armed agents killed Alex Pretti

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

More evidence that the US government are lying liars who will lie about anything, this footage of ICE killing Alex Pretti supports the claim he was protecting a woman from violent ICE agents. The only thing he was brandishing was a phone.

I mean if with the Mayor’s limited delegated powers, she can manage to bring on an ice age in her first term i’d have admit that would be quite impressive

Same thing every time: 1. Reframe the victim as the villain 2. Make the state the injured party 3. Turn critique into complicity (“oh so you side with terrorists”) 4. Expand blame to an entire out-group 5. Fuse to a larger us-against-them story to keep any alarmed within the base from defecting

Solidarity with the people of Minneapolis. Justice for those wronged and those doing the wronging

Someone should ask Kemi Badenoch (or whichever Tory is up for Sunday shows) if the Tories’ proposed “removals force” with “sweeping new powers” will be modelled on ICE www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.

So I watched the shooting video frame by frame and it looks like: 1) They were beating a struggling man with batons 2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back 3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away 4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back

insane scenes coming out of Minneapolis

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Look at this little beauty...

Listen to Derek Clifford, 50 year longstanding resident of Bethnal Green, talk about the transformative effect of the LTN residents just saved from being ripped out. #LTNs #StreetsForPeople

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nine years old

imagine being the father or mother or son or daughter or sibling of one of those brave British troops who died in Afghanistan, and having to listen to this crass ignorance

No greater badge of honour

And now something positive: solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time. ☀️ 💨 #TippingPoint Source: dr.dk

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Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

Does he even realise its Denmark that is providing the US government with a loan? Also, amazingly rude. Go Denmark 🇩🇰

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

God will someone explain to him how much electricity Texas generates from ‘windmills’ and why should he care about how Europeans generate electricity anyway? (I know this all really all about one of his Scottish golf courses 🙄)

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Anyway apparently the ravings of this mad man are all the fault of our PM it seems according to our ever faithful press (and no I’m not generally a fan of the PM but come on)

It’s always worth reading @alanbeattie.bsky.social on trade. He points out that appeasing Trump hasn’t worked. He is “siding with Putin over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and abandoning Nato over Greenland. There’s nothing more tragic than selling out your principles for nothing.“

I see a certain president is up and trolling again 🙄

I want a hot take and I want it now.