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He is very nearly explicitly saying out loud at a press conference a core vulgar tenet of fascism: we are allowed to kill you if your worldview threatens our power

Once again tapping my sign: ICE exist in the UK 🚨 They have had arrest powers since 2000. This government - not a hypothetical future one - is working harder than ever before to raid homes and businesses.

A month full of friends piled onto sofas, making each other dinner and screaming at the telly. I love our January blues combatting Traitors rituals.

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

Guess How Much I Love You - a brutal wrecking of a show. not sure how anyone is doing post show press night chatter, but I for one recommend downing a free prosecco, walking out bewildered & having a sob on the streets of Chelsea v professional v networking. Idk in what way but I've been rearranged

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

I don't like Bromley its horrible.

Reform told you reducing council tax was easy. They just had to slash Woke policies, and a billion or two would be saved. They wouldn't even need to close care services. They promise you that. And then every single Reform-led council cut care services and increased council tax.

There was a contestant on the Traitors who was a former police detective, who was absolutely determined to convict her chosen target regardless of wider evidence which she was utterly uninterested in, all the while convinced she was a morally unimpeachable public servant, and that's Very Interesting

Stephen Miller’s cousin 👇🏽

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Arts Council England (ACE) has unveiled a new £2 million scheme to support the ambitions of Black, Asian and ethnically diverse theatre makers in the North of England.

Audition alert! To work with @paulavarjack.bsky.social on their show Nine Sixteenths which is going on tour next year. Full details are here: paulavarjack.com/9-16ths/cast...

I'm really grateful for the opportunity to talk about how this show has changed, and changed us, too. Thanks @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

In today's least surprising news

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

The Brits have such a way with words. You know. Those things with letter that help you define and say stuff about things.

I'M SORRY I HAD TO GO - A GIRL ON THE CORRIDOR CAME OUT TO ASK ME TO STOP, I TOLD HER TO GO DOWNSTAIRS BUT SHE SAID THERE WERE PEOPLE THERE TOO - WHICH SHE COULDN'T KNOW BECAUSE SHE'D BEEN UPSTAIRS ALL THE TIME SINCE I REVERSED THE CHARGES; BUT SHE KEPT BANGING ON THE GLASS AT ME

landing in Edinburgh necessitates an immediate midnight piemaker trip that's how you know you've arrived, that you are real, alive

Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?

Israeli forces have raided and demolished the Palestinian seed bank in occupied Hebron, West Bank. They used heavy machinery to destroy the seeds and the equipments required to store them. Israel’s war is against Life itself. More here www.instagram.com/p/DMyWONPujY6

New! ⚡ Applications are now open for seven paid commissions at Fresh Ink: Hull Playwriting Festival 2026, for any writer with a meaningful connection to Hull: freshinkhull.co.uk/apply

The 147 other nations that already recognise Palestinian statehood do so because it is the right thing to do, not as a threat or a bargaining chip. God, what a grubby, venal, craven embarrassment of a country this makes us look. www.bbc.com/news/live/cd...

A reminder that it was only 18 days ago that Lisa Nandy met with the Israeli ambassador to talk about Glastonbury.

Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, per a report from Human Rights Watch

The U.K. is a police state

cats out the bag I'm getting publicly bullied on a national scale xxx

Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/

any playwrights/writers have anti-generative AI riders ready that they'd be willing to share? just want to be prepared and make sure I don't miss something that I'd want included.

I would marry potatoes.

thought this was a joke turns out is not a joke is completely true everything is hellish fucking hell free palestine again and again and again

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.

Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.

Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on: -free buses -rent freeze -halal cart for $8 instead of $10 -taxing the 1% -no cost childcare -city-owned grocery stores -a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response -building affordable housing -why Cuomo sucks

Sally Rooney nails it here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is so so great. Titilola is phenomenal.

There is always something.

“Yippee ki-yay…” We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.

Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up. I’ll add more as I find them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...