A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

Clocks on the block.

There was a hostage release deal on the table at the end of the Biden term. On Trump's insistence this was put on ice so that he could be involved and take credit. In the period of time that lapsed many more Palestinians were killed.

Surely the scale of just ICE will keep Dante in work for eternity?

Front Row needs to platform folk like these.

As always, 2 things can be true at once: 1. Any police force using AI to generate reports & evidence for their decisions should be disciplined & heads should roll 2. The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was likely justified due to real risk of racist, violent hooliganism #r4today

The Home Office’s new TikTok account wants you to see migration through a negative lens. We refuse this toxic narrative. Migration is a positive force in this country.

Thanks, as ever, to @refugeeaction.bsky.social for this exceptionally helpful & clear graph.

Over 20 years, Iran has been the No1 country of origin for asylum seekers in the UK. Those who campaign to slash the rights of refugees, but today decry the savagery of the Iranian regime, need to have a little think. There is no safe route to the UK for Iranian asylum seekers.

This "open borders" line is *infuriating* - these people came here to study or work, because they had a uni place or a job to come to. They paid visa fees, student fees, NHS surcharge - and many of them are doing challenging and important work - staffing our care homes, for example, including Mum's.

The PM refers to an experiment in "open borders" by a Govt. that LEFT THE EU. It can only mean "there are still too many black and brown people in this country, we need to get rid of them". And the best person to do that is Nigel Farage. PM might as well run a "don't vote me" campaign.

Britain needs insulation first from fascism, (and then the cold ).

A third group said "it's broken, but we can't say so, because the Conservative party broke it". "If they can't admit that to you, the British people, what they broke, then how can they possibly begin to fix it".

The words of #KidStarver are no longer relevant. Utterly discredited he is merely lost luggage awaiting ethical disposal?

It is utterly ridiculous that the Home Secretary wants to reintroduce the power to sack chief constables. Isn't she busy enough? No other country is as centralised as Britain - this is just a small example of the utter parochialism of people like Mahmood.

U-turn if you want to be Nigel.

The latest #grokofshit from the inventor on #enshitification

It's not British unless it's a bad idea.

#appeasement #indenial #unfit Well past time for ukhomeoffice to be broken up.

#ukhomeoffice DEFINES failure in EVERY aspect of it's activities.

The arse of @uklabour.bsky.social it's all (about) face. #appeasement #clownshow

Cracking down on immigration is a drain on the economy. It actively makes our lives worse. And for what?

In polling, people report being MORE LIKELY TO VOTE REFORM directly after being shown exactly this kind of video. Labour's plan? Let's make new accounts to pump out these videos!!!🤪🤪🤪🤪 I do worry they're just one big psy-op, sometimes. www.lbc.co.uk/article/tikt...

These raids only work to make black, brown, and people from migrant backgrounds feel unsafe at home and at work. They’re nowhere near worth it. Rogue employers need crackdowns not the people being exploited. news.sky.com/story/illega...

The folks at More In Common found 2/3 of Brits are WRONG about immigration… But are we really? Or do we just mean 2 different things when we talk about immigration?

This is a brilliant summary of the situation in the UK, but it could apply almost any place the government is promising to "crack down on immigration." (Zoe is one of the people who make me smarter every time she posts. You should follow her.)

There is nothing - literally nothing - that will ever wash your shame away. You are monsters, and you will always be monsters - and that's all you will be remembered for.

Another #grokofshit from the high lord of #enshitification

The u-turn on mandatory digital ID was incredibly predictable. I v much doubt scrapping jury trials will survive either. Less positively prob not votes at 16 either. If the far right oppose something, Starmer wont do it. Farage is already the Prime Minister rly #r4today

Yeah. They’re brave Iranian freedom fighters until they reach Dover and then they magically turn into sponging asylum seekers.

Ahem, Britain already IS a very dark place.

I BEG every smug commentator who praised Mahmood for doing the “tough but necessary thing” to read this. All the disadvantages of plummeting immigration for the economy & public services, for NO POLITICAL GAIN. Labour in DESPERATE need of a 180 change of course on immigration

Why only 5? You seem to have missed the bit about funding the fascist takeover of the west too. www.moneytalksnews.com/reasons-you-...

He makes excellent points. #NomadCentury #MigrationIsLife

EVERY labour policy is to appease the #orangestain

I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.

cannot stress enough that they are abducting legal observers left and right and people are hearing about this happening to other people and still immediately going “alright where can i go to help now”

The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners. Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night. The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today

South Sea (AI) Bubble

🤔🤔🤔 It's taken the govt 13 months to process our client's straightforward visa renewal application. There's no justification for these delays, but introducing longer settlement routes and more complicated rules, as the govt plans to do, will make things far, far worse.

Mon 12 Jan at 6:30pm US Embassy, 33 Nine Elms Lane, London, SW11 7US Wear black, if possible, and bring an umbrella

On Monday we will gather in anger, grief & solidarity to remember Renee Nicole Good & the many victims of racist ICE violence - outside the US embassy🕯️ @ukstoptrump.bsky.social @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @indivisible.org

This guff appeared on both sides of the Atlantic simultaneously & that’s no coincidence. It’s well funded & highly organised *plus our media never pushes back, “isn’t it all jolly interesting” whilst both sides-ing everything 💩

“Trumpism on the right in the UK is growing and festering”. “The American right think Britain is run by Muslims and communists”. Mehdi Hasan on the transatlantic shift to the right, and the role Elon Musk has to play in this.

#DEYANKIFICATION needs to be trending.

Britain. Pull the other one!

@ukhomeoffice.bsky.social is the FIRST government department that must be broken up if ever the UK administration is to regain any form of authority or credibility. Found to be #institutionallycorrupt and #institutionallyracist barely touches the sides describing the scale of it's dysfunction.

Anecdotally, I feel like the quality of Home Office country reports has shifted since the notorious Rwanda one back in 2022, when there was obvious political interference. The executive summaries increasingly look political and unjustified by the evidence.

"We’ve just recently signed a huge MoD contract with Palantir, another one of these US oligarch surveillance tech companies. This is enmeshing us closer within this dysfunctional US regime." Zoe is spot on. Do please listen. #DEYANKIFICATION