Can Simon Foster or @alcarns.bsky.social explain the legal and practical basis for the police approach here?

Camouflaged agents. Ziptying women and kids. In the middle of the night. Many were US citizens. This is Trump’s America—and next it could be YOU.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Utterly despicable.

Update: The Committee to Protect Journalists says Mario Guevara was deported from the United States early Friday. www.democracynow.org/2025/10/3/ma...

Congratulations to Sarah Mullally excellent Chief Nurse in the past just what CofE needs IMHO

Bus strike mania has hit Manchester This week Oxford Road saw the most cyclists in a single day EVER Nearly 4000 people used the route on Monday

Reminder: Homan is on tape taking $50,000 in cash to 'help' with government contracts. He just sent in 300 armed agents to pull children from their beds at night, zip tie them, separate them from their parents, and put them in vans because he's "going after criminals."

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

Snipers rapelling from helicopters to zip-tie children. I swear to god

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups. Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat. www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

Yep those tow truck contractors are great as are the car pounds

That grinding sound you are hearing is the Ukrainians relentlessly dissecting arguably the most important part of the Russian economy. And they are doing this with almost no help from their partners--indeed the US has tried to stop them from attacking into Russia. kyivindependent.com/russia-to-be...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Ace

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Javier is “amazing” says Farage chainsaw far right hero in free fall spot on from @adityachakrabotty.bsky.social

I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt. Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.

So now Labour suggests making it worse by charging a fee for tribunals. You would think the clue was in the name of the party

Another example of ill-considered restrictions on e-bikes that makes no sense and will not protect anybody from anything. Unfortunately, we can probably expect more of this in the coming weeks and months in New Jersey, after the State Senate President declared war on e-bikes yesterday.

1. "Boriswave" is an invention of the online extreme right. 2. Those people came here legally, paying huge fees to do so, to fill essential roles. 3. They won't get ILR unless they apply, jump through hoops, & pay more fees. 4. The Times is reporting on them as a criminal burden on society.

I anyone wants to steal a bike from a train station, they just need to wait two hours after said bike was parked and then they can do it risk free. Thats okay because cycle theft doesn't "harm".

We're winning the argument www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/support-fo...

15 years to continue to pollute our rivers. Privatisation failed!

36%! And every city in America has policies that assume it’s 3.6%

How to use chainsaws and helicopters to terrorize your own citizens:

New in PN: Google joins presidential bribe club "Trump’s trollsuits failed in court, but succeeded as a means of extorting his enemies. But the tech titans would do well to remember that giving the bully your lunch money isn’t something you do just *once*"

If Michelle Mone gets to keep the superyacht, the private jet and the seat in the House of Lords, at least give the 'benefit scroungers' narrative a break for a couple of weeks

Richard Tice during an interview "Keir Starmer literally used the words: take up arms and go for the enemy" What a lemon Firstly (& most importantly) he DID NOT say that. Secondly you can’t wang on about language you don’t like AND parade Lucy Connolly like a mascot. Make your mind up.

Yep and possibly a role for a bit of AI ?

This is not an abstract policy debate Kemi Badenoch wants to destroy any chance that my nieces and nephews will have a future Abandoning climate action will condemn billions of people to death

Exactly what we need: careful, considered, funny intelligence squaring up to our catastrophic, deadly, age of stupid (with Arendt's help). Excellent piece @will-davies.bsky.social

So what exactly are the #Conservatives going to conserve on a wrecked planet?

Who would leave a bike at a station for only 2 hours? This is damaging for any hope of integrated transport

‼️ This is a very dangerous situation. Nothing like this has ever happened before. This nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe. Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which has been under Russian occupation since March 2022, has been disconnected from the power supply for more than a week⤵️

Good question

NEW: Big day for fans of bickering about problem gambling. The Gambling Commission's new survey finds that 2.7% of British adults have a gambling problem. For the first time, for reasons I won't bore you with, we can apply this to the population to get a figure of... 1.4 million people. (1/2)

Just a below average posh boy then?

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

1/ Farage and Nathan Gill made their European Parliament speeches parroting almost exactly the same Russian propaganda talking points on the same day, September 16th, 2014. Here's Farage's speech

He held firm in the face of all those protests against ULEZ + here we are. On days of higher nitrogen dioxide levels, hospital admissions with breathing difficulties, heart disease + stroke go up. Lower levels are associated with fewer heart and breathing conditions. Clean air saves lives.

Amazing nuggets in the PPE Medpro High Court ruling The company was incorporated on 12 May 2020 and referred to the Covid "VIP lane" by Michelle Mone *the same day*, despite having no track record in manufacturing PPE Who could have predicted that anything would go wrong?

Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone has cut pollution by 17% 👏 but parts of the city still break legal limits. Khan’s steadfast push on ULEZ shows real political courage. Time Brum’s leaders showed the same boldness to deliver truly clean air. 🌍🚶🏻‍♀️🧑🏽‍🦽🚲🚌 @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter riding his custom-made Rivendell bicycle #BicycleBirthday October 1 (1924-1024)

Typical

Now that would be good move if possible legally

So was *The Sun* ‘inciting violence’ against Nigel Farage in 2014 when its editorial described his racist comments on my show as ‘racism, pure and simple’? And would somebody who interviews these ghouls on a regular basis at least ask them this question!

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Wait till they start generating videos of mass shooters in cctv style with them wearing political shirts and pushing it within minutes of a mass shooting on Twitter. This is absolutely corrosive to any sort of trust in society.