The United States Government’s position is that it is unlawful to watch law enforcement and you will be assaulted, it is treasonous to oppose their work and you will be executed for it, the President of the United States will defame you in death, and they will say “good job, law enforcement” on CNN.

The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US

Labour MP Simon Opher condemns the leadership's decision to block Andy Burnham, as "petty factionalism" that plays into Reform's hands. "We desperately need to be better than this"

I think we know what the “British" in 'anti-Welsh “British" nationalists’ means. 👇

'Spladn!' Cornish language given more protection www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov you have the power to shut this down; defund and abolish ICE, break up DHS, and close the camps. The world is watching and history will judge!

Another massive contract. Christopher Harborne, the largest shareholder in QinetiQ, has donated c.£22,700,000 to Reform UK. 92% of QinetiQ's income is from the MoD. The UK government, in this way, subsidises Reform UK. I think I'm the only one who's reported this @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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BBC News - Residents asked to nominate inspiring people www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance

Kernewek pub le! Standing up for our Cornish language, 🥳 supporters might want to sign this petition for Cornish language signs like Cymru or Breizh do. It's an independent petition initiated by good local folk, & we're pleased to encourage signatures 👍 all good pressure for our Cornish language!

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.

Ex-Labour Cllr Sean Morton Charged in 2017 for possessing indecent images of children & extreme pornography Convicted, placed on sex offenders register He reoffended, & was jailed in 2024/2025 for further possession of indecent child images Pam still a Labour MSP x.com/pjwoodside/s...

I missed sadly but good to know she is reviving, long live Y Fari Lwyd / Grey Mare

One thing about living in NYC at this moment is how straightforward it is to integrate community-based resistance into your daily life. Signal chat blows up? Put down your tea and run three blocks to intercept ICE. Scheduled protest? Jump in, express rage for an hour, then finish your errands.

In every generation, it’s a bad thing 🙃

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

Well played, London Underground.

Bilingual signs please 🙏

More confirmation. A straight up state execution. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

The Welsh language has been targeted on a number of bilingual information signs across a west Wales seaside resort, with language campaigners blaming 'anti-Welsh British nationalists'

TTRPG friends, Matt, our friend and community member @nurdrocks.bsky.social has been taken by ICE while his back was turned, peacefully protesting. Matt is the founder of Justice Frontline Aid that provides aid & education in the MN community. I've linked the video footage below. Do not stay silent.

He has an account here.

We are incredibly proud of the resistance for preserving and releasing this footage so the truth cannot be buried. Alex Pretti. A 37-year-old ICU nurse at the VA. Murdered by Trump’s regime. This is not okay. He spent his life helping people. He was an American hero.

Entries are absurdly unbalanced, to favour US govt false statements, in a scenario where "sharply contested" both sides reporting would be highly inadequate BBC are here being a real time conduit of the misinformation that they say their mission is to verify+counter www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...

Genuinely think this coverage is worthy of formal complaint – and if the BBC doesn’t take it seriously, it should be escalated to Ofcom. The appearance of caving to the Trump White House, when the BBC is being sued, could be disastrous for public trust.

We want to set the record so he is remembered for what he did. Alex put his body between a woman and imminent danger (murderous thugs(ICE)), and he lost his life.

The WORD of the day is DEFLECTION What ever happened to; president of Venezuela & his wife? $ deposited in Qatar? $20B given to Argentina? boat murders? DOJ not following the law? Epstein files? can’t we just believe the victims? January 6? ICE murders ACCOUNTABILITY! NOW! #DefendersOfDemocracy

Here comes the video analysis: - Pretti was shot 10 times after they took his gun - He never "brandished" the gun, assaulted an agent - They repeatedly pepper sprayed him at point blank range and beat him when he was down - He was attempting to help a woman who an agent threw to the ground (battery)

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Today is January 23rd, 2026 and Barron Trump is probably in the Epstein files.

He’s really good!! check out his site: nurdrocks.com/home

Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs, The title is affeer’d!

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

Jeffrey Epstein might be dead, but those #EpsteinFiles are not!!! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

Federal agents deployed military-grade hexachloroethane smoke on civilians near 26th and Nicollet in south Minneapolis today. HC is a military smoke agent, distinct designed for war. This occurred just hours after Alex Pretti was m*rdered by ICE agents nearby. 1.24.2026 📍 South Minneapolis

Watching, on video, a second civilian shot and killed by ICE in a situation that never deserved to end in murder is - from a European perspective - so deeply shocking. Many in the UK talk of our American cousins. If so, that's some seriously damaged family dynamics, people.

What if you knew him? What if you loved him? What if you saw him lying dead on the ground? How do you turn away from that? How do you look elsewhere? How do you just keep moving like nothing happened? No video of a gun “brandished” at ICE soooooo manyyyyyy cameras were out there. Hmmmm…

It's not been a good week for Reform...

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

AOC: They need 10 Democratic votes in the Senate to pass, continued unfettered ICE funding with no guardrails. Regardless of where you are in the Democratic party, this moment proves that the status quo cannot stand I would implore my Democratic colleagues in the senate to vote no