If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Another state-sponsored murder. Another execution of an American citizen. Carried out by paramilitary goons tasked with terrorizing the people. Sent by a regime that is at war with a vast section of its own population.

Your cyclist is eternally "the other" and victimised and radicalised for that

Melissa Joan Hart is a legit card carrying conservative republican we are through the looking glass.

people who are very clearly my moral superiors are being killed in the street by and on behalf of the most disgusting creeps imaginable and I don't know how much longer anyone can deal with this

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

Mood in minneapolis right now

Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

PM of Poland: "On December 22, 2011, in Ghazni, Afghanistan, I took part in the farewell ceremony for the five fallen Polish soldiers. The American officers who accompanied me then, told me that America would never forget the Polish heroes. Perhaps they will remind President Trump of that fact."

Some fucking sick, high school dropout, wife beating asshole is judge, jury and executioner. Because Donald Trump raped little girls.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

If you are angry, stay angry. They want us to think this is normal and how life will be. I’ll be dammed if I ever let that happen.

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

More about the man who paid for Farage to go to Davos. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasan_G...

Agent Provocateur

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

That is one hell of a picture. 'American resistance 2026'

The director of the Minneapolis Emergency Management Department.

I am always “know your triggers and be aware if you need to not watch the video” but I also think, with the narrative being spun here, as many people seeing the video as possible is important. He may have been armed but that’s not a standoff. It’s an execution. Watch it if you can. Share stills.

Who would want to visit a country where the secret police execute people in the street? It's bad enough in England

1/4. First time watch of A Soldier Came Back From the Front (Nikolai Gubenko, Soviet Union, 1971). The film is a potent exploration of the impact of WW2 on a Russian village, but it has a universality about it that makes you think about any war at any time.

Note how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.

could someone briefly explain what accounts for the US volte face on the Chagos settlement since May!?

Board of Peace - Season 1

My god. This is a great piece and if you're still posting and scrolling, promoting yourself and your work, liking memes etc on the platform that allows, facilitates, encourages THIS, then you're an absolute trash human. Literally as bad as Julie Burchill! (That's very bad):

In August I wrote an exclusive about a case where a women solicitor tried to get a driving conviction thrown out by claiming against the cyclist who filmed her offence. www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

A cruel twist that Tom Wolfe missed in 'Bonfire of the vanities'

Many six year olds could tell you there are no penguins in Greenland if they weren’t busy being kidnapped at the side of the road.

ICE and CBP agents need to understand they're going to be wearing those masks for the rest of their lives.

Minnesota shifting narrative from "rabble rousing protesters" vs "law enforcement" to "people of conscience" vs "evil regime." This is essential to defeating authoritarianism - exposing who, what & why they are by demonstrating who, what & why we are. And MAGA knows it. www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

The richly decorated canopy over the bed in the Royal Suite, to which we were unexpectedly upgraded The King was not going to drop in, I suppose he was busy in Rabat

Imagine if John Bunyan wrote 'The Pilgrim's Progress' today: "Nothing can hurt #Good except the sin of #ICE; nothing can grieve me except the sin of ICE; nothing can defeat Good except the sin of ICE..." Or Charles Dickens wrote 'A Minneapolis Carol': "Renée Good was shot dead, to begin with..."

They wheeled this Nazi asshole into court in a wheelchair and he was still trying to hide his face in shame 76 years after World War II ended. That's the kind of commitment I'm looking for.

— Israel kills 3 journalists, including CBS contributor — AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation — CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas" Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:

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

“There are no sidelines any more, friends.” - @philtajitsunash.bsky.social 1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange. 2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.

Another #ICE thug unmasked

Insomnia, so switched on the #BBC #WorldService but instead of a soporific documentary about eg Arctic Terns, I found 3 teenage twerps calling themselves science journalists doing a show of drivelling inanity in which they vie with each other over which basic science facts they pretend not to know

this guy is a terrible liar who genuinely believes he is great at lying

Are we paying attention yet, America?

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There used to be a slogan in the sixties: "Fighting for Peace is like Fucking for Virginity" War Criminals, Assemble!

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

Release the fucking Epstein files already!!!