The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

'She has a message for other tourists considering a trip to America: “Don’t go – not with Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability. They don’t seem to need a reason for detaining you.”' #ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Anyone else would have been arrested by now.

Watched Colbert’s interview with Talarico. Worth your time. Up to 1.5 million views on YouTube.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

Remember when a journalist asked the President of the United States a question about the survivors of a pedophile sex trafficker and he pointed out the journalist was a woman and berated her for not smiling enough. That was crazy.

This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services. Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you. Please do keep sharing! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

A £240m defence contract without tender. Their fingerprints all over our health care data. A meeting in the USA but without any minutes. Everything around Palantir stinks. www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...

The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.

I'm choosing some socks for you in a minute after a quick one with Nora at the Caledonian Hotel.

Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government. Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’ I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.

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The goal of nonviolent civil resistance is not to convince the regime they're wrong. The goal of #NonviolentCivilResistance is to convince the people to work together to make it impossible for the regime to sustain itself. We aren't nonviolent for the regime. We're nonviolent for each other.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

Hundreds and hundreds of people have joined the Green Party since this was broadcast. Together - we are growing this movement. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

Jesus Christ, JD. @timmiller.bsky.social and @jonfavs.bsky.social respond to Vance's comments on the 5-year-old detained by ICE.

Trump’s America.

Gavin Newsom calling Europe spineless while his own Congress sits on its hands is some next level brass neck.

What's remarkable is not just that Trump is so loathsome and narcissistic that he doesn't care when an innocent woman is killed in a protest unless and until he finds out that her dad was a fan of his ... it's that he's so disregulated he *can't help but say so out loud*.

Matt Cartoons:

He should have replied: 'that's a fucking stupid question.'

Donald Trump is a twisted malignant sociopath rapidly slipping into dementia. He isn’t really calling the shots. It’s the cabal of unrestrained psychopaths around him who are. And that’s incredibly dangerous.

U.S. billionaires got an astounding $1.5 TRILLION richer in the first year of Trump's second term. Remember — this is happening as they get even more tax cuts in exchange for the social safety net being cut for everyone else. "New Golden Age" for who?

Did you know, incidentally, that Cat Stevens did a comedy country song about the time he got deported from the US because he was on the no-fly list, and got Dolly Parton, Paul McCartney, Alison Krauss, and for some reason Terry Sylvester of the Hollies to sing bits of it?

🔥 @redstateupdate.bsky.social (MURFREESBORO): “Where are all the anti-tyranny people now?? The government is shooting people in their cars, and the people who wanted to rise up against the government, guess what they’re doing? Applying for jobs with ICE.”

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

This is absolutely what happened.

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.

Really good video breakdown of the shooting of Renee Good illustrating that yes, this was cold blooded murder by an ICE agent.

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

Most importantly, Miller is wrong. Plenty of stable societies existed that did not conform to his "iron laws". Such "laws" might apply, however, to centralised, hierarchical political systems, especially those dominated by psychopaths like Stephen Miller.

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget. How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy? t.co/jIObxTAoeL

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Suddenly out of nowhere we are given the option of kindness instead of fear, isolation and dehumanising others in order to survive. Let’s make kindness, listening and compassion our New Year’s resolution. Get with the greens and make Reform last year’s has beens.

Seasons greetings Bluesky buddies. Whoever you are, wherever you are, I hope you’ll be spending some time in the next few days with people you care about and who care about you. Happy Holidays

comparing Polanski to Farage is desperately stupid, even more so when your party is doing it's best to mimic Farage. look at the rhetoric of your party leader and home secretary, brother

Help me understand. The government that is demanding Venezuela give back “oil and land” to the US warning the EU to not use seize Russian funds to rebuild a society the Russians attempted to destroy?

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

Labour are attacking Greens. Fine. I have yet to see any party that has entirely affordable aspirations. But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations. Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.

Trump: We’re going to send ICE to World Cup matches. FIFA: WE’RE GIVING YOU OUR FIRST EVER PEACE PRIZE!!!

George Retes is an American citizen and veteran who was unjustly pepper-sprayed, arrested, and imprisoned for three days by ICE. Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇