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“Heartbroken but also very angry… sickening lies by the administration… reprehensible and disgusting… Alex is clearly not holding a gun… please get the truth out about our son, he was a good man…”

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

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

Don't want to unrealistically romanticise the situation in Minnesota from afar, but it really does seem that while the situation is terrifying and nightmarish, the response is rad as fuck and deeply, powerfully hopeful

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

“We consider that the electoral system no longer serves the interests of UK business in generating growth." Last week, @financialtimes.com published a letter from 20+ business leaders, calling for electoral reform. It's great to see the business community join this conversation 👇

Renee Good was shot 3 times by ICE The first two shots were non lethal. One to her left forearm & another to right breast The final shot entered the left side of her head & exited the right side He didn’t have to keep shooting. He was out of the vehicle’s path before the kill shot That’s murder

Imagine! How could wind and solar ever compete with fossil fuel electricity across an entire year, across an entire block of 450 million people!?😉

Trump: "NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything." Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on super-rich. They know that a hostile environment is not conducive to accumulation. They can increase real wages for workers. Govt can tax super-rich at higher rates, impose wealth tax and redistribute.

One of the most depressing things about Carney’s brilliant speech is the certain knowledge that neither Keir Starmer nor any other senior British politician of any party could have given anything like it - even if they understood the arguments.

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

interesting that a single face-to-face contact turned this nonvoter into a voter

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

"...blatantly seen as an attempt to fix elections." Can we just dump this cretinous argument once and for all, please? FPTP is an electoral system that can allow last-minute election stealing by undemocratic parties that have done similar stand-asides already in 2019. AV prevents all skullduggery

I fear this would be me if Farage won in the UK. I don't want to be this guy. Here's how we stop fascism in the UK: open.substack.com/pub/ewanhoyl... open.substack.com/pub/ewanhoyl...

@quietriotpod.bsky.social More polling evidence dropped this week showing that Labour Coyote are well beyond the cliff edge in pursuit of the Reformrunner. open.substack.com/pub/ewanhoyl...

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

🇷🇺 "MEPs of UKIP opposed a resolution in 2008 condemning Putin’s invasion of Georgia. Farage also opposed a resolution in 2011 which criticised the conduct of elections in Russia that were widely regarded as rigged." Farage has always had a soft touch to Putin. https://econ.st/3Nm9yXA

So do the words “David Frost”, “Telegraph” and “column”

This has been the plan all along. - Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN - Implement the Insurrection Act - Declare Martial Law - Suspend elections

I don't think this is about immigration 🤨

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1% of Reform UK voters have a favourable opinion of the Labour Party, compared to 98% seeing it unfavourably, including 89% who view the party *very* unfavourably. Conservative voters are more sympathetic.

I have modelled how different voting systems would perform with zero tactical voting using favourability data from the British Election Study. All the voting systems I have modelled would be achievable with electoral reform in this parliament, as they do not require boundary changes beyond...

If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says that the United States is destroying the world order: "But there is also the fact that our most important partner, the US has broken with the values that it helped to establish and, above all, has played a decisive role in shaping over decades"

“God damn them all.”

Make this go viral. Labour MP Louise Haigh.

Imo “Nigel Farage doesn’t believe in Covid vaccines” would tank his polling if more people knew about it (though you could say that for a number of his policies)

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What just happened ... Comedy: Jamie Kaler

I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.

Just a reminder: Reform UK is one of the largest foreign influence operations that the Russian intelligence services have ever run

This is lovely. Happy Christmas all

@rmcunliffe.bsky.social, I'm just listening to the New Statesman podcast and heard you talking about how we measure what the people want, in regards to more people disliking Reform UK than liking them. I think you measure it by allowing people to rank the parties. open.substack.com/pub/ewanhoyl...

This has been a hefty piece of work I've been working away on, but it seems like I've accidentally set the ball rolling on... "the end of Reform UK as an electoral threat". Happy New Year!!! 😀 It turns out the Alternative Vote is the anti-fascist voting system 🤷‍♂️ open.substack.com/pub/ewanhoyl...

Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

One of the most fulfilling things I've done the last couple of years is attempt, incompetently, to be a mentor, whatever one of those is. Anyway, my mentee(?) @matt-taylor.bsky.social wrote this about why his kids don't believe in Santa for the Guardian yesterday and it's bloody good

Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.

If your house of worship is silent about the cruelty and the attacks on your neighbors by ICE, you’re at the wrong church, mosque, synagogue, temple, or gurdwara. Powerful ad by Interfaith Alliance — a plea for humanity.

Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about