Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

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.

so 'labour together' goons like @darrenpjones.bsky.social, wes streeting, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social have failed to attract any of the bigoted voters they're targeting with their racism and transphobia but they've also enraged the rest of of us to the point we'll never vote labour again. geniuses.

With the usual caveat of I never want anyone to get sacked, it is an absolute mystery how Brian Sorensen is still Everton Women manager is beyond me. It's not just that we haven't won at home. We haven't gotten a point at home.

Starmer makes Arnold Rimmer look like a strategic genius.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

The move in recent years for a number of UK universities to do this is disgusting and unjust. Sheffield management isn’t alone, but they are a disgrace. Only a leadership team that has utter contempt for their staff & doesn’t care a jot about ongoing relations and morale would do this.

ICE is now actively seeking to recruit extremist young men from gun shows, Ultimate Fight Club venues, rodeos, martial arts centers, and other haunts for men who tend to have a far right political vision.

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

Huge amount of US military air activity in East Anglia today, even by the usual standards. Now flying with their transponders off as well it seems. Almost like they are making a point about who really owns this country.

They are an occupying force and should go.

UK should consider expelling US forces from British bases, says Zack Polanski

I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.

Textbook Wilhoit's Law. "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Claimants sanctioned because bus late, but if they win an employment tribunal employer doesn't pay MPs like Farage meanwhile do what they like

ChatGPT, engage LinkedIn Acid mode

My latest for Freedom.

I did describe Chris Mason as an idiot in my latest piece fot @freedompress.bsky.social and was allowed to get away with it.

This is obviously bad, and not to diminish how bad, but it isn't new, it's just getting more air & is happening more often. 'People from the US Embassy' have historically turned up uninivited when pissed off about things in all sorts of places, including the UK. Just didn't break containment then.

What makes all the 'UK is considering sending the RAF and the Navy to Greenland to deter Trump' even more unreal to me is multiple times a day I hear US military aircraft flying over my house to/from their base 11 miles away where they have a load of nukes. In Suffolk. 80 miles northeast of London.

It's OK, the Free Speech Union and co will defend his right to offend, no doubt...

Absolutely. No-one wants this. I went to my only bank branch near me - 20 miles away - precisely so I could talk to a human being, and the staff member had to tell me to use the app because that's what they'd been told to say. She was resigned to it.

A million people have no doubt said this but I remember reading Discipline and Punish and I don't think Foucault meant it as an endorsement.

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

More on Trident, it is hard to imagine that further renewal would be an easy sell in the circumstances. I saw someone say to Polanski earlier that well, would you build our own or just surrender it? And I'm thinking if you were pro-nuke (I am very much not) either would be better from your PoV? /1

Sorry to keep banging on about Corbyn given I'm an anarchist but... ...I wonder if those 'patriots' who screamed at him will ever realise he, the pacifist, was the one most likely to stand up to their imperial master?

Well it's taken 80 odd years, but the UK establishment finally accepting in public what much of the rest of the world has known for a long time - that the UK is a vassal satellite of the US - is an interesting development.

Yes, Starmer has said the quiet part out loud here. I have no time for nukes of any kind as an anarchist and a member of CND, but the a Parliamentary Select Committee said some time ago that the UK's nukes would only be used as part of a US attack on someone. Starmer is saying what most knew.

Starmer appeasing his liege lord as per.

“Leave Greenland alone!” Heckler interrupts Star-Spangled Banner at NBA game in London, wins cheers from crowd. (Video via Reddit)

Lovely stuff.

Maugham is right about this. The Thieves Guild in Ankh-Morpork did a better job of regulating crime than any UK regulator does of ensuring Bad Things Don't Happen in its sector. It's just the state 'looking like' it does something, and having a weapon it can use periodically against enemies.

Siddal v Waterhead in RL Challenge Cup is on YouTube, visibility is awful - not sure it should be played as defenders can't see high kicks coming down, but it has an old school RL feel... www.youtube.com/live/WhFLmcm...

Just saw a reply guy slagging off Zach Polanski as not 'grown up' for his comments on Palantir etc. and then in another post calling on Starmer to have his 'Hugh Grant moment'. His 'Hugh Grant moment'. Welcome to Britain, where rhe grown-up political playbook is a 20 year old rom-com.

I've been writing stuff for @freedompress.bsky.social for months on how Starmer's '3D chess' was absolute bullshit. Grovelling is grovelling, and it leads to being kicked in the face. The US is an empire, it always was, whatever the likes of Dean Acheson said. Now the rubicon is reached, it seems.

While the police forces & British courts pursue prosecutions relating to Palestine Action, an actual proscribed terror group is operating freely in N. Ireland and the police are covering up and downplaying white supremacist terror, violence and mass forced displacement of racial & ethnic minorities.

Whatever your politics are, please understand: If things continue in this direction, there is going to come a time when you have to take a side between fascism and revolutionary change. There will be no third option. Standing aside, waiting, doing nothing—all of those will mean choosing fascism.

I see Jonathan Hall has been giving another talk at Policy Exchange. A reminder of a previous one below.

"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'" They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

White supremacy explains many apparent contradictions. Conservative calls for free speech were always about freedom to use slurs without sanction. Calls for small government were always about denying Black folks rights and state protections. This is conservatives achieving their goals.

Oh yes, and now in my “RG” uni, us In humanities are barred from applying for some Leverhulme etc grants because even if we get them there aren’t enough overheads to make it “financially viable” for the institution 🙃

I see Jonathan Hall has been giving another talk at Policy Exchange. A reminder of a previous one below.

“The deaths included two migrants from Honduras, one from Cuba and another from Cambodia, and occurred from January 3-9, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.” "At least 30 people died in ICE custody in 2025, the highest level in two decades, agency figures showed.”

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

Everything that's happening is making me feel increasingly speechless So much to say and yet none of it seems to matter All of what is happening was predictable but there was just zero appetite to stop it in the circles that could easily have Instead they enabled it all to protect their position

I’ve heard from multiple friends today about daycares being raided and parents being ripped out of cars (in one case with a child left behind in the backseat). Grim times here.

What?!?! This is crazy. Even Roland Barthes wouldn’t have accepted this - and he wasn’t writing about a video of a woman being shot dead by the state

The British press in action, ladies and gentlemen.

One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun