We ended up betraying many (most?) of the locals who helped us and leaving them in Afghanistan to dodge the Taliban. A friend of mine who worked for the US finally got visas for himself and his family...from Germany.

"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.

I can only think of one person for whom this is true and it’s Stephen Miller, who for some reason will not rest till the US reproduces the violent xenophobia that made his and my ancestors flee eastern Europe. The rest of his family seems normal, though

The only reason to go kill the survivors and lie about it is because you knew the boat wasn’t carrying drugs

It is a sign of democratic collapse because explicit white racism appears to be the policy of the US Government. Non white citizens no longer have the same protection under the law as white ones. We are all potentially identifiable as members of "disruptive populations"

Hegseth needs to be in jail for the rest of his life, and that’s the moderate option.

“The strikes are so above board that we shitcanned the SOUTHCOM JAG lawyer for raising concerns!”

This is explicitly confirming the allegation: that he's ordering the killings for their own sake. The logical implication of which is hit them again if there are any survivors, which is both exactly what the Post reported and a cold-blooded textbook war crime.

Having a baby sure has made it really hard to read about people getting torn away from their babies in ICE custody

sex work is always the canary in the coal mine for free speech. if you can't convince your editor to cover it on its own merits, it should at least be worth covering as a playbook for how they'll come after what they don't like YOU saying next (and btw, we're already there)

Yes I know I talk about this a lot but it bothers me. I've never seen an institution made homeless, an institution starve to death, or an institution put in a cage. No institution has ever been assaulted or killed. I've never gotten a call from a crying institution in the middle of the night.

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

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It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card). There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well. The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial www.usni.org/magazines/na...

Reminder that all the "pardons" granted to Jan6ers whose convictions were still pending were auto-pen pardons.

Homeland Security‘s social media gets more unhinged and master-race-y every day. Today they want us to believe that terrorizing immigrants is “the fight for western civilization.”

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Went to see an apartment this morning. It’s modest, in the budget. Close to stuff we need. Application: $60/each b/c high school son is 18. Admin fee: $600 Pet fee: $1000 Security: $2800 First month: $1400 Almost $6K in the door. 😔Please share. Please help. #CatsOfBluesky gofund.me/30a6eff6f

Now at $10 of $925 for Dec. rent. Thank you so much for helping me get this started! Payment's due this Monday, Dec. 1—please share widely so we can keep this going.

El and their sweet elder dog Astra need our help to pay rent. El is a dear, dear triend who had to leave an abusive work situation that was destroying their physical health. Please help this disabled queer trans freelance editor stuck in hostile Florida have safe housing for another month.

Nearly a dozen warships and 12,000 troops are deployed in Caribbean at this very moment. But Trump's judicial nominees can't even bring themselves to acknowledge Congress’ role in declaring or authorizing war, or refusing to do so.

Today in the Free Press: What YOU Can Do To Help Enforce The Trump Administration’s New Limits On “Third World” Migration. Bonus Article: How “Land Acknowledgements” Before Comp Lit Lectures At Bard College Are Ripping America Apart

I assume that Smith feels that the United States has legitimate claims to land as it is a sovereign nation. Indigenous nations are also sovereign--the very fact that we have signed treaties with the U.S. Government means that we are recognized as sovereigns under international law.

The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks

The gentry are terrified of the very idea they may ever face consequences for their actions.

"You say failed states are a result of material realities and social history and the wider international balance of power and miscellaneous shit like that, but I say they're the result of mystical auras that adhere to their inhabitants and their bloodline. I am a very serious no-nonsense statesman."

This is genocidal logic, but it's also just deeply embarrassing magical thinking. The "facts & logic" crowd insists I can't be a woman because they've convinced themselves that would require some woo woo notion of "gender identity", but they find this fucking volksgeist nonsense totally plausible?

But but folks were over reacting

The woman yelling at the ICE officer from behind the counter is fake. We don't need to use AI to show people standing up to fascism. There is tons of real video already doing that. You don't defeat fascism by using its own tools against its victims.

🔴Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘Letting the Country Down’ With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum The veteran Labour peer and campaigner for child refugees tells Byline Times the Home Secretary’s plans are “bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government” bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...

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Please help my friend Brian get groceries, this is fucked

Reuters has done some really great investigative reporting on the impacts of Trump's retribution campaigns

I wish policy makers could given even half as much thought and compassion to the subject of trans youth and their support. This is very much worth a read

“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down". Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...

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Brother I have fucked with all manner of compter shite for decades and never once did misusing the software make me kill myself and I installed Windows 3.1 on a 286.

Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”

Trump refuses to directly admit his administration granted the DC shooter asylum and then wraps up the press availability

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Carney dismantled clean electricity regs, weakened methane rules & promised more O&G subsidies...in exchange for Smith's word that she'll support $130 carbon price - which she had supported until recently, realizing she could leverage opposition to it. She'll oppose it as soon as it's convenient

with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry. come over.

When the strongest argument for your policy is a list of lies (I count 7) and exaggerations (another 5), you reveal more than a wonky list of truths ever would.

How about my to-be-published book because I know everyone wants to read about loss, grief, and the structural inequalities that deprive us of the right to mourn.

The MAGAs who suddenly pretend to care about African Christians being killed in Nigeria are the same ones who openly ridicule Black Christians being murdered by police in America & celebrate Latino Christians being rounded up, tortured, & deported from America So let's talk Facts on Nigeria: 1/3