I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS

A new report out today by Unseen, a leading charity which manages the modern slavery helpline, has found that immigration laws brought in since 2022 have helped trafficking thrive. The changes have contributed to a "culture of disbelief" in victims. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

@stephencollins.bsky.social made the point best

Note the timing of Home Office re-press releasing the “most ever raids” & “hardest ever immigration crack down” today. Signalling alignment with Trump & ICE. They haven’t got a clue how to make ordinary British people’s lives better, only how to make migrants suffer. #r4today

By copying Reform's narrative Labour reinforces it, and by pushing the most hostile anti-immigration policies in decades Starmer is making it worse. Labour could be countering Reform's lies, instead they embed them further in policy. It's lose lose for everyone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I hope this is in no way interpreted as any kind of support for Trump’s deranged Greenland plan but given there’s a conversation about the future of Greenland, it should be noted that Denmark has in many ways treated Greenlanders disgracefully.

First Nations communities in the US are like 👀

I am well aware that this isn't new, and that this murder happened four blocks from where George Floyd was murdered. The specific reaction from Trump, Vance, Noem et al is very telling though. It's saying "if you protest, if you don't go along with everything we do, we can kill you on the spot. 2/2

It's not exactly new, but it is bloody disturbing how we live in a day and age where you have video evidence of a woman being shot in cold blood, multiple eye witnesses saying she was shot in cold blood, and you still have people claiming it was Renee Good's fault for being shot in cold blood. 1/2

Due to popular demand we’re now offering this course hybrid so you’re welcome to join us wherever you are in the world! #trauma #theology #learning

They shot her and then prevented a doctor from trying to save her. Meanwhile right wing commentators make out having pronouns in her bio somehow 'justifies' this. This is the organisation Badenoch wants to replicate here, while Starmer panders to the man currently painting the victim as the villain.

Smugglers often force people to pilot boats, using threats against them or their families. Prosecuting an Afghan 18 year old seeking asylum for this is twisted and shows how Labour is more interested in playing to Reform than ensuring people are provided with safety. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Worth noting that even as Trump bombs Venezuela to unilaterally seize Maduro on domestic US charges, the ICC judges who voted to investigate US war crimes in Afghanistan face such severe US banking sanctions that they are for all intents and purposes excluded from modern life.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Maduro has overseen the largest refugee crisis in Latin America, and at one point the second largest in the world. That still does not allow Trump to launch military attacks against a sovereign nation. If the benchmark was the leader was an inhumane arse then everyone would be invading America.

She is a British citizen. She was groomed by grown men when she was a CHILD. I’m not saying there should be no consequences, but stripping her of citizenship is wrong. She’s also had children who died. My goodness, she has learned the hard way. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is exactly right and applies to climate as well as immigration policy. There’s a real chance the next UK government could deny climate science, repeal the Climate Change Act, quit the Paris Agreement, axe all clean energy and efficiency policies, and deliver coal mining and fracking projects.

This is both entirely correct and misses the point completely, which is that the 'online weirdos" are effectively writing Conservative and Reform policy & have significantly influenced the government's own worst and most xenophobic policies. Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.

What's needed is a genuinely progressive asylum policy which focuses on protection over penalisation. We need genuinely safer options for people to be able to seek asylum in UK, coupled with policies here to ensure people can live safely and securely. You know the opposite of Labour's policies. 3/

Begum may be 'distasteful', but it is pretty clear she was a victim of grooming and trafficking. The decision to make her defacto stateless is also clearly incompatibile with the principles of international law. Labour doubling down doesn't change that it is bad. 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are now at 75k signatures, with many messages of support on Instagram, Facebook and here. This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls. Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜 notinourname.org.uk

Giveaway! I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase. Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose? (UK only)

These are not people serving sentences. They are people awaiting trial. And yet the conditions they describe – prolonged pre-trial detention, restrictions on communication, isolation – are indistinguishable from punishment. www.thenational.scot/news/2570995...

“I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why”| Amu Gib www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial. We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/3e3320

Mears, Serco, and Clearsprings oversee most asylum accommodation in UK and make huge profits doing so, despite a significant proportion of accommodation being substandard. It isn't people seeking safety costing taxpayers money, it's the firms making profits off of them. www.bbc.com/news/article...

While Labour works to permanently undermine basic human rights for migrants, the High Court rules that the Home Office has been failing to uphold them for years. This is a situation which risks getting significantly worse under Labour's proposed policies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Israel is still throttling the aid supply to Gaza. And Britain is still supplying Israel with arms and maintaining normal diplomatic relations. The genocide continues, as does British complicity. 26 months and counting. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Other night I heard someone lamenting about how "people with autism make it their whole personality". Now, me being me, I obviously have some thoughts on this, not least of which being that I "am autistic", I don't "have autism", which makes it sound like a contagious disease which can be cured. 1/

Being able to recognise I am autistic and non-binary helped me make sense of who I am. It allows me to recognise why my brain works the way it does, why I feel the way I do. Not being able to do that left scars, mental and physical. It's a good thing being able to have a frame for your life. 1/

The following is a picture essay that reflects on a personal experience that informs my own understanding of what it means to lose your freedom of speech. folukeafrica.com/losing-your-...

Turn on the sound. Just in case you missed it a few days ago or you just want to warm your heart this Sunday evening, we are sharing this little gem.

This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal. Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Migrants, trans and non-binary individuals, disabled individuals, and now neurodivergent individuals. Does Labour have a check list of which already marginalised and vulnerable groups they will go after on any particular day?

🚨Campaign launch🚨 Today Migrant Voices launched our "Don't knows do care" campaign to counter misinformation around migration. Your support is important. Please donate, if you can., share and take part in helping to combat the hostile rhetoric. Please donate here👇 www.gofundme.com/f/help-comba...

Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries. Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.

Some don’t understand that demonising refugees& asylum seekers is a red line for any healthy nation. As a group of people, like any other, they include the brilliant, good & bad, but labelling them as lesser humans undeserving of compassion, safety & equality is definitely bad for the whole country.

Labour isn't opening safe routes as Mahmood claims. Those laid out effectively already exist, and her proposals limit them more than they currently are. What Labour has done though is close and curtail what safe routes there actually are for refugees. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I desperately need someone to make a movie about these nuns www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but I absolutely despise Starmer and the whole government for how far to the right they have gone on attacking vulnerable people. UK pushing for this shows a complete disregard for the lives of people crossing the channel. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap. Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long. This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters. Join.greenparty.org.uk