Chris Townsend

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”

The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Seven sacks of dead Pheasants dumped by side of road in South Lanarkshire Seven sacks of dead Pheasants have been dumped by the side of the road at two locations (3km apart) near Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire earlier this month (many thanks to the blog reader who sent in…

Seven sacks of dead Pheasants dumped by side of road in South Lanarkshire raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/26/s...

A dry lake bed covered in stones and grass with water in the distance and trees either side.

A loch partly covered in ice with trees either side.

Lochan Deo in Rothiemurchus Forest last September and today. Drought to overflowing. #cairngorms

Camp this morning. First of the year. Wonderfully relaxing. #wildcamping #scottishhighlands

Looks like all the dregs from'The Nasty Party' are quite happy to migrate over to Russian-funded #Reform UK Ltd, evidently now making it 'The Nastier Party'.

🚨 Breaking from the US Senator for Connecticut. 👇

There you have it.

ICE has never been about immigration enforcement.

It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

The Courage Of The People Of Minnesota Is Lifting Up And Inspiring A Nation Watch now | For those in the path of the storm - stay safe all!

Thanks Simon for this important piece!
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They built wind turbines to make power — but under the sea, they “produce” something no one expected Offshore turbines with nature‑inclusive Reef Cubes help restore oceans, boosting marine life as Dutch wind farms show clean energy can heal underwater ecosystems.

They built wind turbines to make power — but under the sea, they “produce” something no one expected
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Reform MP Backs Privatising the NHS to Make It More 'Efficient' Andrew Rosindell, who defected last week from the Conservatives, says he "would not object" to replacing free healthcare with a private insurance system

Like the water companies?! 🤦🤦🤦

#Privatisation - built on slashing quality or services and the pay and conditions of workers, and pumping public money into private hands
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Nigel Farage racks up £151,000 in donor-funded flights to support Donald Trump Most recently, Farage attended an event at Trump’s Mar A Lago resort celebrating US Military Veterans just months before Trump’s vile slur dismissing the sacrifice of British troops who served in Afgh...

Nigel Farage racks up £151,000 in donor-funded flights to support Donald Trump

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Dob's Linn | Geological Society of Glasgow This site in the Southern Uplands shows the Ordovician-Silurian boundary and is where Lapworth (1842 - 1920) recognised the importance of graptolites in understanding the stratigraphic sequences in th...

Dob's Linn: where Charles Lapworth used fossil graptolites to age a succession of strata. Dob's Linn forms the internationally recognised boundary between the Ordovician and Silurian.

Dob's Linn is named after Halbert Dobson, 17th century Covenanter. geologyglasgow.org.uk/iconic-sites...

'We shouldn't take outdoor access for granted' Legislation to access to common land turns 100 but some fear the right could be taken away.

BBC News - 'We shouldn't take outdoor access for granted' - BBC News
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Terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse showed up to a protest with a rifle, killed people, and Republicans crowned him a hero.

That’s not “law and order.”
That’s fascist glorification of political violence.

ICU nurse with no criminal record who ‘cared deeply for people’: What we know about Alex Pretti, victim of ICE shooting Alex Pretti worked as an ICU nurse and had spent time working with the Department of Veterans Affairs

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AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."

Abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who stays in it from this day forward as members of a criminal conspiracy to commit murder.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

"Alex was murdered while he was helping."

Spent the morning with my mind in the Ordovician, 488 to 444 million years ago. The Iapetus Ocean was closing, and the Ballantrae Complex, an ophiolite, formed when seafloor lavas and deeper rocks were obducted on to the continent of Laurentia in what is now part of Scotland. #geology #EarthSciences

Hang on, there’s a Trump Phone Ultra coming too? With ‘the same bold, American-proud design.’

Get this, there’s another Trump Phone coming.

The promised $400 Trump phone hasn't materialized, but that's not stopping the Washington's Mobster & Co. from trying to suck up more MAGA dollars.

I guess MAGA isn't intelligent enough to know they are being scammed?

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I've never used the Kovea Spider. Remote canister stoves with preheat tubes are excellent in general.

So I’m reading this and halfway through and I’m like, he’s gonna sue the polls. And welp a few more sentences down and there it is. FFS 🤦🏼‍♂️

URGENT 🚨 We have just one week to stop Sex Matters infiltrating a vote to ban conversion therapy.

We must stop them. Use our tool and tell the MPs to stand up for what's right ✊
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Kirkton energy park rejected over Flow Country impact concerns Scottish ministers conclude it would have had

BBC News - Energy park rejected over Flow Country impact concerns
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Nigel Farage is already being paid £1m a year by his 'donors', 4x what he would earn as PM.

Who do you think he is working for?

‘It has been overwhelming’: Sudanese friends complete 900-mile UK walk Giel Malual and John Kuei trekked from Dungeness to John o’Groats to raise funds for new schools in Sudan

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Roads flooded and schools shut during heavy rain warning A yellow warning of rain is also in place for a wider area of Scotland until midnight on Friday.

BBC News - Roads flooded and schools shut during heavy rain warning - BBC News
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NEWS: UK police launch ‘Report Fraud’ service - AML Intelligence UK officials have formally launched 'Report Fraud', a new service aimed at changing how victims of fraud and cybercrime contact police.

Palantir software is now the basis of the Government's fraud reporting service. So it now handles sensitive financial data for millions of UK citizens. Plus NHS data. Plus military analytics. Plus policing.

And, of course, it's quite explicitly far right in its politics.

What could ever go wrong?