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Yes. Anonymous misread the email thread

12.11.2025 18:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s disgraceful but also revealing to see how the hard Right in Britain, especially conservative newspapers and TV stations, are using the BBC Panorama debacle to normalise Trump. Trump is a convicted criminal and if not president, would now be facing gaol time for his role in the January 6th riot.

12.11.2025 10:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The truth about impartiality at the BBC And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

"On another occasion, a BBC executive forbade me from writing for the New Statesman, imploring me to ask The Spectator instead, saying that would be perfectly fine."

goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

11.11.2025 12:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 473    ๐Ÿ” 146    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

How can an authoritarian fascist be "leader of the free world". Americans are not free. They are being terrorised by Trump's Gestapo. They are no more free than Russians.

11.11.2025 08:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 110    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If I had a national institution I wanted to undermine, Hanover Communications are who Iโ€™d go to.

Theyโ€™ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ยฃยฃ, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians.

Itโ€™s just what they do.

11.11.2025 08:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 74    ๐Ÿ” 71    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Yesterday my 9 yr old granddaughter witnessed a man being chased across yards & grabbed by masked gunman in their alley (Oak Park). A man was pulled off a lawnmower. Fences broken, gates shattered. Men were being zip-tied and thrown into black SUVโ€™s. Helicopters fly in the neighborhood. Itโ€™s wrong.

10.11.2025 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 82    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleaguesโ€™ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. โ€œWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,โ€ Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Shoโ€ฆ

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleaguesโ€™ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. โ€œWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,โ€ Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Shoโ€ฆ

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

09.11.2025 20:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10190    ๐Ÿ” 5632    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 115    ๐Ÿ“Œ 339
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A every chance Iโ€™ll repost this brief statement on the recruitment of sadists to enforce violence upon your citizens and per ieved enemies [literally from the first head of the Gestapo]

10.11.2025 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Loving the floor plan๐Ÿคญ

07.11.2025 23:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But of course it enables the BBC & other media to justify giving Reform so much airtime...

04.11.2025 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Itโ€™s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage gets an easy ride from the media. They give him as much airtime as he wants but never hold him to account for the damage heโ€™s done.

So much of whatโ€™s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.

03.11.2025 19:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1153    ๐Ÿ” 381    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ˜

02.11.2025 23:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿคข๐Ÿคฎ

02.11.2025 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well put, Westcountrybookworm๐Ÿ‘Œ

28.10.2025 23:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are we mean NOT to notice the cardboard cutout?๐Ÿคญ

28.10.2025 23:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is why โ€ฆ Byline Times

26.10.2025 14:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 83    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Exactly

26.10.2025 22:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ANALYSIS | Clever, effective and legally sound โ€” experts laud Ontario's anti-tariff ad | CBC News An Ontario government ad that attracted the wrath of U.S. President Donald Trump was successful โ€” even if it didnโ€™t produce the outcome provincial officials might have anticipated, say experts in poli...

U.S. President Donald Trump says Ontario's anti-tariff ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan is "fake." Here's what three experts had to say. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #cdnpoli #politics

25.10.2025 21:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 249    ๐Ÿ” 67    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

@twmcltd.bsky.social i cant get ki-fi to work, on my mobile or laptop. Any suggestions please?

25.10.2025 08:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It feels wrong to *like* this post, so thankyou Tim for your dedicated brilliant reporting.

23.10.2025 21:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips REMAINS in post".
#JessPhillips one of the most dedicated, genuine, caring Parliamentarians ever ๐Ÿ‘

23.10.2025 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If the files exonerated Trump, theyโ€™d release them.

21.10.2025 23:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2020    ๐Ÿ” 353    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 93    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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22.10.2025 10:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is literally an impeachable offense.

22.10.2025 11:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

๐Ÿคฃ

20.10.2025 21:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I so want this to be fake, a hoax... bit it's not is it?

19.10.2025 21:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Given how much the China spy case has dominated headlines, it really does beg the question: why is our political-media class so uninterested in Nathan Gill, his Russian bribes, his once close associate Nigel Farage, and Reform UK?

Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't ๐Ÿ‘‡

17.10.2025 12:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1018    ๐Ÿ” 570    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 29

๐Ÿ˜ข

16.10.2025 17:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#SCOTUS

15.10.2025 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Calling #allamericans

15.10.2025 14:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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