Patrick

Good luck staying fully sane, when you isolate yourself to this level.

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

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Donald Trump has built a regime of retribution and reward | Sidney Blumenthal The president’s purges and attacks on his enemies have developed into a system in which injustice is made routine

Donald Trump has built a regime of retribution and reward | Sidney Blumenthal

Did it for 5 hours. #neveragain

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power

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Farage has now said very clearly he will remove judges he does not approve of and abolish UK citizens' human rights. No-one at the BBC, Sky or ITV - or inside the government - seems to think it is worth highlighting. This is exactly what sleepwalking towards autocracy looks like.

Exactly this, Teflon Farage.

I think Labour’s problem is that, as power has shifted to technocrats over recent decades, its ambitions have shrunk to chasing populist policies shaped by an algorithmically skewed version of public opinion, one amplified by rage-bait rather than grounded in reality.

North: Newcastle, UK
East: Suva, Fiji
South: Melbourne, Australia
West: San Francisco, USA

No such thing as bad press.......😶

A banner advert for the University of Warwick, which says "Beyond ignores curiousity". This is a spelling error.

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere.

But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

A statement from our team regarding Remco Evenepoel.

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#SouthPark

That was pure cycling bliss. #ciclismo #tdf2025

Great read. Honest and truthful. That's the reality of the game.

Triathlete in waiting.

Superb

The Crown in the constitution of the UK.

Theoretically indefensible; (currently) practically useful.

Fundamentally I think we, as a nation, are sceptical about giving anyone access to our ID that we do not absolutely have to. The same as giving bookmakers bank account statements (current issue with affordability) or anything that might me deemed too personal for others.

In KV we trust.

That's ridiculous.

This morning in 1916 after days of monumental artillery bombardment on the Somme, British and allied troops were going over the top.
Well over 100,000 men attacked.
It would be the bloodiest day in the history of the British army.

"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any
other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only
if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival.
Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." -- Sotomayor dissent

This has been the biggest frustration by far. Complete madness and a lesson in what not to do with a massive majority.

WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…”

@lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet.

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Also look at the Tory voter split on Davey vs Farage.

That is why they are so fucked.

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