Dr Eleanor Janega

one of my absolute favorite art tropes is when a powerful character puts themselves in a situation they can’t possibly escape. no deus ex machina is coming to save them, no finagling will help, they just have to live and die with the hell they’ve made. anyway, the Democrats and ICE, huh?

I note that “enshrined legal protections for wingnuts and cranks to behave as badly as they want, without negative consequences” is pretty compelling evidence that Britain has been deeply and maliciously Trumpified for quite some time.

Right?

Proud of your mate. Respect for the troops!!!

*I don't care* if dogging technically requires a car. Do not @ me about it.

The five back row seats in Broughton is a dogging thing and you cannot convince me otherwise.

Funny how we decide everything wrong with women is because they eat food wrong. How dare you eat food.

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participating in the general strike by being kind of shit at my job

Wait are you trying to tell me the torment nexus factory makes the torment nexus?

Because it is a good idea to report on how media companies attempt to curry favour with the Trump administration. It's not even just about Amazon - Disney helped to pump the price of this up. That is a problem and people should be aware of it.

'Chaos': Behind the Scenes of Amazon's Melania Trump Doc Crew members of the Amazon documentary "Melania: Twenty Days to History" detail a chaotic production process under Brett Ratner.

Crew members say the worst part of working on Amazon’s new Melania Trump documentary wasn’t promoting the administration — it was working with accused sex pest Brett Ratner. More:
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I have a question. How come none of you are going to down there to get him

I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea.

It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road.

Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

Nigella to GBBO is, and will be, the best piece of business in the January transfer window

this man got ben shapiro on his podcast and conceded nearly every point to him yet people want him to be the president

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I personally don't tell people who have been fighting their hearts out daily for weeks not to celebrate wins of any size. I certainly don't do that when I've been nowhere near the place where the fight has been happening and have done little more than make some donations from miles away.

I haf this the other week and I do think nasal rinsing is the thing for this. Really helps flush it all out. The Neilmed sinus rinser is *the one* for this. I hope you feel better!

The USA has a long tradition since its inception of concentration camps. From Native Americans to Japanese-Americans, the state is partly predicated upon the coercive movement, detainment, and policing of large populations in camps across centuries.

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Labour expects to lose by-election after Andy Burnham blocked Insiders say Sir Keir Starmer chose between a likely defeat in Gorton & Denton and the greater risk of losing control of the Greater Manchester mayoralty

And there we have it.

The Government are admitting Gorton & Denton is between the Green Party and Reform.

Let's make sure hope wins.

www.thetimes.com/article/3d6d...

Anyway its praxis to make them feel like huge freaks and losers.

One of the points of Altemeyer's research on authoritarian personality types is that they tend to exhibit much higher degrees of social conformance sensitivity. They really care about what's normal and they really care about both feeling and being perceived as normal.

Imagine a paramilitary gang kills 2 observers over 2 weeks, then shows up at your home to say, "You, observer, we know where you live."

That's a death threat.

If it happened to me or a colleague when I was a human rights observer in N. Ireland, we would've lodged complaints with three govts.

The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

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You won't find @tomsuozzi.bsky.social statement on BS. He has an acct he just prefers X. Do NOT believe his lies. He knew what he was doing. Like many, he thought he could make blueMAGA Dems happy which is his base. Or he thought. He doesn't get to take back his vote, don't take back your opinions.