Sadie Rose Bermingham

Reader Contribution: UK DEPORTATION COMMAND: The Great British ICE What Reform UK is not telling you

What happens when the state builds machinery designed to prioritise numbers over accuracy?

A reader contribution from @brownreporter.substack.com on Reform's ICE-inspired enforcement plans, and why the risks go far beyond just immigration policy - and why our track record could make it even worse.

Hang in there, Mr Bear.

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

Art by Lar DeSouza…

Also, Mari taps his fingers when he's thinking about something. He's relentless when he has a project and having to stop for any reason chafes at him. The finger thing is a stim. He doesn't even realise he's doing it.

Rayne is also quite small, for a guy. He's 5' 6.5" (and I hear him saying 'five foot seven!' in a tetchy voice now!) which people tend to comment on when they first meet him, since he projects a much taller image onscreen and in photos.

The eyes are the windows to the soul and both Mari (Elemental Evidence) and Rayne (Dark Paths) have eyes that captivate their companions.
Mari's eyes are a cool, frosty blue that initially leads Jake to think he wears coloured contacts.
Rayne has pale green eyes, the colour of iced chartreuse.

No. It was just a dream. (Altho Mari's Dad does build guidance systems for rockets!)
Jake became a cop and later a private detective. Mari creates online security programs for MI5.

Good question. 😊
Mari from Elemental Evidence was definitely maths and computer science. He grew up wanting to be an astronaut, as did Jake, who majored in psychology. I think Jake probably did some sport clubs after school but only to delay going home. 😪

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A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

YouTube video by dlusman John Foxx - Europe After The Rain ( Top Of The Pops - 3rd Sept 1981 )

He grew up a couple of miles away from where I did.
youtu.be/2qf-mEMjmCQ?...

Mari is a total atheist and he never uses religious terminology, even casually. So he'd never say "oh my god" or "go to hell" or anything that invokes a deity. Which is not to say that he doesn't cuss people out when they piss him off.
He totally does. 😆

Tens of thousands of demonstrators filling the streets with signs and banners

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

There you go. You're never Too Old. 😆

You should! Maybe you're just a shade too young for Europe after the Rain. 😘

Quote post with a GIF that has a clue about where you're from.

‘Enough Is Enough’: Hundreds of Minnesota Businesses Take Stand Against ICE

I've covered a lot of protests and resistance movements of various kinds in my days on this earth -- I've never seen anything quite like this epic day in Minneapolis today.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

In that case, can you get a warrant to expedite Vance to, say... Gaza? Just mulling this over.

David Bowie's album Station To Station came out 50 years ago today. #MusicSky

A panel from ultimates where a bad guy in a black and red suit says “You are under arrest! Your human right have been semi-permanently suspended and will be returned to you if it is decided you deserve them!”

What it feels like to live in America and believe ALL people should have basic human rights.

Cannot see the end of it.

TODAY, Friday January 23rd, 2026:

We are ALL residents of Minnesota.

We ALL want #ICE_OutForGOOD 🚫 🧊

Also: #ICE_OUT4ReneeGood 💔

Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Illegally masked coward!

They are afraid. Good!

Anti ICE protesters in downtown Minneapolis

It’s so cold but there are tens of thousands of people out here