Jim Crawfurd

Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority

Surround yourself with the kind of people who consider The Princess Bride to be one of the greatest films of all-time.

Damn right

#UK: We've sent a letter to Yvette Cooper expressing deep concern that funding for the BBC World Service is due to run out at the end of March.

We urge the government to confirm a long-term funding arrangement to ensure their vital work continues ⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/02/the-...

Bless you Jennifer, you are amazing x

Yup

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Hospital exit block screws everything up - elective, emergency, doesn’t matter, it’s all impacted by exit block.
The amount this must cost the NHS is way in excess of what it would cost to fix social care and solve the problem.

Every child deserves to protected from preventable diseases - it is their right to health

We need to get serious about tackling corruption through political donations The government's reforms are welcome but they won't end political corruption

Political donations ensure that interests of the super-rich are writ large in govt policies.

Capital gains & dividends are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages. No NIC is levied.

Income of private equity bosses taxed as capital gains.

Bribery pays but normal people can't play the game.

The US President, which does not offer free healthcare to his own people, wants his own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare.

Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.

Donor suspended from Tories pays £50,000 for dinner with Kemi Badenoch Exclusive: Rami Ranger, who was suspended temporarily in 2023, makes successful bid at party fundraising event

Donor suspended from Tories pays £50,000 for dinner with Kemi Badenoch.

That is 2+ years of minimum wage.

Monies at this scale are paid to buy influence and favours.

Criminalizing purchase/sale of political parties and legislators is a necessary step for ending political corruption.

Meanwhile, the decision to Brexit has never been less popular.

30% Right to leave
58% Wrong to leave

She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriousl...

A woman adopted as a toddler from an Iranian orphanage and raised Christian by a US war veteran received a DHS letter ordering her to appear for removal proceedings in CA. She has no criminal record and is deemed deportable for overstaying a visa in March 1974 at age 4.

apnews.com/article/iran...

Starmer 2.0: could a more authentic PM revive Labour’s appeal? After surviving a coup, and with his critics chastened, No 10 insiders say a more combative PM is up for taking the fight to Reform UK

For this weekend’s long read

The fights Starmer has started to pick with billionaires and and the hard right - and whether a brutally honest, wholesale revaluation of why Labour won in 2024 is the thing that could revive their fortunes.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Going to try my first Trump dad joke.

“I didn’t fall asleep in the meeting. That’s fake snooze.”

This is insane

Things the Pitt has not shown yet- spending hours on the phone desperately trying to get a hospital to accept your transfer of a patient you cannot care for at your own hospital.

Wolfers: What we have is a pro-tax Republican president. Maybe he favors this tax because it’s regressive — it takes a bigger chunk out of the paychecks of the poor than of the rich. Maybe he thinks he can baffle us with bullshit and pretend China is paying, but that’s a story people aren’t buying

This one hits hard.

Ben Wallace is right. But note how Trump is doing in the US precisely what Putin did in Russia.

Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Water company bosses rake in £15million bonanza while bills and pollution soar Before a hard-hitting Channel 4 television drama about the water industry hits our screens, research has shown the ongoing rewards for company bosses and their owners

England water company bosses raked in £15m+ in pay/perks last yr.

£900m dividends paid. Customer bills up 26%.

Companies have 1200 criminal convictions. Fines not collected.

Sewage dumping killing people.

No exec prosecuted.

End the scam. Must Nationalise.

We need to go back to a situation where racism is shameful rather than electorally advantageous.

The Tories have pledged to scrap the "unfair" additional interest on Plan 2 student loans

It’s absolutely the right thing to do. The Labour government needs to do it. But let’s not forget who introduced it in the first place
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...

Unsurprising.
Would be interesting to see data on all religions, for comparison/to avoid this being used to wrongly fit some other narrative.

If Starmer 2.0 means nothing else, perhaps it can mean this…

Interesting to see this line confirming in passing Morgan’s responsibility for a horrendous and damaging immigration policy…

I’m shocked.

“minor workplace matter” would be more reassuring if it didn't come from his lawyer