Nicola David

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Has your town sprouted a rash of Union/England flags? Complain to your council highways dept (not police). Point out no one seems to be taking them down so it's littering + use of public property for personal agendas. Point out refugees will feel threatened. BUT stress your own pride in the flags!

Last month Iran deported 750,000 (!) Afghans & said it will deport 4 million remaining undocumented Afghans (many born in Iran and never even been to Afghanistan). The UN can only assist 10% of returnees. Dumped into poverty and female hopelessness. Observer:

newsroom.observer.co.uk/cr/AQjcjBUQx...

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Horrifying story of arriving in the USA - having scrubbed his phone - but US officials had already viewed all his socials AHEAD of his flight. Detained and grilled for 12 hours due to his posts about the protests at Columbia University. Also quizzed re Gaza views.

www.instagram.com/reel/DK9E7tD...

I am utterly gripped not only by the Salt Path débacle, as brilliantly investigated by Chloe Hadjimatheou @chloehadj.bsky.social for @theobserveruk.bsky.social, but by JUST HOW MUCH the path of the story wanders off the path of truth. Surely @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social MUST withdraw this fable?

Home Office wrote off £48.5m after scrapping plan to use RAF base for asylum seekers Ministers axed RAF Scampton project after Home Office review found it did not represent value for money

The (abandoned) plan to use RAF Scampton as an asylum centre cost the taxpayer just under £50m. The cost to society was incalculable.
www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...

The National Crime Agency report on serious and organised crime in 2024 points out the connection between gangs & crime and far-right ideologies and affiliations - essentially the dates given refer to riots after the Southport murders.

Report: www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/nsa-overview...

So it has come to this: I just asked AI about the effects of AI on AI in the workplace.

Not sure who was more confused - me or ChatGPT. Anyway, it gave me a recipe for focaccia. I'll let you know how it comes out.

Really? I stopped watching 3 episodes in, because the relationship is extremely unconvincing, its soooo slow, and it's begging for the plot it doesn't have. All it is is 2 people rolling around and having trite dialogue. Will Sharpe is brilliant as always, but under-used.

Absolutely hysterical piece on Greg Wallace from Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social in the Times. The best piece of life advice I can give you is to go read it. Right now.

Here archive.ph/7iQMf

‘Monetised standing’: the art of being a film extra What skill does it take to be a background actor? A journalist finds out

From Yoel Noorali at the @observeruk.bsky.social: beautifully written, laugh-out-loud existentialism - the art of not doing, but being.

observer.co.uk/culture/film...

£100k to support barge asylum seekers 'to be returned to government' AROUND £100,000, to help support asylum seekers, may have to be returned to the Home Office by Dorset Council.

Well, well, well. And I should think so too - it was always very sketchy where that money was being spent. #BibbyStockholm

www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2530866...

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OUTSTANDING investigative work by Chloe Hadjimatheou @chloehadj.bsky.social of @observeruk.bsky.social blowing up the "ommissions & commissions" (deceptions) in the story of the books/movie of #TheSaltPath by Raynor Winn (Sally Walker). @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social may have some explaining to do...?

We’re #hiring a Communications Manager! | TERN - The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network We’re #hiring a Communications Manager! Could you lead on marketing and communications in our team? If you have the skills & experience below, we’d love to hear from you! 🎯 Experience of deve...

The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN) is hiring a communications manager! Could that be you?

www.linkedin.com/posts/wearet...

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Anna Foster OUTSTANDING against Sam Lundberg - Trump apologist re the LA protests - on Radio 4 Today this morning

WANTED: Chaplain for Wethersfield Asylum Reception Centre

An essential role for this difficult site. Funded by Chelmsford Diocese Mission Opportunities Fund.

www.chelmsford.anglican.org/vacancies/ch...

If you voted Labour in the last general election, email the secretary of your local Labour Party

Tell them what you think - and whether you'll ever vote for them again. Let them understand the scale of the betrayal.

Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

From Sensemaker at theobserveruk.bsky.social

Thats quite the typo to email me, @nationaltrust.org.uk!

Made my eyes twitch.

Love street food & microbreweries? Want to support refugees starting new businesses?

Join the Food Power Party 2025 hosted by @wearetern.bsky.social Tickets £16 for 3 dishes + a craft beer/soft drink, and give feedback to the entrepreneurs!

London SE27, near Crystal Palace overground station

Love street food & microbreweries? Want to support refugees starting new businesses?

Join the Food Power Party 2025 hosted by @wearetern.bsky.social Tickets £16 for 3 dishes + a craft beer/soft drink, and give feedback to the entrepreneurs!

London SE27, near Crystal Palace overground station

The world needs more @mark-carney@bsky.social
- who has just ended Canada's alliance with the USA

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A picture of Vladimir Putin holding his phone

“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”

Peter Hesgeth, US defense sec, and Mike Waltz, nat security adviser, included The Atlantic's editor in chief @JeffreyGoldberg in a Signal group about plans to bomb Yemen (!!!). Besides the stupidly, & hoo-rah tone, here's what they think of European allies. Story: www.instagram.com/p/DHmhIzaB6dz