Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson
Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client
"The 'whole episode showed some real contempt for the public interest. Mandelson was happy to use Starmer’s visit to advance his private interests. And to do so in plain sight — like he thought himself above accountability": me in the Financial Times.
07.02.2026 09:24 — 👍 211 🔁 66 💬 8 📌 3
These federal buildings have cells designed to hold a few people for a brief period; like a holding cell at a police station. Supposed to be 12 hours max, usually less.
People are being held in them for 7-10 days, jammed in like sardines. It’s a nightmare.
07.02.2026 14:55 — 👍 592 🔁 263 💬 10 📌 4
France is about to prosecute them; Europe is about to investigate them; United States says there will be no investigations or prosecutions... Just 'Thinks' On It...! 🙄
#FuggahMAGA #MAGAIsFascism #FuggOrangeTACO #RealTauk
06.02.2026 10:04 — 👍 3254 🔁 1081 💬 245 📌 115
Remember her name: Aliya Rahman
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
03.02.2026 22:10 — 👍 25457 🔁 11961 💬 982 📌 1089
There has to be an investigation into the many individuals who committed heinous crimes alongside Epstein.
There should be a special prosecutor, or a congressional investigation, that looks into the crimes and the ongoing cover-up. It has to happen.
03.02.2026 13:40 — 👍 20236 🔁 4360 💬 995 📌 242
‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send
ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families.
Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.
The cruelty is endless.
03.02.2026 01:01 — 👍 12726 🔁 6845 💬 573 📌 370
YAY for Greenland. Wish WE could do the same!
31.01.2026 20:30 — 👍 61 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 5
Schumer needs to be replaced. No other option.
Schumer will deliver this country, gift wrapped, into a Nazi dictatorship by a Gang of Pedophiles (GOP).
02.02.2026 01:26 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to my friend and our newest State Senator from Tarrant County, Taylor Rehmet! I met Taylor years ago through labor organizing.
Don’t tell us what can’t be done in Texas. When we show up #TexasTough, we change the game. Today we proved what we’ve known all along: Texas is in play.
01.02.2026 06:20 — 👍 16297 🔁 3342 💬 311 📌 161
MAJOR UPSET ALERT: Democrat Taylor Rehmet has just been projected the winner of the Texas SD9 special election — flipping a district that went Trump +17 and hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1991.
Trump personally endorsed Leigh Wambsganss and spent days hyping this race… and still lost.
01.02.2026 04:26 — 👍 12478 🔁 2699 💬 387 📌 276
There is no world, no scenario, no imaginable or unimaginable turn of events under which the Trump Administration will not end up regretting this stupefyingly idiotic arrest.
Don Lemon today: "I will not stop now, I will not stop ever."
31.01.2026 00:32 — 👍 7011 🔁 1848 💬 202 📌 40
De-Escalation Is a Lie
Don't believe the momentary softening rhetoric toward Minneapolis. It's only meant to quiet the opposition.
“We remain in the early days of a fight that will not soon end or be cooled by these anti-American extremists who want nothing less than a white nationalist state, the destruction of the Constitution and the dissolution of democratic life in America.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/there-will...
30.01.2026 13:34 — 👍 972 🔁 366 💬 35 📌 9
Jon Hirshberg “Never forget - the first thing the 3rd Reich executed was to silence Germany's free press and imprison all journalists who refused to heel to the regime's repression.”
31.01.2026 03:40 — 👍 233 🔁 143 💬 8 📌 2
31.01.2026 04:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
SiriusXM is playing Streets of Minneapolis by @brucespringsteen.net and you really love to see it
31.01.2026 04:18 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
31.01.2026 03:37 — 👍 2550 🔁 1614 💬 53 📌 169
It hasn’t gone unnoticed that all four people arrested today, including two journalists, were Black.
And now we find out the charge is “conspiracy to violate civil rights,” a statute rooted in the Ku Klux Klan Act.
Sit with that.
30.01.2026 22:02 — 👍 8277 🔁 3536 💬 508 📌 206
White text on a dark red background: “AWU STATEMENT CONDEMNING ICE The Alphabet Workers Union stands in full solidarity with immigrant communities and working people standing up to ICE terror across the country. Our workforce at Alphabet is diverse and beautiful, full of talented people who come from all walks of life and all parts of the world, united around our mission of making information accessible to all. An attack on any immigrant worker is an attack on all of us.” The bottom has the white Alphabet Workers Union logo.
AWU STATEMENT ✍️
In response to the increase in ICE violence across the country and in Minnesota, the Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab...
"An attack on any immigrant worker is an attack on all of us."
28.01.2026 14:23 — 👍 33 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 2
Large crowd marching against ice
Walked into a big NYC march of what look like high schoolers against ICE and Trump in NYC. The kids are alright!
30.01.2026 18:18 — 👍 829 🔁 145 💬 12 📌 3
The Epstein files they released today are incredibly damning, and it really makes you wonder: what the hell is in the files, photos, and videos they won’t release to us?
31.01.2026 00:56 — 👍 526 🔁 160 💬 25 📌 6
Preserve all records of everything. They will be furiously deleting and destroying evidence -- like they already did with DOGE.
31.01.2026 01:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Concerned that if he is forced out of office before the 4 year term -- a much more troubling techno-fascist crew under a Vance presidency will take over. With no interest in keeping the US together as a country. This south african apartheid inspired nazi crew could be much worse than #putinspuppet.
31.01.2026 01:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The impressive thing with the Field Manual is how realistic it is. Reading the bureaucracy section, you will recognise classic idiots who you've seen sabotage — presumably unintentionally — countless meetings.
29.01.2026 07:35 — 👍 45 🔁 26 💬 5 📌 0
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
30.01.2026 02:43 — 👍 24707 🔁 13563 💬 1825 📌 1132
rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people
28.01.2026 19:24 — 👍 6965 🔁 1449 💬 175 📌 34
There is no reforming a terrorist organization.
Abolish it.
Abolish ICE.
27.01.2026 20:57 — 👍 3752 🔁 748 💬 123 📌 26
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