Clare Coffey 🦋

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

The word CLEAR doing a lot of work here:

Lack of a clear Iran plan could suck US into a long conflict: ‘Where does this go?’

Tautology?

Would reform allow brits abroad to vote?

Farage: we came second and it’s not fair.

Look like trump, sound like trump, act like trump, called trump

Despite the efforts of haters, uk social media is full of love and hope today!

Beware Trojan horse 🐎

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

WE GOT A TREASON BINGO!

Seize his assets and redistribute them as Reparations.

Charge him with espionage too, because you know we can.

‘A safe space to come and just be’: the radical, utopian return of Britain’s youth clubs - something to be celebrating

What a day for Schadenfreude

Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program

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Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections Most had court orders protecting them from removal to their home countries, so they were sent to detention in Cameroon.

In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to the African nation of Cameroon in January.

Can’t clean a toilet anymore without thinking of RFK. These people getting into every crevice of the brain.

@saamah.bsky.social

Politics for People and the political economy of care: the core principles One of the reasons why debate here at Funding the Future has focused so heavily on issues around the term the politics of care, and its potential replacement by the term politics for people in the las...

Politics for People and the political economy of care: the core principles www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02...

Wow -- incredible!!!

Movie review from Guardian on Melania.

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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🚨 Breaking from the US Senator for Connecticut. 👇

There you have it.

ICE has never been about immigration enforcement.

It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.

2050? It’s happening right now and worsening fast - and we are absolutely not ready. MPs please - we need action.

“The only railway line to the south-west of England has been partially shut until further notice.”

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

I’ve reached out to both Gov. Walz and Sen. Klobuchar following the latest shooting involving federal agents in Minnesota.

Marylanders have witnessed this cruelty in our own communities – during a school drop-off in Salisbury and in Glen Burnie on Christmas Eve. These are not isolated incidents.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

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Honestly all Denmark needs to do is to withdraw all Ozempic exports to the US and Americans will finally revolt

🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
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