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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Two beautiful poems by Don Paterson about his son Jamie. ‘The Thread’ (from Landing Light, 2003) and ‘The Circle’ (from Rain, 2009).

The Thread

Jamie made his landing in the world
so hard he ploughed straight back into the earth.
They caught him by the thread of his one breath
and pulled him up. They don't know how it held.
And so today I thank what higher will
brought us to here, to you and me and Russ,
the great twin-engined swaying wingspan of us roaring down the back of Kirrie Hill

and your two-year-old lungs somehow out-revving every engine in the universe.
*All that trouble just to turn up dead*
was all I thought that long week. Now the thread
is holding all of us: look at our tiny house,
son, the white dot of your mother waving.

The Circle
for Jamie

My boy is painting outer space,
and steadies his brush-tip to trace
the comets, planets, moon and sun
and all the circuitry they run

in one great heavenly design.
But when he tries to close the line
he draws around his upturned cup,
his hand shakes, and he screws it up.

The shake's as old as he is, all
(thank god) his body can recall
of that hour when, one inch from home,
we couldn't get the air to him;

and though today he's all the earth
and sky for breathing-space and breath
the whole damn troposphere can't cure
the flutter in his signature.

But Jamie, nothing's what we meant.
The dream is taxed. We all resent
the quarter bled off by the dark
between the bowstring and the mark

and trust to Krishna or to fate
to keep our arrows halfway straight.
But the target also draws our aim -
our will and nature's are the same;

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 15/01/2026

For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Future of British Steel unclear as UK govt bills build up. Industry subsidised since privatisation. Chinese control model: Buy crucial industry abroad, gut it, increase exports from China, dependance on China. Govts hand free money. No equity stake, nothing repayable. Must nationalise.

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‘We need to accept the cost’: future of British Steel unclear as bills for government build up

Propping up operations at Scunthorpe site, still legally owned by Jingye, now costs over £1.2m a day – so what are the options?

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

‘The U.K. needs to have an explicit reckoning with the abysmal failure the Brexit project has been.’ www.politico.eu/article/time...

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Time for a Brexit reckoning

In order to finally move one, Britain must face the abysmal failure this project has been.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 09/02/2026

A senior MoD official helps shape defence strategy, then joins Palantir. Months later, Palantir lands a £240m MoD contract without tender. No laws broken – just the revolving door doing what it does best.

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The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline

Senior defence officials are moving into Palantir roles as the company secures ever-deeper footholds across government

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Racists… they stick together, drawn to each other like flies drawn to excrement❗️🥴

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

THIS 💥💥💥 #BBC♡REFORM

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/02/2026

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org. www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This is a major, huge, humongous deal that will go largely unnoticed because of the broader chaos engulfing our politics. But, suffice it to say that the government is broken when the courts explicitly say they can't trust the administration to tell the truth.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

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Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade

The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Ok UK media - oh so scandalised by Mandelson - when are you going to be scandalised by US interference in our democracy? Epstein, Farage, Bannon, Vance, Thiel, Musk, Trump, Brexit, Heritage Foundation, the funding of far right populism to collapse our govts….?? After you’ve helped their collapse?

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Yes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson.

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Andrew Knight (Fella) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andrewknightfella.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Its the same everywhere. #Immigration has always been a net benefit to economies.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

But Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

From @nafeez.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/byli...

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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 05/02/2026

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty expires this week. It marks the first time since the 1970s that there will be no legally binding limits on US and Russian strategic nuclear forces.

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The US and Russia’s nuclear weapons treaty is set to expire. Here’s what’s at stake

Letting New START expire would signal that the world’s largest nuclear powers are abandoning restraint.

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 03/02/2026

Tou know what to do Telegraph POLL: Are you happy with Brexit 10 years on? Currently 54% say yes vs 43% say no. Here’s a direct link to the poll so you don’t have to read the article. xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

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POLL: Are you happy with Brexit 10 years on?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Some interesting reporting in the New Statesman. There was a shortlist of four to be UK Ambassador to the US. Starmer favoured George Osborne. It was Morgan McSweeney who pushed for Mandelson.

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The Mandelson affair: inside the scandal of a century

Mandelson's fall from grace reveals a very Labour weakness

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

2) How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract to funnel tens of billions to ICE for a nationwide "ghost network” of concentration camps—just got a lot bigger. migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...

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How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps

SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract is funneling tens of billions into a "ghost network" of detention camps that can materialize anywhere in America overnight.

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

“Perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty…,the rule of law be damned.” Looking at you, Stephen Miller.

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

It’s not the most important thing but the world being plotted like bad television is making it pretty confusing for those trying to write good television

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

It’s so tawdry, grubby and shameful. I can’t stand the sleaze, greed, corruption. Trump, Epstein, Russia, Bannon, Palantir, Israel, Mandelson, Brexit, discredited royals, aging male hacks, hasbeens, wannabes. Old white men abusing young women, exploiting their status, corrupting our entire system. 🧵

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 02/02/2026

You have to admire Peter Mandelson's capacity to deliver surprises. thecritic.co.uk/pete...

Say what you like about the Right Honourable Peter Mandelson, Baron Mandelson of Foy in the County of Herefordshire and of Hartlepool in the County of Durham, he still has the capacity to surprise. We knew about the weakness for very rich people. We assumed he was behind plenty of briefing to journalists. But blimey, we didn’t know he was just forwarding the prime minister’s emails to a paedophile financier.

Monday’s revelations were gobsmacking in every way. Take the way that the then-secretary of state passed the market-sensitive information to the trader. You might have imagined that these transactions involve untraceable accounts or burner phones or pieces of paper stuffed into envelopes and handed over in underground garages. As it turns out, Mandelson was simply pressing “forward” within seconds of the messages arriving on his BlackBerry and winging them on to Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail account. I guess that was the one thing that GCHQ didn’t expect.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Of COURSE Brexit is in the epstein files

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David Nobbs Memorial Trust @nobbsmemorial.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Our annual New Comedy Writing competition is back, with three fantastic judges! Find out how to enter to be in with a chance of a cash prize and to have your work read by Holly Walsh, Andy Hamilton and Lucy Lumsden at davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

🚨🚨French diplomats are taking on #MAGA — one meme at a time: #Paris is rolling out a great confrontational online strategy to counter #disinformation from the #US and beyond. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/fran...

politico.eu

French diplomats are taking on MAGA — one meme at a time

Paris is rolling out a confrontational online strategy to counter disinformation from the United States and beyond.

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Lest we forget Farage accidentally set up an off shore fund to avoid UK.. he prefers us to pay it We’ve all done it, despite it being time consuming, very difficult, and expensive without realising It’s just like he’s accidentally broke MP’s rules 17 times to date without facing any consequences❗️😡

Newspaper headline from Gwen Farage was leader of UKIP, where he says he set up an offshore fund to avoid tax. With him saying “I made a mistake”.

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Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Amazon has placed a VERY specific product warning on the published edition of the Kenneth Williams diaries. The incident that prompted this surely deserved more media attention.

A screenshot of the Amazon page for Kenneth Williams’s diary, advising customers not to use the product near overhead power lines.

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

What a great idea. Please do share.

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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 01/02/2026

In the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement with Denmark, the US unambiguously recognized ‘the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark’ over Greenland. bit.ly/4qH0yug

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Who owns Greenland?

Denmark’s claim is unimpeachable. In the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement with Denmark, the US unambiguously recognizes ‘the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark’ over Greenland.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.

ICE's account of how he was hurt evolved during the time that federal officers were at his bedside. At least one ICE officer told caregivers that Castañeda Mondragón "got his (expletive) rocked" after his Jan. 8 arrest near a St. Paul shopping center, the court filings and a hospital staff member said. His arrest happened a day after the first of two fatal shootings in Minneapolis by immigration officers.
The Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE, did not respond to repeated requests for comment on his injuries. A deportation officer skirted the issue in the court documents, saying that during the intake process at an ICE detention center, it was determined he "had a head injury that required emergency medical treatment."

$But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the man's 31-year-old's brain, said three nurses familiar with the case. "It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about," said one of the nurses, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss patient care. "There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall."$ Castañeda Mondragón was alert and speaking, telling staff he was "dragged and mistreated by federal agents," though his condition quickly deteriorated, the documents said.
The following week, a Jan. 16 court filing described his condition as minimally responsive and communicative, disoriented and heavily sedated.

Castañeda Mondragón was alert and speaking, telling staff he was "dragged and mistreated by federal agents," though his condition quickly deteriorated, the documents said.
The following week, a Jan. 16 court filing described his condition as minimally responsive and communicative, disoriented and heavily sedated.

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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

President Trump will be our greatest ally after Brexit - Jacob Rees Mogg, May 1, 2018. The world was safer and more stable under President Trump - Boris Johnson, February 22, 2024. Britain needs its own Trump - Liz Truss, November 18, 2024. No need to add any from Farage as it goes without saying.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Arresting journalists. We’re at that stage.

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Peach's Mom ❌👑 @peacherina.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Here's the same video in one piece. Give it a look. It's brilliantly funny. 🤣 youtube.com/shorts/SfzuV...

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#donaldtrump #minneapolis #ice #protest #immigration

YouTube video by mrcodydahler

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/01/2026

The new documents in copyright cases against AI companies show the lengths to which tech firms such as Anthropic, Meta, Google and OpenAI went to obtain colossal troves of data with which to “train” their software, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of books.

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Inside one company’s secret plan to ‘destructively scan every book in the world’

Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

GET YOUR NON-SLOPPY VALENTINES HERE! @gailmyerscough.co.uk

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 26/01/2026

We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA. We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material. In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights. link.europa.eu/Fh8h84

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

How do you tell when a bad person has also gone mad? @claireberlinski.bsky.social describes in some detail the verbal clues we can all clearly see in Trump, providing compare & contrast clips of recent Trump v Trump of decades before. claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-presid...

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The President is Losing his Marbles

It's time for the 25th Amendment—even if it puts JD Vance in office.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

National Grief Awareness Week runs Jan 26 – Feb 1, and its message is that grief affects everyone, and no one should grieve alone. The Irish Hospice Foundation’s Bereavement Support Line is at 1800 80 70 77. And, if you can, please donate to help them do what they do. hospicefoundation.ie/donate

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Donate to Irish Hospice Foundation

Donate to Irish Hospice Foundation to support people in Ireland facing end of life and bereavement.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Another Republican voice.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Broken again by this post from the cute brunch spot a block from where ICE killed Alex "We have a medic and eye wash stations on site"

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The Copper Hen Cakery & Kitchen

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The Copper Hen is closed for the rest of the day to customers due to overwhelming activity on Nicollet.

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Our doors are OPEN to all protesters needing hot coffee, masks, towels. water, or place to warm up. We have a medic and eye wash stations on site.

Thank you from staff to our community members who keep us safe. Stay safe Minneapolis. We love you.

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