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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Why the UK must not drop climate leadership
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
BBC Verify speaks to woman after ICE agent points gun at her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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ICE: BBC Verify speaks to woman after agent points gun at her
BBC Verify has examined footage shared by a Virginia woman in which an ICE agent points his gun at her.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/08/2026
Listen the the full interview and hear more of this exclusive reporting: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Rotten Meat, No Milk: Soldier’s Family Tells All to Meidas About USS Abraham Lincoln (Ft. Aaron Parnas)
Podcast Episode · The MeidasTouch Podcast · August 13 · 22m
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This might take longer to get resolved than the Iran War.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/08/2026
The agency is looking to spend up to $20 million on the devices. www.theverge.com/policy/97901...
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ICE wants to give agents electrified gloves that shock people into compliance
‘The New Protocol in Peace Keeping’
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
US Department listed Wakanda as a free-trade partner despite it being a fictional country. Kakistocracy, and how we ended up here 🙂‍↕️
US Department listed Wakanda as a free-trade partner despite it being a fictional country. 

Kakistocracy and how we ended up here.
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool vandalism charge and admits 'botched' repairs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool vandalism charge and admits 'botched' repairs
President Donald Trump had blamed "sick" vandals, and a former Olympian had been charged, but prosecutors now say contractors caused the damage.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/07/2026
ICE is detaining foreign citizens at airports with expired U.S. visas, including spouses of Americans, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with immigration lawyers.
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ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Tonk" is a Border Patrol slur that refers to the sound a metal flashlight makes when used to beat a migrant in the head. And that's the word that Border Patrol agents under the direct command of Greg Bovino were using when bragging about their arrests in Los Angeles last year.
New court filings detail immigration agents in Los Angeles referring to potential targets using racial slurs.
Civil rights groups are asking a federal judge to bar an “ongoing campaign of suspicionless and discriminatory” stops in the Central District of California.
Immigration agents who descended on Los Angeles last summer referred to Latinos using slurs like “tonk” and “wet,” according to body camera footage and text messages detailed in a court filing asking a federal judge to bar agents from making stops based on racial profiling.

After a June raid at Home Depot in Hollywood, body camera footage captured an agent saying: “There was a guy, I’m pretty sure he’s wet he was just sitting in that minivan.” A text chain revealed an agent referring to “tonks everywhere selling food” — using a word reportedly derived from the sound an agent’s utility flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head. In a video, an agent said, “Yeah, just plug us in wherever you see some tonks and we’ll jump out.”
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Reform UK councillors vote to destroy ancient woodland for Kent quarry expansion
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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US to Begin Work on New Car Door Safety Rules After Deaths in Teslas
US auto safety regulators will start developing new requirements to ensure drivers and passengers can safely exit their vehicles, a significant move to address issues exposed by sometimes deadly incid...
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Leicestershire County Hall under 'heavy strain' from 1,000 per cent increase in councillor complaints
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'There have been thousands and thousands of taxpayers’ money and resources used on these complaints'
Councillor complaints have soared by more than 1,000 per cent within almost a year since Reform UK took control at County Hall, with officials saying it is putting a ‘heavy strain’ on the authority’s…
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 23/07/2026
Gang caught fishing £40m cocaine haul from sea using GPS trackers
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Gang caught fishing £40m cocaine haul from sea using GPS trackers
A drug smuggling gang was caught trying to retrieve £40m of cocaine from the sea after the entire haul was nearly lost when their GPS trackers failed.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 23/07/2026
The attack on ships in the Red Sea threatened to expand the conflict and severely impact global oil supplies already hobbled by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Oil Nears $100 Per Barrel Again As Iran-Backed Houthis Target Red Sea Shipping
The attack on ships in the Red Sea threatened to expand the conflict and severely impact global oil supplies already hobbled by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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The Economist @economist.com · 23/07/2026
Ask the commercially available version of ChatGPT to help you hack into a website, and it will refuse. An as-yet-unreleased model owned by OpenAI, however, has done so of its own accord
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Why the OpenAI escape is the most worrying AI mishap yet
Containing the technology is getting harder
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Forbes @forbes.com · 16/07/2026
The CDC has confirmed 1,645 cyclosporiasis cases in the U.S. across 34 states, though it has said it is aware of over 5,000 cases that require testing to confirm them as domestic cyclosporiasis.
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White House Says It Has ‘Handle' On Cyclosporiasis Outbreak—While Urging Precautions
The CDC has confirmed 1,645 cyclosporiasis cases in the U.S. across 34 states, though it has said it is aware of over 5,000 cases that require testing to confirm them as domestic cyclosporiasis.
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A great discussion on how to grow the UK economy. #UK #economy #investment #UKpolitics #restismoney youtu.be/5R7EI57k24s?...
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The £6 trillion pot we should use to grow the economy
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
On my way, Clacton.
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
He is a serious candidate with solid ideas, but he's also hilarious. He just saved social media for me. I really hope he wins 🤣
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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
TRUTH.. #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
You couldn’t make this stuff up. Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman accidentally voted with Labour to abolish the two-child benefit cap tonight after entering the wrong lobby!
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
He was so brave. He stood up and protected the woman when he saw injustice. He did what a decent human being would do. He should not have lost his life like that on the streets of America. RIP. #Trump #ICE
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The Choices For Middle Powers youtu.be/Ve4FwAexdSQ?...
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Canada's path forward • La voie que le Canada a choisie
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Palantir has contracts worth in excess of £1bn with the UK government, covering extensive NHS data alongside a new five-year strategic partnership with the Ministry of Defence ✏️ @jamesrball.com
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Can MAGA tech firm Palantir be trusted to run Britain's data?
It's wildly overvalued, politically extreme and puts Trump first – but somehow has £1bn of deals to run Britain's tech infrastructure
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 13/01/2026
The EPA long considered the cost to industry and the savings in avoided deaths and disease when coming up with air pollution rules. Under Trump, the agency is dropping human health out of that equation.
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EPA Will No Longer Consider Value of Human Health Benefits in Setting Air Pollution Rules
The agency is abandoning a longstanding policy to calculate the monetary savings in avoided deaths and disease from cutting certain pollutants.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/01/2026
Many Minneapolis residents, business owners and immigrant workers have denounced ICE and the Border Patrol's arrests and aggressive tactics, saying the agents are indiscriminately sweeping up people based on racial and ethnic profiling.
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Videos Show Increasingly Aggressive Federal Crackdown in Minneapolis
Arrests and aggressive tactics by ICE and the Border Patrol, many seen on viral videos, have intensified the frustration and fear among residents.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13/01/2026
The bill would prevent the American military from using congressional funds to occupy or annex Nato territories, including Greenland. ft.trib.al/UHn8OkD
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/01/2026
Using his clemency power, Trump has undone prosecutions made by his own DOJ during his first term. Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.” (Published Nov. 2025)
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A Tale of Two Terms: How Powerful Figures Were Prosecuted in Trump’s First Term, Then Pardoned in His Second
We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term. No other president has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on s...
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Why is this level of violence necessary when arresting unarmed civilians?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Reform should call itself Retory: Nadhim Zahawi Ben Bradley Malcolm Offord Jonathan Gullis Chris Green Lia Nici Kruger Dorries David Jones Sir Jake Berry Graham Simpson Marco Longhi Ross Thomson Andrea Jenkyns Aidan Burley Alan Amos Lee Anderson Ann Widdecombe Maria Caulfield And counting
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/01/2026
Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist and chairman of Palantir, donated $3 million to a committee opposing an initiative in California that would impose a new tax on billionaires, according to a new disclosure.
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Thiel Gives $3 Million to Group Seeking to Block California Wealth Tax
More large donations from wealthy Silicon Valley figures are expected as they try to marshal opposition to a proposed ballot measure that would impose a new tax on billionaires.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 11/01/2026
“Six months in, they’ve handed a contract to a firm with 10 serious pollution incidents, whose licence is under public inquiry, and whose owner openly supports the local party. If this is Reform’s ‘new politics’, it looks remarkably like the old politics.” goodlaw.social/kip5
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Reform council that promised cuts delivers payday for party backer
Reform councils have increased spending and handed out a £30,000 contract to a company owned by a party supporter which was involved with 10 serious pollution incidents in 2024.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11/01/2026
Hiring sputtered. The unemployment rate rose. 2025 put a decisive end to the hottest job market in a generation. Charts tell the story.
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America’s Job Market Has Entered the Slow Lane
Hiring sputtered. The unemployment rate rose. 2025 put a decisive end to the hottest job market in a generation.
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
It gets harder to find the truth when billionaires own most of our media. Take everything with a pinch of salt these days. And if something looks like rage bait or a bot, it probably is, use the block/mute function to help clean up social media.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/01/2026
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from freezing about $10 billion in federal funds for child care grants and family assistance earmarked for five Democratic-led states over what it had said were concerns around fraud.
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Judge blocks Trump administration from freezing $10B in child care funds
The temporary order will keep aid flowing to five Democratic-led states for 14 days as a lawsuit against the government moves ahead.
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-... US manufacturing jobs in December continued an eight-month skid that began last spring after Trump rolled out aggressive import taxes. Blue-collar jobs boom hasn't materialized. Households are concerned about still-rising prices and uncertainty about labor market.
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US factory headcount falling despite Trump's promised manufacturing boom
U.S. manufacturing jobs in December continued an eight-month skid that began last spring after President Donald Trump rolled out aggressive import taxes that he pledged would lead to a resurgence of b...
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Lee Hsien Loong: "From the point of view of a small country, if that is how the world works, we have a problem." youtu.be/C55mLm0kwO4?...
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Singapore SM Lee Hsien Loong: US intervention in Venezuela is 'contravention of international law'
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Sean Solo @spqesq.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Somewhere there's a little girl hiding in an attic in Minneapolis writing in her journal about ICE.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/01/2026
Mayor Frey: "So our ask is really simple here. Our ask is to embrace the truth. Our ask is to include the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in this process because we in Minneapolis want a fair investigation ... if you got nothing to hide from, then don't hide."
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
He knows it’s a problem that needs to be fixed, but he would rather cry about censorship and how unfair the UK is.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The National Catholic Reporter publicly labeled JD Vance a “moral stain” on the Roman Catholic faith. The blistering piece went on to point out Vance's “twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity” for inflaming tensions by maligning a woman killed by ICE rather than promoting healing.
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Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This is the Portland Police Chief and he breaks down during a Press Conference regarding the shooting of two people yesterday in Portland by Federal Agents. If you’ve forgotten what it was like to have a member of law enforcement with integrity and compassion — let this man be a reminder.
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
That’s just an excuse for not wanting to fix the problem.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/01/2026
Minnesota officials renewed their calls on Friday for state agents to be allowed to help investigate the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE officer earlier this week. State investigators so far have been denied access to evidence, they said. trib.al/Iqy2KA4
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/01/2026
Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content
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Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content
Move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned the AI tool and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool. The move comes after governments, researchers and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content on the app. Continue reading...
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Mindful Citizen KS @mindfulobserver.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
We should not be using proprietary software from a foreign company that does not want the NHS to succeed. Companies like Google and Nvidia can help the UK build our own AI capabilities. The govt needs to intervene before it’s too late. @labouruk.bsky.social
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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