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Posts by Allison Brandes
FBI director Kash Patel admits under oath that the FBI is buying location data on Americans from commercial brokers. While law enforcement must get a judge-authorized search warrant to obtain location data directly from telecom companies, gov...
TAT: [Weakening civil rights | Undermining democracy]
lol guess who met some commoners today.
The arrest is for the courts. Accountability is not.
If it is to survive this crisis, the Royal Family must finally answer questions about how it conducts itself.
My latest: The Humbling of the House of Windsor
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social is this going to mess up Mystery Hour again?
No. 10 communications were being directed!?
Infuriating!
Seriously, amongst all the other stuff going on, Kier Starmer needs to meet with disabilty campaigner Joe Hardy. Perspective gained, problem understood - please get it done?
🚨Gorton and Denton by-election
“I’ve said it time and time again - we need to leave the ECHR” says Reforms candidate Matt Goodwin
The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. It grants our right to protest, our right to privacy, our right to fair trials. And so much more
Exactly! A feeding frenzy to change PM / Govt whilst the actual people who did these heinous things are skating on them. SMDH...
There’s a v cynical media and political blindspot in the Epstein shitshow. A feeding frenzy to get rid of Starmer while red-carpeting Farage into No10. Who is named in the files. As is Candy, Reform’s treasurer. With Bannon. And Brexit.
Don’t cry about abuses of power and then do nothing about him.
@natashaclark.bsky.social Every credit, you were the first journalist to ask a sensible question of Starmer, rather than going for sensationalism like those who should know better.
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
ICE is detaining a 5 year old boy.
If you get off on this, you’re a monster and don’t you dare pretend to worship God.
Renee Good was shot 3 times by ICE
The first two shots were non lethal. One to her left forearm & another to right breast
The final shot entered the left side of her head & exited the right side
He didn’t have to keep shooting. He was out of the vehicle’s path before the kill shot
That’s murder
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
@mrjamesob.bsky.social The Board of Peace "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
A reader‘s letter in the times which reads as follows: Old adversaries Sir, Your obituary (Jan 19) of Mr Justice Blofeld rightly referred to his fine sense of humour. When he first sat in Winchester a barrister called Richard Bond stood up to open the first case. Mr Justice Blofeld began to stroke the white ermine on the sleeve of his High Court judge's robes as if stroking a cat. He then said with a smile: "We meet at last, Mr Bond." Sir John Royce Clifton, Bristol
This was posted by @mambarlife.bsky.social in the Other Place and it’s too good not to share it.
Farage hails Trump inspiration' at Reform UK rally
Farage isn't even Trump’s poodle.
He's his novelty toilet brush.
Just reflexively oppositional, YOU NEGOTIATED THIS DEAL! If you'd not held the election when you did, Rishi would have signed it. YOU WERE IN THE FOREIGN OFFICE AT THE TIME.
Gosh. Story has gone from 0 to 60 in the UK. Is leading BBC News this morning.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"
Turns out, mom was right.
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
Busily tweeting Psalms apparently…
Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.