Wow I am so jealous right now...

Buying Jack White and The Strokes tickets in one day = staying inside for the rest of the month

Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice. Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma.

A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow.

“I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...”

www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

Is it any wonder our media ecosystem is such a mess? The guy in charge of the supposedly impartial watchdog is slagging off the BBC to the right wing Telegraph - which is hostile to the BBC - & defending the fact his organisation has let GB News act share misinformation and constantly promote Reform

Disabled benefit claimants face lower payments if conditions not deemed lifelong, charities say Forthcoming rules mean debilitating conditions may not meet strict ‘severe and lifelong’ eligibility criteria, say disabled people’s organisations

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will have their benefit almost halved if the government assesses their condition might one day improve. Charities warn the move could cause large-scale hardship, including “destitution.”

My report in tomorrow’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Screenshot of a Times article covering McMurdock’s past.

Reform UK said I was 'bullying' when I pointed out their colleague was jailed for beating up his former partner.

Now, they're trying to sneak him back into their party. So I'll say it again:

James McMurdock was jailed for beating up his former partner.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A Harlequin cat named Ziggy lays on a wooden stand looking up

Thank you to my cat for waking me up repeatedly for food at 5am, only to leave his entire bowl

‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian They’re not armed and they keep a relatively low profile. But the Home Office’s immigration compliance and enforcement officers have searched thousands of business in pursuit of illegal workers. Are they abusing their powers?

> 17,400 businesses raided by UK ICE
> car wash owner raided every three months, despite no illegal workers being found.
> based on anonymous online tip-offs
> former ICE officer says it’s often “competitors within the local area” filling out the forms

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I wish cats could smile so I'd stop worrying about them

Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart” Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001 Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

Concern over ‘Fit4Jobs’ questionnaire that filters out DWP recruits with health conditions Ministers are facing questions over why the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is using a strict screening process to filter out potential recruits with health conditions, while repeatedly comp…

Ministers are facing questions over why the Department for Work and Pensions is using a screening process to filter out potential recruits with health conditions while repeatedly complaining that too many disabled and older people are not in jobs.
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/concern-over...

Scores of DWP failings linked to deaths were kept from MPs voting on benefit cuts, secret reports reveal Scores of failings that contributed to the deaths of disabled people who relied on the social security system were kept from MPs who were voting on cuts to disability benefits in the summer of 2025…

Scores of failings that contributed to the deaths of disabled people who relied on the social security system were kept from MPs who were voting on cuts to disability benefits in the summer of 2025, new documents have revealed.
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/scores-of-dw...

'I have to commute to the UK from France every week just to be there for my family' Rolando Mercado has been trapped in this 1,500-mile, bi-weekly arrangement since his family visa application was rejected

Exclusive: 'I have to commute to the UK from France every week just to be there for my family'

I spoke to Rolando Mercado about being trapped in a 1500-mile, bi-weekly arrangement to see his family in Manchester after his visa application was rejected in 2024.

uk.news.yahoo.com/home-office-...

Disabled woman put in nursing home against her will says she feels 'betrayed' Lucinda Ritchie, who has full mental capacity, was transferred from a hospital bed despite her refusal.

So much care for disabled people is rigged with indignity and lack of control but this is one of the worst I’ve ever seen: a young disabled woman moved to a nursing home against her will - literally.

Lucinda Ritchie’s power wheelchair was "switched off and pushed". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer The new Green MP for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

Frustrating to find the BBC Panorama documentary is a thinly veiled attempt to bash ADHD when research clearly indicates generations of under-diagnosis

Last time a Reform politician said the minimum wage should be cut we looked into his businesses & found three of his former employees had won employment tribunal claims against him.

But despite what the tribunal ordered, he didn't pay a single judgment
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Reform-run council says free library scheme for refugees ‘is not value for money’ Party withdraws all Lancashire libraries from City of Sanctuary UK programme that supports new arrivals to UK Reform UK has been criticised for withdrawing all Lancashire libraries from a scheme supporting refugees because it was not value for money – despite being free. Nigel Farage’s party said the region’s 63 libraries would no longer be part of the UK-wide Libraries of Sanctuary programme because it was not “an appropriate use of taxpayers’ money”. Continue reading...

Reform-run council says free library scheme for refugees ‘is not value for money’

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

Wow!

Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.

This is a *big* legal win.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Unsung Britain: working harder, getting nowhere Mike Brewer explains how recent decades have squeezed the households who can least afford it

Our major new book is out today, exploring the changing circumstances of the poorer half of Britain, and setting out a policy agenda.

Read a summary of it all here resolutionfoundation.substack.com/p/unsung-bri...

So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde Obsessing over individual players and political chaos leaves less time to focus on the misogyny. And that’s for the best, isn’t it guys, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Well said by Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Number of homeless refugees in England soars, BBC has found Analysis of government data shows numbers increased from 3,560 in 2021/22 to 19,310 in 2024/25.

'Charities said the increase was a "direct result" of government policy, and blamed the 28-day period newly-recognised refugees are given to move out of Home Office accommodation - including hotels - as well as faster processing of claims by asylum seekers.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The future of greyhound racing is murky. Can it survive? A night at the dogs — With roots in ancient civilisations, the sport has traditionally been a pastime of Britain’s working classes. But falling betting…

I had a night at the dogs and wrote about it for @huckmag.com.

The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.

www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...

Catherine O'Hara Dead at 71 Catherine O'Hara -- famous for her work in "Schitt's Creek," "Home Alone," and "Best In Show" -- is dead ... TMZ has learned.

OH NO!!! This is so upsetting — what a brilliant career, what an extraordinary talent we have lost

www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.

It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’

About 6.8 million people – half of all those in poverty – were in very deep poverty, the highest number and proportion since records began three decades ago - @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...