A Haitian asylum seeker detained by ICE died after being refused timely medical attention for a severe toothache.
At least 40 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office — a two-decade high.
The monstrous cruelty of Trump's police state knows no bounds.
It only became obvious how critical he was to Pep’s high-line tactics once he’d left. City legend! #OnceABlue
It is THE fundamental problem. To survive and prosper we must make billionaires history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
This is horrific. It’s not just the rhetoric but the attitude. He’s loving this. A schoolyard bully’s approach to an international crisis. I could not hate a group of people more than this obscene regime running the USA.
Early Grey moth, a pale moth dappled grey and black with some finer white lines
Common Quaker, a pale brown moth with faint oval rings and a pale wing stripe
Put the UV trap out all night last night, in hope more than expectation, as it was a good 8°C colder than the night before, but no rain. Woke to a heavy frost… and 2/2, both NFY.
First multi-moth trap of the year 😜
A very smart-looking Early Grey and a Common Quaker.
#TeamMoth #Northumberland
Shoulder-stripe moth, a brown Geometrid moth with a central pale band, dark stripes and a single white dot
Was hoping to get the moth trap out this evening after such a warm day in #Northumberland, but rain stopped play. Never mind, still managed a lifer on the patio door, a Shoulder-stripe. #TeamMoth
Would this come as a surprise?
WAR CRIME BY THE US.
An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US.
The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship.
THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown.
This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.
Sun headline about £500k compensation for migrants, discussing human rights, and public outcry over payouts.
Did you see this headline?
Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you?
Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷♀️
Would you like to know the reality behind the headline?
Course you would!😜
Let's take a look
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The alternative theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Finches, so here’s a winter flock of Linnet over #Northumberland farmland, maybe 300 birds in total.
As well as 😂
Perfect. Especially if you read the last one: went into a bakery to buy a £25 biscuit but got talked into buying a £42 tart!
Wow! How to change the narrative. LibDems and Greens always fared well in local elections historically. LibDems always got a higher vote share than their MP numbers suggested. I guess these things didn’t count back then, so appearance rate was based on MP numbers only. How surprising…
Compare and contrast, a heron #SideView from each side of the Atlantic for today’s #BirdOfTheDay. A Squacco Heron at #ElHondo in Spain and a Green Heron from Clark County Wetlands near Las Vegas.
I’m going to be humming the Mr men theme all day now 😩 😂
It tells you something about the disorientating rate of change underway that nobody is particularly shocked that a head of state has been assassinated by other states, something which has *never happened* in the modern era. Which is illegal under US law. Shed no tears for Khamanei, but still.
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So, Labour involves us in America’s aggression and simultaneously plans to make refugee status temporary.
Does politics really have to be this dangerous and cruel? They take such unforgivable risks with people’s lives.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Amid rising alarm over suspected pollfraud, Reform leader says allowing non-British citizens into ballot booth threatens democracy FOREIGN-BORN VOTERS STOLE BY-ELECTION BLASTS FARAGE that Reform UK was robbed of victory diary assertion in today's Mail on Sunday by foreign-born voters in last week's that 'Reform UK won the Gorton and Denton By Glen Owen Manchester by-election. by-election among British-born voters'. Amid mounting allegations that voter, fraud And he vowed that if he becomes Prime Pages 16-17 POLITICAL EDITOR and sectarianism contributed the Grecn
Truly, truly, truly disgusting.
Keep this Trumpist race baiting out of British politics.
Same. I’ve seen merged white spots occasionally but nothing like this.
Rather rough looking Eyed Ladybird, a red beetle with black spots each faintly ringed with yellow
Rear view of a hibernating Eyed Ladybird, a red beetle with black spots each faintly ringed with yellow, next to a smaller Orange Ladybird with white spots
Side view of a strange-looking Orange ladybird, with small black spots and faint paler markings
Dorsal view of a strange-looking Orange ladybird, with small black spots and faint paler markings
Short scan of gravestones at Cowpen cemetery in Blyth, #Northumberland today resulting in an addition to my #LadybirdYearList:
8. Eyed Ladybird
First time at this location for me. Also this odd-looking specimen. I guess it’s an aberrant Orange Ladybird, but never seen any as peculiar as this.
“A complete ban on guns would literally guarantee the destruction of democracy”
It hasn’t. Is UK’s electoral system ideal? Of course not. But it is 💯 democratic. Your argument is that *not having guns* ends democracy, yet Britain with extremely low gun ownership hasn’t had the “threat to democracy”
Bit of a novelty: a rare bird hung around until the weekend! Yes, I caught up with the Blyth White-billed Diver this morning 🥳
Here’s my crap contribution to the photographic evidence 😂
Eight Avocets on the Blyth estuary too (and 11 Red-breasted Merganser).
#NEbirding #Northumberland
Which proves what? That they’re democracies only because their citizens own guns??
I’m a Brit, lived in the UK 50+ years, never held a gun, only seen a gun 3-4 times (always a farmer & shotgun). Remember very clearly the Dunblane school massacre in 1996, after which we almost unilaterally supported strict gun laws as a nation. I’ve voted in maybe 30 democratic elections since
The US gun lobby: argues for the (god-given) right of Americans to protect their own lives by bearing arms, at the expense of the lives of their own infant and school-age children.
These are indeed very sick and broken people.
Hope it/they hang around another 12 hours….
For starters, dozens of countries with high standards of democracy manage it without widespread gun ownership. And the country with all the guns is just sitting meekly watching their leader break all constitutional norms. Brainwashed
What utter, conceited gibberish. “…literally guarantee the destruction of democracy”.
