6 years RAF. 25 years Surrey and South Wales Police. Rugby Union fan. Anti extremist. Animal lover, especially cats
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Jon 🏴 retweeted
Just a quick reminder to the chief of West Mids. Some of us took it seriously. Obviously you don’t.
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This is INFURAITING! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Purple Heart, Burned Alive, Deported Anyway: Welcome to America, Jose Barco 📷 Rick Gaspa
This week, several dozen Venezuelan nationals were loaded onto a U.S. deportation flight from South Texas like unwanted cargo. Among them? A 39-year-old Purple Heart recipient who literally ran into burning vehicles to save fellow soldiers in Iraq.
Meet Jose Barco, decorated American veteran. Twice deployed. Blown up. Traumatic brain injury. Burn scars. A guy who bled for the stars and stripes—now detained, shackled, and deported to a country he hasn’t seen since he was four years old. Because nothing says "thank you for your service" quite like ICE showing up at your door.
And before anyone jumps to conclusions—no, this isn't about a paperwork error or an overstayed visa. This is about a man who served a country he believed was his, only to discover too late that it didn’t see him the same way. Barco’s family fled Venezuela after his father was a political prisoner in Cuba. Barco basically grew up in the U.S. He joined the Army straight out of high school. He earned every inch of his right to be here—just not, apparently, the paperwork.
Let’s talk about that “serious crime” they say landed him in immigration detention. The story is long, complicated, and yes—there was a mistake. That tends to happen when you’ve been blown across a battlefield and handed a pharmacy’s worth of anxiety meds before the VA politely closes the door on you. But the part where we pretend he’s just another “illegal” is where the conversation falls off the rails.
Let’s talk about the U.S. military. We’ll give you a gun. We’ll send you into hell. We’ll pin medals on you for bravery. But don’t expect citizenship. That’s a separate line. And God forbid you show any symptoms of trauma when you come home, or end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. The military might’ve treated Barco like a hero—briefly—but the U.S. immigration system treated him like trash.
And the cherry on this disgrace sundae? When Barco landed in Honduras en route to Venezuela, the Venezuelans didn’t want him either. They didn’t believe his birth certificate. Thought his Spanish was “too Cuban.” (He was four when he left, what did they expect—slang and a cedula memorized?) One even said, “It wouldn’t be good for you here. You have no family.” You know it’s bad when the country you're being deported to has more empathy than the one you served.
So where is Barco now? Sitting in a second detention center near Los Fresnos, Texas, asking a reasonable question: What country will take him?
Here’s the thing: we’ve deported over 400 veterans since the 1990s. This isn't some isolated mistake. This is policy. Intentional. Bureaucratic indifference dressed up in red, white, and blue. We’ve created a system where a guy can get lit on fire rescuing soldiers in Fallujah, but still not count as “American enough” when he needs help the most.
But hey—thank you for your service, right?
Welcome to America. We value our veterans… not. ~ 📷 Rick Gaspa
Jon 🏴 retweeted
This is for Kfir and Ariel.
Share this 🟧 in support of the Bibas family.
May their memory be a blessing.
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The woman who tried to put a double rapist in a women's prison was invited to @HatTrickProd's 'Smoggie Queens' premiere. I realise now that that The Father Ted musical didn't have a chance. @MulvilleJimmy you are clueless.
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I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.
I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.
My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.
That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.
Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.
It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.
I want to tune out.
But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.
And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.
That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.
For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.
The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.
It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!
But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.
It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.
We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.
That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.
Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.
And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org
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She was 14.
She was simply outside, in these last days of summer in Ukraine when apple tree branches get heavy, crickets sing early, and the melancholy of a new school year approaches.
Her father is missing in action.
Her mother is alone now.
Fuck Russia.
Amen.
ALT Body of a teenage girl killed on a bench
Jon 🏴 retweeted
Today, the Taliban passed a law that bans women from showing their faces and having their voices heard in public. Their burqas must now entirely cover their faces and they are not permitted to speak in public or to look at any males that are not relatives. Perhaps it’s been an emotional year, or maybe it’s because I’m triggered, but I once again cried when I heard the news. I’m still trying to piece myself together. Not even animals are treated with such cruelty, such dehumanization, such indignity, and such little value for human life. This is the entire erasure of the existence of women, and it cuts me to the core to know what Afghanistan and Iran were before this cancerous plague was brought to us. Where are the protests? Where is the outrage? Where is the ICJ? The ICC? Amnesty? Why doesn’t anybody care about the effective enslavement of millions of women under the jihadist system of gender apartheid?
Jon 🏴 retweeted
I can understand anger, and I can understand the need to vent it, but taking it out on the same Cops that ran to help & arrest the suspect is truly despicable. 🤦🏼♂️
Hoping all our @MerseyPolice colleagues stay safe & get home in one peace. Thinking of you all. #southportattack 🚨
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In an American city yesterday, rioters physically blocked Jews from entering a synagogue.
If rioters in an American city physically blocked Muslims from entering a mosque, it would be the lead story on MSNBC & CNN, and every Democrat in America would be outraged.
But Jews? Meh.
After ringing again, an engineer is scheduled to attend between 2pm and 4pm on Friday so broadband will have been off for 6 days, if it gets fixed on Friday.
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Unless you’ve followed or paid close attention to what @jk_rowling has been saying, extremely courteously & politely for 10 long years now, & witnessed the decade-long, non-stop onslaught of the worst possible abuse, threats, lies & slander…
UNLESS you’re 100% aware of how civilly & calmly she has conducted herself in the face of such vitriol, hatred & aggression & actively involving family members…
UNLESS you’ve watched, time & time again, men telling her to “sit down & shut up”, “control yourself, woman” or “I don’t think that’s very nice. Why can’t you just be kind & accept what we are telling you?”,
I’m really NOT convinced that it’s your f***ing place to pop up NOW & instruct her to exercise ‘basic common decency’…
SHE’S BEEN DOING THAT FOR 10 YEARS.
So, I’m sure all you bleating, barking men, out there, who’ve suddenly decided she’s “crossed a line”, you, embarrassingly, HAVEN’T BEEN PAYING ATTENTION, have you?
She’s done the whole “being kind” schtick. (For many more years than most of us would, to be honest).
Where has that got her?
TRA’s don’t CARE about that. They are going to hate her regardless. They want the hate. They crave it. Nevertheless, she continued to debate with grace & courtesy, whilst others raged at her from basements etc, worldwide.
But, to you, watching from the sidelines, now popping up like f***ing whack-a-moles, you might have failed to notice that she is out of fucks to give & has said so. Clearly.
And believe it or not, she has the unwavering gratitude & support of a HUGE (& ever-growing) number of women, girls, gay people, transsexuals, detransitioners, parents & children.
Why?
Because she took the fall for those who felt they had no voices nor a chance to say “No”.
Well, they do now. And if that bugs the heck out of you, you’ll have to find a better coping strategy. Because our voices, loudly & given strength because of her, will NEVER deny the truth & always speak up for those who are TRULY vulnerable & marginalised.
And shame on all the Q+ organisations for turning your backs on her, after all the help & financial support she gave to those with HIV. Shame on you.
Thank you again @jk_rowling for standing tall & for NOT “staying in your goddamn’d place!” ❤️
(Please RT. Account restricted. As per.)
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One of the most difficult parts of this fight for me is looking at images of men who are in cross-dress for obviously sexual reasons. I’ve seen images like that before, years before I got involved in the struggle to preserve women’s rights. They were saved to roughly half of the the hard drives and devices belonging to the men I arrested for possession of child sexual abuse material during the two years I spent working sex crimes.
Those images and videos would be mixed in with images and videos of some of the most horrific abuse you could possibly imagine, carried out against children who were sometimes too young even to sit up. Sometimes the abuse was sadistic, deliberately designed to cause pain. Sometimes the perpetrators just didn’t care one way or the other.
And then you’d click to the next file, and you’d see the suspect, either squeezed into his wife’s lingerie or wearing some of his own, playing with himself, or trying to flirt with the camera, or posing like a would-be centerfold.
Sometimes images and videos of actual abuse would include a man in crossdress as the perpetrator. Sometimes this would be the suspect; sometimes it would be an unknown party, or someone we’d seen on other devices whom we had yet to identify. On good days, it would be someone whom we knew was already in custody, and we could hit them with additional charges.
Watching those videos and seeing those images was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. I only lasted two years before I had to request a transfer; I just couldn’t handle seeing that stuff on a regular basis. Seeing images like that now still turns my stomach to acid.
I’m not bringing this up now because I want sympathy. I very much don’t. I’m bringing it up to make a point.
There is no way - none - to tell whether or not a “transwoman” is predatory by looking at him, any more than you can tell by looking at a normal man. In fact, given the statistics coming out of every last one of the various penal systems that track this sort of thing, just the fact that a man is in crossdress is enough to make him roughly 3x MORE likely to be dangerous to women and girls than normal men, not less.
Self-ID means allowing the demographic of men who are most likely to be predatory to have unfettered access to vulnerable women and children. This is madness, especially when we deny that access to other, less potentially dangerous, men.
#TranswomenAreParaphilicMen
Jon 🏴 retweeted
Agnes Lassalle was murdered by one of her students. At her funeral, her husband responded to the hate that ended the life of his beloved. This is reason we dance.
L'image du jour : l'hommage dansé du compagnon d'Agnès Lassalle et de ses amis à l'enseignante, en sortant de la cérémonie d'obsèques ( 🎥@F3euskalherri ) #saintjeandeluz
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“I can’t breathe”
“I can’t breathe”
crying schoolgirl is repeating this after being the target of chemical attack in her school in Tehran. If this was in the US or in Europe, what would have been the reaction of the world? We need the same support.
Islamic Republic is using terror, tactic to drive girls out of streets and prevent them from removing their hijab and protesting against Islamic republic.
I call on college and university students in the west to be your voice.
#MahsaAmini
#IREvFRA Mcluskey had a knee on the ground when he won that 'turnover'. It was clear and obvious. How was that not seen by officials or commentators?
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The charmer who's been publicly advocating for a car to be driven into Posie Parker's rally, who's posted recordings of himself saying he wants to kill Rosie Duffield with a gun and me with a hammer, appears to have been identified. Social media's fun til it isn't, eh, brave boy?
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World athletic @WorldAthletics @sebcoe are about to consult on trans women in the woman’s category. Can we RT as wide as possible. Question: Should biological males be allowed to race biological females in sport?
2%Yes
98%No
58,193 votes • Final results Jon 🏴 retweeted
Seems like any young girl in Iran who makes a post or a video in support of #WomanLifeFreedom is kidnapped and sent to Evin prison. This girl (18) is literally awaiting rape then execution. Her name is #FarnushEsmi say her name, save her life. #IranRevolution2022 #sickening
#فرنوش_اسمی بلاگر که بازداشت شده بود به زندان اوین منتقل شد، صدای او باشیم و نگذاریم جوانی دیگر قربانی جمهوری اسلامی شود.
#اعتراضات_سراسری
#مهسا_امینی