TimOnTheTrain 🚂🚂🚂🚂

I provide freelance Tour Management services for holidays by rail and air. All views my own #travelblogger

[Phil Craig @philmcraig]

Right chaps, you'll be crossing over to France soon.

Now, the legal eagles have a few points to make. If you spot Jerry and he's about to take a pot shot just jot all the details down on form R45B and telex it back here and our crack team of international lawyers will be working at pace to give you the all clear within 3 hours, on weekdays that is.

One other tiny thing to remember. If the enemy is anywhere near a political, economic or infrastructure target, we're going to have to let them be for the moment but - never fear - our American cousins can take care of that once we've factored in all the mitigating factors, got Cabinet level permission and given them the bally green light.

Remember keep your eyes peeled and notebooks handy. We don't want to see too many of you up before Major Hermer for war crimes, do we?

God's speed and good hunting!

[TimOnTheTrain 🚂🚂🚂🚂 @Timonthetrain]

When people ask me why I have such affection for India, it can sometimes be a little hard to explain. That said, this photo goes some way towards understanding it… 🐄🇮🇳🙏😁
@GreatRail Grand Tour of Southern India & Kerala

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.

This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.

We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

[Lucy Connolly @LucyTCWife]

I laughed so much at this. This is my life. 🙈😂

[TimOnTheTrain 🚂🚂🚂🚂 @Timonthetrain]

Just your periodic reminder that this was the greatest TV commercial in the whole history of the world since time began. It just is… https://t.co/FyfoJBfT5T

[BroBro🇦🇺🏇🏻 @realRick_AUS]

Best edit yet 😂🤣👌

[The TV Grump @TheTVGrump]

“I’m delighted to welcome Mr & Mrs Maduro to Britain. Their passage has been my government’s top priority ..”

[Sabiduría Eterna @LealtadSabia]

Cuando el desfile se detiene… y un K9 saluda a la nación.

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Festive Lemsip Coma https://t.co/CScLfStjLU via @timonthetrain

[Rob B @RobBfromDerby]

“Zulus with very generous feelings towards us and wanting us to succeed Sir - thousands of em”

[♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ @fem_mb]

Two years ago, a British woman, distraught over the murder of 3 little girls, tweeted that she didn't care if migrant hotels burned. Then she deleted it. She got 31 months in prison.

Yesterday, Britain's leaders gave a hero's welcome and citizenship to an Egyptian man who's tweeted his desire to kill Jews, denied the Holocaust happened, called English people 'dogs & monkeys', said police should be killed and that white people are a 'blight' that needs to be wiped out by genocide. Never deleted any of it.

I know we in the US have a lot of our own problems, too, but Britain has gone completely nuts. Do these politicians have any idea how insane this all looks to the rest of the world?

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

Is this the best video from lockdown?
You decide. @MrAndrewCotter

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Always Funny! 😂🤣

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

One of the shortest and best lectures in the world.

https://t.co/YRiRvBQj0M

[Paul64 🇬🇧 @paul1964Jam]

Hyacinth at the pearly gates 😄

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[TimOnTheTrain 🚂🚂🚂🚂 @Timonthetrain]

https://t.co/ObMQsJIoKT I'm a lucky Man! I get to Tavel the world riding some of the most interesting railways that tcan be found around the world. Of them all though, there is one that holds a special place in my heart @CTSRR @railwaytouring

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https://t.co/6xHMUFuIcc Me 'n Derrick The Bus @railwaytouring

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Today, Lucy Connolly’s daughter turns 13. 🎊
A landmark birthday without her Mummy. Why?
Rapists, thugs are allowed out on day release.
But Lucy, just for a tweet, can’t hug her teenager. So cruel.
Why? @YvetteCooperMP ?
Shame on you @HmpPeterborough