Chris Downey

[Ian McKellen @IanMcKellen]

SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)

Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.

We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.

America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.

His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.

Ian McKellen 29 October 2026

Photo: University of Huddersfield

[Restore The Empire @empire_res66190]

In solidarity with the young 15 year old lad arrested for sharing this image of a politician.

You know what to do people. Let’s flood X with this.

[IN TRUMP WE TRUST @TrumpweTrust47]

Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."

"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.

So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?

He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!

When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.

He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"

- George Clooney

actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

i’ve never seen the british state move like this for anything else. not third of its own children in poverty. not the housing crisis. not the cost of living crisis. nothing.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Texas man dies in ICE detention center—was a legal permanent resident in U.S.

ICE has admit in an official statement that he did have a green card.

Despite this he was locked up for 4 months.

Staff refused to give him his heart medication—and ignored his report of chest pain and trouble breathing the day before he died.

ICE now claims that he obtained his green card fraudulently by failing to disclose a 2004 arrest for theft.

His daughter says they are lying—that everything was properly disclosed and legally approved.

Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias lived in Dallas, Texas for more than 30 years.

He was the father of 3 U.S. born children and worked as a construction contractor.

Posting first full length, English translated, and credited video here to help raise awareness.

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

Entire country is on its arse, Minority groups are under attack by a new wave of Nazism, your Bills are going up 25%, but all you get, is wall to wall "Antisemitism" & how criticism of Israel is somehow worse than The genocide they're guilty of.
Aren't you all fucking tired?!

[Ahmed Nashwan @ahmed_nashwan1]

Every night, Israeli soldiers fire bullets at the tents of displaced Palestinians for entertainment, and Palestinian civilians are killed day after day while sleeping inside their tents.

Tonight, an innocent little girl Misk Al-Dalo was killed, becoming yet another victim of Israeli brutality in Gaza.

Please share this video in every language so the world can see what is happening and this senseless killing of Palestinian lives can finally stop.

[Doug Beattie @BeattieDoug]

I was also a Captain in Afghanistan in the dismounted close combat role. I never got time off to go to Kabul HQ.

You are dishonest, disrespectful and dishonourable @PeteHegseth

You shame your country as @SecWar

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.

Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.

Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.

Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.

In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.

The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

[Three Red Kings @threeredkings]

Nobody in Munster will ever forget how good Racing 92 were to us in 2016. Could have easily had a walkover and refused.

A proper club.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tax the rich?

Everyone is against it until they find out how it actually works.

Watch and find out how Wealth Taxes actually work.

[dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer]

stop playing Whiskey in the Jar then you hypocritical coward

[Marc Thomas @iammarcthomas]

What’s it like being a European?

Well, here’s a Welsh speaker happily doing an interview in English which she then translates live into French for a Basque who just conversed with an Italian referee for 80 minutes in English but is happy to be spoken to in his language by a person who is speaking her second language oh and also she can speak Spanish too

Being a European is wonderful

[Maxou Rona 🎸🇫🇷 💙💛 #TAEM #PFM @Madximilian]

This Ice goon and traitor to the USA dragged a woman through the snow in Minnesota and caused her to miscarry. Just making sure y'all don't forget that.

Brenden Cuni.

[T. Bernadetti @MrsRoyKeaneo]

Students graduating from Cambridge.

The youth might just save this planet!

#FreePalestine

Fuck #Israel

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Imagine spending $44 BILLION to buy a platform, watching your bot army vanish overnight, and then having “ELON MUSK IS A PIECE OF SHIT” and “FUCK ELON MUSK” go viral.

Imagine being that spectacular a fucking loser. 😂💀

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 NEWS: Trump is backing out of a scheduled deposition with BBC lawyers THIS FRIDAY, citing “matters of national importance” after weeks of radio silence. His team now wants to delay his testimony until JANUARY 2027—after discovery closes—and the BBC is asking a judge to FORCE him to testify.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Last night, a woman attended a Trump rally wearing a "Release the Epstein Files" shirt (a core promise of the Trump campaign).

A ruckus ensued, and several MAGA men beat her mercilessly.

While she was being beaten, Trump mocked her from the stage.

Trump is a demonic force on society.

I simply cannot think of any other word to describe it.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Once again, MAGA is all up in my comments telling me they hope Donald Trump sues me for calling him a pedophile. So I just wanted to make one thing perfectly fucking clear…

DONALD TRUMP IS A PEDOPHILE.