adamjschwarz.bsky.social
Writer & Political Commentator | Monitoring threats to democracy from authoritarianism and tech oligarchy.
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The same occurred earlier this year in the UK with our far-right party. Musk called for Farage to step down as Reform UK leader and be replaced by another MP Rupert Lowe, who remained silent. It triggered a huge bust up between Farage and Lowe, with Lowe eventually quitting Reform.
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Zia Yusuf is an astoundingly naive individual with catastrophically dire judgment.
A member of a minority who allowed himself to be exploited as the poster boy to legitimise a far-right party and project it to the mainstream. He dismissed everyone who correctly predicted & warned this would happen.
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Of all the nonsense Trump spewed, I'm glad it was on Ukraine that Merz permitted himself to contradict Trump.
Trump repeatedly presents the war as a petty fight between two moral equals. It's propaganda that favours Putin.
Russia is the fascist aggressor. Ukraine is the democracy defending itself.
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San Diego residents giving strong V for Vendetta vibes!
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This is a very important point. I wholeheartedly agree.
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"When they say 'they all look alike,’ what they really mean is: I didn’t bother to learn the differences" – Hari Kondabolu.
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The Scottish Parliament speech that Farage is misrepresenting and claims was delivered by Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar was actually delivered by former SNP leader Humza Yousaf.
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Silence in the face of Farage's barefaced race-baiting lies is complicitly. Every party leader should be condemning it.
The poison Farage is spewing is phenomenally dangerous and has profound real life consequences for our politics and society. It should not be tolerated.
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The containers were placed near four Russian air bases in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ryazan & Ivanovo regions. The roofs were remotely opened, allowing the drones to exit and strike Russian aircraft, as shown in the video.
Those involved in the operation were back in Ukraine at the time of the attack.
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The aircraft being hit are Tupolev Tu-95s, which Russia heavily relies upon for its nuclear strike capacity.
Russia only has 40-60 operational aircraft.
Ukraine's attack have may significantly damaged Russia's nuclear delivery forces, as well as its conventional air bombing capacity.
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Astounding Ukrainian reconnaissance footage of Russian planes being hit at Belaya airfield in south-eastern Siberia - 5000km+ from Ukraine!
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The Kyiv Independent is citing a Ukrainian security source as stating that one of the Russian airfields hit was the Belaya air base in the Irkutsk Oblast.
Ukraine is 5000km from Irkutsk!
This is an utterly astounding achievement for the Ukrainian military and a crushing humiliation for Putin.
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Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank is not motivated by security concerns but by extremist desires for a 'Greater Israel'. It actually increases the security risk for Israeli citizens and diverts massive IDF resource towards protecting Israeli West Bank settlements.
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Well worth reading this explainer by @davidallengreen.bsky.social on why Lucy Connolly received a 31-month sentence for her post.
emptycity.substack.com/p/explaining...
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The most grotesque part is not the draft-dodging president's brazen disrespect for veterans and American war dead on National Memorial Day, but the shameful boot-licking sycophants who applaud this megalomaniacal buffoonery.
Trump should have been booed off stage.