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Leeds born , Leeds United and New York Mets and Roma fan . Anglo-Irish. 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 🇺🇦 Free Syria
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It's like you can predict his entire online information ecosystem from this one image alone.

Trump says he was speaking “in jest” when he repeatedly claimed on the campaign trail that he would immediately end Russia’s war on Ukraine

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

Last week, Bellingcat conducted an audio analysis to uncover more details in a video that showed a convoy of aid workers struck by gunfire in Gaza. Audio forensics can provide crucial details in open source investigations and help to complete the picture. 🧵⬇️ www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...

New: @dylanburnstv.bsky.social tours a town on the front line in Sumy oblast, where local residents and the town's civic life have shown remarkable resilience despite nearly three years of constant, indiscriminate Russian bombardment. offbeatresearch.com/2025/01/gove...

ICYMI: The Case for Normalization with the New Syrian Government offbeatresearch.com/2025/03/the-...

Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I continue to be appalled at the lack of accountability around the SLAPP case that targeted me. If I can get sued for saying a warlord sanctioned by the EU, UK, and US for his role in Wagner is involved with Wagner then can we really say there's any protection for journalists in the UK from SLAPPs?

George Galloway’s national socialist “Workers Party” of Britain is standing an Oxford graduate ex-diplomat Assad fan, Peter Ford, a conspiracy theorist and friend of Holocaust deniers, in the Runcorn by-election

it's nice to be interviewed for a change! proud to be repping London's Little Italy & the sold-out Language Bar that I run. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

This is the best analysis I’ve read on what’s been going on on the Syrian coast:

Scary times in Turkey. Centre-left nationalist opposition. CHP, targeted in another Erdogan coup, using the BS spectre of PKK & organised crime links. (Erdogan charts a path for the globe’s other authoritarian democratators. His “PKK” is Trump’s Tren de Aragua.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Note for editors and producers: Forcing Ukraine to surrender to Russia is not brokering a peace agreement. Taking dictation from the Kremlin is not diplomacy. Betraying our allies is not courage.

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Cracking the Magafacists code

1/12 A thread on the terrible events of the last 3 days in coastal Syria, based on sifting through Syrian accounts, as mainstream media reports here are a little misleading and there is a lot of dis- and mis-information and unverified rumours circulating on social media:

Romania has now barred Calin Georgescu, a conspiracy theorist and fascist sympathizer, from running for president, after he broke electoral laws. I wrote about him and the world he comes from in February: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

There's no doubt that both Sunni and Alawite families have been massacred in Syria's coastal region, highlighting the urgent need for a thorough and transparent investigation. The findings must be made public, including a full list of those killed, distinguishing between civilians and militants 1/4

This is classic right wing gaslighting. They do horrendous things and then complain about people being “uncivil” to them for it. And it works, for their base. They think the left are “intolerant” and “extreme” because the dead babies are far away and the American babies are on TV.

The Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is a big Leeds fan. He just had to stop at this spot on one of his travels the other day and out the picture on his Instagram. #ALAW #lufc

Really bad news. RMT is one of our most important unions. Now led by some who - violently ejected Syrians from a meeting where Holocaust denier/Assad fan Vanessa Beeley was speaking - used antisemitic language against anti-Brexit leftists - hung out with a fascist warlord in Russian-occupied Ukraine

The 3 members of the Bulgarian spy ring that spied on Bellingcat and plead not guilty have just been found guilty at the Old Bailey. The spy ring was directed by Wirecard fraudster Jan Marsalek on the behalf of the Russian intelligence services. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

#RedBrownWatch Former Blairite turned Corbynista and now Workers Party of Britain deputy leader Chris Williamson praising Trump and Vance yesterday. Via @pabloite.bsky.social

The SNL Cold Open was based on the Trump tantrum with Zelensky, with Mike Myers doing a brutal take on Elon Musk www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpO...

🚨 BREAKING: After torpedoing yesterday’s meeting with Zelensky, JD Vance fled to Vermont for vacation—only to be met by hundreds of furious protesters. Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!

🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.

Volodymyr Zelensky is a hero.

Freedom and democracy are always worth fighting for. Slava Ukraini.

UK politics reax: Ed Davey calls it “thuggery” and “bullying”: bsky.app/profile/edda...

This has to be right. Starmer's summit on Sunday has become a potentially decisive moment. If Europeans don't throw their weight behind Ukraine and behind a massive and immediate increase in their defence efforts (& damn the deficits), Europe will find itself at the mercy of Putin & Trump.

Says it all really, the age of US international leadership is dead and buried.

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US Secretary of State #MarcoRubio, 1942: "We should engage in identifying the extraordinary opportunities [with Mr Hitler] that exist should this conflict come to an acceptable end" #Ukraine #Russia #TrumpRussia

Is this the road we’re heading down? Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Munich Agreement—fuck both of them. It’s not gonna work. Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. Nothing about Europe without Europe.

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My full lecture and Q&A about information disorder and what to do about it at Leiden University youtu.be/UfX5RLAcgLg?...

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