Doug Gillen

Freelance director/videographer, co-host of Radio Juxtapoz podcast & art commentator. views are my own. @FifthWallTV

[Doug Gillen @douggillen]

don’t worry kids, we’ve got Hasan Piker at home.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Magyar has spent the last few days meeting with Orbanistas who lied about him and his family incessantly, blocked him from addressing the nation, and did their utmost to keep him from winning a fair election. From Hungary's president -- who must invite Magyar to form a government before resigning -- to this state TV presenter, he's met them to say: "Hello, here's why you're out of job. Goodbye." Breathtaking.

[Doug Gillen @douggillen]

@limitedmitch part of it that jarred me is that fact that if it takes that level of marketing for a band as good as Geese, then it shows what bands without that backing are up against.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

The government must finally proscribe the IRGC as terrorists.

Antisemitism and those who fuel it have no place in our society.

[Doug Gillen @douggillen]

fuzzy feeling to have my video on Banksy featured in @ConversationUK

https://t.co/bAKXVTdEws

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the pinnacle of muralism at the forefront of empty handed white saviourism.

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

Code Pink flew artists to Cuba to leave behind a “gift” mural. Maybe their base eats that up, but it comes off as pure performative cringe to me.

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

Code Pink flew artists to Cuba to leave behind a “gift” mural. Maybe their base eats that up, but it comes off as pure performative cringe to me.

[Doug Gillen @douggillen]

this should be regarded as historically important as Five Points

[Rami @RamiSafadi93]

In February 2011 several children were arrested in Syria for painting anti-Assad graffiti on their school. Little did those kids know that their scribbles would move the fleets of the world

This is the Arbaeen School for Basic Education in the city of Daraa, where it all started

[Doug Gillen @douggillen]

the quest to unmask Banksy feels like the final tier of “Things is why we can’t have nice things”. The article is great journalism, but can’t we just have one bit of fun

[Doug Gillen @douggillen]

i’m torn on this one. on one hand it’s a great piece of journalism, on the other, i kinda wish it didn’t exist…just yet

https://t.co/rbmjFbRf2w

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Driving through London now, past proud iconic buildings and trying to imagine how terrifying, shocking, devastating it must be in Tehran right now…

[Doug Gillen @douggillen]

@FARED_ALHOR this is part of an ongoing campaign funded by tech bros to quietly remind americans to fear Black men.

https://t.co/54wWLUfI32

[Meghan Bodette @_____mjb]

🧵Kurdish regional politics explainer, from someone who is based in the region and can speak the language.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

We are all governed by our algorithms. Mine is dominated by animals, Iran, Gaza, Donald Trump and Cole Palmer.

You’d be confused by my feed. Especially the Cole Palmer Plantagenet haircut memes.

However, many have missed the IRGC in Iran boasting of their two day murdering spree in January killing 95,000 innocent Iranians (their numbers, not mine), simply for protesting.

We have shared why this happened. We have shared that it is still happening. We have shared that students across Iran - incredibly and bravely - are still protesting. Right now. Despite the threat of a bullet to the head.

Yet - in addition to missing it - they do everything to deny it. They say nothing about the mass extermination but all of a sudden say “NO to war in Iran.” Without any knowledge of the plight of the people of Iran over the last 47 years. Without any understanding that Iranians have attempted liberation many times and failed because there was never a level playing field. Bare hands Vs military grade weapons usually leads to thousands dead and an evil regime still in power.

The people of Iran DO NOT want war. They want the machinery of repression to be stopped. And in the case of the IRGC, forcibly stopped. Because their crimes against humanity will not stop if no one stops them. It will continue, regardless of any ‘deal’ negotiated with the US administration.

This is not Saddam Hussein 2003. Iran does not have nukes that could reach us in 45 minutes. There will be NO regional war. This is a lie the regime has put out (lapped up by so called “progressives”) as they beg to stay in power. No one is coming to save them. And they know it.

The message is:
No to war. Intervention with #R2P (responsibility to protect). Rescue the people of Iran. If that is not your messaging right now, you are officially parroting a narrative of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Do you have the decency to challenge your world view? Or are you “hey wasn’t it 6 billion killed? lol 😂”

That is the sense of humour George Carlin is talking about.

#IranMassacre
#IranianRevolution2026

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[Doug Gillen @douggillen]

bold move for someone in the epstein files

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@AmbJapanUK split the T first try

[Doug Gillen @douggillen]

with no sense of irony, Polanski completely missing the parallels with his NATO departure proposal

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zack Polanski, "I've been thinking a lot about Farage, and putting aside the legitimacy of Brexit"

"Just the fact that Farage was at the centre of this catastrophic project of Brexit that had gone so badly"

"And then had the chutzpah to return and say: you know what I've still got the answer for the country, that Brexit wasn't quite done the Reform UK way"

"Just made me think how much we keep exposing Reform UK, who they are connected to, and who they stand for"

"Talking about Brexit more widely, economic, cultural, social issues, and the fact that almost anyone who voted for Brexit back then still doesn't think it was done particularly well"

Carole Cadwalladr, "There's a rising generation of voters that you're connecting with who didn't vote for this"

"And they are living with the consequences of this"

[Doug Gillen @douggillen]

@lintr6327 @Savakzadeh he represents the transition towards democracy

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and the winner of the worst take from Glasgows AI mural drama - the Scottish Greens, who are for no reason whatsoever trying to pit Glasgow artists against each other

[Scottish Greens @scottishgreens]

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