John Carter

A Luso-British fluent in saudade and sarcasm. an explorer with roots in two soils.
Like a Port wine and Earl Grey blend - rich, bold, and a bit unexpected.

[John Carter @JohnEdgarCarter]

@MotherJones @LGalrao If millions of citizens are worried about immigration, social cohesion, crime, or public services, the most effective response is not merely condemning influential people who raise those issues, it's demonstrating through policy that those concerns are being taken seriously.

[Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc]

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the United States hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl @johnismay @ArtemisChats

[Ron Paul @RonPaul]

Just days after news broke that the National Defense Authorization Act for next year would virtually merge the US and Israeli militaries, we now are hearing that the Intelligence Authorization Act is doing the same thing with the US Intelligence Community!

Introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton, the provision would rip open our nation's secrets and hand them over to a foreign country - one that has just been accused of ramping up its spying on us!

Isn't there a name for this?

Watch @RonPaul & @DanielLMcAdams below:

[Reem Alalwi🇴🇲 @ReemAlalwi16517]

ألقت الشرطة الدولية (الإنتربول)
القبض في المكسيك على الإسرائيلي يوئيل ألتر، البالغ من العمر 35 عامًا، وهو عضو في عصابة "ليف طاهور"، أكبر شبكة في العالم للاعتداء الجنسي على الأطفال.
وقد تم إنقاذ أكثر من 160 طفلًا من قبضة هذه العصابة اليهودية.
وتجاهلت وسائل الإعلام والسياسيون هذه الحادثة ولم يعلنوا عنها للجمهور.

[Retard Finder @IfindRetards]

American rapper/singer Azealia Banks posted this about Stephen Ogilvie, the victim of an attempted beheading in Belfast:

"Sheeesh, this motherfucker is so ugly i think the Sudanese guy did him a favor.

Wow this motherfucker is ugly"

Absolute vile retard

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

❗️ Putin appoints a Russian hardliner to take immediate command of Russia's space weapons command.

Starlink? Time for the Russian government to formally instruct Starlink to stand down and stop providing targeting communications sattelite signals to attack Russian cities.

I'm sure if formally put on notice, Elon Musk would agree that Starlink must remain neutral in the Russia - Ukraine war.

Until then, Starlink continues to kill Russians. Literally.

As the new head of space weapons command and anti-missile and air defense command Comrade General Chaiko has one immediate job: To prevent thousands of Starlink sattelites in orbit from flying over (giving sattelite connection) to enemies missiles and drones attacking the Russian positions, cities, buses, trains, ships, factories, oil depots and bridges.

Cutting all signal to Ukraine will even out the battlefield. Musk should not be allowed to pick who dies thanks to AI technology owned by him.

Colonel-General, Hero of Russia Alexander Chaiko has been appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, according to information on the Russian Defense Ministry's website.

Alexander Chaiko was born in 1971. In February 2019, he was appointed as the Deputy Chief of the General Staff. From 2019 to 2021, he commanded the Russian grouping in Syria, and from 2021 to 2023, he led the troops of the Eastern Military District.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

According to a new report released today by the Miami New Times, Trump threw and funded underage sex parties at his Palm Beach golf course.

The president was made aware of the pending publication 2 days ago.

Maybe now you understand why we struck Iran last night.

[🇷🇺 STANISLAV KRAPIVNIK 🇷🇺 @STANISKRAPIVNIK]

The attacks on the Odessa port are going like clockwork

The Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation is sounding the alarm - the situation in the ports of the Odessa region has reached a critical point.

"Systematic Russian shelling is destroying the logistical heart of Ukraine," the statement says. And they add that the business is exhausted: "Enterprises have exhausted their financial reserves for endless repairs under shelling. Without a state program and support from foreign funds, it's impossible to restore the terminals on their own."

And they're hitting the most vulnerable spot. Over 90% of Ukrainian agro-exports go through the Odessa hub. Sunflower oil is the country's largest item, accounting for about 12% of all deliveries. The ADM plant in Chornomorsk has been out of action since April 26: a drone set fire to a tank with six thousand tons of oil. Bunge terminals and the Cargill grain complex were also hit - according to the NYT, seven drones arrived there in less than three minutes.

But oil is just one item. Grain also goes through the same hub - Ukraine's largest export group, worth $9.4 billion in 2025. And here's the result: over the marketing year, grain exports fell by 16.2%, to 31.14 million tons by mid-May. In early May, only 940 thousand tons were shipped - almost half of last year's figure.

It's even more obvious with iron ore. All of it also leaves by sea through Odessa. In January-April, exports plummeted by 30.3% - to 7.77 million tons. There are several reasons, but the deputy head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Lepushinsky, directly admitted: the attacks prevented the export of about $150 million worth of ore in just the first quarter.

It seems that the picture is symmetrical. Russia is methodically destroying Ukraine's foreign exchange back, and Ukraine, in response, is hitting Russia's oil industry. Only Russia has its own economy, while Ukraine has a "credit-unlimited" one.

Meanwhile, the Bulgarians are cutting off the tap for Ukraine.

@sashakots

[Alex B. @maisumcarneiro]

Comentei o ataque horrendo da Irlanda com vários familiares. Nenhum tinha a menor ideia do que se passou.

Foi noutro país, dirão os colaboracionistas, para desculpar os merdia. Mas quando uma senhora de 70 e tal anos foi esfaqueada até a morte na grande Lisboa (Seixal) por um cabo-verdiano para lhe roubar a mala foi a mesma coisa, deram a notícia mas omitiram o mais possível a nacionalidade do assassino, o estatuto legal em Portugal, etc.

E isto é apenas um exemplo, há inúmeros outros. É o padrão, não só dos OCS, mas também da própria polícia. Os invasores têm protecção especial. Quando uns putos brancos deram uns calduços num iraquiano foi a comoção generalizada em todos os canais.

Vão-se encher de moscas!

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

If you watch anything today, watch this Palestinian man's testimony about what's happening in Israeli prisons.

UPDATE
They released him over a year ago and we heard he had been
abducted AGAIN because he spoke out about Ben Gvir putting him in a black plastic bag and dancing on his body.
We don't even know if he's still alive.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A bomb squad was checking a suspicious backpack, and this dude got fed up with waiting

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Best news of the year: Kaja Kallas' only diplomatic achievement may end up uniting Europe on the need to get rid of her, and dismantle her own office.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Fuck you, @washingtonpost . Amal did not ‘die,’ she was deliberately targeted and murdered after receiving threats from the Israeli army. She was in touch with us, her colleagues, during this situation. We all know exactly what happened. Shame on you for intentionally diminishing the criminality of the actions of the Israeli army with this headline. Shame on all of you and your correspondents in Beirut.

I hope to see you on trial for your propaganda in my lifetime.

[-- GEROMAN -- time will tell - 👀 -- @GeromanAT]

What a stupid piece of shit

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question.

A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye.

This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist.

In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal.

But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.”

British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation?

We genuinely do not understand this.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🚨 BREAKING PRESS RELEASE!

American journalist @ChrisHelali was on assignment heading to Mexico to cover the World Cup and meet the Iranian national team, Team Melli, based in Tijuana for the duration of the World Cup. Traveling from Moscow to Mexico City with a stop in Beijing on 10 June 2026, Christopher was informed by Chinese authorities upon landing in Beijing that he had to wait to get his new boarding pass. After 8 hours, Christopher was informed by Hainan Airlines staff that he was barred from traveling and was listed as a “no fly passenger.” Requesting follow up information, it became clear that Christopher was added by the United States government to the No Fly List which is maintained by the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center. Christopher was formerly on the Selectee List, enduring nearly a decade of intensive secondary screening with the notorious 4 S’s (SSSS) on his boarding passes both to and from the United States and between countries that crossed US airspace.

This is an attack not only on journalistic freedom but on those who stand with Iran against the Epstein Coalition.

In a statement, Christopher reiterated his solidarity with Iran, Team Melli, and all those who stand for justice. “What was done to me is but a small part of the injustice people face all over the world everyday at the hands of US-EU-NATO imperialism, fascism, and Zionism,” he said. “Our struggle is for all those students at Minab, all the children of Lebanon, Gaza, Donbass, and beyond who were denied a future by these monsters. It is a crime that the USA is hosting the World Cup which celebrates the friendship and unity of sport. The USA has blood on its hands! The struggle continues!”

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is an absolutely major story and almost no Western media covered it: India's water minister CR Patil said on Tuesday that "it is certain, not a single drop of water will go (to Pakistan) in the coming years."

Patil said that India is "actively working on it" after "directives" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

As a reminder, Pakistan's dependence on water from India is close to total: the country is essentially built around the Indus river system, all of whose rivers flow through India before entering Pakistan.

The Indus system irrigates 80% of Pakistan's farmland, generates a third of its electricity, supplies its major cities with drinking water, and sustains the livelihoods of some 240 million people.

So, essentially, no water from India = annihilation of Pakistan as a state.

Pretty damn consequential, all the more given we're talking about 2 nuclear powers here. And all the more because, understandably, Pakistan's formal position is that water diversion would constitute "an act of war" (https://t.co/WLoDpGzc2W).

Unfortunately, Patil's statement isn't just talk: India already set up the legal framework to make this possible. Last year, they unilaterally suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, despite the treaty containing no withdrawal clause.

It used to be the one piece of India-Pakistan relations that worked, and had survived multiple wars and over six decades of hostility. Now India is saying officially that it will "never be restored" (https://t.co/2SnUNevFbX).

The one mitigating factor here is physics: you don't just "turn off" a major Himalayan river system. Diverting rivers of this magnitude means building massive storage and canal infrastructure in Himalayan terrain: projects measured in years.

But India IS ACTUALLY BUILDING that infrastructure: for instance it just approved in May the building of the so-called "Chenab–Beas Link Tunnel," an 8.7km ₹2,352 crore (~$280M) tunnel designed to divert water from the Chenab basin into India's Beas river system. The Chenab is one of the main tributaries of the Indus - and one of the three "western rivers" (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) allocated to Pakistan under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty.

Which means that, unfortunately, Patil's "not a single drop of water in the coming years" looks like a roadmap: the infrastructure to strangle Pakistan's water supply is being approved and tendered in plain sight.

This is also a story about selective media coverage and double standards: I'm willing to bet that 99% of people in the West have never heard of any of this.

Now make this thought experiment: imagine China announced it was building infrastructure to cut off every drop of water flowing to India and its ministers proclaimed on television that "not a single drop" would cross the border. It would be wall-to-wall coverage, sanctions packages, and a thousand op-eds about Beijing "weaponizing water."

Heck we don't need to imagine because the simple fact of China merely building a hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo (the upstream Brahmaputra) generated exactly the wall-to-wall alarm I'm describing, even though China threatened nothing and even though Indian officials said the threat is a "myth" given the fact that the river gathers most of its volume inside India from monsoon rains (https://t.co/GBgBybBPoE). Malign intent was still presumed from the act of construction, because it's China.

In India's case, the intent couldn't possibly be clearer: it's proclaimed by ministers on the record, and backed by India's actions. But because they're a courted Western partner, what they're doing - arguably the most extreme form of economic warfare imaginable, directed at a nuclear state - largely gets silence.

Src for screenshot: https://t.co/qav4muNkij

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Infantino claims he can't do anything about Referees, players, journalists and fans being banned from the World Cup because in every country there are Governments.

In 2023 Indonesia refused to let the Israeli U23 squad have visas

FIFA instantly moved the tournament to Argentina

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Does everyone know how to make their own custom Twitter List to see what they want to see? As Elon makes the algorithm worse and worse I'm using lists more and more so I see the stuff I'm actually interested in instead of Zionists and engagement bait and junk.

Lists are great if you have a limited number of go-to accounts you want to make sure you see the tweets of for news updates or whatever, rather than relying on the worthless algorithm in the "For You" tab or seeing every single tweet by every single person you follow in the "Following" tab.

Here's how you do it:

1. Go to Lists and select the New List option.

2. Name your list. Check "Make private" if the list is for your own personal use and/or if you don't want people to be notified when you add them, then click "Next".

3. Search for the accounts you want on your list and click "Add".

4. Now you can add accounts to your list by going to their Twitter page and clicking "Add/remove from lists," adding them by selecting the name of the list you made.

And you're done. Now you can go to your list whenever you want to see the content you're actually here for, either by going to "Lists" and clicking yours or by using a bookmark.

If you find it useful, here's a public list I've made with a bunch of accounts who help me stay on top of what's going on: https://t.co/EdXNYy2LPt