Karlos Tweetos

Melbourne, politics, Bulldogs. tweets do not necessarily represent my employer

rebuilding my birdie account after a required delete all posts episode

[Mark Stevens @StevoMedia]

What a photo!
The Hawk and … you know who.
Reliably told, the young guy said: “Dougie, I’ll play for the Doggies when I’m older”.
Local family friends. The Hawk handing over No.7 would be a moment!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Karlos Tweetos @KarlosTweetos]

Step 1: define anti-racism as left wing extremism

Step 2: act surprised that anti-racists are left wing extremists

Step 3: withdraw funding for anti-racism campaigns

Step 4: claim that racism has ended, as it's only left wing extremists who complain about it

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

I wasn’t familiar with the facts and therefore wouldn’t condemn Sunderland Council on the hoof, as Nick Ferrari seemed to want me to.

Having listened to the Reform Leader of Sunderland Council’s remarks, he makes a very fair point.

Whilst Show Racism The Red Card may have done good work and tackling racism and discrimination in football is something we can all unite around, it’s clear their CEO Ged Grebby is a left-wing political activist whose blatant bias damages the organisation and its cause.

He’s described Reform as “very, very dangerous”, “Far Right”, said that “racists were emboldened by Farage” and that people need to “mobilise” against them. Hardly conduct befitting the CEO of a “leading educational charity”, as they describe themselves.

In fact his X account is a sewer of anti-Reform rants.

That’s not a view most people in Sunderland clearly share as almost 80% of its council seats were won by Reform in May. Residents would be right to question whether this organisation should be supported financially by their council under Mr Grebby’s leadership.

Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying the wages of political activists like Mr Grebby. If Show Racism The Red Card wants to command public support, and receive public money and charitable status, I’d suggest they look for a new CEO.

[Karlos Tweetos @KarlosTweetos]

@LilahTheyPG Tim was definitely one of the best people I've had the pleasure to work with. Sorely missed. A sad time for so many

[JonHorneFrancis @Horney_Jon]

A reminder that Greg Swann gave West Coast a free compensation pick at 19 so they could trade it to Brisbane for Starcevich so the Oscar Allen compensation would not be diluted.

Thus giving both West coast and Brisbane a good deal.

https://t.co/Q45p5UoIn9

[Sam Edmund @Sammy__Edmund]

The AFL's murky memos and accusations of making rules on the run.
The secret change that derailed the Dogs-Power trade for Zak Butters.
https://t.co/z4bFx64gKB

[Karlos Tweetos @KarlosTweetos]

This must be is sarcasm font. Surely

[Rory Kilpatrick 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇦🇺 (Brad Close Fan) @AflGlicko]

I'm sorry but this is corrupt.

[CrémantCommunarde #GreenTransitionNow💚 @0Calamity]

This is pure bullshit from @Eve_Barlow if she was in Scotland at the time.
The first plane hit at 1.45pm BST. There was no social media in those days, and only someone watching the news channel (as I was that day) would have know it had happened in real time. (And even then, when the first plane hit everyone thought it was a terrible accident until the second one hit)
Schools wouldn't even have known about it.
I do recall hearing on the radio that what was initially reported as a "truck bomb" had exploded at the Pentagon first.

[Hugh Jass @buggerlugs___]

@kanecornes

[HOPE not hate @hopenothate]

Exclusive: Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call?

Tonight we can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. Residents of Preston-next-Wingham, a tiny village of just 921 people, raised the alarm after hundreds of men dressed in black took over their roads, gardens and driveways to park their cars on Friday. 🧵

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Christopher Harborne - the Reform mega donor who gave Farage £5m - is suing ex-Reform deputy leader, Ben Habib.

The particulars of claim have now been published. And we need to talk about them.
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[Wittgenstein's Slab @frolix22]

Five members of Just Stop Oil are currently serving 4+ years in prison for discussing, in a Zoom call, blocking roads.

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

📌 ICYMI — Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster — @josiahmortimer

Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending

🔗 https://t.co/1gLOJbYyCO

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Apparently some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Wow. All the chickens are coming home to roost. To everyone who believes the current story about Farage’s £ is magically different from the one I was destroyed over - & a large chunk of UK press remained completely silent about - please take a long hard look at yourself

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Who can forget this famous reenactment from Don’t Look Up via @gbnews in 2022

[Karlos Tweetos @KarlosTweetos]

He signs a peace treaty in Versailles (not knowing any history) and Latika says ooooh nice lighting

[Latika M Bourke @latikambourke]

Not hard to make Versailles look incred but props to the WH digital teamz insanely lush production values here.

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

I've now had a chance to read this Bill. It is a genuinely alarming piece of legislation and typical of the draconian, authoritarian politics of the Labour Together Project, in which Mahmood has been a key player.

The Bill gives the Home Secretary nearly untrammelled power to designate any "group" working to advance a "foreign state threat." They are a "threat" if they pursue any objective that is inimical to the "interests" of the UK. Anyone who "supports" a designated group, like endorsing it or sharing its messages online, faces 14 years in prison.

This is so broadly written that it invites - almost guarantees - abuse. In the context of a potential far-right government, it is madness to put such draconian legislation on the books.

We already have two examples of how the state or political actors have effectively fabricated foreign state connections.

First, in manufacturing consent towards the proscription of Palestine Action, it was leaked to the press that there were links between the direct action group and Iran. But this was entirely false, as the government's Counter-Extremism advisor sheepishly admitted months later to Channel Four.

Second, I have personal experience of this. We now know that in response to my investigations into the unlawful conduct of Labour Together and Morgan McSweeney, Labour Together hired APCO Worldwide to investigate me, my colleagues and associates. The end result was a mad dossier alleging that I was a catspaw of foreign intelligence services, working to disrupt British democracy. I've now seen some of the "raw intelligence" on which this was based: literally everything I have seen was fabricated out of whole cloth, the thumb-suck of some swivel-eyed "intelligence" source. We now know that the most senior people in the Labour Party knew about this and didn't seem to bat an eye. Some of them even seemed to believe this web of absurd idiocy.

Anybody who has spent time at the coalface of investigating powerful people or standing up to militarism and forever-wars knows how legislation like this works. Secret intelligence is used to designate groups and people. That intelligence is classified, so the accused can't even see what they're accused of. Judges are given secret briefings where intelligence officials deliver doom-laden analysis, but they can't be cross-examined by the lawyers of the accused. Whispers and innuendo, the lubricant of the sort of "intelligence" that led to war in Iraq, are spun into concrete facts and grave national security threats.

This is not hyperbole - it is literally what has happened when campaigners have tried to challenge the sale of arms to Israel and Saudi Arabia, where campaigners themselves were not able to see, hear or test the evidence of the state at trial. In every instance, judges have then decided that they have no power to gainsay the State.

As this government collapses under the weight of unpopularity and scandal, it is now delivering for the reactionary forces that helped to put it in place through systematic and pre-meditated dishonesty. The result is a lattice-work of legislation and practice designed to criminalise and constrain dissent in the face of genocide, war, environmental degradation and the sort of corruption that turns state murder into money and misconduct into power.

There is every chance that within a week, Andy Burnham will be challenging Starmer for power. It is plausible Burnham could be Prime Minister by September.

His task, amongst many, will be to seek accommodation with progressive voters and movements that have abandoned the Labour Party. There will be plenty of discussion about the wisdom of that move from both sides. But it is likely to fail unless a Burnham government reverses course on the Starmer project's assaults on protest, jury trials, dissent, free speech and basic civil liberties.

And none of that is plausible as long as Mahmood, or any other Labour Together alumni, remains in post.

[Mikey Smith @mikeysmith]

Incredible coincidence that @nigel_Farage watched the England game in the same spot in the same pub, with the same flags up, wearing the same top and standing next to someone wearing an identical top as he did during the Euros in 2024.

[Martin Harmer @martinharmer]

@Nigel_Farage @England Nigel Farage is such a man of the people, that he arranged for everyone he was in the pub with to watch England play Denmark in 2024, to get back together in the same clothes to watch England play Croatia in the 2026 World Cup.

What a guy!