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[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

"Trump gets blamed, but he's an inflatable tube dude at a mafia chop shop. His apathy to governance is mistaken for sway. Governing was never the point. Trump’s casual treason has always made him an ideal vessel for America's going-out-of-business sale."
https://t.co/o0xQnUA0Nj

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what??

Today @nerve_news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson.
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[Clément Molin @clement_molin]

Let's dive in Russian 🇷🇺 war propaganda machine

Recently, new videos emerged of Russian soldiers showing their flag far behind the frontline.

What is important about that is the aim of these operations : to show to the Russian command.

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[stranger @strangerous10]

JCA’s Sarah Schwartz tells the Royal Commission that she’s contacted every day by Jews “terrified of speaking out” to criticise Israel or to support Palestinians, in fear of being abused or vilified.
Says Israel ‘shields itself from a lot of criticism’ by claiming to be victim💥

[Anthony Klan @Anthony_Klan]

Multi-billionaire Steven Lowy again publicly preaching about "values", this time calling for national service.
He's far less vocal about $550,000 in secretive payments he directed to the Libs via an obscure company weeks before federal election...(ICYMI):
https://t.co/kwv6je3Q1x

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Genocide and International Law Scholar William Schabas on the reluctance to call it a genocide:
‘With a lot of the genocide studies, people are (now) quite open about describing what's happening in Palestine as genocide. There’s probably a large contingent of international lawyers who do that as well, albeit less so, since international lawyers usually have a “let's wait and see what the court says” mentality.
But it’s hard for academics, certainly in Western countries, to make this call without paying a potential price for condemning Israel’s genocide. A price in terms of career promotions, appointments, or even the threat of dismissal in some cases. So, for younger people in academia there's a strong tendency to keep your head down.
Part of the problem in the field is the fact that genocide studies are often linked to universities’ Holocaust studies department. I think this has helped fuel reluctance in the field in calling Gaza a genocide, as many of these people’s focus is the suffering of the Jewish people, making them potentially less inclined to be as critical of Israel as they should be…..

..the US government issued statements four years ago condemning China for a genocide against the Uyghurs. The US had no compunction about denouncing it as genocide, nor did the UK, even though China have not even killed tens of thousands of civilians, like Israel has in Gaza.

They will call it genocide when it is politically convenient to them, because China is viewed as a threat and a country to be attacked. But they won't apply it when it's a friend of theirs, like Israel.’

https://t.co/9fMzjGnB1g

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

Nigel Farage is under more pressure than ever.

But did you know that his main financer is connected to multi-million pound exports to the Israeli military?

Here’s what the mainstream media are NOT telling you about Christopher Harborne:🧵

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi @NYTimesPR, thanks for responding. Appreciate it. I'm a subscriber and I think some of your reporters do some great reporting.
Just to respond to your response to my post:
1) There were no facts "misstated" by me. You cited three examples in response. Only one of them was about specific *named* GOP House members (and it wasn't from "yesterday", it was from a year ago.) So I stand by my post.
2) As others have pointed out already, none of the 3 articles you cited have the names of any GOP individuals in the titles ("Right-Wing Republicans" "a Kansas Republican" "G.O.P. Fingerprints"), in comparison to your original "Who is Darializa" takedown piece. Where is your "Who is Brandon Gill" or "Who is Keith Self" or "Who Is Randy Fine" or "Who Is Mary Miller" critical profile pieces? How about "Who is Tom Emmer," given the GOP House Majority Whip just a few days ago spewed racist crap about Somalis? And where are the Peter Baker tweets summarizing *their* most controversial claims?
3) This isn't a new criticism. Many have made it against your paper for many years; that you go harder on the left than the right, that you even occasionally whitewash the far right. Remember when you had to do a public response in 2017 to a NYT profile that went super soft on a... Nazi? https://t.co/IF6DhTwcrp. Remember when you guys did a softball piece about a far-right, Islamophobic Trump aide's love for cooking? https://t.co/dp0Sf9PQg9.
Oh, and dare I ask: where are the fawning 'Trump voters' in diners' equivalent pieces for DSA members in NYC bodegas? Isn't it time?
4) Finally, that your response to my post was to proudly say you guys at the Times have "been documenting the increasingly extreme viewpoints on both sides of the political spectrum" kinda makes my point for me. One side's extreme wants universal healthcare and an end to genocide. The other side's extreme says Somalis are "garbage" and wants "remigration", mass deportations and white supremacy.
But, hey, "Both sides!"

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"They couldn't stop you from looking at Palestine, so they bought the screen you were looking at."

@Lowkey0nline exposes how a network of tech billionaires tied to Israel engineered an algorithmic coup to suppress dissent, alter your feed, and push you into fascism in real-time

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

@JoshEakle @thepromise2026 Promise to *Israel* would be more accurate.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

October 7, 2023, early morning, Israel's police command center: "(Strike) Gaza. Break it all apart. Along with the soldiers who got abducted."

In the first hours of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, while conversing with Israel's Police Chief Kobi Shabtai, another senior officer calls to implement the Hannibal Directive, and destroy Gaza along with the Israeli captives. Minister Itamar Ben Gvir later arrives and orders to stop filming the meeting.

Aired on Channel 12 on February 12, 2026

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

This is Palestinian journalist Mujahid Abu Mufleh before and after 14 months in an Israeli torture camp.

This is what Zionism does to Palestinians.

Zionism is cancer.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Full show:
https://t.co/prtlqI4CD7

[Covert History Ireland & UK Magazine @CovertHistory]

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has been found guilty of sex crimes. He was connected - as a young man - to a pair of Kincora Boys' Home child sex abusers: Enoch Powell MP and James Molyneaux MP, leader of the UUP 1979-95. Read about Donaldson and Powell here👇
https://t.co/3mBwMgtQ4k

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

The population density map below helps to illustrate why they are doing this. It really can't be emphasised enough that Russia is essentially a vast resource-extraction empire created to service two European megacities - Moscow and St Petersburg. Nothing matters more than them.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

James Garner explains how Steve McQueen was convinced to continue working in "The Great Escape" (1963) after he quit midway:

"In the middle of the shoot, McQueen walked out of the picture. He’d seen about an hour's worth of dailies and didn't like how he looked. Wanted to reshoot the whole thing. Of course, they couldn’t reshoot that much footage—it would have taken too long and cost too much money. Steve’s agents flew in from the States and had a showdown with Sturges.

The next day Sturges called me in and said, “Jim, McQueen’s out and you're the star of the picture. We'll change a few things here and there. It'll work.”

I didn’t see how it could possibly work, and neither did Jimmy Coburn, so the two of us sat down with Steve at my rented house in Munich and asked him what the problem was.

“I don’t like the part. I’m not the hero. And the stuff they have me doing is corny.”

“Well, Steve, the reason you're not the hero is because it’s an ensemble cast. There are a lot of heroes.”

Steve could be a stubborn little cuss, but Jimmy and I finally convinced him to stay on the picture. To pacify him, Sturges added some motorcycle stunts and changed his character, Hilts, the Cooler King, to a guy who goes out to reconnoiter the surrounding countryside, then unselfishly allows himself to be recaptured so he can share the information with the others.

There were no Americans in the actual escape; they'd all been transferred to other camps before the tunnel was finished. And there never was a motorcycle chase, but | think it’s the most exciting and memorable part of the movie. When people think of 'The Great Escape', they think of Steve on that motorcycle."

("The Garner Files", James Garner & Jon Winokur, 2011)

P.S: On this day, 63 years ago, John Sturges' "The Great Escape" (1963) premiered in London, UK.

[Jim Chalmers MP @JEChalmers]

Analysis from Treasury of new ATO data for 2023-24 shows that 0.2% of tax filers earned around 60% of all the net capital gains income, while 99% of tax filers earned only 13%.

We are making the tax system fairer for workers, first home buyers and young Australians.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

So, let's recap, shall we?

This week the @PressClubAust managed to:

* cancel at the last minute, the questions and subsequent presence of renowned journalist Margo Kingston, who’d travelled over 2 days to Canberra to ask her question of Pauline Hanson – and yes, they were questions initially requested and organised by the Press Club itself 9 days ago.

* cancel the press gallery membership of long-term journalist, Greg Jericho, allegedly because he works for the @TheAusInstitute. Although Greg has been employed by the Aust Institute for 4 years, his membership cancellation only came yesterday after he publicly called out the Canberra press gallery - which is of course a highly fortuitous coincidence and not at all connected to his criticism.

* somehow allowed a person or persons unknown to enter the Press Club premises and put up a 3 metre wide electronic banner, without anybody in the Press Club noticing them doing it. How several people enter a private club carrying something that large, then proceed to wire it up on an open stage and nobody at the premises noticed in any way, is yet another display of the NPC’s staggering incompetence.

* release an unnecessarily detailed, high-school level statement about said banner incident, a statement that reeks of defensiveness and hysteria, while also prejudicially naming an alleged culprit and arguably sinking to the bottom of the barrel in terms of the journalistic standards it supposedly represents. Read it below and remind yourself that people who work with words for a living wrote that.

* allowed the speaker, Pauline Hanson, to defame one of their own - a journalist from the Guardian who dared to ask a hard-hitting question - by calling her "trash". This was only weeks after calling the same journalist a "nasty bitch". Mirroring, Trump’s “Quiet piggy” incident, the journalist's alleged colleagues all sat mute, as did the moderator, Tom Connell from Sky News during the abuse. No rebuke, no blow-back, no support for their fellow journalist, standing alone under Hanson's hissing vitriol. Just pusillanimous silence.

The National Press Club outdid their already dubious reputation this week, spraying themselves in a spectacular shower of self-inflicted shit – wall to wall, dripping effluent.

Australians currently suffer some of the most timid, captured political journalism in the western world, and if the actions of the #NPC this week are the metric, then we can all see why.

What a national and international embarrassment of an organisation meant to serve as a vital democratic institution and a cultural conscience – and one that has offered us neither.

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[GetUp! @GetUp]

Pauline Hanson says she tells it like it is.

But her record says otherwise.

She’s opposed wage rises, affordable childcare, higher pensions and affordable housing measures – every time working Australians needed someone to fight for them.

We thought someone should say it plainly. So we did.

Bullshit, Pauline.

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

This man is desperate to get the keys to No. 10.

But did you know about the secret connection between Andy Burnham and a weapons company complicit in air strikes in Gaza?

This is the scandal Burnham does NOT want voters to know about…🧵