Alex Anderson

@WSC_magazine, @guardian_sport Network, @11Freunde_de, @FourFourTwo & bits of books. @GersnetOnline. @The100club2 owner/editor
Also (mostly) @fateck.bsky.social

[Alex Anderson @FatEck]

All my football, film and music gems are - thank f**k, says you - reserved for Bluesky, which is mostly lovely but, like Twitter, an echo chamber.

While Twitter is owned by a sieg heiling scumbag, I'll only use it for work and my highly effective takes on Musk and his cohorts.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

It’s an amazing report which nails how Russia’s hybrid warfare programme actually works & how Russia is explicitly & directly inciting racialised violence in UK - & working with Tommy Robinson to do so - as well as directing acts of violence
against PM.
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[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

It’s wild that literally every trillionaire is in the Epstein files

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

The same man who cut children’s cancer research is now a trillionaire.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Watching people cheer for Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire is like watching passengers on the Titanic cheer for the iceberg.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Michael Gove - editor of the Spectator, Orwell Prize judge & overseer of the biggest electoral fraud in modern UK history - apparently upset that I called out his boss’s investment in Palantir after he ran a sycophantic pro-Palantir piece

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: What binds Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is not religion or ideology.

China is communist, Russia nationalist, Iran theocratic. What binds them is fear of liberal language: rights, rule of law, separation of powers and independent courts. 1/

[Alex Anderson @FatEck]

@The_Deemster @Kat_Bee_123 @SaulStaniforth So you get that thuggery doesn't need the internet to spark it but you don't get the nuance that malicious behaviour is common to all races and religions? Who's really pretending here?

[Alex Anderson @FatEck]

@Kat_Bee_123 @SaulStaniforth Far more immigrants solving problems in this country than creating them. Care homes, hospital staff - from porters to surgeons - and a whole host of other vital jobs no-one wants to do. It's an over-fixation fabricated to distract us from corporate robbery of our infrastructure.

[Bagie @BagieGee]

@Barnabybear70 Listen to this all

[Alex Anderson @FatEck]

@Kat_Bee_123 @SaulStaniforth We'll get calm when the World Cup starts and the real eejits have got better things to do. 0r when the weather turns. Not a Greens voter but the point Lucas makes here is spot-on. Murderous shit perpetrated by white folk on a daily basis in the UK results in zero "protests"

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

I’ve been doing this for 6 years, in that time Twitter has turned from the Wild West to a direct far right radicalisation vehicle with skewed algorithms, overt racism and child sexual abuse images. It facilitates real violence, whether the incitement of riots or hate crimes.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

MAGA and far right astroturfing campaigns/ bot farm usage has gradually increased in recent years.

Now they’ve converged and are colluding, the volume of ultra violent responses is completely unprecedented.

Every other reply, an overt rape or murder threat.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Caroline Lucas: "We need to recognise that what happened on the streets of Belfast was being orchestrated by the far right, by Elon Musk, by a network of people who actually want this to happen, so it wasn't quite as spontaneous as it looked.. and that has to be stopped"

[The Purple Pimpernel @Eyeswideopen69]

Going back ten years, here is a list of some of the most outspoken political figures on the subject of immigration:

Amber Rudd
Sajid David
Priti Patel
Suella Braverman
Grant Shapps
Suella Braverman (bis)
James Cleverly

7 right wing Home Secretaries

All increased immigration.

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

Why doesn’t Farage sit down with a low paid care worker, look them in the eye and tell them the truth.

He voted against a ban on zero hours contracts.

Against sick pay from Day 1.

Against protections from fire & rehire.

He’s not a friend of workers - he’s a political fraud.

[Joss Sheldon @JossSheldon]

> Fred West killed 12-20 people. No riots.
> Harold Shipman killed 215-250 people. No riots.
> 522 murders took place in England and Wales, in the year ending March 2025. No riots.
> An immigrant kills 1 person. Violent riots.

It's two-tier rioting, isn't it?

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

HISTORY LESSON

The Nazi Party branded itself the 'National Socialist German Workers' Party' to appeal to working-class men. After staging massive 'pro-worker' May Day rallies on May 1, 1933, the very next day Hitler banned independent trade unions, seized their assets, and arrested their leaders.

On May 2, 1933, the SA (Storm Troopers), SS, and police occupied trade union offices nationwide in a coordinated action. They seized assets, records, and funds while arresting union leaders and officials. Contemporary U.S. State Department reports and other sources noted around 50 prominent arrests in the initial wave, including key figures like Theodor Leipart (chairman of the General German Trade Union Federation, ADGB), Peter Grassmann, and former Labor Minister Rudolf Wissell.

Many more local and regional leaders faced arrests in the following days and weeks. Large numbers endured beatings, imprisonment, or transfer to early concentration camps such as Dachau (opened in March 1933 primarily for political opponents).

Some officials were maltreated immediately, and the action extended to union banks and press offices.

This crackdown dismantled independent German trade unions (with millions of members, many aligned with Social Democrats or leftists) and replaced them with the Nazi-controlled German Labour Front (DAF). It formed part of the broader Gleichschaltung (coordination) process to eliminate independent organizations.

Over the period 1933–1945, thousands of German trade unionists, including leaders, activists, and officials, were arrested and held in prisons or concentration camps. Many suffered torture, extended detention, or surveillance after release. While outright executions of union leaders were relatively fewer in the early phase compared to other groups, many died later from camp maltreatment, disease, execution, or involvement in resistance.

The overall scale of persecution against labour organisers aligns with the regime's aim to crush independent working-class organising rather than immediately exterminate every individual.

This fits the documented pattern of political repression: by the end of July 1933, nearly 27,000 people (mostly political prisoners including communists, socialists, Social Democrats, trade unionists and left-wing activists and intellectuals) were held in early camps and detention sites.

The Nazis moved swiftly after seizing power to neutralise potential opposition from organised labor through mass arrests, violence, and forced integration into a state-controlled structure.

#JustSayin

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

What happened in Belfast was what Lucy Connolly called for in Southport.

She was, quite rightly jailed.

Only for Reform to give her a heroes welcome at their conference, which normalised and applauded racial incitement.

Now look at where we are.

It’ll be lynchings next.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

What’s happening on social media isn’t just inorganic but foreign interference.

People are sold a fake, violent and racist idea of patriotism then conned into voting for millionaire shill traitors like Farage and Lowe by… Russian, Nigerian and Sri Lankan bot farms.

Ironic.