Jon Thompson

Football and Politics. NUFC.

[Daniel Austin @_Dan_Austin]

Just to be clear, then. FIFA:

1) can't possibly intervene when Iran are forced to move, a referee is denied a visa, or fans are barred from the USA

2) can absolutely intervene when a decision goes against the USA that Donald Trump doesn't like

Smashing. All know where we stand

[Jon Thompson @forwallower]

@OptaJohan #fifacorruption

[OptaJohan @OptaJohan]

0 - Since the introduction of yellow and red cards at the 1970 edition, no player has ever received a red card and gone on to play in his team's next match at the FIFA World Cup.

Unprecedented.

[Manu Thiele @ManuThiele]

Die FIFA ist einfach nur noch korrupt. Was zum Teufel?

Folarin Balogun kassiert ne Rote Karte, die Folge: 1 Spiel Sperre. Er verpasst also (eigentlich) das Achtelfinale der USA. Jetzt hat die FIFA aber anscheinend die Sperre auf Bewährung ausgesetzt, damit er doch spielen kann.

Also dieses ganze Turnier kann ich langsam nicht mehr ernst nehmen. Ist das deren Ernst?

https://t.co/k1erTEmNTC

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card.

FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.

FIFA sources insist White House influence could not affect the decision due to the powers contained in Article 27 and the independent nature of the disciplinary panel.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

.@louismosley heads @PalantirTech 's UK and European operations. Louis seems to like doing audits, I like doing audits too. Here's one for Palantir:

✅ Palantir entered the NHS via a £1 contract in 2020, no competition. Expanded to £60m in COVID contracts, all without tender, before winning the main deal.

✅ 13 of 41 trusts using Palantir's FDP scheduling tool recorded fewer operations after adopting it. NHS England quietly admitted it cannot prove causation. Chelsea and Westminster, the trust behind 84% of the outpatient waiting list claim, has seen its actual waiting list rise by 20,000 over 3 years (The Londoner). NHS staff report the platform runs approximately 10 times slower than the system it replaced (@PeterKGeoghegan, Democracy for Sale). @Foxglovelegal obtained the data NHS England chose not to publish.

✅ NHS England's own data (updated 12 June 2026): 111,589 additional theatre procedures, cumulative from early adopters in 2022 through end of March 2026, across 39 trusts. The NHS delivers around 18.4 million planned treatments per year. At its most generous annual reading, Palantir's unproven claim amounts to roughly 0.3% of NHS annual activity. A third of one percent, with no control group, no causal proof, and 30% of adopting trusts recording fewer operations.

✅ The larger "waiting list removal" figures (218,389 outpatient, 993,477 RTT validation) are mostly administrative cleaning: patients who moved, died, went private, changed their mind about treatment, or were duplicates. NHS England's own methodology page confirms this. A Band 3 administrative assistant costs £27,000 per year. The £47.1m annual contract would fund over 1,700 of them. List validation does not require a funding a $ 360bn surveillance company.

✅ The contract ceiling is £330m over 7 years; £47.1m per year. That fully funds 100 consultant surgeons, 100 registrars and 500 theatre and ward nurses every year. 700 staff. Every year. For 7 years. With money left over. A scheduling tool optimises existing capacity. Staff add new capacity. The NHS has over 106,000 vacancies.

✅ 100 consultants and 100 registrars working standard theatre schedules produce an estimated 60,000 to 90,000 procedures per year. That is more than Palantir's most generous annualised claim. They cost less than the Palantir contract. And they come with 500 nurses who staff wards, run clinics, manage discharges and enable theatre lists.

✅ Those 700 staff return an estimated £164m to the state over 7 years in tax, pensions and VAT. Every penny circulates in UK communities. 100% stays. Zero leaves.

✅ From Palantir's Companies House filing (year ending 31 December 2024): £247m turnover, 749 employees. Cash wages: £91m. Share-based compensation: £62m, vesting in US-listed equity on the NYSE. Corporate tax: approximately £2m. Palantir converts roughly a quarter of its UK revenue into US shareholder value through stock compensation alone.

✅ Palantir claims "£5 of benefits for every £1 spent". NHS England has quietly admitted it cannot prove causation. Peer-reviewed research across 25 EU countries found health spending returns £4.3 for every £1, the highest of any category of government spending (Reeves et al., Globalization and Health). Defence and surveillance spending had a negative multiplier.

✅ @carolecadwalla and @thenerve_news found Palantir has recruited at least 32 senior UK government officials since 2012, including the MoD's AI chief who co-wrote the military AI strategy and met Palantir 9 times in official capacity, NHS England's head of AI, a former MI6 chief, and the joint chair of Chelsea and Westminster. At least 69 government hires in total. Transparency International UK: "acute risk" of corruption.

✅ Mosley told the Observer that if a future government won a "clear public mandate" to use NHS data for immigration enforcement, Palantir would execute it. "Our belief in the importance of abiding by the democratic decision is going to take us into delivering some very controversial things". Thiel, co-founder and chairman of the same company: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible".

✅ Built ICE's deportation targeting infrastructure since 2014. @AmnestyUK's parent organisation found "a high risk that Palantir is contributing to serious human rights violations of migrants and asylum-seekers". 2019 Mississippi raids: 680 arrested, children separated from parents. 52 people have died in ICE custody since January 2025; the highest toll in over two decades.

✅ Maven Smart System ran the targeting for the 2026 US campaign against Iran. US Tomahawk missile struck an elementary school in Minab on 28 February. Approximately 168 killed, mostly children aged 7 to 12. Pentagon investigation concluded the US was responsible.

✅ Supplies AI targeting systems to the Israeli military during what the ICJ has ruled is a plausible genocide. The UN special rapporteur named Palantir as an enabler of "unlawful use of force" in the occupied territories. Amnesty International has described Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide and cited Palantir's IDF work as a contributing factor. Karp, 1 July: "the most publicly supportive CEO of Israel". "Israel is on the side of good" he added. Israel is literally killing children en masse.

✅ Thiel: women's suffrage and welfare had "rendered the notion of 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron". Said at the Oxford Union the NHS "makes people ill". Runs "Dialog", a secret invitation-only network of billionaires, Trump officials, senators and NATO commanders, exposed by data leak in June.

✅ Karp told investors in February 2025 that Palantir exists "to scare our enemies and, on occasion, kill them".

✅ Under £820,000 in UK corporate tax in 2025 (@openDemocracy investigation); less than it paid in Korea, Japan, France or Germany. According to ITEP, the US parent paid zero federal income tax on $1.5bn domestic income in 2025.

✅ Cross-party Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, 3 June 2026 (chair @ChiOnwurah): Palantir's public-sector presence is "an unacceptable point of weakness". Urged the government to trigger the February 2027 break clause.

✅ Remains deeply vile and evil.

Sources:

Palantir Technologies UK, Ltd, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024, Companies House (company no. 07042994)
https://t.co/AGfiS8uXwO

NHS England, "NHS Federated Data Platform uptake and benefits", updated 12 June 2026
https://t.co/Rl3GOUwbvm

R. Sylvester, "Inside Palantir's growing grip on UK public services", The Observer, 22 March 2026
https://t.co/K0Yh5b2dSc

C. Young, C. Cadwalladr and I. Tucker, "The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials", The Nerve, April 2026
https://t.co/8gfZFiP6nn

Foxglove, "UK Government and Palantir must correct public record after NHS admits published data does not back up FDP benefit claims", 26 June 2026
https://t.co/u8xU4N9H7K

The Londoner, "Palantir cleared 183,000 patients from one hospital's waiting list. Or did it?", 2 July 2026
https://t.co/czGjuKMy3H

P. Geoghegan, "Revealed: Palantir's NHS tech is ten times slower than current system", Democracy for Sale, 23 May 2026
https://t.co/RTRCM4r71q

A. Sethi and J. Yan, "Exclusive: How Palantir harvested millions in UK tax breaks", openDemocracy, 26 June 2026
https://t.co/TVFT5N3p6I

Institute for Government, Performance Tracker 2025: NHS Hospitals
https://t.co/HHWD8tENpe

Amnesty International USA, "Failing to Do Right: The Urgent Need for Palantir to Respect Human Rights", September 2020
https://t.co/ybI9qOP3V0

Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch, "Dying in Detention", June 2026
https://t.co/oOx8K5gG4A

Amnesty International, "USA/Iran: Those responsible for deadly and unlawful US strike on school must be held accountable", March 2026
https://t.co/yR5sOpghUd

Anadolu Agency, "Palantir CEO says he is 'most publicly supportive' of Israel", 2 July 2026
https://t.co/FVuYZSESgP

P. Thiel, "The Education of a Libertarian", Cato Unbound, 13 April 2009
https://t.co/ORO10RCcfL

M. Roeloffs, "What We Know About Billionaire Peter Thiel's Secret 'Dialog' Society", Forbes, 18 June 2026
https://t.co/TpCqBu0KQs

NPR, "How Palantir, the secretive tech company, is rising in the Trump era", 1 May 2025
https://t.co/DowQ289xLJ

House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, "MPs warn that Palantir's increasing presence in the UK public sector is an 'unacceptable point of weakness'", 3 June 2026
https://t.co/tqvysGbJvm

A. Reeves et al., "Does investment in the health sector promote or inhibit economic growth?", Globalization and Health, vol. 9, 2013
https://t.co/1bzqFmrz2E

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Corporate Tax Avoidance Report, 2026

NHS Employers, Agenda for Change Pay Scales 2025/26
https://t.co/L4W8ordEVY

https://t.co/VmvSWnQvny, Rates and Thresholds for Employers 2025 to 2026
https://t.co/YT4LzPRXv5

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN

DO NOT BE DISTRACTED.

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

The same Judge which issued contempt of court proceedings against the leading barrister of Palestine Action activists, reinstated a barrister who lied about his qualifications.

The stitch-up of the Filton trial is entirely political.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

'If we allow the red cross to visit Palestinian prisoners, it will be a PR disaster' - Member of the Israeli Knesset admits. They clearly are worried people will see the torture dungeons.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Fox News aired this to scare the American public.

On God 😱

[Shaun King @shaunking]

My God.

The carnage never ends.

Israel is evil. They must be stopped. They will never stop this on their own.

[Andrés 💪🕊 🍁 @andres20ad]

Una norma de 100 años prohibía enviar pistolas por correo postal. Trump la eliminará para beneficiar a la empresa GrabAGun, que vende armas en línea, y donde su hijo adquirió más de 300.000 acciones. Esto tiene un nombre: corrupción. La derecha lo corrompe absolutamente todo.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

When the president gets away with raping kids, stealing thousands of classified documents, and mounting a deadly coup attempt, but an Olympian gets brought up on federal charges for pulling paint chips out of a pool, you’ve got yourself a shithole country.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

After nearly a month, the US-backed, far-right electoral coup in Peru has succeeded. The daughter of the US-backed former fascist dictator, Fujimori, a convicted war criminal who committed genocide, has been installed in power.

The left-wing, pro-working class candidate, Roberto Sánchez Palomino, was winning when the votes were counted after the June 7 election, so the corrupt electoral authorities delayed the count and spent nearly a month cooking the books, overseeing some very extreme irregularities, especially with supposed votes from abroad that magically appeared and made Fujimori "win".

Keiko Fujimori ran for president multiple times, but always lost, because she is extremely unpopular in Peru. But Trump and Marco Rubio made sure she would be put in power this time, just as they blatantly meddled in recent elections to support right-wing candidates in Argentina, Colombia, Honduras, etc.

Keiko's father was the fascist dictator Alberto Fujimori, who, with US support, dissolved Congress, implemented mass privatizations, and committed genocide against indigenous peoples, sterilizing huge numbers of them without their consent (with funding from the US government).

The US-backed dictator was later formally convicted of corruption, bribery, kidnapping, murder, and crimes against humanity. His nepo baby daughter always defended his crimes, and the US empire just helped put her in power in an electoral coup.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

For your information, this video was taken just an hour ago. It shows Israel blowing up buildings east of Khan Younis.

Again and again, shame on Western media that continues to call this a “ceasefire.”

By the Western media’s definition, an Israeli “ceasefire” apparently includes the continued killing of families, especially those with very young children, blowing up residential buildings, burning tents sheltering displaced people, banning international journalists, blocking life-saving medical supplies, and restricting, and on many days completely preventing, patients from leaving Gaza for urgently needed medical treatment abroad.

[Sam @SamCKx]

Reform is now funded by 3 billionaires.

Christopher Harborne - a tax exile living tax free in Thailand under their special tax regime

Ben Delo - a tax exile living tax free in Hong Kong under their special tax regime

Sasan Ghandehari - a tax exile living tax free in Switzerland under their special tax regime

The party of the people.

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

Julian Assange’s 55th birthday, a reminder of why he was persecuted for over a decade:

Wikileaks under Assange released the Collateral Murder video shows Reuters journalists, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen being gunned down by a US Apache helicopter. Several others were killed while the US pilots laughed.

The US wants to extradite and imprison Julian Assange for 175 years.

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

WHAT THE FUCK

This is real

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Some of us warned that this was the goal in October 2023 but we were told it was about the hostages. It was never about the hostages. It was always about conquest and ethnic cleansing.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Trump: Every time my kids invest in a stock, anything they do, they have inside information.

(This is a wild thing to admit)