Jiusito

Freelance writer & editor (formerly of @thirdway). Lover of words, animals, foreign parts, cycling, cinema, Shakespeare, Wagner, peace and love, peace and love

[Jiusito @huwwspanner]

It’s so exasperating to hear Tony Blair declaring that “far-left” politics will destroy Labour, it prompted me to check how the party had done since his day. I know the only metric that really matters in the end is whether an election was won or lost, but it’s still revealing. /1

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

We all knew these situations were going to happen, and so did FIFA. Yet they still allowed the World Cup to go ahead in the U.S. They are not receiving anywhere near the level of scrutiny they should.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Claudia Sheinbaum has approval ratings of between 70 and 80%, thanks to her progressive policies which have lifted over 8 million people out of poverty.

So of course the @NYTimes finds some reason to attack her.

They hate her because she shows what can be done.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Palantir. IT'S WORSE Than You Think @carolecadwalla

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

I too can’t judge. So I leave it up to the experts who have seen the deluge of evidence, weighed it, and come to the conclusion that it is genocide.

Burnham is too much of a coward to do the same.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

There you go: the FT confirms that not only is the NSA using Anthropic's AI "for offensive cyber operations" against "nations such as China or Iran" but Anthropic is actively helping them in that effort.

As per the article, Anthropic "installed about half a dozen staff within the NSA as so-called forward-deployed engineers to guide the use of the technology and customise models for specific applications."

It confirms two things. First: the United States is the most aggressive state actor in cyberspace, by far. It offensively infiltrates other nations' networks, and is now supercharging that capability with AI. Heck that is literally one of the core mission statements of the NSA, one of the largest security agencies of the US government.

Second, that Anthropic's carefully cultivated image as the ethical, safety-first AI company that "partners with the church" is a fiction. In reality, it is the most deeply embedded AI company in the US security state. Instead of building guardrails, they're literally weaponizing their own AI inside the NSA.

Src: https://t.co/sWmXvPSUy4

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Remember how everyone rushed to use his photo, of his walking toward an IDF tank to advocate for the lives of his patients? Rushed to plaster it everywhere, rushed to make AI edits, art, whatever. That was in December 2024.

How often is he mentioned today? He is alive, he is being tortured and slowly killed - he, alongside every Palestinian hostage, must be freed.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

do you know why these dogs aren't barking? or why the couple who did vocalize sound so hoarse? it's because it's routine for someone to shove tools into their throats to cut their vocal cords. they do this so experimenters aren't disturbed by their cries of agony when they're being tormented in laboratories.

I'm ashamed to say that I've conducted experiments on mice in the past. But everything changed the first time I went with a colleague to her primates lab in the same building. I'm still haunted by what I saw.

Nothing—no medication, no advancement, no technology, no entertainment, no profit—is worth the price these innocent sentient lives pay.

[Jiusito @huwwspanner]

@susanabulhawa Bless you for saying this, Susan. You've gone up even more in my estimation.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

they are serially raped and their babies ripped from them so every last drop of profit can be drained from their bodies. they will never know the feel of grass under them, never know the touch of kindness. this is an industrialized terrorism no one talks about.

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

Ms Rachel has 30 million followers for a reason 🫶

[Marcus d’Osint 🎒🕊️ @WarFrontIntel]

The onion never misses. 😂

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Not a single peep from the likes of the BBC or CNN, the same outlets that were reporting on the Iranian women’s football team three times a day.

Western media doesn’t care about women’s freedom in Iran, Palestine or Lebanon unless it can be weaponised to serve their narrative.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

What Israel is doing in Lebanon is unambiguously genocidal against Shias. And it is unambiguously an attempt to reoccupy and even annex a huge part of the country. It’s infuriating that we’re pretending that there’s a ceasefire. And even more infuriating that Western media continues to turn a blind eye to Israel’s endless colonial expansion and insatiable hunger for Arab land.

[Jiusito @huwwspanner]

@nxt888 @Pompeii_Ashes "War is a Racket" should be required reading in every school.

[Jiusito @huwwspanner]

@smalls2672 @nxt888 Wasn't George Bush's father reportedly one of the conspirators?

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Astonishingly, in comparing the US wars on Vietnam and Iran, the Guardian assumes the first, unlike the second, was guided by "noble intent" at a time when the US was on a "moral mission".

Emphasising Trump's break with that supposed "nobility", the paper's diplomatic editor muses: "Would the US not be more powerful if it returned to alliances built on values, and the law, as well as self-interest?"

The Guardian's ever trickier role is to sell to the liberal-left the continuing idea that the US is a civilisational force for good.

[Media Lens @medialens]

As historian Howard Zinn wrote:

“When I read the hundreds of pages of the Pentagon Papers entrusted to me by [military analyst] Daniel Ellsberg, what jumped out at me were the secret memos from the National Security Council. Explaining the U.S. interest in Southeast Asia, they spoke bluntly of the country’s motives as a quest for ‘tin, rubber, oil.'"

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"Would the US not be more powerful if it returned to alliances built on values?"

Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic Editor, The Guardian, May 2026.

Let's examine the values the alliances were built on.

1953: Iran. The CIA removes Mossadegh because he nationalized Iranian oil.

The values: British Petroleum's profit margins.

1954: Guatemala. The CIA removes Árbenz because he redistributed unused land from United Fruit Company.

The values: a Boston-based corporation's unused banana plantations.

1965: Indonesia. The U.S. facilitates the massacre of between 500,000 and one million people to remove Sukarno.

The values: the archipelago's strategic position and resources.

1973: Chile. Kissinger oversees the removal of Allende, a democratically elected socialist.

The values: copper.

These are not departures from the values-based order.

These are the values-based order.

The values were always: access, extraction, control.

The law was always: for countries that complied.

Patrick Wintour is not a diplomatic editor.

He is a restoration theologian.

His god never existed.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

First Thornberry. Now this one.

They know a reckoning is coming, and they're scrambling to save themselves. But the archives don't forget - and they don't lie.

[Jiusito @huwwspanner]

@nxt888 Sony, I guess you know this quote from the distinguished US Marine Corps general Smedley Butler?

https://t.co/EML7YeX7dd