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The Cambridge Disinformation The Summit will have a discussion about para-social relationships, featuring Prof Tilo Hartmann, in the April meetings.

His 2017 paper, “Parasocial interaction, parasocial relationships, and well-being,” is available here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-...

Antizionists know they are klansmen.
That's why they mask up.

Antizionist protesters disrupting Haviv Rettig Gur during his talk at Haverford College Sunday. The protester shouting over Haviv then declared to the audience-
“You will all burn too.”

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⚡Estonia seized a Bahamas-flagged ship headed for Russia in the Gulf of Finland.

Estonian Public Broadcaster reported the vessel Baltic Spirit was intercepted en route to St. Petersburg in a multi-agency operation.

🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

"Everything, and I mean *everything*, flows from here. This will be the core of the movie you will one day watch about this."

Cast

Kremlin is trying to come up with some kind of story.

Dog care during protest
Tbilisi
#GeorgiaProtests

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Russia’s main aim is to damage Europe, not Africa. It is only using Africa — its resources and manpower — as a means to get to Europe. If Africa is damaged along the way, it doesn’t matter to Russia. Europe must make up. Disinformation and migration are Russia’s biggest tools.

Putin Has Weaponized the Peace Talks. The US Can Stop Him During the Biden administration, the most effective tool Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had to sustain his invasion of Ukraine proved to be his warnings of nuclear escalation, a tactic that prompte...

It’s hard to name anything 🇷🇺 hasn’t weaponized.
Energy, media, courts, finance, shipping via the shadow fleet, even the UN.
Calling the circus 🎪 of 🇷🇺 pretending to negotiate while murdering Ukrainian children “peace talks” falls straight into the kremlin’s trap.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Crypto is crime.
Crypto is corruption.
Crypto is fascism.
Crypto is fraud.
Crypto is theft.
Crypto is harm.
Crypto is enemy.

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On the superiority of water as the primary decontaminant for tear gas and peppery spray on skin and eyes.

To make it clear to people, this is a thread. Some of you are not clear on the concept. I will reply this with another post and mark it with a number in (x). And so forth. (1)

⚡ Vladyslav Heraskevych defied the IOC ban during Olympic training.

Despite restrictions from the International Olympic Committee, Heraskevych wore his helmet, memorializing Ukrainian athletes killed by Russian aggression.

Russian troop losses reach staggering highs.

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Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service

Original full report, online or PDF: www.valisluureamet.ee/en.html

Source: news.err.ee/1609935941/1...

1. The Kremlin merely feigns interest in peace talks, hoping to restore its bilateral relations with the United States to their previous level and formalise Ukraine's defeat. Despite this illusory thaw, Russia continues to regard the U.S. as its principal adversary.

The Jan 28 raid wasn't a one-off. It's part of an escalation pattern starting with Puerto Rico in May 2025. Think prototype, not endgame.

If I'm right, we are watching a live stress-test of legal theories to seize voting infrastructure ahead of the 2026 midterms.

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Something interesting I learned about the forced labour camps in Czechoslovakia. When the communists took over in 1948 they evicted people who they deemed "class enemies" from cities. Those peoples lived in large tent cities, which morphed into labour camps between 1949 & 1950. This one is in Bezdez

Autopsy of Canadian in ICE custody indicates his death was preventable, experts say — The Globe and Mail Johnny Noviello’s kidney failure would have prompted symptoms of illness in the hours or days before his death

He was in detention 5 weeks, had healthy kidneys before that (lab tests show). Then he dies of kidney failure most likely caused by ingesting antifreeze. Which would have happened while in detention. Even then, it would take days to die. He would have went into a coma first. He was very dehydrated.

An actual enemy of humanity who spends his time gaslighting the world about enemies of humanity

When your trade doctrine is “they depend on us, so they’d better not disagree,” you’re not practicing diplomacy—you’re practicing economic intimidation against your closest ally.

Trump has chosen to create an antagonistic relationship with Canada. Canadians have chosen not to be bullied. What has been interesting for me is how easy it has been for us to pivot toward and foster other allies to fill the void Trump’s policies have created and how long lasting that will be.

“Carney said in French the "situation" will be "settled" after he explained to Trump "firstly" that Canada paid for what the prime minister said was the $4-billion construction cost of the Gordie Howe International Bridge that crosses to Detroit. (The bridge's latest estimated cost is $6.4 billion). And Carney said "secondly," he explained to Trump that it is a shared asset between Michigan and Canada. "The ownership is shared between the state of Michigan, and the government of Canada, and that U.S. workers and steel went into the bridge as well as Canadian steel and labour."” Excerpt From “Mark Carney says Donald Trump bridge threat will be “settled” following call with U.S. president” Tonda MacCharles Toronto Star https://apple.news/AIihE_EXDRNSQB4yLhZ6VSA This material may be protected by copyright.

#Carney had to educate ignorant #Trump on reality of the bridge.

Truths:
1. #Canada paid for the bridge.
2. It used US steel and workers as well as Canadian steel and workers.
3. It’s shared ownership with Michigan.

Remind me again who takes advantage in this relationship?

Now we learn the billionaire owner of a bridge that will compete w/the new Canada-MI bridge met with Lutnick right before Trump issued his threat to shut down the new bridge. The Trump admin is a lawless mafia gangster extortion racket existing to enrich oligarchs at our expense.

When several years go by and the bribe you just received means you’re gonna sound like you have dementia when you fail to remember that you actually loved the thing you’ve now been bribed to hate.

British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump' Lucy Harrison, 23, was alone in a bedroom at her father's home in Texas when she was shot dead.

A Texan father shot and killed his own daughter because he could not handle criticism of Donald Trump.

Which side really has Trump Derangement Syndrome?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A demonstration of where you can find the drafts feature in the top right corner of the post composer on Bluesky.

v1.116 is rolling out now!

For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.

Ah but I can certainly still see the link in search. Will flag internally, but we are aware and working on cleaning it up.

Can’t see it but we got inundated with fake Gazan accounts this past weekend. I’ll try to put out a write up on the scale of the activity next month.