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BBC Monitoring journalist following people for research

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Trump and the right wing bullshit machine working in high gear to motivate and justify a (potentially violent) federal response to unrest that is largely a figment of their imagination and (where it is real) a reaction to federal agitation. A vicious, intentional, and intensifying cycle.

05.10.2025 20:24 — 👍 487    🔁 146    💬 33    📌 3
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Congratulations to Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London, who is now Archbishop-designate of Canterbury

03.10.2025 09:21 — 👍 64    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1

The Pentagon plans to impose strict nondisclosure agreements and random polygraph testing for scores of people in its headquarters, including many top officials, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday

01.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 269    🔁 119    💬 42    📌 17

Media, I am begging you to callout false information within the headline.

I know it's a challenge with limited characters, but that's the only part of the story that many people read. The broadcasting of misinformation is as dangerous as policy changes.

29.09.2025 12:29 — 👍 96    🔁 34    💬 1    📌 1
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“Don't be cheeky...”

Health Secretary Wes Streeting responds to Nick Watt when asked about Andy Burnham’s leadership ambitions.

#Newsnight

29.09.2025 12:45 — 👍 36    🔁 6    💬 8    📌 4
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If only we knew who was responsible for the things that Farage and the far-right are complaining about on a daily basis.

Oh wait it’s the Brexit campaign.

24.09.2025 17:31 — 👍 64    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 1
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Рост цен в РФ с 16 по 22 сентября составил 0,08%, годовая инфляция осталась в районе 8,1% Рост потребительских цен с 16 по 22 сентября составил 0,08% после повышения на 0,04% с 9 по 15 сентября, 0,10% со 2 по 8 сентября и снижения на 0,08% с 26 августа по 1 сентября, сообщил в среду Росста...

Russian official inflation as reported by Rosstat for the period 16th to 22nd of September stood at 0,08%. For September 2025 there's a inflation of 0,21% and inflation for the year so far 4,16%. They are just pretending fuel prices don't exist.

www.interfax.ru/business/104...

24.09.2025 17:33 — 👍 43    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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⚡️Bloomberg: Russia is plotting massive interference in Moldova’s Sept. 28 elections with bribed voters, disinfo, cyberattacks and staged protests to derail the country’s path to the EU.

22.09.2025 08:32 — 👍 91    🔁 39    💬 4    📌 2
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Xi, Trump hold phone talks Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday held phone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.

CGTN - Chinese President Xi today held phone talks with US President Trump. news.cgtn.com/news/2025-09-19...

19.09.2025 13:07 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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AP Exclusive: Russia, Vietnam using energy profits to avoid possible US sanctions for arms deals Russia and Vietnam have developed a mechanism to conceal arms deal payments to avoid American and other Western sanctions, using profits from joint energy-sector ventures to pay for defense contracts,...

Here’s what we are reading today:

Russia and Vietnam have developed a method of concealing payments for arms deals to avoid US sanctions. The countries have been using profits from joint oil and gas ventures as payment, avoiding transfers through the global banking system.

19.09.2025 13:03 — 👍 39    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 0
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr says Sinclair has "every right" to demand that Jimmy Kimmel to donate to Turning Point USA

18.09.2025 13:53 — 👍 2096    🔁 736    💬 1054    📌 460

We have kept flagging at @thenewworldmag.bsky.social that one of the big drivers of the “small boats crisis” was the nature of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal – which Nigel Farage grudgingly backed (with a non-aggression deal at the 2019 election). But it’s often missing from the debate.

18.09.2025 13:57 — 👍 40    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 0
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The Trump Administration’s “Wars on Terror” – Old and New | International Crisis Group The Trump White House is repurposing the potent framing of “terrorism” to go after a new set of enemies – drug cartels, migrants and domestic political opponents. Its words and deeds pose serious risk...

Trump's announcement that he will designate Antifa as a "major terrorist organization" is legally meaningless.

But it is another step in framing domestic political opponents as "terrorists", a characterization also used for migrants & Latin American criminals.

www.crisisgroup.org/united-state...

18.09.2025 13:58 — 👍 164    🔁 60    💬 16    📌 0

This is fairly obvious ‘woke right’ overreach. Cancelling academics and randoms on X doesn’t cut through to normies.

Going for one of the nation’s most mainstream comedians gets noticed. People didn’t much like “cancel culture” from the left. They won’t from the right, either.

17.09.2025 23:29 — 👍 142    🔁 24    💬 5    📌 3
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Assortment of products offered in Russian grocery stores declines — Meduza The research firm Nielsen reported a decline in the range of goods available in Russian grocery stores this July, Kommersant said on September 16. Compared with a year earlier, the assortment of food…

The research firm Nielsen reported a decline in the range of goods available in Russian grocery stores.
meduza.io/en/news/2025...

16.09.2025 08:11 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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MFRR Monitoring Report: 709 attacks on media freedom in the first six months of 2025 This Monitoring Report takes stock of the press freedom situation in 36 EU Member States and candidate countries during the first six months of 2025. ...

📄 New MFRR monitoring report out!

Not less than 709 press freedom violations have been documented between January and June 2025 on www.mapmf.org/explorer, including 342 in 🇪🇺 countries. This report includes thematic chapters on Foreign agent laws and Serbia.

Find more details👇

16.09.2025 08:20 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

An earlier version of this story featured some fairly directly statements (from yours truly) about the catastrophic consequences of fighting stupid and pointless wars against opponents we do not understand. I reproduce it here because this stuff really matters.

15.09.2025 16:14 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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The EU is debating a full ban on Russian tourists, pushed by Baltic states, Poland, and Finland. Southern nations like France, reliant on tourism, are more hesitant, fearing economic fallout.
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-coun...

15.09.2025 16:16 — 👍 518    🔁 71    💬 41    📌 9
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More trucks burnt today, this time from a massive convoy coming from Senegal - which visibly didn't get any aerial support. I won't share the images of the attack itself. Malian military spokesman explained last week that traffic jams on this road were caused by car accidents and bad weather

14.09.2025 19:15 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

14.09.2025 12:55 — 👍 20283    🔁 6980    💬 726    📌 340

it's very easy to forget that well within a human lifetime ago, black children were being murdered in the united states because some americans were angry that black people wanted the same rights as white people

this isn't ancient history

15.09.2025 07:51 — 👍 54    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 1
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Reports of an attack, allegedly by a drone, on a vessel in the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), while anchored outside the port of Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia. The below video shows the moment of the incident. Keep it in mind when you read the next post. www.instagram.com/reel/DOXaR_M...

09.09.2025 07:27 — 👍 1100    🔁 615    💬 37    📌 91
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The ‘Fortress Russia’ economy has adapted well to pressure. But stagflation presents an opportunity for the West Now could be the time to ratchet up sanctions pressure on Putin and change Moscow’s risk analysis of prolonging the war.

Seizing the $300 billion in Russian assets immobilized in Western jurisdictions and allocating them to Ukraine would send a strong signal that there is little light at the end of the tunnel for Russia's economy.

09.09.2025 07:00 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Une flottille de bateaux en route vers Gaza a affirmé dans la nuit de lundi à mardi qu'un de ses bateaux avait été "frappé" par un drone au large de Tunis. Les autorités tunisiennes ont démenti en disant n'avoir détecté "aucun" engin ⤵️

09.09.2025 06:28 — 👍 18    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 3
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Russian missile that hit government headquarters contained over 30 foreign-made parts, Ukraine says "Compared to missiles from previous years, there are fewer components from Europe and the U.S., and more from Russia and Belarus," presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said.

⚡️ Russian missile that hit government headquarters contained over 30 foreign-made parts, Ukraine says.

"Compared to missiles from previous years, there are fewer components from Europe and the U.S., and more from Russia and Belarus," presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said.

09.09.2025 06:30 — 👍 201    🔁 56    💬 4    📌 2
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Latest News Picks - Elections watchdog: Three years to recover from hack - BBC Sounds Chinese cyber spies targeted the Electoral Commission, accessing UK voters' details.

Exclusive: The UK's elections watchdog says it's taken three years and at least a quarter of a million pounds to fully recover from a hack that saw the private details of 40m voters accessed by Chinese cyber spies. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

09.09.2025 06:41 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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“It’s like drinking from polluted water”: How the UK media gets immigration coverage wrong and how to fix it In the midst of bubbling unrest around immigration in the UK, some voices are calling for the country to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). These calls often appear to be ro...

Essential reading to understand what's going on in the UK and how the public debate is so biased against refugees/migrants/foreigners. By @marinaadami.bsky.social @reutersinstitute.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/its-dri...

08.09.2025 11:27 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1
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As Poland builds Europe's largest army, Russia’s ongoing war reveals its gaps Spurred by belligerent Russia and the war in Ukraine, Poland has raced to build the largest European army in NATO. As Western officials warn about an open clash with Moscow within the next five years...

Spurred by belligerent Russia and the war in Ukraine, Poland has raced to build the largest European army in NATO.

08.09.2025 11:28 — 👍 267    🔁 52    💬 6    📌 3

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