NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history." BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2036...

STEVE WITKOFF IS A TREASONOUS SNAKE "the Russian Federation has always wanted a peace deal. That’s my belief. I told the president I believe that." "I have the deepest respect for President Putin." "I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere."

This post appears to have struck a nerve. You agree with me... in massive numbers!

I think this person must’ve ended up in one of those blue starter packs - I was somehow following this @econundertow “Steve” from “Virginia” and a lot of y’all are too. Unfollow, bonk, block #nafoarticle5

Evergreen post.

How do I get myself off these "moderation lists"? I'm blocked. I have blocked back but I think that is all I can do? I don't think it removes me from the lists?

This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.

Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.

Leaving this here.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Dear Bluesky, www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners. We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!

A team of litter-picking scuba divers have recovered what is believed to be a Russian tracking device off the Welsh coast. A defence analyst is confident it is an imploded Russian RGB-1A sonobuoy - an acoustic monitoring device, often used to detect submarines. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Steve here claims he supports Ukraine and that its struggle is the moral challenge of our time. Steve then asks what was the point of four years of war when Ukraine could have surrendered in 2022 and "saved everyone the hassle" 🖕🏼

"No, I am not from Russia. My account is dedicated to making America great again"

I always enjoy the posts from this account!

Zelenskyy just now on Twitter: "...there is an understanding that the American proposals may include a number of elements based on Ukrainian perspectives and critical for Ukrainian national interests..."

Huge amounts of the focus on misinformation/disinformation goes on the idea of things like “Russian bots” and “Russian influence ops”. That’s the 1% bit of the iceberg. The 99% is people doing it to turn a profit, because it’s easy money. And the platforms largely ignore it because they get a cut.

Morning footage shows Ukrainian drones finishing off the already damaged Shatura Power Plant in Moscow region.

Axios has a lot of explaining to do.

Friday: "Sign this by Thanksgiving or it's all over for you." Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it." Sunday: "By 'some other boys wrote it', of course I meant some other boys wrote the denial that we wrote it. Here's my lunch money."

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk asking an important question here delivered in the form of a sick burn - "before we start our work, it would be good to know for sure who is the author of the plan and where was it created."

I can't put into the words the visceral hatred I feel towards the administration in the US. The pain their behaviour is causing to Ukrainians is unforgivable. Ukrainians have russians terrorising them with missiles & drones. Now the US is terrorising them with russian demands for capitulation.

Finally left Twitter Sorry to the 220k followers

I just dipped a toe in the cesspit that used to be Twitter, and I think the surest indication that the “28 points” were translated from Russian is the number of Russian mouthpiece accounts busy shouting, unprompted, that that is absolutely not the case and they were drafted in the White House.

🔴 Rescuers in Ternopil have recovered the body of another woman from the rubble after a Russian attack. The death toll has now risen to 33, and search and recovery efforts are entering their fourth day, local authorities report.

I don't have the words to describe the evil nature of this turd and what I hope happens to him.

On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household. Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

It is not the end, we keep fighting, don’t listen to the Trump, just help us.

If the Dmitriev-Witkoff Peace Plan is implemented, it won’t prevent World War 3. It all but guarantees it. The plan has the worst elements of the Treaty of Versailles, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and the Munich Agreement rolled into a single document.

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We need to stop calling it a ‘peace plan,’ even with sarcastic quotes around it. Call it the US-Kremlin plan or similar. ‘US-Kremlin plan’ shames the US and makes it sound deeply unappealing to the broader US and European publics.

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Turn on subtitles and the autotranslate to English setting and watch the full 10 minute address by President Zelenskyy. It's truly incredible. Support this man. Support the Ukrainian people.

Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort. The scheme has enabled “sanctions evasions and the highest levels of organised crime, including providing money-laundering services to the Russian state”, the National Crime Agency says. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reuters: The United States has threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine to force it to agree the US-russia capitulation plan. Translation: the US wants to give russia a licence to unalive more Ukrainians.

Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform UK in Wales, and a close ally of Nigel Farage, has been sentenced to 10 and a half years for taking bribes from russia.

Every word of this thread!

Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵

He can shove it up his ass

"Harold Shipman, evil serial killer, or misunderstood pioneer of euthanasia?"

What the actual fuck? The US Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols. They'll be downgraded to "potentially divisive" 🤯🤯🤯

1/5 #Ukraine #Norge This excellent piece from @thebarentsobserver.com shows in detail how #Russia is actively trying to destabilize its neighbors. #Norway is a #NATO country with a very important border with Russia in the north. Just across the border is Russia's Northern Fleet, ⤵️

Steve Witkoff didn’t draft a peace plan - he basically photocopied whatever Dmitriev slid across the table and wrote "28 points" in crayon on top to look busy. It’s the diplomatic equivalent of handing in your homework after Putin’s dog already wrote it.

Why are you giving this lying piece of shit airtime, @news.sky.com? Would you have aired Goebbels' justification of the Holocaust live on British airwaves?

This so-called “U.S.–Russia peace framework” is total BS. 🚨 It’s just Putin’s trick to delay the new U.S. sanctions hitting #Lukoil and #Rosneft on Nov 21 sanctions that can wreck his economy. If talks were real, Ukraine & the EU would be at the table, not random #Kremlin proxies who decide nothing.

Fuck russia 🖕🏼