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Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
NEW: The first images of the Trump presidential library have been published - a 47 storey tower on Miami's waterfront, complete with giant golden statues of Donald Trump
www.ft.com/content/610e...
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Donald Trumpâs presidential library to feature soaring tower and golden statue
US leaderâs foundation expects to raise nearly $1bn for building in Miami containing decommissioned Air Force One
https://www.ft.com/content/610e84c7-be7b-42f9-8959-d6b6e6dd9a66?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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Very excited to have won a
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award for my piece on the Line and how MBS's dream city fell apart.
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Mark Chadbourn
7 days ago
This is an astonishing read. The US-Israel coalition is burning through munitions at a financially and industrially unsustainable rate. The real danger is not just how much has been spent, but how hard it will be to replace. $26B spent, $50B to replenish.
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Over 11,000 munitions in 16 Days of the Iran War: âCommand of the Reloadâ Governs Endurance
Significant numbers of advanced munitions have been expended, revealing that battlefield dominance matters less than the industrial capacity to replenish critical stockpiles.
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/over-11000-munitions-16-days-iran-war-command-reload-governs-endurance
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This is the best thing I've read on what it really means to introduce AI to kill chains - that speeding up decision making and calling it efficiency is in fact just removing the safeguards that allow systems to work in the first place.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Kill Chain
On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children
https://substack.com/home/post/p-191689642
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NEW: The net seemed to be tightening around the shadow fleet, but now these ships are ready to capitalise on the chaos of the Iran war and restricted supplies of oil.
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How the shadow fleet is capitalising on the chaos of war
The Iran conflict has offered the illicit oil trade a lifeline â while the easing of US sanctions widens a transatlantic rift
https://ig.ft.com/shadow-fleet/
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Chris Osieck
12 days ago
Using interviews, satellite imagery and atmospheric modelling, we reconstructed how smoke from strikes on oil infrastructure spread across Tehran. The plume extended across much of the city. Investigation by
@baydoun.nl
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@ntabrizy.bsky.social
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The Noxious Smoke Enveloping Tehran
An exclusive investigation reveals the substantial air pollution unleashed by Israelâs recent strikes on fuel storage sites across Iranâs capital
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-noxious-smoke-enveloping-tehran/
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Lum
12 days ago
chinese propaganda trolling continues to be unmatched (first 3 minutes here, complete 5+ minute video in twitter link below)
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Andy Carvin
29 days ago
"Faced with viral footage of an attack on an Iranian school, xAIâs chatbot Grok didn't just fail to identify the locationâit hallucinated three different and conflicting 'facts' for the same video." Now imagine this same technology networked into Pentagon command-and-control infrastructure.
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Iran, Pakistan, Kabul? Grok Maps 3 Different 'Facts' For The Same Viral Video | BOOM
Grok hallucinated three conflicting 'facts' about viral video of an Iranian school attack, failing to find its location.
https://www.boomlive.in/explainers/iran-pakistan-kabul-grok-maps-3-different-facts-for-the-same-viral-video-30789
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A great opportunity here to work with the Amnesty International Evidence Lab to do geospatial analysis to investigate human rights abuses. Deadline 22 March
careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...
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Amnesty International Careers
Amnesty International Careers, Jobs, Search and Apply
https://careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy/geospatial-and-remote-sensing-advisor--4217/4245/description/
about 1 month ago
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Jim Pickard
about 1 month ago
a year is a long time in politics
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Hildur KnĂștsdĂłttir
about 1 month ago
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
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Will Jenningsđđłïž
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This sort of framing of stories about 'left behind' places is getting very tired. How have they been 'failed' by politics? They are the product of political choices - which organisations like the BBC have often failed to explain to people.
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Inside Horden, the County Durham town failed by politics
In Horden, County Durham, Westminster slogans have long been left unmet as the population has plummeted.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2136jnjx1o
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Peter Geoghegan
about 2 months ago
I had to check the date on this three times âAt home with Peter Mandelsonâ in Times magazine *today* This is how we cover corruption in Britain? Seriously??
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Some good news! Guan Heng has just been granted asylum in the US, although DHS reserve the right to appeal the decision in the next 30 days.
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Next Thursday in Cambridge I'll be talking with
@foxcahn.bsky.social
about his new book on how we can build the technology that meets our actual needs. More below
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I spoke to the BBC about Neom - the latest Saudi announcement that they won't be hosting the Asian Winter Games in 2029 after all, as well as what's happening with all the ambitious sci-fi projects that were planned for the region:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Newshour
Daily News Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · Interviews, news and analysis of the dayâs global events.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/newshour/id356157099
2 months ago
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Ortenca
2 months ago
New on FT:
as.ft.com/r/169805cf-5...
Nigel Farage attended Davos as adviser to Iranian billionaire
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Nigel Farage attended Davos as adviser to Iranian billionaire
[FREE TO READ] Reform UK leaderâs pass and hotel costs for World Economic Forum event were paid for by Sasan Ghandehari
https://as.ft.com/r/169805cf-5880-415f-9e9e-a939ac7ba87a
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Albert Fox Cahn đŠ
2 months ago
So excited that the UK launch of my first book with the amazing Evan Selinger is just a few days away! If youâre in the UK, please join me and
@alisonkilling.bsky.social
for this great launch party! And please show publishers to invest in the anti-tech bro narrative by pre-ordering today!
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Book Launch: Move Slow and Upgrade
Join author Albert Fox Cahn to celebrate the launch of his book, Move Slow and Upgrade
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-move-slow-and-upgrade-tickets-1978382546453?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios&sg=6163a578c5067e8fa38b7969b2d40831755bbd8d6f29827bc0ace15ec77f674412506a047849b8a3ea643b4e8eda9ec380ba9329b0f79670dac0c596e0d6e70ad7c6a5cc24c0dae0327b4068
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Sam Freedman
2 months ago
When do we get one of these "nothing happens" decades I keep hearing about? Or even a month. I need some sleep.
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Yalkun Uluyol
3 months ago
Kazakh activists face 10 year sentence, prosecuted in Kazakhstan, at Chinese governmentâs request, for their peaceful protest against crimes against humanity in Xinjiang. Kazakh government should drop charges. Beijing should halt targeting critics abroad.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...
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Kazakhstan/China: Drop Charges against Activists for Xinjiang Protests
(London, January 15, 2026) â Kazakh authorities should drop charges against 18 Kazakh activists who peacefully protested against Chinese government abuses in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said today. T...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/01/14/kazakhstan/china-drop-charges-against-activists-for-xinjiang-protests
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Eileen Clancy đ§ż
3 months ago
Let's fight the spread of misinfo + disinfo by creating a Bluesky Culture of Context for imagery. Please make a good faith effort to name the SOURCE, even if you don't link to an evil media empire. For video and photos, CREDIT the creator. No exceptions! BONUS points: give Date | Time | Location
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Eliot Higgins
3 months ago
Good time to repost this
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
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OSHIT: Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Open Source Research - bellingcat
Learning to recognise these widespread mistakes will help you judge the quality of open source analysis â or improve your own.
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2024/04/25/oshit-seven-deadly-sins-of-bad-open-source-research/
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Matt Steinglass
3 months ago
Residents of a white working-class neighborhood in Amsterdam North attack police with fireworks on NYâs Eve. The city had barred them from lighting a public bonfire because of the danger to neighboring houses.
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Annette Dittert
3 months ago
What the war against London really is about. V good by
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#Giftlink
And on a different note: A v Happy New Year to everyone!
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The plot against London
Distorted attacks by the populist right are really about demography
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/5f1c5501-db27-4723-9780-d2fef7b2cd00
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Stephen Bush
3 months ago
Woohoo! Best Christmas present ever:
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London St Pancras revamp aims to cut Eurostar waiting time to 15 minutes
Planned ÂŁ100mn overhaul of train station will seek to end âholding penâ experience for passengers
https://www.ft.com/content/ff7105f6-f209-421c-86de-508595c4af9a
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Thank you to everyone who has shared this. The hearing is over for today. DHS has filed a motion to pretermit (end Guan's asylum application in the US) and have him sent to Uganda - where he'd be at risk of being sent to China. The hearing to decide that will be held 12 January.
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/ice-holding-chinese-man-who-documented-uyghur-camps-a4702045?st=w7ZTZ9&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Ben Coates
4 months ago
The whitewashing of JA21 continues - now talked of as a member of a new coalition. Make no mistake: this is a far right party, with an immigration policy indistinguishable from Wilders; a history of dabbling in conspiracies; a co-leader whoâs blatantly antisemitic
www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/cda...
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CDA noemt JA21 in kabinet ârealistische optieâ en voert druk op D66 op
De onderhandelingen tussen D66, CDA en VVD over de vorming van een minderheidskabinet zijn nog maar net begonnen of Henri Bontenbal (CDA) zet de formatie al op scherp. Hij wil het radicaal-rechtse JA2...
https://www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/cda-noemt-ja21-in-kabinet-realistische-optie-en-voert-druk-op-d66-op~b0dc8a24/
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/ice-holding-chinese-man-who-documented-uyghur-camps-a4702045?st=w7ZTZ9&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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James Felton
4 months ago
I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
4 months ago
One thing that rankles with me - slightly - about nepo baby discourse, is that seemingly 90% of successful actors in the UK have a massive structural advantage simply from being born rich. To obsess over the 1% who also have famous parents as if THAT'S the problem, misses the forest for the trees.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
4 months ago
Of course, abandoning international human rights norms is as Far Right as it gets. What this is really about is dressing up Blue Labour's political strategy of appealing to Reform voters in clothing less likely to alienate everyone else.
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Stephen Bush
4 months ago
Labourâs shift away from âimmigration is good but it needs to be managedâ to âit is badâ is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they donât have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.
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Sam Joiner
4 months ago
as.ft.com/r/480a014d-3...
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The EU single marketâs elephant in the room
[FREE TO READ] Small, often invisible barriers to trade affect products from businesses across Europe, including a fluffy Ikea pachyderm
https://as.ft.com/r/480a014d-3f4a-4d5e-9232-64d99c86db07
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Benjamin Strick
4 months ago
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of âTrump-supporting independent womenâ that claimed to be âreal Americansâ are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
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Daniel Trilling
5 months ago
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
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UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c231x8rj1zpo
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Some good news this morning - exports of Xinjiang tomatoes have collapsed. Last year I worked with the BBC to expose how XJ tomatoes produced with forced labour were making their way to UK supermarkets via Italy. đ§”
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Stephen Bush
5 months ago
If you think that âthe slow vanishing of employee benefitsâ is a better trade politically than âthe other lot saying you broke your promise on income taxâ, you are out of your tree:
www.ft.com/content/1160...
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Looking for a long read to go with your coffee this morning? The Line is a project of incredible hubris - we got the story of how it unravelled.
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NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabiaâs Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - canât get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabiaâs Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salmanâs utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
https://ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-line/
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FT Edit
5 months ago
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has a fantastical vision for a new way of living. But The Line, his plan for a vertical city in a vast mirrored wall, is rapidly being undone by the laws of physics and finance. Here is an
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đ§” of eight mind-bending facts about this moonshot in the sand đ
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Sooz Kempner
5 months ago
The part of Mamdani's speech that I found most exciting was "you dismantle the conditions that allowed him to gain power. That's how we stop Trump â and the next one." We need popular political figures to point out that Trump is not an anomaly and there are plenty more to take his place.
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Sam Joiner
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Great working on this with
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and
@raydouglas.bsky.social
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NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabiaâs Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - canât get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabiaâs Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salmanâs utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
https://ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-line/
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Absolutely shocking that the Chinese govt pressured a UK university to shut down research about forced labour in Xinjiang and the links to global supply chains. The work of Laura Murphy and her team had been instrumental in getting Chinese companies sanctioned.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/03/uk-university-halted-human-rights-research-after-pressure-from-china
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Great to see the PVV vote fall back, but it still looks like there's a similar number of votes for the far right, just spread across several parties rather than concentrated in one.
#verkiezingen
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Great to see the PVV vote fall back, but it still looks like there's a similar number of votes for the far right, just spread across several parties rather than concentrated in one.
#verkiezingen
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Melissa Chan
5 months ago
On a day of nationwide â even global â No Kings protests, sharing this panel from our graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION. CC:
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Dan Sohege
6 months ago
Some changes to immigration rules today, not just increasing English language requirements, mean migrants looking to live and work in UK will have to meet far far higher standards than British nationals, while paying vast sums to be allowed to do so. That isn't a system based on "fairness". 1/
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David Wearing
6 months ago
Talk of Badenoch's incompetence is entirely superfluous at this stage. In fact, foregrounding her incompetence and lack of future prospects only detracts from how dangerous she is, right now, as leader of the opposition. That is the real issue. That the leader of the opposition is far right.
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