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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 9h

But Bezos doesn't care.

Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 11h

This has long been an issue in the context of Russia’s (c)overt foreign policy. A balance is needed between confronting and exposing Russia’s activities and refraining from seeing an all-powerful Russian hand behind every development.

Roman A. @romanad.bsky.social · 14h

"But overestimating Putin’s power means doing his job for him. It means amplifying every one of his threats, mistaking posturing for reality, and making policy decisions based not on facts but on what Putin wants us to believe." via
@theatlantic.com

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Putin Is Not Winning

Underestimating the Russian leader is dangerous, but ascribing dark powers to him plays right into his hands.

www.theatlantic.com

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 12h

This. Very little to celebrate.

Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 13h

Bezos is perfectly happy to publish the Post at a loss if he can use it to keep demonstrate obedience to the regime so his other businesses can keep making money. It’s just an operating cost to him.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 17h

An interesting study of political violence in the United States. Two main findings. It is relatively low. It skewes right, that is right-wing groups/individuals have conducted more politically motivated killings since 1975.

www.alexnowrasteh.com/p/alex-respo...

Alex Responds to the Critics: Politically Motivated Terrorist Killings in the United States

The critics are mistaken

www.alexnowrasteh.com

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 17h

Finally. Let’s hope this is taken seriously.

‘Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 issued a rare public warning to members of parliament on Monday that they are being targeted by spies from China, Russia and Iran in an attempt to undermine the country's democracy.’

www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...

UK's MI5 warns politicians they are targets of Russia and Chinese spying

Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 issued a rare public warning to members of parliament on Monday that they are being targeted by spies from China, Russia and Iran in an attempt to undermine the country's democracy.

www.reuters.com

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 19h

‘I was stopped by police while driving my silver Bentley stuffed with cash and I told them I’m a journalist’

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 19h

The Daily Mash is undefeated.

‘How to avoid talking about Reform taking Russian bribes: a BBC guide.’

www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/how...

How to avoid talking about Reform taking Russian bribes: a BBC guide

NEED to steer the conversation away from how Reform UK’s former leader in Wales took Russian bribes, in case the electorate hears? Follow this step-by-step BBC guide.

www.thedailymash.co.uk

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, and the Secretary's friends made a lot of money out of it. Something that at any other time would have been a presidency-ending scandal, but now...

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 1d

OK, this is vomit inducing now. Better go home. Genocidaire in chief brimming with joy, waiting for accomplice in chief, alongside young grifter in chief. Time to go home.

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 1d

In a day in which those who perpetrated a genocide and those who were complicit gather to pat themselves on the back as peacemakers, I recommend two books.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 1d

A plea, not to overfeed the returning hostages, while Gaza has been starving for months.

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 1d

‘Will they ever live a normal life again?’ Question, of course, asked only about the hostages. Not about Palestinians whose lives, families, homes have been destroyed.

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 1d

Having BBC News on in the tv gym is very detrimental to my mental health. Great celebrations of the release of Israeli hostages (rightly so), not a peep about the fact that for months international unwillingness to put pressure on Netanyahu allowed him to go on a genocidal rampage.

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 2d

Again, just for those at the back, why is @teamlabouruk.bsky.social not asking more questions? Excellent journalism as usual from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 2d

🔗 Read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's full story

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The contact of Reform UK’s Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why, even now, is no one asking questions?

Gill, former leader in Wales of Nigel Farage's party, admits taking bribes to help Putin. And his Russian connection - the Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn - in turn has links to a key figure wante...

www.thenerve.news

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 2d

More than just a bad apple: why we must look closer at the Nathan Gill scandal

New evidence connects the Ukrainian politician who paid bribes to Gill - Reform UK’s former leader in Wales - to a campaign to destabilise the US election

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social reports

The contact of Reform UK's Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why, even now, is no one asking questions?

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 2d

Unthinkable to have such a majority and waste it in such a cowardly manner.

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 2d

Things @teamlabouruk.bsky.social should do to improve the economy, society, and its electoral prospects:
1) Renounce and undo Brexit,
2) Change rhetoric on migration,
3) Tax the superrich, fund education and NHS,
4) Denounce and expose foreign interference and financing of UK parties.

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 2d

Again, every @teamlabouruk.bsky.social MP should be making statements on this every day.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 2d

Why is @teamlabouruk.bsky.social not hammering on this every hour of the day? Surely, the lesson of 2016 should be that caution in the face of interference does not work.

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 3d

Several sources told The Observer that the Electoral Commission had been given prior notice by a party, understood to be Reform UK, that it had received a donation made in cryptocurrency in recent weeks.
Reform is the only political party in Europe to accept donations in crypto

Calls for transparency on political funding after first crypto donation made to UK party

Electoral Commission notified of financial contribution, which is understood to have been handed to Reform UK

uk.news.yahoo.com

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CarlaExotic🏳️‍🌈NAFO🇺🇦Fellania🏳️‍⚧️🦄🦘 @carlaexotic.bsky.social · 2d

AI makes shit up

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no! I wonder where the donation in cryptocurrency comes from??

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 3d

Several sources told The Observer that the Electoral Commission had been given prior notice by a party, understood to be Reform UK, that it had received a donation made in cryptocurrency in recent weeks.
Reform is the only political party in Europe to accept donations in crypto

Calls for transparency on political funding after first crypto donation made to UK party

Electoral Commission notified of financial contribution, which is understood to have been handed to Reform UK

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 2d

Brexit, UKIP, the Northern League, AfD, Le Pen, Farage the list never stops. There is very little effort to unmask this. More attention it given to expose Russia's territorial breaches than its (political) active measures.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

open.substack.com

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