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Feb 7, 2021

Want to share my initial findings on some searches I've done on articles/outlets falsely claiming the Mossad were involved in the killing of Lebanese writer & Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim. Feeling helpless/frustrated so this is my contribution. #لقمان_سليم

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Malachy Browne

@malachybrowne

War, Weapons and Conspiracy Theories: Inside Airman Teixeira’s Online World

Jack Teixeira, accused of leaking classified documents, was fixated on weapons, mass shootings and shadowy conspiracy theories, our review of his chat history shows. By

A review of more than 9,500 messages obtained by The New York Times offers important clues about the mind-set of a young airman implicated in a vast leak of government secrets.

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Lizzie Dearden

@lizziedearden

The Met said four people had been “held on suspicion of conspiracy to cause public nuisance”, and that “lock-on devices” had been seized The new "public nuisance" law came into force in a package of protest powers last year, the lock-on law just days ago under Public Order Act

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This actually makes complete sense

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Alexander Campbell

@AJMCampbell

Unlikely joint arrival of the coronation so far - Nick Cave and Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury.

Adam Bienkov

@AdamBienkov

Republican protesters being arrested and their placards confiscated ahead of the coronation.

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Proud Boys Top Brass Found Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy

Tess Owen

@misstessowen

May 4

Big, big news: Proud Boys' top brass, including Enrique Tarrio, found guilty of seditious conspiracy for the Jan 6 riot. Jury remains deadlocked on whether Dominic Pezzola is guilty of seditious conspiracy.

vice.com

Former Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio and three of his henchmen now face 20 years in prison.

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@FFRAFAction

Essex pub that displayed racist dolls closes after boycott by suppliers

Essex pub that displayed racist dolls closes after boycott by suppliers

theguardian.com

Heineken, Carlsberg and Innserve cut ties with White Hart Inn, which had golly dolls confiscated as part of police investigation

Charles Lister

@Charles_Lister

Important data here from

@MEI_Syria

@GregoryPWaters

, showing #ISIS's highest rate of attacks for ~3yrs -- underlining: 1) Reports of #ISIS being near-dead are extremely premature & 2) Analysis based solely on #ISIS claims of responsibility are missing the wood from the trees.

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Gregory Waters

@GregoryPWaters

April '23 #ISIS Badia update: - 38 attacks (13 HQ) - 44 soldiers, 71 civilian KIA, 18 WIA + 7 civs kidnapped Most documented activity since end of 2020 surge in Mar '21. Activity again followed pattern of ~2 weeks high/ ~2 weeks low. Still no attack claims counterextremism.com/blog/isis-redu

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Not sure that “it could have been way, way worse” is as convincing an argument as the author thinks it is.

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Atlantic Council

@AtlanticCouncil

May 2

Paul Bremer is widely regarded as a villain of the Iraq war. His decrees fuelled a vicious Sunni insurgency, but helped the US avoid a larger catastrophe, argues @AndrewLPeek. Read more.

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Rula Jebreal

@rulajebreal

May 2

Fascism is thriving+socially acceptable in Italy. As Senate President La Russa recently bragged, “We are all the heirs to Mussolini.” Now, in Milan—Italy’s most cosmopolitan city—Mob of Neo-fascists are seen giving the Nazi hate Salute, without hesitation.

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Syrian refugees deported from Lebanon face arrest, conscription, say relatives

Maya Gebeily

@GebeilyM

May 1

We spoke to the relatives of Syrian refugees who were deported from Lebanon and ended up in the custody of Syrian security forces, or conscripted. More here:

reuters.com

Syrian refugees detained by security forces in Lebanon and deported have been subject to arrest and forced conscription upon return to their war-ravaged homeland, their relatives and rights advocates...

همّام الثاني

@Palhmam

Apr 25

يوميات مواطن فينيقي عنصري

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Sky News

@SkyNews

'I didn't know that you came here.' Sky's

@YousraElbagir

found her uncle in the crowds as evacuees were arriving in Jeddah from Sudan. trib.al/qF6YOfp

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“Dw I’ve thought of that” 🙃

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Eliot Higgins

@EliotHiggins

I am Jack's overconfidence

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Aric Toler

@AricToler

Government motion for pretrial detention of Jack Teixeira was just posted: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco

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Frantically trying to find a link to watch city v arsenal and this has sent me off the edge

Apr 26

Having a really productive Wednesday

Maxim Tucker

@MaxRTucker

Apr 26

A British teacher who made the 1,300 mile journey across Sudan’s desert to Egypt with her three children told me that those left behind are dying of thirst and starvation as electricity and running water fail in Khartoum, where temperatures are exceeding 40 degrees.

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Aya Majzoub

@Aya_Majzoub

Apr 25

Last week, #Lebanon's armed forced raided Syrians' homes & deported dozens of refugees.

@amnesty

continues to document torture, disappearances, arbitrary detention by the Syrian govt. #Syria is not safe, and these deportations violate Lebanon's intl legal obligations.

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Amnesty MENA

@AmnestyMENA

Apr 24

No refugee should be sent back to a place where their life will be at risk. The Lebanese authorities must stop forcibly deporting #refugees back to Syria, amid fears they are at risk of torture or persecution at the hands of the Syrian govt upon return. amn.st/6014OrZZQ

“Optimising and automating online dating” we are fucked

Christ alive

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The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

Apr 23

A new AI dating tool called Rizz is just one of many start-ups trying to transform romance through artificial intelligence by optimizing and automating online dating, now one of the primary ways by which people find romantic connections. wapo.st/3H3dyq0

John Scott-Railton

@jsrailton

Apr 20

The mess begins.

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Instagram ads getting more and more powerful by the day. Guess which one I’m definitely going to buy

@dan_a_lowe

Apr 17

Excited to be hosting Hamed Sinno and

@monakareem

at the

@britishlibrary

in July as part of the

@shubbakfestival

3 July: Hamed Sinno: In Conversation: bl.uk/events/hamed-s… 4 July: Mona Kareem: I Will Not Fold These Maps: bl.uk/events/mona-ka

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The joys of being a "stuff" person

Apr 16

In this week's newsletter, I discuss why moving house is the worst, contemplate shaving my head and Mary Kondo-ing my life.

deeba.substack.com

As it turns out, being able to fit your whole life into a single suitcase is fairly miserable

Hyphen

@onlinehyphen

Book by book — building a new home for Arabic literature in London

Prompted by the closure of Al Saqi Books, a new startup aims to create a home for Arabic books in London.

@samannf

reports

@MaqamBooks

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@amaalsaid

#independentbookshops

hyphenonline.com

The number of independent booksellers in the UK has nearly halved in the past 30 years. A new startup hopes to reverse the decline

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The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

Pictures of battlefield assessments, geopolitical analysis and satellite images ping-ponged from private forums to larger messaging platforms, then erupted on social media last week, triggering a diplomatic and intelligence nightmare for leaders around the world. Here’s how the… Show more

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Timour Azhari

@timourazhari

*personal-professional news* I'm moving to Baghdad to cover Iraq as

@Reuters

Bureau Chief. Very keen to talk to people who care about Iraq. Please feel free to reach out with thoughts, stories, etc This follows 9 years in Beirut, a hard place to leave. I'll be back often.

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All Source News

@All_Source_News

spiegel.deSyrian Drug Smuggling: "The Assad Regime Would Not Survive Loss of Captagon Revenues"The regime of Bashar Assad is apparently deeply involved in the trade of synthetic drugs. German investigators have now found proof that Syria's dictator is apparently funding his rule with drug...

“The regime of Bashar Assad is apparently deeply involved in the trade of synthetic drugs. German investigators have now found proof that Syria's dictator is apparently funding his rule with drug money”

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Jim'll Paint It

@Jimllpaintit

What the actual fuck is happening on this planet

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SETH WEATHERS

@sethweathers

Apr 12

America's been buying beer from a company that doesn't even know which restroom to use. There's a new beer in town!

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Absolutely sensational quotes throughout this, but perhaps none as good as “Any publicity’s good publicity, I guess, as long as I don’t land in prison,”. Shoutout all the tech journos currently trying to explain the dark and weird corners of Discord to their editors

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Kellen Browning

@Kellen_Browning

Apr 11

A YouTuber's irreverent Discord server is the center of a crisis over leaked Pentagon docs. “It was just spread onto the nicheiest, nerdiest parts of the internet,” said the YouTuber, wow_mao. He was surprised by the sudden attention. W/@stuartathompson nytimes.com/2023/04/11/bus

Pentagon Leak Linked to Minecraft Nerds Fighting on Discord: Reports

The Daily Beast

@thedailybeast

Apr 11

Dozens of classified U.S. documents leaked and circulated online may have originated in now-defunct chatrooms on the social media platform Discord, including a server for fans of the video game Minecraft, according to multiple reports.

thedailybeast.com

“Here, have some leaked documents,” one user wrote in a Discord chat after an argument about the war in Ukraine.

Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia, leaked U.S. document says

Evan Hill

@evanhill

Apr 10

🚨Egypt planned to manufacture and supply up to 40,000 rockets for Russia and keep it secret from "the West." New exclusive from the US intelligence leaks from me,

@missy_ryan

@siobhan_ogrady

washingtonpost.com

President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in February planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia and instructed officials to keep production and shipment secret “to avoid problems with the West.”

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