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Apr 17

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Comparing political rhetoric across eras is a sensitive task, as context, intent, and historical outcomes differ vastly.

In 1990, Ivana Trump said her husband Donald owned a copy of “My New Order” – a printed collection of Hitler's speeches – which he kept by the bedside...

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1855986493187080675

https://x.com/docrussjackson/status/1912806859624309060

Some of Trump’s statements have been noted by historians, critics, and media for echoing themes or phrasing used by Adolf Hitler, particularly in their dehumanizing language, scapegoating of groups, and authoritarian undertones.

https://x.com/docrussjackson/status/1912806859624309060

Below, with @grok's help, I’ll provide examples of Trump’s quotes that have been cited as resembling Hitler’s rhetoric, alongside Hitler’s statements for comparison, drawing from credible sources, focusing on specific language & themes, ensuring accuracy, & avoiding exaggeration.

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Apr 17

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Most people know very little about Trump's new best friend, El Salvador’s strongman leader, Nayib Bukele, who's been sat in the White House being adored by Trump and his team of fawning, dangerously unhinged sociopathic bootlickers...

Read this excellent article by Professor of International Politics at Lancaster University, Amalendu Misra, the author of seven critically acclaimed monographs on conflict and peace, whose primary research concerns violence in the political process.

theconversation.com/nayib-bukele-e…

Trump has unleashed a string of controversial policies since returning to the White House that have put his administration at odds with most of the world. He's also forged an alliance with one country that is willing to do his bidding abroad: El Salvador.

theconversation.com/most-of-the-wo…

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Apr 17

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The techno-dystopia many have warned about looks a lot closer today, after @WIRED revealed that Peter Thiel's #Palantir (which has a £500 million contract with #NHS England to manage our patient data across NHS trusts) is involved in Elon Musk’s DOGE.

wired.com/story/palantir…

https://x.com/docrussjackson/status/1899397075722219642

If you're unaware of who unhinged billionaire tech-bro Peter Thiel is, and why he should have nothing to do with the UK or our #NHS, or how he groomed and installed his protégé JD Vance in the White House, or how he's not keen on democracy, read this:

https://x.com/docrussjackson/status/1899397075722219642

The BMA are concerned about patient data privacy & Palantir’s ties to US intelligence.

DOGE, Palantir, & IRS representatives have been collaborating to build a single API layer above all IRS databases at an event previously characterized as a “hackathon.”
publictechnology.net/2023/11/22/hea…

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Apr 16

🧵 A scholar who specialises in how Universities respond to authoritarian pressure across different political systems, cultural contexts & historical moments warns that compliance with the Trump administration will not protect their funding & independence.
theconversation.com/universities-i…

Many American universities, widely seen globally as beacons of academic integrity and free speech, are giving in to demands from the Trump administration, which has been targeting academia since it took office.

psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/darwin…

Even before seizing power in 1933, the Nazi Party was closely monitoring German universities through nationalist student groups & sympathetic faculty, flagging professors deemed politically unreliable – particularly Jews, Marxists, liberals & pacifists.

theguardian.com/education/2021…

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Apr 14

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The claim that 11,300 millionaires fled the UK due to Labour has been widely reported & discussed—even by ministers.

Just one problem: it’s extremely unlikely to be true.

A 🧵 about wealth, truth, propaganda, our broken news media, & how citizenship became a commodity.

This 🧵is about how the ultrarich use news media to oppose constraints on their wealth & power, & to break free from well-established legal, democratic & ethical norms, manifested in debate around what some have called the 'commodification of citizenship'.
eprints.lse.ac.uk/123961/2/Commo…

The sheer volume of unreliable or false information spreading around the world has caused some scholars to refer to this phenomenon as a ‘disinfodemic’, which involves the spread of harmful, misleading and dangerously polarizing misinformation and disinformation.

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Apr 8

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Two teenagers found guilty of manslaughter.

The Police DCI who led the investigation into the brutal killing of 80-year-old Bhim Kohli said the attack was carried out by a racially abusive 14-year-old boy with a thirst for social media notoriety.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

80-year-old Bhim Kohli was attacked in a park.

The 15-year-old boy who kicked, punched and racially abused Kohli while he was walking his dog in a park, has been found guilty of manslaughter.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a…

While Kohli was on his knees, the boy took off one of his shoes and slapped the elderly man in the face.

A 13-yr-old girl - then 12 - who could be heard laughing & encouraging the attack, which she filmed, was also found her guilty of manslaughter.

cps.gov.uk/east-midlands/…

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