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'Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did & it never will' - Frederick Douglass #FuckMusk #FuckFarage #FuckTrump @docrussjackson.bsky.social
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Nov 16 • 17 tweets • 8 min read
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Allison Pearson posted then deleted disinformation, falsely accused three people of being "Jew haters", lied about where the photo was taken & what they were doing, then lied about what the Police said to her - and then moaned about being a victim! FFS

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… The Telegraph's divisive shit-stirrer Pearson falsely claimed she was told by the police who came to her home it was over a “non-crime hate incident”. Her lie was then dutifully amplified by every Reform UK MP & billionaire-owned right-wing "news" media, painting her as a victim.
Nov 15 • 30 tweets • 11 min read
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Pearson, Farage, Musk, Young, Habib, & many other shit-stirrers who shamelessly try to normalize hateful, divisive, provocative & inflammatory rhetoric, often refer to George Orwell's 1984, but Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is much closer to the dystopia we inhabit... Image Harassment, malicious communications, incitement, & threatening violence are all crimes in the UK, & have been for a long time.

Print & broadcast media, & online social media are simply platforms on which we behave or misbehave: it's not about the medium, it's about the offence. Image
Nov 15 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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"Enoch Powell was a hero of the young Nigel, but at this point he could do without any association with the politician who made the notorious Rivers of Blood speech... the accusation of racism follows Farage & his party around like a bad smell." - Allison Pearson Image "Farage has tried for years to shrug off the charge that his parties are more than “the BNP in blazers”... although I don’t think Farage is a racist, it’s a problem that racists attach themselves to Reform." - Allison Pearson Image
Nov 9 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
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Image Not a lot of people know that Oxbridge alumni Fiona Bruce, presenter of 'Fake or (paid a) Fortune?', and since January 2019, the @BBC's interrupting Chair of #bbcqt, was born in Singapore.

One of her first episodes as Chair was the one that made Laurence Fox a household name. Image
Nov 8 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
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Hard-core “ultra” supporters of Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Israel’s most successful football club, often use inflammatory, offensive and racist language.

In Amsterdam, their fans chanted racist slogans and refused to observe a minute’s silence for Spain's victims of the floods. The Mail reported the violence ahead of the match against Ajax, reporting 'Israeli football hooligans tore down Palestine flags as they marched through Amsterdam. Videos show hooded figures dressed fully in black cheering & chanting 'fuck you Palestine'.'

dailymail.co.uk/sport/football…
Nov 4 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
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Tory & Reform UK MPs, #TuftonSt lobbyists, & Media Barons Rupert Murdoch, Jonathan Harmsworth & Paul Marshall despise two of Britain’s most loved institutions: our @BBC & our #NHS.

They use their power to undermine them.

Why?

And who is the new @BBC Chair, Samir Shah? For these individuals & organisations, our @BBC & #NHS are a constant reminder that free-market capitalism is a profoundly flawed ideology fuelling greed & climate change, & that not every large organisation should either be a charity or be owned by shareholders & run for profit.
Nov 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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English neo-Nazi who stabbed asylum seeker was a serial stalker.

Terrorist Callum Parslow was previously jailed for sending 10 women sexually explicit and misogynistic messages, and even targeted a black former GB "News" presenter.

theguardian.com/politics/2024/… A neo-Nazi terrorist who was found guilty last month of the attempted murder of an asylum seeker is a prolific online stalker who had previously been jailed and referred to the #Prevent counter-terrorism scheme.

Oct 16 • 31 tweets • 7 min read
🧵ASYLUM QUIZ

We hear A LOT about Small Boats & Migrant Hotels, but basic facts are often misrepresented.

Q1 When compared to EU countries plus Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein & Norway, where did the UK rank in 2023 by per capita asylum applications? (1st=most)

DON'T CHEAT ANSWER to Q1:

When adjusted by population size, the UK received the 20th highest number of applications: 12.5 per 10,000 residents.

Q2 Where did the UK rank in 2023 in ACCEPTING/APPROVING per capita asylum applications?

(1st=most, 31st=last).
Oct 14 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
#THREAD

'Divide and Rule'.

What if the 1% are deliberately manufacturing deeply polarised societies?

What if the differences between, for example, the "woke and anti-woke", Leavers and Remainers, migrants and non-migrants are deliberately exaggerated, or entirely manufactured? Image What if the 1% remain powerful because they invest in the strategy of Divide & Rule?

For many reasons, including ignorance, desperation, trauma, stupidity & selfishness, millions of people respect & even vote for shameless, divisive, dangerously irresponsible sociopathic liars. Image
Oct 3 • 29 tweets • 10 min read
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A January amendment to the Online Safety Act 2023 allows for the prosecution of those who convey information they know to be false & “if the person intended the message, or the information in it, to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience”. Image The #Southport stabbing was on 29th July. At 4.44pm on 30th July, Tommy Robinson posted a tweet to his more than 1 million followers on @X, referring to Muslims and saying "people need to rise up", and "our daughters are being butchered in dance classes".

theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…Image
Sep 30 • 87 tweets • 20 min read
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'The Left' can be defined on the basis of its 'egalitarian drive': its credo is to remove—also through state intervention—barriers that make people unequal, advocating equal rights & opportunities for all.

So how might we define 'the far-right'?

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… The following 🧵quotes extensively from the 2022 article 'Far right: The significance of an umbrella concept', by Andrea Pirro, published in Nations and Nationalism, a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research on nationalism and related issues.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/146981…
Sep 25 • 31 tweets • 10 min read
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I missed this story about Kevin Roberts - President of the Heritage Foundation & the man behind #Project2025, who has close ties to Truss, Patel, Oliver Dowden & Jenrick (who have all given speeches at the Heritage Foundation) - KILLING HIS NEIGHBOUR'S DOG WITH A SHOVEL!
Image Allegedly, Roberts told university colleagues he'd killed a neighborhood dog with a shovel because it was barking and disturbing his family.

He didn't mention THAT when he spoke to fellow free-market fundamentalists at the #NatCon conference in London!

Sep 19 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Farage may become Britain's Trump, & Reform UK, Britain's Republicans: same divisive 1930s-style propaganda; same support from the same handful of billionaires; same climate change denial; same policies, from the same opaquely funded global network of free-market think-tanks.🤑



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Sep 18 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
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Tommy Robinson CHECKS HIS SOURCES, so he knows Evie is a right-wing online magazine which has spread COVID-19 & vaccine misinformation, & has a traditionalist/antifeminist worldview.

In 2022, Evie launched an app which collects menstruation data, funded by Peter Thiel.
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Image Evie’s anti-vax blogs provide a window into how COVID denialism & misinformation are being marketed in right-wing women’s media. Evie’s founder and editor-in-chief is a former model turned would-be Catholic lifestyle influencer named Brittany Martinez.

vice.com/en/article/ant…
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Sep 17 • 46 tweets • 12 min read
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Nazi propaganda dehumanized Jews in order to facilitate the Holocaust.

In the book 'Unhumans', right-wing conspiracy theorists Jack Posobiec &Joshua Lisec claim that Progressive-minded Americans are bloodthirsty Communist "unhumans" hellbent on destrying civilization. This 🧵quotes this article by Gil Duran of @GeorgeLakoff's #FrameLab. George is a cognitive linguist & philosopher, best known for his thesis that our lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors used use to explain complex phenomena.

theframelab.org/jd-vances-raci…
Sep 14 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
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@X accounts used this photo to falsely accuse Springfield Haitians of killing geese (& pets) to eat.

Ohio Wildlife Organization confirm the man lawfully picked up 2 geese hit by a car in Columbus, not Springfield. No evidence that he's Haitian.

tmz.com/2024/09/13/ohi… Here's the context debunking the abhorrent lies about Springfield Haitians 'eating geese & pets' currently being pushed by Trump, Vance, endless gullible MAGAs, & much of the US right-wing media, which have so far resulted in two bomb threats.


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Sep 13 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
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Not content with attacking the UK & Brazilian Governments & spreading wild conspiracy theories, petulant sociopathic politically illiterate one-man-disinformation machine Elon Musk has now lambasted Australia’s government as “fascists”.

ft.com/content/99bd4d… The Australian Government has proposed laws that could levy substantial fines on social media companies if they fail to comply with rules to combat the spread of #disinformation and online scams - which Musk has zero interest in doing.

Sep 8 • 50 tweets • 20 min read
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Have you even heard of Nick Buckley? Or Andrew Hawkins?

This 🧵 concerns their links to conspiracy theorists, the UK anti-abortion lobby, fossil fuels, Brextremists, questionable charities & platforms, Reform UK, GB "News" owner Paul Marshall, & the UK Christian Right. Image In the run-up to #GE2024, just TWO outrider opinion poll companies put Reform UK on 20% or more: 'People Polling' (owned by Legatum 'Senior Fellow' Matt Goodwin) & 'Whitestone Insight', the CEO of which is Andrew Hawkins. Reform got just 14% of the votes.


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Sep 7 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
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Yesterday, the @BBC published a statement criticising Birmingham City Council (BCC) for not selling off valuable artworks from its Museum & Art Gallery, given by BBC critic Joanna Marchong of #TuftonStreet's opaquely funded free-market lobby group, 'TaxPayers Alliance'.
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Image The 'framing' was highly partisan: BCC "owns an artwork collection valued at almost half a billion pounds, a @BBC investigation has discovered. But none will be sold off to help tackle the financial challenges at the council which declared it was effectively bankrupt last year."
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Sep 5 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
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Disabled children’s charity Street Foundation, funded mainly by HR Smith Group (big donors to Reform, Tories & Brexit groups) gave 43% of its grants (£749,000) to #TuftonSt lobbyists. CEO Richard Smith owns the building housing the New Culture Forum, Civitas, GWPF & IEA.
Image Richard Smith fomerly (currently?) of #TuftonStreet's Taxpayers Alliance, is a trustee of the Politics & Economics Research Trust (PERT), founded by Matthew Eliott. In 2015 it was reported that PERT gave 97% of its 2015 grants to groups who favour Brexit.

theguardian.com/society/2015/d…
Sep 4 • 22 tweets • 10 min read
#THREAD

I've spent 28 years researching & teaching about propaganda, capitalism, & news media.

I'm telling you that if "Christian" billionaire GB "News" owner, Paul Marshall, is allowed to buy the #Spectator, it will be a catastrophe for Britain, the environment, & democracy. Image For a century, from Lords Rotheremere & Beaverbrook to Murdoch & Musk, grotesquely wealthy Media Barons have been allowed to flood public discourse with #misinformation & #propaganda, shaping public opinion & subverting democracy in ways that invariably benefit only themselves. Image