Paul Cochrane

@mrdissent.bsky.social

Ultracrepidarian. Noli me sequi 🇦🇷🇳🇴🇲🇽

Trump posts that Omar should be "thrown out." The border czar announces a criminal investigation on television. HSI searches her home 22 days before the midterm. The warrant's subject, per one source to Fox News, is paperwork her father filed when she was a child. She has never been charged.

Rep. Ilhan Omar's home raided by DHS in fraud probe of immigration paperwork: Report

The Minnesota Democrat, a Muslim who was born in Somalia, has been targeted for criticism in the past by President Donald Trump.

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It's beautiful to see such an indisputable, physical connection being exposed between Russia and its legions of bots. 'Cloudflare reports bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded over the past two weeks.' www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...

Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers

Russian bot traffic falls dramatically as Ukraine takes out several Yandex data centers.

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Which bands or singers switched you on politically? For me it was Stiff Little Fingers, The Specials and the Dead Kennedys. In my long read, I explore protest music and why it seems to have almost died out in the 2020s with academic and music writer Gregor Gall. In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

'Ed Sheeran could have said f**k Kraft' Scots professor on why pop's gone pedestrian

Well-known academic Gregor Gall has a new book coming out on left-wing music. He talks to our Writer at Large about why rock and roll was more revolutionary in decades gone by

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If Andy Burnham was a Green MP the press would be screaming "Do you think Man City has a right to exist and have a penis???" at him. Then calling him an out of touch bigot who has lost control of his radical extremist party and must resign. Regardless of the answer.

The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer. Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer. We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is. It will never reach you.

Asked about the US strike on a school in Minab, Iran that killed 123 children, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar blames "human error" rather than Palantir's AI. He then complains that "Targeting is kind of this very salacious word."