FIFA is selling football's soul to the Trump family. What could go wrong?🙃 If the deal goes through, the American overturned red card scandal will pale in comparison to future corruption and fixed matches

DanMygind@mygind.bsky.social · 6d ago

"Jared and Joshua’s father, Charles Kushner, convicted of tax evasion, witness tampering, illegal campaign contributions and sentenced to two years in prison, is Trump’s ambassador to France though he speaks no French. He was pardoned by Trump in 2020." www.theguardian.com/football/202...

"Jared and Joshua’s father, Charles Kushner, convicted of tax evasion, witness tampering, illegal campaign contributions and sentenced to two years in prison, is Trump’s ambassador to France though he speaks no French. He was pardoned by Trump in 2020." www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Fifa’s sale of the century: how Kushners and Trump are at centre of a tangled web

Joshua Kushner is now the kingpin in driving the sale of the World Cup to investors and family ties are tight around the project

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Farage got £5 million from billionaire Christopher Harborne and is living rent-free at aristocrat's London mansion. Posh George also paid for Farage's office staff and security. Posh George's mother, daughter of the 3rd Baron Manton, was girlfriend of King Charles. "people vs establishment"😆🤣😂

🔴 NEW: Reform UK's £4m crypto donor Ben Delo has dismissed his US conviction as a "non-crime" But we got the court docs - and found a different story US federal prosecutors said he "thumbed his nose at the law" and had led a "criminal enterprise" democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...

Reform's £4m donor "thumbed his nose at the law", US prosecutors said

Ben Delo has called his US conviction a "non-crime". Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”.

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Glad to contribute to this new website - New SLAPP guidance and advice hub for journalists facing legal intimidation www.journalism.co.uk/new-slapp-gu...

New SLAPP guidance and advice hub for journalists facing legal intimidation

SLAPPstraining.org provides case studies and interviews with prominent journalists who have faced legal threats designed to silence their work

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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage’s attempt to get ahead of £5m gift story only raises more questions

Reform leader went public after approach from Guardian, but does his claim stack up that money was for his security?

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Man of the people 🤣 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Exclusive: Nigel Farage was given undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire in 2024

Reform leader changed his mind about standing as MP after gift from Thai-based crypto tycoon Christopher Harborne

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EXCLUSIVE: The US abruptly ends an investigation into claims that Meta can access encrypted WhatsApp messages

US Ends Investigation Into Claims WhatsApp Chats Aren’t Private

A US agency abruptly closed an investigation into allegations that Meta Platforms Inc. can access encrypted WhatsApp messages, said two people familiar with the matter, ending a law enforcement inquiry into claims that challenge how the company markets the chat service’s privacy.

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This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.

Max and Israel Makoka Were Waiting for a Hancock High School Bus. ICE Took Them Instead.

ICE detained Max and Israel Makoka, two Hancock County high school students who were waiting for a bus when agents arrested them.

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Don Jr and Eric Trump combined own 12% of Dominari Holdings which owns 90% of American Ventures, lead investor for an $8M offering of Singapore-based Genius Group shares, and a deal to finance $5.5M for a small digital bank in Bermuda, Jewel Bancorp. My Latest

How Don Jr. and Eric Trump are linked to a small deal with Singapore-based Genius Group Ltd. to invest in Jewel Bancorp, a digital bank in Bermuda

Don Jr. and Eric Trump are linked to a small deal with Dominari Holdings affiliated American Ventures investing in Singapore-based Genius Group Ltd. and Jewel Bancorp in Bermuda.

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48 hours later and the only outlet to follow up this story has been the National in Scotland Call me old fashioned but think destroying information with a legal hold on it and a disclosure to Serious Fraud is pretty important stuff open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Labour Together PR firm tried to destroy crucial evidence

Controversial firm reported to Serious Fraud Office after senior executive ordered deletion of evidence of Labour Together’s smear campaign against journalists

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Nearly six months on - and people still are unaware of this Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein

Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

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It's a perfect day for reading in the garden So I made the entire series FREE on Kindle Unlimited (£3.99 to buy) I'm nice that way 5⭐ "Honestly up there with Gone Girl" 5⭐ "Wow. Just wow. So fucking good" 5⭐ "Twisty thrillers that will leave you breathless" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G2CDCMV...

The Erin Callahan Thrillers

Visit Amazon's The Erin Callahan Thrillers page and shop for all The Erin Callahan Thrillers books. Check out pictures, author information and reviews of The Erin Callahan Thrillers

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"The Republican apologist class will go on producing the long, articulate, disqualifying-in-what-sense replies that history will read with the same grim clarity it reads the German conservative intellectuals of 1933" this is very good:

Mike Brock 🇺🇸@brockm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ben Shapiro on Sam Harris conceded the liberal case against Trump — corruption, coup, dictator-talk — then explained why he'll vote Republican anyway. The most clarifying interview I've read in a year, not about who you'd think. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-most-a...

Palantir: We need a positive story, public opinion is against us. Met: We can provide one. Public: Why wasn't the Met aware of rape allegations and what kind of privacy intruding surveillance established that some officers were freemasons? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Met investigates hundreds of officers after using Palantir AI tool

Met says AI software unearthed rule-breaking ranging from work-from-home violations to suspected corruption

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No need for science and truth when you got a king - or is it Jesus?

Via Politico: "The Greens, Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru — plus Labour backbencher Clive Lewis — have written to Darren Jones to ask the minister to formally recognize the risks of Britain’s addiction to American tech firms" like Palantir.

The US getting rid of citizens with the "wrong" mindset/political leanings?

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Justice Department just identified 384 naturalized Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke and they won’t say why they picked those 384 people specifically.

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Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“Dialog , a secretive…network founded 2 decades ago by Peter Thiel & Auren Hoffman” reportedly plans to build a campus in the DC suburbs. Past Dialog participants reportedly include Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Scott Bessent, Eric Schmidt, Ted Cruz, Cory Booker, Gary Kasparov, etc. 8/7/25 … 1/

Why would you fire all the top military commanders in the middle of a war? Maybe you want each branch to be led by inexperienced, incompetent men who won't even have the background and knowledge to consider whether they should obey your every command

🤩 Big news for 🇪🇺 A senior civil servant who ran the Brexit department from 2017–2019 has just said Britain should start talking seriously about rejoining the EU. Philip Rycroft in The Times today: none of the Leave campaign’s “heady promises” have materialised.

Great overview of software engineering laws. @bruces.bsky.social, looking forward to the collection of short stories 😉

#BruceSterling@bruces.bsky.social · 3mo ago

*I'm pretty sure I could write a series of cyberpunk science fiction yarns that would dramatize every single one of these so-called "laws" *Especially since one of them, "Sturgeon's Law," was made up by a science-fiction writer about science fiction lawsofsoftwareengineering.com

"Farage has clocked up nearly £2 million in income and gifts since he was elected as the member for Clacton in July 2024." open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

Farage’s foreign income

Mapping his millions...

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Both Democrats and Republicans are hypocrites when it comes to Section 702 of FISA, the law that has been used to spy on Americans’ communications without a warrant. It must be reformed. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social explain, and take action: freedom.press/action/refor...

On warrantless spying, both Democrats and Republicans are hypocrites

YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation

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As @greenparty.org.uk has long been saying www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Britain’s military dependence on US ‘no longer tenable’, says former Nato chief

George Robertson says diplomatic tone from White House is at ‘historic low’ and two allies are likely to keep diverging

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Thankx to THE BOSS for having Public Enemy perform at Springsteen Center American Music Honors ,, we should all always continue to FIGHT THE POWER

💥NEW: We’ve spent years piecing together internal documents to find out how Palantir, a controversial surveillance firm, secured the keys to our health data. The Shadow Contract, a new investigative podcast from Good Law Project. Stream all 4 episodes today ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/1e69ba

The @greenparty.org.uk doesn't want Trump’s regime and US tech to control our military, police and NHS. Vote Green - take back control

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's time to take the fight to Palantir. youtube.com/shorts/IPF5b...

The Epstein Files were supposed to be released 123 days ago.