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Writer & Political Commentator | Monitoring threats to democracy from far-right authoritarianism & tech oligarchy. Featured on BBC, SkyNews, LBC, TimesLive, EuroNews & more Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@AdamJSchwarz https://linktr.ee/adamjschwarz

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Jun 7

Elon Musk's businesses can once again be held accountable to the rule of law as a result of Trump no longer corruptly shielding his interests.

Given Musk's use of X to destabilise democracies, action should be urgently taken.

Great to discuss on Sky News.

Full interview: youtu.be/6DAYoTxXyc4?...

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 7h

Fiona Bruce shuts down Zack Polanski's attempt to press Zia Yusuf over Reform UK's links to Putin.

"Bribrary from Russia. Pretty serious for our national security."

"There's other things that the audience wants to talk about", Bruce responds.

Good on @zackpolanski.bsky.social.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 9h

Reform UK and the Tories could support free speech absolutism without deliberately turning those who commit the most violent incitement and incendiary acts into heroes. By doing so, they are consciously encouraging and legitimising the socially destructive acts that their champions commit.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 9h

It is rightfully an aggravated public order offence to burn a religious text in public where it's motivated by hate toward a religious or ethnic group, especially when it's deliberately within hearing or sight of the group they're targeting.

And that's exactly why Hamit Coskun was charged & fined.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10h

They lionised a woman for calling for hotels full of asylum seekers to be set on fire. Now they're lionising a man who set fire to a Quran in public.

The far-right, whether it's Reform UK or Conservatives, are championing the cause of those who will violently tear our society apart.

Reprehensible.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 11h

Trump obviously will not be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow.

He will attempt to discredit the Nobel Committee as 'rigged' and eventually announce that he's creating his own version of the awards, with panel members appointed by his administration. He will be the inaugural 'winner' in 2026.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

Extraordinary that truths based on post-war anti-fascist values are confined to fringe events of the Tory conference, while Robert Jenrick is given the main stage to promote nativist white nationalism.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 3d

Your pitch to be the next prime minister of France in 10 words or less. Go.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks!

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 4d

The Israeli government's planned hosting of Tommy Robinson is a reprehensible betrayal of Jewish values and history.

Robinson is a racist street thug. He is no friend of British Jews.

We must never permit the far-right to exploit antisemitism to attack Muslims.

Good to discuss on i24News.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 9d

This is Starmer at his best. Acknowledging and identifying nuisances where necessary while being unequivocal and impassioned on distinguishing right from wrong.

I hope this speech heralds a permanent end of Labour attempting to parrot Reform UK's nativist and culture war narratives.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 9d

Wow Starmer finally drawing a line!

"If you say or imply that people cannot be English or British because of the colour of their skin, that mixed-heritage families owe you an explanation... If you say that they should now be deported, then mark my words - we will fight you with everything we have".

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 9d

Starmer on Farage:

"I have had enough of lectures by self-appointed champions of working people, who want to shred our public services, level down workers' rights, crash the economy... politicians who lie to this country, unleashed chaos and walked away after Brexit, who equivocate on Ukraine."

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10d

Trump and Netanyahu agree not to take any questions from reporters.

Two self-styled strongmen, terrified by the prospect of answering a few questions.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10d

Seeing this guy outrun ICE is cathartic yet horrifying knowing they’re arbitrarily & unlawfully kidnapping people across the States, often on the basis of racial profiling.

ICE are the American gestapo. And it’s about to get much worse after Trump added $180bn to the immigration enforcement budget.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10d

Trump’s ICE agents tried to kidnap a food delivery worker in Chicago - but the guy was too fast for them.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 11d

Bomb threats, cyber attacks, social media bot swarms and Russia-paid clergy pumping Kremlin disinformation, illicit funding of pro-Russia parties and propagandists & widespread voter bribery.

Yet, Moldovans still overwhelmingly voted for a pro-EU party.

A testament to their democratic resilience.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 11d

The pro-EU Party of Action & Solidarity has crushed the pro-Russia Patriotic Electoral Bloc in the Moldovan election.

It won 51 seats - an outright majority.

Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership.

A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12d

Millions of Americans marched against the US invading Iraq under the false pretence of weapons of mass destruction.

How many Americans will march against the US invading itself under the false pretence of domestic terrorism?

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 13d

This is likely the largest UN walkout of an Israeli leader in history.

It should serve as a wake-up call for Israelis that Netanyahu is burning Israel's global support to shield himself from his own failures. Israel's fate should not be tied to him nor his extremist allies.

Time to change course.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 13d

Netanyahu:

"Would a country committing genocide plead with the civilian population that it is supposedly targeting to get out of harms way? Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave? Of course not"

Actually, encouraging Jews to emigrate is exactly what the Nazis did 1933-39.

Ignorant of Jewish history.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 13d

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 13d

The Secretary of War (Crimes).

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14d

Trump:

"Everybody understand? Death penalty in Washington. You kill somebody or if you kill a police offier, law enforcement officer - death penalty."

The president who, on his first day back in office, pardoned people convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers on January 6th.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14d

Trump:

"I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. It's not going to happen."

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