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Andy Scollick

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Dystopia isn't in the future. Dystopia is now. PhD complex adaptive systems, resilience | interactions between defence, security, climate, energy, democracy | former strategic defence planner, adviser to Ukraine's military | anti-fascist | wokist

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 8h

They desperately want "antifa" (antifascism) to be an organisation. But it isn't.

It's an ideology, a worldview. It doesn't have a structure or offices. Antifa involves individuals and groups of people with a common antifascist agenda.

It's like calling golfers on a golf course "an organisation" 🙄

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 2h

TikTok is controlled by an authoritarian government. One of their goals is the weakening of democracies around the world.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 5h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 2h

💭 "Please let that Hermes limited edition handbag come in satin cream."

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 2h

💭 "This wall's gotta be worth at least $2 billion if we could use it as a foundation for a Trump Tower."

💭 "I bet Kushner is thinking about foundations."

Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 2h

What a place to sign the contracts taking ownership of the Gaza Strip, I mean, Riviera.

Michael Horowitz @michaelhorowitz.bsky.social · 1d

Witkoff and Kushner at Jerusalem's Western Wall

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h

United States Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, flanked by Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, get loudly booed in Tel Aviv, Israel as they praise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 2h

In the broader picture, there is a pattern in which Homeland Security is getting away with murder, literally. For the US military to go down the same route again (My Lai 1968, Haditha 2005, Kandahar 2012) benefits no one, least of all the US military. It shits on NATO's military standards and ethos.

Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 2h

As fare as anyone knows, 4 'drug' boats have been Hellfired without any attempt at interdiction. At least one was suspected to be smuggling people, not drugs. One was possibly a fishing boat. They are essentially doing what they did in Iraq and A'stan: bug-splatting when they see a headdress.

Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 2h

Witkoff has $2 billion. Kushner has $1 bn. The Witkoff Group has transactions totalling over $25 bn. Kushner's Affinity Partners has $5.4 bn assets under management. A week ago Kushner bought gaming giant Electronic Arts for $55 bn. He owns 10% ($17 bn) of Israeli investment firm Phoenix Holdings.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3h

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 3h

Site clearance contractors show real estate developers around their property. #Gaza

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3h

The Israeli army said Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir toured the Gaza Strip on Saturday with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper, alongside senior Israeli officers including Southern Command chief Yaniv Asor and Planning Directorate head Eyal Harel...

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James Miller (Millermena) @jamesmiller.bsky.social · 3d

If you're ever in Russia, stay away from the windows:

Pravda Publisher Dies in Fall From a Window in Putin’s Moscow www.thedailybeast.com/pravda-publi...

Pravda Publisher Dies After Fall From a Window in Putin’s Moscow

Authorities claimed Vyacheslav Leontyev had a “nervous breakdown” and stumbled out of a window.

www.thedailybeast.com

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 6h

There is no leader of Antifa.
There is no girlfriend of the leader of Antifa.

They are creating imaginary people so they can justify going after real people.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

Estonia’s Border Guard Board has closed the Saatse Boot passage after detecting increased Russian border activity.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 3h

Creating casus belli

Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 3h

Here are just four of Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Ivank Trump's numerous properties from their portfolios.

In Gaza real estate, they see wealth: lots and lots of wealth.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 3h

In some cases, yes. (So maybe not the best analogy.) But, here in Ireland at least, the majority of courses are open to guests, i.e. members of the public - no membership required.

Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 3h

NB. I'm not advocating for it. The moment someone empties a magazine into an ICE patrol on the street will be the moment the Insurrection Act is invoked and the crackdown begins. There is a case for self-defence when under attack (from the regime). But no case for initiating violence. Are we clear?

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 3h

The massed ranks of Ireland's neo-Nazis gathered in Cork City today. This is them. All of them.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 3h

"You're the state instruments of HARD POWER."

Now where have we heard that before? 🤔

a) Benito Mussolini speaking to his Blackshirts
b) Adolf Hitler speaking to his Brownshirts
c) Franciso Franco speaking to his Falangists
d) All of the above

Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 3h

The irony! 😆

English nationalism is the biggest threat to Northern Ireland's place in the union, according to the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.

English nationalism biggest threat to union, says Nesbitt

English nationalism is the biggest threat to Northern Ireland's place in the union, according to the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.

www.rte.ie

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 4h

Here he is in uniform 🤣

Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 4h

Irish neo-Nazi political activist Justin Barrett, aka "Wee Hitler" or "Little Hitler Bollix" because he's no taller than a dustbin, pretending he's addressing a Nuremberg Rally in #Cork City centre today.

One his five stormtroopers has to help the wee man down off the platform 😂 #spéirghorm