Arieh Kovler
@ariehkovler.com
Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. [email protected]. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
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I feel obliged to share this masterpiece from my brother:
January 14, 2026 at 11:17 AM
I feel obliged to share this masterpiece from my brother:
Remember, one politician who basically quit Twitter and almost never posts there anymore: Donald Trump.
Also striking that Rachel Reeves has been off of it since 2 January.
January 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Remember, one politician who basically quit Twitter and almost never posts there anymore: Donald Trump.
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i imagine this is how they're going to keep rounding up their 2026 hiring numbers despite everything
January 13, 2026 at 2:21 PM
i imagine this is how they're going to keep rounding up their 2026 hiring numbers despite everything
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This, from @benjaminpenn.bsky.social, is a good update on Epstein review.
But thus far no one is answering Q Pam Bondi probably doesn't want to answer.
DOJ spent 1000s of person-hours in March doing review. What purpose did it serve that it all got scrapped?
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
But thus far no one is answering Q Pam Bondi probably doesn't want to answer.
DOJ spent 1000s of person-hours in March doing review. What purpose did it serve that it all got scrapped?
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
January 13, 2026 at 2:24 PM
This, from @benjaminpenn.bsky.social, is a good update on Epstein review.
But thus far no one is answering Q Pam Bondi probably doesn't want to answer.
DOJ spent 1000s of person-hours in March doing review. What purpose did it serve that it all got scrapped?
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
But thus far no one is answering Q Pam Bondi probably doesn't want to answer.
DOJ spent 1000s of person-hours in March doing review. What purpose did it serve that it all got scrapped?
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Her daughter died after falling in with online extremists who idolize school shooters. Now, she's warning other parents.
www.cbsnews.com/news/tcc-764...
www.cbsnews.com/news/tcc-764...
Her daughter died after falling in with online extremists who idolize school shooters. Now, she's warning other parents.
Jaimee Seitz said her daughter was convinced to take her own life by members of the online True Crime Community, or TCC, who glorify mass shootings, violence and nihilism.
www.cbsnews.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Her daughter died after falling in with online extremists who idolize school shooters. Now, she's warning other parents.
www.cbsnews.com/news/tcc-764...
www.cbsnews.com/news/tcc-764...
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The remarkable thing here isn't the universal revulsion. Its that two large parties - Reform and the Conservatives - are trying to maintain stances favoured by around 0-1% of the public.
Polling like this also suggests that whenever Labour does develop enough backbone to act, there's no going back
Polling like this also suggests that whenever Labour does develop enough backbone to act, there's no going back
Has there ever been any poll showing the public this united? yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
January 13, 2026 at 1:13 PM
The remarkable thing here isn't the universal revulsion. Its that two large parties - Reform and the Conservatives - are trying to maintain stances favoured by around 0-1% of the public.
Polling like this also suggests that whenever Labour does develop enough backbone to act, there's no going back
Polling like this also suggests that whenever Labour does develop enough backbone to act, there's no going back
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Labour can extend this beyond X and start going after Reform politicians making money from the site. "Will Farage give back the money he made from this sex offender site?" Etc...
Has there ever been any poll showing the public this united? yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
January 13, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Labour can extend this beyond X and start going after Reform politicians making money from the site. "Will Farage give back the money he made from this sex offender site?" Etc...
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Just using tax dollars to make the product of a campaign donor profitable, normal non corrupt stuff. bsky.app/profile/defe...
Hegseth announced that Grok will soon go live in DOD and that “all appropriate data” from military IT systems would be available for "AI exploitation."
Pentagon is embracing Musk’s Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry
Hegseth announced that Grok will soon go live in DOD and that “all appropriate data” from military IT systems would be available for "AI exploitation."
www.defensenews.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Just using tax dollars to make the product of a campaign donor profitable, normal non corrupt stuff. bsky.app/profile/defe...
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babybel implies the existence of scarybel, sportybel, gingerbel and poshbel
January 13, 2026 at 4:50 AM
babybel implies the existence of scarybel, sportybel, gingerbel and poshbel
"Abolish ICE" is like "defund the police": both the general public and the hardcore activists will think it means one thing (in this case, scrap all immigration enforcement) while the serious policymakers will mean something else (*replace* ICE with different, better, non-rotten agencies)
"47 training days" is "Donald Trump is doing mad king shit that's about his ego, none of this is about what's good for us"
Abolish ICE is absolutely necessary (the institution is rotten and staffed with thugs), absolutely justified to anyone paying attention - but not a winning rhetorical issue
Abolish ICE is absolutely necessary (the institution is rotten and staffed with thugs), absolutely justified to anyone paying attention - but not a winning rhetorical issue
January 13, 2026 at 11:25 AM
"Abolish ICE" is like "defund the police": both the general public and the hardcore activists will think it means one thing (in this case, scrap all immigration enforcement) while the serious policymakers will mean something else (*replace* ICE with different, better, non-rotten agencies)
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Sorry, what? The federal “investigation” into ICE’s killing of an American is investigating the *victim*?
January 13, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Sorry, what? The federal “investigation” into ICE’s killing of an American is investigating the *victim*?
Everyone, move your money the fuck out of the US. Capital controls are a slippery slope. I've got US investments and I'm going to have to think about if and how to move them.
Bessent: "For individuals who want to wire money out of the country, they're gonna have to tick a box whether they are or are not on public assistance. Then we're going to start pushing over the coming days and weeks that if you're on public assistance, you cannot wire money out of the country."
January 12, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Everyone, move your money the fuck out of the US. Capital controls are a slippery slope. I've got US investments and I'm going to have to think about if and how to move them.
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Folks, is it a good sign of faith in your economy when you are instituting capital controls?
Bessent: "For individuals who want to wire money out of the country, they're gonna have to tick a box whether they are or are not on public assistance. Then we're going to start pushing over the coming days and weeks that if you're on public assistance, you cannot wire money out of the country."
January 12, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Folks, is it a good sign of faith in your economy when you are instituting capital controls?
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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STORY: The GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross Bill Ackman gave $10k to was created by a man with a profile image of what the ADL called a white supremacist hate symbol, who called Good “a stupod bitch who got what she deserved.”
It's raised over $400k and is still live.
theintercept.com/2026/01/12/i...
It's raised over $400k and is still live.
theintercept.com/2026/01/12/i...
ICE Agent GoFundMe Created by Activist Who Used Hitler Salute Symbol. Bill Ackman Gave $10,000.
Bill Ackman gave $10,000 to a GoFundMe for ICE killer Jonathon Ross that was started by a man whose account who posted Nazi imagery online.
theintercept.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:56 PM
STORY: The GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross Bill Ackman gave $10k to was created by a man with a profile image of what the ADL called a white supremacist hate symbol, who called Good “a stupod bitch who got what she deserved.”
It's raised over $400k and is still live.
theintercept.com/2026/01/12/i...
It's raised over $400k and is still live.
theintercept.com/2026/01/12/i...
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DOJ Releases Jerome Powell Deepfake Nudes https://theonion.com/doj-releases-jerome-powell-deepfake-nudes/
January 12, 2026 at 9:45 PM
DOJ Releases Jerome Powell Deepfake Nudes https://theonion.com/doj-releases-jerome-powell-deepfake-nudes/
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Understandably the literal murder is getting the most focus in terms of potential state prosecution, but murder is not the only crime. States have laws against assault and battery, and a much larger pool of justifiable cases to pursue.
Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.
Big clash this afternoon between DHS agents and protesters in a residential street in Minneapolis, following a DHS agent hitting another vehicle. Tear gas was deployed in people’s yards and agents pepper prayed people.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Understandably the literal murder is getting the most focus in terms of potential state prosecution, but murder is not the only crime. States have laws against assault and battery, and a much larger pool of justifiable cases to pursue.
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Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.
Big clash this afternoon between DHS agents and protesters in a residential street in Minneapolis, following a DHS agent hitting another vehicle. Tear gas was deployed in people’s yards and agents pepper prayed people.
January 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.
Spencer Pittman, the Jackson, MS synagogue arsonist, is an evangelical Christian baseball player who's into "scripture-based fitness" fad diets and posted an antisemitic video on his Insta the same day he burnt it down.
January 12, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Spencer Pittman, the Jackson, MS synagogue arsonist, is an evangelical Christian baseball player who's into "scripture-based fitness" fad diets and posted an antisemitic video on his Insta the same day he burnt it down.
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Ultimately it’s not a hard question, or shouldn’t be: if there were a website called creepywank dot org, where you could upload any picture or screengrab of anyone and get AI to produce a photorealistic picture of that person, regardless of age, in a state of undress…should it be legal in the UK?
Stephen has been bang on with this aspect of Badenoch's leadership from the start, and it has culminated in a position of being squeamish on banning a site mass-producing CSAM images because something something "Labour might ban it"
The premise of everything Kemi says and does is “if Labour are doing it, it must be bad”, and everything else is about her making intellectual pretzel shapes around that.
January 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Ultimately it’s not a hard question, or shouldn’t be: if there were a website called creepywank dot org, where you could upload any picture or screengrab of anyone and get AI to produce a photorealistic picture of that person, regardless of age, in a state of undress…should it be legal in the UK?
There are two crowdfunding campaigns for Renee Good's killer.
- A Gofundme was set up by someone with a pro-Nazi profile pic
- A Givesendgo made by an antisemite who included antisemitic content in the fundraising blurb.
So yeah.
- A Gofundme was set up by someone with a pro-Nazi profile pic
- A Givesendgo made by an antisemite who included antisemitic content in the fundraising blurb.
So yeah.
January 12, 2026 at 7:33 PM
There are two crowdfunding campaigns for Renee Good's killer.
- A Gofundme was set up by someone with a pro-Nazi profile pic
- A Givesendgo made by an antisemite who included antisemitic content in the fundraising blurb.
So yeah.
- A Gofundme was set up by someone with a pro-Nazi profile pic
- A Givesendgo made by an antisemite who included antisemitic content in the fundraising blurb.
So yeah.
Twitter is also this, but it's just a higher proportion here and the furries are more likely to be communists instead of Nazis
Made the mistake of trying to find a chart about inflation by searching for inflation on here and got a reminder that while most people think Bluesky is a place for politics, it's actually a place for furries to jack off
January 12, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Twitter is also this, but it's just a higher proportion here and the furries are more likely to be communists instead of Nazis
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Made the mistake of trying to find a chart about inflation by searching for inflation on here and got a reminder that while most people think Bluesky is a place for politics, it's actually a place for furries to jack off
January 12, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Made the mistake of trying to find a chart about inflation by searching for inflation on here and got a reminder that while most people think Bluesky is a place for politics, it's actually a place for furries to jack off
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“did you see that Brianna Wu was flirting with Elisabeth Holmes by talking about cutting off Brian Johnson’s Johns-“
You bolt awake. You are not online. You are General Hannibal. It is 218 BC. You have seen the future and it cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
You bolt awake. You are not online. You are General Hannibal. It is 218 BC. You have seen the future and it cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
January 12, 2026 at 3:48 PM
“did you see that Brianna Wu was flirting with Elisabeth Holmes by talking about cutting off Brian Johnson’s Johns-“
You bolt awake. You are not online. You are General Hannibal. It is 218 BC. You have seen the future and it cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
You bolt awake. You are not online. You are General Hannibal. It is 218 BC. You have seen the future and it cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.