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Steve Townsend ❌👑

@stevetownsend0.bsky.social

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Brit in NYC, computer programming lifer. #SlavaUkraini #StandWithIsrael Zionist & Bonds Dogs ally, Bluesky fella not for-profit @pef-moderation.org - subjective labeling of disinfo and hate speech

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · Nov 13

What if instead of trying to deplatform bad actors, #NAFO crowd-moderates them?
NAFO Forum fallacy bot plus shiba horde -> a Labeler for people who want to avoid X-ification
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 1h

indeed. I just scratched the surface
www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...

Jack Posobiec

Jack Posobiec is a political operative and internet performer of the anti-democracy hard right, known primarily for creating and amplifying viral disinformation campaigns. His disinformation typically...

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 1h

pushing back on the lies and Jew haters, we don't need another X

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2h

California is the first state to define ultra-processed foods and phase them out of school meals.

DC politicians can talk all day about "Making America Healthy Again," but we've been walking the walk on boosting nutrition and removing toxic additives and dyes for decades.

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 1h

Unfortunate kids in MAHA families will be dead from preventable diseases before this becomes an issue

Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 1h

bluesky's legions of pretend palestine supporters ofc love this, as it supports their Holocaust inversion. It's just quoted as fact.
I guess Hamas is deliberately undercounting by a factor of ten 🤷‍♂️
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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 1h

Even Hamas is only claiming 70K or so dead, as of late September 2025. I thought we were supposed to take their count as gospel?

I guess some people just latch onto the highest current estimate, no matter the source or how ridiculous.

www.npr.org/2025/09/28/n...

Palestinian death toll tops 66,000 as Netanyahu prepares to meet Trump

The death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has topped 66,000 Palestinians, Gaza's Health Ministry said, a day before the Israeli Prime Minister heads for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.

www.npr.org

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 1h

The problem is, only ~60K new "under fives" per year were being born in Gaza pre-war. Is it more now?
380K would imply (around) 80% of all of them have been killed. Those are Nazi death camp numbers, which is probably why they picked them.
Source : State of Palestine
www.pcbs.gov.ps/statisticsIn...

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 1h

icymi there is a fictitious number doing the rounds right now. This is supposedly as of April 2025.
- 680,000 total dead
- 380,000 under fives
- 479,000 children
source: arena.org.au/politics-of-...

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 2h

idk, let's ask qualified attorney Small Goodman
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 2h

Will Babis allow this? [Maybe he's not sworn in yet]

Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 2h

2. he is a leading light in National Conservatism, which is transnational MAGA, especially in Eastern Europe targeting the Putin-curious constituencies.

h/t to @cnn.com and @cbsnews.com for the soft focus interviews about his "friend Charlie Kirk"

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 2h

⬇️ That would be the usual projection.

Fun facts about Posobiec, for those who are new and have only seen the post-Kirk whitewashed MSM version:

1. he is the author of a book 'Unhumans' that dehumanizes political enemies ('communists'), i.e. openly genodical

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 2h

'clueless take'

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 2h

Someone should make a Sora 2 video of Altman having an uncontrollable crying jag for when it does

Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 3h

I labeled OP, my post and the other ones as misinformation to reflect your comment

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 3h

Interesting. All the citations for this include the Gaza one, they also look cut and paste.

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 4h

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William Russell @robotowilliam.bsky.social · 1d

Christ, Fox News is using the same fake guest pretending variously to be an Mexican gang member, a member of Antifa, and someone from Gaza. Appears to be a guy who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden, despite contradicting accounts of that event.

Antifa isn't even an organisation...

Three screenshots showing what looks to be the same guy wearing a mask ('for his protection') on Fox News with different inflammatory stories

The same guy again, featured in a NYPost article after being arrested. He is a former Navy SEAL who claims he killed Osama Bin Laden, although official accounts differ on that fact.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 5h

MAGA is a narrow church

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6h

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...

Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 6h

1/7 Why is Ukraine still winning and Russia still losing the war?

This thread lists a few key facts that Putin would prefer you forget

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 6h

Quincy has been reliably wrong on Ukraine for over three years now. Their in-house rag is a poor source.
Did they cover the 600 russian influencers announced in late 2024, even the publicly-announced ones? No.
Also "illegal"? A much bigger deal?https://responsiblestatecraft.org/search/?q=influencers

Responsible Statecraft

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 7h

Azzhat 👇

@ altpol .bsky .social

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