Matt Quelch 🇬🇧🇺🇦
@mquelch.bsky.social
Geek dad. Solutioniser; I find solutions to problems.
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“Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address,”
Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data
ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.
www.eff.org
January 17, 2026 at 7:59 AM
“Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address,”
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For those that remain on X and don't understand "their role" in enabling abuse, it is very simple:
1. When you stay, your audience stays, and you're actively keeping people there
2. Active accounts help increase X valuation, and you just helped Musk raise another $20 billion
3. Network effects
1. When you stay, your audience stays, and you're actively keeping people there
2. Active accounts help increase X valuation, and you just helped Musk raise another $20 billion
3. Network effects
January 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
For those that remain on X and don't understand "their role" in enabling abuse, it is very simple:
1. When you stay, your audience stays, and you're actively keeping people there
2. Active accounts help increase X valuation, and you just helped Musk raise another $20 billion
3. Network effects
1. When you stay, your audience stays, and you're actively keeping people there
2. Active accounts help increase X valuation, and you just helped Musk raise another $20 billion
3. Network effects
I take it all back, upon further investigation that price is for a pack of frozen pies... £24 for 4, much more reasonable!
January 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
I take it all back, upon further investigation that price is for a pack of frozen pies... £24 for 4, much more reasonable!
As much as I love a proper pasty, weren't they originally cheap meals for the miners to take down the tin mines with them... £24 is wild!
January 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM
As much as I love a proper pasty, weren't they originally cheap meals for the miners to take down the tin mines with them... £24 is wild!
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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
June 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
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This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions.
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Who should do the fact checks with millions and millions of fake news? The nature of social media itself is the problem. However it probably is impossible to get rid of every social network and revert debates to pre 2010-status.
June 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions.
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
I want to vote for #nemo again, so powerful #eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I want to vote for #nemo again, so powerful #eurovision
#eurotab finally #eurovision has started! Love it 😍🤘
May 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#eurotab finally #eurovision has started! Love it 😍🤘
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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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For the 153rd day, Rustaveli avenue is blocked. ✅
For over five months, we have been protesting our illegitimate government every single day. ✊🇬🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦
For over five months, we have been protesting our illegitimate government every single day. ✊🇬🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦
April 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
For the 153rd day, Rustaveli avenue is blocked. ✅
For over five months, we have been protesting our illegitimate government every single day. ✊🇬🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦
For over five months, we have been protesting our illegitimate government every single day. ✊🇬🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦
"I really didn't expect the leopard to eat my face" these people are really beyond belief, but you have to try to get them on side.
April 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"I really didn't expect the leopard to eat my face" these people are really beyond belief, but you have to try to get them on side.
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Not that the UK media are reporting. Massive protests against Trump across America. Please share. We need to the job of British media.
WATCH LIVE: Protests ERUPT nationwide against the Trump-Musk regime
LIVE: MASSIVE PROTESTS ERUPT AGAINST TRUMP REGIME
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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April 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Not that the UK media are reporting. Massive protests against Trump across America. Please share. We need to the job of British media.
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This is terrifying to read how a UK citizen was seized &incarcerated in the USA whilst on a tourist visa & the people she met there with similar tales. Detention centres are lucrative businesses with no incentive for people to be released at huge cost to US taxpayers. I don’t recommend visiting US
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is terrifying to read how a UK citizen was seized &incarcerated in the USA whilst on a tourist visa & the people she met there with similar tales. Detention centres are lucrative businesses with no incentive for people to be released at huge cost to US taxpayers. I don’t recommend visiting US
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The Lithuanian president showed up to honor dead American soldiers as their remains departed his country.
The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US.
He had a golf tournament to get to.
The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US.
He had a golf tournament to get to.
…U.S. soldiers were honored by Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausada, as well as other dignitaries, during a dignified departure ceremony from Lithuania.
"We consider US soldiers in Lithuania as our own. The farewell ceremony once again demonstrated our society's solidarity, respect, and…
"We consider US soldiers in Lithuania as our own. The farewell ceremony once again demonstrated our society's solidarity, respect, and…
April 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The Lithuanian president showed up to honor dead American soldiers as their remains departed his country.
The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US.
He had a golf tournament to get to.
The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US.
He had a golf tournament to get to.
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Popovka is right on the border with Ukraine and is where UA forces have taken some land, so this is RF trying to push them back.
April 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Popovka is right on the border with Ukraine and is where UA forces have taken some land, so this is RF trying to push them back.
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:
March 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:
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We have lost mainstream media.
March 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We have lost mainstream media.