Anders Kühl
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🧵 A pro-MAGA bot network on X/Twitter that previously aided Trump to secure a 2nd term has just started helping him to retain power.
Virginia elections, a tuneup for the 2026 midterms, are increasingly becoming a tight race. And bots are supposed to support 🔴GOP in the 4 weeks left.
Virginia elections, a tuneup for the 2026 midterms, are increasingly becoming a tight race. And bots are supposed to support 🔴GOP in the 4 weeks left.
October 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🧵 A pro-MAGA bot network on X/Twitter that previously aided Trump to secure a 2nd term has just started helping him to retain power.
Virginia elections, a tuneup for the 2026 midterms, are increasingly becoming a tight race. And bots are supposed to support 🔴GOP in the 4 weeks left.
Virginia elections, a tuneup for the 2026 midterms, are increasingly becoming a tight race. And bots are supposed to support 🔴GOP in the 4 weeks left.
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✍️ New article: “Foreign aid from the United States saved millions of lives each year”
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
September 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
✍️ New article: “Foreign aid from the United States saved millions of lives each year”
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
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Are you or your loved ones worried about solar farms?
Have you heard scary things about solar panels turning the countryside into an industrial hellscape?
Fear not! We at Carbon Brief have just published the definitive article debunking solar myths ⬇️
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Have you heard scary things about solar panels turning the countryside into an industrial hellscape?
Fear not! We at Carbon Brief have just published the definitive article debunking solar myths ⬇️
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar
Carbon Brief factchecks 16 of the most common myths about solar power
interactive.carbonbrief.org
August 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Are you or your loved ones worried about solar farms?
Have you heard scary things about solar panels turning the countryside into an industrial hellscape?
Fear not! We at Carbon Brief have just published the definitive article debunking solar myths ⬇️
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
Have you heard scary things about solar panels turning the countryside into an industrial hellscape?
Fear not! We at Carbon Brief have just published the definitive article debunking solar myths ⬇️
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
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One accurate way of understanding this is that online extremists have direct contacts with the head of the FBI, who will fire the FBI agents they identify, even though it is against the law. Any principled agents who resist will also be fired.
Same pattern holds broadly across lots of the govt
Same pattern holds broadly across lots of the govt
August 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
One accurate way of understanding this is that online extremists have direct contacts with the head of the FBI, who will fire the FBI agents they identify, even though it is against the law. Any principled agents who resist will also be fired.
Same pattern holds broadly across lots of the govt
Same pattern holds broadly across lots of the govt
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One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.
August 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.
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The Potemkin President doesn't like numbers making him look bad.
August 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The Potemkin President doesn't like numbers making him look bad.
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Trade and military power go together!!!
You cannot be an economic power without military power. Europe has fooled itself (with help from others) into thinking you can have one without the other.
European nations do not want this reality. Let’s not fool ourselves.
You cannot be an economic power without military power. Europe has fooled itself (with help from others) into thinking you can have one without the other.
European nations do not want this reality. Let’s not fool ourselves.
July 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Trade and military power go together!!!
You cannot be an economic power without military power. Europe has fooled itself (with help from others) into thinking you can have one without the other.
European nations do not want this reality. Let’s not fool ourselves.
You cannot be an economic power without military power. Europe has fooled itself (with help from others) into thinking you can have one without the other.
European nations do not want this reality. Let’s not fool ourselves.
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Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia
A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.
www.reuters.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Democracy is dying at the root, and all we have power to do is "like". The entire information system we exist consumes democracy like yesterday's leftover and convinces us we're freer than ever.
May 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Democracy is dying at the root, and all we have power to do is "like". The entire information system we exist consumes democracy like yesterday's leftover and convinces us we're freer than ever.
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And remember Europeans, if Trump
Is willing to help Russians kill Ukrainians today, he could do the same anywhere on the continent tomorrow.
Ukraine is the front line of Europe’s defense.
Is willing to help Russians kill Ukrainians today, he could do the same anywhere on the continent tomorrow.
Ukraine is the front line of Europe’s defense.
May 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
And remember Europeans, if Trump
Is willing to help Russians kill Ukrainians today, he could do the same anywhere on the continent tomorrow.
Ukraine is the front line of Europe’s defense.
Is willing to help Russians kill Ukrainians today, he could do the same anywhere on the continent tomorrow.
Ukraine is the front line of Europe’s defense.
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Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
April 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
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Absolutely excruciating to see the BBC, CNN and everyone else dressing up Trump's industrial-scale stock market fraud as "relief", "making nice" or a "climb down". Wittingly or unwittingly, our media are once again accomplices.
April 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Absolutely excruciating to see the BBC, CNN and everyone else dressing up Trump's industrial-scale stock market fraud as "relief", "making nice" or a "climb down". Wittingly or unwittingly, our media are once again accomplices.
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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
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April 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Well, maybe the US should stop undermining European security by cozying up to Russia and threatening to invade NATO countries.
US officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit US manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters reut.rs/4jjPyj7
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally
U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
reut.rs
April 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Well, maybe the US should stop undermining European security by cozying up to Russia and threatening to invade NATO countries.
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Istanbul. Over 2 million people joined the demonstration.
March 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Istanbul. Over 2 million people joined the demonstration.
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“I’m doing good things,” I tell myself as I delete the military service of a dead woman. “I’m still a good person.”
Iconic Golden Girls actress Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her contribution scrubbed from Department of Defence website
Web page about iconic Golden Girls actress becomes latest victim of DEI purge
Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her wartime contribution scrubbed from the Department of Defence (DOD) website. The URL now reads "DEIBefore".
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March 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
“I’m doing good things,” I tell myself as I delete the military service of a dead woman. “I’m still a good person.”
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This'll be America in 6 months at the rate it's going.
March 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This'll be America in 6 months at the rate it's going.
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US Vice President JD Vance:
"Denmark, which controls Greenland, is not doing its job and it's not being a good ally. How are we going to solve that problem? If that means we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do because ⤵️
"Denmark, which controls Greenland, is not doing its job and it's not being a good ally. How are we going to solve that problem? If that means we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do because ⤵️
March 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
US Vice President JD Vance:
"Denmark, which controls Greenland, is not doing its job and it's not being a good ally. How are we going to solve that problem? If that means we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do because ⤵️
"Denmark, which controls Greenland, is not doing its job and it's not being a good ally. How are we going to solve that problem? If that means we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do because ⤵️
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the “free speech” heroes have denied US entry to a French scientist who privately criticised the Trump administration, this is Orwellian stuff
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
the “free speech” heroes have denied US entry to a French scientist who privately criticised the Trump administration, this is Orwellian stuff
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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it is always easier to destroy than to create.
The institutions, expertise, and goodwill that the US is losing in mere months would take years or even decades to rebuild.
The institutions, expertise, and goodwill that the US is losing in mere months would take years or even decades to rebuild.
March 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
it is always easier to destroy than to create.
The institutions, expertise, and goodwill that the US is losing in mere months would take years or even decades to rebuild.
The institutions, expertise, and goodwill that the US is losing in mere months would take years or even decades to rebuild.
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But capture isn’t the end of the story. It’s the beginning of a reinforcement cycle that makes the institution more extreme over time, even without outside pressure.
Here’s how that loop works.
Here’s how that loop works.
March 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
But capture isn’t the end of the story. It’s the beginning of a reinforcement cycle that makes the institution more extreme over time, even without outside pressure.
Here’s how that loop works.
Here’s how that loop works.
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Please lecture us more about free speech in Europe.
March 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Please lecture us more about free speech in Europe.
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“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it" – Karl Popper
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hundreds in US climate agency NOAA fired in latest cuts
Around 880 workers - including weather forecasters - are reported to have lost their jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it" – Karl Popper
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I remember when the United States stood for liberty. I remember when the United States stood against dictators and other tyrants and the axis of evil. I remember when we were proud to be the Arsenal of Democracy. Because my memory goes back more than a month ago. My God, what have we become?
February 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I remember when the United States stood for liberty. I remember when the United States stood against dictators and other tyrants and the axis of evil. I remember when we were proud to be the Arsenal of Democracy. Because my memory goes back more than a month ago. My God, what have we become?