Matt Quelch 🇬🇧🇺🇦
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Matt Quelch 🇬🇧🇺🇦
@mquelch.bsky.social
Geek dad. Solutioniser; I find solutions to problems.
quelch.me.uk
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January 16, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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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
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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
January 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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#ICE Trigger Warning
January 7, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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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
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June 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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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. 🧵
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
I want to vote for #nemo again, so powerful #eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
#eurotab finally #eurovision has started! Love it 😍🤘
May 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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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...
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
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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. ✊🇬🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦
April 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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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.
April 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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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
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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.
…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…
April 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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April 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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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
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Abolish ICE.
April 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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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
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We have lost mainstream media.
March 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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I've not been able to find any reporting of this in any US media. Why is it only reported in the UK press? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Republican pushes back on Musk for calling Democrat a ‘traitor’ over Ukraine trip
Republican representatives expressed disappointment with the Trump administration for walking back its friendly relationship with Ukraine
www.independent.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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🇩🇪 A march of the “Russian opposition” under the slogan “Russia against Putin” is underway in Berlin, — Bild

Among the participants is a column of the “Russian Volunteer Corps”, which is fighting on the side of Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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BREAKING: Medical examination confirms President Zourabichvili has physical injuries after the regime thugs attacked her yesterday morning.
The attack against 72-year-old President whom the regime considers a former President was pre-planned since at least one regime propagandist, 1/
February 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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🚨 NEW: A Russia-linked Telegram network is inciting terror and hate crimes in the UK.

Already responsible for attacks on UK mosques, the network appears to be based in Russia - and it's gunning for violence on British streets.

New from me &
@hopenothate.org.uk

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/02/10/e...
EXCLUSIVE: A Russia-linked Telegram network is inciting terrorism and is behind hate crimes in the UK – HOPE not hate
A supposedly UK-based network of Telegram channels is hoping to spark civil war in Britain – but the operation appears to be run from Russia. ...
hopenothate.org.uk
February 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM