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Matthew Jackson

@argieav.bsky.social
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Leeds born , Leeds United and New York Mets and Roma fan . Anglo-Irish. 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 🇺🇦 Free Syria

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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 20h
Seems like a year ago nearly exactly he got engaged , how can things change so quick 😔
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*This* should be the final word on the life and death of that c**t Archer. 👇👇👇👇
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh yeah , we need to understand how serious what this guy did was , because without you explaining it to us we’d have thought it was all ok . Wanker , Hegseth , sadist.
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Russian fascists murder Navalny out of sight , their American friends now choose to livestream an execution. Neither is good .
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My first thought also . Same mindset really
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I didn’t know the Todd Rundgren song but just listening to the opening on YouTube Id say the Dooleys are rather more than ‘leaning into ‘ . Barging into maybe .
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Martin Amis wrote years ago about Trump as predator when he senses an entity not strong enough to defend itself any more - would American democracy survive
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Don the Realtor, by Martin Amis
The rise of Trump
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Maté and Blumenthal , both of them
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bellingcat's latest documentary, Killing Anna, has new broadcast and festival dates: VPRO Netherlands : 4th October UK Channel 4 : October 12th at 11pm LTV Latvia : October 13th Prix Bayeux - 5th October Double Exposure - 13th October Doxumentale - Stories of Freedom - November 11th
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reuters: FAMILY OF RENEE GOOD SUES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OVER FATAL MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTING BY IMMIGRATION AGENT
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the absolute truth . It seems to be an obsession haunting Europe at the moment .
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the first of ten video meditations I recorded at night in Kharkiv, a frontline city in northeastern Ukraine. They concern matters that came to mind in the general setting of a long and terrible war. snyder.substack.com/p/cowardice
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On Cowardice (Kharkiv Meditations 1/10)
Kharkiv Meditations 1/10
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover @firinglineshow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What should the next president do with Trump’s White House ballroom? “Knock it down” says @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu. She argues the ballroom is about more than architecture: “It’s Trump seeking to remake the institution itself.”
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/09/2026
The far-right ideologues and grifters running U.S. foreign policy are the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America but the world, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu reports.
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Donald Trump’s Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Driving east from Kyiv to Kharkiv, there was no place to get gas from Poltava eastwards, because all of the stations had been destroyed by distant Russian drone operators. The Russians send drones at the pumps, causing explosions, killing attendants and customers. snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...
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A Meditation on Gas Stations
On Total War and Individual Responsibility (1/2)
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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ok Bluesky it's rare I ask for help. But this time I need huge help from the #osint community and #speirgorm #speirghorm, and everyone who follows me. I have a goal to raise up to €100,000 for a long time friend and colleague who is going to leave us.
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Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good thread on why state bans on the “Patriots” isn’t the solution to the problem; we are. And another good write-up from the anti-fascist frontline, this time Bristol. bsky.app/profile/bela...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
Mark Carney mocks Trump's accordion hands
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Every so often I think I should re-read Orwells ‘Notes on Nationalism.’
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes 👍. they don’t see how the press they read, truly despises them . The super rich just using them , they let themselves be shaped by people who don’t have the least regard for them .
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Another Don Jr. wedding guest was a Russian linked to the country's security services, according to a Russian investigative journalism outfit: www.agents.media/top-executiv...
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Top executive from companies linked to Russian security services attended Trump son’s wedding • «Агентство»
Русский язык The wedding of Donald Trump Jr. was partly financed by Umar Kremlev, the head of the International Boxing Association (IBA) and a friend of the chief of the Russian president’s security s...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A new video from Syria shows M4000 chemical bombs being disassembled. These bombs were used in 3 attacks in 2017, including the notorious Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack. After that attack I pieced together their identity back in 2017 using open source evidence www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/04...
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Secret systems used by Israel in mass killings of Gaza civilians revealed in new film
Testimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the Guardian
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My mum wanted the details of her death heard. She strongly believed in the right to die & had a living will. We need to be honest about what death often looks like & that there is often *no* palliative care that can make someone like my mum's death any easier. TW: This thread is a difficult read.
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A version of the ’we’ll get those that stabbed us in the back ‘ story the early Nazi movement used , a constant looking for scapegoats , an endless revenge.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Reform UK Conference 2026 This is all it will be remembered for.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
‘Nobody will win’: Zelenskyy adviser warns of mutual destruction if war with Russia continues www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘Nobody will win’: Zelenskyy adviser warns of mutual destruction if war with Russia continues
Serhii Beskrestnov says deadlock on frontline and increasing use of deep strikes is placing civilians and infrastructure at greater risk
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They spontaneously turned up all dressed in black, wearing masks at the same time.
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don’t think I hate this MBE m/f enough , whoever he is
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
25 years since this thing came out. I’m very fond of it, it’s possibly the most personal thing I’ve made and, if I’m allowed to be proud for a day, I’m rather proud of it. All 8 eps up on Channel 4. #TheArmandoIannucciShows #Ch4 #ABigEgg
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#ChemicalWeapons #Ghouta #Commemoration #Justice #Victims #Sarin Syrian rights group says survivors of 2013 Ghouta chemical attack still suffering www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/sy... [...] The network said the attack was carried out through four simultaneous chemical strikes on civilian-populated ...
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Syrian rights group says survivors of 2013 Ghouta chemical attack still suffering
Sarin attack killed 1,144 people, injured nearly 5,935 others in Damascus countryside, according to Syrian Network for Human Rights | Anadolu
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Runa Sandvik @runasand.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The FSB recruited a former Pussy Riot member through coercion and tasked her with organizing the killing of a former publisher and Pussy Riot member. theins.press/en/news/296386
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Ex-Pussy Riot member Rita Flores says she cooperated with the FSB for nearly three years before escaping Russia
Former Pussy Riot member Rita Flores has stated that in February 2023, officers from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) coerced her into cooperating…
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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The Womack Sisters - "If I Let You"
YouTube video by The Womack Sisters
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Israeli strike that killed journalist in Lebanon was war crime, say rights groups
Investigation by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and Legal Agenda shows Israel deliberately attacked Amal Khalil and colleague Zeinab Faraj knowing they were civilians
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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‘Morocco feels emboldened’: Trump’s influence in spotlight after Ceuta disaster
Washington-Rabat ties under scrutiny as questions swirl over what led to deadly influx into tiny Spanish territory
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EggPod Express @eggpod.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Happy Revolver day! Here’s that source photos image that ended up all over the web uncredited. It was researched by Beatles fan (and great help for my Sgt Pepper source photos project) Sergey Obod. Yay, Sergey!
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Glen Hansard busking in Noto, Sicily, and singing "Her Mercy" for Illès Gennaro
YouTube video by Antonio Cennamo
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
❗️Zelensky: Today, many were shocked by another video of the Russian drone safari against people in Kherson. The man was injured by the explosion. The world must see this. It must see every fact that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that the Russian military enjoys killing and mocking people.
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
the definition of a ‘self own’ 🤦. Yes , just say ‘bye bye then , treat yourself at home in your ethnically cleansed wasteland.’
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Matthew Jackson @argieav.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Longest Day/ All Quiet on the Western Front
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 22/07/2026
This could very well be the most important story in politics for the last decade and a half. Please read and share this equally harrowing and illuminating account by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social of just how dark the money in politics pit really goes. Absolutely mind blowing.
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Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
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Proud Lefty CW💚🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇮🇷🎧 @proudleftycw.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
One thing that could help Burnham achieve positive results in lowering homelessness is Rent Controls.
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