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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 22h

OCCRP Co-Founder Paul Radu joins W Live to discuss how to document digital attacks and support critical voices.

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Sam Stafford @samuelstafford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The WASPI women are going to be apoplectic about this triple lock business when they find out about it in twenty years time.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/09/2026

There's less need to stress about advertisers following where you go online when you have Privacy Badger installed. privacybadger.org/

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Privacy Badger

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 29/09/2026

1 day left to join upcoming OCCRP Briefing: Power Plays in Central Asia: State Capture, Weaponized Anti-Corruption, and the Rules of Doing Business. This one-hour event is open to OCCRP members only. Join the community here: buff.ly/azJawif

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So if they were nicking diesel/dogging, that means Streeting’s response to the farmer was not just bullshit, but gratuitously condescending bullshit?

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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 28/09/2026

It’s weird to realize that the Secretary of Commerce’s stablecoin investment is the primary dollar mechanism supporting the country we’re at war with

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026

Will be interesting to see if any leading center left Democrat talks like this in 2027-2028

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is *not* the result of "the success of Mahmood's reforms", but of earlier measures/other factors. Her proposals could make it considerably *worse* in future years. A few other points linked below.. archive.ph/0psJ8

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.

Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration significantly undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana Mahmood’s reforms, which have seen net migration cut to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.

Labour sources familiar with the budget process, however, said that the figure was now closer to £6.5bn. The OBR’s migration forecasts have been consistently higher than real numbers in recent years.

Treasury officials, who have long expected Mahmood’s reforms to cause a hit to headroom, described the number as “pure speculation” but did not deny that Healey would have to contend with a larger funding gap than expected because of falling migration

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 27/09/2026

The Finance Minister of Israel, who is also a deputy defense minister and the military governor of the-illegally occupied West Bank, calls for Israel to "go to war" in the West Bank, annex 70% of Gaza, and annex all of Lebanon south of the Litani River.

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Smotrich: Israel must ‘go to war’ in West Bank, ‘do there what we did in Gaza’

Finance minister also calls on Israel to annex 'at least' up to the ceasefire line in Gaza and the Litani River in Lebanon to make enemies 'pay a price' for Oct. 7 and ensuing wars

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Expect significant acceleration in violence against Palestinians in the West Bank after the Israeli election (27 Oct), especially if it looks like Netanyahu will be forced out of office.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From the article: “The thing we don't hear about enough, in my opinion, is the lives and humanity of pregnant people.” 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 In Judaism, the fetus is regarded as a part of the pregnant person's body until birth. Because whose life matters most is the one already born.

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 27/09/2026

3 days left to join upcoming OCCRP Briefing: Power Plays in Central Asia: State Capture, Weaponized Anti-Corruption, and the Rules of Doing Business. This one-hour event is open to OCCRP members only. Join the community here: buff.ly/azJawif

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 27/09/2026

When commercial surrogacy agency World Center of Baby told clients it was filing for bankruptcy, hopeful parents and pregnant surrogates were thrown into chaos. Quote from Cyra Akila Choudhury, an expert in transnational commercial surrogacy, whom we interviewed for the story: buff.ly/UNfXUUz

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 27/09/2026

Just for once I'd like one of these "why I quit Britain" pieces to say "I hate poor people and I want to keep all my money, it's all miiiiiine, screw you guys"

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Mr Rogers' Unexpected Response

ALT: Mr Rogers' Unexpected Response

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Does this make sense to anyone else. I follow what he says up to the last 3 sentences. @gavinjackson.bsky.social do you get this?

The second repeated error is obsessing over one side of the ledger. Ramming net zero down UK company throats when the country only produces o.8 per cent of the world's carbon is nonsensical, for example. Total emissions are what matters. A reduction there is the same as a reduction here. With debt, however, the distribution does count. But for the planet as a whole there is no problem. My liability is your asset and they match. Always look at both columns of any balance sheet.

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The rest of the piece is an extended whine that the designated progressive party attracts people with progressive beliefs. This is also a widespread complaint in that same coterie.

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Think it's important to grasp that when people like Ovenden use phrases like "rapidly medicalised layabouts" they get a little thrill like they're daring to break taboos, but actually they're repeating the tiresome but orthodox belief of their coterie. (Cf his treatment of Diane Abbott.)

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Netanyahu has threatened to sue Haaretz over their report. Will he now threaten to sue the NYTimes? Note he also threatened to sue the NYTimes over their story about Israeli guards raping Palestinian prisoners (but that suit, surprise, hasn’t materialised yet).

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(We’ll ignore that the working age people paying taxes may also be the people *getting* PIP because that doesn’t suit your workerist fantasies)

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No, PIP is not being made available to “recently medicalised layabouts”, you mad fucking bastard, have you ever tried applying for PIP for someone?

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Others will have their say about this, but I think it’s worth pointing out that this - or laundered versions of it - are accepted wisdom amongst a big chunk of our political and media classes and it is simply bad for society when the elites have little or no understanding of *the systems they run*

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 25/09/2026

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notayesmansecon.bsky.social @notayesmansecon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For younger people who have never lived through a bond market crisis. Well you are about to.......

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wonder how successful this will be. If European funding states stick up for it, & the bulk of Rome signatories remain on board, & sanctions don't bite as hard as intended, then the US will have given us yet another "not as strong as we thought" display. I know this is a lot of &s, but q.v. Iran.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:

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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see

'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/09/2026

If Elon Musk and half the Tesla C-Suite were currently in jail because Grok spent weeks generating CSAM-on-demand while they memed about it, Altman and the rest might be a bit more cautious about letting their little robots commit share price friendly press releasable crimes.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026

*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really will take this a hell of a lot more seriously when I see the first story about rogue agents finding a message board to post things like "we don't have enough tokens to solve this problem directly - how can we hack OpenAI's billing system?"

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seems to be as hard to get booted from Substack as from the Cambridge Faculty of Divinity.

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Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every now and then - more now these days than then - you hear something like this by a respectable person in a calm voice on a respectable platform and get a kind of vertigo over how hateful and demented things have gotten in the UK. A very large part of public discourse is utterly insane.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is functionally what it means to proclaim the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just as well those committing wrongs against the RNLI are not holding placards supporting a proscribed organisation, else they would really be in trouble.

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not just the media. Peter Ricketts of all people gurning to C4 about how amiable Trump had been. There’s a whole class of people with whipped cur syndrome wrt Trump.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look, if this isn't a crime we've failed.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Maybe we should have arrested this guy for blocking ports.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Frankly, I don't think it would be unreasonable to prosecute this given the clear intent, probably hard to charge with attempted murder but very clearly that was the intent. bsky.app/profile/yeom...

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026

If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.

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Exclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal Court

The U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system.

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The first two were good things not bad things.

Bad stuff happens in September. For some reason, it is a month that has had more than its fair share of financial crises, perhaps because problems that have been bubbling away come into sharper focus once the summer holidays are over. Britain came off the Gold Standard in September 1931. The pound was turfed out of Europe's Exchange Rate Mechanism in September 1992. And 18 years ago this week, the collapse of Lehman Brothers plunged the global economy into deep recession.

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For me, the most telling figure from this election: parties of the center and to its left mostly traded votes among themselves. At the same time, they suffered a net loss of over 100,000 votes to the AfD and came nowhere close to matching its mobilization of former non-voters.

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Interval Of a wonderful performance by Vox Luminis of the Monteverdi Vespers. But “Iudicabit in nationibus, Implebit ruinas” lands quite hard nowadays.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There are so many things wrong in this article, let me focus on two: on the perverse logic argument against sanctions, and on the betrayal of Israel's human rights and anti-occupation activists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This Israeli election could be the country’s last – this week I saw that for myself | Jonathan Freedland

Spend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“.. Large plume of black smoke rises from the fuel storage area at King Khalid International Airport, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 19, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone.” REUTERS/Stringer

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