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Nate Bear

@natebear1.bsky.social
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Ecology, tech, empire, public health, other stuff. About me and where I write about these things: donotpanic.news

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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 12h
The 'study tour' of Israel for New Yorkers organised by the Jewish group that Mamdani's 'antisemitism' strategy funds includes an IDF tour to the Gaza concentration camp fence. Pretty much the ultimate betrayal. Insane
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mamdani breaking another campaign pledge. Admit you were fooled
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mamdani's new antisemitism strategy fuels tropes which legitimised genocide and will send school kids to Jewish museums that host hate speakers. He has betrayed Palestine and Palestinians open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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The Mamdani Con Is Complete
Yesterday New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani announced what he called “the first-ever municipal strategy to combat antisemitism.”
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mamdani's new 15-person business advisory council includes 4 billionaires one of whom is Doug Steiner, son of David Steiner, a former president of AIPAC who resigned in 1992 "after boasting of AIPAC influence over US foreign policy and the selection of US political leaders." lol
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The UN general assembly meeting in New York is a depraved spectacle exposing the illegitimate imperial order and the institutions on which it is built open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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A Spectacle Of The Macabre In New York
What’s unfolding in New York is a show of breath-taking degeneracy, a depraved spectacle exposing the illegitimate imperial order and the institutions on which it is built.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A look at how Germany and Europe’s switch from Russian gas to US LNG, helped by NordStream being blown up, has deindustrialised Germany at astonishing speed while shovelling cash into the hands of Trump's fossil fuel mega donors open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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Germany De-Industrialised Itself For Ukraine, And Trump’s Oil Donors Profited
I heard a statistic the other day that the output of Germany’s energy-intensive industries - things like cement, glass, steel - have collapsed 20% in the last six years.
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iskeptici @iskeptici.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is an excellent read and well worth your time.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A look at how technofascist AI warlord Alex Karp has embedded Palantir into the Ukrainian state, aiming to make it the first "agentic state" while watching it demographically collapse open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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How Palantir Turned Ukrainians Into Lab Rats (And Helped Ruin Ukraine)
AI war-tech firm Palantir has embedded itself deeply within Ukrainian military systems and civil society, turning the country into a laboratory for its dystopian technologies of tracing, surveillance ...
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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It’s Hard To Know Things And Not Sound Like A Depressed Bore
I rarely leave it this long between writing, but I’ve been somewhat overwhelmed by the sheer volume of fuckery we face.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Israeli commander who ordered the World Central Kitchen airstrike says he's not sorry and the aid workers "weren't innocent." Israel gets away with murdering the citizens of western countries over and over because the west is captured by Jewish supremacism open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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Why Israel Can Brag About Murdering Western Aid Workers
The Israeli commander who gave the order to bomb the World Central Kitchen convoy in April 2024 which killed six aid workers - three Britons, an American-Canadian, a Pole, an Australian and a Palestin...
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A story about how the US and the west helped Indonesia kill 40% of East Timor's population. Writing about the evil of US-led empire can make you sound like a conspiracy theorist, which is why I'm always careful to rely on primary sources, and this is full of them open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Zelensky just posted this and if you don't get it now you never will
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Finland, once known as the happiest country on Earth, now has the highest unemployment rate in Europe and has slashed its welfare state and decimated its healthcare system to confront a non-existent threat open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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How Finland Destroyed Itself For NATO
Finland, often known as the happiest country in the world, now has the highest unemployment rate in Europe, demand for food aid has exploded by more than 70%, and homelessness, which had been declinin...
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The follow up and my response to my most polarising, but also the second-most popular article I've written. Not for the faint of heart open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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The Elaborate Fairy-Tales Justifying The War In Ukraine
My most recent article about the Russia-Ukraine war was the second-most popular I’ve ever written, but by far the one which provoked the most attacks, both against the argument and against me personal...
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Doubt it will but the fall of south America to the zionist far-right and Europe's march in that direction should make people who fetishize liberal democracy think very very carefully
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My most polarising article ever. Read it if you dare 😬 open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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The Ukraine Delusion
I’ve held back on writing about the Russia-Ukraine war, and this article probably won’t win me many fans.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Huge Russian attack on Kyiv and not a single interceptor was launched because they've all been used defending against Iran, a (lost) war the EU aided by allowing the use of its bases, while Zelensky promised Israel any help they needed. And now Ukraine is a sitting duck
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
From Mexico's former intelligence chief who fled to Israel when wanted for torture and complicity in mass murder, to the Hollywood directors accused of rape, to fraudsters on the run, impunity attracts impunity www.donotpanic.news/p/how-israel...
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How Israel Became A Haven For International Fraudsters, Crooks, And Paedophiles
Israel is home to thousands of international criminals accused or found guilty in a second country for committing a wide-variety of crimes.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Guardian's glowing profile of Ukrainian drone maker Fire Point fails to tell readers the company is embroiled in a corruption scandal and its owner Timur Mindich fled to Israel last year while under investigation. Progressive journalism! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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The Ukrainian startup taking the missile fight deep into Russia
Fire Point makes 100 long-range missiles and thousands of drones a month and is vital to Kyiv’s deep-strike capability, says CEO Iryna Terekh
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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"The great liberal opinion setters, the self-proclaimed guardians of the rule of law, the “democracy dies in darkness” people have decided that international law can die in darkness, thank you." #ICC #internationallaw #liberals #Trump #Israel #USpoli #journalism
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Laura Loomer and a liberal value system that says it's ok to be a hateful racist if you support Ukraine in the end open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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Good Liberals Hate International Law And Love Laura Loomer
The US has openly announced its intention to dismantle the International Criminal Court and liberal journalists who for years have screeched about the threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump have ha...
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
US troops in the Middle East aren't dying for Israel, they are dying, as they've always died, for American empire www.donotpanic.news/p/us-troops-...
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US Troops Always Die For The US Alone
In the wake of the death of three American troops on a base in Jordan following a retaliatory attack by Iran, I’ve seen a lot of commentary online stating that they “died for Israel.”
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth tweeted this image of US state terrorism yesterday and media called it a 'strike' and moved on www.donotpanic.news/p/its-not-te...
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It's Not Terrorism When We Do It
Yesterday Pete Hegseth triumphantly tweeted a picture of Iran’s Chabahar maritime port tower collapsing following an attack by the US regime.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The UK has "banned" Iran's revolutionary guard, a military branch of another country thousands of miles away currently defending their homeland. It seems ridiculous, but it provides the tools to further criminalise domestic opposition to Zionism and US imperialism www.donotpanic.news/p/soon-it-wi...
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Soon It Will Be Illegal To Oppose Imperialism
The British government has announced it is going to ban Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an idea which on the face of it sounds ridiculous.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
On The Guardian and its sneaky, insidious methods of propaganda open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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How The Guardian Sells Imperialism To Progressives
This morning The Guardian had a story about Israel’s ongoing efforts to illegally annex the West Bank.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Thousands have died suffocating deaths under the rubble of their homes in Venezuela because US sanctions prohibited the import of heavy earth-moving machinery www.donotpanic.news/p/venezuela-...
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Venezuela Earthquakes, Deadly Sanctions And Media Deception
The lack of heavy machinery in Venezuela following the devastating earthquakes which struck at the weekend has condemned thousands of people to a slow, suffocating death.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This will be looked back on as the year in which American power, hard and soft, entered into accelerated collapse open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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American Power Is Collapsing
This will be looked back on as the year in which American power, hard and soft, entered into accelerated collapse.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
From fans, players and referees being banned to FIFA demanding previous hosts pass special laws while the US is exempt, this is a World Cup of empire, by empire, and the most racist in history www.donotpanic.news/p/the-most-r...
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The Most Racist World Cup In History
The football World Cup starts this Thursday and the US regime has already guaranteed that it will be the most racist in history.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Because centrism and Zionism are perfect bedfellows open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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Why Europe Embraced Authoritarianism For Israel
This week the UK revoked the visas of leftist American influencer Hasan Piker and the podcaster Cenk Uygur who were both scheduled to speak at events in Oxford and London.
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Alison @bythemangroves.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“If our ecological predicament is understood as encompassing greenhouses gases, plastic pollution, ocean acidification, nitrogen pollution, tropical forest destruction, ozone depletion and species extinction, the story of the crisis becomes far harder to tell as a soundbite.”
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Record-breaking European heat has made the headlines, but these stories obscure the true breadth and scale of the ecological crisis (a crisis that anti-imperialists have often not contended with) www.donotpanic.news/p/extreme-he...
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Extreme Heat Headlines Obscure The Scale Of The Crisis
It’s been record hot in parts of Europe and Asia over the last week and this has provoked an outburst of three things that have become de rigeur whenever this happens:
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
On the performative imperial aesthetic of rock stars like Muse's Matt Bellamy who sing about resistance and revolution and support Ukraine but are silent on genocide open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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The Deafening Silence Of Rockstars On Palestine
Summer music festival season is approaching (assuming the diesel is available to run the generators), and one of the artists who’ll be gracing stages across Europe and the US is Jack White.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"I’m writing this now because I’m afraid what the next twelve months holds. I’m afraid that a material and psychological cliff edge is approaching that could throw people completely off their axis." open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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Hantavirus, AI, El Niño, Anarchism And The Future
I used to follow an anarchist guy.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Local elections results in England show that for people of conscience, genocide is still the political test that matters open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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Genocide Is Still The Political Test That Matters
Yesterday elections were held in parts of England to elect local councillors, and in Scotland and Wales to elect their devolved parliaments.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"27 arson attacks on mosques in the UK in 4 months. No primetime TV addresses. No terror threat. No discourse. A random attack on two Jews gets the full national psychodrama treatment because it can be so usefully weaponised to serve the interests of Zionism.' www.donotpanic.news/p/the-uk-des...
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The UK Descends Into Confected Antisemitism Hysteria
The UK has descended into confected hysteria over antisemitism to protect Keir Starmer and Labour from being wiped out by the Greens in local elections this week.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Lol
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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/04/2026
Um, WTAF? Regular people can’t get time off for health issues or birth of a child, but the people who ensure taxes are hard to file in the US get time to shoot kids in the head for sport.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
American tech giant Intuit, the company behind TurboTax, the most popular tax filing software in the US, allows employees to wear IDF uniforms to work. Staff are also permitted to take months off work to fight Israel's genocidal wars. Exclusive by me www.donotpanic.news/p/exclusive-...
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Exclusive: The US Tech Giant Where Employees Wear IDF Uniforms To Work
The American tech giant behind the most popular tax filing software in the US allows employees to wear their IDF uniforms to work and also permits them to take months off the job to fight Israel’s war...
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
An anti-imperial power controls a shipping lane responsible for 20% of global oil trade. Completely unthinkable 8 weeks ago. A monumental victory against empire
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Europe often seems to treat the Israeli occupation, ethnic cleansing & annexation of Palestine as a united European - Israeli project. PHOTO: Paris City Hall Jan 10th 2017 as Paris mourned Israel’s occupation soldiers killed by Fadi Al-Qanbar, himself slain, at Palestine’s occupied East Jerusalem.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Back from a ban because someone got weely weely sad and angry at posts. Never been banned on Twitter/X!
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Don't be fooled by the ceasefire into thinking the economic crisis has been averted. The US-Israel attack on Iran lit the fuse. The fuse is still burning down. The bomb has yet to go off. But it will. open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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Don't Be Fooled, The Hormuz Crisis Is Coming
Don’t be fooled by the relative lull since the onset of the ceasefire between Iran and the US.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Enough is enough of degenerate American empire and its crazed, out-of-control genocidal Jewish colony open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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The Eve Of A Radical Evil
We are on the eve of a radical evil.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Never want to hear yanks going on about 'checks and balances' or their stupid fucking Constitution ever again
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Very soon the molecules and the atoms are simply not going to be where they are wanted and needed. This power down will be messier than covid because it's completely unplanned open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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Escalating To Catastrophe
In his televised address last night Trump said the US was going to keep bombing Iran for another two or three weeks, and if Iran didn’t make a deal, the US would bomb them “back to the Stone Age.”
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Big difference is covid drop was demand destruction but this is supply destruction. In 2020 no one wanted the oil because of a mandated and somewhat managed power down, now everyone still wants the oil but it's suddenly not there. Willingly checking into rehab vs forced to go cold turkey. Brace
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
??? Do people fall for this? Starmer is allowing the US to use UK air bases to bomb Iran
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Oil, gas, fertiliser, food, aluminium, MRI machines, medical devices, semiconductors, consumer goods, cars, trains, solar panels. This is a crisis for the ages. www.donotpanic.news/p/hug-your-l...
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Hug Your Loved Ones
I posted the below tweet yesterday.
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