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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Palantir got its UK contracts the old fashioned way: it bought them. The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption risk.

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The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials

The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption ri...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Did the WHCD perp actually fire any shots at anyone? It seems not. The Post analyzed the video. A security officer fired on Cole Allen four times. He missed each time. There is no evidence of Allen ever discharging a shot. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Video shows moment Secret Service officer fired at correspondents’ dinner suspect

Surveillance footage reviewed by The Post provides the clearest picture yet of the seconds after the alleged gunman bolted through a checkpoint inside the hotel.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The flow reverses, as Americans flock to European universities and Europeans exit from American schools. "Applications from the US to Sciences Po’s bachelor’s program surged 52% this year, while the number of Sciences Po students applying to study for a year in the United States has plunged by 50%”

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In France, American Universities Lose Their Allure in the Trump Era

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

How Peter Thiel turned to Team Epstein to generate £670 mn in UK security contracts for Palantir

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The last two DOJ filings about the WHCD perp invite all the inferences that Joyce Carol Oates makes here.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Approximately 0% of all Americans see a threat against the life of Donald Trump in these seashells.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Emiratis leave OPEC and others are sure to follow. “This is the beginning of the end of Opec,” said Saul Kavonic, an energy analyst at MST Financial. “Saudi Arabia will struggle to keep the rest of Opec together. We could see other members follow suit, including Venezuela.”

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‘The beginning of the end of Opec’: can the oil cartel survive the UAE’s exit?

Abu Dhabi’s surprise decision to leave the oil cartel raises doubts over its future

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Putin's Finance Minister Anton Siluanov: with UAE out of OPEC, it will be much harder for us to fix petroleum prices together with our friends Trump and Crown Prince Bone Saw. interfax.com/newsroom/top...

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

White Christian supremacist court. White Christian supremacist President. White Christian supremacist Congress. And the result is the most profound series of setbacks for the rights of people of color and women in over a century. It is a nauseating time to be alive in America. Fight back harder.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Marco Rubio prepares to announce the news Epstein-Trump passports. H/t @Garrett Epps

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Patrick Chappatte, Boston Globe

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

relationship with his later friend and protector, Crown Prince Bone Saw. When FBI agents went through his town house vault, they found a stack of blank Saudi diplomatic passports the crown prince had given him as a present.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Liberty Financial, announced that it had partnered with a virtual-currency venture called AB, one of whose projects—a planned “blockchain”-themed resort—had been led by two men sanctioned in the US crackdown. They became Trump business partners, and the criminal charges were over.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Last fall, the Trump administration announced criminal charges and sweeping sanctions against what it said was a transnational criminal syndicate that had stolen billions of dollars from Americans and others through online scams. Less than a month later, the Trump family’s crypto company, World

wsj.com

Crypto Venture Linked to Men Sanctioned in Scam-Ring Probe Partnered With Trump Firm

The Trump family crypto company’s stablecoin, USD1, is deployed on the AB blockchain network, and a planned AB resort in East Timor had been led by two men sanctioned for alleged work with a U.S.-desi...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Best Twitter riposte of the day.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We just want affordable gas and groceries.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The King rebuked Trump five separate times, but Trump appears not to have understood a single word of it.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Here are the leading accounts disseminating the RIS Storm-1516 disinformation products

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Russian disinformation manufactured by the Russian intelligence services continues to flood X since Elon Musk acquired it. Here Bloomberg studies just one of those disinformation accounts and its success in permeating particularly MAGA accounts. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Russian Disinformation War’s Most Potent Weapon Is Bending Realities

Storm-1516 campaign uses fabricated videos, phony websites and anonymous influencers to spread tales about election fraud, corruption and sexual abuse.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Grandpa confuses Iran and Ukraine. A very telling slip-up.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

What an utterly bizarre circumlocution from Todd Blanche. It suggests they charged him with something for which they have no evidence whatsoever. So why not simply charge him with what he did, in fact, do? bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ilya Somin addresses something which has, up to this point, drawn absurdly little attention: "Trump's shameful policy of deporting Russian dissenters fleeing Putin's regime. It's unjust, illegal, and damaging to US interests. But consistent in those respects with Trump's other refugee policies."

reason.com

Trump's Shameful Effort to Deport Russian Dissenters Fleeing Putin

The administration seeks to deport them back to Russia, in spite of overwhelming, moral, legal, and strategic reasons not to do so.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

What next? The Cold Cell and waterboarding? What's the need for this stuff? Even Putin allows people to confer with their lawyers in private.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

LULAC makes Callais worse: Justice Alito's Callais opinion purports to preserve claims in which there's evidence of racially discriminatory intent. But this is the same Court that simply waved its hands at a district court's *detailed* factual findings of exactly such evidence in the Texas case.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/04/2026

Florida’s constitution prohibits partisan gerrymandering. Republicans are trying it anyway, @russellberman.bsky.social reports. While other states have held public redistricting debates, Florida’s efforts to redraw maps have been marked by secrecy and obfuscation.

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Florida Republicans Are Gerrymandering. They Just Can’t Say So.

The state constitution prohibits redrawing maps for political advantage.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn…

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

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peterg19.bsky.social @peterg19.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Let’s see, Venezuela take over, and wanting to take Greenland and at home he’s storming states with shock troops. Clearly we have an idiot in office that will kill us all.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

WSJ identified 13 instances of agents firing at or into civilian vehicles since July, leaving 8 people shot with two confirmed dead. Only one civilian was armed—with a concealed weapon. This is happening so frequently that it appears to be an authorized tactic—

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Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings

A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I think about this July 2024 threat from the head of the Heritage Foundation quite a lot these days.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Gifford: This ridiculous rhetoric by the president—it’s going to impact every single American because it makes them lose faith in us. That makes them less likely to travel here, buy American products, or invest here. This broken trust—the work of diplomacy—is very hard to build back.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The destruction of NATO from the inside. Some European officials suspect this is the real aim of the hardline MAGA faction. Since Congress won't allow Trump to exit NATO, occupying Greenland could force the Europeans to. If Trump wants to end NATO , this might be the most convenient way to do it.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Ronald Reagan’s budget director.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

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Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

My husband asked me what I’d have talked to Mamdani about if we’d been able to go to his event at the Museum of the Moving Image and my answer had been public bathrooms, so I’m thrilled about this development! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/n...

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Mamdani Announces Plan to Expand Public Bathroom Access in New York

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Covering up documents about the covering up of documents. In response to our FOIA lawsuit, the FBI withheld all sorts of material related to its review and redaction of the Epstein files. Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched ‘client lists’ to locate documents.

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Here’s What FBI, DOJ Hid From Its Epstein Files Review

In response to our FOIA lawsuit, the FBI withheld all sorts of material related to its review and redaction of the Epstein files. Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched ‘client lists’ to locate docume...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

What does it mean when Vladimir Putin is allowed to pick the entire US senior diplomatic and national security team, and then brags openly about having done it? Jack Hopkins goes there.

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Putin Didn’t “Choose” Witkoff. He Engineered Him.

The psychological profiling playbook behind a preferred envoy-and why “Come alone, no CIA” is the tell.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

CBS News is now being managed by a team of fringe right editorial writers with no meaningful experience as actual journalists and an instinctive revulsion for serious journalistic standards and practices.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I've been saying this for some time. Curtis Yarvin is the least original public thinker since Adrian Vermeule. Yarvin is retreaded Aleksandr Dugin. Vermeule is Carl Schmitt in translation. And they're linked, too. Dugin bases everything on the writings of Ivan Ilyin—one of Carl Schmitt's students

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

What’s the going rate for a Trump pardon? Pardon-seekers have offered success fees of as much as $6 million to lobbyists close to Trump if they can secure clemency.

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Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon

Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.

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