Amarnath Amarasingam

Amarnath Amarasingam

@amaramarasingam.bsky.social

Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤

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Amarnath Amarasingam
@amaramarasingam.bsky.social

“Help me help the trillionaire” is definitely a choice

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social

Interesting approach by Mike Rogers to make his loyalty to Elon Musk & the oligarchy an explicit part of his campaign earlier this year. “When you stand with my Senate campaign today, you are directly shielding Elon Musk,” Rogers wrote. www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...

metrotimes.comMike Rogers begs Michiganders for money to 'protect' Elon Musk - Detroit Metro TimesRepublican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers has found a new reason for Michiganders to open their wallets: He wants them to help protect Elon Musk from congressional accountability.

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Dan Cohen
@dancohen.bsky.social

For the Queen's financial forum since questions were hidden: Over the past three years, Queen's total surplus was $296 million ($76, $60, $160) and its operating surplus was $124 million ($20, $16, $88). Last year, even w/o investment income above budget, the operating fund was in the green.

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Carolyn Prouse
@carolynprouse.bsky.social

Dan’s Qs are crucial ones that apply to any university undertaking budget cuts. But we were relieved to hear the university has maintained its AA+ credit rating, the true mission of higher ed 🫡

Dan Cohen @dancohen.bsky.social

For the Queen's financial forum since questions were hidden: Over the past three years, Queen's total surplus was $296 million ($76, $60, $160) and its operating surplus was $124 million ($20, $16, $88). Last year, even w/o investment income above budget, the operating fund was in the green.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation
@freedom.press

@azmatzahra.bsky.social spent 10+ years investigating U.S. airstrikes, where civilians got labeled targets on flimsy intel. She sees that doctrine in Gaza, now aimed at reporters. In these obituaries, Gaza journalist Aseel Mousa spotlights the lives of five Palestinian reporters that label erased.

cjr.orgRemembranceIsrael has killed scores of Palestinian journalists with impunity and waged propaganda campaigns to discredit their work, but a full accounting tells a different story.

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Nina Jankowicz
@ninajankowicz.com

The craziest thing about this whole scandal is that the Trump administration appears to be most aggrieved about panels in which AMERICAN participants were sharing the view from here. It’s just so blatant.

Nina Jankowicz@ninajankowicz.com

“What this amounts to is a purported defender of free speech at the state department using the enormous power of the US government to try to pressure Americans from criticizing their government.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comEU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ requestLithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
Amarnath Amarasingam
@amaramarasingam.bsky.social

"Angus Reid Institute finds nearly two-thirds (64%) say provincial governments should limit the development of large data centres, while fewer than one-in-five (18%) would encourage more. Opposition reaches seven-in-10 in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Atlantic Canada." angusreid.org/data-centre-...

angusreid.orgData Centre Doubts: Two-thirds want them limited; fears over resource drains drive resistance - Angus Reid Institute Canada[wpcode id="85632"]

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Eliot Higgins
@eliothiggins.bsky.social

This is like being proud of Holocaust denial.

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social

Aaron Maté once again claims the Syrian chemical weapons attack in Douma was a false flag: "The false flag I'm focused on and forever will be focused on is Douma, that was in Syria. I will stand by that forever as a false flag."

Amarnath Amarasingam
@amaramarasingam.bsky.social

"This essay exists to make that forget-ting a little harder. It is written so that when the autopsy is finally permitted, when the determination is finally made, the record will already say what those of us who stood in the dust always knew." islamicamedia.com/gaza-the-glo...

islamicamedia.comGaza: The Global Crime Scene - ISLAMICA - Hatem BazianPalestinian-American scholar, Hatem Bazian, reflects on Gaza as a landscape of devastation and a global moral crime scene, examining the human cost of an ongoing genocide witnessed in real time yet me...
Amarnath Amarasingam
@amaramarasingam.bsky.social

I have several follow up questions, Vance lol

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social

Look how casually Vice President JD Vance mentions the possibility of political violence (“kind of insane that we didn’t have a revolution”) when discussing white men’s grievances. White identity politics (white nationalism) is central to his worldview.

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Tom Joscelyn
@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social

Look how casually Vice President JD Vance mentions the possibility of political violence (“kind of insane that we didn’t have a revolution”) when discussing white men’s grievances. White identity politics (white nationalism) is central to his worldview.

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Rachel Gilmore
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social

Massive thank you to @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and @seancarleton.bsky.social for their help with this one!

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social

Canada's white nationalists are parroting racist, anti-Indigenous talking points that right-wing politicians and media have been normalizing. Second Sons Canada, the fascist fight club, demonstrated on Tk̓emlúps lands over the weekend with a banner that read “got bones?” Here’s how we got here:

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Anne Helen Petersen
@annehelen.bsky.social

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Jess Davis
@jessmarindavis.bsky.social

This is getting super interesting. While I'm not certain yet what exactly is going on, at the moment, it seems like Canada was used to establish the bona fides of an AI "journalist" who subsequently went on to engage in foreign interference in Morocco..... www.turkiyetoday.com/world/exclus...

turkiyetoday.comExclusive—Fake AI columnist dupes Canadian press to target Moroccan dissidents, and a Turkish 'middleman' - Türkiye TodayThe phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter

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Diane Coyle
@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social

This is not AI agents going rogue, but OpenAI. This hack took the company months to notice and then they notified a public email address rather than the appropriate government agency. www.ft.com/content/5613... OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service website

ft.comOpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service websiteAI lab took months to spot the problem, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called ‘obviously unacceptable’
Amarnath Amarasingam
@amaramarasingam.bsky.social

I wanted to use "famously handsome" in a sentence one day, but @willsommer.bsky.social beat me to it.

Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social

Exclusive: Looksmaxxer Clavicular faces a criminal case that could carry 20 years in prison and mandatory sex offender registration. My latest False Flag for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-look...

thebulwark.comSCOOP: Looksmaxxer Clavicular Charged With Criminal Rape, DruggingThe manosphere celeb faces three counts stemming from an alleged encounter with a minor.
Amarnath Amarasingam
@amaramarasingam.bsky.social

"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." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

bloomberg.comInside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian SchoolPentagon 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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Thomas Juneau
@thomasjuneau.bsky.social

New article, in open access with Middle East Policy: The Stability-Instability Paradox and the Evolving Balance of Terror in the Middle East (abstract in next post) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe Stability‐Instability Paradox and the Evolving Balance of Terror in the Middle EastIn launching its war on Iran, Washington has committed a grave mistake by allowing a weakened Islamic Republic to reconstitute a regional balance of terror. This article shows how the Cold War-era st...

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Adrian Harewood
@caradrianh.bsky.social

1. In late Sept. 2002 just a year after the Al-Qaeda led Sept. 11th attacks on the US & in the midst of the so called War on Terror that followed #9/11, #MaherArar, a Syrian-born-McGill University-educated engineer, was on his way home to Canada following a family trip to Tunisia.

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kate conger
@kateconger.com

Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

nytimes.comElon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It PersistsReviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

New in PN: @ninajankowicz.com on the golden age of disinformation “I’m not optimistic about us clawing back from this unless there’s serious rethinking of our systems, and frankly, regulation of these social media platforms that are making us such passive and uncurious consumers of information."

publicnotice.coNina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”

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David Wells
@davidwellsct.bsky.social

Great to be on one of my favourite podcasts for a wide-ranging chat covering terrorist misuse of AI, the implications for counter-terrorism and the likelihood of a meaningful regulatory response

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HOPE not hate
@hopenothate.org.uk

🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré
@mharrisondupre.bsky.social

OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...

futurism.comOpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death LawsuitsOpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.

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Matthew Hay Brown
@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social

ICE detainees say they’ve been served food that’s undercooked, spoiled or infested with bugs. They can buy commissary food, but it’s expensive. So self-described California mom Casey Revkin is channeling more than $10,000/week in donations to feed hundreds of kids @arelisrhdz.bsky.social reports

washingtonpost.comShe’s feeding hundreds of kids in ICE detention using commissary accountsCasey Revkin gives money to hundreds of families at a Texas family detention facility so that they can buy food their children will eat.