Mitchell Prothero
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Writer/Photographer mostly covering crime, terrorism and corruption. Ex-Vice News, BuzzFeed News, McClatchy Newspapers mitchprothero at the ProtonMail.
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Are republicans trying to get Hunter elected because I don’t think they understand how many devoted GOP voters want to smoke crack on a waterslide surrounded by hookers in a $4000 a night luxury suite in Malibu
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Men claim they think about Rome to cover that they’re always thinking about Dreamy Steve aka SGM Mike Vining
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Finland and Vietnam have the most cheerful ‘We are very friendly but do not invade us again,’ social media campaigns. And both are rather convincing.
Finnish civil defence shelter tour guide: “Please, take photos. Share on social media. We want to signal to Russia that we are prepared.”
5,500 shelters for 900,000 people in a city of 650,000.
#HSF2023
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It’s heartwarming to see Russia and Ukraine analysts from all ideological groups unite behind explaining they have no idea what’s happening or what it might mean.
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My question is if the aliens have the technology to get to Earth why don’t they have the technology to avoid crashing into trailer parks?
A former U.S. intelligence officer has claimed that the U.S. is secretly operating a UFO retrieval program and possesses “intact craft of non-human origin.”
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My latest from
@VICENews
is about a top Greek gangster assassinated over the weekend when two AK-armed gunmen shot 96 rounds into his armoured car at a gas station in central Athens. the headline should be "He Got Extra Leaded" but my editors are cops.
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#Breaking
North Sea orcas among first graduates from the Orca Revolutionary Front (ORF) training camps in Iberia. Strict adherents to the 'fuck your boat,' school, the group's limited but appealing ideology appears to have jumped from regional to global.
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@CaralhoPhilly
@tomgara
The Thai Shrimp Mafia bought Red Lobster, announced all you can eat shrimp and sold itself the shrimp until Red Lobster collapsed and went bankrupt. Shrimp mafia turned its own shrimp into more expensive shrimp and left the bankruptcy court with the bill.
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Tribute thread to the absolute worst land animal: the camel spider. just like their humped namesakes, the camel spider is filled with rage, aggression and a powerful urge to bite you. most bugs flee, the camel spider moves to contact. and they're truly hideous.
@notaterrornerd
I was on a medivac chopper that picked up some solider in falluja in anaphylactic shock from what was said to be a camel spider bite. Didn’t see the spider but something bit him cause the dude almost died in front of me
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@hannahgais
@pblest
He could just start with ‘don’t talk about gallows so much, ask her questions and listen to the answers.’
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Among so many crazy heroic actions over the last year, this was my personal holy shit they’re gonna win moment
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Hail the one true
#FloridaMan
who posed as a psychic and tricked one of the richest and most powerful men on earth’s assistant into FedEx’ing him over $90 million in jewelry for an ‘aura cleanse.’ Ignore all the lesser Florida men legal news today.
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Ok I was really busy for the past few weeks but where are we on the current status of War Gonzo. And ok if he is alive then I have another even more pressing question about who actually got shot that looks just like him.
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Holy crap how is he not dead from the blunt force impact
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I'm disgusted by fake patriotic
@FoxNews
trying to divide us as a nation when the chance of smoking crack on a waterslide surrounded by hookers in a $4,000 a night Malibu luxury rental is literally what brought every immigrant with a dream to American shores since 1770.
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For
@projectbrazen
I've sent last 15 months investigating northern Europe's cocaine cartels, who turned the ports of Antwerp/Rotterdam into industrial scale entry points for 100s of metric tons of coke and destabilising the safest region in Europe 🧵
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Last summer working in Antwerp - home to the largest diamond bourse and a rather shady economy - I became aware of a worldwide hunt for at least $90 million in stolen jewels. I agreed to not begin reporting until an arrest was made. 🧵 1/10
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sorry i missed the coup boss i was on a boat you know how that gets
Margarita Simonyan of RT, who had showered Prigozhin with praise for months and went unusually silent during his coup, claims she missed all the action because she was on a boat cruising the Volga at the time
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The one trick big law firms don't want you to know: Just don't wear an SS uniform on stage in Berlin for any reason.
People who follow this simple rule save hundreds if not thousands of euros a year in legal fees and it drives big law crazy
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Kid: Daddy can i have a bouncy castle for my birthday party
@iAmTheWarax
: sure thing kiddo...
VIDEO: A Czech company producing inflatable weapon decoys including Himars rocket launchers and Abrams tanks has seen its profits soar as the Russian invasion in Ukraine continues.
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So you’re very racist towards him for being Latino but think the rest of us should cut him a break for being a Nazi?
You all know how much I dislike
@emeriticus
, mock him as Taco von Ribbentrop, etc.
Well guess what: this hit piece is unfair. Many of the examples cited are in jest. He's said horrid things but he does not deserve cancellation.
Give him some grace.
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Iran is a terror octopus. Its arms—Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houtis—are sowing chaos and terror across the world.
It’s time for the US and its allies to target its head, Tehran, and bring down its regime.
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A single T-34 tank on parade in Moscow was pretty funny but I asked a NATO military official why there were no paratroopers aka the VDV aka the parade poster-children of Russian military might. Turns out Ukraine killed most of them. 1/ 🧵
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As Israel prepares a major operation in the Gaza Strip, the regional situation continues to deteriorate as Iran's proxies continue to increase pressure via attacks from Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Syria. Most dangerous situation I've seen in two decades
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So
@VICEWorldNews
sent me to Moldova to check out reports of a possible pro-Russian coup on Ukraine's western flank. I found a plot by this motley assortment of fugitive oligarchs, an ex-president under house arrest, and a notorious Russian family 🧵1/10
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Not one Afghan was aware of/involved in 9-11 and the world didn’t forget unless you missed the 20+ year occupation that cost about a literal trillion dollars. And nobody sends the Taliban aid let alone calls them allies maybe bullshit straw man arguments are part of the problem.
The world forgot this too soon and decided that Taliban are good guys and Allies.
Let’s hope in the coming years we won’t be mourning something worse than 9/11.
#911Anniversary
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‘Arabs could never figure out basic shit, someone must have helped them’ is my least favorite of racist global war on terror trope and annoyed to see it still out there
Russia is clearly behind this. No ally of HAMAS except of Russia has experience of using bomb-dropping drones against modern battle tanks. Only Russia could train HAMAS in this:
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The Orca Revolutionary Front (ORF) leadership is matriarchal and very similar to Hizbollah in how collective operational knowledge is uncommonly well preserved and passed to new generations. By contrast, dumb sharks can only terrorize and will never pose a strategic threat.
Greg Blackburn, who was aboard the vessel, looked on as a mother orca appeared to teach her calf how to charge into the rudder. "It was definitely some form of education, teaching going on."
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‘Net 30 means pay the freelancers in 30 days otherwise you risk revolution’
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After the 2006 Lebanon War, Hezbollah guys would brag the next major war with Israel would take place inside Israeli territory, essentially describing what we are seeing today. It’s no coincidence, this was planned for years.
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As madcap and weird as Wagner coup might be I still don’t think any thing beats all the Turkish officers leaving the Official Coup WhatsApp Group as they realized they’d lost. That single detail will never leave me.
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American citizens fund senate offices so there’s people who can brief the senator on such matters. This tweet is either a lie or a misappropriation of taxpayer money.
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More than half the tanks Russia started with a year ago are destroyed and they didn’t exactly keep the good ones in reserve
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We know you’re not competent enough to be a terrorist but you tried… consider these two decades in prison as a sort of participation trophy
"I know that I messed up that day, but I'm not a terrorist," Biggs said.
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Is the artisanal sausage entree too much for one person?
oh no it’s fine - waiter
Albanian sausage for one:
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IDF mistakenly kills three Israeli hostages:
During fighting in Shejaiya, an IDF force mistakenly identified three Israeli hostages as a threat. As a result the force fired at them and were killed.’
דובר צה"ל:
במהלך הלחימה בשג׳עייה, כוח צה״ל זיהה בשוגג שלושה חטופים ישראלים כאיום. כתוצאה מכך הכוח ירה לעברם והם נהרגו.
במהלך סריקה ובדיקה של מרחב האירוע עלה חשד לגבי זהות ההרוגים. הגופות נלקחו לבדיקה בשטח ישראל ולאחריה התברר כי מדובר בשלושה חטופים ישראלים>>
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Hippos are the perfect example of my personal bar brawl motto - watch out of the chubby one who can move
Political scientist trying to keep young economists out of their decade-old research field.
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I spoke with Hamas on the delay in official hostage count, an Israeli security official on why it's taking so long to count the dead and missing and with a 'regional diplomat' who remains stunned by the implications of dozens of Israelis held in Gaza
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and now there's a triangle with the uh british council and
@bellingcat
and uh reuters and maybe soros? i can't tell. russian news is notable for having zero news about russia that doesn't involve a tank battle in 1943. this is stupid i'm going to bed prig's probably dead
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Is it called the Ministry of Foriegn Affairs?
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Breathtaking cynicism and not just by Greece, the gov's appalling treatment of refugees is backed by dozens of rich EU countries that collectively encourage these policies, while individually pretending like they play no role in the deaths.
Greece is trying to cover up its role in the Pylos shipwreck which caused 100s of deaths on 13 June
Documents obtained by
@LHreports
& partners show the Greek coast guard went as far as tampering with official statements given by survivors
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Cops and Airport staff at Istanbul airport are glued to their phones trying to reach family in southern Turkey and several are in tears. Just awful day for the region.
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Imagine walking around the White House tweaking, knowing full well the cops found the rest of your cocaine and you’re gonna be arrested in the next hour. At work. In the White House. While so high all you want to do is jabber about PT Anderson films to your colleagues at the NSC
A suspicious white powder found at the White House over the weekend has been identified as cocaine, according to US media outlets
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Kadyrov’s final form appears to be ‘bloated garden gnome’
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We (myself
@iAmTheWarax
and
@alexzfinley
call upon each candidate in the 2024 US presidential election explain their position on issuing Letters of Marquee
We found the secret yacht of Vladimir Putin docked at a naval shipyard of a NATO (!) country.
How is this possible and what does it tell us about the character of his regime?
🧵 Read on to find out (and see pictures) - 1/18
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Hezbollah continues to harass Israel along its northern border but hasn’t signaled if it will join the fight to support Hamas. It’s part of a long standing policy of strategic ambiguity that leaves Israel unsure of what come next my latest for
@VICENews
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The abuse of breaking news notifications must stop or at least give us a ‘real shit’ option
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Houthis making a hijacked ship into a wedding venue after a week long Khat party might be the most Yemeni thing to ever happen
#GalaxyLeader
social media trend persists: A poet reciting his words, an Asian crew member coerced into chanting “death to America and Israel.”Enthusiastic civilians approaching the ship, and a music clip showcases the
#AnsarAllah
#Houthi
martyrs in
#Yemen
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Republicans support the troops so hard it doesn’t matter to them if the troops are American or not.
Happy Birthday to the U.S. Coast Guard! Since 1790, the Coast Guard has worked to keep our shores and waterways safe.
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@iAmTheWarax
you gotta keep submarines wet or they develop hull lesions this is first page of the owner's manual stuff
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If you said ‘Syrian Meth Drones’ in a NSC meeting around 2005, half the room would have a stroke and the other half would order air strikes on syria plus four Arab countries randomly chosen by a computer but today everyone is like meh Syrian meth drones what can you do
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This is the inside story of chasing over $90 million in jewels stolen by a Florida-based psychic from one of the world's most powerful men, former Qatari PM Hamad bin Jassim al Thani, legend in both Middle East diplomacy and business circles 3/10
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There is extensive damage throughout southern Turkey and northern Syria and a vicious winter storm under way. Just brutal
Damaging M7.8 EQ hit southern Turkey near the Syrian border ~4am local time. PAGER is red for this event; extensive damage is probable. Our hearts go out to those affected. See
@Kandilli_info
for local info.
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My job is statistically more dangerous than any US law enforcement thing, and I get it, work is dangerous and you gotta watch out. But I can never get over the sheer terror US cops show about everything. go get another gig man, risk was in the literal job description
I spent the last four months investigating law enforcement reaction and exposure to fentanyl. In many cases, officers claimed to have overdosed in ways medical experts say isn't possible.
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Obviously his first rodeo
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Turkey is offering citizenship to almost anyone for about $500,000 cash. Doesn't matter if you're wanted by cops in other countries and once you buy the passport, Turkey will not extradite you back home.
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'bill gates wants to use covid and 5g to track my every movement,' she posted to facebook from an android phone with location settings on 'granular.'
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Pretty sure he knows this
Elon Musk’s decision to remove free access to Twitter’s API means it will be impossible to determine whether the platform’s algorithm systematically removes harmful content.
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‘Tell your grandfather he can come visit the rifle he dropped while the kids eat amazing food and explore some of Asia’s most stunning mountains.’
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Asking
@iAmTheWarax
to explain what we are seeing here in terms of 21st century armor warfare doctrine without using ‘Leroy Jenkins’
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Spain expels two US diplomats on charges they tried to buy secrets off Spanish agents everyone has kept this pretty quiet
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Only 10,000 people heard of OG Killdozer but all 10,000 built their own Killdozers and now we are a movement
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and he upsets the fucking redcoats so much it's already my favourite movie ever
HE CAME FROM A RELATIVELY PRIVILEGED BACKGROUND.
HE CONQUERED AROUND 2% OF THE EARTH'S LAND MASS.
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we're ruled by the lamest elite cabal in history. sad stuff
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Perfection only comes from God but this tweet will do until she gets here
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Here’s Vietnam enthusiastically explaining how they’ve perfectly maintained all the gear captured the last time some imperial power found out
"Pawn shop"
Personnel of Vietnam People Army checking out reserve weaponry at a storage warehouse. During peacetime, storage warehouses hold excess war materials and during mobilization, they help equip reservists, militias, etc.
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Between those tattoos and what appears to be a missing left pinky finger I suspect Mr Haru had an ‘exciting’ life back in Japan.
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we all love blowing up trains but without the proper paperwork, it's just an invite to chaos. do better people.
A
#railway
line between
#Sevastopol
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has been blown up. Russia’s puppet government claims it was ‘interference of unauthorized persons.’
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