Mark Chadbourn

@chadbourn

Everything is Connected. Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA Support my work at: Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn

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Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· 27d

Morning Bluesky.

B&w film still: ballerinas recoil from a menacing silhouette of a man in a hat

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· 28d

Screeching 180 from Trump on the 20% Strait of Hormuz toll after the entire world told him he was a fukn idiot. And those trade and investment deals (which is his get out)? Never going to happen.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Oil is flowing like never before, thanks to the awesome Power of the United States Military. A special salute to Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, and Commander of the United States Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper. Because of them, and all members of the Most Powerful Military anywhere in the World, BY FAR, the Strait of Hormuz is open to ALL Ship traffic except for Iran - and that is because of their lying, violent, malicious leadership, which is taking them down the path of TOTAL DESTRUCTION. We will therefore have a FULL Blockade, but only on Ships coming to and from Iranian ports, or carrying anything have to do with Iranian cargo. Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States.
Those Investments will be MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future. As everyone is aware, we have the largest Dollar Investment into the United States, of any Country in History, but these new Investments will make that Number even larger, and we will see Factories, Plants, and Equipment pour into the United States at Historic levels, which will create additional millions of High Paying AMERICAN Jobs! America is WINNING again, winning like never before. The days of Iran killing hundreds of thousands of people, including 52,000 protestors, are OVER and, most importantly, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· 28d

“Just normal weather”.

Chart showing what’s coming is the worst El Niño on record

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· 28d

Explosions in Bushehr and Bandar Abbas, Iran.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· 28d

Ukraine hit Russia’s Salavat refinery in Bashkortostan overnight. Another long distance strike - 1300km from the frontline. #explodey

Black smoke rises beyond a line of trees

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· 28d

Morning Bluesky.

Comics panel: a man sits with head in hands while a woman talks to him

Man: I DIDN'T MEAN ANY HARM, MISS. I GUESS MY NERVES ARE ALL SHOT.
Woman: WON'T YOU TELL ME WHY YOU RAN AWAY WHEN YOU
HEARD I WASAN
AMERICAN?
IN MORRISTOWN, ON THE BENGALI COAST, MANNA QUESTIONS WHITEY, A FURTIVE BEACHCOMBER.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· 29d

Another heavy Ukrainian drone attack currently underway. #explodey

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· 29d

Trump wants Lindsey Graham’s sister to fill his seat.

Donald J. Trump * O @realDonaldTrump
I recommended, to Governor Henry McMaster, Lindsey Graham's wonderful sister, Darline, to serve as interim Senator from the Great State of South Carolina. This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly!
President DONALD J. TRUMP

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· 29d

Trump launches a protection racket in the Strait of Hormuz and has literally no way of enforcing his criminal endeavour.

Donald J. Trump C @reaDonald Trump
The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran's ships or customers from entering or leaving. All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait. The U.S.A. Will be, from this point forward, known as "THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT," but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World. The process and formation will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· 29d

The Times isn’t going to back down until Farage is gone.

Parage Farrago
The questions facing the Reform UK leader over his financial disclosures are mounting. The circus around the Clacton by-election won't make them go away
Nigel Farage has a list of questions to answer, a list that is growing and becoming increasingly serious for the Reform UK leader. At the top remains the biggest of them all, where his recent problems stem from: why did he not declare the £5 million
"gift" from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, despite the parliamentary guidance suggesting he should have done so? Mr Farage, who has not taken questions from journalists or hosted a press conference for some weeks, continues to insist he has done nothing wrong. But there has been no credible explanation of why this is so.
Next, Mr Farage should explain why he has failed to be open and transparent about support received from George Cottrell, his 32-year-old aide who was once jailed for wire fraud. The latest revelations suggest that Mr Cottrell made undisclosed donations to Reform UK by using his own money to cover party office costs, including computer tools and software. Yet, as The Sunday Times has reported, these donations were not recorded by the Electoral Commission. It is also unclear whether Mr Cottrell was a permissible donor given that he was seemingly a tax resident of Montenegro and not registered to vote in the UK when the donations were made. Mr Farage simply cannot wish away these queries.
Instead of coming clean by opening his books and those of his party, Mr Farage has attempted to muddy the waters by calling a needless by-election in his Clacton constituency. The decision by the main political parties not to stand has further added to a sense that Reform is repeating the mistakes of his previous political endeavours in becoming a vehicle for chaos. It will do no good to Mr Farage's hopes of becoming prime minister one day
- spending this summer arguing with novelty candidates just as a new prime minister enters 10 Downing Stre…

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· 29d

Reform playing their last remaining Victim Card: “You all want us dead.”

Richard Tice MP *
@TiceRichard
X.com
The Times Group:
You are sick
Your contempt bordering on hatred of Nigel, myself & Reform means you stoop to any low to smear & discredit us. You lie, libel and make things up.
How many more Reform politicians do you want dead?
Shame on you
T Times Politics O
@timespolitics• 13h
Nigel Farage accused of using Ann Widdecombe's death as propaganda

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· 29d

Morning Bluesky.

B&w film still. A woman coldly eyes filthy grasping hands reaching towards her through a gap in a door

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· Jul 12

Massive Ukrainian drone attack now underway. Potential #explodey

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· Jul 12

PSA.

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If anyone is thinking to do actual campaigning in Clacton, it is ESSENTIAL that you get agreement from Count Binface. This is not a joke. We do not want to get him into trouble.
All expenditure in support of a candidate MUST be accounted for by the candidate even if they didnt pay it out themselves. Otherwise he would be breaking the law for not declaring the expenditure in his post-election expenses return to the authorities.
Also any leaflets have to say who printed and published them, even if not produced by CBf himself. And the costs (even if donated by supporters) MUST be agreed by CBf so he can include them in his expenses return.
I should add that I do know what I am talking about - I was a member of the Greens and stood for election for many years, sometimes even successfully! CBf needs to be squeaky clean on this sort of thing, compared to Frogface.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· Jul 12

Farage is increasingly running out of safe havens.

Daily Mail column: Our spies are watching as Reform faces a tsunami of sleaze claims. Why? Because they claim the trail could lead back to the Kremlin:

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· Jul 12

Off we go on the conspiracy roundabout.

Laura Loomer Y @LauraLoomer
X.com
Did Russia just poison Lindsey Graham?
There seriously needs to be an investigation.
Russia just sent a delegation to Khamenei's funeral in Tehran where the IRGC and funeral organizers was calling for myself, President Trump and Senator Graham to be assassinated.
Lindsey Graham was in Ukraine one day ago calling for a Russian sanctions bill that he claimed the White House supports.
Now he is suddenly dead from a random illness according to his staff.
Did Russia just murder a US Senator?

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn· Jul 12

From Opinium. Kemi Badenoch is now the least disliked political leader in the UK. Farage’s ratings are plunging into the abyss. Those scandals are biting. 🌳 Badenoch -3 🔶 Davey -5 🌹 Burnham -8 🌍 Polanski -16 ➡️ Farage -27