When 'Stability' Means Surrender In a democracy, you have a personal responsibility for the choices of your nation www.bettedangerous.com/p/when-stabi...

'Putin Will Go Down In History. As a Criminal' In my recent Hot Type column in Byline, 'Justice Just Keeps On Happening,' I reported on how Russia's aggression tribunal is gaining momentum. Another 12 countries + the EU signed up since my report www.bettedangerous.com/p/putin-will...

This is about Anna, arrested in front of her university for taking part in anti-regime protests before a lecture I gave there 10 days ago. She gave such a mature, articulate interview to @heidicuda.bsky.social, and she's only 20 yrs old. Please listen to her.

The #$ONS Also Rises How the corruption of autocrats' offspring is a feature not a bug, and how history reveals the inevitable unhappy endings of voluminous greed www.bettedangerous.com/p/the-ons-al...

They Make a Desert and Call It Peace Once again, I turn to Dietmar Pichler to caution people that 'peace' is used as an anti-Western operation and how to recognize the real from the fake peace movements www.bettedangerous.com/p/they-make-...

Jailer In Chief If you run Trump's qualities through the lens of The Gulag Archipelago, you would see that he was put into power for what he lacks and that's precisely why he must be removed from power now www.bettedangerous.com/p/jailer-in-...

COMPLICIT Musk and fascist normalizer Linda Yaccarino are being investigated by French prosecutors for complicity in possessing and distributing child sexual abuse images and illegally collecting personal data www.bettedangerous.com/p/complicit

The Inevitable Fate of All Tyrants A report in the OCCRP indicates Putin's paranoia of assassination by drone or coup attempt has him implementing extreme security measures, Is elite defection imminent? Bette experts weigh in www.bettedangerous.com/p/the-inevit...

Hot Type: 'Justice Keeps on Happening' — Russian Aggression Tribunal Gains Momentum Byline Times' political columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda reports on how the formation of a new Special Tribunal to prosecute Russia could be a turning point www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-j...

Medici White House and the Pseudopropheta In an interview with Dr Matthew Taylor we learn about the competing religious extremists using Trump to achieve their often conflicting goals and how pro-democracy forces can use this opportunity to pitch a bigger tent www.bettedangerous.com/p/medici-whi...

Russia Poisons Wikipedia How state-sponsored actors exploit the crowd-sourced platform to skew reality, create 'foreign digital interference' and what that means for the future of facts www.bettedangerous.com/p/russia-poi...

One Bastard Down, More To Come Rodrigo Duterte will stand trial for crimes against humanity, as ICC prosecutors showed in pretrial evidence that words kill. Now, the ICC is investigating Lukashenko. Trump's knees should be watering www.bettedangerous.com/p/one-bastar...

America Has Chosen to Destroy Itself’ — So Now What? As I see other countries fight back against disinformation, I am reposting this Q&A from Russian propaganda expert Peter Pomerantsev to encourage U.S. to take responsibility for its inaction and push on www.bettedangerous.com/p/america-ha...

Three Beautiful Things Now that we know the recipe - how the Trump regime does three awful things a day to fog our memory - it's time to follow the Pope and put beauty and goodness above the fold

KGB Charm School Grads Community Theater Group Presents… The Russian influencers in the White House will always lie www.bettedangerous.com/p/kgb-charm-...

For those new to Bette Dangerous, I offer my American Monster series — the first 15 reports on a network of criminals accelerating global fascism www.bettedangerous.com/p/american-m...

Turning Fascism Into Entertainment Once we understand Trump and his flunkies will do three awful things a day, we can return the focus on how to stop his criminal regime www.bettedangerous.com/p/turning-fa...

In case you need a refresher on how truly venal Tucker Carlson is… American Monster — Tucker Carlson Twelfth in a series on US criminals accelerating global fascism

Why Media Loves Fascism Because we have a global billionaire problem www.bettedangerous.com/p/why-media-...

Alex Jones — American Monster With The Onion poised to takeover InfoWars, I am reposting the eleventh in my American Monster series about US criminals accelerating global fascism www.bettedangerous.com/p/alex-jones...

TrumpMania: The World's First Kayfabe War How a cynical scheme by a Putin friendly producer to fake that Trump was a successful businessman led to the rise of clickbait fascism and the world's first made-for-tv war

HOT TYPE—'False Prophets Are Making False Messiahs Out of Tyrants' After 'Trump Jesus' and JD Vance 'popesplaining' the theory of a just war to the Pontiff, I interview @TaylorMatthewD on defying the real 'antichrists' of Christian supremacy www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-f...

Deep and Meaningful Beans A Q&A with Anne Abberton, the CEO & Founder of the greatest coffee company in Europe, Dublin-based FiXX, on coffee's evolution from 'caffeine hit' to one of the most 'incredibly complex' beverages www.bettedangerous.com/p/deep-and-m...

‘Billionaires, Bagmen, and Thieves’ — My Hot Type column from January The plot to install Trump as President was the greatest success of foreign espionage in history, and how an Orbán loss could trigger the start of global dePutinization www.bettedangerous.com/p/billionair...

Democracy Vampire — Peter Thiel 13th in my American Monster series on the network of US criminals accelerating global fascism. Reposting in light of growing interest in my archives

As JD Vance interferes in Hungary’s elections, reciting Russian talking points with a Hitler haircut, it’s worth revisiting Viktor Orbán’s history as a Kremlin bagman. Should Hungary rid itself of Orbán’s grip, the EU is immediately strengthened.—hsc

Trump posts of nuclear genocide as if he’s a supervillain in a ring of choreographed kayfabe, only to postpone the threat so Putin can keep making more money. Watching Congress members post ‘Oh no! Trump is threatening genocide!’ is to miss the mass murder that’s already occurred.—hsc

Hot Type: 'Your Hands Are Full of Blood' — Pope Leo's Smackdown to the Trump Regime Byline columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda talks to veteran reporter and religious liberty campaigner @thcarter123.bsky.social about the wildest standoff in the West, Pope Leo vs Donald Trump @bylinetimes.bsky.social

The Show Must Go On: The 2019 NATO Slide That Predicted Today Despite tech gremlins, I was able to share a key 2019 NATO slide on The Thom Hartmann Program today that explained in one screenshot my thesis on how 'Trump Is Putin's Fixer' www.bettedangerous.com/p/the-show-m...

If there is a better example of the Leonard Leo Roberts Court ruling according to far right Catholic theology and not the Constitution, I dont know of one. No Evangelical Nationalists involved. apnews.com/article/supr...

CRIME PAYS: The Greatest Smash and Grab Fraud of All Time We've never had data privacy or protection in any meaningful way, because crime pays, until it doesn't www.bettedangerous.com/p/crime-pays... www.bettedangerous.com/p/crime-pays...

Trump Is Putin's Fixer With Trump's every move benefitting Vladimir Putin, I turn to countries like Estonia for ideas on how to prosecute traitors www.bettedangerous.com/p/trump-is-p... www.bettedangerous.com/p/trump-is-p...

My report from 2024 reveals sheriff Chad Bianco to be a grave danger to the nation. www.bettedangerous.com/p/update-rad...

My Mueller Reports A decade of reporting on an American hero, including a side by side comparison of the lives of Mueller and Trump; and 4 times Mueller took on the mob and won www.bettedangerous.com/p/my-mueller...

My Mueller Reports A decade of reporting on an American hero open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...

Hot Type: TechnoFeudalism’s Warm Embrace Two new studies suggest liberal democracy is gradually being replaced with technofeudalism, reports Political columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda for @bylinetimes.bsky.social www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-t...

Autocratization In the USA V-Dem lays out the facts on the 'most dramatic decline in American history' - no time for heads in sand www.bettedangerous.com/p/autocratiz...

Camouflage Quantifying and criminalizing Russia's vast global network of disinformation campaigns executed by their military industrial complex www.bettedangerous.com/p/camouflage

Killer Words As I sent my report about Rodrigo Duterte's pre-trial ICC hearing on crimes against humanity in The Hague - evidence that words kill - Trump posted killer words and ICC now probing dictator Lukashenko

The 'Bluster' of a Killer As Putin and Trump continue their clickbait fascism to ensure headline domination, Rodrigo Duterte's pre-trial ICC hearing on crimes against humanity in The Hague offers evidence that words kill

What You See at the End of the World A book report on The Essential Anna Politkovskaya, the reporter who documented the rise of a KGB snoop, the Second Chechen War, and the 'age of the oligarchs' before being murdered on Putin's birthday www.bettedangerous.com/p/what-you-s...

I can't shake the feeling that my apocalyptic nightmares--the kind your therapist always assures you are just inside your head and would never happen in real life--are playing themselves out in the real world.

Hot Type: How The US-Israel War in Iran Is Also Targeting European Democracy In @bylinetimes.bsky.social I investigate a key target in the US-Israel war in Iran: European democratic leaders who are damned if they do support the war and damned if they don't www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-h...

Unbroken A deep and meaningful conversation with Dr. Marci Shore on the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from RadPod Ep 161, on a world run by gangsters and how history can help inform @marcishore.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...

‘The desire to not have a stain on your soul…’ More brilliant and motivating words from Professor Jason Stanley, from an interview with Perry Bacon Jr. of The New Republic‘s Right Now podcast www.bettedangerous.com/p/the-desire... @perrybaconjr.bsky.social

Democratic Assassins in the Great Propaganda Wars I wrote yesterday that a Putin-Trump regime objective in the warfighting in Iran was to target European leaders and today, I wake up to headlines confirming

Indirect Targets of Crazy Making As the US becomes a drunken brawler, we can see a real goal emerge - to weaken Western leaders with shock events and so-called wars

'Clickbait Fascism: When War Becomes a Show' -- My Interview on Radio Free America An interview I did with Radio Free America, Prague, on the day the Trump regime invaded Venezuela just dropped yesterday, the day the Trump regime invaded Iran www.bettedangerous.com/p/clickbait-...

Silence of the Grave Republishing my tribute to Russia’s last best hope — Boris Nemtsov — on the 11th anniversary of his assassination