We're finally seeing a bit of headway in learning how the Kremlin bankrolls Nigel Farage and his inner gang as well as his political projects like Brexit and Reform UK. This has been well known to intelligence analysts for more than a decade, but very little of it has made its way into the press.

This case underscores how SCOTUS made it impossible to hold immigration cops accountable for the abuses you see in all those videos. A federal task force cop manufactured evidence to put an innocent woman behind bars for two years. Because of SCOTUS-conferred immunity, the case never got to a jury.

Supporting crypto = supporting corruption

my god, what a paragraph (from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

A rather dramatic update: Ynet reports that Israeli police is now searching for former IDF AG, who has been declared missing.

The older I get the more I value conscientiousness over raw intelligence or anything like that — when someone has completed college that’s a stronger signal of being able to handle tasks in an independent environment on a consistent basis: www.wsj.com/business/pal...

A policy agenda for "the Internet was a mistake"

The president can order the “Department of War” to conduct acts of war wherever he feels like—in this case, the Caribbean—under inherent Article II war powers, and maybe under the old Congressional authorization for the War on Terror, but it’s not a war so the War Powers Act doesn’t apply. Gotcha!

Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Yet in 2010, Noem—then a congressional candidate—had “20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, two seat-belt violations and a citation for driving with no driver’s license.” She had six court notices for failing to appear, and had two warrants out for her arrest. trib.al/uQSDaqR

Notable that the people carrying Trumpism don't act like they believe they're carrying out the will of the public, they act like dictators terrified of a spontaneous uprising so swift and massive it overwhelms their protective services before assistance can arrive.

Bravo to space.com for this deeply reported, lengthy piece. Depressing, but a shocking thing is Goddard is using the shutdown to order moves out of lab and engineering spaces on 2-3 days notice, requiring major equipment to just be left behind and demolished www.space.com/space-explor...

I can’t stress this enough. They want to do inside the US the kind of extrajudicial murders they’ve been doing internationally. This has always been about normalizing the ability of Trump to smite his personal enemies without suffering legal consequences. Trump’s testing for compliance & resistance.

Nevada just let property insurers exclude wildfire coverage. Homeowners won’t realize until it’s too late that fire isn't covered. Expect shock, underinsurance, and scrambling for expensive new policies. Plus: pressure for a federal wildfire safety net. open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...

these people are dumb as dog shit and im tired of pretending theyre not

It bears repeating: the opioid epidemic, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives, was sparked by the activities of U.S.-based pharmaceutical companies and distributors. It was a homegrown, man-made plague.

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more. I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

The handiwork of Trump's secret police: Feds arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland on Oct 15, even though his family says he's got a valid work permit and no criminal record. But he's not on ICE's detainee locator. His family only could find out his location on a 3rd-party inmate messaging app

1. A comms guy threatening reporters by siccing the White House on them. 2. The wife of a WH official threatening a pundit's citizenship. 3. A drunk ICE agent saying he'll check an arresting officer's status. These are all the same thing.

This is the most succinct, and accurate, summary of the battle we're fighting in America & around the world: it is feudalism vs. democracy, and feudalism is currently winning. @brockm.bsky.social captures the whole thing, and it should be required reading. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-coming...

Conservative and Liberal Americans can easily see that this Administration official's claim of absolute, unqualified perfection is a lie. Here are a few of the US citizens who have been arrested and detained, some held incognito for days in inhuman conditions—> www.propublica.org/article/immi...

the complete nonsense of this, i will admit, is a little bit compelling in a weirdness way, but not because i actually enjoy it

The Trump administration lifts sanctions on Putin ally and war criminal Milorad Dodik. The move comes after pressure from Laura Loomer, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn. This is how things work in Trump's Washington. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

From the DHS disinformation workshop: DHS deceptively spliced images from different cities and times in videos sowing fear about "chaos" in Chicago and Washington, DC, a WaPo investigation found. DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, WaPo found.

They’ve found a “technical” way to justify the terrorist/race chart

Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!” Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it. New: me, for @forbes.com 1/

DOJ secures indictment of Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh over ICE protests www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

There is zero reason for anyone, especially reporters, to trust anything that comes out of this administration at any level. This is fantastic reporting.

NEW: The Trump admin just ended the practice of automatically extending work permits when people file to renew them — meaning that if USCIS takes too long to process a renewal the applicant loses their authorization to work legally. The interim final rule applies to renewals filed after tomorrow.

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

❗️🇨🇳China is reducing the supply of components for 🇺🇦Ukrainian drones, — n-tv Beijing is increasingly restricting such supplies, and is also stopping attempts by the Ukrainian defense industry to import Chinese electronic components through allied countries.

DC journo brain: Dems give a shit about norms, so they should follow them; Republicans don't give a shit about them, so they can do whatever they want. It's explicit!

Unprecedented corruption: Trump's "family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized 'on paper' gains. Much of that cash has come from foreign sources"

Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.

Insightful

ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital. "I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!" The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck. Houston, Texas.

They're firing the competent thugs and putting in gutter scum who only know how to break legs. This is going to go *badly*. Yes, especially badly for the regime, too, since ICE is already being pushed past breaking point and this is only going to kick up more resistance across the board.

Two Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors."

the last few years of my job at google were surreal -- watching the executives talk in increasingly positive terms about Elon Musk's management style while objective metrics at his companies were becoming dangerously unstable. it wasn't until 2023 that i realized that they didn't care about profits.

Interesting post AND check out this amazing data visualization of dark money networks 🤩

The Trump admin is considering designating Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization. Thomas E. Brzozowski argues this move would create an unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism authorities into the domestic political space and threaten civil society. www.justsecurity.org/122643/antif...

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

Portland City Councilor @counciloravalos.bsky.social woke up to her car and home engulfed in flames late last night. She had to grab her cat and escape to safety.

"Andy Ngo and other far right extremists have been targeting Avalos since at least as early as July and trying to paint her as violent and a 'member of Antifa.' On court record, Ngo has admitted that his social media posts can lead to violence." It's projection from the right. All the way down.

Anthony Andrews: The man who anonymously paid $130 million to pay our soldiers, because Trump shutdown the government to hide the Epstein files, is IN the Epstein files and flew on the Lolita Express. JE=Jeffrey Epstein, Paul Mellon, 2 females. Trafficked children were only referred to as gender.

The cowardice of Big Law extends beyond the handful of firms that have become Trump’s collaborators. Many more are simply hiding and hoping not to be noticed.