Countries taking action against their illicit networks are playing a game of whack-a-mole

Best mid-terms GOTV incentive right here.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

🚨New: At COP30, the pesticide industry has been making big pledges to fight deforestation by turning Brazil's over-grazed pasturelands into new areas to grow crops. Small-holders fear it's all just a ploy to sell more of the toxic chemicals poisoning nature and harming human health. buff.ly/Yc8qocr

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

Important not to overlook the fact that this bilge is amplified & disseminated by many prominent - and very real - racists who benefit financially, professionally & politically from the process.

Carrie Fisher was the blueprint. Protect your people. Call out the predators. #RESIST

The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture. 🔍 Zoom in…

Johnson took four days off at key covid period www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is The Great Climate Insurance Collapse coming at us. Republicans look away because it’s what their fossil fuel industry donors demand. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Correct!

We know that’s not true!

This isn't ancient history either. Farage used the term "globalist" to describe Grant Shapps just three years ago. These are age-old antisemitic terms, and they tap into racist right-wing conspiracy theories about a one world government. There's no excuse. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump's former White House lawyer has said the president's desire to accumulate and abuse power is unprecedented.

Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...

That little f*ck up told a lot of people all over the world EVERYTHING! There are accounts in the US government that are being run by a different country.

Take an absolutely critical bit of societal fabric which is also one of the country's few global successes. Cut off a big chunk of revenue, then underfund it. Give it additional chores and then pinch half a billion quid from it. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

Importantly, Johnson was so malignantly narcissistic that put the "success" of his Brexit above everything during the pandemic. The timing of his lockdowns, his vaccine-nationalism, his ending of the transition period during the worst Covid wave – all of it put lives and livelihoods at risk.

"Boris Johnson was branded a coward as it emerged he could face legal action over failures during the pandemic that led to 23,000 excess deaths. His actions during the pandemic amount to 'one of the gravest betrayals of the British public in modern history'." #CovidInquiry

This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’. It’s Russian.

"The BBC is our most effective defence against the dangers of global media power concentrated in the hands of a few private individuals" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My dispatch from the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. Russia has destroyed the region's energy infrastructure, bombing sub-stations, and leaving people without heat and in the dark. a sad story, with beautiful chiaroscuro pictures by @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Yeah, there's a good reason for that.

Why Steve Witkoff is Selling Out Ukraine? Why did Witkoff write a recommendation for Russian mobster Anatoly Golubchik? He said his only tie to the "enforcer" for Russian Mafia was via an unnamed "mutual acquaintance." And who might that be? open.substack.com/pub/craigung...

The vast amount of stolen data is still not widely understood by the public. The number of federal agencies & databases pillaged and stolen by Musk and his minions is going to be used for evil, profit and corruption. They all need to be jailed for treason.

As someone who works inside the Fed (BLM) all the data- all the access- all the information- already sold or sellable to anyone. It's dismantled & weakened our government in ways that can never be repaired.

Your friendly reminder that Elon's DOGE cuts have already resulted in mass death.

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

'i hate socialism and that's why i refuse to socialize'

“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.” It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Guy in Sri Lanka raking it in, teaching folk how to enrage elderly Brits: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

It makes a loot of sense. The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty. Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.

Very proud of former Reform MP, James McMurdock. Who better to stand up for women and girls than a man sent to prison for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend?

When Chris Whitty told a Cobra meeting Covid could escalate to a global pandemic, Johnson swung into inaction, taking a well-earned 4 day break. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The new evidence is grim: Brexit has made Britain is smaller, poorer and less productive. No wonder Reeves found a black hole in the budget. It’s been carved out by a decade of lost growth of 6-8% - a hit of £180-£240bn - that’s far worse than was predicted.

No accident that the U.K. rates 23 in a list of press freedom (below Samoa) 33rd in press accuracy (since 2021) guardian.pressreader.com/article/2816...

The entire West comes together to reject the Dmiriev 28-point plan to which Trump affixed his name. This would appear to mark the absolute modern low point of US diplomatic influence on he world stage.

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

NEW: After ProPublica reported that the White House intervened on behalf of Andrew Tate, two senators say the behavior “raises grave questions regarding the independence and impartiality of federal law enforcement operations. By Avi Asher-Schapiro and @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...

⚡️ 'Rewarding Russian butchery' — US lawmakers rail against Trump's Ukraine peace deal. "Rewarding Russian butchery would be disastrous to America’s interests," U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell said.