Andrew Bear

Excellent reporting from @wired.com and just a reminder to people organizing now is a good time to learn the history of COINTELPRO in order to anticipate what's already happening and protect yourself and your community. We're in the shit now. It's not a game and power will protect itself.

the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

NEW: Court records in the prosecution of 15 Minnesota residents reveal a sweeping spying operation against left-wing activists that involves ~120 HSI agents, putting it in the realm of notorious anti-left campaigns like COINTELPRO of the Cold War era. @awinston.bsky.social reports:

Super interesting, I am looking forward to read this book.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

10 days until Election Day! This is when the political mail gets WILD. Make sure to submit your mail to paidforby.info: 1. Instantly find out who is really paying for the mailer — and their donors (federal elections only) 2. Get your mailer reviewed by an independent journalist (all elections)

2. Details in today's Popular Information:

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

it feels truly insane that it’s not

The Grand Old Rape Party

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

let’s make GORP happen

The Fifth Circuit upheld the administration’s policy of mandatory detention for noncitizens who have entered the country without inspection, saying that the Constitution's Fifth Amendment due process protections do not require that these individuals receive bond hearings.⁠ nipnlg.org/news/press-r...

We are sensing a pattern

The Exxon ad Exxon doesn't want you to see. New from Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social and voiced by Woody Harrelson.

JD Vance: “You don’t turn the Titanic around overnight.”

Must watch. youtu.be/yJyQXGynwsg?...

Heidi and Michael are the best of us. Jamaal Khashoggi was the best of us. Shireen Abu-Akleh was the best of us. 241 murdered Palestinian journalists were the best of us. This gruesome imperial death machine will eat us too if we don't break it. May we move with solidarity in their memories.

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Authors, There is a massive surge in AI-generated scams from people impersonating podcasters or reviewers or marketers offering to promote or boost books. For a fee. Then they disappear. Often from a Gmail account. I know we all want our books to be better promoted, but don't fall for these scams.

Didn't take long for the NHS transphobic guidance to claim a life

What if yoy are a VEGAN left-wing transgender witch?

Bleecker Street, the film distributor overseeing the theatrical release of Alex Gibney's documentary Musk, was informed on Friday that the film's TikTok account was subject to "permanent suspension." tinyurl.com/4yd9997x

I can guarantee that we will be in absolutely NO position to do this

In a study published in March, we found that the speed of global warming has nearly doubled since 2013, using a continuous piecewise-linear function. “Continuous” as otherwise one describes the data by a sequence of trends and abrupt jumps. Our paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

These guys always help the fascists...actually enable fascists.

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/

This is a hostage video

Taken: 9 September 2026 (8:18pm – 10:13pm) "I estimate there are approximately 14,000 satellite trail appearances across the 578 photographs. These aren't necessarily 14,000 different satellites, as the same satellite can appear in multiple exposures." "This is NOT AI-generated." #Kikorangi #nzpol

Netflix has 16,000 employees. If they kept half of that profit and paid the rest out equally to everyone, they could give each worker a $426,000 bonus this year and still pocket $6,825,000,000. Instead they fired 1000 people.

NEW @citizenlab.ca report We uncovered an Israeli firm using online ads to run vast spy operation This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. 45 devices at @aljazeera.com confirmed infected citizenlab.ca/research/how...

Six days after ICE shot him in the Bronx, Oscar Belgal remains in MDC Brooklyn, and still hasn’t gotten surgery to remove the bullet in his neck. “He has experienced a loss of sensation in half of his face, as well as hearing loss in his left ear.” Gift link: www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/14/l...

My latest on Substack: climatecasino.substack.com/p/earths-vit...

Her "immigration status" is that she's been a US citizen longer than either Melania Trump or Elon Musk. The Democrats SHOULD use this opportunity for 100% solidarity with one of their own, and throw the fucking kitchen sink at Trump and his Republicans. I doubt they will but would LOVE to be wrong.

Does climate change impact carbon uptake by trees? Interesting study (reported on by @thebulletin.org below) says maybe not. This has real implications for mitigation as my colleagues and I tried to model here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Many people have a wrong idea about what US intelligence sharing with Ukraine is. In reality it's largely early warnings about air strikes so Ukrainians can seek shelter. This requires US satellites. But it looks like Trump might have instructed his military to stop giving Ukrainians that warning.

Per the Middle East Studies Association, since October 7, 76 North American academics have been fired for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine. Two-thirds of those people are non-white. 16.5% are Jewish. afi.mesana.org/resource/les...

Putin has not funded disruption and chaos across Europe and the UK solely to weaken his enemies. He also knows that disruption and chaos favour the far right. And the far right loves Putin. It will abandon Ukraine and build him a highway into Europe.

Colorado & Michigan have become the latest blue states to end Medicaid coverage for trans youth. Solidly blue Colorado will also be IMMEDIATELY shutting off care for all trans kids receiving puberty blockers—despite Trump's rule allowing a 6 month ‘tapering’ period. This is a complete betrayal.

Excellent, spot on piece by @doctorvive.bsky.social over at Current Affairs.

Today was the day he became president. (Via @atrupar.com)

Trump on Jon Husted: "I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body, because I didn't know he was a great athlete ... I looked at his ass"

This is psychosis. He is profoundly mentally ill. He is not fit to be in any position of power over anyone or anything. He should not control nuclear weapons.

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and released ALL of the Epstein files, I’m betting they’d suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.