David S. Moon

I have a provocatively titled piece in the latest issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, in which I propose that among the lessons of the “Epstein files” revelations is the value of a properly directly, healthy paranoia suited to an age of opaque networks, dark money, and unaccountable elites. (1/2)

this is just insanely damning stuff when you lay it all out democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Ventura on Castro: “I got news for you. I come from the world of wrestling. I understand snowballing when I see it.”

Jesse Ventura chatting to Hasan Piker for two hours arriving perfectly in time for my current writing project. youtu.be/_Eda-uC6Iic?...

Mark Lombardi rises from the grave to produce one more artwork, an interlocking donut of financial links with Jared Kushner at the centre www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Late to it, but this by @daimoon.bsky.social is very good. As with @profafinlayson.bsky.social's work on reactionary digital politics, it's v clarifying on how ill-equipped contemporary liberalism is for fighting enemies who reject its basic conception of politics. renewal.org.uk/articles/in-...

Coming soon: Al Jazeera uncovers disturbing links between British right wing activists, the far right and loyalist paramilitaries. #Glasgow #Belfast #London

Judge's ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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I see @daimoon.bsky.social was right, about everything

#happyanniversary

The book “Gold Warriors” argues that Yamashita’s Gold was recovered following WW2 and became part of a slush-fund for covert anti-Communist action. It’s a bold claim they originally backed-up with a CD-Rom full of official documents, photographs, scans of maps, etc that it is impossible to find now.

Blood Work is one year old. Thanks for listening. bloodwork.show

His description of pro-wrestling as being “in the business of bullshit” feels destined for wider citation.

It will be interesting if John Cena’s unequivocal defence of his “love” for Vince McMahon & minimisation of accusations against him as just “not [being] perfect” is sustainable with his generally positive image & reception. People seem unclear how to react to it. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

JUSTIFIED “FUCK ICE” CHANTS: LIVE FROM HOFFMAN ESTATES #AEWAllOut

Listen to @bloodwork.show

Fun (?) fact, Logan Paul is not the first WWE Superstar to visit The Pentagon.

Or, as I wrote elsewhere: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Recent BBC archive footage from 1965 on the ‘controversy’ around women’s pro-wrestling. Fun fact; while Women’s wrestling was kept off TV in England as ITV refused to show it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, in Wales, ‘Reslo’ on S4C 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 regularly showcased women’s wrestling until the show ended in 1995 youtu.be/twgelvu6xVE?...

If you like art *by* George W. Bush, how about Mark Lombardi’s art *about* him: “George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens, ca. 1979–90 (5th version)”, 1999. Graphite on paper.

And there are some great quotes you could use as well: www.cia.gov/readingroom/...

Highly recommend this piece.

Perfect timing for the WWE to have Stefanie McMahon remind everyone of how closer her family are to Trump, even beyond her mother’s role. www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/471184/s...

This is great.

A reminder with the Clayton by-election that masked heroes have won election before under their ‘gimmick’ names.

It certainly shows allegations about racism in the Tories are real but somewhat more importantly, it double-underlines a horrible reality: *British politics* is not real, in the same sense that American wrestling - while people do actually have to work for it and do get hurt in it - is not real.

TKO lost approx. $30 million running the UFC fight on the White House lawn. www.cagesideseats.com/post/kZfbmmr...

This is brilliant, by the way.

To quote Mark Blyth, the climate crisis is ‘a giant non-linear outcome generator with wicked convexities. In plain English, there is no mean, there is no average, there is no return to normal. It’s one way traffic into the unknown’. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On Count Binface being elected *as Count Binface*: In Japan, at least 3 pro-wrestlers have been elected having run as masked gimmicks: Great Sasuke, Super Delfin & Skull Reaper A-Ji. The first two wore masks in the legislature. Skull Reaper had to unmask. In Mexico, Tinieblas ran for Mayor but lost.

Absolutely key that Count Binface does not break Kayfabe. Stay in gimmick, brother. Don’t let the media work you into a shoot.

Wait...wait wait wait... Does RFK Jr. not know about kayfabe, or is he in kayfabe? youtube.com/shorts/OCuM-...

This is a point I made in my recent piece for @renewaljournal.bsky.social - when it comes to the current cast of characters who dominate politics, anyone who hasn’t been listening to QAA, True Anon, Chapo, etc is playing serious catch-up. Constant shock @ known stuff. renewal.org.uk/articles/in-...

This is a point I made in my recent piece for @renewaljournal.bsky.social - when it comes to the current cast of characters who dominate politics, anyone who hasn’t been listening to QAA, True Anon, Chapo, etc is playing serious catch-up. Constant shock @ known stuff. renewal.org.uk/articles/in-...

Morally bankrupt you say?

Anyone feeling sympathy for how Keir Starmer was treated by newspapers should recall: 🔴 as DPP he rejected bringing charges on phone hacking; 🔴 he was therefore found ‘culpable’ for phone hacking; 🔴 he then called to end prosecutions for criminality early; 🔴 & he refused to bring back Leveson Pt.2.

This rather speaks to this analysis of the value of political paranoia. Sometimes they are out to get you! Sometimes world affairs are run by a small group of people!