Heidi Siegmund Cuda — Bette Dangerous

'AMERICAN OVERTHROW' - A Book Review Russia watcher and author Keir Giles upcoming book, American Overthrow, is a devastating document of US destruction and what the future looks like if people continue to remain passive open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...

‘Don’t fight them on their ground’ — A Guest Post By Matthew Pearce NAFO founding member Matthew Pearce reports on what Ohio is teaching us about changing the battlefield, in this guest post for Bette Dangerous open.substack.com/pub/heidicud... @mattppea.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social

End game for Donald Trump – or for America? Live discussion in the round at The Cockpit on Nov 9 discussing the fallout of pivotal US midterm elections. Feat @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, @peterjukes.bsky.social, @heidicuda.bsky.social and more TBA Join us: www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/byline_...

‘Don’t fight them on their ground’ — A Guest Post By Matthew Pearce NAFO founding member Matthew Pearce reports on what Ohio is teaching us about changing the battlefield, in this guest post for Bette Dangerous open.substack.com/pub/heidicud... @mattppea.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social

“Happy Freedom To You!” A Bette Dangerous Breaking News Podcast from Serbia - Ep98 A Q&A with Prof. Slobodan Markovich live from celebrations in Serbia about how a student-led movement led to massive civic support that ousted an authoritarian leader - BDP Ep98 www.bettedangerous.com/p/happy-free...

URGENT: Help Stop Kremlin Propaganda Campaign An open letter from Zarina Zabrisky to the Bette community for your help exposing a planned disinformation operation in Oleshky/Kherson Ukraine www.bettedangerous.com/p/urgent-hel...

Unflooding the Zone The torrent of news is simply too much. So I unpack what’s important in bite-size pieces - ICC awarded; Musk canceled; crime bosses glitching; Russia attacks US midterms; and Steele’s Quote of the Day open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...

Italy Investigates ‘Counter-education’ on Social Media Italy investigates what’s happening to their children. Plus, Bette in the news on Thom Hartmann, and some Calendar notes www.bettedangerous.com/p/italy-inve... www.bettedangerous.com/p/italy-inve...

Get Smart Getting informed on bad actors and online manipulation - reports that used to take a year or two after major global events - are now being delivered within days or even hours open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...

BREAKING: upendra46631404 says ‘Democracy is dead in France’ Very authentic concern from South Asian accounts on X www.bettedangerous.com/p/breaking-u... 1/

I heart France Arrest Putin. open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...

‘An Existential Threat to Western Civilization’: A Q&A with @dietmarpichler.bsky.social — Bette Dangerous Podcast Ep97 Disinformation analyst Dietmar Pichler explains his latest INVED report: “Pro-Russian narratives massively spread in Austrian information space” open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...

Protect the International Criminal Court so we live to see Putin and Trump go down for crimes against humanity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just a courtesy reminder that Russia accelerated the ‘yellow vests’ protests in France a decade ago to target Macron. www.ifri.org/en/frances-y...

Hot Type: Donald Trump’s Election Denial Industrial Complex I report on how the current US Government is stuffed full with people who tried to overthrow the 2020 election and are poised to wreak havoc on the upcoming midterms www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-d... @bylinetimes.bsky.social

‘You Won’t Teach Me To Hate’ And other defiant messages of love from Galway street artist Patrick Loewen. Part of a series of culture reports from Co Galway Ireland open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...

‘We see this really clear line between Brexit, Trump, and Russia’ As UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham confirms Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum, I am revisiting my 2016 election attack archives to again prove ties between Brexit, Trump, and Russia open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...

“Let the first word be ‘treason’...” Germany’s ex-spy chief arrested for treason. Who’s next? www.bettedangerous.com/p/let-the-fi...

‘Should Europe Ban Pro-Russian Parties?’ Geopolitical analyst Joni Askola offers his thoughts on why European countries must draw red-lines against pro-Kremlin political parties within their borders www.bettedangerous.com/p/should-eur... @joniaskola.bsky.social

‘The Ghosts of the Dead Have Begun Their Work’ A vignette from “Diary of a Man in Despair” by Friedrich Reck about threat letters sent to low-level Nazis open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...

What You See at the End of the World A tribute to Anna Politkovskaya, the reporter who investigated the rise of a KGB snoop, the Second Chechen War, and 'age of the oligarchs' before being assassinated on Putin’s birthday, 7 October 2006, exactly 20 years ago www.bettedangerous.com/p/what-you-s...

TODAY: Bette’s Book Club with Craig Unger - ‘House of Trump/House of Putin’ Bette members—please register for our book club event today, Sunday, 4 October at 11 am Pacific with NYT-bestselling author Craig Unger as he discusses “House of Trump/House of Putin” www.bettedangerous.com/p/today-bett...

Hot Type: ‘Holy Fascism’ In my latest column for @bylinetimes.bsky.social, I reflect on how the Trump regime’s cynical use of ‘God’ as cover for its greedy, bloody, and criminal actions mirrors fascist regimes, both past and present www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-h...

Appetite for Corruption The irrefutable fact that pro-Russian politicians always seem to have corruption in common, among other deviant qualities www.bettedangerous.com/p/appetite-f...

MAGA Was a Scam Words of wisdom to break an illusion open.substack.com/pub/heidicud... h/t @joniaskola.bsky.social

When An Unauthorized Drumbeat Was An Act of Subversion Formed in 1968, the Plastic People of the Universe - an apolitical avant-garde rock band in Czechoslovakia that rejected censorship - helped spark a revolution. Guest post open.substack.com/pub/heidicud... h/t @alexalvarova.substack.com

An American in Paris I was in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris when white smoke from the Sistine Chapel indicated a new Pope had been elected. Today, Pope Leo arrives in Paris to make history open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...

Putin’s Arrest Warrant Revisiting the International Criminal Court’s 2023 arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for the war crime of trafficking children www.bettedangerous.com/p/putins-arr...

Propaganda Dies in Silence An independent journalist’s reflections on the sound of silence at a Trump presser www.bettedangerous.com/p/propaganda...

Hot Type: The Moral Strain of Reality While attention is being diverted to AI’s kill threat, the Trump regime is already engaging in mass killings — my latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-t...

Goodbye To All That A bittersweet reflection on my 10th anniversary of being an independent investigative reporter during the Trumpocene www.bettedangerous.com/p/goodbye-to...

Shaving Thorns Off Roses Reflections from Dublin’s protest against Trump in Ireland www.bettedangerous.com/p/shaving-th... www.bettedangerous.com/p/shaving-th...

‘Rudy Giuliani Was Never a Hero’ Republishing my Byline Times investigation from 7 October 2023 as Giuliani continues to denigrate the memory of real heroes on this solemn day in US history www.bettedangerous.com/p/rudy-giuli... @bylinetimes.bsky.social

‘Aus Anstand’ - Bette’s 2-Minute History: Marlene Dietrich Anti-Fascist The German icon rebuked Hitler and the Nazis ‘out of decency’ - this post is part of an ongoing ‘2-Minute History’ series www.bettedangerous.com/p/aus-anstan...

Hot Type: Sloptocracy I report on how the Trump regime is using AI slop as a primary tool of governance and how ‘free people everywhere must embrace hard reality’ to resist the manipulative fakery www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-s... @bylinetimes.bsky.social

I contributed the line “free people everywhere must embrace hard reality.” This is another excellent article from Heidi Siegmund Cuda.

I contributed the line “free people everywhere must embrace hard reality.” This is another excellent article from Heidi Siegmund Cuda.

‘Aus Anstand’ - Bette’s 2-Minute History: Marlene Dietrich Anti-Fascist The German icon rebuked Hitler and the Nazis ‘out of decency’ - this post is part of an ongoing ‘2-Minute History’ series www.bettedangerous.com/p/aus-anstan...

Hot Type: Sloptocracy I report on how the Trump regime is using AI slop as a primary tool of governance and how ‘free people everywhere must embrace hard reality’ to resist the manipulative fakery www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-s... @bylinetimes.bsky.social

GHOSTING IN, AND GHOSTING OUT: We can’t just move on from foreign influence campaigns Republishing this report due to Verbatim Media’s undercover investigation into Nigel Farage and his team’s US funding exposé and the need to keep unmasking foreign campaigns www.bettedangerous.com/p/ghosting-i...

𝗨𝗻𝗽𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 (𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗹𝘆) - Too many people still hope they can wait out Trumpism for things to return to 'normal'. But the world is past that even if Trump departs after his second term. This isn't just a blip, and instead of hope we need adaptation for survival. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

‘Hybrid Schmybrid’ The growing movement to stop obfuscating state-sponsored terrorism with euphemisms and start calling them acts of war www.bettedangerous.com/p/hybrid-sch...

‘Thank you for your empathy’ - a letter from war Sharing a note sent to me by Ukrainian historian Dr. Tetiana Boriak and encouraging you to share our interview series with her, which covers a century of Soviet imperialism www.bettedangerous.com/p/thank-you-...

𝗨𝗻𝗽𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 (𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗹𝘆) - it's not just America's partners and allies that should be alarmed at how the Trump group is facilitating Russia's objectives globally. At home too, the administration is mimicking Russia in more ways than even many Americans realise. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Lithuania - A Model of Resilience French historian and disinformation analyst David Colon offers an inspiring report on the ‘whole of society’ measures Lithuania is taking to combat Russian interference open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...

Hot Type: ‘Everyone Has to Realise They’re Going to Try to Steal the Elections’ I document the Trump regime’s comprehensive attacks on the November midterm elections and the collective pushback required for its efforts to fail www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-e... @bylinetimes.bsky.social