Simon Wookey

New article: The suspicious timing of Ukraine’s starlink throttling (the US sabotaging Ukraine’s Donbas advances) joniaskola.substack.com/p/the-suspic...

This is the biggest corruption scandal in American history. The Trump crime family is trying to sell the future natural gas rights of Alaska to the Russians in exchange for $25 billion in cash for themselves today.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

yup.

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

If Brazil can reject Trump, the Broligarchs and right-wing authoritarianism, so can we.

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then "performative pietism" is surely the panic room inside.

"Of all the books I have ever reviewed that purported to offer a serious thesis, this is without question the most deranged."

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

I’ve already come up with a half dozen conspiracies after seeing this.

“I can’t remember the time before Vučić, I was eight when he came to power, but I hope I won’t remember him either in a few years,” said Marko Radojevic, a student from Novi Sad.

they have it now

The AfD and now this… oh those Germans

I do love it when Tom just drops the big truth bombs

We are the dumbest species

I warned 3 years ago that mink farms are a likely route to a new and horrific human pandemic, and once more I'm fervently praying it doesn't map out that way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is horrific. And unsurprisingly the work of a "conservative" multimillionaire. Other adjectives might include creepy, prurient, dictatorial and abusive, not to mention, of course, transphobic. Once more with feeling: we need to get the money out of politics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Acton campaign immediately went to work to monetize Vivek’s blunder through texting and email solicitations. Great to see that it paid off.

Trump rushing to defend the woman who stood by her step-husband after he raped her daughter. It says something that this is entirely predictable rather than incredibly shocking.

I've seen the ad. She wasn't wrong.

From the party that defends people in the Epstein list

These men are so evil

Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals! It's not just about giving destructive industries what they want, important as this is. The likes of Trump and Bolsonaro will kill the planet out of a vengeful desire to hurt. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Can a journalists ask Witkoff what Putin's boot taste like when he returns?

Vivek is vile. It’s a horrible ad. But the good news is that the ad will destroy him.

So all the major mobile networks in France are having a very bad day I'm certain that this has noting in common with the major cyberattack against France's food infrastructure... almost certain... actually I know fuck all hold me....

Challenge level impossible: Germany does the right thing by banning AfD

"Realism" is an empty doctrine - and "realists" are just mimicking Moscow talking points, says @EdwardGLuce giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The man thinks himself General Patton

Oh I am SO curious about this

Oh well, no harm done, eh?

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

The “Tommy” shown in this viral video from Abdul El-Sayed is a former staffer for Sen. Josh Hawley and the son of a GOP strategist. For nearly five minutes, El-Sayed questioned the man about his understanding of the Constitution and the religious freedom it affords all Americans. Simply brilliant.

so much to discuss with @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social, live and uncensored here on the AT Protocol, this Tuesday, October 20 at 9 am Pacific/Noon Eastern stream.place/niedermeyer.online

Yes.

The French looting and riots reminds me of the 2011 England and London riots Like in 2011 a lot of this was coordinated over social media and I wouldn’t be surprised if a hostile foreign power helped this along #france #paris

Outstanding

If we can't figure out why that happened then I suspect the history books won't be written by people who think that's the case.

crazy moment in Minnesota as AG Keith Ellison torches Republican Ron Schutz for accepting donations from fraudsters — and Schutz admits it

OTD in 2016 Gorbachev stated quite categorically that he never received a promise by NATO not to admit new members to the alliance. He said the idea that Russia was betrayed is a myth. Which triggers my trolls.

He has always wanted Russia to win.

Producer: “Who can we get to represent the views of voters in struggling working class towns?” Researcher: “How about a London born privately educated banjo player who is the son of the billionaire who owns GB News?” Producer: “Perfect!”

If this had been unveiled as “a car that breaks its fall a bit” I’d go “cool safety feature”, but it being spun as “flying” makes me think “yeah this doesn’t break your fall at all, does it?”

It's easy to forget how unknown open source investigation was before Bellingcat. Here's a story from my pre-Bellingcat blogging days that sums it up.