Steve Townsend ❌👑

Oct 2026 Update: no affiliation with NAFO or NAFO Forum/Public Education Forum beyond the @pef-moderation.org domain name

🧵 GPT wählt Demokraten, Grok wählt Republikaner. Aber das Erschreckende an der neuen Convovo-Studie zu den US-Wahlen 2026 ist nicht dass KI-Modelle politisch voreingenommen sind – sondern wo dieser Bias technisch sitzt. #AI #AIBias #USWahl2026 #TechPolicy 1/4👇

Wir diskutieren ständig über Trainingsdaten, während die eigentliche Macht längst in der unsichtbaren Steuerungsschicht (Search & System-Prompts) liegt. Ohne Transparenz-Pflichten ist das eine Blackbox für Wählermanipulation in Echtzeit. ​Hier geht's zur Studie: convovo.ai/ballot/

Sorry for disturbing the party, but I have a hot take for you: Criticizing and pointing out Lula's and the Serbian Students' List's Russia and other foreign policies doesn't make you a Vučić or Bolsonaro supporter.

Latvian Television has revealed that migrants in Belarus are being approached by Belarusian border officials who check if they have paid to be trafficked across the border. Those who have not paid are forced to damage Latvia’s border infrastructure. Those who refuse are threatened with violence.

The lives of Palestinian Arabs will not improve as a result of Western activists associating a bakery chain with Jews,Israel and 'gentrification'. However,the lives of European Jews will worsen as the incitement to boycott of Jews increasingly mirrors that seen in Germany before the Second World War

As I suggested for @thebulwark.com this fall, RFK Jr is a eugenicist at his core. It’s why he talks about autism like it’s contagious. It’s why he want to deprive people of SSRIs. And of course it’s why he’s saying that “Arabs don’t produce literature.” He’s a eugenicist and a fascist, simple as.

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting the Democratic Nominee in Ohio for U.S. Senate Sherrod Brown. The campaign promotes a false narrative with the allegations of sexual harassment against Sherrod Brown

The bad: measles cases in the U.S. are more than double what they were last year, with 96% of cases being unvaccinated. The good: Pennsylvania has so far administered 14,000 more vaccines this year than last. The dream: The anti-vax movement is deservedly shunned and everyone gets vaccinated.

“In Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's first victory speech, he praised ‘our general’ Andre Janones, the brains behind the online campaign that ensured his stunning comeback.” (Michael Flynn must be fuming) 1/

Your donations to @wildhornets.bsky.social help Ukraine directly to hold the front line and push back when opportunity knocks ⬇️

MAGA having a normal one over on the Twitter machine

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

The Conviction of Estonia’s ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow’s Interference on Brexit A 'diplomat' who launched the 'Conservative Friends of… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/10/26/the-conviction-of-estonias-lord-haw-haw-links-russian-intelligence-to-moscows-interference-on-brexit/

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Two fantastic, unexpected victories today for democracy and over Trump's anti-democratic cabal. In Brazil, Trump openly colluded with the fascist Flavio Bolsonaro, son of the jailed ex-president who tried a Jan 6-like coup in 2022 after he lost to Lula. But Lula has again defeated the Bolsonaros.

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’s Upset Is a Win for the Rule of Law and a Blow To Trump newrepublic.com/article/2171... via @newrepublic.com

Simon & Schuster quietly released Matthew Cole’s book two days early, we have learned, as an explosive excerpt in Vanity Fair prompts threats from Jared Kushner’s legal team. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/jared-kush...

Ukraine is taking back territory, and Trump is trying to bail out Putin — the one assignment he has always taken seriously. (Note: this essay by Phillips O'Brien is from last week. See his page for this week's update as well) phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

First Musk said he did not disable Starlink for Ukraine. Now he's confessing to disabling it but says he was justified in doing so. Congress, if you can hear me, we need hearings when Dems take over. www.cnn.com/2026/10/25/e...

Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...

This is what night looks like for thousands of Ukrainian families. Children should fall asleep to bedtime stories, not to the sound of attacks. Help those who protect Ukraine’s sky every night. Support Sky Defense. u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...

The Russian drone operators call this "human safari."

Elon is mad as hell and spinning lies mixed with conspiracies. Using civilian Starlink for drone missions is impossible. All drone missions that required satellite communication could only be carried out using Starshield.

The idea that Tucker Carlson and Fox viewing voters are who El-Sayed should be focused on now is also absurd. It is voters in Detroit who, by all informed accounts, are his key area of weakness. And they are Democrats.

Antizionism is QAnon for Democrats

We don’t know if the early vote will be predictive because all Republicans could just be waiting to vote until Election Day. But what this means in practice is that to win, Trump/GOP will have to have the most successful EDay mobilization operation in modern history— and that it’s completely stealth

"Before waving the hammer and sickle, please, study history thoroughly.” “Dear Italian students, who today take to the streets carrying flags with the hammer and sickle and wearing T-shirts emblazoned with ‘CCCP’,” began an open letter in Italian by Lithuanian expat Neringa Budryt."

The Right’s Fascistic Fever Dreams Are a Sign of Weakness MAGA wants us to believe that Trump can simply declare “martial law” and wipe away the system - but it’s just not true. A threat assessment before the midterms. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Ukraine. The campaign promotes a false narrative that a deadly strike in the Ukrainian city Kramatorsk was performed by a Ukrainian drone based on a fake "Ukrainian OSINT investigation"

"LFI's elected official Allan Brunon strikes a pose, all smiles, with hooded protesters in the black bloc style who, just a few minutes later, will take part in the ransacking of the Crédit Agricole branch on Place Gustave Rivet." (Clément Chapet, Grenoble, France, 24 October 2026)

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce James “Fergie” Chambers, an American communist, tankie and heir to the Cox fortune. He’s best known for bankrolling revolutionary causes, cheering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and supporting Hamas.

The Kremlin wants the world to forget who started the war. On 24 February 2022, Putin ordered an unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, unleashing the largest war in Europe since the Second World War. The war was not ‘forced upon’ Russia. Russia chose to invade.

Antizionism is a post-truth disinformation complex.

Cc #NAFO someone is parroting Russian propaganda. Please educate them.

TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. From the ProPublica archives:

Trump wanted to create an Orban style autocracy & take away everyone’s liberties. But Orban knew u need to be popular when u put that into effect. But in just 20 months Trump failed so hard he’s more unpopular than any midterm Prez in 80 yrs. Chump just doesn’t have the cards. 🤣

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...

The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

Russia is reportedly preparing a series of disinformation operations in Russian occupied Oleshky, with aim of blaming Ukraine for the humanitarian catastrophe that's been inflicted on the local population throughout the entire occupation.

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

Best we can do is the new 'Darwin Award, but for a country'

While Russian drones strike Ukraine, the daughter of a Russian drone executive lives her best life in Toronto. 🧵 1/11 ⬇️

The pro-russian German neo-Nazi party has been hacked by a Ukrainian living in America. It does not really come as a surprise that the email correspondence clearly shows that AfD members have apparently been paid by the russians. (source: Die Zeit, and mdEP Erik Marquardt)

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.