Is he dead yet?
Vladimir Putin is alleged to have suffered a “cardiac arrest” in his private Moscow apartment on Sunday evening.
BREAKING: scientists confirm the almost certain near-term collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet with catastrophic sea-level rise set to wreck croplands, island nations, and megacities within decades.
Car bomb that killed daughter of Putin ally Alexander Dugin was smuggled into Russia in hidden compartment of a cat crate. The op was part of a raging shadow war being conducted by Ukraine’s SBU spy agency, which has forged deep bonds with CIA since 2014
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/23/ukraine-cia-shadow-war-russia/
GOP Donor Who Called Obama N-Word Dies After Trying To Kill Wife In Botched Murder-Suicide
Steve Alembik, a former Republican donor who made headlines after calling former President Barack Obama the n-word, died after fatally shooting himself after attempting to kill his wife in the parking lot of a Florida restaurant.
Alembik shot himself and his wife, psychologist Dawn Polen, in a parking lot behind the BurgerFi restaurant west of Delray Beach, Florida, on October 9. Polen sought refuge inside the eatery before he turned the gun on himself. Despite her critical condition, Polen survived the shooting.
https://www.comicsands.com/steve-alembik-murder-suicide-gop-2666034173.html
Clean energy is officially ‘unstoppable’ now
https://www.theverge.com/23930058/forecast-clean-renewable-unstoppable-international-energy-agency
In 1971, Soviet geologists working in Turkmenistan set a crater on fire to prevent the spread of methane gas, expecting it would burn for a few days. The hole has since been burning for over 52 years and is know as The Door to Hell.
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse Jan 31
While you were robbed blind at the pump this year (and GOP blamed Biden),
Exxon made $55,700,000,000 in profits.
Over $1 billion per week.
$152,600,000 per day.
$1,766.24 per *second.*
Congress should heed POTUS’s call and pass my bill to claw back Big Oil’s excess profits.
For the MAGAs lacking math skills, that’s 55 BILLION -700 MILLION DOLLARS. At our expense. 😠
It’s not inflation. It’s corporate greed.
Tom Emmer has been selected as a House Speaker Nominee. Emmer received money from FTX and has not returned the funds. Over $2 million from one FTX Republican PAC, and $2.75 from FTX’s main one. He receives PAC money from Citadel’s Ken Griffin. He also receives “dark” money.
Nuclear secrets and Melania in a bikini — what the fuck is going on at Mar-a-Lago a day in the life at Donald Trump’s shittiest golf motel
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/nuclear-secrets-and-melania-in-a
West Antarctic ice sheet faces ‘unavoidable’ melting, a warning for sea level rise GIFT ARTICLE
#SECURITY
The Race to Save Our Secrets From the Computers of the Future
Quantum technology could compromise our encryption systems. Can America replace them before it’s too late?
Chris Wysopal @WeldPond
A new tool called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.
The tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/
Joseph Cox @josephfcox
New: internal documents provide more insight into GOST, a system used by ICE to find “derogatory” speech online. Analysts can then use a “thumbs up,” “thumbs down” decision on the material, and feed it into visa decisions and immigration enforcement
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-database-derogatory-information-giant-oak-gost/ and
https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1657002256389099521
Last week, @propublica reported on how some lawmakers have used claims of legislative privilege to hide information about how they drew new electoral maps — information vital for plaintiffs challenging those maps in court for being discriminatory.
https://www.propublica.org/article/electoral-maps-gerrymandering-texas-voting-elections-privilege
Why Did Sidney Powell Plead Guilty?
The New Yorker has a copy of the 400-page *summary* report from Georgia law enforcement about the scheme to overthrow our democracy in that state alone. They are beyond screwed.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-did-sidney-powell-plead-guilty
Facebook Suit
@jason_kint WHAT WE HAVE IS A CASE INVOLVING ALLEGED WRONGDOING ON A COLOSSAL SCALE.
woah. just downloaded last week’s appellate opinion reviving sensitive Facebook lawsuit. 5 yrs, nearly $6B later, we’re still getting new facts placing FB’s entire cover-up and related press reports in a new light (no wonder they just added separate $700m settlement last week). https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1716567777799028906/photo/1
2024 context: Facebook’s board – including dirt bag skank Peter Thiel – paid billions to try to cover up Cambridge Analytica’s 2016 election interference. FB is still on trial for it. Thiel and total skank David Sacks (another major right wing FB investor) helped convince Elon to take Twitter private.
Aaaaah the good ol’ days of Racist Aholes
The, uh, the what tradition?
“The Royal Navy is ending its century-old tradition of having Chinese servants on warships amid fears that they could be forced to spy for Beijing. Hundreds of Chinese laundrymen have worked on Britain’s warships since the 1930”
Since this has become my most-read tweet ever (6m+ views) I should offer context. The use of “servants” to describe these workers is bizarre. The practice of recruiting laundry workers among Chinese communities was the norm for the Royal Navy by the 1960s.
https://www.commsmuseum.co.uk/dykes/smallsnips/laundry/laundry.htm
This describes how the recruitment from among Chinese communities came about.
Around 300 Hong Kongers, among them laundry workers, served in the British expeditionary fleet that fought for the Falkland Islands.
Alex Cole @acnewsitics
Just so you guys know, “Peekaboo” is an old racist term for black people, this is why Trump keeps using it. I heard this a lot by old white folks when I was growing up in some parts of upstate New York.
That’s what Trump calls Fake Fraud Corrupt A.G Letitia “Peekaboo” James of NY State
The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow
“Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) said that he and a fellow lawmaker personally saw GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado guiding a group of people through the Cannon House Office Building tunnel in the days leading up the Capitol insurrection on January 6.” (2021)
Trump nominated Charles Flynn to 4-star general on the same day he released Mike Flynn’s pardon—11/30/20.
An important fact about Mike Flynn’s pardon is that it was announced *on the same day*, 11/30/20, as
@USARPAC_CG Charles Flynn got his fourth star—which put him in position to interfere with the National Guard on J6.
Charlie commands the Pacific Army.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-pardon-of-general-flynn-under-scrutiny-after-sidney-powell-flips/ar-AA1iHHyP
Putin’s @GenFlynn is still desperately clinging to the absurd lie that @BarackObama fired him over ISIS policies.
Mike Flynn was fired for being a Russian spy who made sure Putin could take Crimea.
That’s why Obama told Trump not to hire him.
https://www.mind-war.com/p/mike-flynns-story-about-getting-fired
The Politics Behind Jan. 6–Martial Republicanism & White Male Supremacy–Are As Strong As Ever | The institutional & cultural conditions that led to Jan. 6 have not abated; the landscape of threats & violence in politics has only become more permissive.
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2023/10/the-politics-behind-january-6-martial-republicanism-and-white-male-supremacy-are-as-strong-as-ever/
Nearly 1/2 of @GOP view #Jan6thInsurrection as an act of patriotism, according to a December 2021 poll. That might explain why
@BucksGOP-ers in Doylestown voted to elect a local insurrectionist who was convicted for her role in the capitol attack as a Republican committee person
Recent data shows that 1.4 million wealthy Americans are evading nearly $66 billion in federal taxes.
The 2,000 highest-earning tax dodgers alone owe $923 million.
There’s a very simple reason Republicans want to keep the IRS underfunded: So rich tax cheats get away with it.
Major Attack On Bitcoin (FinCEN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCFWhH97Yik
OUR REAL BITCOIN IS FREEDOM WHEN WE TAKE OUR WEALTH WITH US.
In this video, I discuss FinCEN’s proposed regulation of “CVC mixing.” This regulation is being sold as a way to prevent terrorist financing, but it is actually an attack on basic human freedoms and the fundamental human right to transact in a sovereign and private manner. It will not stop terrorists (who prefer to transact using the US dollar anyway), but it will hurt honest private citizens.
Rather than targeting custodial mixers, this proposed regulation essentially criminalizes basic Bitcoin transactions such as consolidating UTXOs, or withdrawing Bitcoin from an exchange.
With very high inflation and currency debasement on the way, the US government is incentivized to discourage people from using sovereign BTC and instead to herd them into products like Bitcoin spot ETFs which can be more easily controlled or confiscated.
At the end of the day, Bitcoiners may need to resort to civil disobedience. Similar to the civil rights movement and the fight against the drug war, it is morally right to fight against unjust and dehumanizing laws.
Reddit mods fired over suspected MOON token insider trading
https://protos.com/reddit-mods-fired-over-suspected-moon-token-insider-trading/