Harry Noorda

We are in late-stage authoritarian media takeover.

Fox and CNN are owned/controlled by rightwing billionaires.
Twitter and Truth Social
WSJ and WaPo
CBS and ABC
Newsweek, Sinclair, now Tegna; TikTok getting close.

We are far along in the Putin-mold media takeover plan.

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

The CIA’s deputy director has “abruptly demoted” the CIA’s acting general counsel & installed himself in that role, thus taking “control of making legal judgments for the agency while continuing to help lead it…” (This follows Hegseth’s termination of top military legal officials in Feb.) 10/6/25 1/

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Wetenschappers in Drenthe dicht bij kraken raadsel ontstaan heelal: 'Over vijf jaar duidelijke antwoorden' Het zou niet voor het eerst zijn dat wetenschappers in Nederland met behulp van radiotelescopen een belangrijke ontdekking doen.

Hoe is het heelal ontstaan? Het antwoord komt (straks) uit Drenthe.
nos.nl/regio/drenth...

1/ Three years of gruelling warfare and constant fear of attack, day and night, has left Russian soldiers exhausted and desperate for it to end, even as fresh soldiers are shovelled into the meat grinder. One soldier describes the grim scene among the hills of western Donetsk. ⬇️

7,500 Trucks Stuck as Kazakhstan Cracks Down on Russian Border Trade to Stop China Tech Transfers Kazakhstan's customs has increased cargo inspections heading to Russia, causing delays and long queues for trucks at the border.

For those interested in such minor details of who and why.

united24media.com/latest-news/...

Berichten dat Greta Thunberg wordt mishandeld en vernederd door haar kidnappers in Israël worden nu bevestigd door een lid van de Zweedse ambassade die haar kon bezoeken.

James Talarico, with a truth bomb for Christian nationalists (white supremacists). 😳👇

Defying court order, Trump sends California National Guard troops to Oregon California Gov. Gavin Newsom called it a “breathtaking abuse of the law and power.”

Sacramento Bee - President Trump sends 300 California National Guard troops to Oregon, defying a court order blocking him from deploying Oregon's own National Guard to patrol Portland. www.sacbee.com/news/politics-...

The USA, is the self-proclaimed freest nation on earth still leader of the free world? #trump #ice #hegseth

🇨🇳 Three Chinese reconnaissance satellites flew over the Lviv region 9 times today from 00:00 to 11:30. The satellite was also detected in the morning over Dnipro.

Earlier, intelligence had already warned that China was providing Russia with satellite data for missile strikes.

🇮🇱🇺🇸 Netanyahu told Trump that he considered Hamas's response to his Gaza peace proposal a rejection, - Axios.

Netanyahu said that "it doesn't mean anything."

Trump responded to Netanyahu: "I don't understand why you're always so damn negative. This is a victory. Take it."

‘I’m leaving,’ Trump said. ‘There’s no reason to be here any more’: inside the meeting that brought Nato to the brink Former secretary general Jens Stoltenberg recalls the rollercoaster ride of dealing with Donald Trump – and how close the US president brought the alliance to the point of collapse

Holy smoke. This is something else: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o.... If you read anything today, read this. Just ordered the book.

MAGA Fumes at Judge Blocking Trump Deploying National Guard—’Insurrection’

MAGA has come out against the latest ruling by a district judge preventing the deployment of National Guard troops in Portland.

Czech election update: With 97.5% counted, Babiš’s populist party ANO leads but lacks a majority. A coalition with pro Russian SPD and the Motorists is possible, but politically risky. SPOLU outperformed polls, yet falls short. Now all eyes on President Pavel, who will he trust to form government?

🇨🇿 Parliamentary elections were held in the Czech Republic, where party of former Prime Minister Babis won.

"For him, Viktor Orban is a political role model, and Robert Fico is a political friend. Therefore, it is clear what policy he would pursue," - this is how current PM described Babis.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

At 04:31 on October 4, Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces struck the Russian Project 21631 Buyan-M corvette RFS Grad 575 on Lake Onega in Karelia. The vessel, equipped with Kalibr-NK cruise missiles, was en route from the Baltic to the Caspian Sea. The hit damaged the starboard engine compartment.

🇬🇪 Protesters in Tbilisi began storming the presidential palace!

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.

The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say The FBI is considering carrying out a "showy" arrest and perp walk of the agency's now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, sources tell CBS News.

“The source told CBS News that [Kash Patel and Dan Bongino] asked for "large, beefy" agents to conduct an arrest of Comey "in full kit," including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.” The leadership of the FBI is now in the hands of infantile psychopaths.

The "Trump tried to murder everyone in Congress" part is not talked about that much but I feel like its central to understanding how fucking insane our political system is right now.

The scary thing is a majority of people in the US is letting this happen, just as in Nazi Germany in the 30s

I don’t buy for one second that Trump voters didn’t know Project 2025 would be his playbook. They just didn’t think it would touch them. Oops!

CNN needs to own its role too, letting Trump lie unchecked and pushing that lazy “both sides” framing between him and Kamala Harris.

An FBI agent was fired for refusing to stage a public perp walk of James Comey. The agent said there was no arrest warrant, meaning doing so would’ve been illegal.

Stephen Miller Aide Reportedly Caught Texting About Military Deployments While ‘In a Crowded, Public Space’ An aide to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller recently texted with high-level Trump administration officials about deploying the 82nd Airborne Division to Portland.

Anthony Salisbury Caught Texting Military Deployments www.mediaite.com/politics/ste...

Vladimir Putin is testing the West—and its unity NATO must resist Russia’s efforts to corrode it from within

Drones over Poland, telecom cables damaged deep beneath the Baltic Sea, airports paralysed by cyber-attacks and quadcopters: "None of these on its own is a casus belli, but together they are adding up to something new and dangerous".
Good article in @economist.com
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...