Sherrill Stroschein

The Epstein Files and Russiagate are the Same Thing For years the culture war has assigned these scandals to opposite teams.

open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

Dan Neidle, "The most appalling e-mail exchange in 2009"

"There's a discussion between Mandelson and Epstein on how to lobby the government"

"That is a senior British cabinet minister (Mandelson) advising a foreign bank, that they should threaten the Chancellor"

@danneidle.bsky.social

Coming out in June.

(when @casmudde.bsky.social & I will be presenting it at the @ces-europe.bsky.social conference in Dublin)

Long Covid and ME patients 'hopeful' about Rosetta Stone study The £1.1m Rosetta Stone study hopes to make a breakthrough by comparing both conditions.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Look for sudden waves of identical talking points. If the exact phrases pop up everywhere at once, across TikTok, Facebook groups, YouTube comments, fringe news sites, that’s not organic. That’s coordinated messaging aimed at framing and shaping how people interpret events in advance.

So using AI turns an A effort into a C effort, and a B effort into a D one, doesn’t improve performance in any significant sense, and to achieve mastery means investing even more time. In software engineering, the thing the tool is supposedly best at. And that’s the optimistic take from the company!

Opinion | This Theory Explains Trump’s Baffling Foreign Policy

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

A child born in 2026 could conceivably have as many as 10-20 COVID infections by the time they reach adulthood (assuming a conservative rate of one infection every 1-2 years, mostly through school exposure). They will have received repeated insults to their immune system, their nervous system, and their circulatory system, in every major developmental period, from early life, through puberty, and into early adulthood. It will take us decades to see what the consequences of this will actually be at the individual or societal level, but this is something we need to start taking seriously now.

“Despite popular perception, COVID is not ‘just a cold’—in fact, it’s not even really a cold-like or flu-like respiratory disease. Instead, the COVID virus is able to widely disseminate itself throughout the body, impacting organs that the flu never touches.”

open.substack.com/pub/synergie...

This article was published nearly two years ago now and still no action from unions on children suffering vascular damage @unison.org.uk @nasuwt-official.bsky.social Covid is a safeguarding issue and no where near enough is being done!

Welcome to the American Winter In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)

HOW IT WORKS IN MOVIES:

1. Government lies

2. Brave heroes release video showing the truth

3. Press says “the government is lying!”

HOW IT APPARENTLY WORKS IN REAL LIFE

1. Brave heroes release video showing the truth

2. Government lies

3. Press says “Oh no, what now? So confusing! So hard!”

Greetings! I’m at the Home2Suites in Minneapolis. A noise demonstration against ICE is underway; the lobby has been trashed and there are broken windows. An MPD officer is in front of the hotel. I can’t independently verify ICE agents are at the hotel.

Greetings! I’m here on 26th and Nicolette by the Alex Pretti vigil. Minnesota Police are telling vigil goers they can’t block the street. Vigil goers are telling MPD they are going to block the street. I wouldn’t call it a standoff so much as an impasse.

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

Infinite respect to Woke Hoth Guy, who freestyled a two-minute Federalist paper.

The whole interview is worth it

In retrospect, perhaps it was a mistake to allow a class of citizens to emerge that was so wealthy it was utterly immune to consumer markets, and then to let that class buy up all the traditional sources of news and information

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

Takes a lot of guts to stand in front of an armored vehicle operated by a paramilitary group with no regard to human life. Wow.

This is how heating points are being set up in one of Kyiv’s residential districts for the city’s residents.

📹Telegraf

Full on is Minnesota.

Worth remembering that they all lied in their original reports because they had no idea Holliday was filming them

The Rodney King video is one of the most important moments in American history because it showed people, particularly comfortable white people, irrefutable evidence that marginalized people’s stories of how police behaved - which were never believed - were in fact true.

Our elites decided Charlie Kirk was a watershed event that changed politics forever, but the repeated murders of people who weren't in their contacts is a point of debate they grudgingly have to concede might be an issue

"You know, I believe that the Twin Cities represents the best of America on a fundamental level."
"Why is that & how so?"
"Because we represent this idea of embracing others from other places."
Minnesotans are enacting a powerful vision of America in the face of authoritarian state violence.

Labour Party blocks Burnham from standing as MP

So is this how a party wins elections, with authoritarian-lite cosplay?
Probably not

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Bellingcat is gold standard. Read entire thread

"A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man BEFORE THE FIRST shot was fired."

"At least 10 shots being heard in total. Most of them are fired after a brief delay, when the man is already lying motionless on the ground."