Alex Jones — American Monster
With The Onion poised to takeover InfoWars, I am reposting the eleventh in my American Monster series about US criminals accelerating global fascism
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Posts by Heidi Siegmund Cuda — Bette Dangerous
TrumpMania: The World's First Kayfabe War
How a cynical scheme by a Putin friendly producer to fake that Trump was a successful businessman led to the rise of clickbait fascism and the world's first made-for-tv war
HOT TYPE—'False Prophets Are Making False Messiahs Out of Tyrants'
After 'Trump Jesus' and JD Vance 'popesplaining' the theory of a just war to the Pontiff, I interview @TaylorMatthewD on defying the real 'antichrists' of Christian supremacy
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Deep and Meaningful Beans
A Q&A with Anne Abberton, the CEO & Founder of the greatest coffee company in Europe, Dublin-based FiXX, on coffee's evolution from 'caffeine hit' to one of the most 'incredibly complex' beverages
www.bettedangerous.com/p/deep-and-m...
‘Billionaires, Bagmen, and Thieves’ — My Hot Type column from January
The plot to install Trump as President was the greatest success of foreign espionage in history, and how an Orbán loss could trigger the start of global dePutinization
www.bettedangerous.com/p/billionair...
Democracy Vampire — Peter Thiel
13th in my American Monster series on the network of US criminals accelerating global fascism. Reposting in light of growing interest in my archives
As JD Vance interferes in Hungary’s elections, reciting Russian talking points with a Hitler haircut, it’s worth revisiting Viktor Orbán’s history as a Kremlin bagman. Should Hungary rid itself of Orbán’s grip, the EU is immediately strengthened.—hsc
Trump posts of nuclear genocide as if he’s a supervillain in a ring of choreographed kayfabe, only to postpone the threat so Putin can keep making more money. Watching Congress members post ‘Oh no! Trump is threatening genocide!’ is to miss the mass murder that’s already occurred.—hsc
Hot Type: 'Your Hands Are Full of Blood' — Pope Leo's Smackdown to the Trump Regime
Byline columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda talks to veteran reporter and religious liberty campaigner @thcarter123.bsky.social about the wildest standoff in the West, Pope Leo vs Donald Trump @bylinetimes.bsky.social
The Show Must Go On: The 2019 NATO Slide That Predicted Today
Despite tech gremlins, I was able to share a key 2019 NATO slide on The Thom Hartmann Program today that explained in one screenshot my thesis on how 'Trump Is Putin's Fixer'
www.bettedangerous.com/p/the-show-m...
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If there is a better example of the Leonard Leo Roberts Court ruling according to far right Catholic theology and not the Constitution, I dont know of one.
No Evangelical Nationalists involved.
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CRIME PAYS: The Greatest Smash and Grab Fraud of All Time
We've never had data privacy or protection in any meaningful way, because crime pays, until it doesn't
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Trump Is Putin's Fixer
With Trump's every move benefitting Vladimir Putin, I turn to countries like Estonia for ideas on how to prosecute traitors
www.bettedangerous.com/p/trump-is-p...
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My report from 2024 reveals sheriff Chad Bianco to be a grave danger to the nation.
www.bettedangerous.com/p/update-rad...
My Mueller Reports
A decade of reporting on an American hero, including a side by side comparison of the lives of Mueller and Trump; and 4 times Mueller took on the mob and won
www.bettedangerous.com/p/my-mueller...
Hot Type: TechnoFeudalism’s Warm Embrace
Two new studies suggest liberal democracy is gradually being replaced with technofeudalism, reports Political columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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Autocratization In the USA
V-Dem lays out the facts on the 'most dramatic decline in American history' - no time for heads in sand
www.bettedangerous.com/p/autocratiz...
Camouflage
Quantifying and criminalizing Russia's vast global network of disinformation campaigns executed by their military industrial complex
www.bettedangerous.com/p/camouflage
Killer Words
As I sent my report about Rodrigo Duterte's pre-trial ICC hearing on crimes against humanity in The Hague - evidence that words kill - Trump posted killer words and ICC now probing dictator Lukashenko
The 'Bluster' of a Killer
As Putin and Trump continue their clickbait fascism to ensure headline domination, Rodrigo Duterte's pre-trial ICC hearing on crimes against humanity in The Hague offers evidence that words kill
What You See at the End of the World
A book report on The Essential Anna Politkovskaya, the reporter who documented the rise of a KGB snoop, the Second Chechen War, and the 'age of the oligarchs' before being murdered on Putin's birthday
www.bettedangerous.com/p/what-you-s...
I can't shake the feeling that my apocalyptic nightmares--the kind your therapist always assures you are just inside your head and would never happen in real life--are playing themselves out in the real world.
Hot Type: How The US-Israel War in Iran Is Also Targeting European Democracy
In @bylinetimes.bsky.social I investigate a key target in the US-Israel war in Iran: European democratic leaders who are damned if they do support the war and damned if they don't
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Unbroken
A deep and meaningful conversation with Dr. Marci Shore on the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from RadPod Ep 161, on a world run by gangsters and how history can help inform @marcishore.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...
‘The desire to not have a stain on your soul…’
More brilliant and motivating words from Professor Jason Stanley, from an interview with Perry Bacon Jr. of The New Republic‘s Right Now podcast
www.bettedangerous.com/p/the-desire... @perrybaconjr.bsky.social
Democratic Assassins in the Great Propaganda Wars
I wrote yesterday that a Putin-Trump regime objective in the warfighting in Iran was to target European leaders and today, I wake up to headlines confirming