Giovanni Toffetti
@gtof.eurosky.social
Father of 2 girls, senior lecturer @ZHAW🇨🇭, interested in robots 🤖, AI 🧠, cloud ☁️ https://gtoff.github.io/
When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it
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The Big Story? Trump stabs Ukraine in the back for 15 hours of diesel fuel The Secondary Story? Poland breaks up assassination plot Today’s downloadable Russia-Ukraine War SITREP No. 1,090, for October 8-10, 2026, is 80 pages long and a full report that includes NATO and Moldova.
Trump stabs Ukraine in the back for 15 hours of diesel fuel
A summary of the events that happened on day 1,690 of the Russia-Ukraine War.
malcontentnews.substack.com
At the very least, the public should rethink where it gets its news. Social media (I realize I am on Bsky) as the only source of "news", without checking other sources, is not adequate. If everyone left Facebook and X, for starters, & stopped consuming Murdoch owned media, that would make a huge
Everybody knew Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum - the evidence was there - but people were too afraid of Farage’s mob to say it. So it’s good to see Burnham finally speaking the truth.
From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...
The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum
observer.co.uk
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
Russian strikes killed over 80 Ukrainian civilians in two days. Moreover, it has stepped up its hybrid attacks against Europe, both EU Member States and NATO Allies. Suspending sanctions on Russian diesel provides Moscow with more revenues to wage war.
“The dangers Trump and Putin face are so great they will go to any lengths to avoid them. They have no other choice.”
The Next Three Months
Trump and Putin are now at their most dangerous
chadbourn.substack.com
Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
🚨 Polish SIM cards were in some of the 30+ Russian drones that hit Poland in September 2025. If any lingering doubts remain about whether that attack on Poland by Russian drones was intentional or not, the answer should now be clear to even the most fact-resistant observer.
Russia says there was no lab accident and the situation is stable. Maybe. But when someone working at a plague research facility suddenly dies from mysterious pneumonia, possibly plague, and hospitals start locking down, “trust us, bro” isn’t going to cut it.
Good ideas from Switzerland for the EU www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Switzerland’s love of referendums keeps the far right at bay | Joseph de Weck
Brexit gave direct democracy a bad name. But the Swiss approach could be what Europe needs now, says Guardian Europe contributor Joseph de Weck
theguardian.com
Bisognava arrivare al voto per scoprire che Conte non è un alleato ma un competitor. Che si è fottuto due regioni senza offrire nulla in cambio. Che sta svuotando il PD facendone una ridotta socialpopulista, euroscettica e filorussa. Che con lui la sinistra perderà prima l’anima e poi le elezioni.
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
Corporations and ultra-rich individuals with numerous business interests cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own bottom lines. When billionaire conglomerates take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
Outraged @theguardian.com revealed how Kremlin uses the Max app for surveillance. Correct procedure is for Wikileaks to selectively release edited files showing it's whatbout NSA.
By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
Joe Rogan suddenly acting like he was an innocent bystander for years and had no idea what Trump was all about until now and did nothing to help get him elected is pretty weak and pathetic. Just own it.
Il senso di allearsi con un tizio che non è disposto al compromesso, anche qualora esca secondo e non vincitore alle primarie? Un'alleanza in cui il partito più forte deve subordinarsi al più piccolo che alleanza è? Qualcuno può spiegarlo a Schlein e al PD? Qualche vecchio democristiano d'antan?
Ok, è importante che le cose siano chiare: se vincerà il campo Lavrov, chiunque sia il Premier, l'Italia non invierà più armi all'Ucraina. C'è chi reputa il supporto all'Ucraina il tema centrale per decidere a chi dare il proprio voto. Io sono tra questi. Andate al diavolo.
£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan:
Just in case it wasn't clear before why billionaires support some very specific parties. It's almost as if they weren't really representing the interests of the people that vote for them... 🤔 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ben Delo: Reform receives record £36m donation from cryptocurrency billionaire
Ben Delo's donation, the biggest single sum ever given to a political party in the UK, comes amid scrutiny of Reform's finances.
bbc.com
OTD in 2020 Prez promised to set up commission to investigate how a Russian in Russia on a Russian plane going to Russia from Russia consumed a Russian nerve agent only Russia has so we could blame the "anglosaxons". Needlessly to say, we did not set up a commission.
Open Letter: Civil society coalition urges EU to kill the cookie banner!
Open Letter: Civil society coalition urges EU to kill the cookie banner!
A coalition of currently 19 civil society organisations, businesses, and academics urge the EU to "kill the cookie banner"!
noyb.eu
La politica italiana spiegata bene. Terra Piatta @TPiatta LA POLITICA ITALIANA SPIEGATA IN MENO DI UN MINUTO.
Finally finished reading this. Recommended. Last chapter on GPT is a bit dated.
The fact the UK has not placed any mechanism to stop foreign influence and interference in the democratic process, especially after Brexit is mind bogglingly incompetent. The fact Reform exists and Farage is still free, is proof of that failure.
