Eliot Higgins

Killing Anna is now available to watch for free in the UK on More4: "Taut, hard-hitting documentary. When Bashar al-Assad's murderous henchmen start to appear on Facebook, a Syrian academic spots a catfishing opportunity to get them to confess to their crimes." www.channel4.com/programmes/k...

Pretty wild: Even some MAGA figures are now panicking about the early vote. And for good reason: The electorate is 11 points more Dem than at this point in 2024, and Latino vote is surging. On the pod @simonwdc.bsky.social is very illuminating on what the data shows: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

Good representation on the back row from the worst sixth formers you know.

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Everytime

This is when you know an organisation is screwed. The company is collapsing and the boss blames the staff.

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

In comments at a private police conference, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said backlash to the company wasn't "real" and the work of "bots." Also he said his wife advised him to never apologize. Read now: www.404media.co/in-leaked-au...

A Palestinian won the Nobel Prize last year

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Here’s the right link storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

COMEY’S motion to dismiss his criminal information from Oct. 5: “The statute of limitations to file an indictment relating to the events of October 5, 2016 has now run.” Doc buff.ly/xrTL4LG

Breaking news: The Justice Department has again charged James B. Comey, the third time the Trump administration has mounted a criminal case against the former FBI director — a prominent political foe of the president — since last year.

Was thrilled to join Posting Through It for a new installment on their great "Who the Hell is..." series. Got to talk about my least-liked substack influencer and how insane I've felt as more centrist pundits have helped promote his work

... I'll allow it

Cannot be stressed enough that she didn’t bring this up at all

Ramaswamy’s ad aimed to enforce the stigma against rape victims that positions them as objects of suspicion and disgust at worst, patronizing pity at best. The Acton campaign now has to pitch a rape victim as something audiences aren’t used to imagining them being: competent, capable, and dignified.

Walter Koenig, actor best known as Chekov on Star Trek, dies aged 90 www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Maurene Comey was illegally fired as federal prosecutor, judge rules www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Bluesky has five kinds of users

QAnon believers celebrating the nine year anniversary of Hillary Clinton not getting arrested by hoping this is the actual year Hillary Clinton gets arrested.

We get similar emails at Bellingcat, usually from peolle who have been scammed and have asked ChatGPT for help.

🎬 Today, 17:00, ZED Vesalius, Leuven: Antidote (2024). Christo Grozev (Bellingcat), Vladimir Kara-Murza and a Russian poison-programme whistleblower expose the Kremlin’s attacks on dissidents, incl. Navalny. Introduced by Prof. Ria Laenen. Last screening! 🎟 apps.ticketmatic.com/widgets/cine...

Zelenskyy said: if you want us to stop hitting diesel facilities and refineries, then they [the russians] must stop striking our power infrastructure. That is fair - an 'energy truce.' www.kyivpost.com/post/88148

(it dodged a badly configured paywall to access read-only statistical information that was already available to anyone willing to pay a few dollars. Anthropic notified the Georgia government of the breach and they ignored it) www.axios.com/2026/10/25/a...

If you replace "Fabians" and "globalists" with "Jews" (which is kind of what they mean anyway), this is exactly the same argument as Oswald Mosley's "Peace Fascism"

More than 5 million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. That has meant many more people are turning to food banks for support. https://to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd

So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.

Ćalciland this morning. That's the former goon squad camp in front of the National Assembly in Belgrade. Masked men in black arrived at 7.30pm last night - then legged it when Vučić conceded. The Student List supporters cleared out the camp. For the first time in 18 months, it's safe to walk here.

On the same day, huge crowds are welcoming Machado back to Venezuela. Her return was blocked for months by the US-backed regime. Pressure from below finally made it impossible for Trump and Rodriguez to keep her out

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

WSJ saying Trump team promoting Orban for UN Sec Gen. Hell no. www.wsj.com/opinion/vikt...

Ah, someone’s already updated the Ćacilend Wikipedia page - “was” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%86a...

“BREAKING: Lula Calls for Arrests of Brazilian Mayors Who Cut Off Bus Service on Election Day” 10/25/26 … 1/

2/ Yemeni government-aligned forces continue to engage Houthi forces south of Taiz City in an effort to break the Houthi encirclement of the city and central Taiz Governorate.

NEW: The Houthis have fired at least 12 missiles and two drones targeting Saudi Arabia since October 24 as part of the Houthi strike campaign, which aims to impose economic and political costs on Saudi Arabia. Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate10...

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin ordered a nationwide two-hour extension of voting in today’s presidential runoff, moving the close of polls from 5pm to 7 pm Brasília time.

Serbia's dictator has been deposed, and its people are in full Yub Nub mode, watch it live.