Author: HP McLovincraft

Seeker of rabbit holes. Pessimist. Libertine. Contrarian. Your huckleberry. Possibly true tales of sanity-blasting horror also known as abject reality. Prepare yourself. Veteran of a thousand psychic wars. I have seen the fnords. Deplatformed on Tumblr and Twitter.

Hours After Re-Election, Socialist Lula’s First Move: “We’re Going to Have to Regulate the Social Media Platforms”

Barely hours after Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court declared him the winner of a historic fourth term, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wasted no time revealing his priorities.

Standing before supporters in São Paulo on the night of October 25, the 80-year-old Workers’ Party leader declared that his campaign had been forced to overcome “interference coming from outside to inside through digital platforms” and that “we’re going to have to regulate them.”

According to Brazilian reporting citing CNN Brasil, Lula said:

“This was an election in which we had to overcome interference from outside, through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate.”

He continued:

“It is not possible that we are not aware that crime in the digital world must be treated like crime in the real world.”

He attacked “monstrous companies” that “earn millions and billions, pay no taxes in this country, and try to direct the electoral result.”

Keep reading

Democrats Are Using the Soviet Playbook – Publicly Call for Nationalizing Private Businesses to Punish Elon Musk for Supporting Trump – Musk Responds with Fire

Little man syndrome.

Four foot ten inch Robert Reich called for Democrats to steal Elon Musk’s businesses and nationalize them on Sunday.

Reich is taking a page directly from Joseph Stalin and all of the communists since then.

Former labor secretary Robert Reich on Sunday called for Democrats to “defund” Elon Musk and take control of his companies.

Robert Reich: “We’ve got to defund Musk. And when I say defund Musk, you know, 75% of his wealth is dependent on taxpayers who are buying Starlink systems for the Department of Defense. Defund Musk. I mean this. If we have a Democratic administration, and the Democrats ought to be starting this, not just with oversight hearings, but also starting laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink and SpaceX.

Nationalize it. It should be a public corporation.

We should not ever have that kind of power in one person’s hands, one private person’s hands. I mean, Musk is buying, trying to buy the senator from Texas. I mean, why would we, why should we allow this? Seriously.

Well, we shouldn’t. And then this week people started talking about, oh, Musk is going to be held accountable. And he said Live by the sword, die by the sword. That was his— that was in X on, uh, on one of his— yeah.

Yeah, on Twitter, on X. And he said that. And he also said, anyone who picks a fight with me, you’re going down. And he was talking about the Dems. And it’s not a fight. It is accountability. I mean, it is holding him accountable is what people are talking about. And so he’s getting ahead of it, threatening, threatening, threatening, threatening with his money, with his power, with his reach. with his connections.

Well, he knows that if the Democrats take over the House and possibly the Senate, one of the things they are going to be doing is focusing on Elon Musk.

I mean, he’s really going to be targeted, and he knows it. And he’s going to be using his 360 million followers or 260 million followers on X to kind of give him a buttress against that. And he’s going to use litigation. And he’s— I mean, this is— When I say this is Exhibit A in terms of the billionaire takeover of America, this is the oligarchic problem. This is— Musk represents the power of oligarchy in America over democracy. And it’s something like what happened in the first Gilded Age when we had the robber barons. I mean, he is the equivalent of the robber barons of the first Gilded Age, but he’s much, much— he’s even worse. Bigger, even more corrupt in terms of trying to bribe his way into politics. And he also ends USAID. I mean—

Keep reading

Elon Musk Claims Ukraine Is a Money Laundering Scheme for US Politicians

Elon Musk Claims Ukraine Is a Money Laundering Scheme for US Politicians.

In early 2025, after President Trump took over, Ukraine’s Zelensky claimed that he was unable to locate $100 billion Ukraine received from the US.

UKRAINE: What if 58% of the U.S. taxpayer dollars sent to Zelensky never even reached Ukraine? Where did it go? Did the CIA skim a cut? Did Ukrainian officials and generals pocket their share? Did The Big Guy get his usual slice? If Zelensky’s claim is true—that he only received $75 billion of the $177+ billion Washington sent—what happens next? Do we shrug and move on, or do we finally demand answers and accountability?

This is no surprise.

When FTX’s CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was arrested after the cryptocurrency trading vehicle FTX went bankrupt, we reported that FTX was used as a money laundering vehicle in Ukraine.  Next thing that happened the DOJ threw SBF in jail and ignored any relationship between FTX and money laundering.

Keep reading

States flag thousands of ineligible voters, but only a few cases are prosecuted

The Justice Department charged three noncitizens with voting in Ohio, a year after the state made 167 federal referrals of noncitizens who appeared to cast ballots in the state.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose noted that’s only “so far.” His office has referred more than 1,000 election fraud cases from even-numbered years to the U.S. Department of Justice, and other cases to various local prosecutors at the state or local level.

While the Justice Department has ramped up prosecutions of noncitizens across the country, the gap between identifying potential election offenses and prosecuting them reflects, in part, the limited resources and competing priorities of local prosecutors,.

“It’s difficult to get county prosecutors to prosecute voter fraud cases. They become prosecutors to go after murderers and rapists,” LaRose told the Daily Signal.

 LaRose, first elected in 2018, has removed about 1,300 ineligible voters, which include noncitizens, from the state’s rolls. The number also includes dead people and those registered in other states during his time in office.

Ohio is among a handful of states with highly competitive races that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. Republican Sen. Jon Husted is fending off a challenge from former Democrat Sen. Sherod Brown.

The Trump administration made the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database available to state election officials last year to verify the citizenship of registered voters. Numerous states have used the system.

Before the database was made available, Texas removed more than 1 million from the voter rolls between 2021 and 2024, which included noncitizens, deceased people, people who moved, and people with felony convictions.

Last year, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate’s office reported 277 confirmed noncitizens registered to vote after checking records through the federal SAVE database. Of these, 35 had ballots counted in the 2024 general election and five attempted ballots were rejected. A spokesman for Pate did not respond to questions about whether the names were removed, or whether the illegal voters were prosecuted.

Even in Texas, which has strong laws to protect against voter fraud, there is a lengthy process for removal of registered voters.

“In Texas, voter registrations are based in counties,” said Alicia Pierce, spokeswoman for Texas Secretary of State Robert Howden. “If we have reason to believe that a registered voter may be a noncitizen, we refer that to counties for their review and investigation.”

Inaccurate voter registration could be a clerical error, as opposed to actual illegal voting, which would be a crime.

In September, Howden’s office referred 117 cases to state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office for investigation of potential noncitizen voting.

North Carolina removed 747,274 ineligible voters in 2023 and 2024 and another 498,889 in the first quarter of 2025. Earlier this month, the Justice Department announced charges against 10 noncitizens in North Carolina for allegedly casting ballots.

Maine removed 217,262 canceled registrations in 2025. Two individuals in the state were prosecuted for duplicate voting in the 2020 election.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel reported 16 referrals in 2025 and another 22 referrals in 2026 concerning suspected noncitizen voting. She brought five prosecutions in August.  Meanwhile, Alaska took 3,048 names off the active registration list in 2026.

Keep reading

NYC to force landlords to offer buildings for sale to non-profits first

The New York City Council has passed a bill that will force some property owners to give nonprofits first dibs on buying their distressed properties if the bill becomes law. The bill has headed to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s desk for his signature.

The “Community Opportunity for Purchase Act,” or COPA, will force some landlords to offer up their properties to “community land trusts” and nonprofits for 90 days so that they can have first dibs on the properties. Although a similar proposal has been floated before that would have applied to a much larger number of properties, this one is not as extreme. The original COPA bill was vetoed by former Mayor Eric Adams right before he stepped out of office.

The bill will impact 2,100 NYC buildings that are mostly managed by the Housing Preservation Department in the Big Apple. The previous bill would have covered around 10,000 buildings in the city. The bill was brought by Brooklyn lawmaker Sandy Nurse, who claimed that the bill last year was “legally sound” but that changes were made for government agencies.

“It was more that there was a number of different points that could be sued over, so it wasn’t that there was anything unconstitutional; it was just that they wanted an opportunity to re-strengthen now that they’ve had a third review of it,” she said.

Ann Korchak, the board president of the Small Property Owners of New York, slammed the bill. “COPA, in any form, is a destructive housing policy for renters, owners, and affordable housing. COPA will devalue buildings, forcing small, often immigrant and multigenerational, owners to sell their buildings for pennies on the dollar,” she said.

“Giving the right-of-first-refusal to nonprofits shuts out conventional buyers who have the financial wherewithal to immediately improve and rehabilitate a failing building,” she added, per the New York Post.

If the measure goes into effect, it will slow down property deals for those buildings that are impacted by it. The previous version of the bill was lauded by socialist New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani, who said in a policy proposal that NYC should “pass COPA to give CLTs [Community land trusts] and non-profits the right of first refusal when landlords sell.”

Keep reading

Argentina’s economic demolition: Javier Milei disappears 11 TONS of gold

Despite being one of Donald Trump’s biggest political investments in Latin America, or perhaps because of it, Argentine President Javier Milei is presiding over a deepening recession. His country’s industrial base is crumbling, the middle class is shrinking, and factories keep closing. Yet Milei’s grip on power has only tightened with the help of powerful patrons in Washington and Tel Aviv.

Now, a new scandal has erupted which raises troubling questions about the fate of the nation’s wealth.

On October 8, National Audit Office president Juan Manuel Olmos confirmed that Argentina’s Central Bank lost $1.023 billion in gold reserves through operations that moved physical gold out of the country without the public’s consent.

The financial loss may be only part of the story. Nearly 11 tons of Argentine gold are unaccounted for. How the gold bars left the country, where they are now, and whether the government can recover them all remain open questions.

Beyond the missing gold lies a larger issue: what will remain of Argentina’s national wealth, industrial capacity, and economic sovereignty when Milei’s experiment ends?

Keep reading

Panic over US probe into Kiev’s links to Mexican cartels

Ukrainian officials are reportedly panicking after US investigators uncovered links between Mexican drug cartels and Kiev, including paid drone training for cartel members. The probe threatens to further strain the already fragile relations between Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky and US President Donald Trump.

In a statement on Tuesday, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said American law enforcement investigating the cartels had identified at least 80 members who learned to assemble and operate combat drones while serving with Ukrainian forces.

The payment for this “education” was transferred to officials close to Zelensky using proceeds from drug sales in the US, according to the SVR report obtained by RT.

The agency also noted that Zelensky’s office is aware that the presence of trained first-person-view (FPV) drone operators among drug cartels could ultimately threaten American officers combating drug trafficking along the Mexican border and damage relations with Washington.

Keep reading

Mysterious Triangular Object with Advanced Flying Capability Revealed in Latest Tranche of UAP Files

The Department of War released its seventh tranche of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files on Friday, including a memo detailing a recently sighted triangular object in the western United States that disappeared at a fighter jet-like speed of an estimated 1,800 miles per hour.

The memo states the incident happened in 2026, with two observers, described as “federal law enforcement agents,” documenting their accounts.

From an observation post on a ridgeline on an evening with clear skies, the agents witnessed the craft, estimated to have a 13 to 15-foot wingspan, a 6 to 9-foot fuselage, and a maximum thickness of 1 to 2 feet vertically.

The aircraft is described as making “a slow, controlled, perfectly vertical ascent directly over the ridge line” for “approximately 10 seconds,” climbing a few hundred feet “without tilting, swaying, or wobbling.”

It did so silently, without the agents observing any “propulsive apertures, rotating elements, rivets, panels, windows, canopy,” or cabin structures. From there, it “entered a stable hover” for approximately 20 seconds, without drift or oscillation.

During that time, the agents used infrared to gauge the aircraft’s thermal signature, and “the entire airframe presented a spatially uniform thermal signature with no localized hot spots, engine heat signature, or exhaust plumes.”

“No heat shimmer, vapor trail, or particulate discharge was detected,” the memo adds.

The craft then transitioned rapidly into a “high-speed horizontal flight” from the hover and maneuvered with speed like a “military fighter jet” for two to three seconds in silence before disappearing, per the memo. No instrumented speed measurement was obtained.

The transition from stable hover to high-speed horizontal flight occurred without observable acceleration ramp, gradual pitching, or momentum, and immediately following the hover, the unidentified craft appeared to transition from a stationary position to rapid horizontal flight.

The unidentified craft executed a fluid banking turn and steep, terrain-conforming descent into the canyon and did not wobble, oscillate, or drift in the wind during any part of its transit, and as it banked to follow the canyon’s path its physical profile shifted relative to the observers. The entire horizontal transition, bank, and descent lasted approximately two to three seconds before the craft disappeared behind intervening terrain.

No wreckage, vegetation damage, or ground scarring was observed the next morning during a ground survey of the canyon.

This is one of many documents released in the seventh tranche of UAP files. The tranche also includes a report on an investigation into Sherman Ranch, nicknamed “Skinwalker Ranch,” in Utah. The tranche of files is available for public viewing here.

Keep reading

Trump Treasury Lining Up Private Debt Collectors To Seize Wages From Nearly 10 Million Student Loan Defaulters: Report

Trump administration officials are preparing to penalize millions of Americans in default on their federal student loans next year, The Washington Sun reported, citing five people familiar with the matter. The Treasury Department is moving forward with plans to hire private debt collectors, possibly as soon as November, three of the sources said, and those plans are unlikely to be announced before the midterm elections.

According to the Treasury’s Sept. 30 release – there are more than 5 million borrowers who have been in default for over six years and another 5 million who entered default in less than a year.

The plan would revive collections the administration shelved this year. As we noted in January, the Education Department said it would begin garnishing wages in January, with up to 15% of a borrower’s after-tax income at stake and about 1,000 notices expected the first week. That same month, however, ABC News reported that the department paused both wage garnishment and Treasury Offset Program collections – tax refund seizures included. Under Secretary Nicholas Kent said the tools “will function more efficiently and fairly” after reforms, and the department said it had collected roughly $500 million from defaulted borrowers before the pause.

According to the Sun, last year the White House Office of Management and Budget began helping the Education Department prepare to seize federal benefits and wages from defaulted borrowers, and Treasury officials blocked the effort, citing the economic cost of punitive measures against workers. Staff said they warned senior Treasury officials that scores of Trump supporters would be seriously hurt by going after the wages and benefits of people struggling to keep their jobs. “This is not who you think it is. The demographics are not good for us,” one source said.

Some officials want to garnish benefits and wages for the current tax year, meaning the April 15, 2027 deadline, but the sources cautioned that it could slip again while Treasury makes sure its new Defaulted Loans Support Center is working. That online portal for rehabilitating or consolidating a defaulted loan launched Sept. 30. The administration’s stated preference remains getting borrowers into voluntary payment plans. “It would be politically insane to do this before the midterms,” one source said, “but 2027 probably makes a little more sense.”

The government has two main tools; one seizes payments that follow taxes, such as expected tax refunds, Social Security payments, and the earned income tax credit and child tax credit. The other garnishes wages by requiring employers to send the money to the government. Newsweek noted that wages can be garnished up to 15% without a court order, citing the National Consumer Law Center, and that borrowers generally get at least 30 days’ notice first.

OMB and Treasury declined to comment. The Education Department said: “We don’t respond to fishing expeditions.” IBTimes noted that no agency has responded on the record to the plans themselves, and no restart date has been announced.

Treasury’s push last year to postpone collections has cost taxpayers about $5 billion so far, according to Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and the figure grows the longer the administration waits. “They’ve done the same thing they criticized Biden for,” Goldwein said. Treasury’s September release itself blamed the prior administration for the default pile-up, including its termination of contracts with private collection vendors, the same kind of contractors Treasury is now reportedly preparing to hire.

Keep reading