BETTE IN THE NEWS: Hot Type, Byline Radio, Thom Hartmann, Kyiv Insider, and RadPod’s Latest
Staying loud
***Please take out a membership to support the light of truth.***
Thank you to everyone for your continued support and a huge welcome to new members. It’s a weird time to be an investigative reporter, avowedly anti-fascist, staunchly pro-democracy, despite the diminishing odds.
No better time to be in the fight than when there’s still time to throw a monkey wrench in the surveillance state.
Keep an eye out for an invite to Bette’s Happy Hour with Peter Pomerantsev, tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, August 5, 10 am Pacific. I will send a registration invite as soon as he confirms. In the meantime, here’s your homework:
Bette In the News
It’s been a busy few weeks. Today’s Hot Type in Byline Supplement features a banging interview with Craig Unger on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘red sparrows’ — his overlooked Russian connections. It’s a good read, and you will find it here:
Today, Adrian Goldberg from Byline Podcast released an interview we did live at the Byline Festival on the new abnormal relationship between the US and the UK. Please listen here:
And for those of you who want to go behind the scenes to the festival with me, check this out:
Thom Hartmann invited me onto his show recently to discuss my report on Paul Manafort in Albania. Here’s that interview:
And here is the original report featured on Thom’s show and in his substack:
Many of you know I helped executive produce the Zarina Zabrisky directed film, Kherson: Human Safari, which was just endorsed by United 24, President Zelensky’s official media and fundraising platform. Zabrisky is organizing global screenings, from Dallas to DC, from Paris to Riga, Latvia, and if you would like to host a screening or attend a screening, please reach out to the media team at: Khersonhumansafari/gmail.com. Since she released the film, the world is finally waking up to the drone siege war crimes occurring in the southern Ukraine port city. I am quoted in this report from Zabrisky in Kyiv Insider:
Lastly, for RadPod fans and fans of anti-fascist poetry, please have a listen to our latest interview with Romanian-born poet and author Andrei Codrescu, reciting poems from his latest book: How to Live Under Fascism.
I have no internet currently, so I am at a pub borrowing the wifi over a cup of tea, and thinking of you all.
With love and gratitude,
Heidi
xo
****
****
Bette Dangerous is a reader-funded magazine. Thank you to all monthly, annual, and founding members.
I expose the corruption of billionaire fascists, while relying on memberships for support.
Thank you in advance for considering the following:
Share my reporting with allies
Buying my ebooks
A private link to an annual membership discount for older adults, those on fixed incomes or drawing disability, as well as activists and members of the media is available upon request at bettedangerous/gmail. 🥹
More info about Bette Dangerous - This magazine is written by Heidi Siegmund Cuda, an Emmy-award winning investigative reporter/producer, author, and veteran music and nightlife columnist. She is the cohost of RADICALIZED Truth Survives, an investigative show about disinformation and is part of the Byline Media team. Thank you for your support of independent investigative journalism.
🤍
Begin each day with a grateful heart.
🤍