SEPTEMBER RAIN: The Bombshell Reports on Russian Interference That Should Have Saved America
A compilation of my reports from Fall of 2024 that revealed the extent to which Russia hacked the minds of our citizens to create anti-democratic agents willing to destroy their own country
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First, some housekeeping:
The upside to being under the weather for a few days during my travels through Europe is I have been able to catch up on my reading. I am taking this week off from our meetings to prepare multiple reports for you that I am very excited about. Mostly, because they offer insight into how to defy these bastards.
As I wrote today on that shite platform Twitter, where I spend as little of my precious time as possible:
A proper Resistance should aim to destroy the wealth of the oligarch criminal-overlords and cause complete disruptions to their media platforms.
Opposition means living in steadfast truth to annihilate their carefully crafted house of lies.
I have also asked my friends in the Resistance to start compiling their visions of what they intend to replace technofascist oligarch rule with. Pro-democracy factions need to start developing and selling a shared vision of the future to engage a wider audience. It’s one thing to loathe what Trump-Musk-Putin are selling, but to pull people out of the rubble of their fear-based worlds, offer them a vision.
In my Hot Type column from yesterday, I wrote:
Democracies, at their core, mean there are sources of truth in the world that can challenge the carefully crafted lies of autocracies. Autocracies can’t have neighboring countries with free and fair elections — by the people, for the people — because their own oppressed citizens may get some ideas. So the modern fascists slash and burn through other nations, with too few leaders taking 15 minutes to study the battlefield.
Study the battlefield and please offer suggestions of what you see replacing the MAGA-Russcist Hate Cult.
Our next meeting is with investigative reporter and author Craig Unger on Sunday, March 23, 1:30 pm Pacific. It’s a Founder’s Day event, which I host for my high-level supporters, but due to the times in which we live, I am opening up this event to all of my paid subscribers. Unger, who wrote multiple books on how the Russians turned Trump into an asset in the ‘80s, is finally getting his due. He launched his own Substack, and you can pledge your support as I did here.
Unger is a frequent guest on RadPod and Bette, and I’m excited for his return. I will send out invites later in the week. Also, to everyone who attended our Happy Hour with Zarina Zabrisky, you will each receive a separate email invite for a screening of her trailer for Kherson: Human Safari. Due to her being in a war zone and me being on an island that day, we were waylaid by tech difficulties but all’s well that ends well. She wanted to recut the trailer before anyone saw it so you’ll get to see the first cut.
September Rain
Okay, so my archives are on fire. Nothing like the loss of one’s democracy to peak curiosity on the facts.
As I wrote recently:
Despite reporting for a decade that Trump is a Russian asset based exclusively on verifiable evidence, people appear to be opening their eyes during the epilogue.
Better late than never… I guess…
To make it easy for those of you with truth curious friends and family, I put together this compilation of my key reports from Fall, where the Justice Department, the FBI, the Treasury and State Departments released a flurry of bombshell reports about the degree to which Russia was interfering with our ability to understand reality.
The reports should have saved democracy.
They revealed that the Russians knew exactly what they were doing when they sold America and other democratic nations their pro-Kremlin, anti-Ukraine horseshit. They knew Biden was leading a stellar economy, so they batted around the idea of creating a proxy war to fuck with Americans own understanding of the good times in which they were living.
The reports reveal that Russian military intelligence was funneling money through Kremlin propaganda outlets to YouTube influencers in the millions to serve pro-Russian, anti-Ukraine trash to unsuspecting minds and call it conservativism. We saw Elon Musk retweet these trash peddlers to his hundreds of millions of followers.
We learned Musk was taking meetings with the Russian architects of this trash, and that these trash operations were being directed by and answering to Vladimir Putin.
Independent reporters and a few mainstream anchors tried to get these bombshells to the people so they could finally see in granular detail how fake worlds were being crafted to turn them into anti-democratic agents.
Here’s a sample from one of my reports from October 6, 2024:
Hot Type — Curing American Amnesia By Tallying Up Russian Interference
In my new column in Byline, I do the math on Russian covert influence activities and explain why JD Vance is whinging about censorship
A fine tactic in oligarch-owned media is to downplay the efficacy of Russia’s attacks on the West. Always lurking beneath the fold is the Great Minimizing Moment, a sentence or clause that says the reach born of the lie factories was limited.
In other words, ‘move along, nothing to see here’.
But when elections in the US come down to just a few thousand votes in a handful of states, then any infiltration by foreign enemy states into our infosphere matters. A lot.
Let’s just take a look at one simple example: last week, on the national debate stage stood two candidates. They played so nice, but only one platforms Nazis. Literal Nazis.
In a long ago forgotten headline in the Wall Street Journal, it was noted that “Peter Thiel and JD Vance invest in Rumble Video, a platform popular on political right”.
And there was JD Vance, in front of the nation at last Tuesday’s vice presidential debate, minimizing Russia’s attack on America in 2016 as just “$500,000 worth of Facebook ads.” There he was, repeatedly claiming VP Kamala Harris is censoring free speech.
Why would he do that? What could he possibly have to gain? Why after a month of bombshells on Russian interference would an Ohio senator take the side of Russia? He did so just days after the US State Department declared that “covert influence activities are not journalism.”
Perhaps because on the very day he made that statement, while spitting lie after lie after lie to tens of millions of amnesiatic Americans, RT on Rumble had 23.9 million views of its livestream.
And what did we just learn about the internationally banned RT, formerly Russia Today? According to the US State Department, the “Russian government embedded within RT an entity with cyber operational capabilities and ties to Russian intelligence. This cyber entity has focused primarily on influence and intelligence operations all over the world.”
That quote comes from a State Department fact sheet from September 13, 2024 titled: Alerting the World to RT’s Global Covert Activities.
So there, playing nice in front of America, was an enemy combatant, who platforms the most venal elements in society, while offering a safe harbor for Russian intelligence operations.
While we await the list of names of paid influencers and useful idiots, here are a few pertinent stats, collected from the dossier’s leaked documents, and global intelligence reports:
In 2024, Social Design Agency (SDA) had 100 employees — comprised of administrators, writers, editors, translators, social media teams, meme makers, cartoonists, video producers — and an untold number of contractors not on site
In the first four months of 2024, SDA internal records tallied 33.9 million comments; produced 39,899 “content units” on social media; among them, 4,641 videos and 2,516 memes and graphics
Meta removed 200 SDA-linked accounts operating from Russia in April of 2022
Investigative journalists in Germany exposed 30 doppelganger news sites
SDA pushed more than 6,000 social media posts promoting fake Bild and Daily Mail sites
Between November 2023 through August 2024, the operation produced more than 700 fake websites, viewed 800,000 times, according to German intelligence reports
X/Twitter was deemed the most “user friendly” platform for mass influence, and SDA staff was tasked with creating a “network for 200 accounts, four in each of the 50 states”
Along with monitoring 2,800 influencers of pro-Russian, anti-Ukraine, and anti-democratic content — with 21% from the US — SDA also monitored 1,900 “anti-influencers” from 52 different countries
Take those numbers and see how the narratives are magnified exponentially through the coordinated fanning of the Kremlin messaging apparatus and its US allies.
So now these reports sit in my archives — remembrances of things past, factual artifacts for the next generation of reporters to mine, if our archives survive the regime.
Like with my reporting on lessons from World War II, these reports from my archives have never been more popular. Please consider sharing them as kindling for the raging fire of Resistance that is now beginning to tear its way through America. Thank you in advance.
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