Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Some Friday number crunching.... From the latest issue of Private Eye - in shops now. Or save money and subcribe at www.subsonline.co.uk 📪 920263
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 10/07/2025London is Over, Finished, and Washed Up By Professor Matt Goodwhinge From the new Private Eye, out now. 15406101
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Bezos wedding. Dump gifts here. From the new Private Eye, out now. 632378
davekotula.bsky.social @davekotula.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Sunset at Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Eire, last week. The weather was gorgeous! 030
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 08/03/20257 months ago today I bombed that kids hospital in Kiev. But as Trump says, "it's what anyone would do". 291740456
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialCOPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 02/03/2025At least 25 #spycops deceived women they spied on into sexual relationships, 4 of them having kids. The true figure is likely much higher - the public inquiry has granted most of them anonymity, we only have full details on the ones we unmasked ourselves. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comRevealed: at least 25 UK ‘spy cops’ had sex with deceived members of publicTotal shows scale of dishonesty in undercover operations over more than three decades 23015
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/03/2025I wrote this before the Oval Office performance, but really, there is nothing to add. It's all still true. 412552716
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/03/2025TV tonight: pop art pioneer Pauline Boty gets the documentary she deservestheguardian.comTV tonight: pop art pioneer Pauline Boty gets the documentary she deservesPeter Blake, Jim Moir and more celebrate the late artist’s genius. Plus: Norma Percy’s masterly series on Israel and Palestine continues. Here’s what to watch this evening 18321
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialMarlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025SNL debuts Mike Myers as Elon Musk 31750231
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialCOPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 01/03/2025"One bad apple? It was a whole rotten barrel" - large feature in today's Times speaking to several of the women who exposed their partners as #spycops & lifted the lid on 50 years of the unlawful police unit & its institutional sexism. Here's a link without a paywall: archive.ph/fRIw2 12415
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialStephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 25/02/2025 132410326318967
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/02/2025Europe’s dependence on US tech is a critical weakness. From @marietjeschaake.bsky.social on.ft.com/3X4ryYoon.ft.comEurope’s dependence on US tech is a critical weaknessIn order to protect their sovereignty, the continent’s leaders must invest in a digital ecosystem independent of America 561083210
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialCOPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Did #spycops officer Bob Lambert burn down a Plymouth fur retailer when undercover? This 2017 article is about a Plymough fire, & in recent weeks at the public inquiry we've learned an incendiary device was unaccounted for & Lambert was in Dorset at the time www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...plymouthherald.co.ukWere undercover cops involved in the firebombing of Dingles?Culprit was never caught for 1988 inferno 176
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialCongressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut? 8582740511715
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Can't figure out why there's no crowds in Syria is trying to force their way onto our vehicles to come to Russia with us like it was when US left Afghanistan. You do remember that, right 462463408
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Cases of whooping cough in Michigan are at their highest level in at least 20 years, as vaccinations decline. The disease can be deadly to infants. Alarmed by the increase, doctors are pleading for families to vaccinate their children.bridgemi.comWhooping cough cases skyrocket in Michigan, as vaccinations decline | Bridge MichiganA potentially deadly disease in infants, whooping cough — pertussis — has exploded in Michigan this year, in part because of decreased vaccination rates. 1148134295928
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialCOPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Today's hearing of the #spycops public inquiry also heard evidence from 'Walter', a hunt saboteur who was spied on by officer Andy Coles & other officers. Tom Fowler & Ben - both spied on for their activism - were there & reported on what they heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro9N...youtube.comSpycops inquiry reaction: end of 9 Dec 2024 ('Callum' & 'Walter' evidence)YouTube video by Cops Campaign 091
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialQusay Noor @qusaynoor.net · 06/12/2024The head of the statue of Hafez al-Assad was dragged by a car through the streets of #Hama after its liberation from the #Assad regime. 03611
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialQusay Noor @qusaynoor.net · 07/12/2024He meets his family in #Aleppo after 13 years of forced displacement Which Bashar al-Assad forced him to do 😭 620659
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialCOPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 04/12/2024It's not just that Bob Lambert committed a catalogue of outrages. It's that he was then seen as exemplary by later #spycops. One said Lambert's was regarded as 'hands down the best tour of duty ever'. He was put in charge of the unit & made a new generation of abusers in his image. Then given an MBE 13121
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialEvangelical Pastafarianism @evangelicalpasta.bsky.social · 22/10/2023 0174
Reposted by @davekotula.bsky.socialThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/11/2024The Ukraine missile crisis: Putin’s shadow war against the west finally breaks covertheguardian.comThe Ukraine missile crisis: Putin’s shadow war against the west finally breaks coverAfter Kyiv used Storm Shadow missiles, Russia’s leader asserted his ‘right’ to attack the UK and US. In truth, he has been doing exactly that for two years now The unprecedented firing by Ukrainian forces of British-made long-range Storm Shadow missiles… 2029277
