5th day of sleep interruption and my beloved toddler shape-shifts from beautiful #DragRace Linda Blair to head-spinning levitating Exorcist Linda Blair
with a h/t to my dear sweet @YDanasmithdutra our first garden-variety Evil Tech dickhead is Rod Rosenstein who's currently landing planes at NSO Group (Pegasus parent)
newsflash: hypersensitive/violent criminal tyrants don't take criticism well #PegasusProject
as freelance journalist I take great pleasure in telling Evil Tech dickheads to F off
Rosenstein watched journalists getting targeted/whacked in Mexico; was at DOJ when Khashoggi got bonesawed; then said "no yea NSO seems like neat place to work"
Day 6 of sleep interruption and my dear sweet toddler son has gone from levitating Linda Blair to reenacting scene from "Scanners" (see above for context)
so fun!
disclaimer: thread will be LONG and rollicking cuz NSO scandal touches all corners of mobster culture
think of it as an octopus fornicating a centipede which then had an orgy with 10,000 bunnies but they're all crims
we'll get back to exploring specific surveillance dickheads in a minute but we gotta unpack this Facec*nt scandal as it pertains to NSO
is it just a coincidence that NSO-linked mobster Anatoly Hurgin fraudulently obtained Maltese citizenship and journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia ended up dead 🤔
assassinated Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was trying to warn us about NSO & transnational surveillance dickheads who today are very very in the barrel cc: @BaddCompani
journalist gets whacked by the mob and Malta drags feet for *2 years* to investigate? dunno guys that seems like tacit admission of corruption
night 7 of toddler-induced sleep deprivation so I'm still loopy AF; will be continuing NSO thread shortly
ever experienced your toddler thinking your junk is a playtoy while trying to get your underwear on?
like wintering in Cabo you simply must try it
*Surveillance Dickhead Thread continues*
will y'all take a bit of a detour with me? feel like I might've stumbled on something important
2 weeks ago Haitian president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in a *surgically precise operation*
operation to kill Moïse had NUMEROUS players but one of them stuck out to me: Florida resident & Venezuelan fella called Antonio Intriago kosu.org/news/2021-07-1…
while trying to piece together spyware's potential role in this assassination (reminder: NSO is linked to Khashoggi and other killings) I decided to drill down on Intriago
deep financial hole and a chubby for violent-military ops? bad combination.
anyhooze before Wikileaks became full-time Kremlin PR it posted docs from "inner workings of the controversial global surveillance industry"
Intriago was in that document dump from 2015
"potential customer in Mexico" gets me wondering if Intriago had an opporunity to muscle in on NSO's Mexican turf (see earlier in 🧵 for reference) 🧐
"can your system be inserted on computer via remote" sounds kinda familiar yes?
Intriago's firm CTU Security is where things really start going left
*Transnational Surveillance Goon Squad/VERY MESSED UP THREAD™ continues*
believe I mentioned earlier how "global network of spying f*cksticks" story would be rollicking, yes? well...
writer's note: less than an hour to do this update before Rugrat Management™ but happy to report full sleep last night praise jeebus
.@MSignorile—who is still a national treasure/force of nature—wrote an outstanding recap on Catholic Church's operation to out one of its own via Grindr data signorile.substack.com/p/right-wing-c…
target of Grindr-data op was Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, general secretary of the USCCB (episcopal conference of U.S. Catholic Church) whom you'll recall was keen to deny Biden communion
anyhooze Burrill is not low-level coffee boy or mailroom clerk (no offense to either of those jobs; all jobs matter)
Burrill is a Catholic Church muckety-muck reliably pushing RW dirtbags' anti-gay propaganda while being gay himself
sounds familiar yes?
according to @MSignorile's reporting (my sources concur) outing Burrill was designed as *very public* warning to other CC officials who might want to a) seek company of gentleman callers; or b) step outta line in other ways 🤨
spoiler alert: Transnational Spying Dickheads don't need tons of cash to target inconvenient/misbehaving folk
"spying's been going on since just after invention of radio" my intel source said. difference today? "reasons people are doing it: gone from warfare, spying, tracking, search & rescue—to outing political or ideological rivals"
based on recent events (Khashoggi) that feels right
sorry I have to leave it here for Rugrat Management and will resume soon
here's a tease: Fuckr was forked to help Bible Chuckers exploit Grindr 🤣🧐