(BOOK UPDATE) PROOF OF CORRUPTION is blowing up—it’s now in Amazon’s Top 20 Elections books. And despite being a 576-pg. hardcover, a critically acclaimed national bestseller, and having a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ average reader rating over 510 reviews, it’s just $8.26. amazon.com/Proof-Corrupti…
PS/ Two days ago it was ranked #285,000 overall and #408 in Elections. I am so glad folks are finding out en masse that Macmillan published a book in late 2020 that gives all the background one needs to the imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine. Many library copies out there, too!
PS2/ 250 or so copies are available in libraries across the country. Go to WorldCat and enter your zip code to get a listing of the library holdings of PROOF OF CORRUPTION near you. Link: worldcat.org
AUDIO/ Did you know the Introduction to PROOF OF CORRUPTION is free online (with the inimitable Robert Petkoff reading)? I hope you’ll spread the word.
(UPDATE) Sales spiking, book price falling. Good! I’m *thrilled* PROOF OF CORRUPTION is now just $8.21. I want everyone to read this book and better understand the present Russia-Ukraine crisis.
Please continue to spread the word—this book is as relevant today as it’s ever been.
(UPDATE) The critically acclaimed national bestseller PROOF OF CORRUPTION—a 576-page hardcover offering all the information you could ever want about the imminent Russia-Ukraine war and how it intersects with US politics—is now just $8.18 and headed toward #1 on Amazon. Stunning.
(UPDATE) It’s really happening: PROOF OF CORRUPTION is down to $8.12 on Amazon (for a 576-page bestselling hardcover) and headed toward #1. It was around #285,000 48 hours ago, and now look at it (see image below). I hope you’ll consider retweeting the first tweet in this thread.
(UPDATE) Now #2 in Elections and #2 in Political Intelligence. Inside the Top 1500 of all books on Amazon. Price down to $8.09 for a 576-page hardcover bestseller. You all are amazing—and I hope you’ll keep spreading the word about PROOF OF CORRUPTION so everyone gets to read it.
(UPDATE) The march to #1 on Amazon continues: PROOF OF CORRUPTION is now down to $7.97 in price and well inside the Top 1000 books on Amazon. I’ve never seen anything like this in 25 years of publishing books. This 2020 Russia-Ukraine bestseller was #285,000 on Amazon 2 days ago.
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(🚨) I’ve never—in 30 years in journalism—published a report like this: one that could really bring *hope*. I spent 15 hours curating/labeling photos from hundreds of No Kings Day protests. It’s the largest archive of its kind (+ lots of Easter eggs).
1/ I almost don’t know where to start in talking about the last 15 hours. They were emotional. I have renewed hope for my country. I also feel renewed awe at its size and scope.
2/ This archive is truly massive. It takes viewers all over the United States—including to some way-off-the-beaten-path corners.
(🧵) THREAD: Selected comments from the (highly conservative) NEW YORK POST chat during the 2025 Trump Micropenis Parade:
🔻 "I've seen more people at a kindergarten parade"
🔻 "What an epic fail"
🔻 "The UFC is sponsoring federal events now?"
🔻 "Okay this is getting sad now"
More:
🔻 "Criiiiiinge"
🔻 "There is no one there"
🔻 "This is such a boring parade"
🔻 "This parade blows"
🔻 "Live band would've been better"
🔻 "Where are the people?"
🔻 "This is a national embarrassment"
🔻 "Chat is more entertaining than the parade"
More (and yes, these are all real comments):
🔻 "This is kinda boring"
🔻 "SO boring I'm out"
🔻 "This is a hot mess"
🔻 "They're not even marching in sync"
🔻 "This music is horrible"
🔻 "The crowd is so small"
🔻 "They playing the Kidz Bop versions of famous songs"
Stephen Miller—who's from the area and knows better—calls LA an "occupied city" as part of a ploy to justify a violent, fascist crackdown. Courtesy of Matt Snyder, this map of LA features a to-scale red dot indicating where the protests are.
You'll have to zoom in and look hard.
When the truth of this moment is rewritten by MAGA fascists via some screeching refrain—"Remember when they burned LA to the ground??"—think of this map. Remember how most of LA just went about its daily life. Remember how the images and videos were deliberate misrepresentations.
For those still searching (the dot really is red, but it is so small that it can be tough to even see its color):
Dallas is America’s most conservative big city. It’s the Citadel of the Far Right. It’s where QAnon holds conventions. It’s where Flynn hinted at a coup of the Biden administration. It’s where Trump’s most radical megadonors are.
It’s where I’d most fear a pretextual Kent State.
I’m unnerved that suddenly Dallas—of all places!—is on my TV with cops acting aggressively. This makes little sense, especially given the tiny size and comparative somnambulance of the protest there.
I worry quite a bit about a rogue QAnonist cop deliberately inciting something.
Put another way, if you’re the Dallas police chief and if you’re acting in good faith—not on a partisan Trumpist basis—you’re *floored* that it’s *your* city on a split-screen on CNN and you’re determined to make that stop. Because Dallas should *not* be where anything goes down.
Okay, I found the video. Here is Elon Musk unambiguously flashing the White Power sign on SNL to see if he could get away with it, exactly like he did with his Nazi salute this January.
You can see Musk delivers a line not on the prompter—"Call me the DOGE-father"—which generates laughs from those in his audience part of his 4chan fanbase, and it’s then he 1) flashes the OK symbol—a 4chan game—after which he 2) _reverses his hands_ to flash the White Power sign.
This is 100% a PoS who thinks he can get away with anything using a national stage to send neo-Nazi code to fans under circumstances in which he planned in advance to deny the obvious. Just like in January, he’s such an arrogant bigot he does his gesture _twice_ to make it clear.
As Donald Trump leads America down the path to becoming a failed state, we have lost 24/7 weather services in parts of the country. Along with massive deterioration in Social Security services caused by Musk, American decline at the hands of billionaires couldn't be more stark.
Some of us have understood a long time that billionaires are weird, venal, antisocial, detached, often sociopathic creatures who can't be trusted to care about the nations that made them, let alone average citizens.
And some of us blindly worship these creatures.
Which are you?
Even in an ardently capitalistic market, no one becomes a billionaire without gaming the system in ways anyone with a conscience deems disgusting.
It's not a sign of a healthy free market when billionaires are created, it's a sign of a broken system.