Cathos

Love of all things Fringe and a bunch of my own rantings!

[San Diego Fringe @sdfringe]

Artists! Applications for San Diego Fringe 2026 are OPEN 🎭
#sdfringe26
📝 Apply via Eventotron
✨ New users welcome
💯 100% ticket sales to artists
🌎 World Fringe Congress during festival

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[Mayor of London's Culture team @LDN_Culture]

Join the fun at Palace of Varieties on 29 January!

Come celebrate 125 years of mischief, music, magic & mayhem at @TheClaphamGrand🎉

Enjoy a special evening of comedy, drag, live music & cabaret🎶

Tickets only £10!

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[San Diego Fringe @sdfringe]

Apply once. Reach globally. 🌍
SDFringe applications are open via Eventotron → https://t.co/dOtsAJQs6o
Artists keep 100% of box office + can tour internationally through SDFringe awards.

World Fringe Congress meets SDFringe in 2026. Global access. Real opportunity. #SDFringe26

[San Diego Fringe @sdfringe]

Happy New Year! 🎉
San Diego Fringe & FRINGE WORLD Perth launch a new Sister-City Fringe Award Partnership for 2026—opening touring pathways for independent artists across the Pacific. 🌍🎭
#HappyNewYear #WorldFringe #SDFringe #FringeWorld

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Left Journalist Laura Jedeed was hired by ICE after a short six minute interview and wait till you hear what the hiring process is like! No wonder these agents have no clue WTF they’re doing and so aggressive because they’re hiring any warm bodies they can get! 👇👇

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

This is dark

Pope Leo XIV warns the post-WWII rule that bans invading other countries is being destroyed.

While Keir Starmer stays silent and sucks up to Trump, even the Vatican is saying it out loud: might is replacing law and that puts everyone at risk. ⚠️

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism.

Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

A list of the US regime change efforts in Latin America over the years:

1846–1848 – Mexico
1898 – Cuba
1903 - Panama
1906–1909 - Cuba
1909 - Nicaragua
1912–1933 - Nicaragua
1913 -Mexico
1914 - Mexico
1915–1934 - Haiti
1916–1924 - Dominican Republic
1916–1917 - Mexico
1932 – El Salvador
1933–1940s – Cuba
1944 – Guatemala
1946 – Bolivia
1948 – Costa Rica
1952 – Cuba
1953–1954 – British Guiana
1954 – Guatemala
1960s: Cold War Escalation
1960–1961 – Cuba
1961 – Cuba
1961 – Dominican Republic
1962–1963 – Brazil
1963 – Dominican Republic
1963 – Ecuador
1963 – Honduras
1964 – Brazil
1964 – Bolivia
1965 – Dominican Republic
1966–1996 – Guatemala
1970s: Operation Condor Era
1970–1973 – Chile
1971 – Bolivia
1973 – Chile
1973 – Uruguay
1976 – Argentina
1976–1983 – Region-wide (Operation Condor)
1979 – Nicaragua
1980–1989 – Nicaragua
1980–1992 – El Salvador
1980s – Honduras
1980–1992 – Guatemala
1980s – Jamaica
1982 – Bolivia
1983 – Grenada
1989 – Panama
1991 – Haiti
1994 – Haiti
2002 – Venezuela
2004 – Haiti
2009 – Honduras
2019 – Bolivia
2017–present – Venezuela
2018–present – Nicaragua

Every U.S. president from 1901–present has been involved in Latin American regime change. The US remains an imperialist presence in Latin America.

[Wandsworth Council @wandbc]

Nnena Kalu has won the Turner Prize, breaking new barriers for the learning-disabled community.

Raised in Wandsworth she has been working with Action Space since 1999 who have received long-term support from Wandsworth Council.

Learn more: https://t.co/KSaTEWzcCF

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

Today Palestinians lit the Bethlehem Christmas tree.

From the land of Christianity, Palestine and from the town of Jesus, Bethlehem, we wish peace upon the world 🇵🇸

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚩🚩🚩Newly released Bannon–Epstein messages (2017–19) show Epstein was giving daily strategic advice to Steve Bannon while Bannon and Farage were building a transatlantic far-right project.

Epstein wasn’t just a social acquaintance. He was in the room, digitally, for the construction of modern populism.

Farage’s partner, Laure Ferrari, literally co-founded the Brussels organisation (“The Movement”) that Bannon used to build a European nationalist network.

Who helped shape the money structure and the logistics? 👉Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein advised Bannon on:
– how to avoid FARA disclosure
– how to use 501(c)(4) dark-money non-profits
– how to shield political operatives with media shells
– how to keep funding “opaque”
– how to structure a European revolution without legal exposure

This was not small talk.
This was political engineering.

Bannon told Epstein he was working with:
“Nigel, Boris and Rees-Mogg… the guys are trying to move on May today/tomorrow.”

This places Epstein inside the communications chain of the plot to topple Theresa May, while Brexit was at its most volatile.

Epstein also:
– Offered Bannon the use of his island and homes for political strategy
– Arranged accommodation, flights and meetings
– Critiqued Bannon’s media appearances
– Acted as a sounding board on Europe, Salvini, Le Pen’s allies and the gilets jaunes

He was not a spectator.
He was an influencer.

In other words:
🔹 Mandelson: embarrassing proximity.
🔹 Farage: political collaboration through Bannon.

Farage wasn’t merely around the Epstein orbit. He was inside a political machine Epstein helped shape.

And look at the substance:

– Bannon called Farage “the face” of the European far-right project
– Farage’s partner built the Brussels shell
– Farage brokered the meeting that handed it to Bannon
– Epstein provided the dark-money blueprint

This is not gossip.
This is architecture.

Farage sells himself as a man who “took on the elites”. Yet the newly revealed truth is far darker:

His Brexit project was intertwined with 👉Bannon, Epstein, US dark-money networks, Salvini, Le Pen’s bloc, and the hardest edge of the global far right.

Brexit was never anti-establishment.
It was never grassroots. It was never patriotic.

It was a transnational authoritarian project, backed by billionaires, extremists, and a convicted sex offender with global influence.

And Farage was right at the centre of it.

If Mandelson had emails showing Epstein advising him on political strategy, funding routes and foreign influence operations, the country would erupt.

Farage has exactly that except worse.
Because the stakes were Brexit and the reshaping of Europe.

And that truth is finally out 💥

https://t.co/PUZZQlY30S

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Good man

[Cathos @Cathos1]

@Met4CastUK 👍🏽

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven. The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic – is violence against the truth.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Wow.

This is absolutely huge.

After the attacks, Spain is offering direct military protection to the flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza.

So what now, Israel?

Are you going to risk acts of war against a European nation so you can attack humanitarian vessels?

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HOLY HELL; Sen. Cory Booker just detonated on the Senate floor.

Screaming match. Finger-pointing. Full-on political exorcism.

He torched his own party for being “WEAK,” said they “MIGHT DESERVE TO LOSE,” and warned Democrats:

“If you’re looking the other way from Trump’s actions, that’s complicity with an authoritarian leader.”

Then came the haymaker:

“COME AT ME? You’ll have to take it up with me AND GOD.”

Booker says Dems are sleepwalking into fascism while pretending bipartisanship is still real.

This eruption was triggered by a debate over policing, but it blew the lid off the whole damn party.

🧨 “The Democratic Party needs a wake-up call.”

Sir, consider it delivered.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

HUGE NEWS FOR “MY GUYS AND GALS”!!! NEWSOM UNIVERSITY IS OPENING VERY SOON. ENROLLMENT IS ALREADY THROUGH THE ROOF. EVERYBODY WANTS IN (EVEN THE LOSERS) BUT ONLY THE SMARTEST, MOST TALENTED STUDENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED (NO LOW IQ DING-DONGS LIKE JD “JUST DANCE” VANCE OR LAURA “LOW RATINGS” INGRAHAM). NEWSOM UNIVERSITY WILL BE THE MOST INCREDIBLE CAMPUS THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN, TRUST ME THAT I'VE HIRED THE BEST CONTRACTORS TO BUILD. COURSES INCLUDE THE ART OF "MAPS," HOW TO TRIGGER “SLUMPY” SEAN HANNITY (VERY EASY COURSE, DAY ONE!), ADVANCED HAIR GEL APPLICATION (TAUGHT BY THE BEST), AND HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL LIKE ME — GAVIN C. NEWSOM — AMERICA’S “HOTTEST” GOVERNOR (MANY PEOPLE SAY IT, NOT JUST ME!). DING DING, THE SCHOOLBELL RINGS — CLASSES START THIS FALL!!! MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING "THANK YOU! THANK YOU DEAR GOVERNOR!!!" TO WHICH I SAY, YOU’RE WELCOME, AMERICA!!! — GCN

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

What has the ECHR ever done for us?

Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.

[Prof Catherine Rowett 💚 Ex-MEP @catherinerowett]

Dear BBC, your news report included rubbish spouted by Mr Farage. It's irresponsible to repeat lies, especially if they're designed to forment racist crimes.
You should always note that
1. There's no "illegal" way of seeking asylum. We already deport those who fail asylum.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 South Park didn’t just go scorched earth, they napalmed the narrative.

This week’s episode has Dora the Explorer getting ICE-raided at her own show, then trafficked straight to Mar-a-Lago to give old men massages. That’s right. A kids’ cartoon character ends up massaging a geezer in Trump’s palace of denial.

Kristi Noem shoots a puppy in the opening scene. ICE raids Heaven. Trump, Vance, and Satan rub elbows on Fantasy Island. And when Mr. Mackey sees what’s happening, even he nopes out of the job.