It makes sense. He can't do his job without the internet.

Julian Assange has been replaced as editor in chief of Wikileaks, according to the online publisher.

Former spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson, an Icelandic investigative journalist, will take over the role.

“I condemn the treatment of Julian Assange that leads to my new role,” Hrafnsson said in a statement, according to a Daily Dot report, an online publication that covers internet culture. "But I welcome the opportunity to secure the continuation of the important work based on WikiLeaks ideals.”

Assange, 47, founded Wikileaks in 2006 but has been isolated in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012 to avoid being arrested over sexual assault allegations.

WikiLeaks noted that while Assange will stay on as its publisher.

I'm going to go random in this post.

Putin is losing his election mojo.

Supporters of Russia's Communist Party are protesting after the ruling United Russia party's candidate suddenly surged ahead in the final stages of the vote count in a runoff election for governor of the Primorye region.

With 95 percent of the ballots counted on September 17, acting Governor Andrei Tarasenko was nearly 6 percentage points behind Communist challenger Andrei Ishchenko, according to election officials.

But the officials said that once the ballot count reached 99 percent, Tarasenko had 49.5 percent and Ishchenko 48 percent.

Alleging fraud, dozens of Communist supporters protested outside the regional administration building in the Pacific coast port city of Vladivostok.

For someone that could rig the American presidential election with nothing but a dozen twitter bots and some puppy memes on Facebook, this looks pretty amateurish.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is normally sure-footed when it comes to domestic politics, is facing an increasing challenge to his rule in Russia’s Far East, where his party suffered rare electoral setbacks Sunday amid rising anger over government plans to raise the national retirement age.

Election victories by the vehemently nationalist and anti-Western Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) of Russia have sent shockwaves through the Kremlin, which hadn’t expected to get trounced in the voting in second-round run-offs for governors in the region of Khabarovsk as well as in Vladimir region, east of Moscow.

In Khabarovsk, the LDPR candidate won 70 percent of the vote with the incumbent from Putin’s ruling United Russia party attracting just 28 percent. In the Vladimir region, the LDPR pushed out another United Russia incumbent, winning 20 percent more of the vote than Putin’s party.

Cool. Putin's guys are being replaced with people who hate us.

Finally, look at how the headlines changed this week for Jeremy Corbyn.
All summer long it was phony smears of anti-semitism. Then we get this:

While Jeremy Corbyn spoke for the many, Theresa May was promising businesses low corporation taxes

This week Jeremy Corbyn proved that he can – and will – win if a snap election is called

Joke's on Tories as Jeremy Corbyn rises to challenge

There's an old joke credited to Bob Monkhouse that goes "When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now."

When Jeremy Corbyn, an obscure bearded lefty pacifist, somehow became leader of Labour in Britain, the Conservative government thought it had struck comedy gold.

But now the Tories are looking at this suddenly, unapologetically socialist, radical party, its red flags flying on the Mersey and its "Oh, Jeremy Corbyn" leek-growing, cat-loving leader and cannot seem to find a punchline.

But by far the most interesting article about Corbyn was this one.

It was the European Commission’s own vote of no-confidence in Theresa May.

Top EU officials rolled out the red carpet for Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Thursday, welcoming May’s arch-rival to the Commission headquarters and giving him a significant platform at a highly sensitive stage in the Brexit talks.

Corbyn, who has harshly criticized May and her Conservative Party for mismanaging Brexit, has yet to unveil a credible departure plan of his own. But after being welcomed for meetings with the EU’s top negotiator, Michel Barnier, and Commission Secretary-General Martin Selmayr, Corbyn seized on the moment to present himself as a credible substitute for the embattled prime minister.