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Evidence that Russia "may be preparing for a conflict with NATO"

How Putin reacted to Charlie Kirk’s killing…and much more. Here are some of my recent pieces fridainsight.substack.com/publish/home

Until now

It’s time for courage in this country, including from corporate leaders

From the almost legendary former CEO of Disney

Why continue a hugely successful life-saving vaccine program when you can listen to crackpots and let hundreds of thousands of people get horribly sick every year and let a disease ruin lives?

Stupid and deadly

European efforts to keep Trump from abandoning Ukraine have so far proven largely successful. But there is a dark cloud on the horizon, @fridaghitis.bsky.social writes.

"the Trump administration last April shut down the office responsible for tracking and countering disinformation from Russia, China, Iran and terrorist groups, the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub." fridainsight.substack.com/p/putins-tak...

ABC AGAIN caves to Trump. Cowards, Pull Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for very mild Charlie Kirk Comments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Putin's take on Charlie Kirk's killing -- and why it matters. fridainsight.substack.com/p/putins-tak...

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Corruption on steroids

Ken with the burn! !🔥 🔥

Terrorists are people who use violence to pursue political objectives. Drug trafficking does not meet the definition.

What a debased understanding of US society and history to open a piece on Kirk with an anecdote comparing the current moment to MLK's assassination. And note the anecdote's framing: Black Americans ignore RFK's appeals to replace violence "with an effort to understand" and riot instead.

Fox News host proposes mass murder as answer to homelessness problem. Seriously. “Just kill them,” says Brian Kilmeade

Poland firmly rejects Trump’s claim that Russian attack inside NATO was accidental fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-night-...

Poland firmly rejects Trump’s claim that Russian attack inside NATO was accidental fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-night-...

After rising gradually and then stalling for some time, the winds of right-wing populism are once again blowing across Europe, @fridaghitis.bsky.social writes.

Accurate and on point! "Ever since Putin’s summit in Alaska, in which President Donald Trump broke his international isolation, Russia has sharply escalated its offensive in Ukraine. [..] The ball is now in NATO’s court."

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is an abhorrent act. I'm glad to see so many of the people who disagreed most vehemently with him strongly - liberals, Democrats, etc. -- condemn the killing. Political assassinations are an unacceptable, pernicious, dangerous threat to all of society.

Putin is testing NATO. It should respond. fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-night-...

Putin just crossed a NATO red line. What will NATO -- and the Trump administration -- do now? fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-night-...

Hey, Florida insurers, here's the cost of polio. (Try all other diseases preventable with vaccines.)

When the employment statistics started to look bad, Trump fired the economist in charge of measuring them. He blamed her. Now the numbers look much worse. fridainsight.substack.com/p/trump-emul...

While Trump plays self-serving games with foreign policy and the military, China is laser focused in overtaking the US. (My latest) fridainsight.substack.com/p/can-us-pre...

While Trump plays self-serving games with foreign policy and the military, China is laser focused in overtaking the US. (My latest) fridainsight.substack.com/p/can-us-pre...

The reason we spent our vacation in Belgium was to participate in the ceremony in Belsele honoring Adriana Spitaels, the woman who saved my father and uncle's lives during the war, with a stolpersteine, or "stumbling block."

In barring Trump's deployment of the military in US cities, Judge Charles Breyer wrote that Trump appears intent on "creating a national police force with the President as its chief." www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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Tensions between Tibet’s Dalai Lama and China’s Xi Jinping are rising. fridainsight.substack.com/p/xis-surpri...

Who is the man Trump wants to send to India as US ambassador? fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-myster...

From every living former director of CDC: We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Tensions between Tibet’s Dalai Lama and China’s Xi Jinping are rising. fridainsight.substack.com/p/xis-surpri...

Tibet and China are heading for a crisis. China's hold on a region that already chafes under Beijing's grip is about to grow tighter. fridainsight.substack.com/p/xis-surpri...

Tibet and China are heading for a crisis. China's hold on a region that already chafes under Beijing's grip is about to grow tighter. fridainsight.substack.com/p/xis-surpri...

From the CDC to the CIA, the Trump administration is tossing out the world’s top experts and replacing them with unqualified, servile followers. This will not end well. fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-myster...

She's absolutely right. Russia's frozen assets should be used to pay for rebuilding of Ukraine and compensation for the victims of Russian attacks

Here's the full letter of resignation from Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis. He was Director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

If Trump had even a passing interest in the well being of the American people, he would fire RFK Jr. Kennedy’s deranged ideas should go back where they belong, to the laughable fringe, where fools rant about wild conspiracies.

So many people will die because a gullible quack, RFK, was put in charge of US public health, HHS, by a reckless Trump.

Firing the experts and replacing them with ideologues, yes-men, and people who lie about their past. What could possibly go wrong? fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-myster...

From the CDC to the CIA, the Trump administration is tossing out the world’s top experts and replacing them with unqualified, servile followers. This will not end well. fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-myster...

From the resignation letter of Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC

CDC leaders, resigning from their jobs, say RFK Jr. undermined vaccine science, risking lives www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"The first red flag was that he, the person in charge of vetting government officials, refused to be vetted himself."

Tensions between Beijing and the Tibetan people are rising ahead of a looming confrontation over the Dalai Lama’s succession, @fridaghitis.bsky.social writes.

Gor had a hand in selecting Darren Beatty, fired earlier for attending a white supremacist meet, as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy. When the State Dept closed the agency tackling disinformation from Russia, it was Beatty who made it happen. fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-myster...