ABC-7 in Washington, DC (owned by Sinclair) is not showing Jimmy Kimmel. Let the station know you will boycott their advertisers until they lift the cloak of censorship.

MAGA crackpots update. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Kari Lake’s disdainful, arrogant, ignorant and just plain ugly statements on dismantling #VOA are breathtaking—even by Trump standards.

This is your president on drugs or whatever. “I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell,” Trump says in long, wandering UN speech.

Cranks update question: Does Trump have stock in Bayer Aspirin?

They cannot just erase facts:

www.scribd.com/document/918... Study that proves right wing nut jobs commit the majority of shootings in US.

#cancelculture update: US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence

So Trump negotiates the mass release of 5,000 Taliban fighters and agrees to end U.S. presence in Afghanistan in 14 months. Taliban then takes over Afganistan and the Bagram air base. Trump asks for the air base back. Taliban says nah. A petulant Trump threatens Afganistan. The Art of the Deal.

New in SpyWeek: Russian, Chinese Covert Actors Pump Up Kirk Conspiracies www.spytalk.co/p/new-in-spy...

All major news organizations should band together and respond to Hegseth with one word like Gen. McAuliffe when the 101st at Bastogne was surrounded: “Nuts!”

"The World of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig is an inspiring and important read. Inspiration for Wes Anderson's "Grand Budapest Hotel"

Kleptocracy Update: Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome? newrepublic.com/article/2005... via @newrepublic.com

New from SpyTalk, ICYMI: A 1940s German Memoir that Speaks to Today www.spytalk.co/p/a-1940s-ge...

A 1940s German Novel that Speaks to Today www.spytalk.co/p/a-1940s-ge...

Superb reporting here by @glennthrush.bsky.social & Alan Feuer: A ‘Broken’ Trust: F.B.I. Agents Fired by Patel Speak Out www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u... #FBIDirectorKash

NewsGuard's Reality Check, led by esteemed Co-CEOs and Co-Editors-In-Chief @StevenBrill and Gordon @crovitz , is a must-read in today's chaotic and contaminated news environment. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com?r=2hta

Here it comes: JD Vance vows retribution on liberal institutions after Charlie Kirk killing, naming Soros’s Open Society and the Ford Foundation.

ICYMI early today: New in SpyWeek: Kash Out? FBI Turmoil as Russian, Chinese Ops and Domestic Threats Escalate www.spytalk.co/p/new-in-spy...

Outgoing senior DoJ Domestic Terror lawyer Tom Brzozowski warned last month that threat level was “red,” not b/c of a terror group but increasing propensity for disgruntled Americans to act on personal grievances. Unit disbanded by Bondi. @SpyTalker www.spytalk.co/p/exclusive-... #KirkAssassination

New #SpyTalk podcast with hosts @spytalker.bsky.social & @misikoff.bsky.social #SpyTalk #MSWMedia 🕵🏼‍♀️ Guests: @drewhinshaw.bsky.social & Joe Parkinson Listen: spytalk.simplecast.com/episodes/ins...

Vance, Patel and Bongino go to Utah, take charge of Kirk investigation. What could go wrong? Live Updates: Investigators Provide Update on Hunt for Charlie Kirk’s Killer www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Another case of Republicans saying, “Oh, I didn’t vote for this!” as Trump & co. devastate critical infrastructure projects.

TACO DON: Nearly half a day after NATO ordered jet fighters to shoot down Russian drones over Polish territory, President Trump issued his first public comment, but it was a seemingly ambiguous reaction

How much is that doggy in the window? “Patel…stated that his own job depended on the removal of the agents who worked on the cases against the President, regardless of whether the agents chose to work on those cases or not,” the lawsuit states.

Dead Man Walking? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This: ‘Since returning to the White House in January, President Trump has dismantled the American government’s efforts to combat foreign disinformation. The problem is that Russia has not stopped spreading it.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/b...

TACO Don is letting this happen: Russia Unleashes Largest Drone Assault of War, Setting Government Building Ablaze www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/w...

New in SpyWeek: Run Silent, Run Deep www.spytalk.co/p/new-in-spy...

Your Weekend Listen: An Astounding Account of a Revolution Still Plaguing Us www.spytalk.co/p/your-weeke...

New #SpyTalk podcast with hosts @spytalker.bsky.social & @misikoff.bsky.social #MSWMedia #SpyTalk How the US Watched the Shah Crumble Listen: spytalk.simplecast.com/episodes/how...

DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt admitted that the government will "redact every republican" and "leave all the liberal, democratic people” on the Epstein client list. He also said Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum securithy prison as "a benefit to keep her mouth shut."

Shades of 'Gulf of America': wapo.st/4gcdrbS

The Good Ole Days when America had a REAL Leader! @barackobama.bsky.social #obama

"It's the unvarnished truth."

The long and corrupt trail of Epstein absolusions ... open.substack.com/pub/morningt...

Report: Tens of thousands of outraged active duty service members and veterans petition against Trump-MAGA plan to cut abortion care for them. 'Was my service to my country for naught?' www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Here’s a song for a sarcastic chuckle. Jesse Wells, “Join ICE.” Check out this video from this search, Jesse Wells drawing ice share.google/ejBUrCOReCGl...

Bowser’s dilemma: Fight Trump’s federal troops order and suffer relentless WH pressure & MAGA threats, or surrender to dodge insults campaign, accept welcome crime help get budget cuts restored.

Nina Burleigh at her witty and insightful best, on DJT's 'health crisis'—and ours. www.americanfreakshow.news/p/the-body-h... @ninaburleigh.bsky.social

Cruel and unusual, to say the least: apnews.com/article/immi...  3 men deported by US are held in African prison despite completing their sentences, lawyers say

Case of Saudi Ties to 9/11 Hijackers Gets New Life www.spytalk.co/p/case-of-sa...

If Trump wants to win a Nobel peace prize prize, he should go to Kviv and declare, “Я українець”—“I am a Ukrainian.”

Why are DC Police so enthusiastically embracing Trump‘s invasion of the city? www.spytalk.co/p/trumps-sec...

Close call: ‘On the runway, planes sat with engines idling, ground crews making final preparations as if departures could come at any moment — all as the courtroom battle played out hundreds of miles away in Washington.’ apnews.com/article/immi...

If you sometimes wonder, as I do, how it is that tens of millions of otherwise sensible Americans still cling to Trump’s lies and fantasies, you can start with this portrait of unprincipled MAGA “journalists” the administration has welcomed into the White House. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...