Don’t let the week get by before catching up on all the intelligence news that counts, at SpyTalk. www.spytalk.co/p/new-in-spy...

A 2019 US War Game on Venezuela Forecast Chaos After Maduro’s Downfall www.spytalk.co/p/a-2019-us-...

New #SpyTalk 🕵🏼 podcast with hosts @spytalker.bsky.social, @misikoff.bsky.social & #KarenGreenberg #MSWMedia Listen: spytalk.simplecast.com/episodes/wha...

“In making her ruling, Ellis suggested the government has inappropriately cast Chicago as dangerous and violent as a pretext for a targeted enforcement operation.”

Seems to me Democrat politicos are guilty of malpractice for letting judges carry the ball on Trump withholding SNAP and WIC payments w/o making more noise about it themselves. Shouldn't they be gathering with bullhorns at every state capital and city and town's municipal buildings? wapo.st/4hJbRyW

Ghosts of Coups Past Haunt Trump CIA's Venezuela Ops www.spytalk.co/p/ghosts-of-...

Listen to Abigail Spanberger talk about how her CIA career prepared for Congress—and the governorship. www.spytalk.co/p/can-a-form...

All I can say to those of you who live in places with important statewide elections: Cherish your vote. We don’t have anything like that in DC. Our top elected official is the mayor, who, as Trump has shown, can easily be stomped on by the White House, not to mention Republicans in Congress.

Before one more child needlessly dies by denying it vaccinations: A ‘Mountain of Garbage’ Links Vaccines to Autism www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/claim-dism...

‘[I]s there any use of force that the president’s handpicked legal authorities would find unlawful?’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

An inmate taking over the asylum: Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon

Where is the White House bunker now that the East Wing above it has been crushed and removed? White House won’t tell us. Anyone out there who can? youtube.com/shorts/1C1LZ...

Note: the FBI is on the scene of this mysterious explosion. Secret government work involved? ‘Intentional’ Explosion Took Place at Harvard Medical School, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

Pundits say the problem is that Democrats fail to represent the people—but the real problem is that our political system fails to represent the people.

Excellent case summaries and analysis of the issues and stakes by [email protected] Supreme Court Confronts Trump and His Tariffs in Test of Presidential Power www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Go Max!!! #worldseries

New #SpyTalk 🕵🏼 podcast with hosts @spytalker.bsky.social , @misikoff.bsky.social & #KarenGreenberg #MSWMedia Listen: spytalk.simplecast.com/episodes/the...

How Epstein’s money & bankers’ greed triumphed over morality at JPMorgan, even as its people raised red flags over his cash withdrawals years before his crimes were public knowledge

Trump offered to build a ballroom for Obama but “never heard back.” He could’ve built it on the South lawn, but no: he tore downThe East Wing as another act of revenge. Such a small man.

Hoo boy: So many Israeli war crimes reported that they may never be sorted out (even if there was a will do to so). Big scoop from @johnphudson.bsky.social

The skinny from Bill Bishop on Thursday’s Xi-Trump meeting: “Trump told reporters that Nvidia’s modified Blackwell chip, the B30A, will be on the agenda. This paper from the Institute for Progress (IFP) is an why approving sales of those chips is a bad idea.“ substack.com/redirect/1f3...

Can a Former Spy Make a Good Governor? www.spytalk.co/p/can-a-form...

Trump fires White House fires arts commission that was expected to review Trump construction projects

More MAGA-fication of the Pentagon: “The sooner we have the right people, the sooner we can advance the right policies. Personnel is policy,” Hegseth said last month during a speech to hundreds of generals at Marine Corps Base Quantico. wapo.st/49o11w2

Says it all: Trumpites return statue of Confederate General Albert Pike to its place near Judiciary Square in DC.—PoPville www.popville.com/2025/10/pike...

Page Turners: How Academics Played Key Roles in the Defeat of Fascism www.spytalk.co/p/page-turne...

About that new Russian missile: 'There’s not a single credible sign of a succesful test. It’s unlikely that the missile is anywhere close to being operational. It’s likely a staged photo op with the purpose of sowing fear amongst western publics."—Jacob Kaarsbro open.substack.com/pub/jacobkaa...

Well this is definitely not good: Vietnam has been secretly buying weapons from Russia. Scoop by [email protected] www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/w...

The shocking, disgusting, vile Washington Post editorial approving of Trump’s heinous, clandestine destruction of the White House East Wing doesn’t even mention that Post owner Jeff Bezos is a Trump supplicant who is donating money to his vulgar new “ballroom.” open.substack.com/pub/genewein...

New in SpyWeek: CIA & Venezuela, Russian Subs, Bolton, Putin ‘Handling’ Trump, FBI Visits www.spytalk.co/p/new-in-spy...

How Secret Agents Work to Hijack U.S. Foreign Policy www.spytalk.co/p/how-secret...

Alas, gotta root for Toronto after Trump’s bashing of Canada again today. Go Jays! #Toronto

Gringo diplomacy is back in fashion with Trump: Pentagon orders aircraft carrier to Latin America as Trump signals escalation

If you visit Washington D.C. today, or next week, or the week after that, you will see soldiers in the streets carrying rifles, and you will see a national monument, the White House, that has been vandalized by a madman”—Lucian Truscott. open.substack.com/pub/luciantr...

An Englishman and his newspaper say it out loud: Trump‘s mind is not right.

Trump Now Demolishing the Entire White House East Wing to Make Way for His Ballroom—this after specifically denying he would touch the centuries old historic treasure. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Alarm Raised Over “An American KGB” Run Out of Gabbard’s National Intelligence Office www.spytalk.co/p/alarm-rais...

It’s Tomahawks time: White House says no Putin-Trump summit anytime soon

Could rogue robots build somebody a nuclear bomb? www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Home wrecker: Trump begins demolishing East Wing facade to build his ballroom. He’d promised not to “interfere” with the existing White House structure.

Trump is the Neville Chamberlain of our time, cratering to Putin’s demand for Donbas in an exchange for an imaginary peace. In tense meeting, Trump told Zelensky to concede land, meet Putin’s demands

New in SpyWeek: Overt-Covert Venezuela Op, KGB Files on JFK, Bolton Busted, Nobel Spy? www.spytalk.co/p/new-in-spy...

Fraidy-Cat at the Pentagon “It is a truth generally acknowledged that Pete Hegseth is a muttonhead,” begins Mo Dowd. It gets better. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o... via @NYTOpinion @maureen-dowd.bsky.social

Easy-peasy: With a phone call, Putin appears to change Trump’s mind on Ukraine. Again. #TACODon

New #SpyTalk podcast with hosts @spytalker.bsky.social & @misikoff.bsky.social #MSWMedia 🕵🏼 Guest: @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social Listen: spytalk.simplecast.com/episodes/how...

Lying sacks of sh*t: 'the night before the trial, federal officials suddenly turned over two videos of the altercation that they had previously claimed didn't exist.' Woman Acquitted of Assaulting FBI Agent After 3 Grand Juries Declined To Indict www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...