“Ded Moroz is always Russian. He comes with a dagger to revive the USSR”: The Insider attends Moscow’s top New Year show for children Under the guise of a children’s fairy tale, the audience was offered a set of straightforward political messages.

After the House refused to display it, the Senate unanimously agreed to hang a plaque honoring the officers who protected the Capitol on Jan. 6. It only took five years. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Wisconsin teen accused of killing parents to fund plot to assassinate Trump pleads guilty to homicide www.cbsnews.com/news/nikita-...

Feed: "Irregular Warfare Initiative" By: Frank Hoffman on Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Chinese intelligence hacked email systems of US congressional committee staff – FT: ‘as part of a massive cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon.’ ‘US telecom groups have done little to protect themselves from Salt Typhoon because of the huge cost involved in making networks resilient.’

I have spent more than a decade repping victims of Anomalous Health Incidents through GOP & DEM administrations. We always kept politics out of it. Now is not the time to politicize topic. Thanks to @jengriffinfnc.bsky.social for ensuring this reporting occurs. www.foxnews.com/video/638717...

Cuban intelligence has a reputation for being one of the most formidable in the Western Hem. Yet they were seemingly caught off guard by an elaborate and long-planned Maduro op, in spite of controlling Venezuela’s security. I have questions: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

www.foxnews.com/travel/us-ci... ‼️The US State Department is urging US citizens to urgently leave Russia due to high risks, - FOX News. The main threats are illegal detentions, arbitrary application of laws, terrorist acts, limited consular assistance, and the escalation of the war against Ukraine.

Russia recruiting agents inside the UK via Social Media🕵️ 🤔Are there people spying for Russia on your street? Authorities say they've uncovered covert networks, including those involving delivery drivers, press photographers, and beauticians🔗⬇️

“.. Again and again, Mr. Trump dares the system to stop him. He does so knowing that the same system that failed to hold him to account for Jan. 6 is unlikely to do so now. .. “.. In Mr. Trump’s second term, he has governed as if Jan. 6 never ended.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We're proud of the work @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social and @seandnaylor.bsky.social did on The High Side this year and want to share just a few of those stories with you:

Our scoop on the CIA Havana Syndrome victims targeted in a mysterious intimidation campaign (break-ins, etc.) after their return to the USA. We got the full story from CIA veterans, along with pics of a man they believed was tailing and photographing them: thehighside.substack.com/p/lambs-to-t...

Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

Just not sure how to respond to this. Plausible enough for a script and budget but not enough for serious news coverage. Wonder how they did their research and what the actors do to get into character? Either way I'm in, looks interesting.

'The Copenhagen Test' producers talk to Deadline about unpacking some topical issues through the eight-episode spy thriller series.

No lies detected.

⚓️ „🇷🇺 Russian submarines are secretly being deployed alongside Moscow’s best-known spy ship (YANTAR) to map critical undersea infrastructure around 🇬🇧 Britain, raising fears of potential sabotage. Defence sources have revealed that in November last year a submarine shadowed the #Yantar.“

Surveillance firm merger to expand ‘space architecture’ and use of AI for intelligence www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/de...

Officials said the error is likely be too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as critical infrastructure, telecommunications and GPS signals. n.pr/3NbOdQk

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

Swedish customs says it has boarded Russian ship in Swedish waters to conduct inspection reut.rs/4p9AfMe

US intelligence says Putin still aims to capture all of Ukraine and reclaim former Soviet territories in Europe, six sources told Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

House intelligence panel steps up probe of Havana Syndrome incidents Committee chairman hits faulty analysis, facts on foreign adversary role in suspected energy attacks www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/de...

Olivier Rioux, a 7-foot-9 center and the world's tallest teenager, recorded his first collegiate field goal in No. 23 Florida's 102-61 victory against Saint Francis.

Trump has fallen prey to a years-long Russian influence campaign that exploits his worldview, shady business instincts, and personal grievances - By @johnsipher.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m... #Ukraine #Trump #Putin

WSJ explains how FBI was able to solve Pipe Bomber case after so many years: an Agent wrote code to access T-Mobile data FBI HAD thought was corrupted. Story confirms Cole is a Trump supporter and describes Agents are pissed bc Kash and Bongino are claiming credit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Moscow's Ordinary People How the KGB relied on debunked psychology for recruiting spies at the end of the cold war. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

Raising cover-up fears, Department of War moves to weaken Havana Syndrome team www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defen...

"The Washington Examiner understands that the cross-functional team is now confident as to how Havana Syndrome is caused. "

If this is true, this is shameful. Our military and diplomats and intel community officers who have been impacted by these attacks deserve better.

Michael Weiss: The US has unsealed a California grand jury indictment exposing how Russian GRU hackers targeted critical infrastructure in the US. They hit a regional airport in Missouri, drinking water and water storage facilities in TX, PA and IN, and a meat packing facility in CA

Raising cover-up fears, Department of War moves to weaken Havana Syndrome team www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defen...

Happy to have contributed to this week's @spiegel.de cover story. www.spiegel.de/ausland/wie-...

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I guess the president just announced he recently took his latest in a series of cognitive tests, this one in front of a room full of medical personnel observing him?

It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

An important update on AHI/Havana Syndrome on the Shelagh Fogarty show with Marc Polymeropoulos. Interview starts at 2:31:00. www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...

Opinions that confirm the public's intuition that Silicon Valley leaders are evil: "legalizing US war crimes would open up a whole new market." futurism.com/future-socie...

Russia’s actions must be confronted, not negotiated around, because no peace built on stolen children can ever endure.

Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us

Gupta: Nobody takes a Montreal Cognitive Assessment with this type of frequency. Doing it as frequently as he’s doing makes no sense. I don’t know any neurologist who would recommend doing a MoCA with that type of frequency. It’s not the flex that I think he believes it is.

New at the Post, gift version: The rapid advances in hacking attacks using artificial intelligence are catching the U.S. when it has slashed cyber defense, left leadership roles vacant, and left security decisions subject to global dealmaking, current and former officials say. wapo.st/4opI4wW

Non-invasive modulation of brain activity and behavior by transcranial radio frequency stimulation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.27.691064v1

$100 for torching a van; more for planting a bomb or snapping a photo of a strategic location: Russian intelligence services have found a new, cheap, and effective way to conduct sabotage operations across Europe. They are recruiting Ukrainian children and teens online.

The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details. www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-ha...

How corruption investigations are being handled in Ukraine are a strength not a weakness and to see why you only need to compare their respect for rule of law to wanton, much more pervasive high-level corruption in Russia and the US.

Large MAGA accounts on X turn out to be registered in Asia, Africa, and Russia The irregularity came to light thanks to the new transparency feature called “About This Account,” which has since been partially disabled.

❗ Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev Kyiv has characterized the proposal as a "planned manipulation of information to influence people's thoughts and emotions."