This may seem overly simplistic but I think it’s kind of obvious as an adult that that you should be able to choose other adults to fuck or not fuck based on any reason you want without being scolded

If you need a podcast for your weekend, check out our latest episode looking at Vladimir Putin’s shadow fleet in Singapore. Check out the YouTube version for some video of the ships.

First Manhattan of the night has been made. Executing a tactical pivot to the fireplace next. #ChristmasEve

Yes, that important criteria in multi-billion dollar force structure decisions: is it impressively large? reassure us that ours is bigger than the other guy's? big dick energy? FFS, 🤦‍♂️ How much extra for the "roll coal" option?

Federico Varese joins Chris to explain why John le Carré understood Russia early—how oligarchs, corruption, and security services fused into a mafia state that now weaponises criminals and cybercrime abroad. Audio: pod.fo/e/36c963 YouTube: youtu.be/VfxAE8trReA

I don’t know, I think the vice president of the United States should have better things to do with his time.

For your weekend listening on @secretsandspies.bsky.social: Chris spoke to @johnsipher.bsky.social about Russian intelligence and what the West gets wrong about Putinism. 🎧 Audio: pod.fo/e/36a59d 🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/EfRdJ98XJz8

First question on KGB cognitive test is also a picture of lion, giraffe, fish & hippopotamus. They beat the shit out of you until you say the giraffe is the hippo. Explains a lot tbh.

Uh oh

Hiked out to Turkey Point Light at the head of the Chesapeake. (Aberdeen Proving Ground was making a racket across the bay.)

not releasing it will, in itself, also detract from their winning streak and make the inevitable leak of the text more of a news event.

The raging narcissism and unfathomable idiocy prevents him from grasping that this incessant North Korea shit—to say nothing of the cartoonish scale of grift and corruption—is exactly why his movement is rapidly crumbling around him.

Please Do Not Release Any More Epstein Files, They Are Not Important, by A Guy In The Epstein Files

I’m gonna need the Martha’s Vineyard farmers market vendors to be a lot meaner. Get creative with the bullying. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Podcaster couldn’t hack a real job — shocker there.

The staffing is just sooooooo bad. So bad.

This man is why there’s an Adderall shortage.

I’m so glad they put this on the networks.

Dude. Fucking breathe.

Then Stephen Miller slapped a coin down on the counter and told the photographer to “Call it.”

This look could make a Walmart cashier drop dead on the spot.

David Tuch on Harold Derber: a WWII spy who pioneered the global drug trade—and wrote the playbook still used today. Audio: pod.fo/e/3681a7 YouTube: youtu.be/dIYCKH35Y6s

Exhibit A for when this piece of shit finally croaks and everyone on Fox and Facebook starts clutching their pearls that those nasty liberals could be so cruel to speak ill of the dead.

Once you’re well into your 30s, your preferred birthday gift ends up either being some meat-smoking contraption or books. I didn’t make this rule.

I think an argument can and will be made that the rapid elite capitulation seen in the first ~6 months of this year was, politically, the worst thing that ever happened to Trump and MAGA.

Our latest: Anthony Vinci, former NGA CTO, chats with @mattfulton.net on how influence ops scale in the AI era, why economic espionage is a new battlefield, and why trust itself is becoming a target. 🎧 pod.fo/e/365bae 🎥 youtu.be/D4ZagwI5Z3o

"I could make a dating app profile and lose my virginity by dinnertime. But…” When Woke 2.0 rises from the ashes of this incredibly stupid time, mockery and ridicule for posting stuff like this need to be exercised far more stringently. We stopped mowing the grass, and here’s what we wrought.

Two U.S. soldiers, one interpreter killed in Syria, Pentagon says reut.rs/498Dhvk

And it’ll piss me off every time.

New interview: Former NGA CTO Anthony Vinci talks to @mattfulton.net about his book, The Fourth Intelligence Revolution—why AI and China are changing what “intelligence” even is, and why the coming fight is for society itself. Don’t miss it. 🎧 pod.fo/e/365bae 🎥 youtu.be/D4ZagwI5Z3o

What happens when intelligence doesn’t just target governments but whole populations? Former NGA CTO Anthony Vinci joined me on @secretsandspies.bsky.social to unpack AI, China, influence ops, and why the new battle is over trust itself. Check it out below. 🎧 pod.fo/e/365bae 🎥 youtu.be/D4ZagwI5Z3o

Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.

Weird because I thought I would pay money to Disney+ to in turn pay professional actors, writers, and tradespeople to make interesting stories that some random dipshit would not be as good at

This does actually change the entire story. Assuming it's correct, it was an entirely lawful seizure.

love to get lectured on the virtues of spartanism from the guy with the gold toilets

At it again. The official White House account ripping off a beloved holiday film in order to push cheap, xenophobic, AI-slop propaganda (slopaganda). But remember, y'all. This isn't the "war on Christmas" that they screech about over at FoxNews. That's only when The Other Side does it.

Absolutely wild story out from @shaneharris.bsky.social today. Read it at your earliest convenience. Thank you for your attention to this matter. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I cannot understate the cleansing flood that ought to come for this whole fucking department come 2029

FIFA needs to make me a medal for being brave enough to set foot in the Cherry Hill, NJ Wegman’s, Trader Joe’s, Home Depot, AND Total Wine today.

I'm still giggling about @mattfulton.net saying "don't do that" about "bio drones" and the funniest part was Operation Acoustic Kitty "no, I'm not gonna do that [...] because it's a cat!" This was a great listen. Thanks to you both!

So if Cotton found himself atop a capsized boat in the middle of the ocean, he’d just crack a beer and chill there indefinitely? Or he’d start kicking to shore while an armed drone orbits overhead?

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Here's a super-sized Espresso Martini on @secretsandspies.bsky.social for your weekend listening. We talk about CIA's connection to the tragic DC National Guard shooting, Trump’s "final” Ukraine offer, Venezuela, ISIS, Hegseth—and, yes, Russian spy pigeons. 🎧 pod.fo/e/36128f 🎥 youtu.be/yr-CKl1Z6Tk

It’ll be the funniest thing when he gets dumped once he’s no longer in government

There may be some truth to this. But if so it has profound implications for America’s ability to sustain a system under the rule of law, which depends among other things on a court’s ability to care about and recognize a difference between fiction and fact.

A kid in my first-grade class flipped out because he didn’t get a Principal’s Award one year and stomped back to the room, drew his own, and acted like he got it anyway. That kid was an asshole, even for a seven-year-old.

That went well.