No, it’s not a cult…

Oh fuck off

One doesn't have to squint very hard to see a bit of defensiveness about these rich guys who lead pretty soft lives and had pretty soft upbringings regarding their "manliness," and it's manifesting in ways that hurts everybody but them.

Pity the DOJ officials who have to explain that they can’t cite “The Dunning–Kruger Times” as evidence in court…

She doesn’t even say his name.

Türkmenbaşy Stadium

@shaneharris.bsky.social joins @mattfulton.net to unpack how Europe is rearming for a post-US future amid Putin’s aggression and Trump’s unpredictability. 🎧Audio: pod.fo/e/34e836 🎥YouTube: youtu.be/7SZodRyMYsc

These people are exactly as competent as we’ve always known they were.

It is *obscene* that that beast wearing the skin of a man called Elon Musk was just awarded a trillion dollar pay-package after he personally signed the death warrant of hundreds of thousands of innocents earlier this year.

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Chris, this cave was going to give us a great deal on hosting a live show…

I’m gonna chop off one of my fingers, then continue to chop off another every day that you fail to pry the knife from my hand. This will somehow hurt you far more than it’ll hurt me.

It’s like in IT when the kids realize they can defeat the murderous clown by just bullying him to death.

This is a visual angle on the destruction in Gaza that has been mostly missing: what the huge expanse of Gaza City that has received the IDF earthmover treatment actually looks like, not top-down but horizontally. The fully razed area of Shejaiya just stretches on and on—you can’t even see the…

Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one

And at the worst timing possible, too

God, this crashout would be legendary.

Wow, are we acknowledging reality for a second? Are we extricating our head from our ass—just a little bit?

This was a big interview for me, and I was really pleased how it turned out.

Can’t wait to check this one out!

“Turn the volume up” is so fucking good. Holy shit.

Crazy day for your natsec lib friends who also understand the differences between Twelver and non-Twelver Shi'a Islam.

Once more, for old times’ sake

Put your doomerism on ice for a while.

Bad night for the regime… ✌️

It won’t be the last hit.

To quote the head of the federal bureaucracy: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.”

Chinese and Russian intelligence are open to discussing it too…

If you haven’t caught this one yet — Reality Winner, the NSA linguist who leaked proof of Russian election interference in 2016, joined Chris on @secretsandspies.bsky.social for an unguarded conversation about why she did it and what it cost her. 🎧 pod.fo/e/3487b4 🎥 youtu.be/i9T0FijQDjo

My assumption is that the New York Post has better sources inside Heritage than most other press outlets. One tidbit of note: Princeton's Robert P. George, a Heritage trustee, is said to be pushing fellow board members to oust its president Kevin Roberts. Hope he succeeds.

There’s a joke that Millennial friends will just Venmo the same $20 back and forth until one of them dies.

A lot of time wasted on good articles about an announcement that was, once again, clearly just grandpa confused and yelling about stuff he doesn’t remotely understand.

This has absolutely nothing to do with readiness

What could go wrong? 🤷‍♂️

*Aragorn voice* “A Hobbit lay here…”

Don’t miss this one, folks!

Astounding levels of aggression against obviously nonthreatening nonviolent protestors and bystanders. Border Patrol and ICE are so fundamentally broken as institutions.

Wow! This looks so nice. I know it’s great we got a real estate mogul as president because this is certainly what everyone was voting for! Making America Great Again—one shitter at a time!

I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.

NEW: President Trump says he has instructed the DOD to begin testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China. It’s unclear what this means since Russia and China are not currently conducting nuclear tests and the DOD does not conduct testing for the US (it’s the DOE that does).

What if we gave the worst people in the world, the people who are just fundamentally assholes, all the power? What an experiment.

A fragile ceasefire in Gaza, a collapsed UK spy trial, and US research fueling China’s military ambitions — Chris and I unpack another tense few weeks on the latest Espresso Martini on @secretsandspies.bsky.social. Check it out! 🎧 pod.fo/e/3441b1 🎥 youtu.be/N3XqFtU7TXY

The way some of you guys are picking apart A House of Dynamite (haven’t seen it yet) is exactly why I’ll wrap myself around the axle for years doing research because I’ll be damned if you’re able to drag my stuff like that.

"The English word 'idiot' comes from the Greek word for a person who did not participate in public affairs. ... All of us have to participate. All of us are needed". - US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, July 20, 1964

The writers room has totally jumped the shark this season. Just no sense of subtlety at all.

Yeah, so this is wildly illegal—and will be another instance where everyone who thinks this is completely fine would have lost their minds beyond comprehension if literally any other president had done it. But it’s your big special guy, so it’s cool. Why even have a Congress?

Why have a Congress at all?

This exactly. Bannon knows how to get media attention and the value of a depressed opposition. Ignore him and do the opposite of what he wants.

The man never not looks like he’s on a date and suddenly got severe stomach issues.