Oh boy.

NEW: President Trump’s ethos is famously shaped by the 1980s - which helps explain how he is viewing the conflict with Iran A deep dive on his (surprisingly consistent) take on Tehran. And how that may be leading to mistakes in this war: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Amplified: What Happens When America Exports its Culture Wars? https://open.substack.com/pub/frankschaeffer/p/amplified-what-happens-when-america?r=1uznkl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Shooting in multiple cities around the world and talking to politicians, policy makers and top tier reporters. open.substack.com/pub/immikesh...

How I shot 20 plus interviews around the world on a small budget and who said no open.substack.com/pub/immikesh...

Marina is awesome in the doc btw

Frank Schaeffer has led an incredible life and has the kind of insight only a truly unique lived experience can bring. I was delighted to join him live on his show to talk Amplified (also available as a podcast) www.youtube.com/live/UXdLX45...

We did this with tariffs. Now we’re doing this with war. And some insiders are making a fortune off the chaos.

I was on the Irish Times ‘In the News ‘ podcast this week. First real deeper dive on Amplified so far open.spotify.com/episode/19pg...

Distract with the culture war stuff so people ignore the ACTUAL issues.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

I have an op-ed in this weekends Irish Examiner www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

President Trump attacks Iran With unclear goals and little effort made to sell the conflict to the public, Trump has launched a broad military effort that could now help define his presidency War with Iran has begun. Where does it end? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Mon. guest list: Frank Foer, David Drucker, David Ignatius, Bernie Rayno, Pablo Torre, Roger Bennett, Peter Baker, Josh Gerstein, Moses Small, Catherine Rampell, Sen. Ruben Gallego, Neal Katyal, Mike Sheridan, Sam Stein, Rep. Mike Turner, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Rep. Jason Crow, Morgan Neville

Well this Irish Times review has made my month www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

Huge thanks to the Morning Joe team and Jonathan Lemire for having me on yesterday to talk about Amplified youtu.be/iHnP1Q9XuW8

I had the opportunity to contribute to @immikesheridan.bsky.social's brilliant doc Amplified, on how US culture wars and extreme ideas are influencing Ireland. It's now available to watch on Apple TV, Amazon, and Google Play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaFJ...

Thanks to Mike Sheridan and Jo Linehan for the opportunity to appear in their new documentary, talking about Fr. Charles Coughlin and his influence in American politics.

Amplified: The Exportation of the Culture Wars will release globally, in all English speaking countries, on Feb 20. We worked incredibly hard over a period of years on this. I hope you’ll check it out youtu.be/CaFJw71Kyo4

Research from us looking at how social media platforms once again failed to take action on content inciting violence in Northern Ireland last week

Tucker Carlson is in Ireland and meeting Conor McGregor this evening. Far right American influence over Irish political discourse is only continuing to grow.

Bondi seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione is both politically performative and shortsighted. This will backfire spectacularly www.reuters.com/legal/us-pro...

I’d love to know what my friends in the UK think of this clip of Marjorie Taylor Greene and a reporter from @skynewsrss.bsky.social (shoutout to the reporter who used his question to support his colleague)