“Nooo, please don’t investigate and sue the shit out of me!! My blood sugar just got low one day and I thought the fascists would rule for a 1,000 years and I could make my dad proud of me by helping them control the media! Please, bro!! Just give me another studio!!” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

Opinion | David Ellison: In Defense of the Paramount-Warner Deal

The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of CNN.

nytimes.com

Loomer is still a profoundly garbage human being, no matter which foreign agent is funding her next round of plastic surgery.

Shaun Pinner@shaunpinner.bsky.social · 2w ago

I fail to see what benefit her being here has at all. So far, it seems to generate controversy while some of her posts continue to play into narratives that Russia has long sought to exploit. 🤷‍♂️

New @secretsandspies.bsky.social! Rising political violence across the West, the wild news that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was Mossad’s man in Tehran, Pickaxe Mountain, Japan’s GRU problem, and that time I got drunk on the Naval Academy superintendent’s yacht with former DCI James Woolsey. Links below.

Seems important for America to internalize this lesson, too.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w ago

There are many takeaways from this, but it does show how one monster at the top can destroy a country’s global standing in a very short time, possibly for generations.

Someone on my discover tab Photoshopped Mitch McConnell’s proof-of-life photo with Andrew Tate’s arrest outfit and then the app refreshed and I’ll never find it again.

"what was striking was not the extremity of the claims about China, but the lack of any expectation that they should result in a tougher China policy.” @beijingpalmer.bsky.social on Trump’s election interference speech

Trump’s China Threats Don’t Match His China Policy

The president’s allegations about election interference are the latest case in point.

foreignpolicy.com

Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca

Every few weeks, the same forecast: Putin's finally finished. A purge, losses in Ukraine, a grim Victory Day. But he's a resilient nemesis. On @secretsandspies.bsky.social, I asked ex-CIA station chief Sean Wiswesser why that prediction keeps failing — and who will run Russia the morning he's gone.

There’s a greater than 1% chance the FSB gets an actual pee tape or worse out of this trip. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

FBI Director Kash Patel plans Russia trip

The plans come as the U.S. and Russia have failed to come to terms on ending the war in Ukraine.

politico.com

Trump planning to deport the entire Shakira cast the minute they stop dancing

Gorgeous day on the water.

Same reason as it’s always been for everyone - it’s incredibly hard to win wars Winning active hostilities is hard Coming out ahead long term, even harder The question isn’t “why is it hard for the U.S.” The question is why we would ever believe politicians claiming this one will be different

NPR@npr.org · 3w ago

U.S. presidents have promised short, decisive wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. All have proved much more difficult than advertised and fallen far short of the political goals set at the beginning. n.pr/4yxVtJO

If the Off-Off-Broadway Reichsminister Bormann wants to go there…

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

Such a pleasure to welcome Sean Wiswesser back on @secretsandspies.bsky.social. Check out our conversation below on why, unfortunately, the rumors of Putin's impending demise are greatly exaggerated — and what games are likely to unfold in the Kremlin on the day that demise inevitably comes to pass.

Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence@secretsandspies.bsky.social · 3w ago

Every few months Putin is declared finished. Former CIA officer Sean Wiswesser explains why the West keeps misreading Russia's power, the Wagner mutiny, and what really happens when Putin is gone. Listen & watch via podcast links below 👇👇👇

Broke boy

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · 3w ago

SpaceX is now down about $1 trillion from its all-time high. Elon Musk is no longer a trillionaire. Or even a $900 billionaire. He’s closer to $800B today.

Subscribe and follow @secretsandspies.bsky.social. The Russians aren’t paying Chris and I a 100k per episode (trust), and if they tried, we’d keep a few bands to wipe our ass with and light the rest on fire.

Matt Fulton@mattfulton.net · 3w ago

Circling back here… This piece of shit — in league with his piece of shit compatriots, Benny Johnson and Dave Rubin — is well known to have been funneled up to $100k every week for a single YouTube episode wherein he’d "distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging".

Circling back here… This piece of shit — in league with his piece of shit compatriots, Benny Johnson and Dave Rubin — is well known to have been funneled up to $100k every week for a single YouTube episode wherein he’d "distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging".

Tim Pool was paid by a Russian front to create content. This is definitely the dumbest timeline…

That’ll get the spice flowing through that strait again…

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting

tl;dr: grandpa just says things

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

President Trump has said that the United States will charge a 20% fee on cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz, despite his own administration’s position that such fees violate international law. Here's what to know.

Woke up to some great news this morning. Our YouTube channel has just hit a milestone with 10,000 subscribers 🍸🍸🍸

Trekked across the Ben Franklin Bridge into Philly with my mom for its 100th anniversary today. My great-grandmother walked it on the day it opened in 1926.

Germany is reshaping its foreign intelligence service. Chris speaks with German journalist Florian Flade about sweeping BND reforms, Russia’s hybrid war, cyber operations, and the shadow of history. Links below 👇👇👇

New Espresso Martini drops tomorrow. Lots of thinking faces going on :)

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I Went to Trump’s Great American State Fair. It Was Bleaker Than I Expected. - Washingtonian

Opening day of the Freedom 250 event in DC was sparsely attended and shockingly boring.

washingtonian.com

As a strict originalist, I believe that we must take the American Constitution literally. Unless its literal meaning contradicts the opinion of a Republican president.

He’s gonna say that he can appoint Bill Pulte acting chief justice too.

NPR@npr.org · last mo.

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Mississippi law that allows election officials to count mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days after it.