Join me at Texas Tribune Festival from Sept. 5-7, where I'll be moderating a great conversation about the erosion of church-state separations. Tickets are on sale now! festival.texastribune.org/event/651560b0…

A new DoJ indictment alleges that RT employees "covertly fund[ed] and direct[ed]" a US company with $10m in order to push pro-Russia content. The company is based in Tennessee. There is one media company based in Tennessee with the same phrase listed in the indictment...

Funny moment in the Tenet indictment: a Tenet founder, who have told Youtubers their funding is coming from a Western European businessman, emails the investor for more money. When no one responds, Tenet's founder drops the pretense and googles "time in Moscow"

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Always follow the 💵💵💵. In February 2023 Lauren Chen approached me to be a face for the new media outlet #TenetMedia. The money looked great. But I wanted to know where it was coming from. Simple question, you would think. After pushing repeatedly she gave me names

News: Blaze Media has fired Lauren Chen, who was linked to Russian influence operation semafor.com/article/09/05/…

Right on. The ‘sanewashing’ of Donald Trump:

One of Trump's most persistent lies is that tariffs are taxes on foreign countries. They are taxes paid by American consumers. So Trump is saying he's going to hike taxes on middle class consumers, who can't afford child care, to raise money to play for child care

Read this on the AR-style rifle from Tim Dickinson and think about putting this weapon of war anywhere near a disturbed 14-year-old. Just madness and we all pay the price. Again and again. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

They say the 🪗 hands are his personal lie detector

Hot off the presses

Vance: one of the worst parts of the sexual revolution is it gave women a way to get away from their abusive husbands. No, really!!!👇👇👇

HARRIS: According to FBI & local police data, violent crime was up under Trump and down under us TRUMP: You can’t cross the street in America without getting raped by a shark. Hannibal Lecter will EAT you if you cross the street NYT: Candidates offer differing visions on crime

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Great piece by Tim Dickinson and Asawin Suebsaeng rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

I sat down with Nancy Pelosi on the last day of the DNC. We talked about Biden, Trump, Harris, Walz, Netanyahu, AIPAC playing the primaries, Schumer's promise to nuke the filibuster and more... rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

The threat of a second Trump term has been soft-pedaled, laughed off, underestimated. It's time to take Trump's promises to rule as a bloody autocrat seriously. The stakes for the American experiment could hardly be higher. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

when politicians reveal themselves to be bigots believe them

How bad a scandal has to be for New York's top cop to resign that suddenly?????

Haitians are good people. Hard working people. ⁦JD Vance⁩ ⁦Donald J. Trump⁩ and ⁦Elon Musk⁩ ⁦X⁩ platform have not right to spread false claims, to lie …they don’t love immigrants and they don’t love USA, a country of immigrants.. cnn.com/2024/09/09/pol…