Interesting article about how the Trump administration's security advisors' mobile numbers, emails, and passwords can be found in commercial databases and publicly available leaks. My question is, why does Pete Hegseth have a Russian email address?

This is a great piece by John Sipher on the issues involving the Hunter Biden story and the letter by NatSec professionals alerting of eventual Russian Interference open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

"The Republican reflex was apparently to assume that our letter was a partisan political stunt. They never seemed to consider that we might have meant what we said." New from John Sipher, who signed the Hunter Biden laptop letter in October 2020: thebulwark.com/p/trump-still-…

BREAKING: In order to avoid tariffs, we will begin shipping from Kursk

How’s this bet turning out so far

Dear Ukraine I’m sorry this was presented to you. This is insane and @potus and little Marco are the worst negotiators in the planet. keep killing Russians for a better deal

There’s always a video, a tweet, something on record to show the total ethical and moral collapse of the GOP. It’s sad, infuriating, gob smacking, but ultimately a lesson in cowardice, fear and the triumph of pure selfishness. History will not be kind.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce a Russian journalist, Leonid Ragozin (Leonid Ragozin). He’s best-known for posing as a Russian dissident, while at the same time sneakily promoting the Kremlin’s narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War. 1/20

New York Post yesterday: Witkoff is a fucking idiot, everyone agrees. White House today: Let's maybe make him National Security Adviser.

In today’s 350th Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce an American comedian and podcaster, Dave Smith (Dave Smith). He’s best-known for his numerous appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience and for his unhinged takes on the Russo-Ukrainian War. 1/22

The collab you didn’t know you needed… 🤩 R.E.M. is dropping a remix — “Radio Free Europe 2025” — in tribute to RFE/RL, at a time when our funding is unstable. Out now on a 5-track benefit EP. 🎧Pre-order the vinyl — all proceeds support RFE/RL: ffm.to/remrfe2025

So, the latest idea is to threaten Russia with “crippling” consequences IF Putin does not agree to a ceasefire. OK, but why wait? Why are these crippling consequences not already happening after three years of outrages? Were those outrages not outrageous enough? Why is Putin

NBC reports that, shockingly, during his latest Moscow pilgrimage Witkoff met with Putin and his two negotiators alone and without his own interpreter, relying - in breach of protocol - on a locally present one. nbcnews.com/world/russia/r…. However, this seems half the problem (1/n)

NEW: We've anatomized the entire Unit 29155 hacking team, including its founder, who was previously indicted in the U.S. for cyber crimes unrelated to espionage. Here be sex, lies, and server logs, all of which we obtained. Plus a Bulgarian journalist recruited to peddle

🧵 My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life. In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously

It just struck me that while we know what Russians think of non-Russians who fought on their side in their various wars (hint: It's outright racist), but... Not even they would ever publicly dis the people who died fighting on their side. Not even the Russians would do this.

Rule No. 1: No protesting unless it's something Trump wants you to protest.

BREAKING: Trump getting ready to name a new Supreme Leader of Iran

Lol.

Was this the worst NATO Summit ever? “Well, at least it wasn’t a disaster,” a friend said when we discussed the matter. And I had to agree — it could have been much worse. For example, we might not have NATO anymore. But we still do. So, technically, yay. As usual, a couple of