one of these takes way less work than the other, making it inherently attractive under the working conditions of modern journalism

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken performs“Rocking to the Free World” in a bar in Kyiv. // video by CSPAN

I spoke to Harper extensively—as well as the FBI agents and federal prosecutors who worked the case—for my “Spy Valley” podcast:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spy…

A story well told by Zach Dorfman

A pot shop in my neighborhood is selling a strain called “MK Ultra” lol

The era of commercially accessible facial recognition is really gonna mean the end of Clark Kent’s cover

Landmark investigative reporting here on systematic IDF failures in the years, months, and days before October 7th.

haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate who has marketed himself to voters as a younger, healthier alternative to the two major contenders, contracted a parasitic worm that got into his brain years ago and ate a portion of it before dying, his campaign said

Absolutely hall of fame lede here. Every word is perfect. Babe Ruth pointing to the bleachers.

washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Microsoft created an air-gapped ChatGPT for spies to use. Most generative AIs use the cloud, but US intel community wanted ability to run queries on classified info and not have it leak to the cloud or get hacked. 'it’s on a special network that’s only accessible by the US

'I had a bad experience with Bibi. And it had to do with Soleimani... [Bibi] dropped out just before the attack. And I said, “What's that all about?” b/c that was going to be a joint and all of a sudden, we were told that Israel was not doing it. And I was not happy about that.'

Just saw a man run down an escalator going up, not catch a train going in Largo direction than jump onto the tracks, go across and attach himself onto a train going in Ashburn direction and the train left the station with him hanging on to it Metro Forward What in spy movie is this?

Begging people to read one—one—book covering the history of Jewish emigration to Israel, which countries those people came from, and why. Honestly, even a Wikipedia article would do. To the Iraqis, Yemenis, Moroccans, etc in Israel, this discourse must seem absurd.

House Intel Committee releases interim report on CIA's handling of sexual assault & harassment, finding the agency 'failed' to handle such allegations among its workforce 'in the professional and uniform manner that such sensitive allegations warrant.'
intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…

Johnson went from being a backbencher to a member of the Gang of 4. He’s gone from 0 real intel awareness to mainlining the strongest stuff—covert actions, ultrasensitive collection programs, exquisite source reporting. Some of that has shaken him, and he’s said as much publicly.

This sort of joint statement is light years away from the state of HPSCI in, say, 2017

This is the exact opposite of harassment. Seen in the wild, it is called “doing journalism”

Some famous professor in Geneva, New York wrote an article, duly published by Verso, as to why killing civilians is great & how she was so excited about 10/7.

What else is new? For these bored folks, we, the people of Middle East, only exist as subjects of their fantasies