"Ukraine is the enemy of this country." "One of the greatest enemies of our nation right now is Ukraine." "We should apologize to Russia" Just wild, deranged material.

I am shocked, shocked to discover that the Russian state funded far-right "influencers" in the state of Tennessee and I am sure they had absolutely no idea where the money was coming from theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

LMAO we are reaching the singularity—or something

L - Mike Lee saying that Benny Johnson convinced him to start his right-wing conspiracy “Based Mike Lee” account. R - Mike Lee now claiming the Russian indictment naming Benny Johnson is a hoax, from the Based Mike Lee account.

Hilarious.

No, it's exactly the issue, Ben. When people are paying you $400k a month, which is more money than they have ever made before by far, they didn't wonder: Gee, who has that kind of money, and why are they spending it on me?

Brain. Broken.

🧵US charges former Trump 2016 campaign adviser Dimitri Simes over work for sanctioned Russian media (from The Associated Press) drip drip drip and more to come! Also his wife ⬇️ apnews.com/article/f0b0fe…

Highlighting that Trump is a serial bankruptcy artist who blew through billions of other folks’ dollars while he took “care of my own company.”

Raw nonsense. Massive tariffs will pay for everything, Trump claims, and avoids offering a detailed, sophisticated response on how he would fund childcare.

This is a for-real genuine problem: leading media reporting a version of events you wouldn't recognize if you saw or listened to it yourself. (I listened to this speech. In a million years would not have written this summary.) Please, someone from the NYT, actually engage with

open.substack.com/pub/charliesyk…

Cheney not only broke with Trump, but also with other anti-Trump conservatives who, despite their detestation of Trump —are unwilling to cross party lines and vote for Harris. She went where Chris Christie, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Pat Toomey, and other GOP mugwumps fear to

Thinking about Cheney's endorsement, try this: How thoroughly awful would the Dem nominee have to be for progressives to support a conservative Republican for POTUS? What would it take for a pro-choice progressive Democrat to endorse…. Mike Pence? open.substack.com/pub/charliesyk…

Moscow Mules

The Russians getting their money's worth.

The Justice Department claims that, in an effort to sow conflict in the U.S., Russia funneled millions of dollars to a U.S. company that paid right-wing media influencers. But the indictment is likely “only the tip of the iceberg,” Tom Nichols writes. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

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