The FBI raided Dimitri Simes's Virginia home last week. But they left Simes's unloaded pistol. “I don’t know, was this a thinly veiled hint that I should shoot myself?” Simes asked rhetorically. My latest. puck.news/our-man-in-rap…

Who will staff a President Kamala Harris's foreign policy team if she wins in November? My latest. puck.news/casting-kamala…

Russia is charging CNN's Nick Paton Walsh, Diana Butsko, and Olesya Borovik with illegally crossing the border while reporting on Ukraine's incursion into Kursk region. The FSB says it will put an international warrant out for their arrest. t.me/tass_agency/26…

"the Jewish Governor"

"On pretty much every single question about strength or toughness—and on questions where Republicans might typically lead—Harris has essentially erased Joe Biden’s deficits against Trump," writes Peter Hamby puck.news/new-poll-kamal…

Google, what is the horseshoe theory? nytimes.com/2024/08/27/us/…

"The rule of law, for which liberals like Navalny had always advocated, is the most puzzling and infuriating concept for many of these Russians to grasp: the idea that the law applies to everyone equally, even if they are on your team." My latest. puck.news/the-durov-delu…

Why the Russian opposition is wrong on Pavel Durov. My latest. puck.news/the-durov-delu…

I don't know if you guys are history buffs or

Watching all this pain and misery, I keep. coming back to one thought: Netanyahu should’ve resigned on October 7, as any decent, moral politician would have done. Instead, we’ve all been paying for his decision not to ever since.

So, so proud of Franklin Leonard, who, in addition to revolutionizing an industry (now industries), is one of the kindest, most steadfast and supportive friends a person can possibly have. nytimes.com/2024/09/04/boo…

Stuck with billions in stranded oil revenue, Russia used the rupees to secretly buy sensitive goods in India – and explored building facilities there to make them for the war effort in Ukraine. New, with John Reed जॉन रीड Chris Cook John Paul Rathbone ft.com/content/101afc…

The AI algorithm has a ways to go, clearly

Tucker Carlson's video in a Russian grocery store was apparently deemed not subtle enough for a Russian influence operation.

NEW leak: Trump's co-campaign managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles warn staff in internal email to stop talking to the press less than an hour ago, with the threat of termination. There must be a hot story in the works...

Good week to remember that RT has been thriving on TikTok for years now, regularly pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda to millions of Americans every day!

Billionaire Telegram founder Pavel Durov, now a cause célèbre among the Russian opposition following his arrest in France, isn’t quite the free speech hero he’s made out to be… Julia Ioffe explains. puck.news/is-paul-durov-…

Loved joining Kaitlan Collins to talk about the natural ideological confluence between the MAGA right and the Kremlin.