Dan Friedman

"The U.S. Embassy in Ulaanbaatar paid $18,715 for hotel rooms linked to an unspecified 'visit' by Secret Service agents from August 23–September 6." meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Serbia's nationalist leader Vucic followed an Orban-like course. He embraced Trump, and Trump family corruption, and sold himself to greedy MAGAs as a like-minded nationalist. Serbian is even hosting a CPAC. But he just lost in anti-corruption landslide. www.motherjones.com/politics/202....

Serbian strongman Vucic conceded to the anti-corruption "Student List" opposition. www.haaretz.com/world-news/e.... Loss for the Trumpers. Vaguely similar to Orban's fall. The nationalism and Trump/Putin coddling is bad corruption seems to have been fatal electorally.

I'm only just clocking that Rubio spelled "discreet" wrong in his public post about how Cubans could trust the CIA to help them

NEW: We obtained internal emails showing Rep. Andy Ogles’ (R-TN) lawyer emailed Ed Martin to ask DOJ to drop an investigation into Ogles’ campaign finances. DOJ did, with no public explanation. The inspector general needs to investigate why. americanoversight.org/press-releas...

The VF piece's problems may result from reliance on info from Dutch spies' hack of Russian spooks spying on Americans. That shit's confusing. Ex.: John Durham, who spent years trying to debunk the Trump Russia scandal, embarrassed himself trying to parse it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This bullshit complaint by DOJ trying to get Alaska to toss out the result of the senate election is a Stan Woodward joint, obviously. Complaint here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This cop got caught because he sued a real estate company to try to recover money he spent repairing the house he stole by impersonating a dead guy.

Racism aint cheap. taskandpurpose.com/news/hegseth...

According to Brad Lander, he has been detained by the IDF in the West Bank alongside rabbis and volunteers who were helping Palestinians with the olive harvest. This is an American citizen, a future member of Congress and a member of the Jewish diaspora www.instagram.com/p/DewMih2xoK...

The complaint cites “reporting by several outlets, including Mother Jones, which reported that a ‘major donor’ listed on Flippo’s FEC report said they had not donated anything to his campaign…” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Wait until he finds out "Florida" is Spanish.

Read @timothypmurphy.bsky.social on why he would never throw a shoe at Ken Paxton. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

animals-crushing-pumpkins season is actually so important to me. spiritually www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyVBE2hL/

Who the hell knows exactly what was going on here, but it sure sounds like there's an whole illicit economy in international corruption money sloshing around the globe. And Trump administration officials are in the middle of it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/u...

Albania’s opposition leader, recently barred from the US, made it to the GOP’s “midterm convention.”

NEW: Among the Truth Social posts we found shared by incoming White House press secretary Katie Zacharia were a seemingly pro-Putin post claiming he was fighting a “cabal” in Ukraine, and another implying Joan Rivers was killed for saying Michelle Obama had a penis. www.cnn.com/2026/10/12/p...

This NYT story shows the Talarico mental hospital claims were false. But the nut graph makes it sound like these were rumors that passively emerged from an online "Wild West of misinformation," not lies pushed by far right operatives like Nick Sortor and Carolyn Wren. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

Right-wing online influencers: We can't prove Talarico *didn't* go to a rehab in Ohio NYT: We can, we saw video proof WSJ: Speaking of, we saw video of Paxton partying at the Burj Khalifa with his girlfriend and two men under federal indictment for fraud, one of whom donated to Paxton's campaign

Huh. Apparently Katie Miller deleted this tweet that I had the foresight to screencap. Turns out I can TOO make things go viral on Xitter, even.

Speaking Kimberly Guilfoyle, it is not as widely known as it coudl be that on January 6, while the riot she helped start raged, our current Ambassador to Greece her banker to see if a $60,000 check she was expected for her speech that day had hit her account yet. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The GOP has spent >$40 million this year trying to recreate the viral “Kamala is for they/them” ad, targeting Dems in key races. 🗳️ But as one strategist told me: “The price of pronouns is zero. The price of oil, diesel, and groceries is skyrocketing.” 💰

Nick and Dan first reported on William Walters’ donation to the Noem PAC and the awarding of a shady contract A YEAR AGO. I first reported his connection to Daedalus and all of the airplane purchases for a markup in February. I first reported that the final planes were purchased under Mullin’s

this @housemajoritypac.bsky.social ad of Jay Feely going wide right is a work of art

Salus Worldwide, whose big contract helping DHS run a "self-deportation" contract we've reported on bunch, appears be out. Source familiar with Salus' contract have said that press coverage of the deal contributed to DHS leaders looking to replace Salus. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Bill Pulte said he was cracking down on fraud. Now he's firing the investigators.

It's not ideal when your top peace negotiator has a huge interest in Israel’s largest arms manufacturer. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...

FHFA's Bill Pulte claimed his effort to get Trump targets like Lisa Cook, Adam Schiff and Letitia James prosecuted over mortgage allegations was part of a "wide mortgage-fraud crackdown." Now Pulte's trying to fire the actual mortgage fraud investigators. www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/min...

“This was a miscarriage of justice, and what happened to Mr. Hearn is an outrage that should shock every American. This administration chose to pursue an unjust prosecution against Mr. Hearn."

"A candidate is not holding a very strong hand when he is arguing that the pregnant woman arrested in front of her child during his practice’s debt-collection case actually owed more than the campaign ad said she did." www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

People just want to him to stop starting dumb wars. but he's yelling about trannies.

Received a phone call this morning letting me know they started moving people from Guantanamo Bay to Somalia late last week. Working on getting in contact with them now.

Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...

We underrate how nuts it is that GOP senators act like it's a given that Smith's prosecution of Trump for a plot to steal the 2020 election was some baroque partisan conspiracy. They hid from a mob on Jan 6. But now they're trying to puzzle out how the secret plot to frame Trump was orchestrated.

It takes a lot of people to move money Congress appropriated for border security into midterm campaign spots. Wonder if anyone bothered to gin up a legal assertion this is lawful as cover. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...

It's important to give grace to people or AI agents blowing up Iranian kids.

Not subtle stuff. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/a...

It would be fun if Zuckerberg started claiming he also doesn't know his phone number. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

"A White House official disputed that the ad was political, and referred to it as a 'public service announcement.'” www.wsj.com/politics/u-s...