Dmitry Grozoubinski

"Why Politicians Lie About Trade" is now available in paperback! Get the book critical reviewers on Amazon called "Funny but not interesting" and "interesting but not funny." www.amazon.com/Why-Politici...

"I've never cared for Flávio."

If the UK and France can't or won't hold the line against a Victor Orban Secretary-General bid, they should give up their Permanent Seats on the Security Council. No shame in no longer being globally relevant, but if it really has gotten that bad it would be humiliating to keep pretending.

I'd have a bit more time for this MattyY take if I wasn't 99% sure that had the result gone the other way he be all over Twitter smugly claiming there are important lessons for leftists to learn from Lula's failure (be more conservative, do not fight for anything ever).

HalleLula! What a thing to wake up to.

I don't know what's going to happen in this Brazilian election, but imagine watching these early results as one of those Mayors that shut down bus service to screw with Lula's voters.

If I were emperor of the universe any candidate promising to balance the budget or fund expensive programs by "cutting inefficiency, waste and fraud in government" would be immediately slimed like a Nickelodean host.

GOP wasting an absolute godsent liferaft of an opportunity to lose by 14 points nationwide and then all, from the President down to the lowelist intern, from Alaska to Texas, blame it entirely on Vivek Ramaswamy.

Some thoughts on hybrid attacks, and why they're so hard for us to talk about properly. Short version: 1) they have no elegant or obvious solutions; and 2) influence ops imply that voters are influencable and may have been influenced in the past, which is an uncomfortable conversation.

Oh no, my sex boat!

Honoured & chuffed to win business journalist of the year at the London Press Club awards. Ace to be nominated alongside former colleagues including champion of women in business journalism (& the highly commended) @aarmstrongsays.bsky.social Thanks to great editors & brilliant legal team. 1/2

It's important to be able to separate legitimate concerns about genuine problems that people (often incorrectly) associate with immigration from pure gutter racism like this, which we should call out instead of lionising as vox populi.

I don't know what the sadder explanation here would be. That he's so used to Trump's "never apologise, always double down playbook" that he does it even when he knows it's a bad idea. Or that he's so marinated in the Twitter mind-melt he can't even recognise things that cross the line anymore.

How many air defense turrets can you get for the price of almost starting to build NEOM? Asking for a habibi.

A non-negligible part of the right's political success rests on the insight that something being "annoying" is a far more motivating factor for certain voters than any objective analysis of its actual impact on them would suggest it should be.

Absolutely lmao. "Small stuff messaged well doesn't matter," I dismissively declare as I watch Mamdani carried through the streets of New York as Eternal God-Emperor every time he does a TikTok live about fixing a pothole.

I did not think I had it in me to get angrier. I was wrong.

This is the techbro version of gun nuts fantacizing about whipping out their AR-15 to save a busload of cheerleaders from terrorists. "Then you'll see! Then you'll all see!"

This implies the existence of right-wing transgender witches sticking with the President, and I urgently need them in a @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social focus group.

The Lindsey Graham Act would have imposed significant new sanctions on Russia from 18 October, but allowed the President to issue waivers. He just did. To avoid screaming, I went through every provision explaining them and indicating which he waived. Spoiler: All the ones that did anything.

This story is becoming the Spiderman pointing meme if every version of Spiderman was somehow the equal-first worst person in the world.

Strategically bringing my partner coffee, baked goods, and flowers so they continue overlooking my personality and general vibe.

I know it's fashionable to be hyper cynical about American voters, but I genuinely do not believe many will accept Trump's new narrative that all the problems in their lives flow from Kyiv.

They know this is beyond the pale otherwise they'd be bragging about it on Twitter and Fox & Friends.

It's the Year of our Lord 2026 and people are still talking about "Not Poking the Bear" when it comes to Putin and the far right. I hate this idiom more than words can express, but I thought I'd write some words to express it anyway.

It's the Year of our Lord 2026 and people are still talking about "Not Poking the Bear" when it comes to Putin and the far right. I hate this idiom more than words can express, but I thought I'd write some words to express it anyway.

Going full Les Miserables because a Twitch streamer who hasn't showered since before the pandemic says Democrats could make Lara Croft and Princess Peach harder to masturbate to.

I did not ask for this gift of prophecy. Screenshot is reporting from Axios: www.axios.com/2026/10/14/u...