Donna Oglesby

"The director won’t protect even our most respected analysts when they tell hard truths, so they stopped telling them and learned to avoid topics the White House didn’t want to hear,” newly retired CIA official tells @shaneharris.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Susan Collins is falsely claiming she's won tariff exemptions, and media outlets are letting her get away with it. In fact, the admin is swapping some 50% tariffs for other 50% tariffs, as they did when they swapped out road salt. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

And then the Russian company, presented with the evidence we had gathered, acknowledged in a statement: Yes, we are moving to take a large stake in the Polar LNG project in Alaska. Story was nailed. A bit hard to follow with all the names. But this is confirmation. Had not been previously disclosed.

Most surprising moment of this reporting effort was when we pressed the Russian energy company to concede it was financing a US gas project in Alaska, which has promoted itself as a patriotic push toward U.S. energy dominance.....

Overall, we are seeing some very odd deal talks that are supposedly a part of ending the war in Ukraine. But in fact evidence shows these deals are structured (in the most recent case secretly until now) to financially benefit Russia or business partners of the Trump and Witkoff families.

And Anton has separately written with Jim Tankersley our NYT colleague based in Berlin a piece about talks with Putin to push Europe to start buying Russian gas again--a proposal that would turn years of American energy policy upside-down www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/u...

This new report today with my NYT colleague Anton Troianovski follows up on our earlier reporting this month on the Lukoil deal that would bring financial benefits to business partners of the Witkoff and Trump families. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

This. This. This.

Jack Smith emerges as a surprise witness who could expose evidence in Trump’s lawsuit. The BBC subpoenaed Smith for a deposition as part of its defense, according to court documents filed today. The BBC knows how to fight. www.newsweek.com/bbc-wants-ja...

Repugnant

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Is META making editorial choices? So they are responsible for the content they carry?

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

25th Amendment now.

Impeach.

She appeared. She disappeared. Awkward Spokesman Splat for another MAGA Girl. BRUTAL BEAUTY indeed.

If reports of an end to intelligence sharing and Starlink access limits are confirmed, then the Trump admin has started helping Russia’s war effort. This a more harmful act against Ukraine than all the silly Witkoff/Kushner plans/trips put together. The US is trying to force Ukraine to surrender.

Hatch Act. She is a USG employee.

I suspect it’s her reported drinking/substance abuse, late night partying in Athens and public dishevelment rather than the grift.

MAGA girls are disposable. You could add Leavitt, MTG, Nancy Mace.

Name the companies and fine them for unlawful destruction of government property.

Impeachment is available.

All soldiers should. The act would be an abomination.

There goes the Noble Peace prize.

Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register

Happy to be a supporter of this superb organization.

Reprehensible

The $5k election bribes, taxpayer-funded campaign ads, and Medicare “rebates” are all forms of election interference, btw. The efforts to abuse the power of federal government to tilt the election in his favor are underway. Refuse the offer.

There is more to drop on this story. What the Times does not mention is that Salus, the company that got an almost $1 billion no bid contract was also telling other contractors it could secure them govt contracts - if they were willing to hand tens of millions to her boyfriend, Corey Lewandowski.

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

Good grief.

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

It would never have occurred to a GOP senator that women have basketball worth watching. Fools.

Unhappy with the Donald Trump’s Iran war? Inflation? Rising interest rates? Spiking fuel prices? Then cast your vote.

NEW: Director of White House Press Operations states in a declaration that access was restored and press passes available before 10 a.m. after a brief process of locating physical passes and restoring access this morning. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the administration response is just a mealy contradiction saying we have complied and press passes were made available. The timing doesn't quite compute but the take is going to be just a misunderstanding all is well etc. So more to try to figure out what SNAFU happened but immediate crisis over

Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt. Hollywood couldn't write this in a script.

Excellent interview

True.

The WH Press Corp should leave now.

'The U.S. has probably used between one-half and two-thirds of its inventory of certain interceptors since June 2025, spanning both conflicts; rebuilding those inventories would probably take at least five years' says the Congressional Budget Office breakingdefense.com/2026/09/iran...

Nothing to see here — just the president’s son’s wedding being funded by a Putin ally.

This story should matter. A Trump needs Russian financial support to get married. Seriously.

Reminder: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen in 3 months.

A sharp contrast to the White House accelerationist stance. Donald Trump recently told reporters he didn’t have “any” concerns about AI's risks — just about falling behind to competitors like China. He said those who oppose AI data centers must prefer to be “backwards and poor.”