Unfortunately there is nothing the U.S. can do it about Huang. Any punitive steps could risk the ballroom.
John Sipher
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Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere. Jimothy welcome here!
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There is no tactical or strategic gain in the Kremlin’s targeting of civilians. It is just an evil regime killing as many as they can because they cannot win and get their way.
The new Congress “should try to reassure a demoralized workforce that telling the truth is safe again. The congressional intelligence committees should hear, under oath, from officers who were fired and compel the officials who fired them to explain why.” thedispatch.com/article/inte...
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How Congress Can Help Rebuild a Demoralized Intelligence Community
No! Just, no. As George Kent wrote, re Oleshky, “Pope Leo initiated an appeal on humanitarian grounds. The Russians decided to give credit instead to Melania Trump’s belated request, as part of their decades long romancing of Trump…” www.nytimes.com/2026/11/05/w...
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How Melania Trump Became a Dark-Horse Diplomat on Ukraine
A reminder that he can still achieve a lot of damage and destruction over the next two years.
“In a show of disgust over the role of “dark money” in politics, Montana voters approved a ballot measure to ban corporations, nonprofits and labor unions from doing business in the state if they had made political contributions.” www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/u...
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Across the Country, Voters Give Direct Orders to State Governments
The Republicans “made the conscious decision to follow, defend and pledge allegiance to an unstable, hateful man, and now — at long last — they’re experiencing the inevitable consequences of their inexcusable moral compromises.” (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/11/05/o...
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Opinion | MAGA Finally Gets What It Deserves (Gift Article)
Of course united24media.com/world/russia...
united24media.com
Russia Withdraws From European Anti-Torture Convention, Ending Independent Monitoring of Its Prisons
Administration attacks on government scientists creates “potentially grave consequences for the future of national defense.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/s...
www.nytimes.com
How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine
I wrote this 8 years ago and fear we ended up exactly in the wrong place. We have become the enemy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com
Convergence Is Worse Than Collusion
Hey new Congress! Maybe it’s time to make the Hatch Act a real law with teeth www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...
www.nytimes.com
Cabinet Officials on the Campaign Trail? Ethics Experts Say Some Are Breaking the Law.
Just lie back and take it www.defensenews.com/global/europ...
www.defensenews.com
Pentagon tells Europeans to cool their rhetoric on Russia, sources say
The First Lady is playing Kremlin games. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com
What You Are About to See From Oleshky, Ukraine, Is a Lie
“This is the first time ever that we have had to engage in scenario planning to safeguard against potential federal interference in elections…It seems like the federal government is now adversarial to the states.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/u...
www.nytimes.com
Election Officials Fear Trump Administration’s Interference in Midterms Voting
Of course apnews.com/article/russ...
apnews.com
Russian satellites help Iran's allies strike Saudi Arabia, data and officials say
Collusion is so yesterday www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/u...
www.nytimes.com
Trump Explores Lifting Sanctions on Russia’s Flagship Investment Fund
Trump’s “only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty…It is that cruelty, and the delight it brings them, that binds his most ardent supporters to him, in shared scorn for those they hate and fear: immigrants, black voters, feminists and treasonous white men…” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...
www.nytimes.com
Opinion | Despicable Doesn’t Begin to Cover It
Putin is destroying Russia, first and foremost.
“Trump, who has cut U.S. aid to Ukraine by 99 percent, is sending American money to the Kremlin — and therefore to a Russian war machine that the United Nations says is killing Ukrainian civilians at a ‘new horrifying level.”’ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/w...
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Ukraine’s Feeling of Moral Whiplash at the Hands of Trump