Lawyer. Mediator. Actor. Skeptic. Author of "Bullspotting: Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation” (amzn.to/2F1lI2c).
Joined January 2009
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31 Oct 2019
For Halloween, I got my Dad to join me in a little #GravityFalls cosplay.
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New Georgia Rep. Clay Fuller tweeted out a realistic A.I.-generated fake picture of the state’s two Senators, with no A.I. disclaimer.
Jun 12
Is the AJC running a protection racket for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock?
Georgia voters deserve to know where their Senators stand on having a colleague with a Nazi tattoo and domestic abuse allegations!
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May 28
America’s 250th anniversary is supposed to celebrate the rejection of kings. Putting a living president’s face on a vanity $250 bill is exactly the kind of cult nonsense the Founders despised.
Breaking news: Trump administration officials have pressed the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design a $250 bill featuring the president’s portrait, in what would be the first appearance of a living person on U.S. currency in more than 150 years. wapo.st/4dQNsGj
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Apr 27
I’m tired of all the conspiracy theories that Trump staged the White House Correspondents Dinner shooting to justify building his ballroom.
When it should be clear that he staged it to avoid the embarrassment of giving his ‘funny’ speech and the room not laughing at his ‘jokes’.
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Apr 25
In one graphic, Donald Trump reminds us he’s always a liar and a con man.
A liar because both images are the SAME photo, which was uploaded to Wikipedia in *2005*.
And a con man because both images are doctored, with the “Obama” one made dirtier and the “Trump” one tinted blue.
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Clip 1: RFK JR cites a study.
Clip 2: RFK JR cites another study.
Clip 3: Cassidy finds the first study and suggests the study contradicts RFK JR’s claim.
Clip 4: Cassidy finds the second study and points out the study was published before the vaccine came out.
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Apr 22
Look, obviously RFK and Trump are both idiots, and this shows it.
Still, it’s so disappointing that RFK can drop this absurd statement, but Warren is so wedded to her script that she can’t pause to follow up and draw attention to how ridiculous it is.
Apr 22
RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."
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Apr 14
A curious thing about the Georgia SEB’s 2024 subpoena for Fulton County’s 2020 election records…
It didn’t ask that the records be produced to their office. Or to the chair. Or to the executive director.
No, it said all records should be sent to Janice Johnston *specifically*.
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Apr 14
In December 2025, Judge McBurney denied Fulton’s motion to quash the 2024 SEB subpoena, though he later issued an order staying the case due to the federal seizure of Fulton’s records.
In his December order, there is no mention of Johnston or her email.
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Apr 14
Finally, because in the course of writing I forgot it was semi-redacted, the “jjohnstonmd” email is short for jjohnstonmd.seb@gmail.com, the email address Johnston had at the time.
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Apr 7
I often find myself thinking about the villain in Tenet, a rich and powerful man who’s dying and is so obsessed with his own narcissistic control of others that he’d rather destroy the world than forfeit one ounce of his influence over it. No reason why that’s on my mind lately.
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Ok. Here we go
Ari, you know better than this. You’ve been inside the room. You understand how alliances actually function, not just how they’re talked about on cable hits.
NATO was never meaningfully consulted here. Not brought in as partners. Not treated as allies whose buy-in mattered. Instead, for years they’ve been publicly dressed down, threatened, and told outright that they’re on their own. When the President of the United States repeatedly questions the value of the alliance, floats walking away from Article 5, and even talks about things like taking Greenland, you don’t get trust—you get hedging.
So now there’s a major war raging on their own continent, and those countries are being asked to stretch even thinner for an operation they had no role in shaping, led by a president who has made clear he views alliances as transactional at best and disposable at worst. Of course they’re cautious. Of course they’re calculating risk. And yes—of course they’re worried they’ll be left holding the bag when Trump inevitably changes course or loses interest.
That’s not freeloading. That’s rational behavior in response to uncertainty we created.
You’re right that some European countries have underinvested in defense. That’s been true for years, and many have started correcting it—especially since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But let’s not pretend this moment exists in a vacuum. Trust is cumulative. And it’s been burned down repeatedly.
And the idea that this is about “refusing to help the U.S. rid the world of Iran” ignores the bigger strategic picture. European nations are dealing with an active land war, energy insecurity, domestic political strain, and the very real possibility that U.S. commitments to NATO could evaporate overnight. You don’t expand commitments under those conditions—you consolidate.
You know this, Ari. And I think you know why this argument doesn’t hold up.
But somewhere along the way, you traded that understanding for applause lines. You’ve sold yourself at the altar of popularity instead of leveling with people about the complexity here.
Alliances aren’t maintained by ultimatums and public humiliation. They’re maintained by trust, consultation, and consistency. We’ve offered too little of that lately—and now we’re seeing the result.
Apr 5
My message here clearly struck a nerve. A few friends from when I was press secretary, domestically and abroad, don’t like what I said. Instead of seeing how Western European nations must change, they just want to attack Trump.
The reason it struck a nerve is because they recognize that this time NATO nations are being held to account. They know they’ve come up short for decades and by denying us overflight rights, they’ve gone too far. Americans are fed up, especially with France and Spain. Trump won’t stand for it and they know it. They now fear the consequences of their inaction.
The UK, unlike its days under Thatcher or Blair, is wishy-washy. They’ve often been a good allie, but this time they want to sit it out and have it both ways. We can use their bases, but only for limited operations. At least the UK spends real money on defense.
France, Spain, and Italy are another story. So too is Canada. None of these four contribute seriously to NATO. They’re laggards, trying to get away with it. Spain and France force our pilots to fly thousands of miles out of the way (I thought they didn’t like carbon footprints) en route to Iran.
Eastern Europe is a different story. They spend more on defense and they understand power. They lived under Soviet domination and recognize weakness when they see it. They won’t be weak.
Western European governments, especially France, are good at issuing communiques and statements. They enjoy hosting conferences. They love to ponder deeply. Getting them to act is another matter, unless it’s to purchase Russian LNG, which they still do.
The world is changing. Out of this war will come a new group of younger nations that understand real power and the importance of strength. The UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Eastern Europe will emerge stronger than ever. Western Europe will continue to fall behind.
As for Trump, you don’t have to like him. He often says things none of his predecessors would say. But don’t underestimate the fact that US taxpayers are fed up with nations that don’t pull their weight, and then force our pilots to take risks and longer flights so we can rid the world from the menace that is Iran.
Today’s Western European leaders would rather mollify Iran and pay them ransoms (trade) than support the US.
Things are different today. We all know it.
The UK, France, Spain and Italy (despite its Prime Minister) have earned the consequences that will unfold.
They could have and should have supported us. Not as a NATO alliance. But as individual free nations.
All we wanted was overflight rights and full access to airfields.
They’ve made their choices. Soon, they’ll see the results.
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