John Sipher
@johnsipher.bsky.social
Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere.
Of course, It’s not safe to share your banking instructions electronically.
Russians say that Kushner may come to Moscow with Witkoff to meet with Putin. Figure out.
Republican Congressman Don Bacon slammed U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff. “If he were a paid Russian agent, would he be doing anything differently? He must be removed.” Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick added, “These secret side shows need to end. Let Secretary Rubio handle this with fairness and objectivity.”
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Of course, It’s not safe to share your banking instructions electronically.
Where were these people before MAGA?
A friend has alerted me to this pressing and very real international incident involving the very sane Candace Owens.
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Where were these people before MAGA?
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"Our mission is Candace Owens"
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"Our mission is Candace Owens"
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Apparently it’s a crime to remind military members to follow the law and refuse illegal orders (something that it is ingrained in basic) and the pentagon can recall you into the service to discipline you. However, the pentagon will not prosecute you for dodging the draft five times.
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Apparently it’s a crime to remind military members to follow the law and refuse illegal orders (something that it is ingrained in basic) and the pentagon can recall you into the service to discipline you. However, the pentagon will not prosecute you for dodging the draft five times.
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If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?
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This epic takedown of Trump’s entire cabinet by Jen Psaki would be funny if millions of lives weren’t hanging in the balance because of his no good, incompetent, unqualified, reckless, corrupt, unserious, and flat out dangerous picks.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
This epic takedown of Trump’s entire cabinet by Jen Psaki would be funny if millions of lives weren’t hanging in the balance because of his no good, incompetent, unqualified, reckless, corrupt, unserious, and flat out dangerous picks.
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Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.
Trump’s Retribution Push Has Expanded Even as It Hits Legal Barriers
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
theins.press
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
“The Insider can reveal that the document contains specific language that appeared almost exactly word-for-word in an earlier text — one drafted solely by Dmitriev not long after Trump’s second inauguration.”
theins.ru/en/politics/...
theins.ru/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
theins.ru
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“The Insider can reveal that the document contains specific language that appeared almost exactly word-for-word in an earlier text — one drafted solely by Dmitriev not long after Trump’s second inauguration.”
theins.ru/en/politics/...
theins.ru/en/politics/...
Because he wants to skim money from the process.
1/5 Why do we still allow Trump to negotiate on the war in Ukraine?
The US does not fund Ukraine. Trump and his team are compromised by Russia.
Europe pays the bills, yet Trump sits at the table.
There is zero reason for him and his team of traitors to be involved
The US does not fund Ukraine. Trump and his team are compromised by Russia.
Europe pays the bills, yet Trump sits at the table.
There is zero reason for him and his team of traitors to be involved
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Because he wants to skim money from the process.
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1/5 Why do we still allow Trump to negotiate on the war in Ukraine?
The US does not fund Ukraine. Trump and his team are compromised by Russia.
Europe pays the bills, yet Trump sits at the table.
There is zero reason for him and his team of traitors to be involved
The US does not fund Ukraine. Trump and his team are compromised by Russia.
Europe pays the bills, yet Trump sits at the table.
There is zero reason for him and his team of traitors to be involved
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
1/5 Why do we still allow Trump to negotiate on the war in Ukraine?
The US does not fund Ukraine. Trump and his team are compromised by Russia.
Europe pays the bills, yet Trump sits at the table.
There is zero reason for him and his team of traitors to be involved
The US does not fund Ukraine. Trump and his team are compromised by Russia.
Europe pays the bills, yet Trump sits at the table.
There is zero reason for him and his team of traitors to be involved
I knew there were awful people, and I knew there were stupid people. I didn’t know there were so many who were both, and glad to advertise it publicly.
Fox is now claiming that Rep. Slotkin is a CIA asset in a “destabilization op,” controlled by “deep state handlers,” because she reminded service members to follow the law. They even suggest she’s unwitting of her own “mission,”
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I knew there were awful people, and I knew there were stupid people. I didn’t know there were so many who were both, and glad to advertise it publicly.
Real pros.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Real pros.
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Tom Friedman’s piece in the NYT today again brings up the specter of Neville Chamberlain in ‘39. I disagree.
A better analogy is saying to Hitler: “keep the Sudetenland, don’t worry about the Holocaust, & we’ll give you a few years to rearm to attack into Belgium again. Let’s sign that!”
A better analogy is saying to Hitler: “keep the Sudetenland, don’t worry about the Holocaust, & we’ll give you a few years to rearm to attack into Belgium again. Let’s sign that!”
@nicollewallace.bsky.social @mcfaulmike.bsky.social @benrhodes.bsky.social @markhertling.bsky.social have we lost all ability to put oneself in someone else’s shoes? If not, then why is this hard? We’d never consider a proposal like the one we/Putin (gross) offered Ukraine
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Tom Friedman’s piece in the NYT today again brings up the specter of Neville Chamberlain in ‘39. I disagree.
A better analogy is saying to Hitler: “keep the Sudetenland, don’t worry about the Holocaust, & we’ll give you a few years to rearm to attack into Belgium again. Let’s sign that!”
A better analogy is saying to Hitler: “keep the Sudetenland, don’t worry about the Holocaust, & we’ll give you a few years to rearm to attack into Belgium again. Let’s sign that!”
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Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.
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Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
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In a leaked call Xi Jinping connected with Trump last night. Xi told Trump 2 things
1. There are NO deals with China
2. China will invade & and take Taiwan
Xi is not asking. He is telling the weakest president in history what the US is going to do. NOTHING
Xi feared Biden but knows Trump is a joke
1. There are NO deals with China
2. China will invade & and take Taiwan
Xi is not asking. He is telling the weakest president in history what the US is going to do. NOTHING
Xi feared Biden but knows Trump is a joke
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
In a leaked call Xi Jinping connected with Trump last night. Xi told Trump 2 things
1. There are NO deals with China
2. China will invade & and take Taiwan
Xi is not asking. He is telling the weakest president in history what the US is going to do. NOTHING
Xi feared Biden but knows Trump is a joke
1. There are NO deals with China
2. China will invade & and take Taiwan
Xi is not asking. He is telling the weakest president in history what the US is going to do. NOTHING
Xi feared Biden but knows Trump is a joke
“Ukraine does not need more plans. It needs partners who understand the enemy we are fighting and who understand that real peace comes only when aggression is defeated, not rewarded.”
londonlovesbusiness.com/the-28-point...
londonlovesbusiness.com/the-28-point...
The 28-point 'Peace Plan': A crisis of trust, influence and strategic delusion - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Explore the implications of The 28-point 'Peace Plan' and its links to Russian proposals amid a political earthquake.
londonlovesbusiness.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“Ukraine does not need more plans. It needs partners who understand the enemy we are fighting and who understand that real peace comes only when aggression is defeated, not rewarded.”
londonlovesbusiness.com/the-28-point...
londonlovesbusiness.com/the-28-point...
“There is no agreement that can restrain a man whose aim is the elimination of Ukrainian statehood. And there is no “ceasefire” that will be honoured by a regime that interprets weakness not as an invitation to compromise, but as an invitation to strike.”
londonlovesbusiness.com/the-28-point...
londonlovesbusiness.com/the-28-point...
The 28-point 'Peace Plan': A crisis of trust, influence and strategic delusion - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Explore the implications of The 28-point 'Peace Plan' and its links to Russian proposals amid a political earthquake.
londonlovesbusiness.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“There is no agreement that can restrain a man whose aim is the elimination of Ukrainian statehood. And there is no “ceasefire” that will be honoured by a regime that interprets weakness not as an invitation to compromise, but as an invitation to strike.”
londonlovesbusiness.com/the-28-point...
londonlovesbusiness.com/the-28-point...
“Putin’s aims have never shifted because they are ideological, not tactical. He wants subjugation, not compromise. He wants Kyiv, not coexistence…These are not negotiable objectives. And yet Europe and the US continue to behave as though they are.”
londonlovesbusiness.com/the-28-point...
londonlovesbusiness.com/the-28-point...
The 28-point 'Peace Plan': A crisis of trust, influence and strategic delusion - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Explore the implications of The 28-point 'Peace Plan' and its links to Russian proposals amid a political earthquake.
londonlovesbusiness.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“Putin’s aims have never shifted because they are ideological, not tactical. He wants subjugation, not compromise. He wants Kyiv, not coexistence…These are not negotiable objectives. And yet Europe and the US continue to behave as though they are.”
londonlovesbusiness.com/the-28-point...
londonlovesbusiness.com/the-28-point...
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The question answers itself.
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The question answers itself.
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To anyone who thinks it’s an “exaggeration” that the rule of law is in danger…
U.S. Senator Mark Kelly is being investigated for the “crime” of telling people not to commit crimes.
We’ve fallen far.
U.S. Senator Mark Kelly is being investigated for the “crime” of telling people not to commit crimes.
We’ve fallen far.
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
To anyone who thinks it’s an “exaggeration” that the rule of law is in danger…
U.S. Senator Mark Kelly is being investigated for the “crime” of telling people not to commit crimes.
We’ve fallen far.
U.S. Senator Mark Kelly is being investigated for the “crime” of telling people not to commit crimes.
We’ve fallen far.