John Sipher
@johnsipher.bsky.social
Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere.
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Trump now profits from 22 foreign developments, several tied to gov land or state-linked partners. That gives foreign officials leverage over him. Our assessment warns when executive decisions overlap with private revenue streams, democratic checks weaken.
www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
Twenty-two Trump-branded real estate projects will be developed in foreign countries during Trump’s presidency - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Over the course of Trump's second term, real estate developers will be working on developing Trump-branded projects around the globe.
www.citizensforethics.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Trump now profits from 22 foreign developments, several tied to gov land or state-linked partners. That gives foreign officials leverage over him. Our assessment warns when executive decisions overlap with private revenue streams, democratic checks weaken.
www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
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Yes, sadly it is real.
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Yes, sadly it is real.
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One more Russian war crime that will barely make the news.
The unit responsible is an openly neo-nazi unit.
So much for the ‘liberation’ and ‘denazification’ of Ukraine
The unit responsible is an openly neo-nazi unit.
So much for the ‘liberation’ and ‘denazification’ of Ukraine
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
One more Russian war crime that will barely make the news.
The unit responsible is an openly neo-nazi unit.
So much for the ‘liberation’ and ‘denazification’ of Ukraine
The unit responsible is an openly neo-nazi unit.
So much for the ‘liberation’ and ‘denazification’ of Ukraine
Trump’s story “dramatizes the overarching narrative of the MAGA movement: that globalist elites betrayed the heartland by inviting in foreign threats and the cultural corruption that comes with them.”
But it’s wrong in every way.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
But it’s wrong in every way.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
Opinion | I Am a Drug Historian. Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Trump’s story “dramatizes the overarching narrative of the MAGA movement: that globalist elites betrayed the heartland by inviting in foreign threats and the cultural corruption that comes with them.”
But it’s wrong in every way.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
But it’s wrong in every way.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
“Algorithms can optimize efficiency, but they can’t decide between competing values — the very choices that lie at the heart of democratic politics.” (gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Opinion | This Is No Way to Rule a Country
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“Algorithms can optimize efficiency, but they can’t decide between competing values — the very choices that lie at the heart of democratic politics.” (gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
“The Nobel in economic science went this year to three scholars who illuminated how innovation drives economic growth. They emphasized that this arises from immigration, from great universities, from openness to the world and to ideas.”
Trump kills growth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
Trump kills growth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
Opinion | America’s Formula for Greatness Is Under Threat
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“The Nobel in economic science went this year to three scholars who illuminated how innovation drives economic growth. They emphasized that this arises from immigration, from great universities, from openness to the world and to ideas.”
Trump kills growth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
Trump kills growth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
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So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?
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A huge amount of state resources intended to fight crime - from the FBI to state and local police to DEA agents to IRS tax enforcement - have been redeployed to immigration enforcement. It is a great time to be a criminal in America.
“Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children…have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown…hampering their pursuit of child predators…efforts to combat human smuggling and sex trafficking have languished…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
The Department of Deportation
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A huge amount of state resources intended to fight crime - from the FBI to state and local police to DEA agents to IRS tax enforcement - have been redeployed to immigration enforcement. It is a great time to be a criminal in America.
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“When I had decided to study Russia’s history and literature in college, my father warned me that our homeland was a country without a future…A new Russia had dawned, and it was a lot like the old one.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...
The World’s Greatest Feminist Experiment Was Not Where You’d Think
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“When I had decided to study Russia’s history and literature in college, my father warned me that our homeland was a country without a future…A new Russia had dawned, and it was a lot like the old one.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...
The supposed “transparent” Administration provides no evidence to support its heinous policies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The supposed “transparent” Administration provides no evidence to support its heinous policies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
“Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children…have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown…hampering their pursuit of child predators…efforts to combat human smuggling and sex trafficking have languished…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
The Department of Deportation
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children…have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown…hampering their pursuit of child predators…efforts to combat human smuggling and sex trafficking have languished…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Impressive officer. Impressive person. It’s a shame some former officers like Mark Kelton think she and others like @genmhayden.bsky.social, @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social and I are “existential threats” to the CIA, and shouldn’t criticize the Trump Administration.
Meet Sue Gordon, the former Deputy of National Intelligence who podcasts about Trump from her living room.
Meet Sue Gordon, the Former Deputy of National Intelligence Who Podcasts About Trump’s “Vice and Graft” From Her Living Room
The veteran intelligence officer and ex-Trump appointee is fighting for democracy—while she fights for her life.
www.vanityfair.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Impressive officer. Impressive person. It’s a shame some former officers like Mark Kelton think she and others like @genmhayden.bsky.social, @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social and I are “existential threats” to the CIA, and shouldn’t criticize the Trump Administration.
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No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
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I want a government that doesn’t sound like a deeply damaged, bratty boy when it communicates with citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.
November 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I want a government that doesn’t sound like a deeply damaged, bratty boy when it communicates with citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.
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I think at this point you have to think invading Greenland is back on the table.
November 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I think at this point you have to think invading Greenland is back on the table.
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So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?
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Pam Bondi will not have a license to practice law when this is all over. You can’t stay a bar member and agree to investigate only members of one political party for child sexual abuse but not members of the other. And, you can’t do it after previously saying no one else could be charged.
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Pam Bondi will not have a license to practice law when this is all over. You can’t stay a bar member and agree to investigate only members of one political party for child sexual abuse but not members of the other. And, you can’t do it after previously saying no one else could be charged.
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This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe.
Share it widely.
Share it widely.
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe.
Share it widely.
Share it widely.
Especially after said AG publicly claimed there was nothing left to investigate.
In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Especially after said AG publicly claimed there was nothing left to investigate.