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Christopher Allbritton

@christopherallbritton.com
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Founder of Back-to-Iraq.com, OG crowdfunded war correspondent, writer, editor, strategist. • www.linkedin.com/in/callbritton • christopherallbritton.com

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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly. Man. Just no. I can’t accept it.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 05/08/2026
You can't click it, enlarge it, or otherwise interact with it at all. So, consider it reviewed!
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 05/08/2026
America has the Greatest Health Care in the World® Part LXVIII: I’m doing the patient portal for PT and they just asked me to review the patient rights notice or whatever, and this is what I see when I click the link:
absurdly small document outlining patients' rights that is impossible to read.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 01/08/2026
I respect your POV. Maybe I’m in too deep in comic lore. Would never argue your own experience but you might give First Class a try and see if that is a better depiction of his backstory.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 01/08/2026
I will admit that I’ve not watched X-Men 97 so have no reference or opinion on that.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 01/08/2026
There was a whole backstory set up showing him in a camp and then the adult Erich hunting Nazis in Argentina. The whole genesis of his antipathy to non-mutants was his experience in the Holocaust. Admittedly it was kind of dropped later but it was very clearly set up and developed.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 01/08/2026
I’m not trying to be a jerk, but the entire premise was set up in that movie.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 01/08/2026
Did you not see X-Men: First Class?
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 21/07/2026
Just wanted to counter some of the negativity in the world with a story of a company doing the right thing, being responsive and being nice about it. Well done, Alamo Draft House!
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 21/07/2026
In the annals of businesses doing good work, last night I accidentally bought 7 extra tickets for the Odyssey at the DC @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social. I filed for a refund, not really expecting much. They just called me ON THE PHONE and cleared it up, no problem. And the woman was so nice.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 15/07/2026
"This initiative, it's not about artificial enhancement," he said. If you have to say it's not about artificial enhancement, it sure sounds like think T is a Super Soldier Serum.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 25/04/2026
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Kurds shut out of new US-Iran talks: a retrospective
For the largest, stateless people in the world, an exhausting deja vú.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/03/2026
For the 1st time, Iran hits Iraqi Kurdistan's Peshmerga with ballistic missiles — 6 dead, 30 wounded. The KRG has no air defenses, no seat at negotiating table, and no way to stop a war they didn't start from rolling over everything they've built. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/iraq-kurds-c...
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Iraq’s Kurds Are Caught in the Crossfire of a War They Didn’t Start
Iraqi Kurdistan, once an oasis of hard-won stability, must navigate complex security challenges stemming from the war in the Middle East.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 21/03/2026
Two holidays, one city. How wartime Eid-al-Fitr and Nowruz are seen in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. www.iranwar.news/p/what-irani...
iranwar.news
What Iranian New Year, end of Ramadan feel like as war rages
By coincidence, the Iranian New Year of Nowruz and the celebration marking the end of Ramadan, Eid-al-Fitr, arrived on the same day. Learn about how Kurds celebrate these dual milestones not far from
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 19/03/2026
Drones overhead. Airport closed. Gas fields dark. Dollar scarce. I spent an evening with Kurdish businessmen in Erbil doing the math on how long they can last. America's most reliable allies in the region are paying for a war they didn't start. New: open.substack.com/pub/irandisp...
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America’s friends in Iraq pay the price
The fighting next door to the Kurdish region of Iraq is freezing Erbil’s economy, as grounded flights, power shortages, and a dollar crunch leave business with little fiscal room to maneuver.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 08/03/2026
In the 1991 Gulf War, the US and the world condemned Saddam for burning Kuwaiti oil wells, calling it environmental warfare. The danger was profound. In 2003, US intelligence was deeply concerned about him doing it again. Now, it’s US policy.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 01/03/2026
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/02/2026
DoD to Anthropic: drop AI safeguards or lose your $200M contract. Anthropic: no. First Silicon Valley vs. Trump AI showdown, and it landed on a Friday deadline. open.substack.com/pub/trulyback/p/w…
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 13/02/2026
Should the companies building the most powerful technology in human history get to choose the people who regulate them? h̲t̲t̲p̲s̲://t̲r̲u̲l̲y̲b̲a̲c̲k̲.s̲u̲b̲s̲t̲a̲c̲k̲.c̲o̲m̲/p̲/w̲h̲y̲-a̲i̲-g̲i̲a̲n̲t̲s̲-a̲r̲e̲-b̲u̲y̲i̲n̲g̲-t̲h̲e̲-m̲i̲d̲t̲e̲r̲m̲s̲
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 12/02/2026
Alex Bores quit Palantir over its ICE contracts. Now Palantir's co-founder is spending some of those ICE profits to fund attack ads against Bores's congressional campaign because Bores wrote NY's AI safety law. trulyback.substack.com/p/why-ai-gia…
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 12/02/2026
Of the Best Picture nominees this year, I've seen F1 and Frankenstein, and they were ... fine? I am working my way through the rest as quickly as I can, but neither F-entries struck me as Best Picture material. Not horrible, not great.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 12/02/2026
The AI industry is spending more than $400 million to pick its own regulators in the 2026 midterms. Anthropic just dropped $20M on one side. OpenAI's backers have $100M on the other. More at Truly Back. Free to subscribe.
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Why AI Giants Are Buying the Midterms
The AI industry is spending more than $400 million to pick its own regulators.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 07/02/2026
If these are already archived somewhere, great. But we have to protect what we can. That is OUR data, and OUR information and OUR history. We can't let Trump become the beginning and end of American diplomatic history.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 04/02/2026
Was the lack of masks not proof enough?
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 29/01/2026
Loved contributing to this series. Thank you for the opportunity!
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 29/01/2026
The system needing reform is the same system that prevents reformers from organizing. Super pumped to publish a new essay for @niskanencenter.bsky.social on why the fourth industrial revolution resists political response… and why we should build capacity anyway.
hypertext.niskanencenter.org
The fragmentation flywheel
Why the Fourth Industrial Revolution resists political response
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 29/01/2026
When the monopolist owns the megaphone, the playbook breaks. Today, the tools we'd use to organize resistance are controlled by the forces we need to resist. We're forced onto digital terrain owned by the people we're trying to rein in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3RC...
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Andor | Luthen Rael’s Monologue | Disney+
YouTube video by Star Wars
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 29/01/2026
The Gilded Age robber barons were ruthless. They bought legislators and hired strikebreakers. But they couldn't control what farmers thought about them. Tarbell exposed Standard Oil. Sinclair's Jungle changed federal law. The media was too diffuse to control. That's no longer true.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 29/01/2026
As a journalist, I can tell you that is designed for you to ignore it in disgust, so they can then “report” that Prof. Mann “declined to comment”.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 10/12/2025
This is enraging, and you should be VERY VERY pissed off about it. But I'm happy that my lovely partner is part of the organization that did the study that revealed this shadiness!
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Instacart caught using shady algorithm to charge different prices to individual customers — in the same stores, bombshell study reveals
Groundwork, a consumer advocacy group, said Instacart’s pricing algorithm could lead to shoppers forking over an extra $1,200 on groceries each year.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 05/12/2025
Told you so… '“Yes, there is a new mayor, and there are a lot of worries, but our clients are saying, ‘We love New York,’” Naftali said. “There is no slowdown in demand.”'
bloomberg.com
Manhattan Luxury Apartment Market Surges in Month After Mamdani’s Win
Real estate brokers say there has been no slowdown in demand from wealthy buyers.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 04/12/2025
I wrote about it all:
open.substack.com
The AI Industry is Growing Up
OpenAI declares “code red,” Anthropic heads for IPO, and open-source models close the gap. The chaos of invention is giving way to the cold logic of consolidation.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 04/12/2025
but the weird one: anthropic confirmed a 11k-word "soul document" describing Claude's values is actual training data. not a prompt. training data. the values are baked in.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 04/12/2025
mistral: 675B parameter model, apache 2.0, just ... download it
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 04/12/2025
openai: "code red" internally, bought a company to monitor their own models
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 04/12/2025
anthropic: $1B revenue in 6 months, acquired Bun, $200M snowflake deal, IPO incoming
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 04/12/2025
The AI industry is growing up and honestly it's a little weird
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
"So... <long pause> ... do you make a living at that?" "Well, not in fiat currency, of course."
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
long silence...
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
If you get bored at Thanksgiving and there are people you've just met, come up with a totally made-up job when they ask you what you do. E.g., "I manage sovereign AIs that agentically run pirate anti-regime broadcasts for resistance cells around the country. I'm a thorn in the side of The Man."
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
If the Nuzzi blast radius doesn't impact both the new editor of VF and the NYT profiler, then something wrong. Holy shit.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
Both should be finished. Nuzzi corrupted journalism. Lizza commodified that corruption and let it continue for profit. She's a disgrace. He's an accomplice. (fin)
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
Nuzzi's sin is cardinal. She allegedly burned sources, colluded with a subject and betrayed confidences. Lizza's sin: He knew a journalist was committing these sins and sat on it because it benefited him to wait.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
He timed this to destroy her book and maximize his platform. Not when the PUBLIC needed to know. Not when it could have mattered. When it would drive the most clicks to his newsletter.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
Nuzzi corrupted herself. Lizza watched the corruption happen, documented it, and decided his Substack subscriptions were more important than the integrity of political journalism
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
He had a moral and professional obligation to expose this immediately. Instead, he sat on it like it was a dollops of gossip item he was saving for sweeps week.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
Every piece Nuzzi published after Lizza knew was journalism fraud. And he LET IT HAPPEN. Why? Because he was planning his big Substack reveal? He valued his newsletter drama over stopping an active corruption of the press.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
Perhaps he's got a book to promote. Or he's just driving subs. I don't know. And yes, journalism needs a business model to survive. But holding back information that a prominent journalist was actively working to elect a candidate? That's not a business plan. That's complicity.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
But here's what makes Lizza WORSE: He knew. He KNEW. And he did nothing to stop it. He let her maintain her authority and platform while knowing she was corrupted.
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Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com · 27/11/2025
(And I don't even want to get into what she's done to the image of female reporters, who have had to battle the idea that they sleep with sources. The ones I've known have been tremendous, tenacious reporters who have been truly unfairly maligned by all this. They deserve better.)
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