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Noah Shachtman

@noahshachtman.bsky.social
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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 3h
Turns out that under Mamdani, the mayor’s office has signed off on every single deployment of the NYPD Strategic Response Group since becoming mayor, except for last week’s appearance at the UNGA protests. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Inside Mamdani’s fraught effort to rein in the NYPD unit he pledged to end
The mayor has quietly required the NYPD to seek his office’s permission before the unit conducts arrests.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 1h
Take heart, New England. At least your quarterback is playing great.
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 13h
FBI publishes video addressed to the ShinyHunters gang that hacked it. Announcing recent arrest of alleged SH leader, FBI cyber division chief says, "You know how to find us, and we know how to find you. I suggest you reach out first while the choice is still yours." www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxLN...
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FBI Announces ShinyHunters Arrest
YouTube video by FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 13h
the most telling part is schmitt *doubling down* on his name-calling and conspiracy-mongering in the face of new facts
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 15h
There's a new twist in New York's wildest real estate fight. The Saudi businessman recruited by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to buy the iconic Pierre Hotel was supposed to put down a $100 million deposit weeks ago. But the money is M.I.A. www.vanityfair.com/story/pierre...
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A New Twist in the Battle for the Billionaires’ Hotel
Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, and the King of Morocco were all approached to buy The Pierre, according to recently released documents reviewed by Vanity Fair. But it was Saudi businessman Motasem Kha...
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting response from the NASA boss, on the other site.
Not sure what you mean by America’s space program being above politics. Leadership has been politically appointed since inception, national space policy is established by the executive branch, oversight and funding come from Congress, and industry lobbies everyone extensively. I would say it has always been very political, and if you love America’s space program, being politically savvy is an asset. I have also donated $30 million to charity this year, which is also not illegal.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Everybody keeps telling me what a genius this guy is and all of his wisdom just boiled down to "But evil makes the trains run on time, right?"
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
love a good semicolon
My Trump sources say the president's worst nightmare imaginable has arrived... panicked texts and emails from GOP insiders are blowing up my phone. They're all saying the same thing: MARK HALPERIN
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You'd think running America's space program would be a position above politics. Jared Isaacman, however, has given $3 million to MAGA, Inc. since being confirmed as NASA administrator. This isn't illegal, experts tell me. But is it right?
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
after all that variety.com/2026/music/n...
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Ed Sheeran’s Concerts Canceled at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium Due to Storm
Ed Sheeran had to cancel two concert dates on his Loop Tour due to a nor’easter storm that's set to hit the East Coast.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 25/09/2026
‘Broadview Six’ prosecutor pens fiery resignation letter saying US attorney pushed for felony charges
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‘Broadview Six’ prosecutor pens fiery resignation letter saying US attorney pushed for felony charges
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a person www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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Tommy Beer @tommybeernba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Total points scored in the clutch in the playoffs over the past three seasons: Oklahoma City Thunder: 154 points Indiana Pacers: 143 Minnesota Timberwolves: 127 JALEN BRUNSON BY HIMSELF: 127 points Denver Nuggets: 119 points Boston Celtics: 87
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 23/09/2026
Gavin Newsom thank you so much
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It was billed as a way to protect all of America from missile strikes. But in the first phase, at least, the bazillion-dollar Golden Dome will focus on "deterring a strike aimed at killing U.S. leadership." aviationweek.com/defense/miss...
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Key Focus For First Golden Dome Rollout: Protect Leadership | Aviation Week
The Golden Dome air and missile defense program's first phase focuses on deterring a strike aimed at killing U.S. leadership and a limited attack by a rogue nation against the homeland.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you're a campaign finance lawyer, particularly one with expertise in the Hatch Act ... DM or hit me up on Signal? Thank you!!!!
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As someone who used to put together these sorts of lists, I know they are designed to piss people off. Still: I AM READY TO FUCKING RIOT
Josh Hart disrespect
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Eating on the subway? Always gross. Spooning up helpings of humus on the subway? Totally unacceptable
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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Emilia Rowland, Mayor Mamdani's new media chief who oversaw the City Hall influencer chat on Signal that has raised transparency concerns, is skipping today's City Council oversight hearing on the issue despite being invited, our colleague Molly Reinmann reports. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's not the cute videos. If there's one lesson other politicians can learn from Mamdani, it's this.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i think the closest analogy to 'what is going on at AI companies' is 'what was going on at JPL in the 1950s,' where communists, Satanists, swingers and adherents of a bizarre Russian Orthodox-adjacent techno-optimist microsect ended up doing a tremendous amount of important rocket science
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is there one (1) conspiracy theory this man does not believe? Like, is Bobby also looking for the lizard king's castle at the heart of Hollow Earth?!?!
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Danny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026
God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom
Kelsey D. Atherton - tweet from 2019

Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hoooo boy www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
hollywoodreporter.com
Universal Is Getting Cold Feet on Releasing the Elon Musk Documentary (Exclusive)
The Comcast-owned studio is not yet committing to rolling out Alex Gibney's movie that it paid millions to acquire for non-North American release before the political winds shifted.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"IRS sent 10 agents and three analysts to national effort to police 'anti-capitalism' and 'extremism on migration, race, and gender.'" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nsp...
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Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show
The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack...
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Maybe this a sign of something. Maybe it isn't. But the Justice Department published a "mysterious" notice as Politico put it, that people must “register as foreign agents when they act in the US at the direction or control of a foreign government [or] face civil and criminal liability. ” 🤔🤔🤔
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Well, well, well. Harold Hamm -- one of Trump's biggest backers in the energy biz -- just got a deal to explore one of Venezuela's oil fields. Hamm was previously a vocal critic of introducing Venezuelan oil onto the world market. oilprice.com/Latest-Energ... www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Harold Hamm’s Continental Resources Signs Preliminary Oil Deal in Venezuela
The company, led by one of President Trump’s closest allies in the U.S. oil industry, said it would explore one of Venezuela’s undeveloped oil fields.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"A @hellgatenyc.com analysis ... shows the police commissioner has assigned at least 17 officers with troubling histories to Community Response Teams [and] retained at least 10 officers with significant misconduct histories in leadership positions within the CRTs." hellgatenyc.com/jessica-tisc...
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Why Does Jessica Tisch Keep Stocking the NYPD's Most Problematic Unit With Problematic Cops?
An analysis of public records shows Tisch has assigned and promoted dozens of officers with troubling records to Community Response Teams.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
SCOOP: A group of staffers from the right-wing think tank, America First Policy Initiative, have been detailed to the Census Bureau, where they have access to sensitive data +contributed to a public report that bolsters conspiracy theories undermining trust in elections www.wired.com/story/a-trum...
wired.com
The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract
City: Flock enabled "nationwide lookup" despite contract requiring it to be disabled.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
some chud interviewing for patel’s FBI: “if anything the goat fucked *me*”
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At Danger Room, we used to have a recurring feature called the "MAMAs," for Most Awful Military Acronyms. This, from @laserwars.net, would fit right in.
Gr3MMLN
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

$11 billion
Fees that ticketing platforms and resellers add to live events each year, $6.8 billion from platform fees, and $4.5 billion from resale markups. [Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator]
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My first Russian disinfo campaign. Feel like I’ve made it.
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vsamsondc.bsky.social @vsamsondc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A lot has been made about his statement re: the US having weapons in orbit - rightfully so! - but this shouldn't be ignored: SBI "had moved from an initial contract to 'flight-ready hardware' in less than a year." I have a lot of questions about that! spacenews.com/u-s-has-depl...
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U.S. has deployed space-control weapons in orbit, Air Force secretary says
U.S. has deployed space-control weapons in orbit, Air Force secretary says U.S. has deployed space-control weapons in orbit, Air Force secretary says
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Perfect. Just perfect. nypost.com/2026/09/14/u...
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Bettina Trump defends letting Putin-linked Russian oligarch pay for Don Jr. wedding celebrations: ‘Fortunate to have wonderful friends’
First daughter-in-law Bettina Trump claimed Monday that a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin was acting as a “close friend” when he footed the bill for the celebration of her May …
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
Not a typo. Four thousand.
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Police Investigator Accused of Making Over 4,000 Illegal Flock Camera Searches
An employee for the Albany County Sheriff's Office was caught conducting over 4,000 unauthorized queries on five people.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Don Jr's extravagant 3-day wedding was bankrolled by Russian oligarch and Putin crony Umar Kremlev, per @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Like, I'm tempted to rewatch this episode again RIGHT NOW
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