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Author. Journalist. Editor. tinabrown.substack.com sirharrysummit.org

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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good news for everyone interested in watching my live interview Tues at 7pmET with Charles Spencer, author of an explosive new memoir about his sister, Princess Diana. We’ve added a livestream. Hope you can join us in real time! mcnallyjackson.com/event/2026-0...
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Charles Spencer & Tina Brown
McNally Jackson is an independent bookstore with five New York locations.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Check out my interview with the wildly amusing Mooch, Anthony Scaramucci, who has transformed a cameo career in Trump's first White House into a sizzling media career. tinabrown.substack.com/p/the-mooch-...
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The Mooch and Me: My Interview with Anthony Scaramucci
Check out my live interview with the mighty Mooch for the season debut of the smart person’s convener, Intelligence Squared, at London’s historic Lyceum Theatre.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There have been many howls of condemnation against Charles Spencer for publishing his memoir Swan Song; Diana, my sister, now. But when exactly would be a good moment to publish it? After the next Epstein file dump on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor? tinabrown.substack.com/p/the-spence...
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The Spencers vs. Windsors—Again
Just as King Charles and Prince William are trying to adjust to the awful new reality of constant rogue publicity from the now England-residing Sussexes, the Charles Spencer bomb went off.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Michael Moritz was there at the creation of Silicon Valley and became one of its top investors. But his new chapter is as author of superb new book “Ausländer: One family's story of escape and exile,” in which he recounts his family’s Holocaust history in lucid detail. substack.com/@tinabrown/n...
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My Video Interview with Author and Legendary Tech Investor Michael Moritz
I had a fascinating evening at Manhattan’s 92Y with Sir Michael Moritz talking about his new book Ausländer: One Family's Story of Escape and Exile, which excavates the history of his German Jewish fa...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Exclusive: the real reason Harry and Meghan are homeward bound: Meghan has a job. Read all about it on Fresh Hell! tinabrown.substack.com/p/meghan-has...
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Meghan has a Job!
Hollywood prestige tanking?
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Has Natalie Harp’s devotion to Trump morphed into something deeper than being his so-called “human printer?” tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-har...
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Trump’s Harp-throb & the Dem’s “Civil War”
Fascinating to see Senator Jon Ossoff drop the H-word in his campaign speech last weekend.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There is a new loser mood swirling around Trump, a boredom with his bloated act. Get the full take in my new Fresh Hell post. tinabrown.substack.com/p/why-trump-...
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Why Trump Loves Cheats.. and is Losing in Iran
It’s clear by now that Trump can’t bear to hear anyone clapping and not want to shove his melting face into the mix.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It’s sad for Senator Lindsey Graham that the last person he spoke to on this earth was the president who stole his soul. Read more of my take on Graham’s passing in Fresh Hell. tinabrown.substack.com/p/lindsey-gr...
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Lindsey Graham’s Exit and the King’s Capitulation
It’s sad for Senator Lindsey Graham that the last person he spoke to on this earth was the president who stole his soul.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Is there any plan, project, or engagement undertaken by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that doesn’t boil over into chaos? Read on Fresh Hell about the sturm and drang over their visit next week to the UK. tinabrown.substack.com/p/the-sussex...
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The Sussex Circus Comes to Town
Is there any plan, project, or engagement undertaken by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that doesn’t boil over into chaos?
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Are there poignant clues in what Trump’s school days were like in his response when Musk blew up their friendship? The authors recount that, after reading Musk’s posts, Trump murmured, ”They always leave me. They always do this. This is why I can’t have friends.”
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Reading Regime Change, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's new book on Trump, there are times I wondered how the hell these two NYT scribes got such amazing blow-by-blow dish, unless they were hiding under the Resolute desk. Full take in Fresh Hell: tinabrown.substack.com/p/regime-cha...
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Regime Change: The Big Beautiful Beach Read
As many as 30,000 English language books have been written about Donald Trump since he first eyed the White House in 2016, but only one has managed to weave together his maniacal haphazard decision-ma...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
After the Trump colosseum’s UFC concussion fest, comes the opening of Barack Tutankhamun Obama’s presidential pyramid, that rises from Chicago’s South Side like a forbidding, sightless shrine to his mighty aloof self. tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-rom...
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Trump’s Roman Games/Obama’s Shrine to Himself
How did the 250th anniversary of America become a celebration so devoid of ideas?
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It’s not Trump’s politics that CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss  seems to be pushing on 60 Minutes, it’s the mirroring of Trump’s worship of chaos. tinabrown.substack.com/p/the-shitst...
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The Shitstorm at 60
How much of the still raging dumpster fire at 60 Minutes is due to the billionaire Ellisons’ need to keep Trump onside to close their mastodonic media merger, and how much is it their editor-in-chief,...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
President Biden was famously described as a “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” by Special Counsel Robert Hur. After reading Jill Biden’s memoir, Hur might well have come to the same conclusion about the First Lady. More in Fresh Hell tinabrown.substack.com/p/what-jill-...
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What Jill Biden Doesn't Tell Us
When Special Counsel Robert Hur interviewed Joe Biden in October 2023 about retaining classified documents in his Delaware home, Hur famously declined to indict “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly m...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Even as liberal commentators bang on about an assured mid-term shellacking for the POTUS party, if there is any message that crystalizes the 250th anniversary of the U.S., it is not that America has changed but that Trump has changed America. tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-swe...
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Trump’s Sweet Vengeance
Democrats are getting it wrong again.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Why the phrase “post-truth” is a cop-out and how Trump is still outplaying the media. I chatted about this and more with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, co-hosts of the top UK podcast The Rest is Politics. tinabrown.substack.com/p/my-video-c...
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My Video Chat with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, co-hosts of top UK podcast The Rest is Politics
Alastair, Rory, and I mixed it up over how Trump has successfully colonized world news, and over who has done greater damage to journalism: Rupert Murdoch or Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Fresh Hell was ahead of the curve this week. Two days after I advocated going after Andrew for sex offenses, police announced they are expanding their investigation to include sexual misconduct. Bring it on! Column here: open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...
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Can the Andrew File Get Any Worse?
It’s thanks to Andrew Lownie’s paperback update of Entitled, his Prince Andrew defenestration, that we now know that Sarah Ferguson—aside from her toxic association with Jeffrey Epstein—reportedly had...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
“Deep down, I am told, Andrew always believed he would be the monarch. It wasn’t just the Queen’s favoritism that was responsible… As much to blame was the press adoration of him ‘as a war hero.’” More in this week’s Fresh Hell: tinabrown.substack.com/p/can-the-an...
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Can the Andrew File Get Any Worse?
It’s thanks to Andrew Lownie’s paperback update of Entitled, his Prince Andrew defenestration, that we now know that Sarah Ferguson—aside from her toxic association with Jeffrey Epstein—reportedly had...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I’m still levitating from our Truth Tellers Summit: A message of solidarity from Pope Leo, a new BBC series on my late husband Sir Harry, and more: open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...
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Inside the Truth Booth
A scroll through some highlights of the Truth Tellers Summit
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Tomorrow at 9:30am, tune in to the Truth Tellers Investigative Journalism Summit in London. I co-founded this event in honor of my late husband Sir Harry Evans whose courage, tenacity and integrity were the North Star of our profession. See the full program of media beasts below
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Truth Tellers @sirharrysummit.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Tomorrow, Truth Tellers 2026 concludes with a special performance from Emmy Award–winning actor Matthew Rhys. Rhys will portray Sir Harry in the forthcoming 6-part BBC drama Dragon Slayers, charting his time at The Sunday Times and the legendary Insight team. 🔴 Watch live at SirHarrySummit.org
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Wednesday’s Truth Tellers Journalism Summit in London is a raucous rebuttal of the squall of political lies, social media dross, and half-baked conspiracies that have sapped public trust and comprehension. Read more on Fresh Hell. tinabrown.substack.com/p/let-truth-...
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Let Truth Roar
Here comes the first Wednesday in May, and the annual Truth Tellers Investigative Journalism Summit in London shines on my calendar again.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Don’t ask me how @karaswisher.bsky.social got to keep her line. Read more about the experience with my fellow cameo-istas on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...
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Backstage with the Cameo Queens in The Devil Wears Prada 2
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a welcome bonbon of magazine world wish fulfillment as that lost medium of peak publishing craters around us in a swirl of layoffs, mangy budgets, and sponsored content (or ...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
There were so many failed attempts, it reminded me of when I had a CNBC show called Topic A and it took 20 takes to look straight into the camera and say with​ any semblance of conviction, “And THIS is Topic A.” I tell this to explain why I ended up in the film as a mute guest…
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
You can see me as a teeny cameo in the film. I was told to murmur something about having noticed Andy/Anne’s viral piece in Runway and say archly, “I’ve been watching your byline, Andy.” (1/2)
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Read My Fresh Hell post all about my long, hot day va-vooming around the set of The Devil Wear Prada 2 with Meryl Streep, Kara Swisher, Jon Batiste, Jenna Bush Hager, and Karl-Anthony Towns. tinabrown.substack.com/p/backstage-...
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Backstage with the Cameo Queens in The Devil Wears Prada 2
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a welcome bonbon of magazine world wish fulfillment as that lost medium of peak publishing craters around us in a swirl of layoffs, mangy budgets, and sponsored content (or ...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
At Monday’s garden party, King Charles was in the throne zone, nursing a gin and tonic and small-talking for his country. He arrived to a Washington still buzzing over the ballroom blitz at the WHCD.  Read about both in my new Fresh Hell post. tinabrown.substack.com/p/the-king-t...
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The King, the Queen, and the Ballroom Blitz
God, it was nice for British embassy guests to see King Charles and Queen Camilla in person yesterday afternoon!
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
King Charles arrives on U.S. shores next week for a state visit as the US-UK relationship is in a particularly ratty state. More on this and why William needs to keep up the royal mystique in my video chat with royal expert @hardmanr.bsky.social tinabrown.substack.com/p/my-video-c...
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My Video Chat with the Royal Biographer Robert Hardman on King Charles’ Fraught State Visit to the U.S
On the eve of the king’s visit to Washington, Robert and I talked about why Trump will likely be on his best behavior at the state dinner, why Prince William and Kate want to make being royal as appea...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
When Queen Elizabeth visited the U.S. 50 years ago for its 200th anniversary, as royal biographer @hardmanr.bsky.social puts it, “It was a huge success… There was a real razzmatazz fiesta feel…” But this time around is set to feel “very different.” Hear the full convo on Substack.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I hope you can join me Friday at 1:30pET for my Fresh Hell video chat with royal expert Robert Hardman, about how King Charles will be walking the tightest of tightropes during his state visit to the US. Hardman is author of the new bio of Queen Elizabeth II. tinabrown.substack.com/p/join-my-vi...
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Join my Video Chat with Robert Hardman Friday at 1:30pET to hear about his absorbing new biography of Queen Elizabeth and King Charles' state visit next week
On the eve of King Charles’ trip to the U.S., Robert and I will talk about the dramas of a state visit, the pressures the king faces, and what to expect when he sits down with President Trump.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Happily for King Charles, his state visit to the U.S. next week to celebrate 250 years since the birth of its democracy is occurring at a time when America’s head of state is much madder than King George III. tinabrown.substack.com/p/the-king-t...
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The King, the Bling, and A Fraught State Visit
As the UK celebrates the 100th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s birth this week, her pristine legacy might ultimately be seen as a steaming pile of gilded ordure that threatens to bury her descenda...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Clearly, the only person who doesn’t ask Trump for permission to speak is Melania. She doesn’t give a sheet.  Read all about it on Fresh Hell. tinabrown.substack.com/p/fast-and-f...
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Fast & Furious Trump and the Weird Melania Moment
The defeat of Hungary’s moldy strongman Viktor Orbán is a thrilling rejuvenation of liberal democracy, after sixteen years of his systemic corruption, dismantling of parliamentary checks and balances,...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
As chatbots become more and more prevalent, one of the biggest revelations from Kara Swisher’s new series “Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever,” is that avoiding chatbots for human relationships is one of the most important tools for longevity. For the rest of our conversation, tap the link in bio.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Today at 2!
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hope you can join me and the indomitable Kara Swisher for our live video chat Monday at 2pET on Fresh Hell! open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...
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Join my Live Video Chat with the brilliantly fearless journalist Kara Swisher at 2pET on Monday
Kara and I will opine on Meta’s Big Tobacco moment, how Pam Bondi blew it, all things media, and her upcoming CNN series Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever. Hope you can join us!
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
When the U.S. obliterati walk away from Iran, declaring victory, the real trouble for the Middle East begins. Read more in my new Fresh Hell post. tinabrown.substack.com/p/is-the-fog...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The House of Windsor doesn’t seem to see the iceberg looming from sunny Montecito. Just how desperate do the senior royals want Harry and Meghan to get? The answer is my newest Fresh Hell post. tinabrown.substack.com/p/are-the-wi...
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Are the Windsors Underestimating the Sussex Problem?
Just how desperate does the House of Windsor want Harry and Meghan to get?
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Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files @amanpourpod.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Easily listen to Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files in your podcast app of choice
Quickly and easily listen and subscribe to Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files for free in your podcast app of choice.
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Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files @amanpourpod.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“This is the one story Trump can’t kill” @camanpour.bsky.social & @tinabrownlm.bsky.social unpack the Epstein Files and why Trump’s deflection tactics can’t outrun growing public scrutiny of the Files Watch Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files 🗂️ on @globalplayer.com 🎧
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Check out my talk with news queen Christiane Amanpour and hear why Iran understands Trump better than Trump understands Iran— and why Trump might eventually tire of Pete Hegseth. open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...
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My Video Chat with Christiane Amanpour about Trump's War with Iran and his Battle with the Press
On week three of the Iran war, I joined the mighty Christiane on her podcast The Ex Files to talk about Iran and Trump’s pressure points as adversaries, Pete Hegseth’s bang-bang rhetoric, and why the ...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Thank God for the rigor of NYT and others who combed through footage of the girls’ school bombing in Iran. After Karoline Leavitt, who looks more like a mendacious milkmaid every day, insisted it was “propaganda” the US was responsible, sloggers revealed more. tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-wil...
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Trump's Wild War Game
If you want to understand where we are at this moment in Trump’s second administration, all you have to do is look at that picture of Marco Rubio wearing a pair of oversized Florsheim shoes.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
If you want to understand where we are at this moment in Trump’s administration, all you have to do is look at that picture of Marco Rubio wearing a pair of oversized Florsheim shoes. tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-wil...
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Trump's Wild War Game
If you want to understand where we are at this moment in Trump’s second administration, all you have to do is look at that picture of Marco Rubio wearing a pair of oversized Florsheim shoes.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
In the first hours after the strike, Trump called on the Iranian people “to take back their country.” With what? Sticks and stones? For the sake of projected bravado, our bone-spur president is urging the Iranian people to come out of their houses and die.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Trump could have feasted on the PR chest-beating from the Maduro capture until the midterms. But his Mars god-of-war complex wouldn’t let him.   Get my full take on the Iran attack on Fresh Hell. tinabrown.substack.com/p/messing-wi...
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Messing with the Mullahs
When Trump tells us that the war with Iran is going to be over in four weeks, that’s his computation of the American attention span.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Iranian leaders “were the victims of their disbelief in Trump.” Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on how Iran's leadership made the fatal mistake of gathering together in one location in daylight. See the full conversation between Olmert and Tina Brown on Fresh Hell.
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
“What Netanyahu wants is one thing. What other parts of the state of Israel want is another.” Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on why he believes PM Netanyahu’s warmongering is partly influenced by the upcoming elections in Israel. More on Fresh Hell. tinabrown.substack.com/publish/post...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Hope you can join me today at 12pET when I’ll be speaking on Fresh Hell with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about what could emerge from the rubble and the rejoicing in Iran. tinabrown.substack.com/p/join-me-to...
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Join me Monday at 12pET with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to discuss the Iran attack and its impact across the region
On day three after the U.S./Israeli air strikes that decapitated Iran’s leadership, I will be talking with the always counterintuitive former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert about understanding the...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Hope you can join me Monday at 12pm ET when I’ll be speaking on Fresh Hell with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about what could emerge from the rubble and the rejoicing in Iran. tinabrown.substack.com/p/join-me-to...
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Join me Monday at 12pET with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to discuss the Iran attack and its impact across the region
On day three after the U.S./Israeli air strikes that decapitated Iran’s leadership, I will be talking with the always counterintuitive former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert about understanding the...
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Hope you can join me Friday at 11amET for a live text chat on Substack’s Fresh Hell. There is much to discuss! open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...
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Join me Friday at 11aET for a live text chat about all things Epstein and the rest of the mad news cycle this week
Hello Fresh Hellions,
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Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
It’d be pretty incredible if, after all the sleaze oozing out from the Epstein files, the only judicial scalps are a hapless royal buffoon and a woefully heedless British ambassador. Read more on Fresh Hell. tinabrown.substack.com/p/the-erstwh...
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The Erstwhile Ambassador, the Fallen Prince, and the U.S. Epstein Morass
The stunning arrest of the former British ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson will produce a blast radius in the UK that may be even bigger than Jeffrey Epstein’s.
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