Glenn Kessler
@glennkessler.bsky.social
Author. Find me on Substack at https://glennkessler.substack.com/
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November 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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NEW --> On Trump’s Bullshit: Inventing a Mar-a-Lago ‘Raid’ to Hide a Crime glennkessler.substack.com/p/on-trumps-...
On Trump’s Bullshit: Inventing a Mar-a-Lago ‘Raid’ to Hide a Crime
His fantasy of 98 armed FBI agents collapses under the evidence — and a new book shows how cautiously investigators handled him.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
NEW --> On Trump’s Bullshit: Inventing a Mar-a-Lago ‘Raid’ to Hide a Crime glennkessler.substack.com/p/on-trumps-...
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This excellent WSJ annotation of the Molotov/Ribbentrop … sorry, Witkoff/Dmitriev … “peace deal” for Ukraine shows how ridiculously vague and utterly unworkable this thing is
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Trump’s Peace Plan for Ukraine, Annotated
Here’s a breakdown of some of the key points in the plan and how Ukraine and its European allies might respond.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This excellent WSJ annotation of the Molotov/Ribbentrop … sorry, Witkoff/Dmitriev … “peace deal” for Ukraine shows how ridiculously vague and utterly unworkable this thing is
Free link
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Free link
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
very sad. Her new Yorker essay is heart-breaking.
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
very sad. Her new Yorker essay is heart-breaking.
November 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
NEW --> Why Donald Trump Hates Ukraine glennkessler.substack.com/p/why-donald...
Why Donald Trump Hates Ukraine
Old grudges, conspiracy theories, and admiration for Putin have shaped a policy that consistently betrays Kyiv.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
NEW --> Why Donald Trump Hates Ukraine glennkessler.substack.com/p/why-donald...
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Tell me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson without telling me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson.
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tell me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson without telling me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson.
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I strongly believe a lot of male pundits and reporters do not fundamentally understand how many of us relate to Julie K Brown and not Olivia Nuzzi.
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I strongly believe a lot of male pundits and reporters do not fundamentally understand how many of us relate to Julie K Brown and not Olivia Nuzzi.
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A very good catch by The Guardian on Russianisms that make the “peace deal” sound like it escaped from a Russian grammar workbook and got run over by Google Translate on the way out.
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A very good catch by The Guardian on Russianisms that make the “peace deal” sound like it escaped from a Russian grammar workbook and got run over by Google Translate on the way out.
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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People have done a massive disservice to Ukraine and Europe by pretending Trump might do the right thing and help Ukraine. It raised hopes in a fantasy and kept people from facing reality. Trump is with Putin and all Europeans need to face that squarely.
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
People have done a massive disservice to Ukraine and Europe by pretending Trump might do the right thing and help Ukraine. It raised hopes in a fantasy and kept people from facing reality. Trump is with Putin and all Europeans need to face that squarely.
Trump’s Homeland Security department posts bogus fact checks open.substack.com/pub/glennkes...
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Trump’s Homeland Security department posts bogus fact checks open.substack.com/pub/glennkes...
Trump's outrageous dismissal of questions about Jamal Khashoggi --murdered on the orders of MBS because he sought to tell the truth -- shouldn't ever be forgotten.
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Trump's outrageous dismissal of questions about Jamal Khashoggi --murdered on the orders of MBS because he sought to tell the truth -- shouldn't ever be forgotten.
Trump's Homeland Seceurity Department posts faux fact checks to delegitimize honest reporting on its actions. glennkessler.substack.com/p/the-distur...
The Disturbing Rise of Government 'Fact Checks'
DHS is packaging spin as verification — borrowing the language of journalism to delegitimize it.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Trump's Homeland Seceurity Department posts faux fact checks to delegitimize honest reporting on its actions. glennkessler.substack.com/p/the-distur...
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
what an astonishing series of screw-ups in the rush to indict Comey. Someone needs to retake a few law school courses. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#191 in United States v. Comey (E.D. Va., 1:25-cr-00272) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION in re 167 Order remanding the matter of disclosure of the grand jury materials as to James B. Comey, Jr. Signed by Magistrate Judge William E. Fitzpatrick on 11/17/2025. (jlan) (Ent...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
what an astonishing series of screw-ups in the rush to indict Comey. Someone needs to retake a few law school courses. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NEW --> On Trump’s Bullshit: The 'White Genocide' That Isn’t glennkessler.substack.com/p/on-trumps-...
On Trump’s Bullshit: The 'White Genocide' That Isn’t
He’s revived a racist conspiracy about South Africa to justify slashing refugee admissions — and favoring White immigrants.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
NEW --> On Trump’s Bullshit: The 'White Genocide' That Isn’t glennkessler.substack.com/p/on-trumps-...
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Who's getting into the Museum of Political Corruption's Halls of Shame and Honor this year?
Hint:
Initials for 4 Hall of Honor inductees: LS, CL, PF, DG
Initials for 4 Hall of Shame inductees: JA, HA, RC, WJ
Visit the Halls of Shame and Honor at: museumofpoliticalcorruption.org/halls-of-sha...
Hint:
Initials for 4 Hall of Honor inductees: LS, CL, PF, DG
Initials for 4 Hall of Shame inductees: JA, HA, RC, WJ
Visit the Halls of Shame and Honor at: museumofpoliticalcorruption.org/halls-of-sha...
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Who's getting into the Museum of Political Corruption's Halls of Shame and Honor this year?
Hint:
Initials for 4 Hall of Honor inductees: LS, CL, PF, DG
Initials for 4 Hall of Shame inductees: JA, HA, RC, WJ
Visit the Halls of Shame and Honor at: museumofpoliticalcorruption.org/halls-of-sha...
Hint:
Initials for 4 Hall of Honor inductees: LS, CL, PF, DG
Initials for 4 Hall of Shame inductees: JA, HA, RC, WJ
Visit the Halls of Shame and Honor at: museumofpoliticalcorruption.org/halls-of-sha...
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The new arms race: “The more fact-checking expanded, the more sophisticated the falsehoods became. It is an arms race between truth and lies, and so far, truth is losing ground.”
@glennkessler.bsky.social speech about spread of falsehood and war on truth. glennkessler.substack.com/p/my-speech-...
@glennkessler.bsky.social speech about spread of falsehood and war on truth. glennkessler.substack.com/p/my-speech-...
November 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The new arms race: “The more fact-checking expanded, the more sophisticated the falsehoods became. It is an arms race between truth and lies, and so far, truth is losing ground.”
@glennkessler.bsky.social speech about spread of falsehood and war on truth. glennkessler.substack.com/p/my-speech-...
@glennkessler.bsky.social speech about spread of falsehood and war on truth. glennkessler.substack.com/p/my-speech-...
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My Speech in Stockholm: The War on Truth glennkessler.substack.com/p/my-speech-...
My Speech in Stockholm: The War on Truth
How the struggle against disinformation has become global — and why the consequences now threaten every democracy.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
My Speech in Stockholm: The War on Truth glennkessler.substack.com/p/my-speech-...
NEW --> On Trump’s Bullshit: 'Mexico Will Pay' — The Lie That Built a Wall. glennkessler.substack.com/p/on-trumps-...
On Trump’s Bullshit: 'Mexico Will Pay' — The Lie That Built a Wall
The promise was impossible. The math never worked. And every justification since has been pure fiction.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
NEW --> On Trump’s Bullshit: 'Mexico Will Pay' — The Lie That Built a Wall. glennkessler.substack.com/p/on-trumps-...
I've written about Trumpian math. His promise of $2,000 tariff checks is another example. Do the math and it would cost something like two or three times the tariff revenue. And to what consequence? Trump also claims the tariffs will reduce the deficit. Not. glennkessler.substack.com/p/on-trumps-...
On Trump’s Bullshit: Arithmetic as Propaganda
For Trump, numbers are not evidence—they’re marketing. 'Facts' exist only to serve the myth.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I've written about Trumpian math. His promise of $2,000 tariff checks is another example. Do the math and it would cost something like two or three times the tariff revenue. And to what consequence? Trump also claims the tariffs will reduce the deficit. Not. glennkessler.substack.com/p/on-trumps-...
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Must-read debut @crampell.bsky.social newsletter for @thebulwark.com explains the hidden costs of Trump’s tariffs…
…and asks whether he’ll be smart enough to let the Supreme Court kill them
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-su...
…and asks whether he’ll be smart enough to let the Supreme Court kill them
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-su...
How the Supreme Court Could Save Christmas
If Trump lets them.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Must-read debut @crampell.bsky.social newsletter for @thebulwark.com explains the hidden costs of Trump’s tariffs…
…and asks whether he’ll be smart enough to let the Supreme Court kill them
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-su...
…and asks whether he’ll be smart enough to let the Supreme Court kill them
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-su...
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