Shane Harris
@shaneharris.bsky.social
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Staff Writer @theatlantic. Author. Podcaster. Filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/shaneharris Signal: shaneharris.64
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Did you see Lions for Lambs? Also a dud.
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Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
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The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela
Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.
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NEW: The Trump administration is portraying its boat-bombing campaign in the Caribbean as an anti-drug mission. The evidence suggests it's about a lot more, report @nancyayoussef.bsky.social, Gisela Salim-Peyer and @jonlemire.bsky.social
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The Boat Strikes Are Just the Beginning
What the U.S. government is portraying as a drug mission may be about a lot more.
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At a conference in Estonia, a panelist discussing AI and its regulation remarks, “I’m pretty sure the U.S. is clear where it stands on western values.” Audience chuckles.
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Among the reasons why I find this Washington Post editorial disappointing: It is contradicted by the reporting that appeared in the paper's own pages. (To which I and my colleagues contributed.) This framing is tendentious and inaccurate. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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That the attorney general doesn't try to soften or walk back what the president said about indicting his enemy, but embraces it and amplifies it, shows you where we are.
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More in this excellent story about Trump's takeover of the Justice Department by the team at @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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WSJ reports that the Truth Social message Trump directed at Pam Bondi, about indicting Jim Comey, was meant to be a DM. Asked about the post, Bondi told senators, "I don’t think he said anything that he hasn’t said for years.” We might see that remark, among others, in Comey's motion to dismiss.
Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots
The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.
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"Trump’s threats are no longer bluster. The guardrails of his first term are gone. He is instead surrounded by enablers... Retribution is here.” New from @jonlemire.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Retribution Is Here
The president’s threats of revenge are no longer bluster.
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Hegseth credits a "Trump Bump, but this program rescued Army recruiting.
My story from Ft. Jackson, S.C.
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This Program Rescued Army Recruiting
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“Matthews repeatedly deferred to Trump’s designation of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations as granting the Defense Department unilateral authority to use military force against them…”

An FTO designation doesn’t authorize the use of force. The DOD’s lawyer reportedly claims otherwise.
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"Later, I received a tour of the protest site from a person in a chicken suit." What else can you say?
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Will ask the experts to say if this is a big Hatch Act violation. (Quaint, I know.) www.hud.gov#openModal
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Indeed. Like determining if the documents are even still classified. Or speaking with officials Bolton worked with at the time to determine if he had some reason for taking them. This is basic work before bringing a charge. But the clock ticking here is on Comey's case, not Bolton's.
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Perhaps Halligan is not concerned about keeping her law license, but her new colleagues at the Justice Department sure seem to be. abcnews.go.com/US/prosecuto...
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Oh! Sorry, I should not have assumed. But hopefully these books will do the trick. In non-fiction, check out the sections on Curveball in Steve Coll's The Achilles Trap.
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A country where the leader can order up a prosecution of his political foe for revenge is not a liberal democracy. We're about to find out if the United States still is one. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...
U.S. Attorney Races to Present Case Against James Comey
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Tinker, Tailor (I know, feels expected, but it's true); Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry; Damascus Station by David McCloskey (more on the ethics/moral dimensions); Libra by Don DeLillo if you want to get really out there. Accessible is not the first word that comes to mind, but I love it.