Brian S Faughnan

UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

You support Spurs, Ben. Need to go for something more realistic yet still unachievable like two consecutive wins at home.

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.

If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.

It’s that simple.

I’ll take the point. We outplayed them with only 10 men.

Listeners Like You Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Biweekly · Brian Faughnan & Cort Winsett get together biweekly and start talking with each other (and with you the listener) about what they’ve been listening to la...

Episode 70 is out today. Cort reports on listening to Alt+J. We also reveal Brian’s next assignment. Will it be another audiobook or something else? What else do we cover? A lot of errors, you must be joking? You have to listen to find out. Download here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Our Starboy > your Starboy.

Estevao!

excellent, excellent first 45 minutes.

My bad. He’s now decided to just come for the worst people in the world without requesting an interview.

Sounds like it is time for another round of: why would you ever agree to a Chotiner interview request?

Counting on Spurs to do anything helpful for us is a fool’s errand.

If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.

Listeners Like You Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Biweekly · Brian Faughnan & Cort Winsett get together biweekly and start talking with each other (and with you the listener) about what they’ve been listening to la...

Episode 69 is out today. We wrap up Brian’s extended listening assignment and Cort follows up on that whiskey podcast. And we finally resolve on an objective basis whose birthday is better. And we never make the obvious joke even once. Download here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

We could use a lot more of this out of Jeffries. And others too.

Far too low. And also we use dollars not pounds.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

a man in a suit and tie stands in front of an elevator that says truly you need to stop ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of an elevator that says truly you need to stop

Apparently I’ve said something controversial by arguing that the future model for the Democratic Party are charismatic candidates who advocate for populist positions while never backing down to right wing intimidation campaigns. How is this even up for debate?

Gillett much better/fairer that second 45. Can't believe we only won 1-0

Glad we're up 1-0 but Jared Gillett has ref'd an atrocious first half. He's let Spurs go through the back of our players time and again, and then worse whoever in VAR let Bentancur avoid a red. Pathetic.

The importance of knowing how things work - Faughnan on Ethics I could have titled this post: "In case you needed another reason not to use LinkedIn," but that wouldn't be fair. No one actually needs any additional reasons not to use that platform. The "grindset ...

thoughts about tech competence under the ethics rules: faughnanonethics.com/the-importan...

Listeners Like You Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Biweekly · Brian Faughnan & Cort Winsett get together biweekly and start talking with each other (and with you the listener) about what they’ve been listening to la...

Episode 68 arrives on this the spookiest of days. Some say we have no range. To them we say: Rainbow Kitten Surprise, MJ Lenderman, Neil Diamond, and Shohei Ohtani. We discuss them all and more. We’ve got range like a stove top. Download here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

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Breaking on MSNBC:

Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

thoughts, prompted by a Texas case, about some of the issues raised in Tennessee by the imputation of conflicts of interest, and the limits on the ability to do non-consensual screening, involving people other than lawyers under RPC 1.10: faughnanonethics.com/conflicts-be...

If legacy media wanted to actually do its damn job everyone of them would be leading today with how the entire GOP spent the week lying about No Kings and spend the next week asking everyone of them non stop where antifa was this weekend

Alas we will get another week of regurgitating the next lie.

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.

Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.

Listeners Like You Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Biweekly · Brian Faughnan & Cort Winsett get together biweekly and start talking with each other (and with you the listener) about what they’ve been listening to la...

Episode 67. Yes pronounced like you’d expect. We are back on Wendig’s staircase for this episode. Cort reports on the podcast he got tricked into sampling. We also talk a bit about Shires & Isbell, a couple of movies, & a really detestable columnist. Download now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...