Mark Stout

YouTube video by LifeIsSublime Muppet Movie 1979 camera test: The banter is so hilariously improvised.

While I don’t know if any Muppets break the second fourth wall on Television or Movies …

There is this one camera test where Kermit and Fozzie ad lib being abstract entities …

The Hawaiian Cult that raised Tulsi Gabbard (with Chistine Gralow) Podcast Episode · Mission Implausible · 02/08/2026 · 37m

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Been thinking about Günter Guillaume quite a lot over the last day. IYKYK.

Is this apropos of the Guardian story?

The collection includes Scruffy the Cat!

Having some military officers study at civilian universities is a good thing. The SecDef, once again showing how he is irretrievably mired in the tactical, doesn’t understand this.

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.

Trump regime’s latest effort to whitewash history and control narrative: all State department posts on X made before Trump took office in 2025 will be removed. That includes accounts for US embassies, missions, ambassadors, department bureaus, programs. www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...

I suspect something along the lines of a modern-day MHCHAOS or COINTELPRO (which I know was FBI).

Well, I would imagine that the American involved in this call would have been so senior in the government or so personally close to the president that Gabbard thought the matter had to be brought to the attention of the president’s top staffer.

I think there is immense potential for a major scandal here. That said, it is just slightly possible that there was a legitimate reason for this, such as a back, back, back channel, that Gabbard might not have been aware of until Wiles told her.

Probably not, but maybe.

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

Yeah this doesn’t look good at all

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Will NBC censor the booing of J.D. Vance in their broadcast of the Olympics opening ceremony at 8pm?

I guess we’ll see if they’re committed to journalism ethics or Trump propaganda.

Pretty strong accusation against China on testing. Does this mean the US is now going to have a "yield producing nuclear test" (6 years later?)? Will the US release any supporting evidence?

A deputy chief of Russia's military intelligence service is shot and wounded in Moscow Russian authorities say a deputy chief of its military intelligence agency has been shot and wounded. Officials say Lt. Gen.

A deputy chief of Russia's military intelligence service is shot and wounded in Moscow

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The Norwegian services presented their annual unclassified assessments today.

Some highlights from Focus 2026 from NIS will follow:

"It is in Russia's interest that the Greenland debate causes uncertainty and potential conflict between Europe and the United States."

To: Jeffrey Epstein[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: Sent: Wed 7/15/2009 1:56:13 AM Subject: Re: florida visit? good typing! oh well, looks like it's a long flight anyhow... edmonton is so far away from EVERYTHING. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: i am tied up until aug On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:41 PM, wrote: You planted a seed with your invite today. I have next Wed thru Sunday off (July 22-26), my last vacation for months. I was going to take polo lessons in Calgary but I (DON'T) think my body can handle it! I pull a muscle every time, and I'm starting to realize my budding polo career might have to take a back seat to my actual job. think What are you doing next week?

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

First Deputy Chief of the GRU. Not a nice man, it seems.

They text each other and have spreadsheets. scary

It’s Time to Renew Section 702 of FISA Permanently As the April deadline looms, Congress risks letting one of America’s most valuable intelligence tools wither.

It’s Time to Renew Section 702 of FISA Permanently www.lawfaremedia.org/article/it-s...

Crap, I use this for checking basic stuff when I edit international stories.

oh btw if you need the CIA World Factbook because they took it down with no warning because we can't have nice things, here's where you can get the PDF for the 2024-2025 edition: annas-archive.li/md5/92d7b783...

Alas! I must disappoint.

Researching #KGB files at Hoover Library & Archives for my ongoing writing projects. #spies #secrets #coldwar

You’re a great American!

Previous books in the "Concise Histories of Intelligence" series have covered the Russian FSB, Pakistani ISI, and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence. press.georgetown.edu/Series-List/...

Just got my copy of @dvanp.bsky.social's new book, "The DGSE: A Concise History of France's Foreign Intelligence Service," from Georgetown UP. I was involved on the editorial side of this book and it's a huge contribution. Available for pre-order today! press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-DGSE

I’m told that the CIA took down all the previous editions of The World Facebook, too. Haven’t checked, though. If they did, doubtless it was to free up storage space. … …