Sitemap - 2022 - Lucian Truscott Newsletter
How Russia has infected our politics: A view from 1,000 feet
Russian oligarchs and their money-boys and Paul Manafort come into the Santos picture
Let us now praise reporters far more patient than I
It's a good thing you're 21 only once
Full report of the Jan. 6 Committee: A look-see before bedtime
Right-wing fashionistas review Zelensky's U.S. trip like it was a runway show
Soldiers hate digging holes, and this is why
Unprecedented: All three branches of government have converged on Donald Trump
This is Trump's "big announcement"
Orange jumpsuit time for Sammy
Curly-headed FTX honcho under arrest and held in Bahamian jail
Somebody in Palm Beach is having a bad day
Why the hell did the world need cryptocurrency?
Who is going to volunteer to be Trump's custodian of contempt citations?
Jack Smith digs in. January 6 Committee closes out.
Ignoring this asshole isn't going to make him go away
I'll have the loser combo plate and a Diet Coke, please
11th Circuit rules against Trump
This is all you need to know about the odious Elon Musk
Just another day with anti-Semites at the former president's house
639 people missed Thanksgiving this year. All were killed in mass shootings
My Lost, Left Behind, No Place Else to Go Thanksgivings in New York
From our house to yours...happy Thanksgiving!
Oral arguments at the 11th Circuit did not go well for the Secret Hoarder of Mar a Lago
The newest member and I are taking the day off
Donald Trump: "I took them, so they're mine."
Putin's murderous missile campaign against Ukraine's civilians
A COVID column with no scolding!
The many acts Trump hasn't been indicted for
Is this the end of our long national Trump bender?
Russian forces abandon Kherson to advancing Ukrainian troops
What does Russia's retreat from Kherson mean?
It's not over. It's never over.
Ukraine is not one big war. It's a hundred little wars.
A bad day for Russia in Ukraine
How Kash Patel found himself stuck on the horns of a dilemma
How Antonin Scalia's death (and life) exposed cracks in our so-called democratic system
A brief history of Republican extremist rhetoric
In this season when weirdness and horror are in the air around us, Happy Halloween!
Elon Musk just qualified for the playoffs in the contest for worst person in the world
The Republican Halloween horror show: Marjorie Taylor Green goes as herself
Kash Patel and Trump's web of lawyers, lies, and money
Another scuttling rat ordered to testify before Georgia grand jury
DOJ grand jury zeroes in on Trump
The Ginni and Clarence love quintangle
"We are not eating Korean in the Poconos."
Naked: Not yet clothed by experience
Republicans poised to turn U.S. aid to Ukraine into a 2024 campaign issue
Tazzy guarding my desk from intruders on my day off
A necessary exercise in self-promotion
Another one bites the dust, and another one, and another one...
Supreme Court washes its hands of Trump
There is a smoking gun proving Trump knew he lost
Could it be that there is even more news about Trump and his stolen documents at Mar a Lago?
DOJ to Supreme Court: It's not even close
This is the missile we should be sending to Ukraine: The MGM-140 ATACMS
There is a dangerous crack in the logic of the war
New wrinkles in the Trump documents story
Hey, FBI! I've found the missing documents!
What is a tactical nuclear weapon?
Ukraine thumbs its national nose at Putin and his "annexation" and his threats
DOJ just told the 11th Circuit it is ready to indict Trump
Sunday night off with the newest member
COVID has become a silent killer
Trump's special master judge manages to brown her nose despite a raging hurricane
Putin tries desperate fixes to save his war on Ukraine
DOJ files revised inventory of materials seized at Mar a Lago
Arizona reinstates Confederate era abortion law
This little guy is in good shape...
Putin's mobilization threat: get dragged into the Gulag here, or face Ukrainian bullets over there
We need a new word for "unhinged."
11th Circuit spanks Judge Cannon
Cornered, Putin invokes nuclear arsenal
You can't have your cake and eat it too
Big day in the Trump special master case
The strange alchemy of cruelty and opportunity
DOJ rips Florida judge a new one
Sure, he lies as he breathes, but it's time we take Trump's threats seriously
Florida judge appoints special master and tries to weasel out of being reversed on appeal
Quelle suprise! Our favorite Times columnist is confused!
It was a bad week to be Vladimir Putin
I'm typing this with one finger on my phone
In news from the Trump grand juries...
Update: another battle over the special master
Ukraine may be at a turning point in the war.
Trump is his own special master
This is what we get when we allow Republicans to win the White House and the Senate
This scrivener is putting his labor aside and taking the day off
A smorgasbord of schadenfreude
Here's an interesting tidbit from the groaning buffet table that is the DOJ court filing
This is how the most highly classified documents were stored at Mar a Lago
More legal maneuverings on the Mar a Lago documents
Who is winning the war in Ukraine?
Like a ghost from a forgotten time long ago...
Like a ghost from a forgotten time long ago...
New developments in Mar a Lago search saga
Our privacy and why it matters
Is the Mar a Lago search Mueller redux?
The day after: What we know and don't know
I'm reading the search inventory so you don't have to
I'm reading the search warrant so you don't have to
Warrant states Trump under investigation for violating the Espionage Act
Trump under criminal investigation for mishandling classified information
Will Trump sell nuclear secrets in the middle of Fifth Avenue and get away with it?
The unimaginable just became imaginable
What is it going to take to break this fever?
What was the FBI looking for in Mar-a-Lago?
The early days of Trump and "his" generals
Whiner in Chief whines about FBI raid on Mar a Lago
What Kansas knew: they're rights in the constitution, not suggestions
Ayman al-Zawahiri is dead. Was anything accomplished?
Rare recording found of Nixon-tattooed leech talking to toothy Florida man
What messages could be missing from DHS phones?
Hey, I've got a swell idea! Let's start a third political party!
A Washington grand jury is going to indict Donald Trump
It's a smug, self-satisfied con-job, and don't you fall for it
He had them right where he wanted them
WTF happened to the Secret Service?
High temperatures are the new pandemic
Texas report on Uvalde school shooting
What kind of war is this, sir?
I would call this a new low, but...
77 minutes of "good guys with guns" aiming down an empty hallway
The day the Oval Office turned into a mafia social club
Lemonade and sprint cars on a Saturday night at the speedway
I live in a small American town
We have created these monsters
Saturday night at the dirt track
The Supreme Court famously does not have its own army. So fight them.
Ketchup on the White House wall, blood on the steps of the Capitol
I have some free legal advice for John Eastman
They folded up the Constitution and shoved it where the sun does not shine
A legal instrument tailor-made to break the law
Ginni Thomas is up to her kitten heels in the right-wing fever swamp
We are all on the 1/6 grand jury
Surprise! The Proud Boys are turning on each other.
Once upon a time in New York City
I read Douthat so you don't have to
This is the most selfish moment in American history
Tulsa was the 20th mass shooting since Uvalde
Another WTF day has come and gone
Coming to a gun store near you: the next generation of mass killing machines
Where were the good guys with their guns?
Texans got what they voted for
We need to take away their guns
Nothing is going to change as long as civilians can own weapons of war
The world will not forget or forgive
I read the new 50-page John Eastman court filing so you don't have to
Bobby Neuwirth: The Godfather of "hey, man..."
Are cargo shorts, tats and a goatee the future of the Democratic Party?
Fear, loathing and loss: The state of Russia's war in Ukraine
The great replacement is happening right now
The Supreme Court jealously guards its own privacy.
In praise of my friend Bill Cardoso
Why was Putin so depressed at his Victory Day parade?
It has always been about who gets to control women's bodies
We are winning the two-front information war.
Other words Alito didn't find in the Constitution
The Supreme Court just erased the word "equal" from the Constitution
Is the U.S. in a proxy war with Russia? Sergey Lavrov and Lloyd Austin seem to agree we are.
Actually, I'm not sitting on Ruby. Just close to her.
This is what Snapchat did while Elon Musk was buying Twitter
U.S. intelligence is worth more than the hundreds of millions in weapons we're providing Ukraine
It's not a culture war. It's button-down hate and racism with a smile.
Remember these numbers: M777ER, M109A4BE, and Pzh 2000
I read the mask mandate court decision so you don't have to
The magical mystery tour of moving
What would winning look like for Ukraine?
Putin can't take much more of this
I went to the hardware store and bought two extra box cutters today
Donald Trump is a blaspheme on our national honor
Putin is a spook, not a strategist
It's almost too terrible to write about
Ukraine is a graveyard for modern weapons systems
The double reverse triple salchow intelligence backchannel wangdoodle
Biden said out loud in Poland what the whole world already knew -- including Vladimir Putin
Chief Justice Roberts has a problem
Russian tank manufacturer shuts down production
Learning to live with the neutron bomb
Republicans beat war drums for states rights at Jackson hearing
It's not a stalemate, it's a war
As Russian losses in Ukraine pile up, Putin steams.
Is Russia losing the war against Ukraine?
Will sanctions make war obsolete?
Putin set out to fight one war against Ukraine. He has ended up fighting another one altogether.
Let's talk about Russia's brutal and criminal way of war
Supreme Court preps the ground for a return to "state's rights"
Substack introduces its new app
I read Ross Douthat so you don't have to
These are U.S. Army Mobile Multiple Rocket Launch Systems
What do you call Russia's war crimes in Ukraine? Mass murder? Genocide? Or a new Holocaust?
A victim of Russia's murderous war in Ukraine
Russia's army is corrupt, incompetent, poorly led, and very very deadly
Putin is showing himself to be even more of a madman than we thought.
The essence of war: What history tells us about "taking" a country and its cities
What does Putin intend to do with Ukraine when he's done?
"No sir. There is no suitcase."
Russia admits to very high casualties in Ukraine war
Putin doesn't have an endgame, but this time we do.
What's missing in Russian convoys: bulldozers
Is Ukraine's army playing rope-a-dope with Russian invaders?
17 mile long Russian convoy moving toward Kyiv
Russia now using cluster munitions, a weapon of terror, against Ukraine
A few observations about this war
Ukraine army employing RPG's effectively against Russian vehicles
EU closes skies of Europe to Russian aircraft. Turkey to close Bosporus to Russian ships.
EU countries close airspace to Russian airlines
G20 Summit for 2022 scheduled for Bali in October
Russian forces faces stiff Ukrainian resistance
Putin is playing chicken with the west and asking, just how crazy do you think I am?
What we are seeing is Hitler with nuclear weapons
I'm going to be on this all day
The big story now is escalation
Russian airborne troops on the ground at airport outside Kyiv
Large explosion outside of Kharkiv
Putin's warning to the outside world
Russia "special military operation"
Putin statement at 5:50 a.m. in Russia
Missile strikes reported in Kyiv
It's happening. Putin ordered an attack on Ukraine.
Biden has two big problems: The Russians and the Republicans
Update: Putin moves troops into Eastern Ukraine
A reluctant West Point prince on prom night
Some of our voting laws are actually working
Theory and Reality and Ukraine and War
Peter Navarro was proud of the coup...until he received a subpoena.
Putin is headed for quagmire number three and bankruptcy number two
The Putin uncertainty principle
The 1/6 Committee has the evidence. We know he did it. All of it.
This is what's in the news today
A perfidious practitioner of poltroonery
Leavenworth,1962: A more innocent time?
Ukraine dominates the day's news
With new subpoenas, 1/6 Committee closes in on its ultimate target: A certain former president
A plan for a military coup surfaces in White House documents obtained by 1/6 Committee
January 6 Select Committee contacts former president!
Manchin and Sinema are not the enemy
I read the Oath Keepers indictment so you don't have to.
The Capitol was breached again last Friday
The anniversary of Jan. 6 was a very bad day for a certain former president
Our democracy may be threatened
I have a history with Sean Hannity
All the talk (some of it mine) of civil war is just that: talk.