Information Warfare Experts are hard to come by, they are specialists who understand the integration of cyber warfare and psychological operations so they can identify social maneuvering, information manipulation, disinformation, and extortion. Some of the most notable Information Warfare Experts have a deep tapestry of political, psychological, and information technology…

Orginally published on my blog in September of 2017. HOW TO BE A RUSSIAN EXPERT 101: Take any new revelation about Bots and Russia as a green light to translate a wider than socially acceptable definition of “evidence”; meanwhile claiming anyone who has the slightest differing opinion is a Russian…

Throughout 2017 there were countless Trump-Russia pieces that came out of dozens of newspapers, online news sites, cable news, and blogs. Many of those pieces presented fresh in-house visual images to pair with the headline. But are those images serving a productive service or misdirecting our perceptions? We live in…

I was crouched under my couch trying to retrieve a Peppa Pig toy my 18-month-old daughter lost when my five-year-old son walked up and asked: “Dad, what’s a shithole?” My head quickly dropped to the floor, I laid motionless for a couple seconds, primarily to use the recliner function of…

Back in April I started tweeting MY casting choices for the obvious Trump administration movie that will be produced someday soon. Updating this thread randomly throughout the year has been a fun break from the screaming despair that 2017 has handed us. In his administration’s first year, Trump and his…

I zigzagged between the cold tile of the kitchen and the living room carpet, headphones in and listening to my Best Songs Ever Written Playlist, absorbed with reading about the Harvey Weinstein scandal on my phone. I was only interrupted once when my foot stuck on my daughter’s latest juice…

Hours after James Comey’s opening remarks were released, the public was flooded with hundreds of professional “opinions” on how Trump’s actions were absolutely Obstruction of Justice or absolutely not. What we didn’t hear or read, where is a defined redline when one starts committing Obstruction of Justice? Trump telling Comey…

For almost a decade now I have had this misunderstanding of “awful.” It has never made sense to me. Why do we use awful in that way? Just looking at the word you see it has two parts that breakdown to basically “full of awe.” Well if I’m in awe…

Monday afternoon President Trump called to congratulate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his victory in Sunday’s referendum. The referendum was designed to give Erdogan authoritarian power by an constitutional amendment. His push for near limitless executive power succeeded with 51.4% voting YES, roughly 1.29 million more votes than NO…