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| Advent Comics Makes a Big Splash at Baltimore Comic-Con 2026 |
| Posted on Saturday, August 15 @ 00:01:01 PDT (0 reads) | |
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Don’t miss the 2026 baltimore comic-con this september 25th-27th at the inner harbor’s baltimore convention center. Advent comics , while finishing up the history-making, 200-plus page epiphany engine graphic novel which brings together over 40 publishers in a single story told by nearly 50 all-star creators, comes to baltimore comic-con to celebrate their 17 th anniversary with a powerful star-studded list of creators. Get your tickets online now !
advent will also be conducting a panel entitled “building bridges: creating a pathway in comics” that will take place on saturday at noon (location details to be announced). Panelists will include advent comics eic tony kittrell , brandon thomas , rodney barnes , alitha e. Martinez , joseph p. Illidge , jiba molei anderson , marcus h. Williams , and greg burnham .
some of the 2026 baltimore comic-con exclusives will include:
epochs one – shot is a 100-plus page book that celebrates the 17 th anniversary of advent comics and features work by ron marz ( green lantern , silver surfer ), bart sears ( x-o manowar , justice league europe ), josé luis (marvel comics punisher), greg burnham ( tuskegee heirs , dc power ), sean damien hill ( spirits of vengeance , x-men bishop: war college ), sebastian cheng ( marvel comics wolverine: patch ), allan goldman ( superman/batman , justice league ), pow rodrix ( star wars: the high republic ), and amazing covers by darryl banks, raymond gay, caanan white, john royle and others.
titan the ultra man #5 caanan white variant cover
advent universe trading cards boxed set
plus, don’t miss the following advent comics titles and merchandise at baltimore comic-con:
titan the ultra man #5 which is the final issue drawn by superstar artist netho diaz ( x-men ) before becoming exclusive to marvel comics. Introducing black vulture as the latest enemy of advent comics man of might. Created by an all-star team consisting of writer tony kittrell, pencils by netho diaz & carlos franco, inks by lebeau underwood ( star wars , wolverine: patch ), and colorist and letterer ed dukeshire ( hulk ).
doll valley one – shot is a throwback grindhouse horror story for mature readers that combines 80’s slasher flicks, 90s gore films, dark comedy and bad girl comics into one fun story. The caanan white ( rippaverse ) and candice han bloody variant and two distinct doll valley box sets will be at the show.
cosmos maxi – series including cosmos : war one – shot which has over 30 indie comics publishers and creators such as erik larsen ( savage dragon , big bang comics megaton ), mike baron/steve rude ( nexus ), jerry ordway/al gordon ( wildstar ), dan fraga ( black flag ), and more. Cosmos: war box sets will be at the show as well.
southside : the side pocket trade paperback collects the ultra-popular, mature readers advent comics title southside that lit up comic shop shelves across the nation. Dalton malone returns home to the mean streets of washington d.C. To find the murderer of his friend…and get revenge! They will have a softcover edition and a limited number of digest-size edition books.
guests appearing courtesy of advent comics include:
jiba molei anderson is the ceo and creative director for griot enterprises. An expert in print design, publishing, and branding, anderson has worked as a graphic designer and art director for organizations such as onyx path publishing, the smithsonian national museum of african art, and rogue matter.
anderson is the creator of griot enterprises’ flagship title, the afrofantastic saga the horsemen , and curator of 4 pages 16 bars: a visual mixtape , the long-running anthology series celebrating the independent works from creators of color.
through griot enterprises, anderson has had numerous one-man and group shows, art directed, and published over 20 books including canton kid: the definitive collection , the dark kingdom , dante: a divine comedy , and others. He has been invited to speak about his work and the representation of race and culture at various institutions, including the school of the art institute of chicago, penn state altoona, the ohio state university, and michigan state university.
anderson has also made an impact in the world of role-playing games, contributing content to the world of darkness franchise ( vampire: the masquerade , wraith: the oblivion , mage: the ascension , tales of depravity , and they came from [classified] ) for onyx path publishing.
anderson’s animated projects include the music video start a fight for rock band the ex-senators (with mark rizzo design) and the song of lionogo: an indian ocean mythological remix for the smithsonian national museum of african art (with brightseed collaborative). His work has also been featured in the amazon prime television series utopia and the apple+ film swan song starring mahershala ali.
in 2019, anderson became the proud recipient of the glyph awards lifetime achievement/pioneer award for his work in the comic book industry through the east coast of black age comics convention. In addition, the horsemen: book of olorun was part of the long-running exhibition heroes: principles of african greatness at the smithsonian national museum of african art and is a part of the museum’s permanent collection.
anderson is a veteran of the creative industries, working as a visual communicator, writer, and educator teaching courses in multimedia at chicago state university, harper college, and the computer systems institute – skokie.
rodney barnes is an award-winning writer, producer, and comic book creator whose vibrant and emphatic creative voice has established him as a hollywood mainstay.
barnes was most recently an executive producer and writer for hbo’s winning time: the rise of the lakers dynasty , which chronicles the professional and personal lives of the 1980s showtime lakers during the team’s wild and fast-paced golden years.
barnes has a number of projects in different stages of development, including writing an adaptation of chris leslie-hynan’s novel ride around shining in development with jonah hill’s strong baby with lakeith stanfield attached to star, writing a miniseries based on the life of golf great tiger woods, and writing and executive producing hbo’s jack johnson limited series, starring mahershala ali.
in addition to tv, barnes is a veteran comic book creator who earned an eisner award nomination for his critically acclaimed graphic novel killadelphia , which now has a television show in development at levantine tv. Barnes recently launched his own comic studio and publishing imprint, zombie love studios, a creative space dedicated to storytelling from bipoc perspectives in unique formats, among which include the graphic novels blacula —an adaptation of the cult horror classic, monarch —an apocalyptic sci-fi adventure series following a group of compton school kids, nita hawes’ nightmare blog , elysium gardens , johnny gatlin , and 20° past rigor . Barnes has also penned issues for existing series army of darkness , james bond himeros , marvel/lucasfilm’s lando: double or nothing , lion forge’s quincredible , and marvel’s falcon and secret empire .
greg burnham has been writing professionally for nearly a decade. His latest dc comics work is on dc power and dc’s ghouls just wanna have fun . With projects like the search for sadiqah , broken glass , and grandpa’s shoes under his belt, greg is working on a bevy of projects, as well as his returning hit series tuskegee heirs .
kevin grevioux is a director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and graphic novel creator who has over 20 years of experience in the film industry. After graduating from howard university with a degree in microbiology, grevioux came to hollywood, where he acted in several films. Including alien nation , the mask , congo , batman forever , tim burton’s planet of the apes , the hulk , and men in black ii . Kevin also co-created and wrote the original screenplay to the successful underworld franchise, which was his first produced writing credit. He was also a co-producer on the film series and played the character, raze . Grevioux has just completed production on his latest film from a screenplay he wrote, i, frankenstein , produced by lakeshore entertainment. It was based on his original graphic novel.
in addition, grevioux is a prolific writer in the comic book/graphic novel world. He has worked for both marvel and dc comics having written such characters as spider-man , blade , iron man , batman , superman , the phantom , and the critically acclaimed adam: legend of the blue marvel for marvel, which he created.
he has established an independent creator-owned comic book/graphic novel company called darkstorm comics & media, as well as astounding comics, which produces all-ages content.
grevioux’s animation credits include episodes of ben 10: ultimate alien , mega man: fully charged , avengers: earth’s mightiest heroes , and young justice .
lastly, grevioux’s directorial debut was the action film king of killers , distributed by lionsgate, a feature he wrote and produced through his production company, channel 56 films. His latest film is war dawgz , directed for bet+.
the two-time eisner-nominated, multi-glyph award winning comic book illustrator n. Steven harris has had a career spanning over 30 years in the comic book industry. His highlights include dc comic’s aztek: the ultimate man , a character which he co-created, as well as batman: officer down , generation x , x-force , and deadpool annual ’98 . In 2017, mr. Harris worked on dc/wildstorm’s michael cray and wrote and illustrated a story for represent: in defense of free speech , also published by dc comics. He was a guest to the american embassy in algiers, algeria, along with 15 other artists to participate in fibda (festival international de la bande dessinée d’alger) or the international festival of comics in the fall of 2019. In early 2020, he was on the stage of the world famous apollo theater on a panel on being a freelance illustrator in the comic book industry, the very first of its kind at the apollo theater. Mr. Harris has been recently working on projects with dmc of the hip hop group run dmc, david crownson, creator of harriet tubman: demon slayer , and a hip hop artist/activist from the u.K., Both due out in 2026.
sean damien hill is a comic book illustrator from washington, dc, known for his bold, naturalistic style and narrative-driven storytelling. Trained in fine art, sean blends classical technique with dynamic visual pacing to bring depth and energy to every page he draws.
his work spans across major publishers and indie powerhouses alike, with credits including bishop: war college , predator vs. Black panther , and spirits of vengeance for marvel; blood syndicate , cyborg , and dc power for dc comics; and indie titles such as dark history of okemus (rae comics) and the hated (solid comix).
whether he’s illustrating iconic heroes or original worlds, sean brings a fierce dedication to storytelling and a love for the comic medium that shows in every panel.
joseph p. Illidge is a writer, editor, producer, and ip strategist whose work spans comics, publishing, film, and multimedia development. His career includes leadership roles with dc comics, image comics, simon & schuster, todd mcfarlane productions, and milestone media.
he is the founder of illuminous, a production company focused on developing original intellectual property across publishing and entertainment.
joseph is the writer of the shadow cabinet and the new history of the dc universe: the dakota incident (dc comics), bloodletter (spawn universe/image comics), the eisner award-nominated noir is the new black for the winterfields (fairsquare graphics), harriet tubman (harpercollins), and co-author of the judge kim and the kids court series (simon & schuster). His groundbreaking editorial work on dc’s batman line and lion forge animation’s catalyst prime helped shape a new generation of inclusive superhero storytelling.
a recognized advocate for the medium, joseph serves on the board of directors of the comic book legal defense fund and is the recipient of the inkpot award and a citation from the new york state assembly. His work and commentary have been featured in the new york times, the washington post, forbes, the hollywood reporter, and the history channel’s superheroes decoded.
tony kittrell is a rising indie comic publisher who has put in the work and has solid credentials in the comic industry:
– publishing for 15 years with advent comics
– created over 25 comic book titles in the advent universe line and publishes the creator-owned unbound realms imprint line
– publishes nearly every genre of comic books
– available globally on adventcomics.Com , amazon, barnes & noble, comixology/comixology unlimited, drivethrucomics.Com, globalcomix, indyplanet, kindle, previews (your local comics shops), and walmart.
advent comics is an independent, small press publishing company located in maryland that was founded in 2009 and has released several comic book and graphic novels such as advent comics spotlight #1, cosmos maxi-series, pandemonium: evil incarnate graphic novel, and titan the ultra man #1.
as a life-long comic book fan, tony is focused on providing high-quality comics with ultimate fan satisfaction being the result. With a variety of truly imaginative and provocative offerings of everything from superheroes, science fiction, fantasy, action/adventure, romance, horror, religion, crime noir thrillers, humor, and more, tony and advent comics will do everything possible to exceed your expectations and bring fans what they want — great comics. Tony operates on the belief that the needs of the comic industry’s fans and readers are of the utmost importance. The entire advent comics team is committed to meeting those needs and, as a result, welcomes the chance to deliver to you the best entertainment in the industry.
tony worked by day as a career firefighter and paramedic for nearly 30 years, helping to keep his community safe before retiring in april to do comics full-time. In his spare time, tony enjoys spending time with his wife, children, and grandchildren. Some of his other hobbies include sports, movies, and travel. His favorite vacation remains his trip to waikiki on the beautiful hawaiian island of o’ahu where he experienced firsthand the indigenous culture while also able to enjoy bucket list items such as swimming with the dolphins.
alitha evelyn martinez is the eisner award and glaad award-winning artist of the black panther: world of wakanda series. Her professional career began in 1999, penciling iron man for marvel entertainment. Since then, it’s been a great ride getting to work on titles like x-men: black sun , marvel age fantastic four , black panther , black panther: world of wakanda , x-men gold annual , moon girl , mark morales spider-man , fearless , voltron , nbc’s heroes , new 52 bat girl , archie comics’ new crusaders and riverdale , omni for humanoids, and wwe superstar , wwe slam city , and barbie for papercutz. She has worked on it’s a bird , sensational wonder woman , nubia and the amazons , and amanda waller’s absolute power origin story for dc comics. The list goes on, thankfully.
alitha has done larger projects that required more than just penciling and inking in graphic novels, like vampire: my boyfriend bites , kung fu masters , quest for dragon mountain for lerner publications, and also political cartooning for the new york post . In her spare time, alitha works on her creator-owned titles yume and ever , and foreign , which she publishes through her company, ariotstorm productions, llc. She is also a professor at the school of visual arts in new york city. Finally, it’s official! She’s a writer, too — her longest, deepest-held dream. She has two stories for epic under her belt, and a dc powers nubia story, hizzah!
the most rewarding part of her career is participating in the us state department’s world speaker program. She travels to parts unknown to teach comic book workshops and bring the art of storytelling to people who would have no other way of getting such information. She was once in the same position, practicing a craft that she didn’t know was a profession. She loves representing her country and her industry.
kristopher mosby is a baltimore-born artist raised in nearby columbia, maryland, and a graduate of the university of maryland, baltimore county (umbc), where he earned a bfa in visual arts. A former graphic designer with diamond comic distributors and senior designer with voice of america in washington, d.C., He has created cover art for several independent publishers and illustrated the graphic novel the blood seekers , adapted from a story by author milton davis. Mosby is also an amateur comic book historian with a deep appreciation for the medium and its legacy.
ryan sands is an actor, illustrator, and filmmaker based in washington, dc. He’s best known for playing geoffrey wilder on marvel’s runaways , and brings over two decades of experience as a published illustrator to his work, including a marvel comics cover. Beyond the screen and the page, ryan is a screenwriter, an acting teacher, and the founder of sands acting studio, where he trains the next generation of performers. He continues to develop original projects spanning film, animation, and genre storytelling.
charles stewart is a featured artist for marvel and dc, most recently on marvel’s storm: lifedream and avengers academy , dc’s power company: recharged and static team-up: anansi .
brandon thomas is the writer of marvel’s legend has it with sanford greene and mass appeal , and dc’s batman: black and white , black lightning , and future state .
he is the co-creator/author of excellence (skybound/image), horizon (skybound/image) and the many adventures of miranda mercury from boom! Studios. |
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| Scott McKays The Necessary Men - Episode 2: The Faraway Plans | |
| Posted on Saturday, August 15 @ 00:01:01 PDT (0 reads) | |
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Welcome back to the world of mike holman.
if this is your first stop, here’s what you need to know: mike holman is the independent journalist, podcaster, and inveterate maker-of-enemies at the center of scott mckay’s bitingly satirical thriller series — four novels (so far) chronicling one man’s habit of ending up in the middle of the very stories the rest of the media is too scared, too compromised, or too incurious to tell. Catch up on the whole series, read past episodes, and find links to every book at “the mike holman novels at the american spectator” and soon, see the video-novel version of this and the previous books at mikeholman.Com.
we’re now serializing the fourth mike holman novel, the necessary men, right here at the american spectator — new episodes dropping every thursday and saturday. The full book goes on sale september 26th at amazon and the new mikeholman.Com site, and you can pre-order a signed copy right now.
where we left off: mike’s post-blockbusters ennui is broken by a massive new challenge from his best friend, mega-billionaire industrialist pierce polk, who enlists him in a plan for a friendly invasion of cuba, destroying a communist dictatorship without firing a shot. He’s flying across the world to hear the specifics of this uber-ambitious plan.
here are chapters three and four of the necessary men.
chapter three
lazarus island, singapore — march 5, 2026
it is not an easy thing to see simon lim in person. The four of us – stan, trent, melissa and i – were joking that we were on an odyssey, like from greek times.
our flight on pierce’s gulfstream left palm beach international airport at just after 9:00 a.M. At a little after 10 p.M. Eastern time, we touched down in dubai for refueling. An hour later, the four of us had stretched our legs a bit, eaten a quick meal in the fbo lounge at the airport, and we were waiting for clearance to take off.
and when we were in the air at around 9:30 a.M. Local time, which was about 11:30 p.M. By our clocks, melissa got the bed in the stateroom, stan called dibs on the divan that converted to a little bed, and trent and i rode it out on the red-eye plane for the seven-hour haul to singapore.
that was an interesting conversation.
“seriously, mike,” trent asked me. “What do you think about this idea? A week ago we were basically resting on our laurels, with what we built with blockbusters and movie king. Our conversations were about giving grants to churches for community outreach and trash pickup, and now we’re talking about taking down a government. It’s…”
“well, let me ask it to you,” i said. “You tell me. Is this nuts?”
“dude, nuts is ok by me. We took out hollywood a year ago. Kicking communists out of power seems like child’s play. I’m all in. But i notice that stan is nervous.”
i tilted my head in the direction of the divan where stan was lightly snoring.
“i dunno. He doesn’t seem nervous right this second.”
“you aren’t answering my question,” said trent. “I’m on board with this thing, but i’m gonna feel a lot better if i know that you’re fully committed.”
“i’m on a 20-hour flight to singapore,” i said. “If i’m not committed, i’m a freakin’ moron.”
“very funny.”
“fine, i’ll be honest with you,” i said. “I have a couple of big concerns i’m working through. First, you and stan are finance guys. I’m a talking head. None of us are intel, none of us are logistics. We aren’t operators. How are we qualified to take this on?”
“we weren’t qualified to run big five media companies, either,” said trent, “or at least stan and i weren’t. But we just figured it out.”
“that’s how i resolve this, too,” i said. “Plus, i know pierce, and pierce isn’t going to put us in a situation where we’re doomed to fail.”
“right.”
“but the other thing is, not whether we’re qualified to run an op like this but who in the hell do we think we are conducting u.S. Foreign policy? We ain’t the government.”
“it’s the governments who fucked it all up in the first place, though,” said trent.
“that’s not much of a defense when you get indicted under the logan act.”
“except nobody ever has been indicted under the logan act,” said trent.
i shrugged.
“so tell pierce no, then. We’ll do the homeschooling, or we’ll put up monuments to thomas edison and blackjack pershing and william mckinley and booker t. Washington all over the country. We don’t have to do this.”
“yes we do,” i sighed.
“why?”
“i’ll tell you. My people came from cincinnati, because my grandfather worked 30 years for procter & gamble. But before he caught on with them, he worked for united fruit in the 50s, out of miami. The job took him around latin america, but the place he’d go again and again was havana.”
“yeah? I bet he said it was cool.”
“he never stopped talking about that city. How lavish and high-energy it was. The architecture, the malecón, the beaches, the nightlife. He talked about it like it was las vegas, before las vegas.”
“because it was,” said trent.
“and i know batista was a shithead and a dictator, and outside of havana the place was terrible. I get all of that. It’s not like cuba didn’t have problems; if they didn’t, the castros wouldn’t have gotten it.”
“but it’s immeasurably worse now.”
“what if cuba could actually be a well-run, free country?” I said. “You’re a finance guy, you tell me.”
“well, the agriculture alone should make them middle-class. Bring modern tech to that farmland and you’re gonna generate some wealth. There’s nickel and cobalt, though they’ve done a shit job of exploiting it. Havana’s port ought to be a hong kong or singapore as a gateway between north and south america, and that should be a big driver. There’s a lot to work with. It just depends on the people. The infrastructure is shit, but you can build infrastructure. And nobody’s better at that than pierce’s people.”
i nodded.
“i mean, the opportunity is huge. The question is, is it so corrupt there that the first investors get robbed blind and that just dries up the next round of money.”
“well, i guess that’s pierce’s problem,” i said.
“opm, baby,” said trent, downing the last of his coffee.
other people’s money, he meant.
by the time we landed at changi airport in singapore, it was around 8:00 p.M. Local time on wednesday. Back home it was… seven in the morning? I was dead on my feet.
but we got off the plane in a hangar, watched the attendants fish our bags out of the cargo hold and put them in the back of a limo bus, and twenty minutes later we were in an executive helicopter flying over the singapore strait.
twenty minutes after that, we landed on what looked like a deserted island until we were over the top of simon lim’s compound.
the chopper put us down on a well-manicured lawn in front of what looked like an old british fortress. Pierce was there waiting for us. A team of guys in white seersucker uniforms rushed out to grab our bags and put them onto golf carts.
“how’s it going, buddy?” He said, shaking my hand.
“i need eight hours of absolutely uninterrupted sleep,” i said. “In fact, i absolutely insist on it.”
pierce laughed.
“you’re on. Everything is all set for tomorrow at eight anyway, and simon had to go into town tonight on some business. So you and the gang are good to go. I’ll see y’all in the morning.”
just then, a little guy showed up and, in passable english, told me he would be delighted to take stan and me to our cottage. So we hopped in the golf cart, and he gave us a ride down the little hill from the fortress to a very fetching set of bungalows lined up along the water. He stopped the cart and carried our bags in, and then without so much as a word, i stumbled into one of the bedrooms – stan, who’d had a full night of sleep on that divan, was checking out the fridge and the bar – and i barely got my clothes off before i crashed on the bed.
the next morning, though, i was all right. I expected to be jet-lagged even with having had my eight hours – nine hours, actually – but nope. And stan and i shared a great pot of coffee looking out over the singapore strait from the deck of that cottage.
then trent and melissa showed up, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
then the two golf carts showed up to bring us to the great house.
simon lim’s british fortress-inspired mansion on lazarus island, singapore
pierce made the introductions, and we sat around a large oval table in a third-story room with a pair of giant plate-glass windows covering two of its walls, which together offered a panoramic view of singapore from across the strait. Stan, trent, melissa, and i were joined by pierce, hal gibson, who had shown up after i’d gone to sleep, rebecca hilton, who was pierce’s new-ish personal assistant, simon, and a mr. Wang, who was introduced as simon’s head of security.
wang said one word the entire time we were there. He merely nodded politely. Wang wasn’t all that physically imposing, but i nevertheless got the impression that if those nods ever ceased, there would be dead bodies everywhere.
i gave simon a firm handshake, which he returned. That was a little surprising. The file on him that i’d read on the plane said he was 74, and he looked it, though not in a sickly or decrepit way. He clearly took care of himself. But he was no taller than 5’7” or 5’8”, if he was more than 150 pounds, i’d be surprised, and he carried himself in a way which suggested his was far more a life of the mind than of physical activity. I could see a deep intelligence behind his eyes and a gravitas which didn’t register in a way i could immediately mark.
the image that filled my head was that this guy was the personification of an old dragon. He was polite, but at the slightest provocation he would cover you in flames from his breath. Together with the bond-villain compound providing our lodgings and the fact that from the time we’d gotten off the plane in singapore we’d been under the control of this man, i found him unnerving.
and i sensed that he clocked my discomfort. He held that handshake a bit longer than normal and gave me a grandfatherly smile, which made it even worse.
the tea was served and the meeting began.
“listen, i appreciate that most of you have come a very long way to be here,” said pierce, as he got things started, “and i’m not just talking about geographical distance. Let me start off by saying that what we’re proposing to do might seem radical and destructive but it’s actually the opposite.
“what we want to achieve in cuba is a transformation of its politics, culture and economics by 100 percent peaceful means. We want to set the cuban people free without unleashing chaos, we want to topple cuba’s government without killing or maiming anybody, and we want to rebuild their economy and infrastructure without creating an oligarchy. Cuba needs a middle class, and the aim here is to stand one up and have it drive the country’s future going forward.”
“speaking for the skeptics in the room,” said stan, quickly interrupting pierce, “what you’re talking about doing is amazingly laudable. But you recognize this can and will go wrong in about 11 million ways, right?”
i gathered that by mentioning the number of 11 million, stan was talking about the estimated population of cuba.
“more like nine and a half million,” said pierce. “They don’t have 11 million people living there anymore.”
“all right,” said stan. “Fair enough.”
“so the plan we’ve built is flexible enough to handle most of the likely items of adversity,” said pierce. “Should we perhaps start by asking whether everybody here is on board philosophically with the idea that cuba should flip over and become a free country and that it’s worth doing to create that result?”
there were nods around the table, including from simon and mr. Wang. Although mr. Wang was always nodding, so i didn’t take that as dispositive.
“i take that to mean you’re a skeptic as to method, rather than mission,” pierce was saying to stan.
“i’m just saying we shouldn’t go into this thinking it’s something that’s going to happen without a mess,” stan said. “The plan document we read on the plane is a little… storybook-y, if that’s a word.”
“do we have the people to pull this off?” Asked trent, probably as more of a defense of stan than as a reflection of his own concerns. After all, i was the one who’d raised that one on the plane.
“we do,” said simon, in a voice which was polite but seemed final.
“so the theory here,” said pierce, “and i’m thinking y’all have not bought into it, is that if we simply drop into cuba and say ‘hey, folks, we’re here to turn the power back on, build houses and factories and shopping malls, hire everybody to do real work for real pay and rebuild the civil society,’ what it’ll do is just make the government irrelevant. We won’t need a revolution in the classic sense, and we won’t need guns. And because we’re doing these things, which the castro and now candela regimes have been complaining that nobody is helping them do, which is their never-ending bitching about the u.S. Trade embargo, they won’t act to stop it until it’s simply too late.”
“can we process that for a while?” I asked pierce. “Because i think this is the fundamental piece that some of us aren’t fully convinced of.”
“sure. We’ve got all day. Let’s game it out.”
“what makes you think that the cubans are just going to lie on their backs and let a bunch of americans – i’m assuming this is a bunch of americans – come in and take over their country?” Said stan. “That flies in the face of like 70 years of their rhetoric, doesn’t it?”
“the temptation,” i said, echoing stan, “is to believe that we get shot as soon as we get off the boat. The document we read on the plane is a little thin on how we’re addressing this.”
pierce smiled.
“simon?” He said.
“it won’t be an american takeover of cuba. It’ll be a chinese takeover of cuba. With lots of canadian subcontractors. And some americans.”
“baizuo,” said mr. Wang. That was his one word.
i knew that word. It was a chinese word for useful idiots, as in stupid white leftists who gave away the store. That kind of thing.
wang was talking about something that was in the plan document, which was that the enterprise we were forming would stand up a non-profit that would recruit leftist kids on college campuses to form work brigades to protect the revolution. I initially thought it was a joke – to recruit commie kids from the universities to dig ditches in cuba and build, ultimately, capitalist infrastructure, was a classic pierce polk prank, or at least the kind of thing he’d theorize about and we’d have a good laugh.
but the cubans had been bringing useful idiot, american leftists in for decades, through the venceremos brigades and the nuestra america pilgrimage trips, along with a number of other organized asset-recruitment efforts.
and apparently we were going to do a fresh version of this. For our own purposes, potentially as a cover for the main objective.
that was a distraction, though, and i quickly stopped simon.
“hang on,” i said. “A chinese takeover? Pierce, why would we want that?”
“it isn’t really a chinese takeover,” said simon. “It’s a chinese front for your polk global freedom initiative to operate within cuban space.”
“well, that wasn’t in the plan document,” said trent.
“operational security,” said hal. “The real structure of this thing is going to be off the books until we control the ground.”
“so,” i said, looking at simon, “this is going to be your operation, and then it’s going to be mine?”
“i am the face of this to beijing.”
“and why?”
“because i am a face beijing trusts.”
“but apparently they shouldn’t, based on what we’re discussing.”
“trust, mr. Holman, is earned. Which i have done with them.”
i nodded, after a beat. Then i did my best to sum up the premise of the operation.
“so this gets presented to beijing and havana as a chinese state-capitalist enterprise, the cubans believe it’s their salvation protecting them from the cuban exiles in miami and the u.S. Marines sweeping out from guantanamo bay to invade the country, and the chicoms believe this is a way to get cuba without triggering an american response? Is that it?”
“fundamentally, yes.”
“and because burro gave you that cryptic statement about how it would be great if somebody other than the u.S. Government would take down candela, we’re going to have carte blanche to essentially run covert american foreign policy in cuba.”
that just earned me a smile from pierce.
“it’s… fundamentally more optimistic than i thought it was before,” said stan.
“the best part of this is we’ll stage it as something the left in the states will be all for,” said pierce. “That’s the point of the omobba brigades.”
“you are not calling them that,” said melissa.
“if that dude puts his name on this program, it would be the funniest thing ever to happen in world politics,” i said.
“he doesn’t have to. It won’t be a formal name. But yeah – we’re going to get the dsa kids and the dolores gramsci-ramoses and all the rest of the loons to throw in behind this deal while it’s officially a chinese operation with canadian sub-contractors.”
“i have a construction firm based in vancouver,” simon offered. “There is the corporate infrastructure we will use.”
“so we form an american non-profit and staff it up to go on college campuses and hire these kids to come down, sleep on cots in warehouses and gyms and so on, and do the grunt work while we hire cubans to put an economy together,” said trent, “and the whole thing is your operation, simon?”
“i’m the silent partner,” simon said. “I have someone who is uncommonly well-suited to be the american face of the venture.”
“this is peter chang,” i said. “You’ve already locked him in, haven’t you?”
simon nodded.
“and he knows nothing about the true nature of this?”
“he does not,” said pierce.
“holy shit,” stan laughed. “That’s perfect.”
“ok,” i said, “so candela’s people are going to accept this because they think it’s china fully coming in and taking over the patronage that the soviets used to. The trumbull administration is going to let it happen because they’re going to understand that this is the long game they’ve asked for. Beijing is going to accept it because they think you and peter are a cutout, which insulates them from blowback and the u.S. Marines showing up, plus it’s your money being put at risk rather than theirs. Is that all correct?”
“that’s the structure,” pierce said. “The fact that we’re going to present this in the hinterlands first, to local honchos not well served by havana in the first place and likely to think more independently, is going to give us an easier way in.”
“and getting the left to buy in makes for a massive smokescreen that pushes away any suspicious media coverage,” said stan. “This becomes the new activist meme they all pay homage to and anybody who criticizes it gets canceled.”
nobody said anything. All the americans were smiling, though.
“what we haven’t really run through,” i said, “is the most important part. Namely, how does this play among the cuban people? It seems like there might be a specific danger here, which is that these are going to be pretty cynical folks by now, and when they hear the chinese are coming it might not be well-received. As in, here’s one more set of foreign colonizers.”
“like i said, we’re going to start this in out-of-the-way places first,” said pierce. “Initially this is going to go in front of people who are desperate to be colonized.”
that was when simon took over the conversation. And that was when i understood why pierce had hooked him into the operation.
and simon had a way of talking about suffering that made it sound like a weather report.
“the average cuban worker,” he said, setting his tea down carefully – i got the impression that everything he did was done carefully – “earns the equivalent of sixteen american dollars per month. This is after the regime’s most recent salary increase, which they announced with considerable fanfare.” He paused. “Sixteen dollars.”
he let that sit there for a moment. Nobody said anything.
“la compañía todo de cuba will pay its workers — entry-level, unskilled labor — the equivalent of four hundred dollars per month, in canadian currency. Because our contractors are canadian, naturally.”
“naturally,” i said.
“at that wage,” simon continued, “lctc will be paying its workers twenty-five times the prevailing rate. In a currency that is actually worth something. In a country where the national currency has lost ninety-five percent of its value in six years.”
he looked at me with an expression that was almost, but not quite, a smile. “Mr. Holman, do you know what happens when you offer a man twenty-five times his current wage in a currency he can actually spend?”
“he shows up on time,” i said.
“he shows up early,” said simon. “And he brings his brother.”
pierce, who had been watching this exchange from his end of the table the way a tennis fan watches a rally he already knows the outcome of, smiled into his tea.
“the peso situation also means,” simon went on, “that mr. Polk’s capital investment goes considerably further in cuba than it would anywhere else on earth. Infrastructure that would cost three hundred million dollars to build in, say, brazil, can be built in cuba for a fraction of that, because cuban labor costs, even at twenty-five times the prevailing rate, remain extraordinarily low by any regional standard.”
he picked up his tea again.
“communist regimes are very efficient at one thing, mr. Holman. They are very efficient at making labor cheap.”
i looked at pierce.
“he’s been saying things like that since tuesday,” pierce said.
“it’s a gift,” i said.
simon didn’t react to that. Which in itself told me something.
“the canadian dollar denomination serves two purposes,” he said. “It is consistent with the contractor cover – canadian firms pay in canadian dollars, this is unremarkable – and it avoids the technical complications of american currency under the embargo, which would create paper problems we don’t need.”
“ok, this is better than i thought,” said stan. Trent nodded in agreement.
simon set his tea down again.
“the mlc we use for retail and smaller transactions. The locals know mlc. They have a relationship with it. Canadian dollars they will take to the informal exchange market and convert, which is fine. The point is that they are holding something worth holding.”
mlc was cuba’s quasi-foreign-facing currency that replaced the worthless peso in exchanges between cubans and the government stores. It was one more way that the candela regime was screwing over the cuban people.
“and the regime?” I said. “What happens when candela’s people figure out that the canadian contractors are paying forty times the government wage?”
“fifty-two times, at current rates,” said simon.
“fine. Fifty-two.”
“the regime’s local officials will be among the first to notice,” said simon. “Which is why they will also be among the first to be – compensated – for their discretion.”
he said the word “compensated” the way a surgeon says “incision” — precise, clinical, no particular feeling about it either way.
“this has already been arranged in a few localities.”
“so we’re not talking about something which has been proposed. We’re talking about a current project we’re going to take ownership of at some point in the future.”
“not really,” said pierce.
“should you reject this plan altogether,” said simon, “the work that has already been done will simply melt away as one more project in cuba which is proposed but doesn’t actually come true. Bribes have been paid, confederates have been identified, but in the end, nothing happens.”
“which is cuba for the last 60 years for the most part,” said pierce.
“ok, and once this thing reaches critical mass,” said stan, “then what? We flip a light switch and tell everybody, ‘haha, this was us all along?’”
“i imagine it’ll have to be more elegant than that,” said pierce.
“we’ll need a cuban face for it,” i said. “I have an idea i can explore on that front.”
“i really only have one question at this point,” said trent. “Mr. Lim, what are you doing here with this? It’s, if you’ll permit me, a bit off-brand for you to be participating in a scheme which essentially defrauds china out of having cuba within its sphere of influence.”
“i have my reasons,” said simon.
i gave him a look which said that i wasn’t buying that, but it was obvious simon didn’t have a further explanation on offer.
from there the conversation devolved into finances, details, geography, division of labor among the various entities involved. And finally, we were hustled into the dining room for a feast of… chili crab.
it’s the signature dish they eat in singapore — mud crab in a rich, slightly spicy tomato and egg-based sauce. You eat it with mantou, which are fried buns, for soaking up the sauce. It was messy, communal and completely delicious. Chili crab is the kind of dish that requires you to use your hands and get involved with it. And simon, who came off as so careful he was almost robotic, dropped his guard and dug in right along with the rest of us.
there was more planning and scheming in the afternoon. And in the evening the helicopter took us into the city.
singapore’s nightlife is, if anything, underrated. Particularly when you have a key to unlock the city the way simon does.
still, i wasn’t convinced it was wise to depend on him for his part in this.
a minimalist line art sketch capturing the iconic modern skyline of singapore’s marina bay.
the next morning, there was a knock on the door of the cottage. I was up; stan was still in bed nursing a hangover he earned putting away too many singapore slings at the long bar in the raffles hotel.
and when i answered the knock, it was simon.
“i am of the impression that you and i should spend some time alone,” he said. “I have something i’d like to show you.”
“all right,” i said, and i let simon lead me to the golf cart he’d parked in front of the cottage.
he drove us to the north tip of the island, to a structure which had been mostly obscured from that panoramic view afforded by the conference-room windows by the tall trees between the great house and the shore.
it was a pagoda, built in a chinese style, open to the air. I fully expected to see a bronze or stone buddha placed in the middle.
instead, it was a cross. About four feet high, installed on a marble pedestal.
“this is beautiful,” i said, as simon and i approached it. “That metalwork is really ornate. How old is this thing?”
“about 500 years,” he said. “This sat atop the first portuguese catholic mission in malaysia in the 16th century. It was destroyed by japanese invaders during the second world war; i bought the pieces and had it restored.”
“but why a catholic cross?” I asked him.
“i come here every morning,” said simon, “and i pray the rosary.”
“you’re catholic?”
he nodded. I stood there dumbfounded.
“i converted to catholicism four decades ago, when i was still deeply embedded within the communist party,” he said. “My faith saved me from the utter emptiness the regime inflicts on the chinese people.”
“and here i thought you were part of the regime.”
“i do the things the regime needs done.”
“the shadow fleet,” i said. “You’re the guy facilitating the iranians and the other bad guys selling oil to china. If you’re a dissident, why would you do that?”
“because there is no prospect of there being a revolution in china in my lifetime,” he said. “Because china has very little oil of its own. And because the chinese people would suffer, while the regime would not, if there was no fuel.”
“hmmmph,” i said, not really buying that.
“and because in performing that task for the regime i have made myself indispensable. You are talking to the man who can cut off china’s oil supply with a stroke of a pen. Why do i do this? That’s why.”
“so you’ve been a silent dissident for 40 years? Inside the tent, so to speak?”
“longer.”
“that has to be maddening. I don’t know how you could stand it.”
“i made one mistake. I spoke out against the waste of the ghost cities the regime was building in the hinterlands. For that i was sent to… re-education.”
“this is the six-month psychiatric treatment thing they do? It’s like a time-out for people who say things the powers that be don’t like?”
“it’s a bit more than that, but yes.”
“well, you were certainly right about the ghost cities and the real estate market in china as a whole, i imagine.”
“i learned the value of silence of words. And loudness of action. I’ve profited from the regime’s losses.”
“and you live in singapore now rather than china.”
“i am out of the sight of my enemies within the regime, but available to my friends. And when i ask, i am granted my requests. In return, when i am asked, i deliver.”
“that probably comes to a screeching halt when the true nature of our plan becomes known,” i said.
“if the plan succeeds, that will be a small price to pay.”
i looked past the cross toward the gleaming singapore skyline in the distance and stopped to appreciate the understated, serene beauty of what simon had built on this island, and it struck me that my initial impression, that this was a bond-villain lair, was shallow. Insulting.
this man was a titan. I assumed because he was chinese that his views on power and morality would be reflective of the chinese communist party’s views. But the house and the grounds were nothing like a ccp apparatchik would choose. And the cross, well..
“last night, i told pierce that i’m going to write a book about what we’re going to do,” i said. “If i do that and it’s truthful, that book won’t be good for you.”
“no,” he said. “It will not.”
i paused. Simon was looking at me dispassionately.
“what did pierce say when you told him you were writing a book?” He asked me.
“his exact words were, ‘fuck yeah, you are.’”
simon smiled and looked at the water.
“you say it’ll be bad for you, and yet i don’t hear you objecting to my writing the book,” i said
“you should write the book,” he said.
“you aren’t worried about the consequences?”
he just put his hand gently on my arm, and then he reached in his shirt pocket and produced his rosary beads.
then simon knelt in front of the cross and began to pray.
i’m a catholic. All the holmans have been catholics as far back as any of us can remember. But i stink at it.
simon, who had no background as a catholic and nothing to gain – with an awful lot to lose – did not stink at catholicism.
and my objections and misgivings about the man we were depending on for this project just melted away on that beautiful morning amid that magnificent view.
this beautifully crafted ornate cross stood over the first portuguese catholic mission in malaysia; now the property of simon lim.
chapter four
jupiter, florida – march 8, 2026
i was home, and i had struggled through jet lag so terrible that i wondered when i’d come back to life, and i’d put pierce off for a day and a half despite his text messages becoming more and more urgent.
and finally, i began to regain something like full consciousness.
so pj made us that amazing trumbull family meatloaf that she’d wrangled the recipe for out of melanie trumbull, the president’s wife, and i ate like a pig.
pj noticed that, because it wasn’t my usual manner. But the jet lag had made me absolutely ravenous. Normal mike went out the window, and he still wasn’t fully back.
the other thing she noticed was that i was in the 10-day itching phase with the beard i was growing. I couldn’t stop scratching my face, even at the table.
“what’s up with that thing?” She asked. “I mean, it looks terrible. Makes you look homeless. And old. You’ve got this big, handsome, famous face and you want to look like some guy who lives on a desert island or something? Why?”
“oh, i don’t know,” i said, trying not to scratch at it again. “I think it suits me. I mean, it’ll look a lot different when it completely comes in. And i’ve had a beard before.”
“yeah, right,” she said. “When was that?”
“right out of college. Before i got the job at ann.”
that had been my first big break in media. I got hired by that cable news network as a reporter – before that i’d worked for newspapers and magazines – and then i anchored my own show for them for a few years until i got fired for getting into an ugly confrontation with the dickhead son of the network’s owner. But you probably know that story.
pj was giving me a suspicious look. She could tell that i was bullshitting her.
then the phone rang and it was pierce and there was just no way i could say no to the call. I was grateful for that, and i think pj could tell that, too.
“go ahead,” she smiled. “But do it on the deck, ok? I’m gonna go walk the dogs after i clean up here.”
“yeah, pierce,” i said, answering the phone and kissing pj – who gave me an “oooh. Scratchy!” Objection – as i got up to take the call out by the pool.
i looked back at her and she gave me a smile.
i don’t know. That was a smile i think i’m going to remember. It was sort of a late-summer smile, even though it was early spring.
and it was almost three hours later, and i could see from the deck that pj had cleaned the table, done the dishes, changed little mike’s diapers, walked the dogs, gone to the bedroom, drawn the curtains, turned out the bedroom light and left only the light on the nightstand to light the room. The dogs whined to come outside, and i let them hang out on the deck with me, and then they demanded i let them go inside so they could go to sleep.
and pierce was still talking about the plan.
“and forget about this logan act shit, will you?” He was saying. “Nobody’s ever been prosecuted under the logan act. You aren’t gonna be the first.”
“ok, look,” i said. “Come up for air for a minute, because i have two things.”
“oh, yeah,” he said. “If it’s about the book, you don’t even need to tell me. Whatever you need, i’m in. The book is gonna be so freakin’ amazing.”
“i’m not talking about the book. When i need your help with the book, i’ll ask you.”
“jeez. Ok. What, then?”
“first, stop with all this about the cubans. These people you’re talking about, these politicians and wannabe batistas comin’ home to havana, i don’t care about them. I already have an appointment with the guy we need, and stan and i are going to see him tomorrow.”
“you said you had a guy,” said pierce, “but you didn’t say who it is.”
“well, i don’t have him yet; we’ll find that out tomorrow. But it’s diego maceo.”
“maceo? He’s political?”
“not publicly, which is one reason he works for this.”
“i mean… sure, he’s probably the most famous cuban there is, but he’s…”
“perfect. The word you’re looking for is perfect. To front this the everything company of yours…”
“la compañía todo de cuba, you mean,” said pierce, even though my limited spanish told me it probably should have been la compañía de todo cuba instead. “Lctc.”
“right. Lctc. When we flip that over and it’s not a chinese thing anymore, we need the most powerful, dominant brand there is. And diego is basically the shaquille o’neal of baseball. He’s a media star, he’s got a business empire with tens of thousands of employees, he’s got charisma, he’s basically a god among the cubans.”
“i’m not gonna lie,” said pierce. “Him going back to fenway where he’d made his career, pitching for the marlins when he was all but washed up in his last year, and then throwing a perfect game against his old team with the boston crowd cheering him on, la bala, la bala, i mean that was just an incredible moment. One of the best.”
“that’s the kind of social power you need. It will sweep away all these problems you’re trying to solve on the phone with me.”
“so what? You’re just going to ask him to be a pitch man for this?”
“i dunno, pierce. I’m going to tell him what we’re doing, i’m going to ask him what he thinks we need to properly brand it so the cuban government doesn’t roll in the armored vehicles to arrest us and steal all our stuff, and then i’m going to see what his reaction is. And we’ll go as far with him as he wants to go.”
“what if he says no?”
“won’t happen.”
“mike, he could very easily say no. When he defected, castro put his dad in prison for 12 years.”
“and that was almost 25 years ago, pierce. The guy lives in coral gables, his businesses are all based in hialeah, he leans into his cuban heritage, his wife is as cuban as you can be without having been born there…”
“yeah, what’s her name?”
“esmerelda fernandez. Or i guess she’s esmerelda fernandez maceo. When i met her, she told me to call her essie.”
“she’d help this too. She’s an… actress?”
“she was. She’s got like a lifestyle brand now. Cosmetics and whatnot.”
“well, that’s a hell of a life he’s built. You think he’s gonna throw it all away to go back to cuba and play politician for us?”
“i don’t know what he’s gonna agree to, pierce. All i know is he’s not going to turn us down totally. It’s just a question of how big the yes is, and the bigger it is, the more problems it solves.”
“ok,” i could hear him sigh. “Fine. Go see la bala tomorrow and then we’ll plan around what he wants to do. It is a good idea; i’m not gonna fight you on that.”
“all right, good.”
“what’s the second thing, mike?”
“the second thing? Oh, yeah. The second thing is this business with peter chang. I have a very bad feeling all around where that’s concerned.”
“oh, come on. The peter chang thing is awesome. It’s a masterstroke. You know that.”
“as a cosmic-level ‘fuck you, i win,’ catfishing peter chang into thinking he’s shilling for china on ms now and the jennifer welch podcast when he’s actually working to install a market economy backed by pierce polk is one of the all-time greatest long cons in the history of the world,” i said. “After all the shit he’s pulled, he deserves every stitch he’ll get. But that isn’t the whole story, and you know it.”
“what are you worried about?”
“you’re building that comms app with his son, pierce.”
“so?”
“and i’m married to his daughter.”
“who he has fucked over more than once, by the way.”
“nevertheless, pierce, she is not going to be pleased that you’re using her dad like this.”
“have you talked to her? She said something?”
“i haven’t told her anything. I don’t think i can hold out on her much longer, though.”
“i mean, you might want to try. If you think pj is going to lose her shit and call her dad to warn him, we’re pretty much dead in the water before we get started.”
“i’m not gonna lie to my wife. This affects her; she’s gotta know about it. And besides, she’s onto this. The beard i’m growing, the singapore trip, the sudden nonstop phone calls… she isn’t stupid.”
“well, do you want me to call her?”
“that,” i said, “is the worst possible idea.”
“fine. You need to take care of it.”
“i intend to. I’m just saying, this was problematic and it should have been addressed.”
“and i would have won the argument anyway, because there is literally nobody on earth who’s a better and more deserving shill and mark for this than peter chang. Don’t even try to argue that point with me.”
“i’m not arguing that point with you.”
“then mike, and you’re gonna get all fussy with me and act like a little bitch when i say this, but it’s your job to control your household, get your wife on board with the plan so she doesn’t blow it up, and put us in alignment.”
“oh, yes sir then.”
“hey, don’t give me that shit. What we’re doing here? It’s fuckin’ important. This could make millions of people get to live exponentially better lives. It’s a game-changer for america’s place in the world. It puts the whole western hemisphere in a position to thrive like never before, and it discredits the fuckin’ commies maybe once and for all. Pardon me for saying it, but i’m not all that concerned if the price for it is a little domestic turbulence at mike holman’s idyllic mansion on the water.”
“oh, fuck you,” i said, knowing he was right and hating him for it. “This is the shit that got you divorced twice.”
“yeah, and thank god for that. Hey mike?”
“what?”
“best of luck to ya!”
and then he hung up.
it was all i could do not to throw my phone into lake worth creek.
i looked at the master bedroom through the plate-glass window. I couldn’t see much with the curtains drawn, but i could tell she’d left one of the nightstand lights on.
she was waiting up for me.
pj didn’t watch a lot of tv in bed. Though interestingly enough, she had started streaming the subtitled version of corazón de caña, the old telenovela series essie was in before she married diego. She denied she was addicted but i’d caught her watching it while she was pedaling away on her peloton.
i knew the nightstand light being on meant she was neither watching tv nor sleeping. Pj wanted to have a conversation, and the extreme length of the call with pierce had assuredly ramped the pressure gauge up into the red.
so i took a deep breath and made my way into the bedroom.
where i found pj sitting up in bed, wearing an absolutely stunning pink babydoll negligee. With an enticing smile on her face that i read as a very good sign.
“oh my god,” i said.
“i’m finally back to the weight i was before i got pregnant,” she said. “I look good.”
“yes, you do.”
“you, on the other hand? Not so much.”
“i know you don’t like the beard,” i said. “And i need to talk to you about that, because…”
“yeah, i think you should. Because something is going on and it’s big, and usually you’re trying to tell me about what you’re doing and i’m like ‘mike, leave me alone about that.’ But this time, mum’s the word.”
“i did invite you to go on the singapore trip,” i said, sitting down at the foot of the bed and latching on to one of her ankles to give it a massage. “Had you come with us, you’d know everything.”
“and i didn’t want to, but now it’s worse, so yeah – you should probably tell me because i can tell it’s going to affect me. And probably in larger ways than the blockbusters stuff did. I’m right, aren’t i?”
“you are,” i said, “and i guess i should tell you.”
so i did.
and she was dead silent the entire time. She had this blank, inscrutable look on her face.
and finally, i was done.
the room fell quiet.
“pj?” I said. “Now is when you say something.”
“ummm, i have a really hard time with the idea that my dad is just gonna up and go work for pierce,” she said. “That’s not really…”
“he’s not,” i said. “At least, not so far as he knows.”
“so what? He’s getting conned? You guys are catfishing him?”
“pretty much, yeah.”
“oh my god.”
“this was not my idea,” i said. “It was already in place before i even got brought into it.”
“michael!” She said, getting out of bed and standing over me. “You’re just gonna go along with this?”
“it isn’t my preference, and i voiced a concern, but on the other hand…”
“mike, it’s not safe for him to be in that position. You put him…”
“wait,” i said. “Stop. I didn’t do anything where he’s concerned. Nobody forced him into this. In fact, what he thinks he’s doing is actually a whole lot worse than what he’s actually doing. What he volunteered for was essentially to help china colonize cuba.”
“oh, and instead he’s helping america do it.”
“which, even if i agreed was the correct way to characterize this plan, is still a hell of a lot better than subjecting the cubans to another kind of tyranny.”
“ok, let’s get something straight,” she said. “I have nothing against the cubans, but i’ll be damned if i’m gonna sacrifice my family for them.”
“we’re not…”
“no, mike, it’s my turn to talk. Those people down there, they had 60-something years to get out. Or to fix their country. Have they done it? No. And now you and pierce think you’re gonna be the great white hope, or whatever, and go fix their problems for them – and in doing that you’re gonna defraud the chinese, and the cuban commies, and screw over a bunch of killers and gangsters in the process? How’s that gonna work out? For us, i mean. Your wife. Your infant son.”
“it’s gonna work out pretty freakin’ well, i think. Big picture…”
“no. I’m done caring about the big picture. My picture is in this house. It’s my family. It’s the people i love. It’s my husband. And what you’re telling me is you care about this big picture of yours more than you care about us.”
“that is absolutely unfair,” i said. “You should 100 percent take that back.”
“and yet, i will not,” said pj. “Because it’s the truth.”
“ok, fine,” i said. “You want the truth? The truth is that this picture you want to protect so much, and it pisses me off that now you think i don’t want to protect it, came from a very specific place. You know where it came from?”
“you’re gonna say pierce, aren’t you?” She said.
“yes! Pierce! My whole adult life i resisted, i said no, i don’t want to be in pierce’s orbit because i won’t have independence if i do. Right or wrong, i gave that up. And when i did, i didn’t have the ability to just tell him ‘no, pierce, i don’t like this.’ Not for important shit. It’s the golden rule – he has the gold, so he makes the rules. And i made my peace with that.”
“i see,” she said sarcastically. “Just following orders.”
“oh, and somehow you’re completely separate from all this, huh? It wasn’t your idea to have our wedding in liberty point? You sure weren’t shitting on pierce when he sent roman and the guys to bust me out of belmarsh prison, you know.”
“ohhhho,” she said, with a pissed-off laugh. “Now i know what you spent all that time out there on. Pierce coached you up and sent you in here to sing his praises.”
“that’s a cheap shot,” i said.
“is it?”
“what i also resent,” i said, “is the idea that after all the bullshit he’s pulled, on each of us individually and both of us together, you would blow up about this over your father willingly getting himself into it. You remember what that man did. Hell, he had something to do with putting me in belmarsh. And you told me what he told you when you asked him for help. What did he say? Come on, pj, you remember. He said you should get an annulment. Now you’re worried about him?”
“i’m not worried about him, you knucklehead. I’m worried about you!”
“and i’m telling you that it’s going to be fine.”
“well, i don’t believe you. How about that?”
i took a deep breath.
“no, pj, it’s not that you don’t believe me, it’s that you don’t trust me.”
“ok, now it’s your turn to take something back.”
“why? It’s true.”
i shouldn’t have said it. I instantly regretted it. But it was too late, and that was too much.
she was shaking her head at me the way she does when she’s too angry to speak.
“ok, let’s turn this down,” i said. “I’m sorry this has…”
“no,” she said. “No, we’re not gonna just paper this over. You’re gonna call pierce and you’re gonna shut this down. Let somebody else do it.”
“i’m way too far in for that, pj.”
“well, this stupid plan of yours puts my household in danger. So if you’re gonna do this shit, then you can do it from someplace else.”
“what the…”
“ohhh, you heard me, mike. Pack a bag and go. Come back when you haven’t lost your goddamned mind.”
i looked at her, and i realized the fight was either going to resolve itself on her terms as stated, or it was going to escalate into something neither of us could control.
so i did it. I packed a bag, went to the nursery and kissed little mike, grabbed my laptop and a phone charger, hopped in the car and drove to the club where i got a room for the night.
mike packed his life into one bag, the domestic price of the cuban adventure.
coming wednesday, august 19: episode 3 of scott mckay’s the necessary men. |
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| Ballin in Boutwell: A hot ticket for Birminghams quintuple-header |
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Ballin in boutwell: a hot ticket for birminghams quintuple-header
in mid-october, when the state of alabama is consumed with college football, college basketball will take center stage in another edition of ballin in boutwell.
going from year one to year three now, weve seen a dramatic jump of not only the games themselves, but just the atmosphere, said preston kirk, vp of events for knight eady. And so year one, we had alabama play wake forest, and now weve got five games over three days that are going to feature doubleheaders with alabama and auburns mens and womens programs. So were extremely excited to have all our teams here at the boutwell this year. And its such a great venue to do a game like this. Its an intimate venue, which creates a really exciting atmosphere for all our games. So couldnt be happier to bring ballin in boutwell here for the third year.”
historic boutwell auditorium will be the host of the event, which starts tuesday october 13 with a mens game between samford and alabama a&m, tipping off at 7:00.
the fun continues with two games wednesday october 14. At noon, the auburn women take on ucf. At 7:00, the auburn men battle florida state.
thursday comes another doubleheader. At noon, the alabama women go up against uah. Then at 7:00, the alabama mens team faces sec foe ole miss.
so being able to go from the womens game in and have that momentum to go straight into the mens game, obviously it just creates a great experience for everybody here, kirk said. Obviously, we love having the womens here. We had the womens regional here a couple years ago in birmingham. So to be able to showcase the womens programs, we cant be more excited to have them here.”
florida state is a repeat visitor to boutwell this season. They lost to alabama 109-105 in 2025. This year theyll try their luck against auburn.
they were extremely excited to come back again this year, kirk said. Now theyre going to play auburn in a great matchup. Thats been an extremely hot ticket so far, and so that auburn matchup is selling extremely fast. Florida state, great program. Theyre extremely excited to be back here in birmingham. Obviously, auburn is excited to be back here to play in ball and about again. Year two for coach pearl, he was great to have here, you know, coming in and taking over that program. He showed a lot of great excitement as the lead up to the game last year, so extremely excited to have them back again this year.”
and the tide vs. Rebels matchup is interesting. You dont see many sec vs. Sec exhibition games.
you know this will be one of the first times that an sec versus sec pre-season game is open to the public, essentially, kirk said. Obviously, this can happen on campus from time to time. But to be able to showcase sec versus sec, thats giving you a little bit of a pre-season look at what these two teams are going to look like, especially against each other. And for them to be able to play hard against another in-conference opponent just creates another little bit of extra atmosphere around the game and a little bit of extra excitement. Maybe theyre playing a little bit harder because its an in-conference game that theyre probably going to see each other again at some point during the season.”
ballin in boutwell is an extremely hot ticket because there are only 4,300 seats in an arena famous for providing shows for many satisfied customers since it was built in 1924.
it is so cool to be here at boutwell, just in a historic venue that has hosted so many things over the years that its been here, said kirk. But to be able to take what it is and to take the bones of the structure and turn it into a college basketball game where were able to put on a show and introduce players and be able to go lights out and really get the crowd excited. It is a great spot to do that in just because of how the seating and how you sit right on top of the court. To be able to take the teams into a dressing room that who knows what, you know, who used those dressing rooms 50 years ago and to be able to say, hey, this is your team locker room today. It gives them an extra special feeling, something that they dont experience very often going into, you know, college coliseums and playing in big arenas. The fact that youre going to come here and play in a very intimate setting, historic building, obviously its just such a cool experience for them and everything that they get involved. Nike and hibbett also just, they come to the table with what they, with the products and how we showcase the store that were going to have out in the lobby. They bring so much to the table. They have been great partners with us as part of this process too.
and with only so many seats, theres not a bad seat in the house. And it will be a loud house.
“electric. Yeah, its loud, kirk said. Obviously its tight. You feel like youre on top of the court when youre watching the game. Obviously when theres a big play made, it gets extremely loud in here just because of how close in proximity everything is. So it is a very exciting venue to be, to play a basketball game in.”
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| We Want Them: Deion Sanders Reverses Course on Colorado Roster Weeks After Closi |
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Deion sanders has never been afraid to change his mind when winning is on the line, but his latest u-turn caught even boulder off guard. Just weeks after slamming the door on former players seeking an extra year of college eligibility, coach prime did a complete 180 during his fall press conference.
the message was simple. If a former buffalo can help colorado win games right now, the door isn’t just open, coach prime wants them back in black and gold.
“if they can help us, we certainly want them,” sanders said at yesterday’s press conference . “We’ve talked about all those guys. I think buck as well. You don’t forget buck. I mean, buck kicked the darn ball out of the end zone every darn time.”
“i think he would be the first guy that we’re looking to affirm, but we’re praying that those votes or whatever that is in front of the judges, they go straight, especially with ezra and a couple others. It would be kind to have those young men included in what we’re trying to accomplish this year.”
the sudden opportunity stems from a federal court ruling granting extended eligibility to athletes from the 2022 season. When the decision first came down, sanders publicly shot down any idea of a reunion.
coach prime takes immense pride in his program’s historic 3.011 cumulative gpa, and he made it clear he had zero patience for guys who flunked out on their way out the door. In sanders’ eyes, if a player didn’t respect the classroom when he left, he didn’t deserve a second chance to wear the buffalo logo.
coach prime takes academics very seriously, and he did not want anyone coming back who would ruin the team’s historic 3.011 cumulative grade point average. He felt those players left the program in a really bad spot when they walked away the first time.
but ideal principles often run straight into football reality. As fall camp got underway, colorado’s coaching staff took a hard look at their depth chart and realized they had immediate fires to extinguish before opening the season against georgia tech. Pride takes a backseat when you need pass rushers and reliable special teams legs to stay competitive in major college football.
sanders and his staff had to put their feelings aside and figure out the confusing legal rules of the new ncaa system to see who could actually help them on the field. Now, the door is officially open, but it is definitely not an easy transition for just anyone to make. Coach prime made it very clear that any returning player must have clean academic records and cannot be slacking off in school.
bringing back familiar faces isn’t as simple as handing out shoulder pads, though. The administration has to vet every athlete through ncaa compliance standards, ensuring proper academic standing and clear amateur status. Former placekicker alejandro mata, who briefly signed with an indoor football team, and edge-rusher keaten wade are prime targets to boost position groups that desperately need experience. Up front, defensive tackle ezra christensen offers immediate muscle for a thin trench unit.
the door in boulder is no longer locked, but the standard remains standing at the entrance. Sanders is offering a bridge back to former players who can make an immediate impact on saturday afternoons, provided they handle their business in the classroom first. As the buffs gear up for a pivotal campaign, coach prime is showing that while his standards don’t bend, his roster strategy is flexible enough to win. |
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| Former Graham Platner Supporter David Hogg Upset That Platner is Headlining a La |
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Screencap of twitter/x video. As the gateway pundit reported earlier today, graham platner – the democrat who was running for u.S. Senate in maine until he was credibly accused of rape and had to drop out of the race, is now set to headline a labor day event in maine.
democrat activist and former dnc vice chair david hogg, is not happy about this news, which is ironic considering he was a big platner supporter until about 15 minutes ago.
the hill reported in october of 2025:
a coalition of democratic youth-focused groups endorsed oyster farmer and military veteran graham platner on tuesday in the maine senate race to take on sen. Susan collins (r-maine) next year.
the groups include former dnc vice chair david hogg’s leaders we deserve, voters of tomorrow, college democrats of america, gen-z for change and youth save democracy. Platner, whose campaign has focused on the working class and makes an economic populist pitch, is among a crowded field of democrats looking to oust the five-term gop incumbent.
“after our historic loss in the 2024 election, conversations within the democratic party have rightly centered on age, the loss of young men, the working class, and the growing disillusionment of young voters,” hogg said in a statement. “As our party charts a path forward, graham platner represents not the entire solution, but a vital step in the right direction.”
here they are in happier times.
hogg helped recruit platner last year. Pic.Twitter.Com/46lugacju5
— richard_thunderbay (@thunderbay63) august 14, 2026
everything is different now.
in the video below, hogg says:
“graham should not be going on any form of comeback tour, if that’s what he’s trying to make this. He needs to go on an apology tour. If anything. He needs to apologize to the victims of his behavior and he needs to apologize to those people that he’s clearly lied to.”
watch:
david hogg says platner shouldn’t be speaking at an upcoming labor event in maine.
they went all in to make this guy a model for the new type of candidate they want to run, and are now upset that he doesn’t want to go away and be quiet. Pic.Twitter.Com/3wet58ipwv
— western lensman (@westernlensman) august 13, 2026
hogg is not the only democrat who feels this way, according to the bangor daily news:
democrats expressed confusion and frustration after activists in hancock county announced a labor day rally featuring former u.S. Senate nominee graham platner with many in the party looking to leave him behind after a rape allegation ended his campaign.
sources said the announcement caught the campaign of the new nominee, former maine senate president troy jackson, by surprise. The mix-up lands at a pivotal moment for him as he races to build a national operation against five-term republican sen. Susan collins in one of the most closely watched senate races in the country.
republicans have spent weeks trying to tie jackson to platner even as jackson has opened a slim lead over collins in early polling. Any fresh attention on the former nominee threatens to undercut that effort just as national democrats rally behind him.
“i don’t know what they were thinking,” former maine democratic party vice chair peggy schaffer said. “He’s not an elected official, not a union member, and he’s an accused rapist.”
did democrats really think platner was just going to fade off into the night?
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| El-Sayed Is The Arab Obama |
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Above photo: maga bigotry does not make abdul el-sayed a friend of progressive politics. Truth social.
the democratic party will recalibrate its messaging after its well-funded senate candidate in a michigan primary lost to abdul el-sayed.
who by his own admission is a capitalist, not a socialist, and a supporter of u.S. Wars. El-sayed is following in the footsteps of another charismatic neo-liberal imperialist.
abdul el-sayed won the michigan democratic party senate primary contest despite constant islamophobic and zionist attacks. The physician and former public health official raised $14 million in defeating his opponent haley stevens, a sitting member of congress who raised more than $60 million. Stevens was the beneficiary of the american israel public action committee (aipac) and a super pac formed on her behalf, and therein lay a huge problem.
after nearly three years of witnessing israel’s war crimes committed in gaza, most people in this country now view that state in a negative light and aipac’s fund raising prowess is more of an electoral hindrance than it is a help. Stevens hadn’t yet received that memo and proclaimed her allegiance to israel at every opportunity, at one point proclaiming, “i will continue to fight for the people of israel. I will continue to fight for israel’s existence. Israel comes to me in my dreams.” What stevens thought was a campaign trail stemwinder sealing the deal instead made her both a laughing stock and a victim of the rising resentment over israeli interference in u.S. Politics.
aipac power doesn’t work like it used to, nor does sending out the party’s “old heads” like james clyburn, or endorsements from democratic party leadership. The party is fast losing legitimacy with millions of its voters, who were always more to the left than their establishment figures and who are now determined to chart their own course after watching joe biden support genocide, surrender promised legislation to the oligarchy, allow covid-era safety net programs to disappear, and then leave his reelection campaign after being kicked out by the zionist donor class, and endorsing the hapless kamala harris who went down to defeat at the hands of donald trump. El-sayed was then perfectly positioned to pull off a victory but the possibility that he will defeat the republican in the general election and become a united states senator may be a cause for caution because we have seen this movie before and we know the ending.
when barack obama was president this columnist would often joke that he must have paid antagonistic media like fox news, and right wing commentators like rush limbaugh to vilify him at every turn. Often leftist critiques of obama would disappear when racist and crude criticisms were loudly expressed against him. Obama actually benefited from his loudest detractors. And therein lies a warning about el-sayed.
donald trump and his maga supporters are going all in on islamophobic attacks against el-sayed. A comical truth social post shows a photograph of donald and melania trump next to a photo of el-sayed and his wife, dr. Sarah jukaku. The caption reads, “two very different america’s.” There are many differences between the two couples such as the fact that trump cheated on his wife, a former skinmag model, with a porn star. El-sayed’s wife is a physician whom he met in college.
apparently dr. Jukaku’s hijab or the fact that she and her husband are muslims with family origins in egypt and india, are supposed to raise hackles. Red meat for maga and bad grammar (there was no need to make the word america a possessive) is what we have to look forward to. We can also expect knee jerk defenses of el-sayed because of racist attacks, instead of the disciplined analysis that we need.
politics in this country have been moving to the right for the last 50 years, and discourse has narrowed so much that there is unjustified happiness when there should be doubt. It was easy to be impressed with el-sayed as he deftly took on question after question about israel. “Nobody ever asks whether palestine has a right to exist. Israel exists. A better question is: does israel have a right to our tax dollars?”
he was spot on in gauging voter sentiments with those words but a closer look shows that el-sayed is not the progressive champion that his campaign marketed. El-sayed is squarely in line with the democratic party oligarchy on other foreign policy issues. He is in favor of continuing what is now $195 billion in aid to ukraine, or rather, to the military industrial complex. He sounds like every other establishment democrat on this issue.
“when we’re talking about taking on putin and his violation of international law i do believe we have a responsibility to uphold international law and therefore to support ukraine in its efforts.” The bottomless pit of public money for a dangerous proxy war against russia could pay for the medicare for all that el-sayed says he supports. On the subject of u.S. Intervention in venezuela el-sayed sounds pretty much like the rest of the people who may be his colleagues in the senate. When the u.S. Kidnapped president maduro he stated the obvious about u.S. Motives but felt the need to take liberal potshots at the man who now sits in jail in new york city in violation of international law.:
“maduro is a terrible dictator who oppresses people. Of course he sucks. But so do so many of the thugs trump so gladly does business with—sisi, netanyahu, milei, bukele, etc. So why venezuela? Fentanyl? He pardoned a drug trafficker. The answer is oil and only oil.”
nor is el-sayed a democratic socialist. “I am not somebody who is a socialist. I believe in capitalism. I just believe that capitalism has to be regulated.” It isn’t clear what that means, but the senate is the graveyard of even mildly reformist positions. Even if el-sayed wins in november there will be little reason for leftist or even “leftish” rejoicing.
the decades-long rightward shift has caused even progressives to narrow their world view and to lower their expectations. We should not be lured into el-sayed love because people like congresswoman nancy mace, famous only for islamophobic screeds, declare that el-sayed and every other muslim official is a “trojan horse” who threatens “national security.”
our vision should be larger. Cutting off funding for israel but continuing it for the ukraine proxy war is not impressive in any way and should be held up as some kind of progress. Nor is embracing politicians who stand for what el-sayed allegedly opposes. Kamala harris quickly endorsed el-sayed after the primary and he embraced her right back.
their mutual-admiration society is not surprising. He endorsed her during her 2024 presidential campaign and even lied about her actions in relation to policy on israel. “Joe biden flew to israel to embrace netanyahu. Kamala harris boycotted him. She sees the opportunity for a clean break on policy in gaza—embracing the humanity of the palestinian people over the brutality of netanyahu. Winning michigan will require her to build on this.”
if by boycotted he means that she didn’t preside over the senate during netanyahu’s 2024 speech before congress he is correct. But she met with him privately at the white house immediately after the speech and that means el-sayed was not telling the truth.
but if he can be thought of as the arab obama we need look no further than barack obama himself, the ultimate neo-liberal and imperialist who successfully marketed himself as a progressive. The two men recently had a “warm and inspiring conversation” and el-sayed expressed hope that obama would campaign with him.
his victory was not lost on the democratic party establishment which quickly learned to correct course and join the guy they couldn’t beat. Of course kamala harris endorsed him and obama called him. The establishment now realizes that tons of aipac cash and endless prostrating towards tel aviv are losing propositions. El-sayed is the democrats’ nominee for a u.S. Senate seat and leader chuck schumer may have endorsed stevens but is now behind el-sayed. The democrats and their oligarchs aren’t stupid. They know they must recalibrate their message. They are still neo-liberal and are still imperialists and they know that their voters are not. El-sayed is forcing a course correction of narrative and not different politics.
perhaps the critiques should be directed more towards people who think of themselves as leftists and not at politicians who behave in the ways they always have. If it can be said that obama fooled millions of democrats, these same people apparently like being fooled because they are swooning over el-sayed with selective amnesia.
we should not shrink our political vision because politicians want us to. Our job is to make demands at every stage of the political process. Every candidate must get a thorough vetting, especially from black voters, who must free themselves from feeling as though they are locked into a hopeless death spiral with democrats and instead see themselves as free people who can assert rights of self-determination and make aspiring candidates think twice about selling themselves as something they are not. Politics in the u.S. Can make fools of us all if we are not careful.
bernie sanders endorsed el-sayed, and our late black agenda report co-founder bruce dixon coined the phrase “sheep dog” to describe sanders. “Sheepdogs are herders, and the sheepdog candidate is charged with herding activists and voters back into the democratic fold who might otherwise drift leftward and outside of the democratic party, either staying home or trying to build something outside the two party box.” The justified revulsion over israel’s genocide and aipac’s political power should not lead to a muslim senator who talks a good game to keep the sheep in line but who in the end cannot stand up to scrutiny or to the beliefs he claims to hold.
there is still time to turn the corner. El-sayed needs a high turnout in a swing state in order to win. It is vital that he be told he cannot claim to oppose “forever wars” and also support the war in ukraine, especially if he also says he wants medicare for all. Michigan voters have a duty to themselves not to be herded by another charismatic and well marketed personality when they actually need real political leadership.
margaret kimberley is the author of prejudential: black america and the presidents. You can support her work on patreon and also find it on x/twitter, and telegram. She can be reached via email at margaret dot kimberley at blackagendareport dot com. |
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| Drummond, Franklin outline ideas for offices | Local News | enidnews.com |
| Posted on Saturday, August 15 @ 00:01:01 PDT (0 reads) | |
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Enid, okla. — Garfield county republican women hosted two candidates for governor and state superintendent of public instruction during a forum at northern oklahoma college on friday, aug. 14, 2026.
oklahoma attorney general gentner drummond, who is running for governor, attended, but mike mazzei, his opponent for the gop nomination, did not. Both men were invited, forum organizers said.
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| Everything Weve Learned About Bills Backup QB Battle Thus Far, And Its Worrisome |
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Everything weve learned about bills backup qb battle thus far, and its worrisome
in this story:
its a somewhat common problem in nfl circles.
good backup quarterback play is hard to come by, and the buffalo bills are relearning that truth this summer.
with mitch trubisky, a former no. 2 overall pick who owns a winning record as a starter, having left for more money from the tennessee titans, the bills are auditioning kyle allen and shane buechele to serve as josh allens understudy.
there may be no player more important to his team in the entire nfl than josh allen. Any elongated absence would likely be an obstacle too insurmountable, but the bills wouldve seemingly been comfortable with handing the keys to trubisky for two or three games.
although they offer value in some ways, neither kyle allen nor buechele is nearly as talented or experienced as trubisky. Furthermore, neither appears to be performing well throughout the first two weeks of training camp practices.
“theres going to be ups and downs and flows with it. But two guys that i think are extremely competitive that, if need be, they dont blink. I feel comfortable being able to call a game with them, said first-year head coach joe brady on thursday in orchard park.
mostly unimpressive during open practices
neither allen or buechele looked good throughout the majority of open training camp practices. Of course, its doesnt help that they have to follow arguably the nfls best quarterback.
allen, who has 19 career starts but none after 2022, was seemingly intercepted on a daily basis. Linebacker joe andreessen picked allen off on the second day of camp, and fifth-round rookie safety jason kilgore subsequently batted away an allen deep ball about 10 minutes later.
two days after intercepting allen in 1-on-1 drills, defensive back jordan hancock picked him off again in the end zone.
meanwhile, buechele, who was notably picked off by kilgore on august 1, has been better of late. He hit tight end keleki latu for a nice touchdown during the return of the blue & red practice. In the final practice at st. John fisher university, he hooked up with stephen gosnell for an impressive scoring strike.
i think that they both have had some practices where you come off and youre excited about it, said offensive coordinator pete carmichael.
intangible benefits
allen and buechele both play important roles in the quarterbacks room, adding more perspective.
i think that they both bring a ton of value, not only on the field, but what they bring to the meeting room, their relationship with josh, their ability to communicate with him, and kind of from their vision to what they see, said carmichael.
meanwhile, starter josh allen, who is friendly with both men, claims to benefit from their presence.
theyve been around a lot of good offense. They understand the game at a very high level, and i find myself learning a lot from them as well, said allen. Its a room that weve all been in together. Were obviously very good friends. We do a lot of hanging out outside the facility.
preseason games highly important to qb decision
theres no substitute for live game reps, especially for quarterbacks. Hence, its important that allen and buechele take advantage of their playing time in saturdays preseason opener.
im excited to let them go kind of spin the football and go play a little bit this weekend, said brady.
carmichael is also looking forward to seeing what the two understudies can do.
as we get going forward with some of the preseason games, thatll be a good time to really evaluate.
meanwhile, josh allen appears to be rooting for both of his teammates equally.
the nature of the business is you have to compete, sometimes, with good friends. Theyre going out there. Theyre spinning it. Theyre making really good quick decisions. Ultimately, come preseason time, come game time, itll be resolved. I got no say in it, said allen.
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| Fridays Final Word - HotAir |
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chelsea handler warns that if todd blanche is confirmed as u.S. Attorney general, hes gonna overturn roe v. Wade.
— breitbart news (@breitbartnews)
(roe v. Wade was overturned by the supreme court in 2022)[pic.Twitter.Com/5kt1rfyvsk][august 14, 2026]
ed: er ... Who wants to break it to her? Not only did roe v wade get overturned four years ago, but the attorney general also had nothing to do with it. I have never been a shut up and sing guy when it comes to celebrities opining on politics – they have every right to do so – but it would be nice if they kept up to date on events and demonstrated even a rudimentary understanding of american civics first.
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the advocate: rep. Eugene vindman came to a predominantly republican virginia county tuesday night expecting to tell local democrats why they needed to help him win reelection and put their party back in control of congress. Instead, the first-term democrat spent much of his visit defending himself to transgender members of his own party before leaving after a profane confrontation with a constituent.
at least two transgender women and one transgender man challenged vindman over his may vote for gop-backed legislation affecting transgender students. Some described being outed to unsupportive parents. Others questioned why transgender people should trust democrats to protect them when members of the party sometimes support republican measures targeting them.
“congressman, you need to shut up and listen,” one cisgender democratic committee member told him during a hallway confrontation.
vindman said he was listening and had stayed despite “you all attacking me.”
“shut the f*ck up,” the committee member responded.
“no,” vindman said, moving toward the man. “You can’t f***ing talk to me that way.”
vindman then walked out, shouting “no” when one constituent asked if they could ask one more question.
ed: just remember – no matter how much you pander to extremists, it will never be enough to appease them. Thats especially true for extremists who completely invest themselves in denial of reality and objective facts. It couldnt happen to a better incumbent in this case, too.
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may this murderer never taste freedom again. He forfeited it when he chose to stalk and kill a father of two. Shame on his chorus of sick, slobbering fans.
— guy benson (@guypbenson)[https://t.Co/pjswc1ykkg][august 14, 2026]
ed: i certainly hope so, but the defense will make its best effort to get a manageable sentence. The nyt reported that the sentencing report (preliminary, anyway) set a floor of 25 years. Thats missing a zero, as far as justice would be concerned. Its not just about justice for the thompson family, who have been the target of mangionistas, but also a deterrent to other wannabe social-justice vigilantes.
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ny post: luigi mangione’s legions of twisted fans were unapologetic in supporting the now-admitted assassin after he pleaded guilty friday in the killing of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson.
the fanatics gathered outside the manhattan federal courthouse where mangione, 28, copped a guilty plea to two stalking charges and continued to frame his cold-blooded december 2024 slaying of thompson as a protest against an unjust health insurance system.
“i see it more of a revolutionary act of protest, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the civil rights era,” said abril rios, 27, a self-identifying “mangionista” and political advocate. ...
another mangione superfan – christina marani – brushed off thompson’s death as small potatoes compared to the spotlight it shined on health insurance.
“in a way, it’s really unfortunate that someone had to die to spark the conversations that we’re now having, but unfortunately that’s the way it is,” she said. “His death resulted in us having these tough conversations about health care inequality and people suffering in america.
ed: this is precisely why the judge needs to impose the maximum penalty on this gutless, back-shooting coward. The deterrents need to be clear and onerous. If not, it encourages more of these conversation starters, and a lack of justice will eventually touch off a deadly backlash that wont be easily contained.
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luigi mangione’s legions of twisted fans were unapologetic in supporting the now-admitted assassin after he pleaded guilty.
— joel engel (@joelengel)
of course theyre unapologetic. They didnt support him b/c they thought he was innocent. They supported him because he wasnt.[Https://t.Co/up6uhn4h1g][august 14, 2026]
ed: precisely.
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46% of americans between ages 18-34 have a favorable view of democratic socialism, while 23% hold an unfavorable opinion.
— frank luntz (@frankluntz)
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ed: its also a metric for the failure of our educational system. The left completed its long march through academia a generation ago; this is one of the results. Mangionistas are another.
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just the news: two federal agencies gave taxpayer dollars to charities with ties to terrorism, new reports show.
the state department worked with world vision to distribute $2 billion in global health foreign assistance even though an israeli court convicted the nonprofit’s gaza affiliate operations manager of sending up to $50 million to hamas in 2022. Separately, the health and human services department (hhs) provided nearly $80 million to 14 organizations linked to terrorism and extremism.
the middle east forum (mef) recently reported that 14 terror-linked and extremist organizations, led by cair, collected nearly $80 million from hhs through the refugee resettlement, health, and mosque renovation grants. Through this fund, the council on american-islamic relations (cair) california chapter received the most of any islamist group, collecting $42.2 million in funding from the hhs to provide legal and social services to afghan refugees. ...
five of the organizations that received the funds from hhs were overseas groups, which received $14 million between them. These included a pollster with links to palestinian islamic jihad and a west african college with a history of homophobic mobs attacking suspected gay students receiving funds to study homosexual muslim men with hiv.
the mef’s report found that 87% of the funding was approved under the biden administration.
ed: that is, of course, the least surprising part of the entire report. The trump administrations efforts to shut down usaid have slowed down the pipeline to foreign extremist groups, but the pipeline needs to get shut down permanently. Read the rest of the report for a refresher on cairs links to the muslim brotherhood and hamas, and dont miss the free beacon report connecting all three to abdul el-sayed. Speaking of which ...
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free beacon: michigan senate candidate abdul el-sayed will spend labor day weekend alongside a jew-hating pakistani cleric who has promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories and admitted to forcing his 13-year-old niece into marriage.
el-sayed is scheduled to speak at the islamic society of north americas (isna) 63rd annual convention, held in detroit from sept. 4-7. El-sayed, whose father-in-law is a founding member of the isna—which is affiliated with the muslim brotherhood—will speak sept. 5 on the oddly titled panel, cultivating god awareness in a turmoiled america, according to an itinerary.
the convention features a rogues gallery of notorious muslim figures whove engaged in holocaust denial and the persecution of christians and have also been unindicted co-conspirators in terror plots, including the 1993 world trade center bombing. But one speaker stands out for his particularly noxious record: tariq masood, an influential pakistani cleric who is also on the isna roster. ...
according to multiple pakistani media reports, masood in 2021 admitted in a sermon that he forced his 13-year-old niece into marriage, and advised his followers to do the same with their young female relatives. Masood also said it was a husbands decision whether or not his wife can go to college or must remain a housewife, citing sharia, or islamic religious law. In 2024, canadian activists urged the government to block masoods visa to the country over his pedophilic rhetoric.
ed: as one of my favorite poems goes: you can tell the man who boozes by the company he chooses. El-sayed chooses the company of radical islamist preachers who arrange pedophilic forced marriages. Mike rogers must be wondering how he lucked into having a candidate whos this clueless.
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oh god no! One screenwriter is going to stop pitching scripts to paramount??? Where will the scripts come from? Hollywood is notorious for having a shortage of people pitching scripts. Producers have to go to coffee shops and beg baristas for script ideas.
— spencer pratt (@spencerpratt)[https://t.Co/31w6dcqvne][pic.Twitter.Com/zs9p88dsin][august 14, 2026]
ed: i think pratt pretty much covers the absurd threat this represents to paramounts fortunes. Its worth noting, though, that all of this consolidation in hollywood means that the only real alternatives would be disney and sony. Thats one reason that im not crazy about these mergers and acquisitions, even when they bring in fresh ownership and perspectives. Other than that, though ... Bwa-hahahahahaha.
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politico: in colorado’s 8th district, where beef production is a major industry, democratic nominee manny rutinel is being attacked for “a decade of pushing veganism” and “hurling disgusting insults at the agricultural community,” as alexandria cullen, spokesperson for gop rep. Gabe evans, put it.
as an undergrad, rutinel posed shirtless draped in a peta banner, and at yale law, he said animal agriculture is a “horrific, exploitive industry,” the colorado sun reported. In since-deleted 2017 reddit posts, he suggested veganism as a solution to high food prices and voiced support for a movement that opposes the slaughter of animals for food.
rutinel says he was vegan earlier in his life, but no longer is. “The views that manny posted nearly a decade ago are not his views today,” said clay volino, his campaign manager, who noted rutinel is “laser-focused on lowering costs for families.”
republicans are making similar attacks elsewhere, trying to wage a new meat-fueled culture war. The push to point out democrats’ veganism is often about the local economy — but it’s also cultural red meat, and comes at a time as some republicans and maha activists are pushing for more americans to embrace a more meat-centric diet.
ed: i get the concept – the gop wants to make the weirdo argument. The problem is that being vegan isnt really all that weird, and people choose it for different reasons, some of them religious. There are far better grounds for the weirdo argument this cycle, especially in texas, michigan, maine, and wisconsin.
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candace: if you dont count the video, dna, murder weapon, ballistics, motive, text messages, and multiple confessions, there is zero evidence against tyler robinson
— the babylon bee (@thebabylonbee)[https://t.Co/loizpt03gv][august 14, 2026]
ed: maybe this is the modern version of what have the romans ever done for us?
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streamer hasan piker curses a vietnamese refugee for criticizing communism, saying america is worse, and implying she is privileged to be able to criticize communism and should go back to living in poverty in vietnam where she cant. Make it make sense.
— kevin bass (@kevinnbass)[pic.Twitter.Com/wbkos3rg5s][august 14, 2026]
ed: i may write more about this tomorrow. In the meantime ... Res ipsa loquitur.
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daily mail: iran plans to ramp up aggression in the strait of hormuz to ratchet pressure on donald trump ahead of the midterm elections, according to tehran insiders and foreign policy experts.
trump conceded last week that the us was now low-keying peace talks with iran after a ceasefire deal collapsed.
now with less than three months until the midterm elections trumps poll numbers are under threat from gas at a national average of over $4 per gallon with no end in sight.
former us diplomat jonathan wachtel told the daily mail that iranian leaders carefully study both american military capabilities and political calendars.
two iranian sources familiar with tehrans planning confirmed that the midterms are a key pressure point that the islamic revolutionary guard corps will hope to exploit.
ed: this is a measure of irans desperation, not trumps. The regime in tehran cant sustain itself through a lengthy blockade. They want to return to large-scale kinetic operations to provide a distraction from the economic collapse taking place inside iran. Low-keying it is still the right call, with occasional kinetic responses to degrade the irgcs capacity for disruption in the strait.
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bloody, hair-pulling brawl erupts at swanky beverly hills steakhouse serving $80 filets
— california post (@californiapost)[https://t.Co/vhnztjl1fb][pic.Twitter.Com/dgq9ujltll][august 14, 2026]
ed: question – are these incidents normal at steakhouses? Answer – no, theyre rare.
im here all week, folks. Or i was. Have a great weekend!
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| Geno Auriemma shuts down WNBA trans debate as it doesnt exist despite push by ex |
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Geno auriemma shuts down wnba trans debate as it “doesn’t exist” despite push by ex-nba players
uconn head coach geno auriemma does not believe the transgender debate is worth discussing as it is not a real issue in the wnba.
the last few weeks of the wnba season have been dominated by off-court talk. Indiana fever guard sophie cunningham, perhaps looking to capitalize on her maga fanbase, declared that she wanted “to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldnt have to go against biological men.”
her comments in the espn story sparked a large and divided response across the sports world. It even sparked a remarkable story when ex-nba players enes kanter freedom and royce white declared their intent to be eligible for the 2027 wnba draft, as they attempt to force the league to clarify its rules.
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the wnba is standing firm against the duo’s ridiculous sentiment. There are currently zero openly transgender women playing in the wnba, and there are no known transgender women currently competing in womens college basketball.
as a result, auriemma - the legendary long-time huskies head coach - has joined the debate, insisting it is a non-issue.
“well, not to belittle it at all because i dont mean to because listen, you know, people have a right to their opinion. I get it,” auriemma told tmz sports.
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“but why are we making a big issue over an issue that doesnt exist?
“i dont remember reading where theres transsexual players in the wnba. I dont remember reading where they were being presented with cases where this is going to happen next week. I dont see an issue. Why are we making it an issue?
“were making it an issue because theres enough people out there that need this to be an issue for their own personal gain.”
auriemma continued to go after the likes of kanter, freedom, and white, and insisted their agendas are taking attention away from the league and the work it has done in recent years. He added: “i think we should talk about the players. We should talk about the teams.
“we should talk about the incredible young group of players that have come into the league. We should talk about how incredible some of these teams are.”
on friday, the wnba players’ association released a statement on social media celebrating diversity and inclusion while claiming this group “will not be used as political pawns.” Last week, wnba commissioner cathy engelbert also sent a letter to teams, addressing concerns as the discourse spirals out of control.
“we recognize that this is a complex and nuanced topic, and we will continue to have important conversations with all of you and the players association in the weeks and months ahead,” engelbert said in the memo. “We also plan to convene additional discussions and offer listening sessions for any team leaders who would like to participate.
“your perspectives and feedback are invaluable, and i appreciate those who have already reached out to share their thoughts.” |
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