The Salty Live

Alex Vindman is a rare talent: a refugee, a soldier, a whistleblower and now a candidate for senate in Florida. I sat down with him last week to discuss his race against MAGA Senator Ashley Moody, his clear-eyed vision for this country and his time hanging out with Larry David. Keep an eye on this race, because if anyone can turn Florida blue this November, it is Alex Vindman. Watch this podcast a...

Please don’t turn away from the horror that ICE is inflicting at this very moment to detainees at Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ. These men and women are on a week-long hunger strike because of the conditions at this facility. This afternoon guards violently beat the hunger strikers, pepper spraying them and harming them. Please spread what is happening far and wide and please subscribe to The Mayday...

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It was an absolute pleasure to welcome Garry Kasparov , the founder of Renew Democracy Initiative and author of The Next Move here on Substack, to The Mayday Network podcast. For the past several decades, Garry has been valiantly fighting for democracy in Europe and around the world. He has stood up to Vladimir Putin with extraordinary courage and has been a staunch advocate of Ukraine. We discuss...

We were so thrilled to welcome Nicole Walters to Saturdays for Sanity this weekend. In just a short while on Substack, she has managed to dethrone Andrew Tate as the bestselling account on Substack. Once you see our conversation, you will see why. Thank you Lawrence Winnerman , Jai C. Porter🇨🇦 , Eric Lullove , Elizabeth , Ms. H , and many others for tuning into this live video with Dana DuBois , M...

Donald Trump is finally firing Kristi Noem as the Secretary of Homeland Security and replacing her with MMA fighter (and senator) MarkWayne Mullen. Turns out that spending hundreds of millions of dollars on promoting yourself instead of Trump and sleeping with your subordinate on a government-funded plane ( allegedly) is a bridge too far even for this president. We break it all down here. Check it...

Thank you to everyone who joined my live video with Jim Acosta and Gretchen Carlson. Hope you enjoy. Julie This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit saltypolitics.substack.com/subscribe

Thank you to so many of you for tuning into Michelle Kinney ’s and my conversation with Rep. Tom Malinowski. After watching, I hope you understand why he is so fantastic and why his loss in the NJ-11 primary last week is such a loss for the country. If you like this content, please follow us over at the Mayday Network on YouTube to catch all our podcasts, Daily Dispatches, Saturdays for Sanity at...

Friends, I was so honored to have John Harwood join me for today’s conversation. We covered a lot of topics: the media’s role in Trump’s abuses and the future of an independent press, what it would take to get our country back to a unifying principle and much more. John has spent decades as a print and television reporter, covering both Republican and Democratic administrations with tremendous tho...

Waj and Julie talk ICE, Nazis and Jennings. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit saltypolitics.substack.com/subscribe

This is our last Pax Americana show of the year, so this is a great time to thank you for all your incredible support for our various Pax projects in 2024. From our Active Measures series on Russian election interference to our Disinformation and How to Counter It seminar to the weekly Thursday show, Olga Lautman and I have been so touched by how quickly this community has grown. It turns out that...

Check out my conversation with Dana DuBois of the Daily Whatever Show, who has an absolutely insane story of online dating in the age of AI. If you’re out in the dating world, you need to watch this. If you aren’t, you need to watch it too, if only to share this information with friends who are. And if you work for Meta, you have some explaining to do. This is a public episode. If you'd like to di...

Thank you to many of you for joining Olga Lautman and me for our weekly Pax Americana show yesterday. We had a lot to get through — including the militia that Pete Hegseth is set to unleash on American streets, its parallel to the Soviet Union and the Russian co-opt of Germany’s far-right party. Check it out above and let me know your thoughts in the chat. Show Notes: * According to internal Defen...

Friends, If you want a spooky Halloween story — except this one happens to be true — please watch my conversation about the perils of AI with Dana DuBois and Lawrence Winnerman , who also host the Daily Whatever Show here on Substack. This was truly an eye-opening discussion about AI and how it is set to change what we think, how we think and what we remember. If it sounds like something out of a...

Hi everyone! Check out my Live with Matthew Wollin as we discussed his must-read article highlighting the courageous Big Law attorneys who left their perches at white shoe firms to fight for democracy. These people are fighting in the trenches and they deserve to be much more recognized for their efforts. It’s also the last Wednesday of the month, so I have a column out over at The Banter that you...

Sometimes it’s good to get out of the New York City bubble — so I decided to head to Bethlehem, PA for the No Kings rally today. Half of Bethlehem is located in Northampton County, which is the swingiest county in the swingiest state in the nation. As goes Northampton, so goes Pennsylvania — in every single presidential election but three since 1920. Let me tell you, this crowd was huge. It was jo...

Thank you to everyone who joined Olga Lautman and me for our Live to discuss our latest Active Measures chapter: The Kremlin Probes America’s Election System . You can read the entire Active Measures series here. In the meantime, thanks for tuning in. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit saltypolitics.substack.com/sub...

Thank you to everyone who joined Olga Lautman and me for our Active Measures Live today, where we discussed Chapter 11 of our Active Measures series: Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Kremlin. If you missed yesterday’s deep dive into this installment, you can check it out below. To read the whole series, please visit the Active Measures series here . This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

Thank you to everyone who joined Frederic Poag , Michelle Kinney and me for our final Taco Tuesday show yesterday. Don’t worry — we’re not going far! Instead of Taco Tuesdays, we are launching Touch Grass Wednesdays. We’ll drop a new episode of Touch Grass at 4 PM ET every Wednesday over on the Mayday Network on YouTube. To subscribe, please click on this link , so you can follow this show and all...

Thank you to so many of you who joined Olga Lautman and me for our Active Measures Live yesterday. If you missed it, you can catch it above. To read more about our latest chapter on how Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump win, you can visit the Active Measures page here . I am writing over at the Banter today, so you can read my latest there below. Stay Salty! Julie This is a publ...

Thank you to everyone who joined Olga Lautman and me for our Active Measures Live series this afternoon. If you missed the latest chapter in our Active Measures series, you can read it below. Watch for a new chapter in your inbox next Monday and join us for a Live to break it down next Tuesday at 12:30 PM ET. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acc...

Thank you to everyone who joined my Live with Katie Brennan and Michelle Kinney this morning. Katie, who is currently running for General Assembly in NJ, has an interest plan for how states can fight back against media corporations that would prevent free speech. Check it out above and let me know what you think in the comments. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other su...

Thank you Iammymom , Nicole L , Kevin Paquette , Evelyn Harrison , Lori Paquette , and many others for tuning into my live video with Olga Lautman ! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit saltypolitics.substack.com/subscribe

Friends, I don’t mean to intrude on your Saturday but I wanted you to watch this replay of my Live with my good friend Denver Riggleman , because it’s important. Here’s what you need to know about Denver: he is a former Republican member of Congress from Virginia who left the party (or maybe the party left him). He is a former military intelligence officer and served as an advisor to the House sel...

Thank you to everyone for joining Olga Lautman and me earlier today for another great episode of Pax Americana. It was wonderful to have Ken Harbaugh of The Ken Harbaugh Show on the show today. Ken has spent lots of time on the front lines in Ukraine and has a deeply informed perspective that you need to hear. We also addressed the parallels between our accelerated slide towards autocracy here in...