The Salty Live

Hi everyone! Intruding on your Saturday to post our great TACO Tuesday conversation from last week. If you need a break from the relentless news cycle, check out my conversation with Frederic Poag and Michelle Kinney . Stay Salty! 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 everyone who tuned into the latest episode of Pax Americana today. The Pax Americana community just keeps growing and Olga Lautman and I are floored by how many of you tune in every Thursday. If you missed today’s episode, please catch it here. Olga Lautman and I are still taking sign ups for our Fall 2025 seminar: a 6-week discussion on information warfare, disinformation, and media...

Thank you to everyone who joined Olga Lautman and me yesterday for our weekly chat about Russia’s election interference in the 2016 election. Hours after the show, which you can stream above, Russian drones invaded Polish airspace in what is a massive provocation of NATO. Poland and other NATO allies scrambled to shoot down the Russian drones but make no mistake — this is the first time that Russi...

This is a very serious geopolitical moment. Thank you to everyone who joined Olga Lautman and me for an emergency Live to discuss a brewing crisis that cable news and most legacy media ignored tonight. If you missed it live, you can watch the recording above. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit saltypolitics.substack...

A belated release of this week’s Taco Tuesday with Frederic Poag and Michelle Kinney ! We had such a great time talking about life — with a little politics sprinkled in. This week we discussed the existential question of our times: if your significant other turned into a Trumper after marriage (like RFK Jr. did), would you stick with the relationship (like Cheryl Hines has) or would you bail? This...

Thank you to everyone who joined my Live yesterday with the incredible Andy Ostroy . If you don’t already follow his podcast, The Backroom with Andy Ostroy, wherever else you get your podcasts, you should. He is whip smart and always has interesting guests. Andy had some great insights into the Trump-RFK Jr. relationship and why he thinks our Secretary of Health and Human Services may not necessar...

Thank you to everyone who tuned into this week’s Active Measures Substack Live with Olga Lautman ! This week, Olga and I discussed this week’s chapter of Active Measures, which delves into the convergence of the Russian and American neo-Nazi movements and the political rise of Donald Trump. If you missed our newsletter on this topic on Monday, you can catch up on it below. Thanks for supporting ou...

Thanks to so many of you for tuning into this week’s episode of Pax Americana with Olga Lautman and me this morning. A few housekeeping items: * Join us for this week’s episode of Active Measures at 2:30 PM ET. As I mentioned on the show today, I was out of town earlier this week, which is why we are doing this week’s episode today. We will be back next Tuesday at our regularly scheduled time of 1...

Thank you to everyone who joined Olga Lautman and me on Thursday to discuss the debacle that was the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. If you missed it, please check it out above. 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 who joined Olga Lautman and me today for our ongoing conversations today about Russian interference in the 2016 election. If you missed it live, you can watch it here or on YouTube . For more information, be sure to read and follow the entire Active Measures series and check out yesterday’s newsletter on how the Kremlin infiltrated the 2016 election to help Donald Trump...

Thank you to everyone who joined Olga Lautman and me for our latest episode of Pax Americana. I’ll have more on this tomorrow but if you want a curtain raiser on Putin’s summit/humiliation of Trump, please check out our conversation above. Catch us next week at our usual time: Thursdays at 11 AM ET for another episode of Pax Americana. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with o...

Thank you Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA , Mnera , john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION) , Kevin Paquette , Jay Corvan , and many others for tuning into my live video with Frederic Poag ! We had so much fun talking Trump’s newest TACO move (this time on tariffs) and even more fun talking about how men and women approach dating and relationships. Most of all, it’s great to take an hour out of the crazy new...

Thank you to everyone who joined my Live with Olga Lautman today about the third installment in our Active Measures series, which details how Russia infiltrated the 2016 presidential election to help elect Donald Trump. If you missed yesterday’s newsletter about this topic, you can read it below. And if you want to check out the whole series, you can check it out here . Join us again next Tuesday...

Thank you to everyone who joined Frederic Poag and me for Taco Tuesday a few days ago. I was remiss in posting this earlier but Frederic and I had a wonderful discussion about Trump’s victim complex (with a few mentions of Plato’s Republic and the Allegory of the Cave , because that’s how we roll). Have a great weekend. Stay Salty! Julie This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with...

Thank you to so many of you for tuning into my live video with Olga Lautman today. The show notes are below. In the meantime, join us on Tuesday at 12:30 PM ET for another episode of our new series, Active Measures. We’ll see you back here next Thursday at 11 AM ET for Pax Americana. Show Notes (courtesy of Olga) * Trump-Putin Meet Trump’s shady real estate associate Steve Witkoff met with Putin i...

Thank you to everyone who joined my Live with Olga Lautman today to discuss the second installment of our Active Measures series about how Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump become president. If you missed the companion newsletter, you can check it out here. And if you missed the first newsletter and accompanying Live, you can check them both out below. This is a public ep...

Thank you to everyone who joined Michelle Kinney and me tonight for our weekly confab. We are hosting this weekly show at 7:30 PM every Monday as a way to take a break from the news and just talk about… stuff. Tonight, as we were about to go on air, news broke about the horrific shooting in Midtown Manhattan. As I send this newsletter out, we do not know much about the shooter, his motivation or t...

Thank you to so many of you for joining my Live today with Olga Lautman ! Yesterday, Olga and I launched a weekly series called Active Measures: How Russia Attacked the 2016 U.S. Elections in order to stop Trump’s lies about Russian election interference dead in its tracks. If you missed last night’s post, you can read it below. Starting next week, we will be dropping a new newsletter every Monday...

Thank you to so many of you for tuning into my live video with Frederic Poag yesterday. For those who missed it, we had so much fun talking Trump’s TACO tariff policies, football, tequila and restaurant recommendations. (In case you missed it, Celeste on W. 84th and Amsterdam is the unlikely hidden gem Italian restaurant in New York City. They don’t take credit cards or reservations, so show up ea...

Thank you to everyone who joined my Friday night Live with Frederic Poag ! We had such a great time discussing how the rest of us should approach Trump voters in this time of national crisis. Should we write them off? Keep trying to bring them back to reality? Is that even possible? Watch the show and let me know what you think in the comments. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss th...

Thank you Marcus Flowers , GW B , Paola Palazzo , Kimberly Briedis , Jay Lapidus , 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

Thank you to so many of you who joined this week’s episode of Pax Americana this week. We got through a lot in an hour, including America’s descent into fascism, the ongoing drama in the Putin-Trump relationship and so much more. If you missed it, please watch it above. And please join us next Thursday at 11 AM ET for another episode. Show notes, courtesy of Olga Lautman , are below. * Fascism is...

Thank you to everyone who joined Olga Lautman and me for this week’s episode of Pax Americana. Today was not just a typical Thursday. It was a day that will live in infamy because of the capitulation by the House of Representatives to Trump’s budget bill. This affects us both here at home and it affects are allies and enemies abroad. The votes of fewer than five hundred men and women in Washington...

Thank you to everyone who joined Michelle Kinney and me for our inaugural show about stuff . You know, the stuff that women go through as they get older, whether it’s dealing with kids, aging parents, menopause, the sandwich generation, or even venting about the stupid Bezos wedding that sent us over the edge. So many of you took time out of your Sunday night to chat with us, for which we are deep...

Thanks to everyone who tuned into my live conversation with Frederic Poag last night about the future of the Democratic Party. We didn’t just address the problems — we also talked about solutions. I’ve been asked why I focus so much on the Democrats, rather than exclusively pointing out the failures of the Trump Administration. The answer is simple: you can’t beat somebody with nobody . And right...