Erik

THE LEVERAGE is a novel built partly from the documented record, and the seam between the two is meant to be visible. The history in it is real. Where a real person speaks, the words are theirs. Everything load-bearing is logged, with its source, at theleveragebook.net/register

Not even half a Scaramucci... Damn.

I kind of think that the current generation of F1 cars have not been adequately tested in wet conditions.

Dear Maine Democrats -- Here's your new commercial. You're welcome.

I just picked all the apples from our trees before the nor'easter picks them for me. I guess I will make pie.

There are about 100,000 polling locations in the US. There are fewer than 15,000 FBI agents. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...

I have updated both the manuscript and the Source Register to incorporate the Dallas loyalty oath. theleveragebook.net/register/ youtu.be/Mqo71euxd_4?...

Michael Cohen, timing, and why I have chosen to publish independently open.substack.com/pub/thelever...

Hoover, Angleton, and Philby. open.substack.com/pub/thelever...

THE LEVERAGE is a speculative political thriller about the quietest institution in American politics — from Hoover's files to Epstein's cameras, and the operator running today's version from inside the government. Research and excerpts on my Substack: read.theleveragebook.net?r=8js2rj&utm...

"Mr. Trump announced in December that he expected two of the ships to be constructed over the next two and a half years." Tell me you know nothing about shipbuilding. It take 6 years to build an Arleigh Burke and they've already built about 75 of them. Yay BIW. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...

I'm not sure why everyone is all bent out of shape about Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy and no one is saying anything about Zendaya as Athena. Helen of Troy and Athena are half sisters with unusual birth stories (Zeus is the father of both). Zeus clearly does not father white children.

Remind me where most of the 9/11 hijackers were from... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/u...

ETTD USMNT

Happy Little Round Top day! Bayonets!

So are school districts going to hire genital inspectors for high school athletes?

What I really don’t get reading Thomas and Gorsuch dissent is how dual citizenship is permitted (like 4 of 5 of Trump's children and two of his three spouses)..

How the fuck was the 14th amendment a 5-4 vote? Time to read the dissents. Also, as a Maine resident, fuck Susan Collins.

Warsh is really truly fucked. Why does ANYONE accept a job in this administration? The really boggling one is Markwayne Mullin who gave a up a super safe senate seat that he could hold for 30 years for a job that he'll likely get fired from in 18 months.

In other news, some of the blondes on Fox News are not real blondes.

A lot of Christians in Texas are now going to have to decide if being Christian is more important than being Republicans. This will be interesting. The debates will be insane.

shoutout to jared polis

Hunter Biden was prosecuted under the Biden administration. Would Hunter be eligible? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Hey, look over here instead! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

Janet Mills just dropped out of the Maine senate primary.

Inherent contempt.

Is Trump setting the stage to force the NFL to allow him to buy an NFL team? He has tried repeatedly to buy an NFL team and the league has always rebuffed him. Is he now using the DOJ to give him the leverage of an antitrust case? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The fact that the ballroom is being built with donations (cash and in kind) makes it 100X worse. It is just straight up patronage now. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...

The Art of the Deal? The Iranians just ate him for breakfast.

Hey everyone. Good luck this evening. youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...

It's snowing in midcoast Maine. Dear mother nature... Fuck off, we're done.

Is it odd that a colonel was flying as a WSO on a combat mission?

This photo reminds me of both 9/11 and a scene from the movie Airplane.

POWs change everything www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Watching Ollie North sitting on TV talking about how the Iranians should not have missiles after Ollie North sold the Iranians missiles for years... I look forward to the return of irony.

There is no plan.

I bet he heckles the justices.

The fact that the ballroom is privately funded makes it vastly worse. It makes overt a patronage system in the United States.

The edge cases here are difficult. Let's say the prompt given to AI is "make a naked image of a sexual nature of an 18 year old woman who has underdeveloped secondary sexual characteristics". Is that child porn? It's creation overtly defines it as not. But it is likely indistinguishable from porn

In the history of the world a government demanding a list of Jews has never gone wrong. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

If the Iranian military has the opportunity to wipe out a 3,500 person MEU at the cost of losing 50,000 of their own soldiers, they would do it in a hot second. Winning a ground war against an enemy who is willing to take significant casualties is exactly the recipe for quagmire.

A bunch of ICE agents who are getting paid while standing around the airport looking at long lines and watching TSA agents work, but not get paid, is pretty much the Trump presidency in a nutshell. The TSA people must be thrilled about all this.