In the first hours after the strike, Trump called on the Iranian people “to take back their country.” With what? Sticks and stones? For the sake of projected bravado, our bone-spur president is urging the Iranian people to come out of their houses and die.
Trump could have feasted on the PR chest-beating from the Maduro capture until the midterms. But his Mars god-of-war complex wouldn’t let him.
Get my full take on the Iran attack on Fresh Hell.
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Iranian leaders “were the victims of their disbelief in Trump.” Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on how Iran's leadership made the fatal mistake of gathering together in one location in daylight.
See the full conversation between Olmert and Tina Brown on Fresh Hell.
“What Netanyahu wants is one thing. What other parts of the state of Israel want is another.” Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on why he believes PM Netanyahu’s warmongering is partly influenced by the upcoming elections in Israel. More on Fresh Hell.
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Hope you can join me today at 12pET when I’ll be speaking on Fresh Hell with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about what could emerge from the rubble and the rejoicing in Iran.
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Hope you can join me Monday at 12pm ET when I’ll be speaking on Fresh Hell with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about what could emerge from the rubble and the rejoicing in Iran.
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Hope you can join me Friday at 11amET for a live text chat on Substack’s Fresh Hell. There is much to discuss!
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It’d be pretty incredible if, after all the sleaze oozing out from the Epstein files, the only judicial scalps are a hapless royal buffoon and a woefully heedless British ambassador. Read more on Fresh Hell.
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Happy birthday, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Finally, accountability for the endlessly protected brother of the king.
Read how I laid out Andrew’s transgressions in plain sight, which the palace turned a blind eye to for decades: open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...
The Epstein files are like an archeological dig that keeps yielding new veins of awfulness from the same protagonists. Read about the latest dirt in Fresh Hell.
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One would think the purpose of having fuck you money is to say, “Fuck you.” But watching Bezos preside over the Washington Post, it seems the purpose of fuck you money is to have more fuck you money.
The Jeff Bezos who bought the Washington Post was a different guy from the one who is allowing its destruction now. But oligarchs gonna oligarch. Read more on Fresh Hell about what’s really behind the bloodletting at the Post.
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Grateful for the response to my latest Fresh Hell column, which recounts Jeffrey Epstein's panic over the stories we ran at The Daily Beast in 2010.
Thanks to the latest DOJ doc deluge, I now know that, after I published stories about Jeffrey Epstein in The Daily Beast, he was in a deep panic.
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Get tickets here for the livestream of me talking to Sherman about his hot book on Feb. 5th: www.92ny.org/event/tina-b...
Out tomorrow: “Bonfire of the Murdochs” — the real succession story of the Murdoch empire (already a #1 best-seller).
Gabe Sherman has been studying the Murdochs for nearly 20 years, and somehow managed to fit their story in 256 pages.
Read my take: open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...
The Rupert Murdoch in Gabriel Sherman’s new book Bonfire of the Murdochs is very different from Succession’s roaring profanity machine, Logan Roy. Murdoch is the media world’s great white shark, with a slight trail of blood at the corner of his thin mouth.
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Gov. Newsom rocks. His Davos quote, “Trump is a T-rex. You mate with him or he devours you," is one for the ages.
Now, Trump derangement syndrome has gone global (except the derangement is his). Read about his mad magical thinking and incomprehensible obsession with Greenland in my new Fresh Hell post.
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"I have no idea how the sheriff of Philadelphia suddenly got into the news flow and I don’t care... If only Bilal had been around to pound the cautious prevarications out of Kamala Harris on the ’24 campaign trail."
— from this week’s Fresh Hell column.
The heroes we lack, Trump’s bubble wrap danger, and the Dems grow some oratorical balls. It’s all in today’s Fresh Hell on Substack.
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Who knew that my late husband Harry’s oddball friend would be the subject of the major Oscar-tipped movie Marty Supreme? Plus, a few of my fave personal snaps of 2025 in my Substack Fresh Hell.
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On Substack’s Fresh Hell, read my take on Trump’s debased political rulebook.
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On Substack’s Fresh Hell: Tom Stoppard, a radiant mind and a treasured friend, and how he repaid his private blessings, many times over, on the public stage.
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Hope you can join me today at 11:30aET for a paid subscriber live chat on Substack to swap thoughts on what Trump is so afraid of from the Epstein file dump and the silence from Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos over the White House visit of Saudi Crown Prince MBS.
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Join me tomorrow at 11:30aET for a paid Fresh Hell subscriber live chat on Substack to swap thoughts on what Trump is so afraid of from the Epstein file dump, and the thunderous silence from Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos over the White House visit of Saudi’s MBS.
Thrilled to have my NYT interview on the podcast ranked #1 on the Apple charts — and to have my Fresh Hell newsletter in the top spot on Substack’s Rising in Culture list.
Thank you dear listeners and readers for all the support and interest!
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Jeffrey Epstein’s trail of slime sticks to everyone who ever crossed his path. My Fresh Hell Substack take on why Trump doesn’t stand a chance of killing the Epstein story.
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Harry championed reporters who dig for truth with moral courage. Nandhini’s work exemplifies that spirit, and I'm thrilled to see what she will uncover during this fellowship. 👏👏
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On my Substack Fresh Hell, read why I’m alarmed by the acrid gusts of MAGA mendacity polluting the debate over the BBC.
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