Drew Harwell

"It's not me, it's you guys," says Secretary of War Pete Hegseth into lapel mic for new specially produced social media video showing his workout

New from me: The White House's UFC fight night and notes from the Roman empire. For more like this: www.instagram.com/drewharwell/ www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell

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Nick Fuentes was driving a small Fiat in Rome with "Nationalism" writer Keith Woods when our story on his superchats published. "The gist is that I'm monetizing hatred and the poor superchatters are giving all their money to a lazy millionaire who hates them" wapo.st/3ONCOHM

New: We found out how much money Nick Fuentes makes from "superchats": $900,000 since the start of Trump's second term. Here's the story of Kristine in Ohio, a food-truck operator who became his most frequent donor, despite not making much money herself: wapo.st/4mERkhv

Five extremely cool things about going to the moon We're honoring a goddess and toilet-phoning while slingshotting round a space rock 252,000 miles away

Veterans are completely disturbed by the White House's war memes. The people who have fought and lost loved ones in America's wars tell me they're horrified by how Trump's team has trivialized real combat and sacrifice. Full story, free to read: wapo.st/4bvzfyu

I however used it for important things, like making @mcuban.bsky.social overdose on LSD

RIP to Sora. Wild that OpenAI couldn't find a way to monetize the extremely expensive process of making AI fetish videos for weirdos (this video showed up for me today, the first time I opened the feed in months)

On the day multiple media organizations reported on a video showing a U.S. Tomahawk missile killing dozens of children in an Iranian elementary school, the White House's meme strategists posted a missile video soundtracked by Nelly's "Here Comes the Boom" wapo.st/3NhffGm

A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

Kristi Noem is out at DHS. Here's a TV commercial of her on a horse, filmed five months ago at Mount Rushmore, for an ad campaign that cost more than $200 million

The White House is treating war like a video game

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

Alex Jones on Iran strikes: "It's like walking around in the desert ... and you got a hole there ... One hole might have a pygmy owl in it. One might have a toad in it. ... Basically Trump stuck our dick in a hole ... and something's biting on the end of it. And it don't feel good"

America's media consolidation nightmare. CBS, CNN, HBO, MTV, Warner Bros, Paramount, TikTok, SpongeBob ... How much media can any one billionaire family control? And what happens when so much culture gets captured and politically reshaped?

Emilycc, the streamer who's broadcast herself 24/7 (including sleeping) for three years, and who I profiled last year in Austin, says she's moving to L.A. and that a CNN crew will be following along. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Yes! I briefly explained it for the TikTok / Instagram crowd here www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell...

"The only minority destroying this country are the billionaires" www.instagram.com/reel/DU8n_yO...

Trump's journalist arrests are backfiring Full story here, free to read: drewharwell.com/stories/how-...

Our reporting on ICE's "wartime recruitment" strategy was featured on @lastweektonight.com: youtu.be/5-KDUOHEZFk?...

They're tracking lawmakers' Epstein searches Pam Bondi and the Justice Department have been monitoring the search histories of members of Congress who looked at the Epstein files. Why is the Trump administration being so guarded about these documents? What are they trying to hide?

Here's a hidden secret of doorbell cameras, as revealed by Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping. They're recording even when you don't know it, and sending video to company servers even when you don't pay