Lachlan Markay

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Lachlan Markay

Lachlan Markay

@lachlan

Founding partner @Argus_Insight. Tracking foreign influence with @FARAmonitor.

Katılım Ağustos 2008
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Lachlan Markay
Lachlan Markay@lachlan·
Are you a journalist/researcher/public affairs pro tracking foreign influence? You may be interested in a new product I’ve developed. Automated daily summaries of new FARA filings as they drop. Contact me for details: lachlan at faramonitor dot com. faramonitor.com
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Lachlan Markay@lachlan·
@cpgrabow uh excuse me, this is very clearly *not* a paid partnership, unlike this other user's verbatim post a day earlier
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Colin Grabow
Colin Grabow@cpgrabow·
Oh look, another X influencer who previously had nothing to say about the Jones Act now wants to share with us her very strong feelings about it:
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Scott Lincicome@scottlincicome

HOW INTERESTING: Within the span of a few hours yesterday, three X influencers (~1M total followers) who'd never posted about the Jones Act suddenly came out in support. One noted she was paid for the post. I'm sure the other two are a coincidence. We're winning, folks.

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Secretary Doug Burgum
Secretary Doug Burgum@SecretaryBurgum·
Excited to unveil the design for the East Potomac Golf Links renovation from Fazio Design. Like iconic public courses of Bethpage Black & Torrey Pines, East Potomac will offer locals—of the National Capital Region—championship-quality golf at affordable, highly discounted rates.
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Select Committee on China
Select Committee on China@ChinaSelect·
A would-be spy offered a staffer on @ChinaSelect $10,000 for insider information on U.S. policy. Our staffer's response? Report it, document it, and expose it. As a Select Committee, we referred the matter to the @FBI after documenting the outreach and collecting call transcripts. This is exactly why the Select Committee on China exists, to shine a light on the CCP’s efforts to infiltrate our institutions, and to fight to protect U.S. national security. nytimes.com/2026/05/09/us/…
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Lachlan Markay@lachlan·
New political fundraising text spam tactic just dropped (the link goes to a WinRed donation page)
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FARA Monitor
FARA Monitor@faramonitor·
Also in this morning's FARA Monitor: foreign agents for the Bosnian region of Srpska distributing a recent column by ex-Illinois governor, and son of Serb immigrants, Rod Blagojevich
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FARA Monitor
FARA Monitor@faramonitor·
In FARA Monitor subscriber inboxes this morning: financial details of a Saudi-backed venture capital firm's investment activity
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Lachlan Markay@lachlan·
Shot in the dark, @nikitabier, but sham offshore click-farming would be a lot easier to root out and publicly shame if we could see prior usernames
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Teddy Schleifer
Teddy Schleifer@teddyschleifer·
In a rare on-record statement, Sergey Brin tells me: "I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union. I don’t want California to end up in the same place.” nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/…
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Lachlan Markay@lachlan·
This is obviously correct on the fundamental problem in US health care. But the column elides the political reality that makes reforming it, I'm sorry to say, impossible. The problematic constituency isn't labor or business, it's hundreds of millions of Americans insured through their employers. They really like the generous plans they have, even if an alternative model would actually bring down costs and prices. Woe unto the pol who tries to shift them to a different insurance model, let alone one that actually requires out of pocket cash payments in lieu of premiums that most of these people aren't directly shelling out for (even if they understand at an intellectual level they are paying every month). An honest reformer would have to say: no, if you like your plan you probably won't be able to keep it, sorry. Good luck with that. It's absolutely necessary to meaningful reform of US health care, and also politically impossible. Happy Monday!
Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸@mfcannon

Today, the @washingtonpost published my oped with former Baucus/Obama/Biden health advisor @LizFowler_ on THE most important issue in health policy.

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Lachlan Markay@lachlan·
WASHINGTON (AP)—Minutes after his inauguration Monday, President Barron Trump sent nominations to the US Senate for the 44th and 45th justices of the US Supreme Court, setting up a shift in the high court's ideological balance considered routine for each incoming administration
Bill Kristol@BillKristol

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

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FARA Monitor
FARA Monitor@faramonitor·
FM in the news: U.S. Filing Reveals Legal Adviser Working to Advance Venezuela's Delcy Rodríguez's Agenda in Washington latintimes.com/us-filing-reve…
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Lachlan Markay@lachlan·
This attorney also represents a relative of Rodriguez's "romantic partner," who has been investigated by the DEA over allegedly corrupt deals involving the Venezuelan government apnews.com/article/delcy-…
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Lachlan Markay@lachlan·
Terminator 2 remake where everyone agrees Sarah Connor is right but they throw her in the loony bin anyway because violence is not the answer
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@DrewPavlou

I get that Yudkowsky formally condemns the attack on Sam Altman's home and that his book formally condemns acts of vigilantism. But I also think that if you were to take seriously the central thesis of his book - that AI execs are essentially working to bring about the extinction of humanity - it's not exactly a short leap to go from accepting that thesis to then acting out extra-legal violence

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Philip
Philip@Philip_DT·
@lachlan That is a big payout for a class action with a presumably very large class. How much were the total damages?
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Lachlan Markay@lachlan·
You know those buy-gold scam companies constantly sending unsolicited texts? Turns out they can, in fact, earn you some money (by getting you a class action settlement for their repeated violations of federal law)
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@cpgrabow @ChinaSelect @FBI @CAndersonMO @FreeBeacon @nikitabier @elonmusk @BarackObama