REMINDER: Bette’s Happy Hour — Mystery Guest Revealed!
BETTE MEMBERS: A reminder to please register for Bette’s Happy Hour, today, at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET — read on, as I reveal our mystery guest
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First, a quick note of gratitude to everyone who is making my excellent summer ‘workation’ possible. Those of you who have kicked up your financial support are giving me great relief. I am looking so forward to returning the favor in kind with some excellent reportage in coming days and weeks.
And speaking of excellent reportage, investigative reporter Ken Silverstein will be joining us today to discuss his explosive reporting in the New Republic on military contractor Erik Prince’s leaked WhatsApp group chat: Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat.
Never in my experience of doing this work for the past eight years have I received more DMs about one particular article than this one. And there are many more to come, according to Silverstein, who’s gum-shoeing turned up actual Nazi heirs in the chat.
Silverstein is a longtime Washington-based investigative reporter who covers US and global affairs. He currently publishes his work on Substack, where he is running another report from Prince's secret WhatsApp group today. In addition to his Substack and New Republic, where he broke the story, he has worked at New York Magazine, Daily Mail, County Highway, VICE, Harper's.
RadPod just did a mind-bending interview with Silverstein, which will be released on Wednesday. He described the group of hundreds of Prince associates as “being on a scale from extremist far-right to all the way to fascism.” He also said anyone who is concerned about domestic surveillance should be concerned about Prince’s associates, who he said showed absolute hero worship to Trump and gushed over Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview.
He will be joining us for about 30 minutes so if you plan to attend, note that tonight’s event will likely be less than the usual hour.
And for new members, a bit about our Happy Hour history.
Each Tuesday for the past 18 months, the Bette community has been coming together at either noon or 5 pm PT for our weekly wellness checkin. Because it’s an election year, I began inviting expert guests to join us — from Martin Sheil to David Pepper, from Anne Nelson to Monique Camarra — so we can best focus our efforts and energy on how to ensure a good outcome in the US come this November.
If you would like to join our vibrant chat tonight with Ken Silverstein and are not yet a member, please consider becoming a member here:
Keep scrolling for the registration link, and see you in the squares!
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