Keith Urbahn

Founding Partner & President, @JavelinDC.

[insane facebook marketplace items @insanemrktplace]

For the avid fire sitter ($100)

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

We see the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time!
The light show, starting from the base up to the illumination of the cross, culminated with a composition of lights guided by drones that traced the figure of Gaudí and the phrase “first love, then technique”.

[Axios @axios]

"Regime Change": New book reveals Trump team's Epstein leak fears https://t.co/8qfVwHfQLR

[Keith Urbahn @keithurbahn]

Absolute banger after banger in this story excerpted from @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan's REGIME CHANGE. One (of many) for the ages here:

[Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT]

EXCERPT from Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by @jonathanvswan and me, in NYT Magazine today. How the Epstein files crisis paralyzed the Trump White House for the better part of a year https://t.co/QF4Lp3oC65

[Aaron Cannon @AaronLCannon]

I started talking to my co-founder like Claude

[Jonathan Martin @jmart]

A rightfully tough @jaketapper piece on Jill Biden's book, which includes the below.

I'd add two things.

For starters, it's not true. The Dem strategists behind the last two Dem presidents - @JamesCarville and @davidaxelrod - are fine minds and both thought there were better options than an 82-year-old Biden running for 4 more years. As did many others.

Second, Jill is not being totally honest about the nature of the conversations w her husband in that period: the "imploring" was more about dodging Kamala than believing Biden was the best option

"As Jill Biden tells it, in 2023, 'the best Democratic minds hadn’t thought' anyone else other than Joe Biden could beat Trump and 'they implored him to run.'

"They did? Who? Which best Democratic minds implored him to run?"

https://t.co/yFCO7slhpe

[John McCormack @McCormackJohn]

New: @BenSasse sits down for an interview with me at a bar in Manhattan.

We talked about many topics—from his childhood to politics to Heaven—and why his message about “redeeming the time” after his terminal cancer diagnosis is resonating with so many.

https://t.co/qTBhOjcnHv

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

This is obviously 100% fake, originally fabricated by a leftist blogger with mental health issues. On one hand, I really didn’t want to respond because it’s so dumb. On the other hand, it’s Exhibit A of how toxic politics works & it happens often enough that I feel some obligation to lift the curtain on how the game is played. So here goes:

I’m a Cavs fan. Love going to their games, always have, I’ve been going for decades. My wife and I bought courtside tickets for Game 4 against the Knicks, and our team got smoked. It was brutal. The two of us watched the game, face in hands, in disbelief and dejection during the second half, then peaced out right after the buzzer straight to our car (accompanied by state-provided security the entire time).

No, we did not stick around to watch the Knicks celebrate their romping. There is literally no amount of money on Earth you could have paid me to sit around and watch them collect their Eastern Conference trophy, let alone watch them parade off the court to their locker room. A sharp poke in the eye would’ve been more pleasant.

But then, a left-wing Ohio blogger with mental health issues publishes that not only did I wait until after the ceremony, but that I lingered around & tried to enter the Knicks’ locker room after the game, and told them I wanted “welcome” them to Ohio. This is nuts! He also published other vivid details. Those were also 100% nuts.

But here’s how the game is played. Ohio Democrats then repeatedly boosted the so-called “story” on social media, and the Daily Beast & others write “news” stories about it. Then hundreds of others cite the Daily Beast’s reporting and literally turn their fantasy into “truth."

It’s worth observing the incentive that political opponents would have to fabricate an anonymous “tip” to a random blogger with mental issues who has absolutely no standards for publication, then to amplify the “stories” after they’re written.

The whole thing is dumb, to be clear. But it’s dirty, it happens repeatedly, and the public is better off knowing about it. It’s why sane people rarely go into politics. Anyone who does should probably have their own head checked out (including me). My team sensibly told me to not to dignify it by commenting on it. Politically, they’re probably right. But if every leader were to follow that advice, it rewards the incentives for bad actors to lie not just about me, but about others in the future too. Call me idealistic, but I don’t think that’s how things are supposed to work.

[Javelin @JavelinDC]

Congratulations to @loisromano and her book, An Inconvenient Widow, on becoming a @nytimes bestseller! A well-deserved accomplishment for such an important and revelatory work of history.

[Javelin @JavelinDC]

Make that number two for @DougBrunt! Notching another @nytimes bestseller with his second nonfiction book, The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel, Doug has quickly become one of the most compelling and bestselling historians today.

[Javelin @JavelinDC]

This Memorial Day weekend, reconnect with the stories of those who served, fought, and sacrificed. Here are our recommendations for four powerful reads this weekend from @tobyharnden, @rmanion, @LarryLoftis, and @StanMcChrystal.

[Keith Urbahn @keithurbahn]

Twenty number ones for team @javelindc and counting!

[Javelin @JavelinDC]

Congratulations to Justice Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze and their revolutionary children’s book on now becoming a *NUMBER ONE* @nytimes bestseller!

[Javelin @JavelinDC]

Watch @askcliffe and Cliffe Knechtle as they joined @foxandfriends this morning to discuss their new book, Demolishing Doubt, and how the hard and honest questions about faith can become the first step toward a deeper relationship with God.

[Keith Urbahn @keithurbahn]

Read @dwaynebetts story of redemption and rediscovery of self by carrying a gun again, after years of being prohibited from doing so. https://t.co/1EHyUKBXgM

[Javelin @JavelinDC]

The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel by bestselling author @DougBrunt hits shelves today — a fascinating hidden history of one of the world’s most successful business dynasties, the rise of Russia’s petroleum industry, and the forgotten Nobel family empire erased in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

[Javelin @JavelinDC]

Blood and Progress by @NoahCRothman lands in bookstores today — a timely new book examining political violence in America, why it happens, and why it must be condemned.

[Javelin @JavelinDC]

Therapy Nation by @JonathanAlpert is available now — a counterintuitive look at how the rise of therapy culture has reshaped the way Americans live, speak, and relate to one another.

[Javelin @JavelinDC]

Demolishing Doubt by pastors and social media phenoms @askcliffe and Cliffe Knechtle is available now — on why doubt and questioning is often the paradoxical path that brings us closer to God.

[reason @reason]

"Our nation is not founded on a religion. It's not based on a common culture, even, or heritage. ... We're a creedal nation," Justice Neil Gorsuch tells @nickgillespie on The Reason Interview podcast.

[Michael Biundo @MichaelBiundo]

I hadn’t publicly said the name of @VivekGRamaswamy ‘s primary opponent once during the election. Now that’s it’s over and Vivek swept every county in the most dominating fashion possible, I will just say this:

There’s a lesson here, likes on X do not equal votes, and being a racist is not a winning strategy.