Douglas Herbert
@dougdecodes.bsky.social
World Affairs Commentator at France 24, public speaker and media trainer. Beyond just “fighting disinformation”, I seek ways to promote the acceptance of #facts. Journalism lecturer at Université Paris Panthéon-Assas & IJBA
Quotable: “As Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.” -New York City’s Mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, referring to a Socialist icon. #NYC
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Quotable: “As Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.” -New York City’s Mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, referring to a Socialist icon. #NYC
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 AM
October 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
As a TV commentator who speaks Russian and has lived in #Russia, I believe I have a degree of credibility in “analyzing” Putin’s motives in his war against #Ukraine. Not so with #Trump. “Analyzing” him is a losing proposition. He’s guided by egocentricity, and flips on a dime. Here’s the #NYTimes:
October 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The #CIA is hiring. I can’t imagine what the person who ends up getting this job will spend their days doing. The current CIA director, in his confirmation hearing, testified that his CIA would be “going places no one else can go, and doing things no one else can do.” Any thoughts, Ethics Attorney?
October 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The #CIA is hiring. I can’t imagine what the person who ends up getting this job will spend their days doing. The current CIA director, in his confirmation hearing, testified that his CIA would be “going places no one else can go, and doing things no one else can do.” Any thoughts, Ethics Attorney?
Natalia Antelava on Coda Story, writing about the conversations we are not having in a social media world that encourages the simplistic or titillating narrative.
October 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Natalia Antelava on Coda Story, writing about the conversations we are not having in a social media world that encourages the simplistic or titillating narrative.
Matt Berg, writing on What A Day, on the possible consequences for the Mideast peace process of #Trump not winning his coveted Nobel Peace Prize. (Written before the Nobel pick was announced.)
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Matt Berg, writing on What A Day, on the possible consequences for the Mideast peace process of #Trump not winning his coveted Nobel Peace Prize. (Written before the Nobel pick was announced.)
And then this happened in the United States. Another shift in the “Overton Window” of what suddenly passes for acceptable, if not yet mainstream, discourse. #ThePlotAgainstAmerica #F24
October 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
And then this happened in the United States. Another shift in the “Overton Window” of what suddenly passes for acceptable, if not yet mainstream, discourse. #ThePlotAgainstAmerica #F24
Jane #Goodall said #Trump displays “the same sort of behavior as a male chimpanzee will show when he’s competing for dominance with another. They’re upright, they swagger, they project themselves as really more large and aggressive than they may actually be in order to intimidate their rivals”.
October 2, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Courtesy of the Urban Dictionary. Seldom does a word fit its definition with such mellifluous grace.
September 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Courtesy of the Urban Dictionary. Seldom does a word fit its definition with such mellifluous grace.
More of Brendan Carr’s musings from the past:
September 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
More of Brendan Carr’s musings from the past:
The FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, tweeting in the first Trump administration:
September 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, tweeting in the first Trump administration:
Great open to Shawn McCreesh and Maggie Haberman’s “Windsor Dispatch” in the NYTimes. A straight tell that encapsulates the zeitgeist. #Trump
September 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Great open to Shawn McCreesh and Maggie Haberman’s “Windsor Dispatch” in the NYTimes. A straight tell that encapsulates the zeitgeist. #Trump
House of Leaves, former headquarters of #Albania’s notorious Sigurimi State Security Service under the regime of Enver Hoxha - a Communist totalitarian who broke with #Stalin in the early 1960s because he saw the Soviet dictator as too lenient. Countless people were tortured here.
September 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
House of Leaves, former headquarters of #Albania’s notorious Sigurimi State Security Service under the regime of Enver Hoxha - a Communist totalitarian who broke with #Stalin in the early 1960s because he saw the Soviet dictator as too lenient. Countless people were tortured here.
The Guardian’s Justin McCurry sums up another shape-shifting geopolitical moment: the autocratic leaders of #Russia, #China and #NorthKorea - none of whom are natural-born partners - walking together at China’s military parade:
September 3, 2025 at 4:28 AM
The Guardian’s Justin McCurry sums up another shape-shifting geopolitical moment: the autocratic leaders of #Russia, #China and #NorthKorea - none of whom are natural-born partners - walking together at China’s military parade:
Back to fossil fuels. The FT reports: “Early this year BP dropped its pledge to limit exploration and scale back fossil fuel output as investors’ confidence flagged in its previous strategy emphasizing a transition to clean energy.” #oil #cleanenergy #fossilfuels
August 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Back to fossil fuels. The FT reports: “Early this year BP dropped its pledge to limit exploration and scale back fossil fuel output as investors’ confidence flagged in its previous strategy emphasizing a transition to clean energy.” #oil #cleanenergy #fossilfuels
The New Yorker headline pretty much sums it up. (Full disclosure: I own a pair of well-worn American Eagle #jeans which fit well and are a staple of my basic wardrobe. But wearing them after this will make me feel, well…morally queasy.) #advertisement
August 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The New Yorker headline pretty much sums it up. (Full disclosure: I own a pair of well-worn American Eagle #jeans which fit well and are a staple of my basic wardrobe. But wearing them after this will make me feel, well…morally queasy.) #advertisement
The headline to an article that appeared on the website of #Russia’s stated-controlled #propaganda outlet, RIA Novosti, reads: “There is no other option: Nobody should remain alive in #Ukraine.”
July 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The headline to an article that appeared on the website of #Russia’s stated-controlled #propaganda outlet, RIA Novosti, reads: “There is no other option: Nobody should remain alive in #Ukraine.”