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    Watch now   “Don’t (F*ck With Bob Kraft)” (music video) A parody of Ed Sheeran’s “Don’t” Greg Olear Sep 26 If you want a primer on the Ed Sheeran/Macklemore brouhaha, check out the annotated lyrics, below. “Don’t,” a song I really dig, is a confessional track allegedly about Sheeran’s short romance with fellow pop star Ellie Goulding. TL;DR: Sheeran is yet another enormously wealthy public figure who capitulated to oligarch power, sure, but sleazy billionaire Robert Kraft is the real villain here. Animation by Chunk. From the September 25 episode of The Five 8 . Every piece at PREVAIL is free to read and always will be. No paywalls, ever. Your generous support keeps it that way. Thank you! In July, I went on tour. The opening act was Macklemore . I told him, “Please lay off antisemitic tropes , Just pop some tags and make some jokes.” But now he’s put my whole career on the line, Cuz he won’t shut up about Palestine . And there’s a time and a place, but this is my cr...

    Watch now   Ramble On: The Umar Kremlev Wedding A bareknuckle-brawling Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin sprung for the wedding of Donald Trump, Jr. and his new wife Bettina. But sure, Trump/Russia’s a hoax. Greg Olear Sep 18 Here is today’s ramble. Every piece at PREVAIL is free to read and always will be. No paywalls, ever. Your generous support keeps it that way. Thank you! And here is a transcript, edited for clarity: Good morning. As you’re watching this, it’s Friday morning, September 18th. I’m recording it on Thursday evening, September 17th. It’s 8 o’clock PM. We have to talk about Don Jr.’s wedding. I’m contractually obligated to talk about Don Jr.’s wedding. I have been writing about Trump/Russia for nine years now. I wrote a book about it in 2018, which is eight full years ago. It’s actually eight and a half years ago that the book came out— Dirty Rubles . And I’ve been told that I’m crazy. I’ve been told that I’m a charlatan. I’ve been told that th...

  Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road to Perdition Two days into his second term, Trump pardoned the notorious Dark Web crypto-criminal. But who is Ulbricht? What did he do? And why was he speaking at the Republican Midterm Convention? Greg Olear Sep 15   Last week in Dallas, the notorious Dark Web crypto-criminal and Trump pardonee Ross Ulbricht spoke at the 2026 Republican Midterm Convention . Introduced as a “libertarian icon,” the ex-con who made millions running Silk Road, the “eBay of drugs,” whined about being the victim of “a corrupt federal investigation.” “I was accused of crimes I did not commit,” said the man convicted of crimes a jury determined he committed: narcotics conspiracy, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to commit computer hacking, and money laundering conspiracy. “I was smeared in the media, and even as a first time offender, I was sentenced to die in prison, no parole.” ¹ Ulbricht then explained how Donald Trump, a sociopath devoid o...