Strange as this meeting may seem, 35 years ago next week Bush met with Assad as that Syrian leader joined a coalition to defeat a common enemy-Iraq. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...

Yet in terms of the war's stated goals, Iraq turned out much better than Afghanistan as d=far as their respective political endgames.

The Overton window in the oval office has gotten quite drafty.

The limbo paradigm of the 5 inhabited territories as I've always heard it was a deeply held GOP skepticism of any or all of them gaining statehood because they would all be blue thus inherently altering the balance of power in the senate in the left's favor. No Alaska>Hawaii balancing out scenario.

The language looks Turkic but not actually Turkish so I took a guess.

And this occurred without a Bari Weiss doge-esque memorandum being issued beforehand.

Is this Baku? Tashkent?

Although it seemingly complexifies external perceptions of Europe, the reemergence of central Europe after 1989-91 was a beautiful thing to witness. Two Europes defined by rivalry became three with more fluid identities unconstrained by political ideology.

Thankfully, to say something oddly positive about social media, the spotlight on Gaza never let up in 24 months. If only the same could be said for eastern DRC, north Sudan, Burma etc.

I did see a sticker in a bar toilet the other night that read "Abortion on demand NOW!" in NYC's Bushwick neighbourhood, thus I just learned this is a thing thanks to said decal.

I love what this sound evokes from memory. Like being on a Cycladic island in late summer after leaving a Levantine war zone.

I never noticed Google being restricted in any form while using Chrome in areas under AANES control.

Ideal Sunday listen.