Beyond the particulars, the Epstein files massively corrode trust in elites and political institutions. They consolidate two suspicions among the public. 1/3

Board of Peace - Season 1

Guess whose name won’t be mentioned once? Don. According to Bloomberg reporting a letter Dick Durbin wrote to Pam Bondi about redacting, “it was a herculean task that involved as many as 1,000 FBI agents and other personnel pulling all-nighters while poring through more than 100,000 documents.”

The Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska, with Ukraine and Europe sidelined, is a product of imperial decline - secondary to democratic decline. Democratic decline creates foreign policy incapacity - and even farce.
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Ursula Von Der Leyen and Mark Rutte need to go. The way they pander to authoritarian clown Trump not only destroys Europe’s credibility and standing in the world, but it normalises Trump-style authoritarian politics. It’s a threat not only to EU-unity, but to liberal democracy itself.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s dismantling of USAID will lead to millions of preventable deaths.

The decision of the richest person in the world to destroy an agency that delivers life-saving aid to the poorest people on the planet is unconscionable.

US President Donald Trump has authorized economic and travel sanctions targeting people who work on International Criminal Court investigations of US citizens or US allies such as Israel reut.rs/4hpgOfu 1/6

In our crisis of men, men worship anti-heroes. These anti-heroes sell them on the conspiratorial idea that what really matters in politics is what you can't see. What's corrosive about it isn't that it’s misguided, but that it declares politics impossible.

Maybe the most important video by @anderspuck.bsky.social so far:

a) russia is closer to victory than ever (peace treaty that leaves Ukraine defenseless, unstable, and poor)

b) russia is closer to defeat than ever (economic crisis)

youtu.be/MhpoNL1gZbw?...