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“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”
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Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Imperialism Has no Clothes
JD Vance in Greenland
open.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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I don’t understand: these people don’t care. Why would any of them lose their jobs over this? They’re playing the long game on everything, understanding that the opposition is so weak that it will get distracted by something else while they plow through with destroying the constitutional framework.
Surely Hegseth and Waltz are toast? In any normal administration he’d have resigned yesterday; in any normal administration he’d be fired today.
But this isn’t a normal administration so let’s see.
But this isn’t a normal administration so let’s see.
“Nobody’s texting war plans”
March 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I don’t understand: these people don’t care. Why would any of them lose their jobs over this? They’re playing the long game on everything, understanding that the opposition is so weak that it will get distracted by something else while they plow through with destroying the constitutional framework.
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Russia and China have e
been waging a propaganda war against democracy. Trump just surrendered www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
been waging a propaganda war against democracy. Trump just surrendered www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
March 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Russia and China have e
been waging a propaganda war against democracy. Trump just surrendered www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
been waging a propaganda war against democracy. Trump just surrendered www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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“Veterans will die, but we’ll course correct.”
HARF: What do you say to people who work for the VA who can't man the suicide hotline now bc they've been fired?
JOHNSON: Look, in Elon's defense, there's no playbook for what he's doing. So as he acknowledged, there are gonna be some mishaps & mistakes. But we will do course correction immediately
JOHNSON: Look, in Elon's defense, there's no playbook for what he's doing. So as he acknowledged, there are gonna be some mishaps & mistakes. But we will do course correction immediately
March 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
“Veterans will die, but we’ll course correct.”
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Eighteen Ukrainian soldiers died in Iraq. No one gave Kyiv any minerals open.substack.com/pub/countero...
Ukraine fought alongside US in Iraq; never demanded minerals
As the two fight over a minerals deal, we review the little-remembered sacrifices that Ukraine made when fighting in the U.S.-led war in Iraq – sacrifices Ukraine never asked to be compensated for.
open.substack.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Eighteen Ukrainian soldiers died in Iraq. No one gave Kyiv any minerals open.substack.com/pub/countero...
What nation agrees to the toppling of its government as the price for peace, except as terms of surrender?
"Let’s start with security guarantees. Putin has never agreed to them for Ukraine—in any form"
Read Bob Kagan on the Trump capitulation to Russia
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Read Bob Kagan on the Trump capitulation to Russia
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Trump Is Offering Putin Another Munich
Hitler didn’t want a peace deal, and neither does Putin.
www.theatlantic.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
What nation agrees to the toppling of its government as the price for peace, except as terms of surrender?
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Russia targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a large-scale missile and drone bombardment during the night, officials said Friday, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that talks with the U.S. on ending the three-year war will take place next week.
Russia bombards Ukraine's energy grid after Zelenskyy announces talks next week with the U.S.
Officials say Russia targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure in a large-scale missile and drone bombardment during the night.
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March 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Russia targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a large-scale missile and drone bombardment during the night, officials said Friday, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that talks with the U.S. on ending the three-year war will take place next week.
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Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket but lost contact minutes into the test flight.
SpaceX loses contact with spacecraft during Starship mega rocket test flight
Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket but lost contact minutes into the test flight.
www.npr.org
March 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket but lost contact minutes into the test flight.
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setting aside the fact that the entire white house staff is utterly poisoned by online in a way that actually exceeds any democratic staffer, it is incredibly pathetic that they look at trump's temper tantrum and see "strength"
February 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
setting aside the fact that the entire white house staff is utterly poisoned by online in a way that actually exceeds any democratic staffer, it is incredibly pathetic that they look at trump's temper tantrum and see "strength"
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🚨Economic Impact of Infectious Diseases: H5N1 avian flu has wiped out 19M birds in 30 days, hitting farms in Ohio, Indiana, Florida & New York. With a 3M-bird loss in Ohio, expect egg price hikes & supply chain strain—a blow to consumers & businesses. 🥚💰 Thoughts? ⬇️
H5N1 strikes more poultry in 4 states; CDC updates details on recent human cases
The CDC notes that the poultry worker from Ohio had been hospitalized with respiratory and nonrespiratory symptoms.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
February 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨Economic Impact of Infectious Diseases: H5N1 avian flu has wiped out 19M birds in 30 days, hitting farms in Ohio, Indiana, Florida & New York. With a 3M-bird loss in Ohio, expect egg price hikes & supply chain strain—a blow to consumers & businesses. 🥚💰 Thoughts? ⬇️
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I spoke to the 'Decoding Geopolitics' podcast in Munich:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLDT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLDT...
Why Europe’s Security Strategy Is Failing & How the War in Ukraine Will End | Ep. 51 Anne Applebaum
YouTube video by Decoding Geopolitics Podcast
www.youtube.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I spoke to the 'Decoding Geopolitics' podcast in Munich:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLDT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLDT...
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Interesting read - 'Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality' www.thetimes.com/article/b3bb...
Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality
Antivaxers, cranks and fantasists thrive in safe, stable societies but the days of consequence-free idiocy may be ending
www.thetimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Interesting read - 'Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality' www.thetimes.com/article/b3bb...
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I understand that Big Brother Musk is now going through Americans' tax returns. Remember that IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH and FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
February 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I understand that Big Brother Musk is now going through Americans' tax returns. Remember that IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH and FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
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I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue.
www.the-reframe.com/the/
www.the-reframe.com/the/
The Worst and the Dimmest
It's not a coincidence that we're being led by the least qualified monsters available; it's a deliberate strategy. Facing the Worst - a series about directional alignment.
www.the-reframe.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue.
www.the-reframe.com/the/
www.the-reframe.com/the/
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This is where we are.
No more unconstitutional statement.
He is the state.
Charles I never said it any better.
No “constitutional crisis”. It’s gone. There is no opposition.
Move to resistance. Open, active, honest.
No more unconstitutional statement.
He is the state.
Charles I never said it any better.
No “constitutional crisis”. It’s gone. There is no opposition.
Move to resistance. Open, active, honest.
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This is where we are.
No more unconstitutional statement.
He is the state.
Charles I never said it any better.
No “constitutional crisis”. It’s gone. There is no opposition.
Move to resistance. Open, active, honest.
No more unconstitutional statement.
He is the state.
Charles I never said it any better.
No “constitutional crisis”. It’s gone. There is no opposition.
Move to resistance. Open, active, honest.
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"the assumption that a cease-fire will end Russia’s primary threat to Ukrainians misunderstands the nature of the conflict"
From Nataliya Gumenyuk. A warning
www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/puti...
From Nataliya Gumenyuk. A warning
www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/puti...
Putin’s Ukraine
The end of war and the price of Russian occupation.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"the assumption that a cease-fire will end Russia’s primary threat to Ukrainians misunderstands the nature of the conflict"
From Nataliya Gumenyuk. A warning
www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/puti...
From Nataliya Gumenyuk. A warning
www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/puti...
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The always amazing Judith Butler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The always amazing Judith Butler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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For 250 years, we’ve sanitized Forced Labor Camps as ‘plantations’ and ‘estates.’ Calling concentration camps ‘housing’ is just another word game to shield the oppressors.
In the 20th century, they were known as "concentration camps." Now, they are simply called "housing."
Doesn't that sound so much more humane? Voila, problem solved!
Doesn't that sound so much more humane? Voila, problem solved!
January 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
For 250 years, we’ve sanitized Forced Labor Camps as ‘plantations’ and ‘estates.’ Calling concentration camps ‘housing’ is just another word game to shield the oppressors.