Winston Churchill, after being outmaneuvered at Yalta, warned that feeding the crocodile does not guarantee it will eat you last. In the current case, the EU has fed the crocodile and called it diplomacy.
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July 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Winston Churchill, after being outmaneuvered at Yalta, warned that feeding the crocodile does not guarantee it will eat you last. In the current case, the EU has fed the crocodile and called it diplomacy.
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This is Trump's conundrum:
Once people become convinced that something is being hidden, evidence to the contrary simply confirms the concealment.
The logic becomes circular: any lack of evidence is the evidence.
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Once people become convinced that something is being hidden, evidence to the contrary simply confirms the concealment.
The logic becomes circular: any lack of evidence is the evidence.
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July 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This is Trump's conundrum:
Once people become convinced that something is being hidden, evidence to the contrary simply confirms the concealment.
The logic becomes circular: any lack of evidence is the evidence.
www.theindex.media/p/jeffrey-ep...
Once people become convinced that something is being hidden, evidence to the contrary simply confirms the concealment.
The logic becomes circular: any lack of evidence is the evidence.
www.theindex.media/p/jeffrey-ep...
The American state survives on three things:
• The dollar (still trusted)
• The myth (still sacred)
• The interface (still responsive)
None of those require actual state capacity. Just the simulation of it.
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• The dollar (still trusted)
• The myth (still sacred)
• The interface (still responsive)
None of those require actual state capacity. Just the simulation of it.
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June 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The American state survives on three things:
• The dollar (still trusted)
• The myth (still sacred)
• The interface (still responsive)
None of those require actual state capacity. Just the simulation of it.
www.theindex.media/america-is-a...
• The dollar (still trusted)
• The myth (still sacred)
• The interface (still responsive)
None of those require actual state capacity. Just the simulation of it.
www.theindex.media/america-is-a...
We have arrived at a moment where the description of cruelty is more controversial than the cruelty itself.
This is not a neutral imbalance. It is a structural one. And it is being exploited.
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This is not a neutral imbalance. It is a structural one. And it is being exploited.
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June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We have arrived at a moment where the description of cruelty is more controversial than the cruelty itself.
This is not a neutral imbalance. It is a structural one. And it is being exploited.
www.theindex.media/theres-no-ci...
This is not a neutral imbalance. It is a structural one. And it is being exploited.
www.theindex.media/theres-no-ci...
The climate crisis has become a narrative crisis.
We reach for redemption arcs: breakthroughs, prodigies, miraculous fungi.
But this is not a story with a hero. It’s a system with no brakes.
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We reach for redemption arcs: breakthroughs, prodigies, miraculous fungi.
But this is not a story with a hero. It’s a system with no brakes.
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June 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The climate crisis has become a narrative crisis.
We reach for redemption arcs: breakthroughs, prodigies, miraculous fungi.
But this is not a story with a hero. It’s a system with no brakes.
www.theindex.media/the-climate-...
We reach for redemption arcs: breakthroughs, prodigies, miraculous fungi.
But this is not a story with a hero. It’s a system with no brakes.
www.theindex.media/the-climate-...
The collapse of trust in modern governance didn’t happen because people stopped caring.
It happened because they did care - for decades - and saw how little it mattered.
Cynicism isn’t an attitude. It’s a scar.
It happened because they did care - for decades - and saw how little it mattered.
Cynicism isn’t an attitude. It’s a scar.
June 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The collapse of trust in modern governance didn’t happen because people stopped caring.
It happened because they did care - for decades - and saw how little it mattered.
Cynicism isn’t an attitude. It’s a scar.
It happened because they did care - for decades - and saw how little it mattered.
Cynicism isn’t an attitude. It’s a scar.
The more public health works, the more people think they don’t need it.
That’s how anti-vaxx became a luxury belief:
Safety becomes ambient, and ambience invites sabotage.
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That’s how anti-vaxx became a luxury belief:
Safety becomes ambient, and ambience invites sabotage.
www.theindex.media/the-herd-imm...
May 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The more public health works, the more people think they don’t need it.
That’s how anti-vaxx became a luxury belief:
Safety becomes ambient, and ambience invites sabotage.
www.theindex.media/the-herd-imm...
That’s how anti-vaxx became a luxury belief:
Safety becomes ambient, and ambience invites sabotage.
www.theindex.media/the-herd-imm...
Ross Douthat turned “Interesting Times” into a complimentary transcription service for fascism. When your “interview” reads like a campaign brochure, you’re not a journalist—you’re a publicist.
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May 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Ross Douthat turned “Interesting Times” into a complimentary transcription service for fascism. When your “interview” reads like a campaign brochure, you’re not a journalist—you’re a publicist.
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It’s not just that Trump officials don’t know how government works.
It’s that they think you are the fool for expecting them to.
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It’s that they think you are the fool for expecting them to.
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May 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
It’s not just that Trump officials don’t know how government works.
It’s that they think you are the fool for expecting them to.
www.theindex.media/the-unlearni...
It’s that they think you are the fool for expecting them to.
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The GOP didn’t get Trumped.
It got everything it ever asked for: white, loud, cruel, and allergic to accountability.
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It got everything it ever asked for: white, loud, cruel, and allergic to accountability.
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May 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The GOP didn’t get Trumped.
It got everything it ever asked for: white, loud, cruel, and allergic to accountability.
www.theindex.media/the-inevitab...
It got everything it ever asked for: white, loud, cruel, and allergic to accountability.
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Trump’s birthday party gets tanks.
Your grandma loses Medicaid.
That’s the deal.
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Your grandma loses Medicaid.
That’s the deal.
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May 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Trump’s birthday party gets tanks.
Your grandma loses Medicaid.
That’s the deal.
www.theindex.media/an-america-o...
Your grandma loses Medicaid.
That’s the deal.
www.theindex.media/an-america-o...
The Trump doctrine: tweet tariffs into being, walk them back when the market flinches, and pretend volatility is strategy.
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May 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Trump doctrine: tweet tariffs into being, walk them back when the market flinches, and pretend volatility is strategy.
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The president is confused, slurring, repeating himself, fixated on Obama, and openly unsure if he’s bound by the Constitution.
The diagnosis is on display. The crisis is cognitive.
And nobody around him dares to say it out loud.
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The diagnosis is on display. The crisis is cognitive.
And nobody around him dares to say it out loud.
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May 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The president is confused, slurring, repeating himself, fixated on Obama, and openly unsure if he’s bound by the Constitution.
The diagnosis is on display. The crisis is cognitive.
And nobody around him dares to say it out loud.
www.theindex.media/donald-trump...
The diagnosis is on display. The crisis is cognitive.
And nobody around him dares to say it out loud.
www.theindex.media/donald-trump...
Lila Rose in the Daily Caller: the abortion pill is “poison.”
No. It’s FDA-approved, globally recommended medicine.
What’s poisonous is turning anti-abortion theology into public health policy and laundering it through right-wing media.
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No. It’s FDA-approved, globally recommended medicine.
What’s poisonous is turning anti-abortion theology into public health policy and laundering it through right-wing media.
www.theindex.media/the-abortion...
May 6, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Lila Rose in the Daily Caller: the abortion pill is “poison.”
No. It’s FDA-approved, globally recommended medicine.
What’s poisonous is turning anti-abortion theology into public health policy and laundering it through right-wing media.
www.theindex.media/the-abortion...
No. It’s FDA-approved, globally recommended medicine.
What’s poisonous is turning anti-abortion theology into public health policy and laundering it through right-wing media.
www.theindex.media/the-abortion...
Musk and Trump represent the same delusion: that money and media dominance translate into political inevitability.
But the audiences they built online aren't electorates.
And the world is no longer buying the story that American wealth is synonymous with wisdom.
www.theindex.media/rebuke/
But the audiences they built online aren't electorates.
And the world is no longer buying the story that American wealth is synonymous with wisdom.
www.theindex.media/rebuke/
May 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Musk and Trump represent the same delusion: that money and media dominance translate into political inevitability.
But the audiences they built online aren't electorates.
And the world is no longer buying the story that American wealth is synonymous with wisdom.
www.theindex.media/rebuke/
But the audiences they built online aren't electorates.
And the world is no longer buying the story that American wealth is synonymous with wisdom.
www.theindex.media/rebuke/
They’re calling it a win for Ukraine.
It looks more like a prototype for postwar strip-mining.
This isn’t diplomacy. It’s debt collection—disguised as development.
And it’s coming soon to every scarred nation with lithium.
Full piece:
www.theindex.media/the-cost-of-...
It looks more like a prototype for postwar strip-mining.
This isn’t diplomacy. It’s debt collection—disguised as development.
And it’s coming soon to every scarred nation with lithium.
Full piece:
www.theindex.media/the-cost-of-...
May 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
They’re calling it a win for Ukraine.
It looks more like a prototype for postwar strip-mining.
This isn’t diplomacy. It’s debt collection—disguised as development.
And it’s coming soon to every scarred nation with lithium.
Full piece:
www.theindex.media/the-cost-of-...
It looks more like a prototype for postwar strip-mining.
This isn’t diplomacy. It’s debt collection—disguised as development.
And it’s coming soon to every scarred nation with lithium.
Full piece:
www.theindex.media/the-cost-of-...
The executive order says “protect the innocent.”
What it means is:
Kill reform. Shield abuse. Punish resistance.
Trump just signed an authoritarian wishlist—and we’re breaking it down, line by line.
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What it means is:
Kill reform. Shield abuse. Punish resistance.
Trump just signed an authoritarian wishlist—and we’re breaking it down, line by line.
www.theindex.media/trumps-execu...
April 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The executive order says “protect the innocent.”
What it means is:
Kill reform. Shield abuse. Punish resistance.
Trump just signed an authoritarian wishlist—and we’re breaking it down, line by line.
www.theindex.media/trumps-execu...
What it means is:
Kill reform. Shield abuse. Punish resistance.
Trump just signed an authoritarian wishlist—and we’re breaking it down, line by line.
www.theindex.media/trumps-execu...
“Do food stamps make people fat?”
No.
But publishing lazy classist propaganda to flatter your rich readers definitely makes you a hack.
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No.
But publishing lazy classist propaganda to flatter your rich readers definitely makes you a hack.
www.theindex.media/a-war-on-wel...
April 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“Do food stamps make people fat?”
No.
But publishing lazy classist propaganda to flatter your rich readers definitely makes you a hack.
www.theindex.media/a-war-on-wel...
No.
But publishing lazy classist propaganda to flatter your rich readers definitely makes you a hack.
www.theindex.media/a-war-on-wel...
The midterms are coming.
And the next coup won’t look like January 6th.
It’ll look like voter purges, closed polling stations, rigged election boards, and a Supreme Court that shrugs.
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And the next coup won’t look like January 6th.
It’ll look like voter purges, closed polling stations, rigged election boards, and a Supreme Court that shrugs.
www.theindex.media/the-midterms...
April 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The midterms are coming.
And the next coup won’t look like January 6th.
It’ll look like voter purges, closed polling stations, rigged election boards, and a Supreme Court that shrugs.
www.theindex.media/the-midterms...
And the next coup won’t look like January 6th.
It’ll look like voter purges, closed polling stations, rigged election boards, and a Supreme Court that shrugs.
www.theindex.media/the-midterms...
The U.S. didn’t get conned. It chose the con.
Because every filter—media, voters, donors—was calibrated for charisma.
Not wisdom. Not skill. Not integrity.
Just the loudest guy in the room.
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Because every filter—media, voters, donors—was calibrated for charisma.
Not wisdom. Not skill. Not integrity.
Just the loudest guy in the room.
www.theindex.media/americas-nex...
April 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The U.S. didn’t get conned. It chose the con.
Because every filter—media, voters, donors—was calibrated for charisma.
Not wisdom. Not skill. Not integrity.
Just the loudest guy in the room.
www.theindex.media/americas-nex...
Because every filter—media, voters, donors—was calibrated for charisma.
Not wisdom. Not skill. Not integrity.
Just the loudest guy in the room.
www.theindex.media/americas-nex...
“Freeze the conflict” = Let Putin keep the land he stole.
“Block NATO membership” = Leave Ukraine defenseless.
“Recognize Crimea” = Erase international law.
Trump’s peace plan is a blueprint for capitulation.
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“Block NATO membership” = Leave Ukraine defenseless.
“Recognize Crimea” = Erase international law.
Trump’s peace plan is a blueprint for capitulation.
www.theindex.media/trumps-ukrai...
April 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“Freeze the conflict” = Let Putin keep the land he stole.
“Block NATO membership” = Leave Ukraine defenseless.
“Recognize Crimea” = Erase international law.
Trump’s peace plan is a blueprint for capitulation.
www.theindex.media/trumps-ukrai...
“Block NATO membership” = Leave Ukraine defenseless.
“Recognize Crimea” = Erase international law.
Trump’s peace plan is a blueprint for capitulation.
www.theindex.media/trumps-ukrai...
You don’t win a tech war by slapping export bans on yesterday’s chips.
You win by inventing tomorrow’s.
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You win by inventing tomorrow’s.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
You don’t win a tech war by slapping export bans on yesterday’s chips.
You win by inventing tomorrow’s.
www.theindex.media/chip-wars-ar...
You win by inventing tomorrow’s.
www.theindex.media/chip-wars-ar...
Unless every university in America is ready to say no to federal ideological coercion, this moment will not be a line in the sand. It will be a footnote in the obituary of academic freedom.
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April 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Unless every university in America is ready to say no to federal ideological coercion, this moment will not be a line in the sand. It will be a footnote in the obituary of academic freedom.
www.theindex.media/harvard-didn...
www.theindex.media/harvard-didn...
This week wasn’t a crash.
It was a warning.
When power governs by impulse, the economy can’t forecast, and institutions can’t think.
The cost isn’t just money. It’s memory.
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It was a warning.
When power governs by impulse, the economy can’t forecast, and institutions can’t think.
The cost isn’t just money. It’s memory.
www.theindex.media/the-epistemi...
April 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This week wasn’t a crash.
It was a warning.
When power governs by impulse, the economy can’t forecast, and institutions can’t think.
The cost isn’t just money. It’s memory.
www.theindex.media/the-epistemi...
It was a warning.
When power governs by impulse, the economy can’t forecast, and institutions can’t think.
The cost isn’t just money. It’s memory.
www.theindex.media/the-epistemi...
This is how the far right has always governed and always will: not through complexity but siege, siege on truth, trust, trade, and every structure that binds us to each other in mutual obligation.
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April 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is how the far right has always governed and always will: not through complexity but siege, siege on truth, trust, trade, and every structure that binds us to each other in mutual obligation.
www.theindex.media/america-the-...
www.theindex.media/america-the-...