Wife: Is that Karma Police?
Me: Yes.
Wife: On repeat?
Me: Yes.
Wife: Things really are that bad, huh.
Me: Yes.

Whether it’s Russia invading Ukraine or Ukraine being invaded by Russia, both countries are involved in an invasion.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."

ABC (Disney), Washington Post (Bezos), Meta (Zuckerberg), LA Times (Soon-Shiong)... all bending the knee to Trump, all obeying in advance, all sucking up to the Dictator-in-Waiting.

This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.

“Can the past help the present? Can the dead save the living? … How are humans this violent? And yet how is it that they can simultaneously stand opposite such overwhelming violence? What does it mean to belong to the species called human?” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

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