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Trump Rewards Russia for Helping Iran Target US Service Members
Yesterday, Scott Bessent lifted sanctions on any Russian oil currently stranded at sea (including...
Great Tactics Mean Nothing if You Have No Strategy
Since the first bombs were dropped on Iran, people of all stripes began asking Why? What's the...
Blips and Gyrations: The Market Thinking of Trump’s Incompetent Advisors
In an 1100-word piece weighing the energy shock Trump's illegal war on Iran has caused in terms of...
The Con Trump Used to Attempt to Hide How He’s Rewarding Russia for Helping Iran Target Americans
At 2:40 ET yesterday (screen caps are Irish time, which this week is just four hours ahead),...
Trump Dreads Failing Like Jimmy Carter Did on Iran
The analogies that commentators are using to describe the crisis Donald Trump caused by launching...
How to Capture the Mad King’s Attention
Towards the end of a piece that catalogs the damage the Mad King has done, David Rothkopf offers a...
Jacob Winckler Got Charged for His Cat Toy because Charlie Kirk Died
I sprang for the trial transcript of Jacob Winckler's trial. He's an unhoused man whom the...
Pam Bondi Dropped Cases against Four Alleged Drug Dealers So She Could Hunt Don Lemon
Before Donald Trump started an illegal war against Iran, DOJ superseded the indictment against Don...
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The Alleged Trump Victim’s Claims about Blackmail Are as Important as Her Claims about Rape
Yesterday, DOJ released the three interview reports from a woman who alleged she was abused by...
DHS: Noem out, Mullin in?
[NB: check the byline, thanks. /~Rayne] From my feed: Not how I expected to learn about this...
Trump’s Gut and Promises of “FREE FLOW”
More than ten years in, the press has never figured out how to effectively cover Donald Trump,...
The Wisdom Of The Subservient Class
Introduction and index to posts in this series In Regime Change, Patrick Deneen says that...
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“Squirter:” The Catastrophic Stupidity that May [Have] Set Off a Larger Religious Conflict
Marco Rubio confessed yesterday that the reason Trump started a war with Iran is because Israel...
“That’s the way it is:” Trump Team Admissions, So Far
They were lying about the threat from Iran. They were lying about good faith of negotiations. They...
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