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Drawthorne
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Writer of 100 DAYS: How Donald Trump will Destroy America - based on his speeches, interviews and website, as well as Project 2025 and hundreds of articles, the book imagines the first 100 Days of Trump’s 2nd Term
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[Werner Herzog voice] Faced with 50% tariffs, the penguin walks off into the interior of the vast continent. With 5,000 kilometers ahead of him, he's heading towards certain death.
April 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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In my latest for @alphaville.ft.com I discuss why the new Trump tariff measures are a recipe for … crime!

(Yes, I’m writing about rules of origin again.)

on.ft.com/44cO71p Trump’s new rules (of origin)
Trump’s new rules (of origin)
It ain’t where you’re at, it’s where you’re from
on.ft.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Now economists know how good governance advocates have felt since 2016. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
April 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Elon Musk waiting for his Swasticar - courtesy of Edward Gorey
March 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Trump administration announces new sources of public health information

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Why the weasel testicles? Cambridge show explains medieval medicine
Exhibition aims to help visitors get inside the minds that thought mercury and roasted apples would cure lice
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Watching Miss Rachel on YouTube this morning - look her up and find she had been attacked by internet trolls for various things.
What is wrong with people?
March 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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“There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.”
— Tony Benn
November 6, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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The complaint contains the most comprehensive factual and legal analysis of Musk/DOGE's actions I've seen to date.

Read the filing here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Japanese American Citizens v. Musk
www.documentcloud.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
They paved paradise
And put up a drilling stop

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
March 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Trump and Vance tell Melania how they bullied Zelenskyy as she makes them chips, beans and sausages for their tea.
March 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Jeremy Bowen had some good analysis of the Trump Zelenskyy debacle and Trump’s mindset about international relations yesterday.
Trump sees himself as a strongman amongst other strongmen - Putin, Xi - and they are going to dictate the world order. All very Ayn Rand.
Obviously Trump is a weakman.
March 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The Moscovian Candidate enacts the will of his KGB master
March 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Slava Ukraini!
March 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Really depressing when predictions - based on months of research mind you - come true (especially when things you thought would take weeks to enact are all done on day zero)
Read what’s coming…

amzn.eu/d/6Z8heGp
January 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Sometimes I can’t actually believe we’re going to have to beat the Nazis again
January 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Make Billionaires Extinct
January 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I get the feeling Germany and France giving Trump a warning will have absolutely no effect whatsoever

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Germany and France warn Trump against use of force over Greenland
Olaf Scholz says borders are inviolable after president-elect talks of using US military or tariffs to take control of island
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is one of the lost dangerous things to happen in the world for a long time… Mark Zuckerberg is a weasel.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content
Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
In truth the Panama Canal passed me by - never thought he’d go after that.
But looks like Greenland, Mexico may be invaded. Canada economically pressured.for someone who promised that he’d keep America out of wars he’s rattling sabres left and right like a toddler with a new knight’s sword
January 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I had Trump do this on Inauguration Day - so I suppose that would be the first hour. At the same time he extends an invite for three all to visit the White House. In my book he also announces an investigation into, as he’ll no doubt put it, “the Biden crime family”
January 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Orban was always going to be the model for how Trump eroded the power of the media - intimidation, right-wing supporters enforcing takeovers, oligarch owners kowtowing (see Bezos & the Post), journalists sued, etc
January 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Not to blow my own trumpet but six of the stories on the Guardian website I covered in my Trump book. I really thought some of my predictions were a bit outlandish, including using the military to invade Greenland. But here we are…
January 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM