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A post-Christmas roundup on impulse, power, and why procedural friction matters, ending with Ukrainian musicians playing Carol of the Bells amid rubble. #uspolitics #immigration #foreignpolicy #kakistocracy #authoritarianism
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Impulse Is Not a Foreign Policy
Epstein pressure, sectarian strikes, and a White House losing control of the process.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A post-Christmas roundup on impulse, power, and why procedural friction matters, ending with Ukrainian musicians playing Carol of the Bells amid rubble. #uspolitics #immigration #foreignpolicy #kakistocracy #authoritarianism
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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Amazing how little changed during the era of peak woke, yet we still got the woke panic.
December 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Amazing how little changed during the era of peak woke, yet we still got the woke panic.
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A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
...i realize i'm a little late to this topic, but how can scotus use the 'shadow docket' to reverse a lower court finding and reinstate the challenged legislation...and why isn't this all over legacy media...
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
Supreme Court lets Texas use gerrymandered map that could give GOP 5 more House seats
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Texas congressional map that may help the GOP win five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms. A lower court found the map is likely unconstitutional.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
...i realize i'm a little late to this topic, but how can scotus use the 'shadow docket' to reverse a lower court finding and reinstate the challenged legislation...and why isn't this all over legacy media...
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
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For the first time in 37 years, the Trump admin will not commemorate World AIDS Day as it guts global health funding and jeopardizes the health of millions. So this year's theme is fitting: overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response. You can more here: www.who.int/campaigns/wo...
World AIDS Day 2025
On 1 December WHO joins partners and communities to commemorate World AIDS Day 2025. Under the theme “Take the rights path: My health, my right!”, WHO is calling on global leaders and citizens to cham...
www.who.int
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
For the first time in 37 years, the Trump admin will not commemorate World AIDS Day as it guts global health funding and jeopardizes the health of millions. So this year's theme is fitting: overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response. You can more here: www.who.int/campaigns/wo...
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👂 SPEAKER JOHNSON: “Matt Van Epps will be the deciding vote” (for Trump’s unpopular agenda that strips health care from millions) #TN7
(h/t @american_bridge )
(h/t @american_bridge )
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
👂 SPEAKER JOHNSON: “Matt Van Epps will be the deciding vote” (for Trump’s unpopular agenda that strips health care from millions) #TN7
(h/t @american_bridge )
(h/t @american_bridge )
...if he was radicalized in the US, it was mostly likely not the Biden administration and more likely DHS or the CIA... and what many might call... plan b...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/noe...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/noe...
Noem says National Guard shooting suspect could have been radicalized in US
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said that the suspect in Wednesday's National Guard shooting may have been radicalized in the U.S.
abcnews.go.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
...if he was radicalized in the US, it was mostly likely not the Biden administration and more likely DHS or the CIA... and what many might call... plan b...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/noe...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/noe...
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#Warcrimes at sea, #Congress finally blinking, Trump’s “peace plan” for #Putin, economic alarms screaming, and why silence right now = complicity. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism
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No Quarter: The Collapse of Competence in Trump’s America
Inside the war crimes, the amateur diplomacy, the economic tremors, and the civic responsibility to refuse silence.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
#Warcrimes at sea, #Congress finally blinking, Trump’s “peace plan” for #Putin, economic alarms screaming, and why silence right now = complicity. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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REUTERS: “Trump blamed Biden-era vetting failures for the admission of an Afghan immigrant suspected of shooting two National Guard members — but the alleged gunman was granted asylum this year under Trump…” www.yahoo.com/news/article...
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
REUTERS: “Trump blamed Biden-era vetting failures for the admission of an Afghan immigrant suspected of shooting two National Guard members — but the alleged gunman was granted asylum this year under Trump…” www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Thank you for this excellent reporting. Please use your broad audience to educate on Kushner’s role in crafting this deal, which is just breaking. This seems a huge, unsurprising but underreported factor which points directly to likely Trump family enrichment through it. 1/
Trump Aides Met With Russian in Miami, Prompting Scrutiny Over Ukraine Peace Plan
U.S. officials and lawmakers are increasingly alarmed by a recent meeting involving the Trump administration and Kirill Dmitriev, a sanctioned Russian envoy
moderndiplomacy.eu
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Thank you for this excellent reporting. Please use your broad audience to educate on Kushner’s role in crafting this deal, which is just breaking. This seems a huge, unsurprising but underreported factor which points directly to likely Trump family enrichment through it. 1/
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Trump just going through Putin's checklist:
- weaken COP, G20, other intl. institutions of US-led global order
- abandon Ukraine and eventually NATO
- tariffs break down US global econ power, trash alliances
- vaporize our soft power - USAID, etc
- disable cyber protections
- promote anti-vax
- weaken COP, G20, other intl. institutions of US-led global order
- abandon Ukraine and eventually NATO
- tariffs break down US global econ power, trash alliances
- vaporize our soft power - USAID, etc
- disable cyber protections
- promote anti-vax
A failure - and one that’s Trump-driven.
The world deserves better.
The world deserves better.
COP30 climate summit ends without new pledges to cut fossil fuels - follow live
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Trump just going through Putin's checklist:
- weaken COP, G20, other intl. institutions of US-led global order
- abandon Ukraine and eventually NATO
- tariffs break down US global econ power, trash alliances
- vaporize our soft power - USAID, etc
- disable cyber protections
- promote anti-vax
- weaken COP, G20, other intl. institutions of US-led global order
- abandon Ukraine and eventually NATO
- tariffs break down US global econ power, trash alliances
- vaporize our soft power - USAID, etc
- disable cyber protections
- promote anti-vax
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An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter).
My prayers go out to her and her family.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
My prayers go out to her and her family.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter).
My prayers go out to her and her family.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
My prayers go out to her and her family.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...