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A new Politico eulogy mourns the CIA World Factbook like a beloved teacher retiring. On Feb. 4, the Trump administration abruptly shuttered this widely accepted account of humanity and its flags, nations, customs, militaries and borders. […] A gr…
Trump said “I don’t need international law.” Hegseth calls rules of engagement “stupid.” The new letter signed by over 100 experts acknowledges these quotes and then proceeds as if restating the rules of war louder will ma…
CNN ran an Easter feature on Tom Holland, the British pop historian who wrote Dominion and now tours the American evangelical circuit as their favorite secular validator. The headline promises a “brush with the supernatural.” The article de…
Day four of the war with Iran, Hegseth boasted like a retro WWE announcer “the two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies” and “they are toast.” By day ten of war he was practically hyp…
What’s notable in the latest Trump administration move is the role of a legal operative named T. Elliot Gaiser. He clerked for Alito, was Trump’s 2020 campaign legal advisor, advising that Pence had a “substantive” role in certi…
A trip down memory lane… Franklin Roosevelt ordered a new East Wing built at the White House in 1942. The public reason was office space, which covered construction of the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) underneath. The bunkerR…
Donald Trump in 2007 launched overpriced frozen meat in a campaign he called “The World’s Greatest Steaks“, using a paper catalog for a technology gadget store. A mail order frozen steak for $999 was supposed to be an attractive item …
A federal judge who orders the compilation of lists of Jews, dismisses Jewish historical objections to the compilation of lists of Jews, and wraps it in calm institutional reasoning is performing the function of Nazism. Nothing could be more precise ab…
On this past shabbat I sat in the synagogue and listened to the Rabbi on my left, the Rabbi on my right, and the Rabbi in front of me, relate their views of the Passover coming tomorrow. They asked me to flip the pages, to ask questions, and I paused h…
A US engineer named Cortland, claiming he loves Ireland, built an AI voice agent, deployed it to cold-call over 3,000 Irish pubs without consent, and trained it to pass as human. The BBC wrote up the attack as a heartwarming story about those Irish. Co…