CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal The disclosure indicates the CIA lied for decades about an officer's role in the case before and after the JFK was assassinated, experts say.

Millions of I-told-you-so’s being spoken this morning. www.axios.com/2025/07/05/c...

Excellent column by Tom Friedman www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...

Big discussion on Morning Joe this morning that Biden has most assuredly had prostate cancer for several years, given how advanced it now is. All the more scandalous and, for the country, ruinous that he ran for re-election and delivered the country to Trump. I am fucking angry.

If it were up to Alito and Thomas, we would already be neck-deep in a dictatorship

Opinion | U.S. Tariffs Make Xi Jinping’s Day Trump’s global trade war is a strategic gift to the Chinese President.

Coming from the WSJ, this is a devastating editorial.
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I'm such a history nerd, but I can't help thinking about Hitler, at his peak of power and hubris, choosing to invade Russia. Obviously not a proportionate analogy to what Trump is doing, but just an observation that arrogance tends to bring on its own destruction.

We can overlook a lot, apparently: people dragged off the streets and deported without due process; government departments decimated at a billionaire's whim; universities and law firms being strong-armed. But this will break through. People don't like their savings and livelihoods being fucked with.

Let’s stop paying Social Security for one month and see who screams. Those are the fraudsters.

Hard as it is to believe, that really seems to be what our government is about to attempt.

America's "Constitutional Crash" This isn't "just" a crisis.

"We need to start by recognizing that this isn’t 'merely' a constitutional crisis. This is a constitutional crash." - author Garrett Graff

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...

Where Do We Stand: A ‘Correlation of Forces’ Assessment. What might actually stop Trump? Let's go through some possibilities—which finally come down to each of us.

Outstanding assessment of where we are at, from James Fallows.

Where Do We Stand: A ‘Correlation of Forces’ Assessment. open.substack.com/pub/fallows/...

We now have the definitive image of the Musk Purge (from CPAC yesterday). World’s richest man gleefully taking a chainsaw to thousands of jobs of “probationary” employees, many of whom are young people just getting their start in science, in health, in the forest service, in their “dream jobs.”

Trump’s Pivot Toward Putin’s Russia Upends Generations of U.S. Policy (Gift Article) As peace talks opened in Saudi Arabia, President Trump made clear that the days of isolating Russia are over and suggested that Ukraine was to blame for being invaded.

Yup, it’s officially a sellout of Ukraine.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

U.S.-Russia Talks in Saudi Arabia Set to Go Beyond Ukraine (Gift Article) The two sides met in Saudi Arabia for their most extensive discussions in years. In addition to Ukraine, business ties were on the table.

Headspinning isn't an adequate word. More like a modern version of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Trump and Putin are planning to dump Ukraine, in an epochal shattering of the post-WWII order. Sheer criminal madness.

Canary in the coal mine statement for sure

Trump Administration Live Updates: Nearly All USAID Jobs Are Said to Be Cut (Gift Article)

Just terribly wrong.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Trump Vows to Release Records on Kennedy and King Killings (Gift Article) President Trump told security agencies to develop plans to make public all documents related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Okay, I will admit to being excited about this, though decades of disappointment make me very cautious in my enthusiasm. The final documents in the JFK case have been withheld for 60+ years because they are either very embarrassing or very damning (or both).

Bishop Tells Trump to ‘Have Mercy’ on Immigrants and Gay Children The direct appeal to President Trump at the start of the first full day of his presidency was a remarkable moment at a National Cathedral event that has not historically been political.

This bishop is my hero.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

Opinion | The Old World Is Breaking Down. A New One Is Breaking Through. (Gift Article) Four trends are converging to make life much scarier.

A sobering read from Ezra Klein.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...

Anything can happen and it usually does.

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

The eternal shame of the oligarchs. As someone said, what's the point of having fuck you money if you're afraid to say fuck you to the powerful?

Of the tributes that will be etched in my memory over the next week: Morehouse Glee Club singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic at the Carter Center's remembrance of Jimmy Carter

#ThankYouJimmyCarter

I'll confess that the orderly transition of government over the next two weeks feels just a bit galling. Not because I want it to be otherwise, but because the contrast with what happened four years ago will not be acknowledged by a single Republican member of Congress nor by the incoming president.

Yes

It just blows me away that this guy was Trump's first nominee for AG. What the hell.

January 20th, 2025

Some Thoughts on the Dylan Biopic I got the opportunity to see the new Dylan movie at an advance screening a couple nights ago. And I wanted to share a few thoughts about it. I don’t know how to write a movie review. And I don’t know…

Josh Marshall likes the Dylan movie and especially Timothée Chalamet’s performance. I cant wait to see it.

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I say let the whole panoply of weirdos in. Let them fuck shit up. Let it all play out. The only way to learn is the hard way.

Luigi Mangione, Suspect in CEO Killing, Withdrew From a Life of Privilege and Promise (Gift Article) The suspect, Luigi Mangione, was an Ivy League tech graduate from a prominent Maryland family who in recent months had suffered physical and psychological pain.

What a tragic story all around

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/n...