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Trump Administration
How Do You Want Your Family to Remember You?
Over the last several weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about ugly government. Comparisons with the Gestapo have been increasingly prevalent, but other parallels have dominated my own thoughts.
When Even the German Far-Right Thinks You’ve Gone Too Far . . .
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is filled with neo-Nazis with whom Stephen Miller would feel right at home. Until today.
The Inaugural Donald J. Trump Awards
It’s been quite a year for Donald Trump, a narcissist the likes of which the world has never seen, except he’s missing a few awards.
Other Nations are Updating their Threat Assessments, Too
Denmark updated their annual threat assessment, and there’s a new name on their list of threats and challenges. I’ll give you 3 chances to guess who it is.
Hint: one Danish academic analyst uses the analogy of a “painful divorce,” saying this country is no longer “an eternal, reliable ally.”
The National Security Strategy’s Structure and Presumptions
Trump’s National Security Strategy envisions sustaining American power by removing brown people and women from positions of power, sustaining a failed trade war, and dictating what Europe should be.
What Trump’s UNGA Speech Tells the World
In one speech, Donald Trump gave the world a lot to think about, and none of it was good. Especially if you are Secretary of State/National Security Advisor/Archivist of the United States Marco Rubio
It’s Time to Call Out the National Gourd
Trump’s stunt with the National Guard in DC has been opposed by lawsuits, but this isn’t enough. It’s time to call out the National Gourd.
Happy Flying This Weekend – Who Needs All Those Meteorologists?
The GAO reports that the US regional air traffic control centers are dangerously short of meteorologists. What could possibly go wrong?
CDC Shooting 2.0 – It’s Coming from Inside the House
Forget the 2004 horror film set in AG John Ashcroft’s ICU room. RFK Jr. is no Dick Cheney and Donald Trump is no George W Bush. In today’s horror story at the CDC, as the movie lingo puts it, the shooting is coming from inside the house.
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