@TheAtlantic and @SNFAgoraJHU Author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Red Famine, Twilight of Democracy and now AUTOCRACY INC find me more often on https://xitter.gq/t.co/NzY0PRNaYd
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American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read more here:
theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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It's the morning after a historic rout, and the Texas GOP is planning to discuss how to use the time they have to take powers away from an incoming Democrat.
Expect more of this.
Texas Senate Republicans plan to meet this afternoon to discuss reorganizing the chamber, sources tell @quorumreport. Election of a majority leader and stripping the Democratic Lt Gov of legislative power on the table.
Developing...
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The death toll from Russia's massacre in Komyshuvakha is now confirmed at 37 people, 48 are still listed as missing, 50 additional bodies might be trapped under the rubble.
Russia dropped multiple glide-bombs on civilians queuing for humanitarian aid.
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Has anyone started the “This was all part of Trump’s master plan” spin yet? “The Dems fell into the 4D chess master’s trap”? That kind of thing?
It will take more than two years to build a government that serves the needs of Americans, not a small class of oligarchs, but the Democrats can begin now
youtube.com/watch?v=ofOnmMiI…
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Donald Trump asked voters to pretend he was on the ballot. “They listened—and then rejected him,” @JonLemire writes. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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#BREAKING: Navy admiral fired by Pete Hegseth flips Nancy Mace’s South Carolina seat #Midterms2026
thehill.com/homenews/campaig…
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Maybe you should have given that half-a-billion dollars to USAID programs you terminated
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Let us #PrayTogether for the proper use of wealth, that not succumbing to the temptation of selfishness,
it may always be put at the service the common good and solidarity of those who have less. Be a part of this prayer: popesprayer.va/praywiththepo… #PrayerIntention @clicktopray_en
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And so what?
We already know what would happen: Trump would show up totally unprepared; wing it with no idea how to negotiate a complex deal on topics he does not understand; give press conferences praising Kim and attacking liberal democratic S Korea; then demand a Nobel Prize
North Korea pours cold water on Kim-Trump meeting as APEC summit looms japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/1…
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Elon Musk and Joe Rogan moved to Texas to escape liberal California and inadvertently turned Texas blue for the first time in 30 years 😂
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Trump ravaged conservative South with his trade war. In unexpected battleground state Mississippi, international trade supports 20% of all employment. Top destination for Mississippi exports? Trump arch-enemy, Canada.
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For Trump’s many enablers, apologists and collaborators, the Great Forgetting begins now.
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Austin Texas sounds like an Eastern European city that just overthrew a dictator
