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National security consultant; economist by trade; former chief of the China Division and the Strategic Assessments Group at CIA; later, manager at CENTRA Tech.
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And if you have a theory, I'd love to hear it.
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This is less inflammatory that the colorful assertion Trump is still an agent (of SVR) and still taking instruction. But it still leaves Trump in a vulnerable place, still subject to manipulation, by Putin directly, not Russian intelligence. So we have the same problem, more or less...
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www.vox.com/2015/3/2/812...
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Concluding, Yglesias wrote
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Reading this from Yglesias in 2015, it's hard not to conclude that what had changed by 2024 was the mobilization of the "low information voter," who had not been interested in politics previously.
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And the rise of the filibuster.
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Thanks for trying.
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unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-japan-...
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www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Yes, and the BLS is a priceless asset. If things do go south, though, the administration may start compromising our valued data sources rather than have them confirm bad news. Trump is already jamming up the mainstream press, like AP for example.
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I protested at the AZ capitol in Phoenix, perhaps with 3,000 others.
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WaPo: "Hedtler-Gaudette said that Musk’s decision to ridicule a blind, 38-year-old government waste expert exhibits something different: “He’s a fundamentally small person,” Hedtler-Gaudette said in an interview with The Washington Post."
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...
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www.liberalcurrents.com/is-it-a-coup/
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I should say "adaptation" rather than "copy."
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Wait. There's more. Similar story on the anti-terrorism front. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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Hang in there.