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"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

In today’s Vatnik Soup REBREW, I’ll re-introduce the American-British social media personalities, Tristan and Andrew Tate. They’re best-known for their social media grifts, allegations of human trafficking and rape, and sucking up to authoritarian regimes. 1/22

"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible" The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today. snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...

"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the U.S. so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.

This is a brilliant introduction to fascism. I was shown it by my good friend David Youngquist. I am tempted to post it every day from now on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpCK...

Why is Trump (or people in his circle) talking about building an American empire that includes (depending on the day) Greenland, Canada, Panama, Mexico? Here are five Trumpian logics explanations, all of which can function together, and probably do. snyder.substack.com/p/why-greenl...

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Every year, I compile a list of my favorite tech projects, and honor them in a column called the Good Tech Awards. This year, I was excited to feature LLMs for genomics, AI brain mapping, open-source maintainers, the NASA heroes who saved Voyager 1, and more. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/t...

The election "was not just an event,” Machado told me. “It’s a process that has brought our country together. And regardless how many days it takes, Venezuela has changed forever and for the good" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Elon #Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state – it’s time we reined him in | Alexander Hurst www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My latest op-ed for the Baltic Sentinel - "AN X-RAY OF "PUTIN'S BRAIN" ⟩ Aleksandr Dugin and His Ideology of Chaos": balticsentinel.eu/8154472/an-x...

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann