Friday News Roundup
Russia and Ukraine Watch On Saturday, UK Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer gave Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky a loan of £2.26 billion (equivalent to...
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Foreign Policy Watch Donald Trump extorted a minerals deal out of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy in exchange for not abandoning Ukraine to the...
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Foreign Policy Watch European leaders will gather for an emergency summit on Ukraine, but the more recent catalyst for calling the summit was J.D. Vance’s...
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Middle East Watch Egypt announced an emergency Arab summit in response to Donald Trump’s proposal to begin the mass forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza....
Friday News Roundup
I am currently working on a writing project that has reduced some of my output on this newsletter, but for the duration, I will keep sending you a news...
Friday News Roundup
On Sunday, South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was formally indicted on insurrection charges for declaring martial law this past December. Former U.S....
Friday News Roundup
It has finally arrived. It is the first Friday News Roundup after the inauguration of Trump 2.0. I am now realizing that this process may be just as much as...
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Trump Nomination Watch There are many takeaways from Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense. The hearing included discussion of a 2017...
4 Things You May Not Know About Trump's January 6th Coup
In honor of the release of Jack Smith’s report on the January 6th insurrection, I’m going to synthesize some materials from that report as well as the...
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World News As of last Saturday, a force of 150 Guatemalan troops and a few military advisors from El Salvador arrived in Haiti to combat armed gangs who have...
A Tale of Two Manifestos: Normalizing the Cybertruck Bomber
On New Year’s Day in 2025, a Cybertruck exploded in front of a Donald Trump hotel with the driver, Matthew Livelsberger, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot...
A Tale of Two Manifestoes: Normalizing the Cybertruck Bomber
On New Year’s Day in 2025, a Cybertruck exploded in front of a Donald Trump hotel with the driver, Matthew Livelsberger, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot...
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Sadly, the biggest news of the week is the fatal vehicle attack that killed 15 people celebrating New Year’s Day and the Sugar Bowl in the French Quarter of...
The Fest in Budapest: How Conservative Conferences in Hungary Have Created An Authoritarian American-European Alliance
If you want to trace how the conservative movement and the Republican Party have evolved over time, one of the best places to look is the annual conferences...
The Counter-Jihad That Created Donald Trump
Ever since Donald Trump got elected president in 2016, there has been a long-running debate among leftists, liberals, and centrists about whether Donald...
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Mass Deportation Watch A MAGA civil war has erupted over Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s support of importing foreign tech workers for Silicon Valley via the...
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Shutdown Watch The U.S. government faces the possibility of a shutdown effective tomorrow December 21. In addition to federal workers being furloughed,...
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Nomination Watch After looking like the Trump Administration would fail to get Pete Hegseth confirmed as Secretary of Defense, the Trump team is now...
The Attack on the 14th Amendment
Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution clearly states, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction...
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Mass Deportation Watch The Biden Administration expanded the use of AI in immigration enforcement, but despite the efforts of Biden's Secretary of Homeland...