Kickback nation

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The taxpayers will not be responsible for paying for Trump's tacky new ballroom. They will just be responsible for paying exorbitant above-market no-bid contracts to the people building the ballroom,.

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Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko, via Pexels It should go without saying that Trump 2.0 is what happens when you fuse kleptocratic governance with far-right ideology, but it seems like a lot of foreign-policy analysts continue to pretend otherwise. Alex Cooley and I first pitched a piece...

Week 66

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I've got a busy day today, and my phone decided to die. I'm also disgusted with the overwhelming responses of "Oh, everything will be fine," and "We just have to.

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Le léopard m’a mangé le visage

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We discussed the story of the old French woman locked up by ICE over an inheritance dispute recently. Unsurprisingly, said French lady thought Trump was awesome before she herself was locked up. The experience stunned Ms. Ross-Mahé, who previously considered herself a supporter of President Trump...
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