"Trump’s personal brand depends on winning. A war that may at best end in an ugly draw must be hailed as a great victory; an election that he lost must have been a triumph; and damage to the Reflecting Pool caused by an unsuccessful renovation must be blamed on vandals." www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/p...

Analysis: Jeanine Pirro faces the choice many Trump officials confront at one point or another | CNN Politics

Jeanine Pirro faced a choice that all President Donald Trump’s team members confront sooner or later: Do they live in his world, or the real one?

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Trump doesn’t much care whether the Republicans lose control of Congress this autumn. He’d prefer a win, but he isn’t planning around it. He’s planning an all-out, two-year “finale” in which he intends to wield power in ways he’s heretofore avoided, or only flirted with. inews.co.uk/news/world/d...

In private, Trump's staff tell me they're bracing for Maga unleashed

My former colleagues on Capitol Hill say the worst is yet to come and they're no match for this US President

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Asking Anthony Fauci for medical advice then calling for him to be jailed? 🔐 Katie Miller (wife of Stephen) is the latest Maga hypocrite www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Asking Anthony Fauci for medical advice then calling for him to be jailed? Katie Miller is the latest Maga hypocrite | Arwa Mahdawi

The vocal vaccine sceptic and wife of Trump’s deputy chief of staff turned to the former US science adviser when she was worried about Covid. Now, she’s claiming it was a cunning plan, writes Arwa Mah...

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Coming Wednesday to my free Substack: matthewboedy.substack.com

Park Service Delivers Brutal Verdict on Trump’s “Triumphal Arch” 🐔🌮🍊🤡 The National Park Service is warning that Trump’s proposed “triumphal arch” would ruin just about everything near it newrepublic.com/post/213883/...

Park Service Delivers Brutal Verdict on Trump’s “Triumphal Arch”

The National Park Service is warning that Trump’s proposed “triumphal arch” would ruin just about everything near it.

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Ja, aber anscheinend gibt es Menschen in vielen Regierungen, die sie immer noch ernst nehmen

For the third time in history, women outnumber men in the workforce 👷‍♀️ The stay-at-home boyfriend is no longer just a TikTok trend. He’s a Federal Reserve data point. And the woman paying his rent is, increasingly, the American economy. fortune.com/article/why-...

For the third time in history, women outnumber men in the workforce as the stay-at-home boyfriend becomes an economic trend | Fortune

Women now hold more jobs than men in America, for the third time ever. A Federal Reserve economist says this time, it's not reversing.

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Trump is an expert drug pusher. He sells his fans something to temporarily feel good about themselves and their tiny lives. He feeds their worst habits. He hates who they do. He gives them permission to be as awful as they want to be, and not feel guilty about it. www.alternet.org/amp/addictio...

Donald the dealer — and the hidden fear driving Trump’s ultimate reckoning

The author's 1980s encounter with a grimy coke pusher reveals why Trump’s addicted base can’t walk away—and what happens when the high wears off.

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Attempting to rewrite the history of the U.S. Covid-19 response, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pinned the blame for pandemic lockdowns on Dr. Anthony Fauci, while simultaneously reviving a string of debunked assertions about vaccines, RSV and measles www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/p...

RFK Jr. targets Fauci and pushes medical misinformation in fiery CNN interview | CNN Politics

In attempting to rewrite the history of the US Covid-19 response, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday pinned the blame for pandemic lockdowns on Dr. Anthony Fauci, while simultaneously re...

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Let Them Eat Gold 😋 Taxpayers are now financing Donald Trump’s love of anything gilded 🍊🤡🐔🌮 Whether it’s in his long, red ties or his swooshed-over hairstyle, Trump is all about branding. Perhaps nothing is more on-brand for him than his affection for gold. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Let Them Eat Gold

Taxpayers are now financing President Trump’s love of anything gilded.

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Die Geschehnisse in Ceuta zeigen auf erschreckende Weise, wie die Maxime "Wir müssen unseren Wohlstand vor den bösen Fremden verteidigen." blitzschnell breiten Zuspruch findet. Diese Politik auch noch Christlich zu nennen, geschieht in bester Tradition Trumpscher Heuchelei.

The crisis in Ceuta is likely to be contained. But if Europe’s reaction to a surge of immigration is to isolate individual states, rather than to use legal tools to protect freedom and manage human displacement in a globalized world, Schengen really is at risk. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Schengen’s Greatest Failure

The Ceuta crisis is undermining an agreement designed to foster “solidarity.”

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No mistakes by blue America or by the scientific community begin to compare with the brutal indifference to the well-being of Americans—and the betrayal of their own cruelly deceived supporters—that disgraced MAGA and the broader right wing in the pandemic years. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Anthony Fauci Is Not the Villain in This Story

The doctor was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty.

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What the Fauci Diary Reveals About Washington 📖 Many high-level government officials insist on keeping diaries. This happens even, or especially, when these activities involve sensitive matters. When these diaries become public, they can yield irresistible morsels www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

What the Fauci Diary Reveals About Washington

His musings seem to confirm everyone’s worst suspicions about the capital.

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Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters are the most loyal of any group of voters 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Majorities would stick by candidates confronted with a scandal, from a DUI conviction or accepting lobbyist gifts to domestic violence, sexual assault, and antisemitic social media posts www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Poll: Trump’s MAGA voters would stick by a candidate through the most serious of scandals

Most of President Donald Trump’s MAGA base say they’d still vote for a GOP candidate when confronted with an array of scandals — more so than Republican voters writ large or Democrats.

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Pronatalism argues that society should produce more offspring to avert demographic collapse, preferably without immigration, which brings a whiff of white nationalism. It has united evangelicals, Catholics like JD Vance, the Heritage Foundation and atheist tech-futurists. inews.co.uk/news/world/i...

Inside the Maga push to make America have more babies

Pro-natalists believe that society should produce more children to avert demographic and economic collapse

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Americans need to become healthier. This won’t happen with influencers telling people to increase sunlight exposure. The U.S. needs policies that make life healthier and less dangerous. The MAHA movement has done the opposite by crippling public health agencies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The US public is fed up with RFK Jr. To really ‘make America healthy again’, it should look to Europe | Devi Sridhar

Americans are dying younger than Europeans, despite being the wealthiest people on the planet. Wellness fads won’t change that, says public health expert Devi Sridhar

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Many agents in charge of anti-immigrant operations also have brown skin, Hispanic names, and links to the communities they terrorize. The agents who killed Alex Pretti were two Hispanic men. Latinos are not naturally, invariably opposed to restrictionist policies. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: Why so many Latinos in the U.S. are anti-immigrant

Reactionary politics are not simply imposed on Latinos; they have repeatedly found traction within those communities themselves.

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Welcome to the era of Late-Stage Trumpism 🐔🌮🍊🤡 The “personalist” aspects of Trumpian rule — the shaping of government and even the physical aspects of Washington around one man’s relentless self-aggrandizement — are imploding in a supernova of venality and megalomania newrepublic.com/article/2137...

We’ve Officially Entered the Twilight of Late-Stage Trumpism

It’s all there in a new CNN poll, and it’s heartening to see: Large majorities are sick of Donald Trump’s vanity, venality, and megalomania.

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"Culling the herd" 🐄 Over the years, I've heard people suggest, if not say outright, that COVID-19 was a disease that mainly killed the old and sick — people who were going to die soon anyway 😳 Not only does that view not tell the whole truth, but it's also offensive www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Hey Fauci haters, his decisions saved lives. Including mine. | Opinion

Turning the COVID-19 pandemic into a culture war political battle trivializes the suffering of those who lost loved ones. And those who survived it.

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Trump's war on America’s universities casts doubt on America’s ability to remain the world’s leading magnet for higher education. Trump and Elon Musk destroyed the country’s foreign aid infrastructure. Robert Kennedy Jr is pursuing an anti-science, anti-vaccine agenda. inews.co.uk/news/world/a...

American prestige is dead. Trump killed it one university at a time

Behind the theatrics is a carefully thought-out political strategy that conservatives have been plotting for years

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“Donald Trump has a fixed, immutable belief that vaccines cause autism” 🐔🌮🍊🤡 That makes Trump the most powerful anti-vaxxer in the world — and unlikely to fire Robert F. Kennedy Jr., even as rumors have swirled that the health secretary is on his way out 💉 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump reportedly pushing RFK Jr to cut vaccines more aggressively

White House has halted changing vaccine schedule as it is unpopular, but anti-vaxx Trump set on ‘alleviating autism’

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When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, the country I had served with my life looked very, very different to me 🐔🌮🍊🤡 It was darker, and never to be trusted to do the right thing again www.alternet.org/amp/trump-jo...

The 2016 Trump joke that sparked a national reckoning

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"Hegseth glaubt ernsthaft, dass das Geheimnis militärischer Macht in einem Zeitalter, in dem KI-befähigte Dronen hunderte Meilen weit fliegen können, mehr Testosteron ist" 👇 ein sehr lesenswerter Artikel von Paul Krugmann über die verfehlte US-Kriegsführung im Iran unter Trump & Hegseth 1/2

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"Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump began with an astonishingly stupid theory of war: the belief that performative masculinity is how you win" 🍊🤡🤪 @dkrappe.eurosky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-putini...

A bonus: They'll have more lethality in the eyes of the Secretary of "War," but their manifestations of manhood will shrink ⚾⚾

But he's doling out gender-affirming hormone therapy to the troops 🤪

"Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump began with an astonishingly stupid theory of war: the belief that performative masculinity is how you win" 🍊🤡🤪 @dkrappe.eurosky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-putini...

The Putinization of the American Military

When poseurs and yes-men run a war

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The Dunning-Kruger effect, often taken to mean the least competent people are the most overconfident, may be the other way around 🤪 "When we clear away the statistical problems, we see that overconfidence is a universal human trait, but the most capable exhibit it the most" phys.org/news/2026-07...

New research turns the Dunning-Kruger effect on its head: Rethinking the confident incompetent

Researchers at the University of Bath and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) suggest that the celebrated Dunning-Kruger effect, often taken to mean the least competent people a...

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Disasters strike earth once roughly every 27 million years 🦕 Michael Rampino re-examines 89 geological events: marine mass extinctions, oceans being depleted of oxygen, eruptions and earthquakes, fluctuations in sea levels, and changes in seafloor spreading rates www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...

Earth's disasters strike every 27 million years - we're due one soon

According to a new study, the most destructive events on Earth are based on a regular, hidden cycle.

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Nein, das Zeitalter des Überflusses (für wen?, meine Frage), dessen Ankunft Dank KI Elon Musk prophezeit, wird nicht kommen. Denn, "zum Teufel, KI verändert meine Arbeit (als Journalist), aber sie hat nicht die Macht, zu ändern, wie Menschen.zu Sachen & Dienstleistungen kommen & die Grundlagen 1/2

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The Age of Abundance is a fantasy sold by a charlatan, who tells the best story to serve his own ends. The cost of labor and resources to build will not magically drop to zero. Elon Musk’s vision wishes away the basic laws of commerce, physics, and human need. www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...