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  1. [NYTimes]: Xi Warned of the ‘Thucydides Trap.’ What Is It?

    China’s leader reached for Greek history to warn the United States of what can happen when a rising power meets an incumbent one. By Leo Sands, May 14, 2026

    nytimes.com/2026/05/14/world/a

  2. [Financial Times]: Eric Trump joins Beijing trip as family-linked group chases China deal By Joe Miller in Washington and George Steer in New York

    Company with ties to US president’s son has MOU with chipmaker that Congress warned is connected to Communist Party

    ft.com/content/8fc422d3-a943-4

  3. And the Kash Patel--drunk, article.
    [The Atlantic-Gift article]: The FBI Director Is MIA

    Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences. By Sarah Fitzpatrick

    theatlantic.com/politics/2026/

  4. Karoline Leavit is such a goddam partisan liar. so gross. What a vile person.

    #wh
  5. [SF Chronicle]: Zach Bryan just bought Jack Kerouac’s original ‘On the Road’ scroll for $12.1 million By Aidin Vaziri, March 14, 2026

    sfchronicle.com/entertainment/

  6. [Just Security]: FBI’s “Stand Down” Directive to NYPD on Jeffrey Epstein Investigations, and More

    A Timeline of NY Law Enforcement and Epstein Investigations By Ryan Goodman, February 23, 2026

    justsecurity.org/132230/fbi-st

  7. From today's House Judiciary Hearing on Justice Department Oversight. Representative Eric Swalwell speaks soberly and seriously about the threats he and his family have received as a result of the president’s threats and the Department of Justice’s seeming refusal to prosecute individuals who make threats against members of Congress.

    youtu.be/Q8kqeNyjF1U?si=2kgJXb

  8. [Financial Times-Gift Article]: Jeffrey Epstein asked for Snow White costume weeks before Jes Staley email By Kadhim Shubber, Ortenca Aliaj and Suzi Ring in London

    giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle

  9. The Haunting, 1963.
    Eleanor Vance, Julie Harris (1925-2013) arrives at Hill House, the housekeeper, Mrs. Dudley, Rosalie Crutchley (1920 – 1997) shows her to her guest room --then just with perfect quietly menacing delivery outlines the rules of the house: “I set dinner on the dining room sideboard at six. You can serve yourselves. I clear up in the morning. I don’t stay after six. Not after it begins to get dark.”

  10. [The Verge, Decoder]: Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’, Jon Fortt, CNBC journalist, Gil Duran, author of The Nerd Reich, a newsletter and forthcoming book about the shifting politics of Silicon Valley and the rise of tech authoritarianism.

    Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

  11. D-Day, June 6, 1944: “That night, FDR read his D-Day prayer in a radio broadcast.
    “Last night, when I spoke to you about Rome, I knew that our troops were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. . . . And so in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

    youtu.be/rsQcsfoYW0g

  12. [WisDems]: WisDems Virtual Phonebank!

    Make calls for Susan Crawford

    mobilize.us/wisdems/event/7498

    Fight back --fucking billionaires. There are more of us than there are of them.

  13. [The New York Times]: A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight By Elisa Gabbert, March 6, 2022
    nytimes.com/interactive/2022/0

  14. [NYTimes]: Rosalynn Carter, Politically Active First Lady, Dies at 96

    A full 16 years before Bill and Hillary Clinton offered themselves to the nation as a package deal, she and Jimmy Carter worked as near co-presidents.

    nytimes.com/2023/11/19/us/poli

  15. Eleanor Roosevelt died on this day, November 7, 1962

    Adlai Stevenson’s eulogy of ER Nov. 17, 1962: “Her life was crowded, restless, and fearless. Perhaps she pitied most not those whom she aided in the struggle, but the more fortunate who were preoccupied with themselves and cursed with the self-deceptions of private success.…

    #1962

  16. Here is the Congresswoman from as late as Dec 2022 promoting the traitor who defected to Russia today, Tara Reade.

    Let's see Lauren Boebert's signal app conversations. '1776' woman who tweeted Speaker Pelosi's location during Jan 6.

    Who does Putin pay?

  17. It is simply stunning that and House Republicans are advocating undermining our That want to hobble the that keeps us safe every single day. Its just shocking. Republicans are a national security risk. @StaceyPlaskett

  18. Also in the deposition, Murdoch said he was seeing for the first time a message from a senior executive producer on Jeanine Pirro’s show who wrote that a draft of one of Pirro’s scripts was “rife with conspiracy theories and BS and yet another example why this woman should never be on live television.” Murdoch said he was troubled by that description. washingtonpost.com/media/2023/

  19. Again. I have gifted this @washingtonpost article; no paywall. Read this! Tucker Carlson said he hates Trump ‘passionately’, Fox lawsuit documents show wapo.st/3IVYp9W @tuckercarlson @foxnews

  20. A common answer among Fox luminaries in new document trove: I don’t know @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/media/2023/ @IngrahamAngle
    “I don’t have any reason to believe that.”

    “I don’t have any basis for believing that.”

    “I have no knowledge of that.”

    “I have no information on that. I don’t know.”

  21. Fox Corp. Senior Vice President Raj Shah in a Nov. 21, 2020, email to producers warned that Powell called Fox prime-time host Tucker Carlson “abrasive" and “disrespectful" during an appearance on Newsmax.

    Shah added that Powell’s election fraud claims are “totally insane” and “just MIND BLOWINGLY NUTS.”

    washingtonpost.com/media/2023/
    @foxnews

  22. Tucker Carlson producer: ‘One funny thing’ washingtonpost.com/media/2023/ @washingtonpost A producer for Tucker Carlson noted “One funny thing” during a Nov. 20, 2020, exchange with an unidentified person.

    “Dominion was used in Ohio and Florida,” Alex Pfeiffer wrote. “Trump won them. Did they forget to rig those or all part of the plan?”

    @tuckercarlson @foxnews

  23. Here's the batshit email sent to Sidney Powell that she forwarded to Maria Bartiromo as proof that Dominion voting machines were flipping votes.

    The writer talks about being "internally decapitated" and how "The Wind tells me I'm a ghost." (via Justin Baragona, Daily Beast)

  24. Fox VPs call Sidney Powell appearance ‘problematic’ and ‘crazy’ @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/media/2023/

    Top Fox officials texted each other to say Trump attorney Sidney Powell was “problematic” and “crazy” when she appeared on air on Nov. 8, 2020.

  25. "Just calm down."
    "Calm down."
    "don't you tell me to calm down."
    This a 'junk food' TV night.

  26. I'm not sure that I like them-- they seem somewhat disingenuous -- a contrivance. Self promotion over selfless love. I dunno... maybe I'm skeptical.. maybe those December romances just don't ring true.. cannot put my finger on it. But, I'm not 'feeling' them.

  27. I'm just gonna stick my neck out here and say, I think 'plural marriage' sounds complicated.. maybe that's just me.. i dunno..