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  1. The Glass People: The Materials of Madness, from the Glass King to the Simulation

    More than six hundred years ago, the King of France stopped letting anyone touch him. Charles VI had iron rods sewn into his clothing and moved through his palace with the stiff care of a man carrying something breakable, because he believed he was carrying something breakable. He believed it was himself. The chronicles of his reign record that the king became convinced his body had turned to glass, and that a careless embrace or an ordinary stumble would shatter him to pieces on the stone floor. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/06/04/the-

  2. The Glass People: The Materials of Madness, from the Glass King to the Simulation

    More than six hundred years ago, the King of France stopped letting anyone touch him. Charles VI had iron rods sewn into his clothing and moved through his palace with the stiff care of a man carrying something breakable, because he believed he was carrying something breakable. He believed it was himself. The chronicles of his reign record that the king became convinced his body had turned to glass, and that a careless embrace or an ordinary stumble would shatter him to pieces on the stone floor. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/06/04/the-

  3. "There is no point in trying to predict Donald Trump's demise; he has proven adaptable and fluid, again and again. But his Iran adventure (coming as it does with a partnership with Netanyahu) has put him into a position where he must sacrifice the coalition that has kept him in power."

    ~ Dave Troy

    #Trump #Iran #war #instability #MentalDecline #madman #MadKing #megalomania
    /13

    america2.news/the-unraveling-o

  4. "There is no point in trying to predict Donald Trump's demise; he has proven adaptable and fluid, again and again. But his Iran adventure (coming as it does with a partnership with Netanyahu) has put him into a position where he must sacrifice the coalition that has kept him in power."

    ~ Dave Troy

    #Trump #Iran #war #instability #MentalDecline #madman #MadKing #megalomania
    /13

    america2.news/the-unraveling-o

  5. "Our idiot president 'can’t even surrender right.' … Over the weekend Paul Krugman quipped that Donald Trump “can’t even surrender right.”

    This is correct. …

    This guy couldn’t even get his shit sandwich plated and out the door.

    Which has now left us at another brink."

    ~ Jonathan V. Last

    #Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #ceasefire #negotiations
    /10

    thebulwark.com/p/our-idiot-pre

  6. "Our idiot president 'can’t even surrender right.' … Over the weekend Paul Krugman quipped that Donald Trump “can’t even surrender right.”

    This is correct. …

    This guy couldn’t even get his shit sandwich plated and out the door.

    Which has now left us at another brink."

    ~ Jonathan V. Last

    #Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #ceasefire #negotiations
    /10

    thebulwark.com/p/our-idiot-pre

  7. "Donald Trump has backed down again in Iran talks, agreeing to extend the ceasefire indefinitely after Iran said it would not attend a second round of negotiations. …

    The U.S. ambassador to Israel has been urgently recalled to Washington, D.C., for consultations at the White House, signaling heightened diplomatic attention to the situation."

    ~ Aaron Parnas

    #Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #ceasefire #negotiations
    /8

    aaronparnas.substack.com/p/bre

  8. "Donald Trump has backed down again in Iran talks, agreeing to extend the ceasefire indefinitely after Iran said it would not attend a second round of negotiations. …

    The U.S. ambassador to Israel has been urgently recalled to Washington, D.C., for consultations at the White House, signaling heightened diplomatic attention to the situation."

    ~ Aaron Parnas

    #Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #ceasefire #negotiations
    /8

    aaronparnas.substack.com/p/bre

  9. (continued from /6)

    " — telling the truth — threatened his business and his employer’s stock price. The record of this is not contested. It was produced, under oath, through discovery, in a defamation case his employer settled for $787.5 million rather than allow to reach trial."

    #Trump #TuckerCarlson #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman
    /7

  10. (continued from /6)

    " — telling the truth — threatened his business and his employer’s stock price. The record of this is not contested. It was produced, under oath, through discovery, in a defamation case his employer settled for $787.5 million rather than allow to reach trial."

    #Trump #TuckerCarlson #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman
    /7

  11. Mike Brock doesn't accept Tucker Carlson's apology for "misleading" his followers to support Trump:

    "Tucker Carlson did not mislead his audience. He lied to them. He lied to them knowing the things he was saying were false, said so explicitly in writing at the time he was saying them publicly, and continued saying them anyway because the alternative" (continued in /7)

    #Trump #TuckerCarlson #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman
    /6

    notesfromthecircus.com/p/apolo

  12. Mike Brock doesn't accept Tucker Carlson's apology for "misleading" his followers to support Trump:

    "Tucker Carlson did not mislead his audience. He lied to them. He lied to them knowing the things he was saying were false, said so explicitly in writing at the time he was saying them publicly, and continued saying them anyway because the alternative" (continued in /7)

    #Trump #TuckerCarlson #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman
    /6

    notesfromthecircus.com/p/apolo

  13. "I’ve served three presidents and advised a fourth. I’ve been in and around several White Houses. When presidential aides tell reporters that they’ve had to keep a president out of the room because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful, what they’re really saying is they’re dealing with someone who’s so irrational they don’t trust his judgment."

    ~ Robert Reich

    #Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #media #ceasefire
    /5

    robertreich.substack.com/p/why

  14. "I’ve served three presidents and advised a fourth. I’ve been in and around several White Houses. When presidential aides tell reporters that they’ve had to keep a president out of the room because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful, what they’re really saying is they’re dealing with someone who’s so irrational they don’t trust his judgment."

    ~ Robert Reich

    #Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #media #ceasefire
    /5

    robertreich.substack.com/p/why

  15. "The planned negotiations between the U.S. and Iran are currently collapsing before our eyes as the so-called ceasefire rapidly approaches its end. he corporate media may have bought into Trump’s rosy assessments, but we followed the facts and the data…."

    ~ Ben Meiselas

    #Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #media #ceasefire #negotiations
    /4

    meidasplus.com/p/tuesday-after

  16. "The planned negotiations between the U.S. and Iran are currently collapsing before our eyes as the so-called ceasefire rapidly approaches its end. he corporate media may have bought into Trump’s rosy assessments, but we followed the facts and the data…."

    ~ Ben Meiselas

    #Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #media #ceasefire #negotiations
    /4

    meidasplus.com/p/tuesday-after

  17. "Trump’s war in Iran is a strategic disaster. His ego got him into this mess and his ego is preventing him from leaving. The world is at this madman’s mercy."

    ~ John Stoehr

    #Trump #instability #MentalDecline #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman
    /3

    editorialboard.com/the-world-i

  18. "Trump’s war in Iran is a strategic disaster. His ego got him into this mess and his ego is preventing him from leaving. The world is at this madman’s mercy."

    ~ John Stoehr

    #Trump #instability #MentalDecline #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman
    /3

    editorialboard.com/the-world-i

  19. #Trump admin officials claimed that the officer who shot #ReneeGood had been under attack & was acting in self-defense, & #state investigators have been blocked from accessing #evidence related to the case.

    After a 2nd resident was killed — #AlexPretti, a #VeteransAffairs #nurse who was also 37 — #federal officials initially appeared to use the same playbook.

    #law #FAFO #federalism #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing

  20. #Trump admin officials claimed that the officer who shot #ReneeGood had been under attack & was acting in self-defense, & #state investigators have been blocked from accessing #evidence related to the case.

    After a 2nd resident was killed — #AlexPretti, a #VeteransAffairs #nurse who was also 37 — #federal officials initially appeared to use the same playbook.

    #law #FAFO #federalism #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing

  21. …As #allies confront what some see as a #hostile attitude from the #US, they will almost certainly be unhappy to see that #Defense Secretary Pete #Hegseth’s department will provide “credible options to guarantee US #military & commercial access to key terrain,” especially #Greenland & the #PanamaCanal.

    #Trump #MafiaState #geopolitics #NATO #alliance #NewWorldOrder #NationalSecurity #law #InternationalLaw #authoritarianism #MadKing