#opinions — Public Fediverse posts
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Young republicans break with Trump over Iran war | Al Jazeera News
A clear generational divide between younger and older republicans is forming at the RNC Midterm Convention and it…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraOriginals #AmericanVoter #breakingnews #Conflict #Gaza #Iran #Israel-Palestineconflict #MiddleEast #NewsAnalysis #Newsfeed #Opinions #Politics #ShowTypes #UnitedStates #US-IsraelwaronIran
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Food for Thought with Yeung ’29: Al Forno — the best Italian in Providence?
When you ask someone about their favorite restaurant in Providence, one name comes up a lot — Al Forno. Love it or hate it, it’s a Rhode Island institution — a husband-and-wife affair that began as…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italianmeals #Columns #Italia #Italian #italianmeals #italiano #italy #opinions
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Food for Thought with Yeung ’29: Al Forno — the best Italian in Providence? https://www.diningandcooking.com/2809242/food-for-thought-with-yeung-29-al-forno-the-best-italian-in-providence-2/ #Columns #Italia #Italian #ItalianMeals #italiano #italy #opinions
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Israel will never stop me speaking up for Palestine | Israel-Palestine conflict
Member of UK Parliament for Islington North. Published On 10 Sep 202610 Sep 2026 Share Israel will never…
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Falklands/Malvinas: whatever you call the islands, the oil should stay in the ground
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Falklands/Malvinas: whatever you call the islands, the oil should stay in the ground
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Falklands/Malvinas: whatever you call the islands, the oil should stay in the ground
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Falklands/Malvinas: whatever you call the islands, the oil should stay in the ground
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Falklands/Malvinas: whatever you call the islands, the oil should stay in the ground
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On the Heuristics of Fear: The Ecological Catastrophe Scenario
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On the Heuristics of Fear: The Ecological Catastrophe Scenario
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On the Heuristics of Fear: The Ecological Catastrophe Scenario
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On the Heuristics of Fear: The Ecological Catastrophe Scenario
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On the Heuristics of Fear: The Ecological Catastrophe Scenario
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https://www.europesays.com/people/221436/ Bombardier looks to hire 500 new workers in US, despite Trump threat | Business and Economy News #BusinessAndEconomy #canada #DonaldTrump #Economy #InternationalTrade #News #NewsAnalysis #Opinions #TradeWar #Trump #UnitedStates #US&Canada
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Bombardier looks to hire 500 new workers in US, despite Trump threat | Business and Economy News
The Canadian aircraft manufacturer has received support from Republican lawmakers on its economic impact record. Published On 9…
#Canada #BusinessandEconomy #donaldtrump #economy #InternationalTrade #news #news/analysis #Opinions #TradeWar #UnitedStates #US&Canada
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https://www.europesays.com/fr/1175542/ [Tribune] L’entente entre l’Allemagne et la France à l’épreuve de l’AfD #Actualités #allemagne #BundesrepublikDeutschland #DE #Deutschland #EU #europe #Germany #News #opinions #politique #RépubliqueFédéraleD'Allemagne
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BRICS summit may be the only place another Iran ceasefire can be built | US-Israel war on Iran
Iranian missiles and drones came down on Kuwait on September 3, two days after American aircraft struck roughly…
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Coming Home to Balili: The First Nateng Festival and the Culture That Remains
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Coming Home to Balili: The First Nateng Festival and the Culture That Remains
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Coming Home to Balili: The First Nateng Festival and the Culture That Remains
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Coming Home to Balili: The First Nateng Festival and the Culture That Remains
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Coming Home to Balili: The First Nateng Festival and the Culture That Remains
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The Frozen Frontier: Why the Arctic Is the World’s New Battleground
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Communications expert shares the number one small talk mistake people make and how to fix it
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The Long Form Troll
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday there was a post about someone filming people with Meta Glasses without permission and someone was offended by the fact that someone would record people without permission so I pointed to the need for talent release forms and more in order to share content showing other people.
One troll said the common “Oh, you obviously didn’t read the article” to which my answer was “of course not” because the comment was written and phrased in a hostile manner, rather than a sociable one. I didn’t read the article before comment to a human being because I spent five years studying the topic at two universities so my answer is based on university level studies, rather than RTFA. (Read the ducking (intentional spelling) article)
It’s also about common sense and decency. Common sense and decency require people to ask people for permission before filming them, and if it is for broadcast, which social media has become, then a talent release form is required. If a Talent Release Form is not required, or if the rules have been re-written for toxic people to record without permission then that is a serious breach of social etiquette.
People that have studied factual television, news and documentary are well aware of tiny cameras that have been used in investigative journalism to film in situations where getting permission would have made the journalism impossible but they often state that the footage was acquired that way, and it has to be cleared legally, to ensure that such filming was warranted and justified.
I have a deep passion for documentary, for cinéma vérité, for observational documentary and for the life unawares that Vertov wrote or spoke about a century ago. I love the idea of filming life unawares and documenting life, without the camera being noticed, or performed to.
In the end it’s worth remarking that in this day and age, of being mostly ignored except when we comment on specific topics, having a few people comment within minutes is suspicious and encourages me towards the conclusion that a troll farm was primed to respond to the subject matter.
In the age of trolls on Antisocial media, social media are irrelevant.
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I’ll run my channels and giveaways the way I want to…
It seems like, especially lately, certain individuals and groups seem to think they have a say about my giveaway rules amd how I run my channels. Put simply, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY SAY, and while I'm here, none of these chatters had anything to do with my community, my channels, Twitch affiliate or anything else for that matter. I couldn't care less about your opinions. X can be a cesspool sometimes, and its full of trouble makers, most of them live with mummy and daddy, its hilarious they […]https://gamerpauly.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/ill-run-my-channels-and-giveaways-the-way-i-want-to/
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A quotation from Baltasar Gracian
There is no weakness without its admirer, so be not discomfited because your ways displease some, for they will not fail to be pleasing to others: nor let their approval of them make you vain, for still others will condemn them.
[No hay defecto sin afecto, ni se ha de desconfiar porque no agraden las cosas a algunos, que no faltarán otros que las aprecien; ni aun el aplauso de estos le sea materia al desvanecimiento, que otros lo condenarán.]Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…
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#Quotes #Opinions #JamesMills #ImmoralHabits
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
This habit of forming opinions, and acting upon them without evidence, is one of the most immoral habits of the mind. ... As our opinions are the fathers of our actions, to be indifferent about the evidence of our opinions is to be indifferent about the consequences of our actions. -James Mill, philosopher (6 Apr 1773-1836) -
Season 3 Episode 2: Our Literary Unpopular Opinions
Welcome to Fake Book Club Podcast, Season three, episode two! We’re sharing our unpopular literary opinions about books, reading, and romance. Will you agree or disagree? Do we end this episode with our friendship intact? Listen and find out…
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Books MentionedHeated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu
The Midnight Taxi by Yosha Gunasekera
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Soften The Blow by Bread Tarleton
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
The anatomy of patriotism is complex. But surely intolerance and public irresponsibility cannot be cloaked in the shining armor of rectitude and righteousness. Nor can the denial of the right to hold ideas that are different — the freedom of man to think as he pleases. To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old and ugly subtlety.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-08-27), “The Nature of Patriotism,” American Legion Convention, Madison Square Garden, New York CityMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
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Widening the aperture…
Nobody signs up for monotony. It just… happens.
One. Habit. At. A. Time.
The same dark roast, one splash of milk, lukewarm by the second sip. The same playlist titled “Workout Jams” at the gym. The same gray stretch of highway. The same voices on the same scheduled calls.
I’ve honed that rhythm until it’s flawless.
I didn’t even notice it happening. It felt like structure. Like I had my life… together. But looking back at the last decade, the days blur, moments occur, a constant low hum whir. I worry about what I’ve chosen to .. defer.
Everything feels… fine. Not amazing. Not horrible. Just a flat… line. A hum without a melody.
My routines. My rituals. Stable? Yes. Yet, my curiosity is silent. My world has shrunk to the size of a monitor.
I have confided myself to the same spaces until they felt liminal – like waiting rooms for a life that was happening elsewhere.
Same room. Same streets. Same faces.
I don’t notice the cage until I step out of it.
That’s why travel always hit me so hard. Distance forces clarity. It shakes me awake. I am sleepwalking. All those choices made to build repetition, and how, in little ways, I’ve stopped yourself from trying.
Travel shows me the wonderful world outside the one I created. Yet, vacations never last.
Eventually, I have to pack the bag. I have to come home. Sometimes, the routine itself is the siren’s call – luring me back to the safety of the known. I adopt a few changes, place a souvenir on the shelf, and then the cycle repeatsI
So, I decided to break the cycle.
Two weeks ago, we pressed pause. A gap year. No work. No commute. Just me, my wife, and my son.
It’s been two weeks into this experiment, and I am breathing, at times hyperventilating but even then it’s fun. I don’t think I could have penned this without the silence – without the time to simply pause.
it doesn’t have to be black-and-white thinking. I realize that I don’t have to be in a novel place to change my perspective.
I don’t need a plane ticket to escape. All I need to do is shuffle my feet, crouch down, or stand on my tiptoes to look at what I am doing from a different angle.
The grass isn’t greener on the other side. It’s greener where you care for it – water it, patch it and give it sunlight. Even the most magical, inspiring place I’ve visited is “the boring backyard” of another person’s life.
So, I want to see the world. But, I also want to capture the adventure right here. To bring back spontaneity. To do something different.
It brings a smile back to my face. Every day felt new when I was a kid. I didn’t need to change homes; I just looked at the world with hungry eyes.
I am excited to see what this year will bring. I certainly intend to explore more of the beautiful world out there with my family. But I know I cannot find the answer only there.
Because I want to widen the aperture of the world I’ve created. And the answer is inside of me, refusing to narrow it again.
Spontaneity is enriching. It’s accessible. And for the first time in a long time, it’s under my control.
Just a new perspective.
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https://soyacincau.com/2026/01/20/malaysia-ev-boom-faces-reality-check-in-2026/
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Susie Wiles Talks Epstein Files, Pete Hegseth’s War Tactics, Retribution, and More (Part 2 of 2) – Vanity Fair
DAY 289
November 4, 2025The day I met Wiles at the White House was a watershed for Trump: Voters would choose governors in New Jersey and Virginia and a new mayor in New York City; they would also vote on Proposition 50, California governor Gavin Newsom’s proposal to counter a brazen Republican gerrymander in Texas. Collectively, the contests were a referendum on Trump’s second presidency.
Click here read Part 1 of 2 from Vanity Fair’s portfolio of Trump’s inner circle.
Over lunch in her West Wing corner office, Wiles recounted the morning. Escorting Trump from the White House residence to the Oval Office, she gave the president her election predictions: “I’m on the hook because he thinks I’m a clairvoyant.” Wiles thought the GOP had a chance of electing the governor in New Jersey, but she knew they were in for a tough night. (It would prove to be a Republican disaster, with Democrats running the table on the marquee races, passing Proposition 50, and winning downballot elections in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Mississippi.)
Given voters’ anxiety about the cost of living, Wiles told me she thought Trump should pivot more often from world affairs to kitchen-table issues. “More talks about the domestic economy and less about Saudi Arabia is probably called for,” said Wiles. “They like peace in the world. But that’s not why he was elected.”
From article…Not far from where we sat was a gaping hole where the East Wing had been until just days before. I asked her about the fierce criticism that followed its demolition to make way for Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom. “Were you surprised by it?”
“No,” Wiles replied. “Oh, no. And I think you’ll have to judge it by its totality because you only know a little bit of what he’s planning.”
Was she saying that Trump was planning more, as yet undisclosed renovations?
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June 2, 2024“Would you declassify the Epstein files?” —Fox News’s Rachel Campos-Duffy
“Yeah….I think I would.” —TrumpFor many of Trump’s followers, it’s an article of faith that the US government has long been run by an elite cabal of pedophiles. Less conspiratorially but no less seriously, others question whether politicians and powerful people either participated in or knew about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of young women, from his posh Manhattan town house to his private Caribbean islands. Perhaps most critical to Trump followers, though, is the fact that Trump indicated a willingness to release the files—and didn’t. As this article went to press, grand jury material from the Epstein records was due to be released in December.
What about accusing Letitia James of mortgage fraud?
“Well, that might be the one retribution,” Susie Wiles replied.
Wiles told me she underestimated the potency of the scandal: “Whether he was an American CIA asset, a Mossad asset, whether all these rich, important men went to that nasty island and did unforgivable things to young girls,” she said, “I mean, I kind of knew it, but it’s never anything I paid a bit of attention to.”
In February, Bondi gave binders labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” to a group of conservative social media influencers who were visiting the White House, including Liz Wheeler, Jessica Reed Kraus, Rogan O’Handley, and Chaya Raichik. The binders turned out to contain nothing but old information. “I think she completely whiffed on appreciating that that was the very targeted group that cared about this,” Wiles said of Bondi. “First she gave them binders full of nothingness. And then she said that the witness list, or the client list, was on her desk. There is no client list, and it sure as hell wasn’t on her desk.”
As Noah Shachtman reported in Vanity Fair, “dozens and dozens” of FBI agents at the New York field office were tasked with combing through the Epstein files. Many observers assumed they were looking for (and possibly redacting) Trump’s name. “I don’t know how many agents looked through things, but it was a lot,” said Wiles. “They were looking for 25 things, not one thing.”
Wiles told me she’d read what she calls “the Epstein file.” And, she said, “[Trump] is in the file. And we know he’s in the file. And he’s not in the file doing anything awful.” Wiles said that Trump “was on [Epstein’s] plane…he’s on the manifest. They were, you know, sort of young, single, whatever—I know it’s a passé word but sort of young, single playboys together.” (Trump started dating Melania Knauss, whom he married in 2005, sometime in 1998. Virginia Giuffre, Epstein’s most prominent accuser, who died by suicide earlier this year, first met Epstein while she was a Mar-a-Lago spa worker in 2000. Trump and Epstein reportedly had a falling out in 2004.)
Trump has claimed, without evidence, that Bill Clinton visited Epstein’s infamous private island, Little St. James, “supposedly 28 times.” “There is no evidence” those visits happened, according to Wiles; as for whether there was anything incriminating about Clinton in the files, “The president was wrong about that.”
The people that really appreciated what a big deal this is are Kash [Patel] and [FBI deputy director] Dan Bongino,” she said. “Because they lived in that world. And the vice president, who’s been a conspiracy theorist for a decade…. For years, Kash has been saying, ‘Got to release the files, got to release the files.’ And he’s been saying that with a view of what he thought was in these files that turns out not to be right.”
From article…In July, Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general and Trump’s former lawyer, traveled to a Tallahassee, Florida, courthouse to interview Epstein’s longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. Convicted on sex trafficking charges in 2021, she received a 20-year prison sentence. “It’s not typical, is it,” I asked Wiles, “to send the number two guy in the DOJ and the president’s former defense lawyer to interview a convicted sex trafficker?” According to Wiles, “It was [Blanche’s] suggestion.”
Wiles said that neither she nor Trump had been consulted about Maxwell’s transfer to a less restrictive facility after Blanche’s visit. “The president was ticked,” according to Wiles. “The president was mighty unhappy. I don’t know why they moved her. Neither does the president.” But, she said, “if that’s an important point, I can find out.” (At press time, Wiles said she still had not found out.)
“Sometimes he laments, ‘You know, gosh, I feel like we’re doing really well. I wish I could run again.’” Wiles said of Trump. “And then he immediately says, ‘Not really.”
What about the birthday greeting featuring a sketch of a nude woman, which, according to The Wall Street Journal, bore Trump’s name and was sent to Epstein for his 50th birthday? “That letter is not his,” Wiles said. “And nothing about it rings true to me, nor does it to people that have known the president a lot longer than I have. I can’t explain The Wall Street Journal, but we’re going to get some discovery because we sued them. So we’re going to find out.” Trump’s lawyers filed a $20 billion defamation lawsuit against Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, which the defendants have asked a federal judge in Florida to dismiss.
So will the president sit for a deposition in that process?
“I mean, if he had to,” she said.
The Epstein files debacle poses a dire political threat to Trump and the future of the GOP. “The people that are inordinately interested in Epstein are the new members of the Trump coalition, the people that I think about all the time—because I want to make sure that they are not Trump voters, they’re Republican voters,” Wiles said. “It’s the Joe Rogan listeners. It’s the people that are sort of new to our world. It’s not the MAGA base.”
A senior White House official described the mindset of an overlapping bloc of voters who are angered by both Trump’s handling of the Epstein files and the war in Gaza. It’s as much as 5 percent of the vote and includes “union members, the podcast crowd, the young people, the young Black males. They are interested in Epstein. And they are the people that are disturbed that we are as cozy with Israel as we are.”
From article…Vance keeps his eye on the voters. “It’s Epstein, Gaza, and the coziness with Israel,” said this White House source. “If you dive deeply into the internet, you’ll find things that say, ‘Well, why don’t we just put Bibi at the Resolute Desk?’ ” the source said, referring to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Across our year of conversations, Wiles wanted to put an end to what she believes is a persistent myth, that Trump is a warmonger. To the contrary, Wiles says, the president genuinely cares about ending wars and saving human lives. “I cannot overstate how much his ongoing motivation is to stop the killing, which is not, I don’t think, where he was in his last term,” she said. “Not that he wanted to kill people necessarily, but stopping the killing wasn’t his first thought. It’s his first and last thought now.” Whether that thought is genuine or driven by his desire for a Nobel Peace Prize is, of course, open to debate.
DAY 213
August 20, 2025“Israel says it has taken first steps of military operation in Gaza City.” —Reuters
In early October, Trump announced that his envoys had brokered a deal with mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey to end two years of bloodshed in Gaza. The 20-point plan, calling for the disarmament of Hamas and the administering of Gaza by a multinational force, was far from a sure thing. But the ceasefire and the release of almost all the hostages (the remains of one are still missing) was a considerable achievement. During his triumphant appearance at Israel’s Knesset, Trump struck a bellicose tone, praising Netanyahu and the Israeli armed forces with no mention of the Palestinian civilian casualties. Trump had previously lauded Bibi’s efforts in another action by calling him a “war hero”—a remark partially aimed at Israelis. Talking about it then, Wiles winced. “I’m not sure he fully realizes,” she said, “that there’s an audience here that doesn’t love it.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Susie Wiles Talks Epstein Files, Pete Hegseth’s War Tactics, Retribution, and More (Part 2 of 2) | Vanity Fair
Tags: 2025, Inner Circle, J.D. Vance, Junkyard Dogs, Opinions, Part 1, Second Term, Susie Wiles, Trump, Two Part Article, Vanity Fair
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Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the “Junkyard Dogs”: The White House Chief of Staff on Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2) – Vanity Fair
Photographer Christopher Anderson.On the morning of November 4, 2025, an off-year Election Day, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was meeting in the Oval Office with the president and his top advisers, men she calls her “core team”: Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff. The agenda was twofold: ending the congressional filibuster and forcing Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro from power. As she related it later, President Donald Trump was holding forth on the filibuster when Wiles stood up and started for the door. Trump eyed her. “Is this an emergency, that you have to leave?” he demanded. It was nothing of the sort—but Wiles left Trump guessing. She replied: “It’s an emergency. It doesn’t involve you.” With that, according to Wiles, she departed the Oval.
Click here to read Part 2 of 2 from Vanity Fair’s portfolio of Trump’s inner circle.
Wiles, wearing dark pants and a plain black leather top, met me in her office with a smile and a handshake. Over sandwiches from the White House Mess, we talked about the challenges Trump faces. Throughout the past year, Wiles and I have spoken regularly about almost everything: the contents, and consequences, of the Epstein files; ICE’s brutal mass deportations; Elon Musk’s evisceration of USAID; the controversial deployment of the National Guard to US cities; the demolition of the East Wing; the lethal strikes on boats allegedly being piloted by drug smugglers—acts many have called war crimes; Trump’s physical and mental health; and whether he will defy the 22nd Amendment and try to stay on for a third term.
“I’m not an enabler. I’m also not a bitch,” said Susie Wiles. “I guess time will tell whether I’ve been effective.”
Most senior White House officials parse their words and speak only on background. But over many on-the-record conversations, Wiles answered almost every question I put to her.
We often spoke on Sundays after church. Wiles, an Episcopalian, calls herself “Catholic lite.” One time we spoke while she was doing her laundry in her Washington, DC, rental. Trump, she told me, “has an alcoholic’s personality.” Vance’s conversion from Never Trumper to MAGA acolyte, she said, has been “sort of political.” The vice president, she added, has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.” Russell Vought, architect of the notorious Project 2025 and head of the Office of Management and Budget, is “a right-wing absolute zealot.” When I asked her what she thought of Musk reposting a tweet about public sector workers killing millions under Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, she replied: “I think that’s when he’s microdosing.” (She says she doesn’t have first-hand knowledge.)
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Wiles is the most powerful person in Trump’s White House other than the president himself; unlike any chief of staff before her, she is a woman.
From article… From article…“So many decisions of great consequence are being made on the whim of the president. And as far as I can tell, the only force that can direct or channel that whim is Susie,” a former Republican chief told me. “In most White Houses, the chief of staff is first among a bunch of equals. She may be first with no equals.”
“I don’t think there’s anybody in the world right now that could do the job that she’s doing,” Rubio told me. He called her bond with Trump “an earned trust.” Vance described Wiles’s approach to the chief’s job. “There is this idea that people have that I think was very common in the first administration,” he told me, “that their objective was to control the president or influence the president, or even manipulate the president because they had to in order to serve the national interest. Susie just takes the diametrically opposite viewpoint, which is that she’s a facilitator, that the American people have elected Donald Trump. And her job is to actually facilitate his vision and to make his vision come to life.”
It’s been a busy year. Trump and his team have expanded the limits of presidential power, unilaterally declared war on drug cartels, imposed tariffs according to whim, sealed the southern border, achieved a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza, and pressured NATO allies into increasing their defense spending.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the “Junkyard Dogs”: The White House Chief of Staff on Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2) | Vanity Fair
Tags: 2025, Inner Circle, J.D. Vance, Junkyard Dogs, Opinions, Part 1, Second Term, Susie Wiles, Trump, Two Part Article, Vanity Fair, White House
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The #CensusBureau is #thinking about how to ask about #sex. #People have their #opinions
Dozens of #healthofficials, #civilrightsgroups, #individuals #and #businesses have weighed in about how the #statistical #agency should ask about #sexualorientation and #genderidentity for the first time on the American Community Survey (#ACS), one of the most comprehensive survey of American life.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Census #Representation #Culture
https://www.whio.com/news/politics/census-bureau-is/6D3ZIQ27W6YEPHB2XFUFPF2VRM/
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Exploring the Privacy Concerns Around CBDCs - The future of money is digital and many countries are developing their own Central Bank D... - https://cryptonews.com/exclusives/exploring-the-privacy-concerns-around-cbdcs.htm #bankforinternationalsettlements #centralbankdigitalcurrencies #donaldtrump #opinions #news
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@SarraceniaWilds @AmericanFietser I agree there are people on #mastodon that have real trouble with #listening, truly #discussing stuff and #respecting others and their #opinions...
However, I would say that goes for any "social" platform.
#twitter #bluesky #facebook #linkedin (need I go on?)
As long as people (left, right or whatever side you want to call it) do not wish to truly listen and use actual arguments, it will never be a discussion... just people shouting opinions at each other.
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#SupremeCourt #Ruling on #Trans #Immigrant #Celebrated for #FairTreatment and #Respecting #Identity.
Observers of the court have noted that the recent #opinion not only #correctly #gendered Ms #SantosZacaria but also employed more #humanising #language for #noncitizens than previous #opinions.
In recognizing her #humanity and #humandignity. This #landmark #court ruling sets a new #precedent.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #Immigration #PoliticalAsylum #SupremeCourt
https://www.advocate.com/law/supreme-court-transgender-pronouns
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