[FT]: Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right politician, 1928-2025
National Front founder led the movement for decades before passing the baton to his daughter Marine https://www.ft.com/content/da4f0d7d-3bcd-4bde-af16-56b592cc1d82
[Foreign Policy Live Podcast]: Inside Trump’s Defense Policy (Re-Air)
Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's Editor-in-Chief intervew with Elbridge Colby, Trump's pick for under secretary for policy. December 30, 2024. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/foreign-policy-live/id1034003458?i=1000682146791 “Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's Editor-in-Chief. This is FP…
Social Media Before Social Media: ‘Diary of a Mad Housewife’ (1970) –
When Group Therapy Was Like Today's Comment Section In "Diary of a Mad Housewife" (1970), https://youtu.be/NJh-x7eqjT8 Tina Balser (Carrie Snodgrass), an educated, frustrated Manhattan housewife and mother, is in a…
[The American Prospect]: The Government Is Shutting Down Because Elon Musk Has Factories in China
There’s a mundane reason for the late-term chaos, and it’s called a conflict of interest. By David Dayen December 20, 2024 "But it's incontrovertible that a billionaire who has a…
[Gifted article, NYTimes]: Money for 9/11 Health Care Was Dropped from Year-End Spending Bill
A plan to ensure long-term funding to address health needs stemming from the terrorist attacks fell to the wayside after President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk objected to a bipartisan…
[The Guardian]: Major Trump donors who complained of immigrant ‘invasion’ used Mexican workers illegally, sources allege
Exclusive: Experts believe the alleged ‘shuttle support’ program used by Uline – a company owned by billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein – is likely illegal and exploitative of workers By…
[The Telegraph]: Suspect in Magdeburg market attack is pro-AfD Saudi doctor
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, who arrived in Germany in 2006, praised far-Right politicians including Geert Wilders in posts online By Roland Oliphant, Senior Foreign Correspondent https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/21/suspect-in-magdeburg-market-attack-is-pro-afd-saudi-doctor
Email message to my congress person, Speaker Pelosi
sent December 19, 2024, Thursday by contact page email on her official site. Hello Speaker Pelosi. Long time supporter.First, my wishes for your speedy recovery.Second. I did call your SF…
[DSR, TNR, The Daily Blast Podcast] : Shocker from Chris Murphy: We May Not Have a Democracy for Much Longer,
Greg Sargent, December 19, 2024, Thursday. Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, sounded an extraordinary warning this week. After a House GOP report recommended that the FBI prosecute Liz Cheney,…
[The Bulwark Podcast]: Mark Hertling: Putin’s Weakness Tim Miller.
Russia is on its weakest footing since it invaded Ukraine: Putin has destroyed his military, his economy is in the toilet, and the North Korean troops who've been deployed to…