Todd Thompson

You're great. Thanks. Keep up the good work. We can see past the inevitable typos. Thanks!

Trump’s gonna pardon Maxwell right in the middle of Fifth Avenue.

When Cults Collapse Is MAGA acting like a cult in its end days?

MAGA’s reaction to the Epstein files has been precisely those of a cult in its late stages. So how does it all end? open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

Looking forward to it! Just finished The End of All Things and loved it!

Well done. Keep up the great work!

YouTube video by Bloomberg Television Why the World Is Turning Away From American Agriculture

More trouble for US farmers #EconSky youtu.be/Y7DXBRn42PQ?...

Great joints man. Really well done. I look forward to seeing it progress. So What in the background makes your shop the chillest shop of all. Enjoy the work

Absolute genius. Carry on. Great work.

Sources:
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🔹 verstka.media/bezhavshih-s...

Turkey’s Erdoğan makes high-stakes Kurdish gamble As the president’s traditional support wanes, he is seeking a risky deal with the Kurds to buy a political lifeline. But is there too much mutual mistrust for a deal?

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is making the biggest gamble of his career to save his political skin.

His plan? To bring the large Kurdish minority onto his side by giving a place in Turkish politics to the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK.

Great thread on the corruption in the supreme court.

Great episode. Thanks you guys!

The CIA Director Didn’t Read His Own Report If he had, he would have known that it said basically the opposite of what he says it did.

So CIA Director Ratcliffe asked DOJ to indict John Brennan. In search of ammo he asked CIA leaders to review Brennan’s role in the CIA report on Russian interference. In the process he undercut his own case. The man is not very smart.

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cia-di...

Republicans plan to include more cuts in the appropriations bill.

Schumer is vaguely threatening a shutdown over it, begging the question: Why not do so in March when he had way more leverage, before Medicaid was gutted?! Now they have two opportunities: BBB and appropriations!

Cheers to Rivian for coming to my house to rotate my tires! The only maintenance I've needed in 7500 miles. I live 1.5 hours from the nearest service center. No problem! They do house calls. Great guy too. Big fan. @rivian

A movie about an undocumented immigrant fighting an evil billionaire on behalf of the masses and winning is coming to theaters this week. It will piss off all the right people.

Love it.

#superman

Sailors meet two very exotic San Diego women --

Oh my god. Read this & weep for the journalism we no longer possess. No news, just a life, bitter & beautiful as a Denis Johnson story, only it's true, & it was printed in a free weekly, 1972, by Mary Lang, still at the paper when I arrived in 20 yrs later. www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1989/no...

Wow. I started reading the story just to get a sense. And then I couldn't stop. And now it's 30 minutes later and I'm blown away. What an amazing ride. Top notch short story start to finish. Appears one week and then it's gone. So great it has been preserved. Thanks!

Build a park. Build the lines to bring the people. Pay us for a ride to our free park! Genius.

Thanks for that summary. Very much appreciated.

New @budgetlab.bsky.social tariff analysis incorporating 1) the US-Vietnam framework announced July 2, and 2) the July 7 letters to 14 countries with new "reciprocal" tariff rates, which go into effect August 1.

In brief...
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A passage from my book, "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press) where I try to explain what "multiple perspectives" means in a way that anyone can grasp.

Such a great July 4 video from a great scholar and writer. Really reminds me of how this great country started.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

It's so hard!

Congrats to @lindseyboylan.bsky.social for teaching everyone how to rank their votes efficiently.

Vought is worried they don’t have the votes

YouTube video by Anna from Ukraine RUSSIA LOSES INFLUENCE: AZERBAIJAN ESCALATION Vlog 1090: War in Ukraine

RUSSIA LOSES INFLUENCE: AZERBAIJAN ESCALATION Vlog 1090: War in Ukraine
youtu.be/6CnNQBNvS1Q

Republican Rep. Michael McCaul makes it clear that Republicans are voting for this bill because they’re afraid of Donald Trump and want to hold onto power.

Republicans must fear the PEOPLE more than Donald Trump. Keep calling your electeds and tell them they work for YOU! (202) 224-3121

Sino-Russian Convergence in Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference: A Global Threat to the US and Its Allies Russian and Chinese foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations impact democratic processes and national security.

China and Russia are using similar tactics to undermine cohesion and trust in Western nations. In a new CEPA report, Tamas Matura looks at the role of state tools employed by Moscow and Beijing to influence global narratives.