Anne Applebaum

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22 October 2026 16:39

In Venezuela last September, I found people hoping for change, but shocked and surprised by US policy, especially opaque oil deals with former regime cronies. The system looks, one economist told me, like “a coalition of two kleptocracies" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Phillips OBrien

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22 October 2026 16:39

Midweek update is out. Trump and Netanyahu are using bombing threats for political benefits alone it seem, populist foreign policy laid bare. Actually, in the US case, as admitted this week, the direction of travel is to get out of the Middle East. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-up...

Mark Jacob

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22 October 2026 16:38

Always remember that Donald Trump watched on TV for 3 hours as a mob beat up police officers. It made him feel good because they were doing it for him.

Jon Seidel

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22 October 2026 16:38

Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has submitted her brief to SCOTUS defending the county's assault weapons ban. "[The AR-15's] purpose was for battlefields teeming with enemy soldiers, not for city blocks populated with families." Full filing: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...