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How Gavin Newsom Became the Democrats’ 2028 Frontrunner
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Chile’s Military: The Art of Strategic Sufficiency
Chile has a military that is sufficient to deter its neighbors. It’s not top of the line, but it is good enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR6tNCDHNw0
How One Banker’s Greed Triggered the French Revolution
America’s rising debt, inequality, and inability to appropriately tax its wealthy, rhymes with what was happening leading up to the French revolution. The French put off their economic problems until the only solution was revolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqFSX7HQjwk
Fareed’s Take: The Trump administration’s attack on experts
In the first half of 2024, the Trump Organization had an income of 51 million. In the first half of 2025, that number was 864 million. What big new product storming the world did the Trump Organization come out with? That’s a 1,600% increase!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vRLc0SEEJY
The Business Strategy That Could Drive Up Your Grocery Bill, and Trump’s $12 Billion Bailout
Hamas is reinstating control over Gaza and refilling management positions. As long as Hamas remains in power, there will be no long term peace because it is their goal to destroy Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNe5o3Io–8
Trump threatens to raise tariffs on Mexico over Rio Grande water deliveries
“Texas farmers have long pushed for Mexico to send more water to meet the obligations of the 81-year-old treaty that says Mexico is obligated to deliver 1.75 million acre-feet of water to the U.S. every five years. Trump also threatened sanctions and tariffs against Mexico in April, complaining then that the country had delivered less than 30 percent of the requirement over a five-year window that ended in October.
Mexico argues that climate change-driven drought has hindered its ability to send the requisite water, but officials promised to send 420,000 acre-feet to the U.S. by October.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/trump-tariffs-mexico-rio-grande-water-00682220
Trump’s new strategy marks the unraveling of the Western alliance
““The only part of the world where the new security strategy sees any threat to democracy seems to be Europe. Bizarre,” said former Swedish Prime Minister and European Council on Foreign Relations co-chair Carl Bildt.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-national-security-strategy-europe/
The government’s top watchdog is retiring — but the Trump probes continue
“Whoever succeeds Dodaro will have to direct ongoing probes into Trump’s funding moves. To date, the agency has issued 11 opinions — five concluding the administration illegally withheld money, two citing some wrongdoing. Dozens are ongoing.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/07/gene-dodaro-gao-trump-impoundment-00679550
How Russia keeps raising an army to replace its dead
“For Russian men, war now advertises itself like any other job.
Offers for front-line contracts appear on the messaging app Telegram alongside group chats and news alerts, promising signing bonuses of up to $50,000 — life-changing money in a country where average monthly wages remain below $1,000. The incentives go beyond cash, with pledges of debt relief and free childcare for soldiers’ families and guaranteed university places for their children. Criminal records, illness and even HIV are no longer automatic disqualifiers. For many men with little to lose, the front has become an employer of last resort.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/russia-planned-war-of-attrition-00672960
Trump’s plans to shatter the bureaucracy have a green light at the Supreme Court
“some legal experts say that as a practical matter, the administration — emboldened by the justices — has already managed to eliminate job protections that have been on the books for nearly 150 years.
President Donald Trump’s drive to replace agency leaders and his mass firings across the federal government are all based on the same basic legal concept: the unitary executive theory. It holds that every employee of the executive branch is answerable to, and fireable at will by, the president.
The most extreme version of the unitary executive theory holds that the central premise of the civil service — that rank-and-file government employees shouldn’t be hired or fired for political reasons or simply on the president’s whim — is unconstitutional because it tramples on the president’s power to control the federal government.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/07/supreme-court-trump-firings-humphreys-executor-00679728