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This week: Iran agreement, trillionaire, 80th birthday, Platner, a war crime, depopulation, and a caring Mother Wrench.
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Pacts
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one. – Amy (@lolennui.bsky.social) This week’s featured post is “What t…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/06/15/pacts/
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We’d like to field unassailable, squeaky-clean candidates, especially this time around. But that’s not always an option.
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What to make of Graham Platner
Can we buy a redemption story without sinking into the same moral morass Republicans have? In spite of a variety of accusations (some of which he has admitted and apologized for), Graham Platner wo…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/06/15/what-to-make-of-graham-platner/
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This week: reconciliation, 60 Minutes, a trillionaire, life expectancy, and a Jimmy Fallon stunt.
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Self and Others
A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men ser…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/06/08/self-and-others/
12 days ago
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You may believe that Pride has nothing to do with you. But the targets of fascist bigotry inevitably expand with time. They may get to you sooner than you think.
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All Americans Need Pride Now
It’s the nature of fascism to keep expanding its list of enemies. No matter who you are, they’ll get to you eventually. “First they came for the Communists …” Martin N…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/06/08/all-americans-need-pride-now/
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This week: Republican resistance, Iran rumors, 2024 autopsy, Ebola, and putting beavers to work in England.
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Like No One Has Ever Seen Before
The president is suing himself and compensating other people for legal claims that have not been identified from people that we don’t know. We just haven’t seen anything like that. – Adam Zim…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/05/25/like-no-one-has-ever-seen-before/
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You've heard it before, but this time it might be true.
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Has Trump finally pushed Republicans too far?
I hate to even ask this question, because it’s been discussed so often over the years, and the hopes raised have (up until now) always been dashed. But maybe? Maybe? Way back in 2015, when Tr…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/05/25/has-trump-finally-pushed-republicans-too-far/
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This week: corruption, summit, voting rights, inflation, Christian Nationalism, and a peacock.
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Narrow Ideology
We are deeply concerned that what is really being rededicated is a nation to a very narrow and ideological part of the Christian faith that betrays our nation’s fundamental commitment to religious …
https://weeklysift.com/2026/05/18/narrow-ideology/
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When so much is wrong, what should we focus voters' attention on?
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Is Corruption the Democrats’ Unifying Theme?
Maybe the reason the government is working so badly for you is that it works so well for him. Ever since he came down the escalator in 2015, Donald Trump has posed a unique problem for his opponent…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/05/18/is-corruption-the-democrats-unifying-theme/
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This week: racial redistricting, ballroom, Ka$h, a golden idol, and the hope-inspiring story of Earl Warren.
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Profoundly Wrong Things
Good people, people who go to church, people who love their families, people who believe they’re good have, throughout the history of this country, done deeply, profoundly wrong things to Black Ame…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/05/11/profoundly-wrong-things/
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What if we’ve been thinking about war all wrong?
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Phillips O’Brien’s “War and Power”
Why have predictions about recent wars gone so horribly wrong? Ukraine. On February 21, 2022 — just three days before Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine — Robert Kagan, a f…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/05/11/phillips-obriens-war-and-power/
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This week: voting rights, abortion drugs, Iran, Comey, and a photogenic squirrel.
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https://weeklysift.com/2026/05/04/necessary-means/
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What to do with a lawless Supreme Court?
Can democracy flourish, or even survive, if two-thirds of the justices on the Supreme Court don’t believe in it? [A previous version of this post didn’t load for some users, so I republ…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/05/04/what-to-do-with-a-lawless-supreme-court/
about 2 months ago
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The Roberts Court has become the enemy of multiracial democracy.
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What to do about a lawless Supreme Court?
Can democracy flourish, or even survive, if two-thirds of the justices on the Supreme Court don’t believe in it? One of the great moments in American politics happened on March 15, 1965. It w…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/05/04/what-to-do-about-a-lawless-supreme-court/
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This week: gerrymandering, asylum, the war, SPLC, and a little musical comedy.
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Don’t Start
The best way to achieve what is now the central war aim — opening the Strait — would have been simply not to start the war in the first place. – Josh Marshall This week’s featured posts…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/04/27/dont-start/
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Asylum laws exist for good reasons, but Congress needs to fix them, not the President.
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Fixing the Asylum Mess
A bad process, but a good cause. One of the first things President Trump did in his second term was to “declare that an invasion is ongoing at the southern border” and respond by direct…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/04/27/fixing-the-asylum-mess/
about 2 months ago
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As he so often does, Trump started a battle without anticipating his opponents' possible responses.
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Where the Gerrymandering Battle Stands After Virginia
Iran is not the only war Trump started, but appears to be losing. Virginia became the latest state to gerrymander its congressional districts ahead of the midterm elections. Tuesday, a referendum t…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/04/27/where-the-gerrymandering-battle-stands-after-virginia/
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This week: MAGA discontent, no change in the war, Trump v. Pope, and one of my favorite closings.
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Woe
Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. – Pope Leo XIV This w…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/04/20/woe/
2 months ago
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How can Trump voters' disillusionment lead to Democratic victories?
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Can Democrats gain from MAGA discontent?
Trump voters are beginning to regret their decisions. But that doesn’t automatically mean they’ll turn around. What Hungary can teach us about the full process. MAGA discontent. A runni…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/04/20/can-democrats-gain-from-maga-discontent/
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This week: “peace” talks, Hungarian election, Artemis II, Melania, Swalwell, and a very small Earth.
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Accelerating Trends
The war has accelerated or made evident a trend that was already there, which is that the whole Trump administration is about a kind of rebalancing of power, so that we are less powerful and our ri…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/04/13/accelerating-trends/
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This week: war, ICE, Trump losses in court, Mueller, and when a puppy meets a kitten.
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Not a Game
No sifts for two weeks. The next new articles will appear April 13. In the dramatic circumstances of war … the media must guard against the risk of becoming propaganda. … It is up to yo…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/03/23/not-a-game/
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Another week, more escalation, and no vision of an ending.
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Notes on yet another week of war
With no goal to achieve, it’s hard to see how this ends. Two weeks ago, I opened the weekly summary with a quote from the Roman philosopher Seneca: “If one does not know to which port o…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/03/23/notes-on-yet-another-week-of-war/
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This week: war, law, trans persecution, and a candidate who offers an attack against herself.
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Pathocracy
The transition to pathocracy begins when a disordered individual emerges as a leader figure. While some members of the ruling class are appalled by the brutality and irresponsibility of the leader …
https://weeklysift.com/2026/03/16/pathocracy/
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Why are Trump and his people so resentful and reckless?https://weeklysift.com/2026/03/16/the-longer-view/
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The Longer View
Ever find yourself watching Trump officials and thinking “What’s wrong with those people?” Three writers offer their answers. We’ve known for a long time that the Trump admi…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/03/16/the-longer-view/
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This week: war, primaries, Talerico, Noem, a bad jobs report, and a madrigal version of “Staying Alive”.
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Unfavorable Winds
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. – Seneca, “Moral Letters to Lucilius”first century AD This we…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/03/09/unfavorable-winds/
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James Talerico challenges the notion that Republicans own Christianity.
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Can Democrats compete for Christianity?
Republicans have left an opening. Can Democrats like James Talerico take advantage? Ever since Jerry Falwell launched the Moral Majority and got credit for electing Ronald Reagan in 1980, conservat…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/03/09/can-democrats-compete-for-christianity/
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This week: Iran, SOTU, ICE, Epstein, and what unsupervised Canadian dads get up to during the Winter Olympics.
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Stop Asking
Boil it all down and what do we have? We have a military operation with no clear ends at all. Stop asking what the US government’s intentions are, they do not exist outside of the personal in…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/03/02/stop-asking/
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A distraction from Epstein? A reset of the national narrative? What the other Gulf states get in exchange for their billion-dollar bribes? Those explanations all make more sense than what Trump has been saying.
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Why this? Why now?
Two decades ago, George W. Bush and his cabinet spent months raising support for an invasion of Iraq. Two days ago, the Trump regime attacked Iran without giving us any coherent explanation. Saturd…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/03/02/why-this-why-now/
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This week: tariffs, Epstein, Iran, Cuba, Jesse, Gaza, and more.
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Kindness or Cruelty?
I am begging my fellow politicians, my fellow Illinoisans, my fellow Americans to realize that right now in this country we are not fighting over policy or political party. We are fighting over whe…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/02/23/kindness-or-cruelty/
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The result comes from internal divisions in the conservative wing of the Court, not from John Roberts suddenly turning against authoritarianism.
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The Tariff Decision
At least for now, the power to tax still belongs to Congress. I had been starting to wonder if we still had a Supreme Court. Again and again, starting with two cases before the election (the ballot…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/02/23/the-tariff-decision/
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This week: election interference, Minneapolis, non-cooperation, Kennedy Center, and The Washington Post.
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Uncooperative Responses
No Sift next week. The next new posts will appear on February 23. Our response should not be “This response to Bad Bunny’s inclusion shows how divided we are, how can we stop this polar…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/02/09/uncooperative-responses/
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If moderate approaches fail, we may need more radical options.
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Non-Cooperation
When does cooperation become complicity? And what other choice is there? This morning I want to introduce you to a blogger a bit more radical than I am: A. R. Moxon, who writes a payment-optional S…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/02/09/non-cooperation-2/
4 months ago
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Jeff Bezos isn't Charles Foster Kane.
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Dying in Broad Daylight: The Washington Post
We’ve seen newspapers go into a death-spiral before. But who thought it could happen to The Washington Post? Maybe you’ve seen this pattern with your own local newspaper: It has financi…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/02/09/dying-in-broad-daylight-the-washington-post/
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This week: ICE protests, Epstein, Don Lemon, seizing 2020 ballots, and a giant rolling finger.
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Through the Looking Glass
To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replac…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/02/02/through-the-looking-glass/
5 months ago
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The resistance in Minnesota has turned the narrative against Trump and ICE. But that’s just a potential turning point, not a decisive victory.
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Did We Win?
Trump is back-pedaling on Minneapolis. But has anything really changed yet? At this point, just about all observers agree that the occupation of Minneapolis has been a political and public-relation…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/02/02/did-we-win/
5 months ago
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This week: resistance in Minneapolis, Trump’s Greenland retreat, the regime’s Nazi problem, still waiting for Epstein files, and a stare-down with a crocodile.
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Resistance
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. – commonly attributed to George Orwell What did we learn from the Holocaust? We have to act and we have to resist. If I…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/26/resistance/
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America has a chance to turn around here. Will we take it, or go past a point of no return?
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Turning Point or Tipping Point?
If the regime can repeatedly murder people in the streets with no consequences, there’s no turning back. Fortunately, more and more people are beginning to realize that. When I started the We…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/26/turning-point-or-tipping-point/
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This week: Greenland, Minneapolis, the Dual State, Trump’s unearned medal, no more Epstein files, and family resemblances.
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All We Have
All we have are whistles. They have guns. – Francisco Segovia, executive director COPAL This week’s featured post is “Greenland: It’s getting serious”. There is also a…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/19/all-we-have/
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No one can explain why it's worth blowing up NATO to acquire Greenland.
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Greenland: It’s getting serious
What started as a punch line is turning into a trade war with our allies. When President Trump began fantasizing about annexing Greenland back in 2019, the suggestion was hard to take seriously. Ma…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/19/greenland-its-getting-serious/
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Here's a phrase we all need to start using:
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Expand your vocabulary: the Dual State
[I haven’t done an Expand Your Vocabulary post in several years, but “the Dual State” merits one. We should all become fluent in its use.] It’s commonplace these days to com…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/19/expand-your-vocabulary-the-dual-state/
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This week: Renee Good, Portland, Venezuela, Greenland, and some cute baby animals.
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Two Options
They’re telling you to believe them and not your eyes. … So the message from this administration is clear: only they determine the truth, and when their forces come to your city, obey o…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/12/two-options/
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The most disturbing thing about the regime's gaslighting is that for many people it works.
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Renee Good and Our Epistemological Crisis
Is there any hope of finding a common reality? Wednesday in Minneapolis, ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot American mother Renee Good three times, killing her. There is so much to be upset about here, i…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/12/renee-good-and-our-epistemological-crisis/
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This week: Venezuela, year-end, Court, Smith, small towns, and five good stories of 2025.
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The Euphoria Period
We’re in the euphoria period of acknowledging across the board that Maduro was a bad guy and that our military is absolutely incredible. This is exactly the euphoria we felt in 2002 when our milita…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/05/the-euphoria-period/
6 months ago
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Reasonable people can debate what role Congress should have in questions of war and peace. But under Trump, Congress has no role at all.
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The Venezuela attack is a constitutional crisis for the United States
Is Congress still a branch of government? As I often point out: A one-person weekly blog is a bad place to cover breaking news. This morning, the attack on Venezuela is in that nebulous zone betwee…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/05/the-venezuela-attack-is-a-constitutional-crisis-for-the-united-states/
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This week: Trump’s pathetic week, war with Venezuela, Epstein, Wiles, and a new Randy Rainbow song.
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Blackouts
These documents are more blacked out than Pete Hegseth on New Years Eve. – feral streep, on the redactions in the newly released Epstein material No Sift next week. The next new posts will ap…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/12/22/blackouts/
6 months ago
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Trump can't make me angry any more. He just makes me sad.
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Three days in the life of a pathetic man
Everything Trump does to aggrandize himself just makes him smaller. From the time he came down the escalator in 2015, Donald Trump has gloried in his ability to get a rise out of people like me. Al…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/12/22/three-days-in-the-life-of-a-pathetic-man/
6 months ago
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Vance and the cabinet members shouldn't be asked whether they condemn Trump's Rob Reiner post. They should be asked why they're not invoking the 25th Amendment. No sane person wrote that post.
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This week: Hegseth, National Strategy, Supreme Court, geothermal power, and a racoon with a drinking problem.
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Decent World Order
No Sift next week. The next new articles will appear on December 22. The degree to which America is clearly a country that is open for sale is also really remarkable. But countries that are buying …
https://weeklysift.com/2025/12/08/decent-world-order/
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For years, Trump has dangled white-supremacist rhetoric to his base, then denied it when challenged. But now it’s part of the National Security Strategy.
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A MAGA National Security Strategy
America used to frame its self-image around freedom and democracy. Now it’s about making money and preserving whiteness. Back in July, J. D. Vance tried his hand at answering the question …
https://weeklysift.com/2025/12/08/a-maga-national-security-strategy/
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This week alone, we found out about likely crimes by Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem.
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Crime in the Cabinet
Most administrations come and go without credible evidence of a crime by a cabinet official. There were two this week alone. In January of 2017, as Barack Obama was getting ready to hand the presid…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/12/01/crime-in-the-cabinet/
7 months ago
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This week: Trump’s latest outrages, MTG’s resignation, Ukraine proposal, the regime’s bad week in court, Mamdani in the Oval, and a Thanksgiving playlist.
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Don’t Believe It
At some point, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything that Defendants represent. – US District Judge Sara Ellis,commenting on ICE and Border Patrol testimony cont…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/11/24/dont-believe-it/
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