Author: Jim

****  “Washington has become the court of Nero,” Senator @ClaudeMalhuret declares before the French Parliament:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/03/claude-malheuret-speech/681947/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYW4LKe7b6s2WGP8CcRgQtyM&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

“A successful politician today needs to know how to use social media without being used by it—to appeal to their partisan base without being captured by it. If anyone is up for this task, it’s JD Vance,” writes @Yair_Rosenberg.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/why-vance-cant-stop-posting/681962/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYcAUdqk33v9ycyR_jvhUGco&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Europe Confronts the Rise of the Brutal American

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/trump-and-vance-shattered-europes-illusions-about-america/681925/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYdZzsZSO2g_enmqb85xi_KE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The DOGE Purge: Empirical Evidence of Politically Motivated Firings

https://open.substack.com/pub/data4democracy/p/the-doge-purge-empirical-evidence?r=3azmy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

‘Trump Is the Real Thing’

Vengence is his.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/opinion/trump-imperial-presidency.html?smid=em-share