A sickening moral slum of an administration washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

From Wall Street Journal Opinion: Another schlep to Moscow by President Trump’s envoys has produced another Vladimir Putin rejection of another plan to end his war with Ukraine. Maybe it’s time to conclude that Putin doesn’t want peace. He wants Ukraine. on.wsj.com/44ITa99

Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia that were announced last October. What did the US get in return? france24.com/en/live-news/2…

Witkoff isn't negotiating a peace deal. He's negotiating a real estate deal.

Pure, delicate, nostalgic, simple. Very personal interpretation.💓💓 🎵💫EVGENY KISSIN plays CHOPIN Waltz Op.64 n.2

37% of Republicans say the Holocaust was exaggerated or didn’t happen, 36% say the moon landing was fake, and 41% believe 9/11 was an inside job. Houston, we have a problem.

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This is big. The final U.S. National Security Strategy was just published and the refocus on the Western Hemisphere (i.e. the Americas) is confirmed. The document clearly establishes this as the U.S.'s number 1 priority, saying that the U.S. will now "assert and enforce a 'Trump

Can't think of another example of a global power so demonstratively burning its assets and destroying its influence, in a single document

America’s new National Security Strategy is the latest and fullest statement of what “America First” means in foreign policy. And, for many of its readers, it will be profoundly alarming econ.st/4oJa92t Photo: Getty Images

"It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my fucking life." Tommy Vietor joins Tim Miller to talk Tom Cotton's reaction to the boat strike video, and much more on today's Bulwark Podcast:

Trump administration makes Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, according to park service web site. Kathleen Wong usatoday.com/story/travel/e…

In a 180 degree turn, the US has been lobbying EU member states to not support the use of Russian frozen assets to support Ukraine’s defense. Given the release of the new US National Security Strategy, which demonizes the EU and takes the Kremlin’s position on a number of

Still think Trump/Russia is a “hoax”? wsj.com/world/europe/u…

Over the past few decades, America has spawned a meritocracy that has come to dominate business, government, media and culture. The populist right wants to replace it with something older, cruder and more corrosive: a naked plutocracy—rule by the very rich. My take:

Not a word of criticism for Putin who invaded Ukraine.

#BREAKING: 🔥Rampell: "A whole new generation of flim-flam artists has been born, including not just Trump's own children, but the children of the entire Trump administration. Call them second generation grifters or the grifting nepo-babies. There's the adult sons of Commerce

In deliberate show of unity, Europe pushes back on U.S. peace proposal for Ukraine: “No one should doubt our support for Ukraine…I am skeptical of some of the details in the document from the U.S. side”, says German Chancellor Merz alongside Zelensky, Starmer and Macron.

Chancellor Merz in a meeting with European leaders and President Zelensky: “I am sceptical about some of the details which we are seeing in the documents coming from the US side”

"Why does he keep doing this to himself? It's like masochism." Tim Miller and Bill Kristol on Scott Bessent's latest attempt to cosplay as a soybean farmer.