This past week's commentaries
Happy Sunday, says Mabel, who was just at the beauty salon! She wanted to show off her fresh look.
If you need to catch up on this past week’s news over your morning coffee, here is just some of what I covered:
Happy Sunday, says Mabel, who was just at the beauty salon! She wanted to show off her fresh look.
If you need to catch up on this past week’s news over your morning coffee, here is just some of what I covered:
Mabel put a smile on my face- perhaps the only one after reading the abomination that is bulldozing our democracy
Thank you for the roundup!
It exposes the architecture of drift:
• Mock dissent with AI propaganda
• Bulldoze shared symbols like the East Wing
• Then the recent payment —Mellon’s donation
Each move is designed to erode trust, bypass law, and rebrand power as personal.
This isn’t just authoritarianism. It’s transactional autocracy, where loyalty is bought, dissent is mocked, and institutions are hollowed out behind a wall of spectacle.
The through line is clear: public meaning is being replaced by private muscle.
And the cost of capture keeps dropping.
— Johan