This group mugshot at the White House posted by Andriy reminded me of a Deadmau3 song.
And exactly 0:56 into Enter Sandman by Metallica.
So, maybe we should detain Tucker when he arrives in Kyiv for his interview with Z, after we sock him in the jaw, and then exchange him for Gershkovich1?
Z blurted out his fondness for Andriy Yermak, head of the President’s Office, during a pow wow with a clueless Bloomberg flak yesterday. The president said criticism of Yermak is an attempt to weaken him.
"Yermak is one of the most powerful managers in my team. He does what I tell him to do. All the bad things that are said about the head of the OP are done in order to weaken first Zelensky's team, and then him."
That Z has started referring to himself in the third person is not a promising sign.
The fact that we don’t have the immediate and arbitrary power of life and death over all wanna be dictators is driving Anne crazy at The Atlantic2.
If you think the level of polarization and political chaos in the United States is bad now, wait and see what those changes [Project 2025] will bring. And if you think none of this can happen in America, please read the history of Hungary or Venezuela, stable democracies that were destroyed by extremist autocrats.
For obvious reasons, American politics will not return to normal in my lifetime. But when it does, its essential trajectory will remain the same as it was before. I’m more worried about the future of Poland.
Deepstate has upgraded its war map.
Many readers are supporting Ukraine in various ways and have asked me for suggestions. I recommend contacting Paul Smith, aka Nucking_Futs_Yuri, both a US Army and Ukrainian Army combat veteran, who served with the International Legion as well as the 59th Brigade, which has fallen on hard times recently.
Work on the mural nextdoor.
What we wrote about two years ago today:
Happy July 4!
Time to Roll the Dice. Biden’s party doesn’t need to sleepwalk into a catastrophe (The Atlantic, July 3, 20240
Not a bad idea to swap Tucker for Gershkovich!