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This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland
“A picture is worth a thousand words, no doubt, but which thousand? Is your caption the same as mine?”
Excerpt From: William T. Vollmann. “Poor People”
So, which is it?
If this info wasn’t classified, that in itself would be a scandalous screw-up that must be explained.
And if it was classified, then the Trump administration lied to Congress and to the American people.
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While I empathize with their decisions, I worry that these prominent historians are betraying Prof. Snyder’s first principle in combatting tyranny: do not obey in advance. While they aren't really obeying Trump, they are complying with the administration’s wish to purge institutions of critics. To the extent their absence is a loss to th…
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First good laugh of the morning
A news reports that Trump decided not to fire his National Security Advisor over the Signal Fuck-up because he had fired Michael Flynn, his first Security Advisor, right at the start of his first administration…
…and he did not want to feed the narrative that he promotes ‘chaos’
That’s really funny !!
Anyway…that narrative would be promoted by the fact the he fired more top
officials during his first Presidency that any other President in American history
Very interesting article thanks. At the start you pose the question "So if you’re a larger organisation that has some capacity to start exploring, how should you decide where to invest?" -- are there characteristics in common across the projects you mention (and other relevant examples) that could help answer this question with some general principles? What makes a "safe bet"?