Snapshot · Pod Save America
At least 8 blue states — Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Maine, Oregon, Washington, and Pennsylvania — declined to participate in Trump's Great American State Fair.
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Wagner sets up the architectural question by praising the New York Times's coverage of what Trump's proposed changes would do to DC's carefully arranged civic sightlines. Richardson picks up on the civic philosophy embedded in Washington's design — the three nodes of power, the deliberate sight lines down Pennsylvania Avenue — and explains what the proposed arch and ballroom do to that. [1] — Heather Cox Richardson "Gold plating on White House horses, a $600 million ballroom half-funded by taxpayers, and the Trump family lining pockets through federal c…" 24:23 The ballroom breaks the view to the White House; the arch frames Robert E. Lee's house in a way that seems almost designed to rehabilitate Confederate memory. More broadly, Richardson reads Trump's impulse to insert himself physically into the landscape as akin to showing up at the G7 and simply announcing 'the boss is here' — a posture fundamentally incompatible with the idea of a government that is of, by, and for the people.
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France built 56 nuclear plants in the 1970s and now has the cheapest energy in Europe, making it independent of Russian or Middle Eastern energy geopolitics.
Estonia has a single tax form, a law preventing the government from asking citizens for the same information twice, and a flat rate of tax — enabling competitive taxation.
Portugal's Lisbon, once a city with a major heroin problem, legalised drugs and redirected enforcement spending into rehabilitation and housing, dramatically reducing crime.
The first Boland Amendment banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras passed the House unanimously — yet the Reagan administration ignored it.
Over just two years, Saudi Arabia alone donated $32 million to the Contra rebels, giving loosely affiliated factions millions they had no way to spend on arms.
The National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty raised $6.3 million for the Contras but only $3.3 million reached them — a shockingly low 52% program expense rate.
Richard Secord and Albert Hakim marked up their arms shipments to the Contras by as much as 300%, making enormous personal profits from the covert operation.
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, tapped to run the entire covert Contra support operation, had no prior experience in covert operations whatsoever — he was learning as he went.
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