Steven Buchsbaum

Too good to be true, too true to not be good.

Please read if you care about national defense. It's not enough to say we support the troops and then give morons leadership positions in questions of war and peace.

Good and timely essay from Bill Gates www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-...

Active-duty military should not have to worry about family members being deported, especially while serving in a time of war. The Trump administration's attacks on our military members goes against everything we stand for, and is something that all Americans should oppose. ICE is out of control.

Thank you Canada

"A pseudo-democratic fiscal basketcase, whose only apparent foreign policy objective is domination for the gratification of its president’s slapdash vanity... "Trump’s world — a world of transaction and submission — is not the only world we all have to live in..." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...

John Roberts is Natalie Harp in a robe. A cringeworthy handmaiden

What it means to be a patriot www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The bit that seems missing to me in all this coverage is the switch from Gold Plated AirForce 1 from Qatar to the Original. Happy to sacrifice the press, a few cabinet secretaries the original AirForce 1, but not the gold plated plane with chandeliers www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I stand with Dr. Anthony Fauci …because I value EVIDENCE over conspiracy, DATA over rumors, and SCIENCE over politics. No public official is beyond criticism, but there’s a difference between honest scientific guidance and misinformation. I’ll choose evidence EVERY time. #medsky #publichealth

Hard to read this analysis on the Trump effect on US global leadership and long-term security - MAGA indeed. How China Won the Iran War open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Perfect, we have "perimeters of a deal" which I guess we can interpret as we don't have "parameters of a deal" merely an outline that circles the items we would hope Iran might agree to. The Tangerine Toddler mind is mush.

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One of the many acts of treason by the Trump administration that will take years to repair www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

You Can See Why Trump Hates Obama open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Better Times

All that and wild and wonderful dress

SO MUCH MAGA WINNING (or is that whining). A weaker nation (and it is not Iran) and a more dangerous world. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

Here you go. Why is Pete Hegseth such a cornball? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Donald Trump proposes a 1.776 billion slush fund for terrorists. In my book "On Freedom" I proposed $1776 as guaranteed monthly fixed income for Americans. Each kind of future is possible. We choose.

That about covers it from @davidfrum.bsky.social "Trump’s methods are too chaotic and lazy. Trump’s goals are more fundamentally larcenous and criminal than ideological and political." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Congratulations on your wedding Don Jr. Sorry for distracting your Dad with this important work.

With so many horrors coming from Trump 2.0, a little thing like destroying USAID (resulting in 700K excess deaths and counting) gets lost in the noise

Bravo to there person who has put these flyers all over Capitol Hill and even thought to put them in waterproof sleeves.

Trump, admitted the test with 'a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe’ was 'very hard,' - no chance he was going to get the math question right

"He is also known to drink to excess at the Poodle Room, in Las Vegas, where he frequently spends parts of his weekends." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

To great advocates for the role of science in advancing human flourishing

It's Schrödinger’s joke: It only decides to be a joke when you open the box to ask why Trump said it.

That about covers it

And if he does, will we ...

"... in casting aside enlightened self-interest in favor of survival of the meanest, Trump sacrifices the foundation of our superpower stature. As Kagan wrote, 'No one will cooperate with the United States by choice, only by coercion. '" @contrariannews.org open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

You forgot free navigation in the Straits of Hormuz

A shamefully unserious government

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

This is so well done. 👌

Donald Trump is the war’s biggest loser (unfortunately only partly true, the American people and our ?former? allies are). economist.com/leaders/2026...

As we face the second global energy crisis in five years, remember: the clean energy transition is also an energy security transition. Nuclear, wind, solar and hydro make us less exposed to authoritarian regimes and global shocks. Electrification makes us more resilient.

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

Iran posted this. What a humiliation for Trump.

It is unconditional surrender, just US surrender

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

IMPORTANT READ FROM RADIO FREE TOM - @radiofreetom.bsky.social Trump has threatened use of nuclear weapons. We have unfortunately entered a whole new level of global instability. Will be hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...