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<\/a><\/p>\nSteven Beschloss: Do You Support the Global Expansion of Democracy?<\/a><\/h2>\nA Saturday Prompt<\/p>\n
In less than a month, it will be 2026<\/em>, the 250th anniversary year of our nation\u2019s founding and the beginning of an extraordinary democratic experiment. Given the anti-democratic regime controlling our White House, it\u2019s going to be quite a year filled with cognitive dissonance.<\/p>\nThat became even more obvious with the release yesterday of the 33-page \u201cNational Security Strategy<\/a>,\u201d which seeks to set out the foreign policy agenda and guiding principles of this second Trump term. In this brief prompt, I won\u2019t explore the document in detail, but note some of the overarching worldview, including its hostility to \u201cthe trajectory\u201d of Europe and its assertion that the European continent is facing \u201ccivilizational erasure\u201d because of the flow of immigrants and the failures of its leaders.<\/p>\nIt goes on to suggest the revival of Europe\u2019s \u201cformer greatness\u201d means supporting nationalism and far-right \u201cpatriotic\u201d European parties, which would include, for example, Alternative for Germany (AfD), an extremist neo-Nazi party.
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\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\nLucian K. Truscott IV: Trump makes the racist Great Replacement Theory official U.S. policy<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – December 6, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nOn the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia<\/em>, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of nine Japanese torpedoes hit the ship.<\/p>\nIn the deadly confusion, Miller reported to an officer, who told him to help move the ship\u2019s mortally wounded captain off the bridge. Unable to move him far, Miller pulled the captain to shelter. Then another officer ordered Miller to pass ammunition to him as he started up one of the two abandoned anti-aircraft guns in front of the conning tower.<\/p>\n
Miller had not been trained to use the weapons because, as a Black man in the U.S. Navy, he was assigned to serve the white officers. But while the officer was distracted, Miller began to fire one of the guns. He fired it until he ran out of ammunition. Then he helped to move injured sailors to safety before he and the other survivors abandoned the West Virginia<\/em>, which sank to the bottom of Pearl Harbor.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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NewsNation: Russia unleashes massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine as diplomatic talks continue<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nRussia used 653 drones and 51 missiles in the wide-reaching overnight attack on Ukraine, which triggered air raid alerts across the country and came as Ukraine marked Armed Forces Day, the country\u2019s air force said Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian forces shot down and neutralized 585 drones and 30 missiles, the air force said, adding that 29 locations were struck.
\n(NewsNation more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTimothy Snyder: Ukrainian History Global Initiative<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Creative Humanities During a War of Destruction<\/p>\n
Politico: Chernobyl radiation shield has stopped working after Russian drone strikes, UN warns<\/a><\/h2>\nTerrence Goggin: Trump\u2019s confrontation with Europe over Ukraine backfires<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Justin Glawe: Trump follows through on an especially ugly campaign promise<\/a><\/h2>\nFor years, Donald Trump has fantasized about lawlessly executing drug dealers.<\/p>\n
In his second term, he\u2019s made the fantasy a reality, killing drug dealers in a likely illegal airstrike campaign on vessels in international waters. Yet at the same time, Trump last week pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had just started serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for helping to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States during his eight-year tenure as president.
\n(Justin Glawe more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Marcy Wheeler: Trump’s Terrorists<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Brian Allen: Trump\u2019s Mozambique LNG Gamble: A Billion-Dollar Powder Keg the White House Wants You To Ignore<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Wall Street Journal is begging Trump to walk away from a volatile LNG venture. The danger is bigger than anyone is admitting.
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\n<\/center>The smoke rises slowly in Cabo Delgado. It floats above a coastline that should be postcard blue, but instead carries the residue of burned out markets, ransacked homes, and military convoys that never return the same way twice.
\n(Brian Allen more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Bloomberg: Homeowners Risk Missing Out on Solar Tax Credits. This Is Why.<\/a><\/h2>\nThere’s a rush to install residential solar and battery systems by Dec. 31 to qualify for expiring 30% US tax credits. But lengthy permitting times are jeopardizing the opportunity, installers say.
\n(Bloomberg more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thom Hartmann: Chapter 4: The Party That Sold Itself Out<\/a><\/h2>\nIt was October 10, 2016, and the world watched as the last credible, integrity-bound Republicans surrendered.<\/p>\n
Just three days earlier, the infamous Access Hollywood<\/em> tape had played on TVs worldwide. Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women \u201cby the pussy,\u201d claiming that \u201cwhen you\u2019re a star, they let you do it.\u201d The footage triggered a political firestorm. House Speaker Paul Ryan distanced himself, canceling a planned appearance with Trump. Senator John McCain withdrew his endorsement entirely. Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz declared he could no longer support Trump while looking his fifteen-year-old daughter in the eye.
\n(Thom Hartmann more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations Steven Beschloss: Do You Support the Global Expansion of Democracy? A Saturday Prompt In less than a month, it will be 2026, the 250th anniversary year of our nation\u2019s founding and the beginning of an extraordinary democratic experiment. Given the anti-democratic regime controlling our White House, it\u2019s going to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7290,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions\/7290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
That became even more obvious with the release yesterday of the 33-page \u201cNational Security Strategy<\/a>,\u201d which seeks to set out the foreign policy agenda and guiding principles of this second Trump term. In this brief prompt, I won\u2019t explore the document in detail, but note some of the overarching worldview, including its hostility to \u201cthe trajectory\u201d of Europe and its assertion that the European continent is facing \u201ccivilizational erasure\u201d because of the flow of immigrants and the failures of its leaders.<\/p>\n It goes on to suggest the revival of Europe\u2019s \u201cformer greatness\u201d means supporting nationalism and far-right \u201cpatriotic\u201d European parties, which would include, for example, Alternative for Germany (AfD), an extremist neo-Nazi party. On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia<\/em>, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of nine Japanese torpedoes hit the ship.<\/p>\n In the deadly confusion, Miller reported to an officer, who told him to help move the ship\u2019s mortally wounded captain off the bridge. Unable to move him far, Miller pulled the captain to shelter. Then another officer ordered Miller to pass ammunition to him as he started up one of the two abandoned anti-aircraft guns in front of the conning tower.<\/p>\n Miller had not been trained to use the weapons because, as a Black man in the U.S. Navy, he was assigned to serve the white officers. But while the officer was distracted, Miller began to fire one of the guns. He fired it until he ran out of ammunition. Then he helped to move injured sailors to safety before he and the other survivors abandoned the West Virginia<\/em>, which sank to the bottom of Pearl Harbor. … Ukrainian forces shot down and neutralized 585 drones and 30 missiles, the air force said, adding that 29 locations were struck. The Creative Humanities During a War of Destruction<\/p>\n For years, Donald Trump has fantasized about lawlessly executing drug dealers.<\/p>\n In his second term, he\u2019s made the fantasy a reality, killing drug dealers in a likely illegal airstrike campaign on vessels in international waters. Yet at the same time, Trump last week pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had just started serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for helping to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States during his eight-year tenure as president. The Wall Street Journal is begging Trump to walk away from a volatile LNG venture. The danger is bigger than anyone is admitting. There’s a rush to install residential solar and battery systems by Dec. 31 to qualify for expiring 30% US tax credits. But lengthy permitting times are jeopardizing the opportunity, installers say. It was October 10, 2016, and the world watched as the last credible, integrity-bound Republicans surrendered.<\/p>\n Just three days earlier, the infamous Access Hollywood<\/em> tape had played on TVs worldwide. Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women \u201cby the pussy,\u201d claiming that \u201cwhen you\u2019re a star, they let you do it.\u201d The footage triggered a political firestorm. House Speaker Paul Ryan distanced himself, canceling a planned appearance with Trump. Senator John McCain withdrew his endorsement entirely. Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz declared he could no longer support Trump while looking his fifteen-year-old daughter in the eye. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" curated news excerpts & citations Steven Beschloss: Do You Support the Global Expansion of Democracy? A Saturday Prompt In less than a month, it will be 2026, the 250th anniversary year of our nation\u2019s founding and the beginning of an extraordinary democratic experiment. Given the anti-democratic regime controlling our White House, it\u2019s going to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7290,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions\/7290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\nLucian K. Truscott IV: Trump makes the racist Great Replacement Theory official U.S. policy<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – December 6, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nNewsNation: Russia unleashes massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine as diplomatic talks continue<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nRussia used 653 drones and 51 missiles in the wide-reaching overnight attack on Ukraine, which triggered air raid alerts across the country and came as Ukraine marked Armed Forces Day, the country\u2019s air force said Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
\n(NewsNation more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTimothy Snyder: Ukrainian History Global Initiative<\/a><\/h2>\n
Politico: Chernobyl radiation shield has stopped working after Russian drone strikes, UN warns<\/a><\/h2>\n
Terrence Goggin: Trump\u2019s confrontation with Europe over Ukraine backfires<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nJustin Glawe: Trump follows through on an especially ugly campaign promise<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Justin Glawe more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMarcy Wheeler: Trump’s Terrorists<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nBrian Allen: Trump\u2019s Mozambique LNG Gamble: A Billion-Dollar Powder Keg the White House Wants You To Ignore<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>The smoke rises slowly in Cabo Delgado. It floats above a coastline that should be postcard blue, but instead carries the residue of burned out markets, ransacked homes, and military convoys that never return the same way twice.
\n(Brian Allen more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nBloomberg: Homeowners Risk Missing Out on Solar Tax Credits. This Is Why.<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Bloomberg more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThom Hartmann: Chapter 4: The Party That Sold Itself Out<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Thom Hartmann more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
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