- Stephan Marche on how there are no necessary nations, and no permanent global order;
- Judges, appointed both by Republicans and Democrats, speak out against the Trump administration;
- Heather Cox Richardson identifies one key failure in the Texas floods, the result of a Trump policy;
- And NYT shows how FEMA answered fewer and fewer emergency calls, because of firings by the Trump administration, even *after* the floods happened;
- How the new Superman movie is — like so much else — too “woke” for conservatives;
- Similarly, how Charlie Kirk thinks *all* immigrants threaten his values.
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Quoted by The Week, Saturday Wrap, 12 July 2025.
Stephen Marche in The Guardian:
One of the great ironies of history is that the triumph of MAGA has led to the piecemeal destruction of everything that once made America great, and on every level. Its power derived from a reliable trade network, with logistical chains that were the wonders of the world, combined with a huge alliance network, and the greatest scientific and technological institutes in the world. It is systematically destroying all of those strengths far more thoroughly than any enemy could. The lesson the Americans once taught the British, they are teaching the rest of the world: There are no necessary nations. There are no permanent global orders.
