Coming soon: The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations by Tom Wells.
Just like Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger secretly recorded each of his phone conversations and left a trail of evidence in his wake.
White House to Continue Firings as Shutdown Drags On
“The White House is pledging to fire more federal workers, the next salvo in President Donald Trump’s push to pressure Democrats to sign onto the GOP’s continuing resolution and end the government shutdown,” Politico reports.
The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
Anne Applebaum: “If we are no longer a country that aims to make the world better, but rather a country whose foreign policy is designed to build the wealth of the president or promote the ruling party’s foreign friends, then we have fewer reasons to work together at home. If we promote cynicism abroad, we will become more cynical at home.”
“Perhaps expecting Americans to live up to the extraordinary ideals that they proclaimed in the 18th century was always unreasonable, but that language nevertheless shaped the way we thought about ourselves. Now we live in a world where America is led by people who have abandoned those ideals altogether. That will change all of us, in ways we might not yet be able to see.”
France Contemplates the End of the Fifth Republic
The Telegraph: “France, to borrow the words of Alain Duhamel, the veteran political observer, ‘has gone beyond a political crisis.'”
“It is now flirting with regime change.”
“The tailor-made system that Charles de Gaulle built in 1958 to save the country from the chaos of 22 governments in 12 years established one of the most powerful presidencies in the Western world.”
“It is now in disarray, and Emmanuel Macron, the president, stands at the center of a drama of his own making that some say could yet end the Fifth Republic.”
Trump Rips Into Time Magazine
President Trump tore into Time over a cover the magazine posted on X featuring his face, complaining the image “disappeared” his hair with the use of a poor angle, The Wrap reports.
Said Trump: “Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.”
Man Pleads Guilty for Trying to Murder Governor
“A man who scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and used beer bottles filled with gasoline to ignite the occupied Pennsylvania governor’s mansion pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted murder and other charges,” the AP reports.
Under a plea deal, the man was sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison.
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal from Alex Jones
“The Supreme Court declined an appeal from Alex Jones on Tuesday, brushing aside the right-wing conspiracy theorist’s effort to overturn a $1.4 billion libel judgment a lower court ordered against him over his false comments about the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre,” CNN reports.
Netanyahu Bids for Political Redemption
Financial Times: “Two years after Hamas’s devastating assault that triggered the Gaza war, and two weeks after Trump floated his plan to end the conflict, Netanyahu is seeking his most unlikely political comeback: remaining in power despite the worst security failure in the country’s history, retaining the support of his ruling coalition despite flagging poll numbers, and now basking in the glory of Trump’s popularity in Israel…”
“For some Israeli analysts, it marked yet another milestone in Netanyahu’s uncanny ability to survive in Israeli politics. The prime minister, whom critics accuse of having prolonged the war to serve his political interests, including delaying his corruption trial, was now in a position to carry on until at least next year’s mandatory polls.”
Fiscal Crises Loom Around the World
The Economist: “Government debt is one of humanity’s great inventions. It allows societies to store wealth, fight crises and build for the future. After Britain’s superior access to credit helped it defeat Napoleon in 1815, one historian likened the country’s credit lines to Aladdin’s lamp. Two centuries later, during the covid-19 pandemic, much of the world looked on with similar astonishment as rich countries borrowed freely to splurge on support for households and health care.”
“The magic of borrowing, though, comes with a temptation—one that David Hume and Alexander Hamilton worried about in the late 18th century. If a country is sufficiently creditworthy to cover its existing debts, it is in a position to borrow more. Having manageable debts means you can manage more debt. And so it is all too easy for debt to grow.”
“If this goes on for too long, governments start to face pushback. The bond markets which meet their need for debt start to charge them more. New borrowing gets harder—and so does rolling over old debts. If governments do not then tighten their belts, the country’s all-important creditworthiness erodes in a way which can easily spiral out of control.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“I think the obvious answer, which has been stated 5 million times, is that they’re way out of touch with where ordinary people are… I was really surprised—and I didn’t really appreciate this until I ran for president—at how weak the party is in much of the country. I mean, they really had to go crazy to beat me.”
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), quoted by The Nation, on the problem with the Democratic party.
Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
Just published: 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History–and How It Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
“In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin.”
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Sorkin, Andrew Ross (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 591 Pages - 10/14/2025 (Publication Date) - Viking (Publisher)
The Pentagon Locks Out the News Media
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Inside the Improbable Rise of Zohran Mamdani
New York Times: “The story of the man most likely to be the next mayor of New York City — and the promise and peril his ascent poses for the Democratic Party.”
Trump Has Overwhelmed His Own Administration
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Quote of the Day
“There’s a lot of weak Republican men and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women. So they always try to marginalize the strong Republican women that actually want to do something and actually want to achieve.”
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), quoted by the Washington Post.
Trump to Award Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk
“President Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, to the assassinated right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday,” the New York Times reports.
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
David Brooks: “For the United States, the question of the decade is: Why hasn’t a resistance movement materialized here? The second Trump administration has flouted court decisions in a third of all rulings against it, according to The Washington Post. It operates as a national extortion racket, using federal power to control the inner workings of universities, law firms, and corporations. It has thoroughly politicized the Justice Department, launching a series of partisan investigations against its political foes. It has turned ICE into a massive paramilitary organization with apparently unconstrained powers. It has treated the Constitution with disdain, assaulted democratic norms and diminished democratic freedoms, and put military vehicles and soldiers on the streets of the capital. It embraces the optics of fascism, and flaunts its autocratic aspirations.”
“I am not one of those who believe that Donald Trump has already turned America into a dictatorship. Yet the crossing-over from freedom into authoritarianism may be marked not by a single dramatic event but by the slow corrosion of our ruling institutions—and that corrosion is well under way.”
How Old Is Too Old?
CNN: “In many ways, Janet Mills is the ideal Democratic recruit to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a fifth-term moderate with a track record of beating well-funded challengers. Mills is a two-term governor with a history of outperforming her party and a record of pushing back against President Donald Trump.”
“But there’s one issue her detractors raise: She’s 77. If she beats the 72-year-old Collins next year, Mills would become the oldest freshman senator in history.”
“Mills’ formal entry into Maine’s Senate race Tuesday sets up one of several primaries that could be fought explicitly or implicitly on the issue of age. A series of midterm races will test whether Democratic voters are looking for proven commodities or a new generation of voices as they grasp for a foothold on Capitol Hill for the last two years of Trump’s presidency.”
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