Geddry’s Newsletter

Geddry’s Newsletter

The Usefulness of Monsters
How elite connectedness turns private depravity into public power
4 hrs ago • Shanley Hurt
The Chandelier Is Gold, the Roof Still Leaks
As Trump’s chaos rattles the Middle East, poisons alliances, and turns institutions into influence bazaars, the decay is getting harder to hide.
13 hrs ago • Mary Geddry
Trump’s Very Expensive Double Bogey
The same gaudy logic is haunting both FIFA’s tournament and golf’s Saudi-funded disruption
Apr 17 • Shanley Hurt
Late to the Stage, Right on Time for the Grift
Trump rolled from rambling warlord cosplay to a half-filled Vegas tax pep rally while the deeper machinery of corruption kept humming underneath.
Apr 17 • Mary Geddry
No Glory, Just Thinner Shelves
Behind the swagger, the sermons, and the staged toughness lies the real story: civilian suffering and global fragility.
Apr 16 • Mary Geddry
Freedom for the Fine Print
This is what deregulation looks like from below: fees, confusion, delay, and the quiet disappearance of accountability.
Apr 16 • Shanley Hurt
Sustaining the Unsustainable
Trump’s spectacle of force cannot hide the truth: America is meeting the appetites of the present by stripping future generations of stability, dignity…
Apr 16 • Mary Geddry
The Baby Panic and the Policy Trap
The American right says the birthrate is collapsing, then backs a family agenda that would make having children harder for millions of women.
Apr 15 • Shanley Hurt
The Whole Racket
War profits for Big Oil, more money for Putin, climate sabotage, and a World Cup no one wants to attend.
Apr 15 • Mary Geddry
How to Love a Wounded World
On the burning seas, the thinning ice, and the courage to restore the beauty that remains
Apr 14 • Shanley Hurt
Trump’s Blockade of His Own Blockade
His unforced war with Iran is already driving up economic risk, scrambling alliances, and exposing the kakistocracy behind America’s collapsing…
Apr 14 • Mary Geddry
Collapse as Content
What happens when the institutions meant to defend democracy decide there is more money in narrating the fire than putting it out?
Apr 13 • Mary Geddry
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