A Nation in Freefall: Deportations, Meme Coins, and the Cult of Incompetence

From ICE raids on toddlers to Trump selling access via cartoon money, America’s descent into farce accelerates with cruelty, corruption, and Peter Thiel’s fingerprints all over it.

Good morning! After a week drenched in chaos, cruelty, and absurdity, we find ourselves surveying a battlefield littered with broken institutions and bruised reputations, all courtesy of the Trump-Musk wrecking ball currently swinging through what remains of American governance.

We begin with the deportation of two-year-old U.S. citizen V.M.L., whose tra…