Full Self-Drive Toward the Abyss

As America’s institutions swerve into oncoming traffic, Trump rewrites science, diplomacy, law, and even the Epstein saga, with all the stability of a Molotov cocktail sommelier.

Good morning! If there is a single theme running through today’s news, it’s that every institution you once imagined had guardrails is now behaving like a Tesla on Full Self-Drive: confident, delusional, and accelerating toward a flaming guardrail it insists isn’t there.

We begin with the Trump administration’s late-night victory lap over the Epstein Fil…