Gawain
Writing some stuff here: https://niawag.substack.com
- It's not Nurenberg, but it's a start. "finding that Musk made decisions to dismantle USAID despite lacking formal authority or official approval." www.axios.com/2026/02/05/s...
- * Nuremberg
- The sun is out and the ice is melting
- Here's the new Lancet paper on international deaths from aid cuts. This includes aid cuts from other donors - not just the USA. Range is 9.4 million deaths to 22.6 million deaths by 2030, depending on depth of cuts. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
- Republicans threatening to shut down DHS is hilarious.
- The thing with malignant narcissism is it's self-limiting. The narcissist pick achievable goals, makes reasonable demands, and is then forever satisfied with the result. Then a long period of calm humility prevails.
- HODL!
- The Supreme Court has been extremely deferential to Trump in his wild power grabs and unprecedented (and illegal) policies. Maybe on tariffs, at least, the court will recognize that this deference caused A LOT of harm and will take enormous effort to rectify.
- what's your guess? Greenland? Iran? VZ?
- The Washington Post racked up a huge $100 million loss in 2024. At that rate, Jeff Bezos would have to shut it down when he ran out of money in 2550 years (currently worth $255 billion).
- Democracy dies in darkness. So let's do that. -- Jeff Bezos.
