No. 16 of 108
June 29, 2025
What do career civil servants and loyal appointees have in common? No one’s talking. Websites scrubbed. Appointees are not writing anything down, to vigorously not create a record. So investigative reporters are reporting. In new reporting, intel intercepted Iranian intel that the damage by the Massive Ordnance Penetrators was “not as massive” as they expected. This is similar to the assessment of the United Nations nuclear expert watchdog, who said the core components of the nuclear enrichment program were not destroyed, differing with the U.S. president’s pronouncement that the facilities were “obliterated”. By Senate rules, all 940 pages of the Big Beautiful Bill must be read out loud on the floor of the Senate. Who’s listening?
While facts matter, our vigorous pursuit and objective understanding, over time, matter more. Information can empower, and it can be weaponized. Both pathways are galvanizing, both product and fuel for an intensely polarized world. Without a hopeful narrative of the world as we are willing to work for, each fight over what is true and what is not keeps us merely in a fight.
