Sunday Digest No. 13

Biden - War - Gaza - Trump - Diamonds - Love

Feb 09, 2025

Welcome to my Sunday Digest where I share all of my own writings from the past week, and some of the very best from others published here on Substack. I hope that you enjoy this curated collection, and if you do I hope that you’ll subscribe so that you never miss a Digest.

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Society

Big Beautiful Condos

Cameron M. Bailey

Feb 8

This past Tuesday President Trump floated a really unexpected policy idea regarding the situation in Gaza.

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Moving Fast And Breaking Things

Cameron M. Bailey

Feb 7

Facebook’s old internal motto, seemingly coined by Zuckerberg himself seems to broadly reflect the Silicon Valley ethos as a whole:

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The End of the World Almanac

What we are witnessing is unprecedented

We observe history from a moving platform that constantly changes our perspective. While it was happening, the 2011 “Arab Spring” seemed like it would usher permanent political change to the region. What actually emerged was something altogether less spectacular…

20 days ago · 1 like · Rick Wayne

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Who Is Andrei Kozlenok?

“One of the greatest lootings of Mother Russia since the end of the Cold War happened in 1993: a corrupt Russian bureaucrat and his young protégé concocted a scheme to help the Kremlin extort billions from the De Beers diamond cartel while secretly siphoning $180 million in raw diamonds from the Russian State Treasury to purchase luxury properties, cars…

19 days ago · 28 likes · 13 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Life

Getting Screwed

Cameron M. Bailey

Feb 3

It’s no secret that my wife and I are bar people. I’ve written about that before. We like bars because there aren’t any kids jumping, screaming, making nuances out of themselves, and because we tend to like bar food.

24 days ago · 18 likes · 6 comments · Cori Bren

What then?

How War Teaches Us To Live - And Eat - With Gratitude

23 days ago · 48 likes · 18 comments · Sam Alaimo

The Map is Mostly Water

Love Grows

The world is covered with a thin film of inertia. Maybe it is created by entropy, or human nature, or a magic yet-understood, or all three. Divine beings pierce it effortlessly, Let there be light is a powerful command. We can pierce this inertia too, with a little effort. In fact it seems like the more difficult part is recognizing it at all. And when …

19 days ago · 98 likes · 6 comments · Simon Sarris

Sherman Alexie

A Memory of Chickens

18 days ago · 140 likes · 45 comments · Sherman Alexie

The Experimental Intuitive

Advanced Tarot Techniques, Part 1 - Elemental Tarot Spreads

Before we begin this lesson in tarot elemental correspondences, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to my new subscribers and followers. I truly appreciate all of you for joining my circle. Blessed Be…

24 days ago · 3 likes · 4 comments · Erica Phillips Graves

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