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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 20h

It could not be clearer. @edwardluce.bsky.social is exactly right. America's billionaires need to understand that shirking their responsibilities and debts to society is a losing formula and a political error.

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 06/10/2026

“A rational billionaire would see the merits of buying social peace. An enlightened one would acknowledge his debts to federal science, public education and chance.Alas, there are few such super-rich to be found.” Me on the demagoguery against Prop 40. as.ft.com/r/4f1869f4-5...

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California’s oligarch tax would change America

The goal of its framers is political rather than budgetary

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I hope you'll read this from @edwardluce.bsky.social about what DC post election will be like. I hope Dems will take in the implicit warning that disunity or lack of resolve could lead to a waste of the next two years and more damage to the country from Trump. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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A Republican midterm defeat will not be an earthquake

Democrats are likely to make gains in Congress but divided government is unlikely to derail Trump’s agenda

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 29/09/2026

“Public opinion has turned decisively against Trump. His negative approval rating is twice as bad today as it was on the eve of his party’s 2018 drubbing.” My column on why Trump will pretend he bears no responsibility for the looming GOP defeat. as.ft.com/r/f337d285-0...

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A Republican midterm defeat will not be an earthquake

Democrats are likely to make gains in Congress but divided government is unlikely to derail Trump’s agenda

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 25/09/2026

Kassam is a vicious character.

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 25/09/2026

A few critics said I overlooked Trump's upcoming Xi summit in my column this week on Trump's boredom with substance and obsession with monuments to himself. Guess which part of Trump's Xi interactions was his favourite? Showing Xi his new ballroom.

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 23/09/2026

They shouldn't be heading in a Palantir direction.

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 23/09/2026

She sounds like a wonderful woman. The rest of her club can frolick in Oprah

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 23/09/2026

Democrats coming at Trump from the right on China. They're not evolving.

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 23/09/2026

better to view the whole shebang as an Oprah book pick

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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 23/09/2026

Donald Trump has “checked out” and, bored of the business of governing, the US president is now singularly obsessed with building monuments to himself, argues Edward Luce. Read today's column from @edwardluce.bsky.social in #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/FybYK2B

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 22/09/2026

"The term “lame duck” would be haunting any other president’s sleep. But the concept is alien to Trump. He spends more of his time telling people about his architectural plans than he devotes to Iran, AI or the economy. Insoluble problems hold no interest." My column. as.ft.com/r/928f5cb7-6...

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Trump is checking out of his presidency

With no way out of his war with Iran, he is increasingly obsessed with monuments to himself

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 19/09/2026

Your position on referenda/referendums?

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 18/09/2026

"Were America consciously trying to put China off from talking about AI it could not have arranged it better." My Swamp Notes with Demetri Sevastopulo on next week's stillborn Trump-Xi summit. as.ft.com/r/b02a4c1e-7...

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Xi’s edge over Trump on AI

The US president’s anti-regulatory stance fails to take into account that China is catching up

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 17/09/2026

Brings to mind this @edwardluce.bsky.social line on Trump: "Four years ago, he said bitcoin was a 'scam'. Now he wants to make America the 'crypto capital of the world'. To see that as a U-turn is to miss how Trump works. The second statement follows naturally from the first."

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 17/09/2026

Just to make it clear, Wapo still does some great reporting and still has David Ignatius and a handful of other great writers on its oped page. But its Bezos-pleasing editorial line is beyond parody.

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 17/09/2026

"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | Canada’s great European misadventure

Donald Trump is for now. A Brussels bureaucrat is forever.

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 15/09/2026

"Bessent is badly harming himself in his quest not to disappoint the president. As one Washington veteran quipped: “Bessent makes Steve Mnuchin look like Alexander Hamilton.”" My column. as.ft.com/r/1f88e3d7-1...

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Scott Bessent’s wobbly house

Politics seems to be messing with the US Treasury secretary’s head

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 12/09/2026

also respect for my colleagues' pic selections

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 11/09/2026

The next 9/11, or far worse, is there in plain sight. Yet apparently it is communism not AI that threatens America. Me on Dallas, Trump and our unlearning species. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/9a8a91e3-a...

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What we still haven’t learnt from 9/11

Facing existential risks like superintelligent AI, we need bold and visionary leaders of the world’s great powers

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 10/09/2026

While warning about communism, Trump vows to bribe Americans with their own money (borrowed from China) so that he can keep control of Congress and get even richer. And he calls this proposed budget-destroying bribe a "dividend". Read David.

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 10/09/2026

very fine cheroots with which we give sober breakdown of a madcap gimmick

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 10/09/2026

they smuggled one into Dallas

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 09/09/2026

"“Albania is not for sale,” says the normally pro-American Albanian street. If Kushner and Witkoff would listen, other parts of the world are trying to tell them the same thing." My column. as.ft.com/r/cd22dbcd-a...

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Kushner and Witkoff’s blind amateurism

The misguided belief that dangling potential postwar profits can lead to peace has hampered US diplomacy from Ukraine to Gaza and Iran

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 01/09/2026

where have all the foxgloves gone?

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 01/09/2026

correct. it's everywhere

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Edward Luce @handle.invalid · 19/08/2026

Evening from either side of our hotel room

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Excellent smart piece on the strange place we find ourselves with regard to AI and public policy...and how to ensure we end up in a place in which we can tap the benefits of the technology and contain its risks. From @edwardluce.bsky.social. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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AI phobia is America’s new consensus

Trump is uncharacteristically deaf to voter fears over the technology

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