The Worst of the Week
Every Sunday: the handful of ledger entries from the past seven days that were worst on the merits, ranked by severity. Same sourcing rules as the ledger, fewer items.
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Nineteen entries this week, and the through-line was revenge dressed up as governance: a defunct $1.8 billion slush fund for Trump allies, a fired prosecutor now under criminal investigation, and an FCC threat aimed at a Meet the Press host. The president found time between retaliations to call the Iran strikes 'small potatoes,' invite ranchers to shoot wolves, break ground on a 250-foot arch in his own honor, and post an AI video of a military strike that never happened. The seven below.