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The System Isn’t Breaking — It’s Being Taken Apart

Courts sidelined. The Fed targeted. Big Law bows. And now the DOJ defends Tesla from tweets. Welcome to the quiet dismantling.

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Let me apologize for skipping last week. Honestly, between my “day job,” and the nonstop circus that is American Politics, I spaced and forgot it.

This week, the mask slips. Speaker Mike Johnson openly questions the authority of courts. Powell says Trump can’t fire him — but the legal firewall protecting him may be about to fall. The Senate Intelligence Committee turns into a live rehearsal for an institutional purge. Meanwhile, the markets aren’t waiting: capital is moving, quietly but deliberately, away from U.S. stability.

The system isn’t breaking down.

It’s being taken apart.

The brief starts now…

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