Happy Sunday.
To be ITK, know this:
A successful business is:
Strategy.
Organization.
Consistency.
That's the secret.
Pelosi has been involved with national politics for a long time: When now Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was just 21 years old, she met US President John F. Kennedy, during Kennedy’s inauguration as president, in 1961.
Read this: Women are so fired up to vote, I’ve never seen anything like it Tom Bonier
+ "Election prognostication relies heavily on past precedent. Yet there is no precedent for an election centered around the removal of a constitutional right affirmed a half-century before"
+ "As Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority decision in Dobbs: 'Women are not without electoral or political power.' He was right about that. Republicans might soon find out just how much political power they have."
Read this: Who is Liz Truss, a shapeshifter set to be UK’s next prime minister? WP
+ It’s fair to say Truss is a shapeshifter. She fought for Britain to remain in the EU before becoming a staunch defender of Brexit.
+ Supporters say she accepted the outcome of the referendum and got with the program. Others say she’s a weather vane, pivoting when it suits.
+ In Washington, at least outside of diplomatic circles, there’s not much of an official take on Truss. She wants a trade deal with the United States — which the Biden administration is in no rush to negotiate.
+ “Her most noticeable characteristic is a capacity to shift, unblinkingly, from one fiercely held belief to another.”
Read this: How Liz Truss will tackle the worst in-tray for a new prime minister since Thatcher The Times
+ With the coming storm of inflation, soaring energy bills, and strikes, the new leader knows immediate action is needed if she is to stay in control of events
+ The new PM will inherit an economy in greater trouble and a cost of living crisis greater than at any time since 2008, industrial unrest, and the prospect of a winter of discontent that echoes that before Margaret Thatcher took power in 1979
+ On Tuesday at 4:00 pm local time (11:00 am ET), she will address the country.
+ “It’s going to be all about ‘the economy, stupid’”
+ Focus groups conducted last week by the public affairs firm 5654 & Co found that voters expect the government to step in, and several participants warned that civil unrest might follow if they do not meet the challenge
+ Truss’s team are the seventh group of Conservatives to run the country in just six years (after David Cameron’s, two sets of advisers under Theresa May, and three distinct regimes under Boris Johnson), and finding aides to serve behind the scenes is proving difficult
Read this: Truss will only make the UK more miserable. That could be good Simon Kuper
+ "As an ex-superpower, Britain swings between hubris and despair."
+ "Even the British term 'omnishambles' cannot capture the current despair."
+ "Like all modern Tory prime ministers, Truss will spend her political energy on managing her own party."
+ "I also expect more serious public debate: whereas fake news is growing worldwide, it’s waning in the UK as the tabloids shed readers."
+ "Despair rarely lasts. Hitting rock-bottom can be a productive national moment."
Read this: Inside Sweden’s war against Russian disinformation The Times
+ A new agency is strengthening the country’s mental defenses against Kremlin-backed attempts to sow division
+ In a nondescript building on the outskirts of Stockholm, employees of the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency are preparing for a shadow war with Russia
+ A team of 45 has been hunting for attempts by foreign powers to wage influence campaigns in Sweden — monitoring the infrastructure that they use to launch attacks and investigating suspected cases of foreign operations in Sweden
+ “Good disinformation is actually not false. Good disinformation is basically true and only somewhat tweaked. Getting people to accept facts that are not true is so much more difficult than just tweaking well-known and existing facts”
+ Russians still have “useful idiots” to spread their propaganda. For years, there has been a low-level churning of Russian talking points shared in Sweden — from anti-Nato dirges to far-right extremism
OTD: In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University, start the Internet search engine Google.
Read this: Gwyneth Paltrow at 50: In an exclusive interview, the Goop founder, film star, and first-rate provocateur talks aging, ambition, and why nothing ruffles her feathers now. HTSI
+ Goop is now a sprawling enterprise that incorporates womenswear (G Label), beauty (GoopGlow), ready meals (GoopKitchen), and sex aids
+ Perhaps it’s that mix of Cali-woo-woo and patrician East Coast privilege that make Paltrow’s brand so potent
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Read this: How Edward Enninful became the king of fashion The Times
+ A child in Ghana, a teen model in Soho, the editor of Vogue: one man’s incredible journey
+ “It’s an industry that you get better at the longer you’re in it. On the one hand things move really fast, but on the other writers get better with time, stylists get better with time, so there are two rhythms going on.”
On the University of Michigan football sideline: The first female graduate assistant at a Power 5 program.
Enjoy the ride + plan accordingly.
-Marc
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