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The notebook behind my newsletters: follow-ups, deep dives, reader conversations, and personal moments that don't fit in The Planet, Daybreak Notes & Beans, or Screen Skills.

By Alexander Verbeek

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🎙️ Watch: Britain's Seventh Prime Minister in a Decade — and the Epstein Contrast

🎙️ Morning Comments — Monday, June 23, 2026

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🧭 Starmer Resigns After the Epstein Files Reached London. Washington Remains Untouched.

🧭 Morning Compass — Monday, June 22, 2026

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🎙️ Watch: Trump's Pond Is Full of Algae. His Iran Deal Looks About the Same. But Chicago Was Dancing.

🎙️ Morning Comments — Friday, June 19, 2026

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🧭 The Reflecting Pool Is Peeling. So Is the Iran Deal. Same Incompetence, Different Scale.

🧭 Morning Compass — Thursday, June 19, 2026

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🎙️ Trump Called It the Worst Deal Ever. Then He Signed a Worse One.

🎙️ Morning Comments — Thursday, June 18, 2026

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🧭 Whose Unconditional Surrender?

🧭 Morning Compass — Thursday, June 18, 2026

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🧭 Bolton: "Iran Played Trump Like a Violin"

🧭 Morning Compass — Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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🧭 The Iran Deal Returns the World to February 28. Thousands Died to Get Here.

🧭 Morning Compass — Monday, June 15, 2026

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🎙️ Watch: Trump's Name Came Off the Kennedy Center. What El Niño Means for What Comes Next.

🎙️ Morning Comments — Saturday, June 14, 2026

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🧭 Trump's Name Is Gone From the Kennedy Center. His Iran Deal Has Been "Days Away" in 38 Announcements

🧭 Morning Compass — Saturday, June 13, 2026

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🎙️ Watch: Spain Is Welcoming Migrants While the Rest of the West Builds Walls. Here Is What That Looks Like.

🎙️ Morning Comments — Thursday, June 11, 2026

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Trump Promised a Peace Deal in "Two or Three Days." He Got Bombing on Day Two and More Bombing on Day Three.

Morning Compass — Thursday, June 11, 2026

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One hundred years of Gaudí, Who Died on This Day in 1926.

The sainthood cause that needs two miracles, the papal Mass today, and 12,060 plastic bricks

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🧭 Booed in His Hometown, Asleep in His Suite, 35 Percent Approval. Trump's War Is Not Going as Planned.

🧭 Morning Compass — Tuesday, June 9, 2026

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