The 24 Seven: 'Au courant'

'Well, it's a well-run campaign, midget and broom and whatnot'

Programming: Coming up tomorrow, the latest from

Michael D. Cohen, Ph.D.

in The Level with a look at what constitutes serious cuts to waste and fraud. And later this week some fresh “Booboisie” from

Ian B. Walters

, an effervescent elixir of mystery ingredients to awaken the palate.

When faced with 1,000 news items all at once, sometimes it takes a little encapsulating. That’s why I plugged in this great Pappy O’Daniel scene from “O Brother Where Art Thou”. The horse race and performance art debate is “au courant.”

Today’s 24 Seven is a “recap” of the first week of President Donald Trump’s second term, but it is hardly exhaustive. (Got them dad jokes.) Instead I’m delving into the themes and rhythms, a guidebook for each successive news alert.

As I noted on Substack Notes, which has become something of a refugee space for normies driven from various platforms, be it the publisher formerly known as Twitter or off-and-on-Tik Tok, the hype is not matching the reality. Hype that Elon Musk might purchase a hotel in Washington as a competing hangout to the Trumpworld hotels turned out to be a dud.

That might sound new after four years of Biden, but it’s really closer to Trump’s first term in office.

I started writing this Thursday night, and then Friday, and then a little bit yesterday. But I’m glad I waited until today to put it all together, because the news “changed” quite a bit over just a few days.

This will be the rhythm for four years in American politics. You don’t have to “get ready for it”, you already have a sense of managing your media diet. (This good look

Lou Paskalis

includes a media bias chart which does pretty good at plotting the major media outlets on an axis of reliability and straightforward and where they fall on a bias chart.)

As I noted in my 2025 manifesto, “Indefatigable”, we all got STD (s*** to do) and being jacked in to the Matrix constantly just ain’t in the cards.

My goal from the start with 24sight News has been to provide some clarity amid the deluge, so you can keep your wits about you.

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1 Ping Pong, on political role reversals

2 Executive Actions, on actions and reactions

3 The Memory Whole, on Auschwitz, Elon Musk

4 DeepSeek, on global superpowers and Big Tech portents

5 Truth, on January 6th

6 Podwork

7 More Cowbell, on the growth of an SNL giant