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Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."
February 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."
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François Heisbourg, one of the world’s leading strategists and a cool head:
Macron and Starmer's trip to DC next week takes us back to analogies from the 1930s.
Ukraine's criticism of the United States is "unacceptable," Donald Trump's top security advisor said on Thursday, urging Kyiv to cool its rhetoric and quickly sign a minerals deal pushed by the White House ➡️ https://u.afp.com/SJZH
February 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
François Heisbourg, one of the world’s leading strategists and a cool head:
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Damn @sanders.senate.gov. Just when I compliment you, I looked for info on the event. NONE HERE. But multiple posts on X.
WTF.
You obviously don’t care to engage. Just look at the quality of replies you get over there.
WTF.
You obviously don’t care to engage. Just look at the quality of replies you get over there.
February 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Damn @sanders.senate.gov. Just when I compliment you, I looked for info on the event. NONE HERE. But multiple posts on X.
WTF.
You obviously don’t care to engage. Just look at the quality of replies you get over there.
WTF.
You obviously don’t care to engage. Just look at the quality of replies you get over there.
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Always always always the real game, as I have said. They want the data, as dangerous as this will inevitably be. They don’t care, these ceaseless borgs. trib.al/ctRDVKs
Oracle’s Ellison Calls for Governments to Unify Data to Feed AI
Oracle Corp.’s co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison said governments should consolidate all national data for consumption by artificial intelligence models, calling this step the “missing link” for t...
trib.al
February 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Always always always the real game, as I have said. They want the data, as dangerous as this will inevitably be. They don’t care, these ceaseless borgs. trib.al/ctRDVKs
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Newly confirmed OMB Director Russell Vought has strongly implied that his strategy “is to instill fear in the Supreme Court that the presidency is prepared to resort to outright defiance of its decisions.”
executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
The Trump Executive Orders as “Radical Constitutionalism”
Much more than “test cases” may be at stake in Trump's aggressive claims of presidential authority
executivefunctions.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Newly confirmed OMB Director Russell Vought has strongly implied that his strategy “is to instill fear in the Supreme Court that the presidency is prepared to resort to outright defiance of its decisions.”
executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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Merkley: "We have an assumption of a foundation of law. And once that assumption is gone, you erase the line between a republic in which there is a Congress to make the laws and executive to implement them, and a dictator."
February 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Merkley: "We have an assumption of a foundation of law. And once that assumption is gone, you erase the line between a republic in which there is a Congress to make the laws and executive to implement them, and a dictator."
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It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything
2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text
February 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything
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April 2022: USAID delivered 5,000 Starlink terminals to Ukraine through a public-private partnership with SpaceX.
March 2024: USAID's inspector general announced it was initiating an inspection of USAID’s oversight of Starlink terminals provided to Ukraine.
Sources: archive.is/NNwNx
March 2024: USAID's inspector general announced it was initiating an inspection of USAID’s oversight of Starlink terminals provided to Ukraine.
Sources: archive.is/NNwNx
PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT: Inspection of USAID's Oversight of Starlink Terminals Provided to the Government of Ukraine | Office of Inspector General
web.archive.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
April 2022: USAID delivered 5,000 Starlink terminals to Ukraine through a public-private partnership with SpaceX.
March 2024: USAID's inspector general announced it was initiating an inspection of USAID’s oversight of Starlink terminals provided to Ukraine.
Sources: archive.is/NNwNx
March 2024: USAID's inspector general announced it was initiating an inspection of USAID’s oversight of Starlink terminals provided to Ukraine.
Sources: archive.is/NNwNx
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Through comments, I learned about other big myths Americans believe about foreign aid:
1/ it's risen past 1% in recent years, esp. due to Ukraine - false, max is about 0.5% in 2022 $80B
2/ it's used mostly *not* for humanitarian aid - nope
3/ It's mainly about military objectives - nope
1/ it's risen past 1% in recent years, esp. due to Ukraine - false, max is about 0.5% in 2022 $80B
2/ it's used mostly *not* for humanitarian aid - nope
3/ It's mainly about military objectives - nope
February 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Through comments, I learned about other big myths Americans believe about foreign aid:
1/ it's risen past 1% in recent years, esp. due to Ukraine - false, max is about 0.5% in 2022 $80B
2/ it's used mostly *not* for humanitarian aid - nope
3/ It's mainly about military objectives - nope
1/ it's risen past 1% in recent years, esp. due to Ukraine - false, max is about 0.5% in 2022 $80B
2/ it's used mostly *not* for humanitarian aid - nope
3/ It's mainly about military objectives - nope
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I still remember way back before Musk was illegally destroying US foreign aid that time when he claimed he’d give $6B to the UK WFP if they could tell him how it would solve world hunger & then he ignored the response & gave $5.7B to his own charity & no one ever found out where it went from there
February 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I still remember way back before Musk was illegally destroying US foreign aid that time when he claimed he’d give $6B to the UK WFP if they could tell him how it would solve world hunger & then he ignored the response & gave $5.7B to his own charity & no one ever found out where it went from there
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honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!
What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?
February 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!
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This is exactly right
1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is exactly right
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is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
February 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM
is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?