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The constitution is malleable. You change it one way you can change it another.

Precedents benefit any side. They are ammo for anyone to use.

Steve Bannon admits Maga operatives ‘working’ on third term for Trump

Speaking of his adoration for Trump, the former chief strategist said ‘he’s on fire, and I’m a huge supporter. I want to see him again in 2028’

In an interview with NewsNation host Chris Cuomo Tuesday, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said that Maga operatives have begun working towards securing president Donald Trump a third term in 2028.

“I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run again in 2028. I’ve already endorsed President Trump,” Bannon said.

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People are still trying to unpick the flagrant smashing of the US government’s own rules that took place in front of the White House on Tuesday, when Donald Trump came to the rescue of Tesla’s tanking stock value with what can only be described as a free promo.

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Resisting tyranny takes a lot of forms.

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(via Flames Consume Tesla : r/clevercomebacks)

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I think the point, @dragonsllayer22 is that the rich are serving themselves on the labour of the people and the people are still underserved.

Sometimes it’s really not about red vs blue.

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“Steve Vladeck: “To spoil the punchline, although what the government has done to this point is profoundly disturbing, and is, in my view, unconstitutional retaliation for First Amendment-protected speech, I’m not sure it is as clearly unlawful as a lot of folks online have suggested. And that’s a pretty big problem all by itself.” Michelle Goldberg: “If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before Trump’s inauguration.” John Ganz: “Here’s the most important thing about this whole affair: The state cannot make it up as it goes along. It can’t seize people in the night and invent flimsy pretexts later. And if it does, then we no longer live under the rule of law, we live under a police state. And don’t kid yourself: They will not stop at non-citizens.””

— The Trump administration’s detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil not because he broke any laws – at least not that’s been yet alleged – but because they disagree with his politics marks a seismic shift in American political life. 

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The European Union is in discussions with four European satellite internet providers to explore alternatives to Starlink for Ukraine’s defense forces, the Financial Times reports.

Negotiations are underway with Luxembourg-based SES, Spain’s Hisdesat, British company Viasat, and the French-British operator Eutelsat/OneWeb.

At the same time, the FT also notes that replacing Starlink would be challenging, requiring substantial investment to launch enough satellites to provide 24/7 high-speed connectivity.

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War is distruction

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Feels like a step in a good direction…

Just wanted to share some shockingly good news in these difficult times. The full article is really worth reading. [Find it here]

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They know what they're doing. The people they're signaling to know what they're doing. Those of us trained in spotting this stuff for our own safety know what they're doing.

It's time that everyone else stops giving them the benefit of the doubt

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To be clear. The issue isn’t that they did this to a woman.

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Oh no. MAGA is mad that the NYT shared the names of DOGE staffers. Don’t share this! Would be a shame

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Ian Cheong is stuck playing the game. Why wouldn’t Ian Cheong continue to play the game if it benefits Ian Cheong to do so?

To play the game Ian Cheong prioritizes money because making money is the goal and if Ian Cheong can make enough money the game rewards Ian Cheong with access and perks because Ian Cheong perpetuates the game. Ian Cheong benefits from perpetuating the game and the game benefits from rewarding Ian Cheong.

Ian Cheong doesn’t have to think beyond this. Ian Cheong doesn’t have to think about the fact that it is impossible for everyone to make good in the game and receive the benefits that Ian Cheong receives. Ian Cheong doesn’t have to think about the disproportionate allocation of finite resources and the fact that the more finite resources that go to Ian Cheong beyond his needs, the less resources there are to go around, and the more Ian Cheong hoards these resources, the more others will have to do without.

Ian Cheong doesn’t have to think about the fact that the game relies on him to be a good player, not for Ian Cheong’s sake but for the game’s sake. The game relies on Ian Chang’s ignorance and Ian Cheong just needs to focus on earning more.

Ian Cheong is the inevitable redundancy of the homoeconomicus. In fact, a machine could probably be a better Ian Cheong than Ian Cheong could. Work, consume, repeat and expand. Products do not need to be used, they only need to be bought and sold. Optimize this and the game could run itself.

This isn’t about socialism and capitalism. These concepts avoid the real root cause of society’s woes, and, to be sure, there is only one. People like Ian Cheong or even Joe Dunman who seems to believe a change in economic/political theory will fix it good. Like Christianity fixed the Romans, perhaps. What disguise won’t a wolf wear to land prey.

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Seems more complex than that. Misinformation is anybody’s game. There really are no winners in the bipartisan power struggle.

And if you didn’t read that fortune article, Elon musk does not come out looking any better but neither does anyone else.

The cruelty of racist white men.

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PEOPLE will kill the earth and other people along with it.

No grand theory is going to fix us and no abstraction is to blame.

Capitalism, fascism, colonialism, organized religion human beings are responsible.

Step one in problem solving: understand the problem.