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“In an effort to remain a major player in world affairs, it abandoned its ideology and values to ditch past allies while maintaining special relationships with emerging powers like Macedonia and supporting old enemies like the Persian King.” www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

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The medium is the message:

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Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.

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Distribution of votes in Germany. Elon lost

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OK honest question what is the root of this? Is this just how you think on drugs?

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Ketamine is wild

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Relevant context for todays stupid Elon stunt:

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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Worth reading:

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Truly frightening to see civil-military relations experts be so distraught today. I hadn't understood that no POTUS has ever replaced the top brass 1 month into office plus fired the JAGs. We’re in autogolpe territory, more so if Trump changes the head of Northern Command.

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What is it going to take to meet the “showing of harm” threshold needed for a TRO against Elon Musk operating without Senate Confirmation?!

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The era of relative peace and prosperity that Americans have known has rested on three pillars: 1. The security relationships between the US and other Western powers. 2. America’s scientific and technological leadership, rooted in it’s academic research. 3. The checks and balances of our system.

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Watching the game a day late and its certainly mindbending for Mathews (Leafs) to be the American captain and Crosby (Penguins) to be the Canadian captain. Jaccob Slavin’s defense work in this game has been epic.

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when you've (already) lost Larry Kudlow ...

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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Let’s be clear, Trump wants to control the USPS so that he can fuck with mail in votes. It’s that simple.

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It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now is political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Among the most important consequences of what is happening right now is the long term destruction of America’s global competitiveness.

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Most predictable thing ever:

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“Unlike most other professional sports in North America, hockey has a tradition in which after big games and tournaments, the winning and losing teams line up so that every player shakes the hand of every opposing player.” www.inc.com/bill-murphy-...

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Canada wins! #fournations

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U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office. #gapol ajc.com/politics/mcc...

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This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.

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After two years of conservatives hyperventilating about the Twitter Files, we now have a conservative government directly censoring political speech on the Internet. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/m...

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Americans overwhelmingly want Trump to follow court rulings if they conclude he has overstepped legal bounds. From a new WaPo survey: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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This, but also it was clear during the first Trump Admin (muslim bans). Attempts last summer to pass legislation prohibiting these injunctions were incredibly dangerous. Of course, now Trump is suggesting he’ll get to the point of ignoring them anyway.

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It's worth re-reading this to understand why so many people in tech thought Biden's tech policy was so bad. Uncritical acceptance of Tristan Harris of all people, presumption that DC should control everything, and in general a tone of panic and negativity. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Some AI now predicting the odds of that asteroid hitting us in eight years is up to 1 in 16. www.independent.co.uk/space/astero...

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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“.. We now have an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” another European diplomat observed in recent days ... “The transatlantic alliance is over.” @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/dona...

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Finally! A Republican dares to speak out. More (much more) please

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This is nuts.

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"We will protect DOGE." This morning, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin — a "stop the steal" organizer and Jan. 6 defendant advocate — sent an email titled "Operation Whirlwind" in which he said he's personally launched an investigation into Sen. Chuck Schumer. The text:

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It is widely assumed (including by SCOTUS) that presidential pardons cannot be undone by courts. As Mark Kende explains on the blog, that's not true in many other countries. He proposes that Democrats push the view that pardons are reviewable.

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Another weak response to the crisis that will allow it to continue burning.

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NEW: The Trump administration has just told a federal judge in a court filing that it will not comply with the court's order to resume funding for USAID and State Department foreign assistance.

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the association of american law schools (AALS) issues a statement on executive branch compliance with court orders that concludes with this. www.aals.org/app/uploads/...

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This is very bad. Expect many more improper probes in DC, where J6 fan Ed Martin is the interim U.S. Attorney and just got nominated for a full term. And expect it at the FBI level, nationwide, if Kash Patel is confirmed.

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In a broader sense, the running story of the 2020s seem to be about decadent, nihilistic people and nations dramatically underestimating the extent to which other people and nations still believe in things.

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