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The politics of this moment aren't easy to follow. A middle layer of neocons? Who knew?

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In local news. Alameda County DA reset.

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Some backstory re: Vance's recent speech.

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Ditch the politics of fear and/or joy and take up the politics of the moment, to be fought in Congress, in the courts, and most of all in the states and cities. City politics especially are the cauldron of democracy, so stir vigorously.

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We may as well take Denmark's offer, since California will be going it alone for the foreseeable future.

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An armored firetrap is still a firetrap.

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@katewagner.bsky.social on Trumpoclassicism (TM).

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"For Mesopotamian cultures, the universe was subject to capricious, amoral, powerful but limited gods who were often in conflict and whose sole interest in humanity was as a substitute labour force which fed them through sacrifice." Sound familiar? (James Butler on Robinson's "Reading Genesis").

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Robert Reich's Swiftian turn.

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Barbara Lee offers Oakland more of the same.

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Fred Schreurs weighs in.

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This reminds me that El Jefe sometimes resembles the late televangelist Dr. Gene Scott.

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Steve Bannon interview with WSJ: he praises Musk, and compares El Jefe to Washington and Lincoln.

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Kid Rock on repeat, I predict.

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This is oddly timed. The UK and US have long shared each other's intelligence as a workaround for the limitations imposed on them at home. Is this more of the same?

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Great article by Alex Ross.

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Interesting that Reich and Bannon converge on this topic.

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Worth a read. Fomenting intergenerational conflict is one more trick up the sleeve of on-the-make politicians.

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Like AI, El Jefe is just hallucinating - hence the visions of Miami Beach in Gaza, e.g. I imagine Musk queried his own AI for instructions for demolishing the gov't. Or maybe he used the Chinese one? Rubber-stamp legislatures in our future?

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This is a travesty. The ranchers are NOT destroying Point Reyes. They are good managers of the land and a bulwark against wildfires. Management by others is completely ineffective. This needs to be reversed, pronto.

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