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Education is properly justified by respect. Respect for ourselves and respect for each other. What we do in the name of education is no education at all. 🇳🇿 🔱
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The two tipping points are the military and the judiciary, under the Constitution. Both are big asks, and might raise hurricanes of public outrage if seriously threatened. Without them, the coup is toast

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No all Canadians or Danes or Greenlanders are bearded

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Trump is much easier to understand than the continual benefit-of-the-doubt & rose-tinted-glasses & politeness & hopefulness of well-meaning people, whose expectations Trump always runs over like a truck. If Trump gets anything right, it's by luck, or saying what people want to hear 🧵

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The US urged Ukraine to withdraw a #UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion—Ukraine refused - WP. Ahead of the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the U.S. unexpectedly asked Ukraine to withdraw its proposed UN resolution condemning Moscow’s aggression. Kyiv firmly refused to back down.

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It is a short teaser for tomorrow’s Sunday Letter. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do it here www.patreon.com/c/strategywo... But you subscribed perhaps. Maybe you even a supporter of my work. If yes, thank you 🫂

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Anti-Russian, pro-European protests continue despite freezing cold. #GeorgiaProtests Day 87

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Rustaveli is blocked by the protesters again. #GeorgiaProtests Day 87

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Day 87 continuous. Rustaveli blocked. Without new elections, there will only be continued instability and crisis, since the dictatorship will find it hard, resource-wise, to stabilize into business-as-usual mode. With sanctions, you can aid us avoid costs. #GeorgiaProstests

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba... you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

How can anybody talk about Trump's pivot to Putin, when Trump all along has expressed his great love for Putin & his wonderful repression, imperialism and dictatorship?

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Don't Americans believe what they see? Trump supports Putin rather than the US. Time to face up top reality!

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In order to replace government agencies with for-profit private enterprises? Pay for private profit, manage without, or die

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As we approach the 4th and 11th anniversaries of the war that Russia started, it is important to remember that this has always been a blatant land grab that turned genocidal as soon as they realized Ukrainians do not want to be Russians

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“This Week in Democracy: Week 5 – The 'King' Purges His Generals” Read and share the latest from Zeteo's project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term:

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“The Ukrainian president was elected in free elections in Ukraine..he is an elected president of a free system. That's not the case with Vladimir Putin, who kills his opponents and has been manipulating his elections for a long time” Emmanuel Macron President of France 👏

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I'll back Ukraine in talks with Trump, Starmer says www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Musk will now sue Bannon for not paying to use the Sieg Heil feature on Twitter

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Keir Starmer lays down Ukraine peace demand ahead of Trump talks Kyiv ‘must be at the heart of negotiations’ says PM as US threat to block Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites fuels wave of alarm www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 19 hours ago • 15 comments

Trump - he who must be adored - sets out to have whole national populations despise him

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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America will have to live with the shame of what's happening here for years. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

submitted 21 hours ago • 63 comments

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

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Trump didn't just fire the four-star generals. He's also removing the JAGs for the Army, Navy and Air Force — critical positions that ensure enforcement of military justice. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

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It turns out that empowering the richest human being on the planet to maliciously and gratuitously heap additional misery on that planet’s most poor, hungry and desperate people might just pose a niggling political problem to President Donald Trump newrepublic.com/article/1915...

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"This is a vast project of enforced re-education by a colonial power that wants to wipe away history as though clearing a computer disk, and reprogram a population through barrages of propaganda at the barrel of a gun" From @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social, on occupied Ukraine econ.st/41CVD4d

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The current dilemma for the military is the oath to uphold the constitution, and to disobey orders that are illegal under the constitution. This will likely unravel, since it prevents loyalty to Trump. Like the judiciary, it currently stands in the way of his coup

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Ummmm.

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Good to see the negative attention to the interference of the American Right Sad to see the indifference to the long subversion of German politics through the Russian war against Germany

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Photo from Berlin, late 2024

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MOSCOW ON FIRE: MILITARY INDUSTRY INSTITUTE BURNED OUT Vlog 960: War in Ukraine youtu.be/oa3DYMStJ9w

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Carefully done study clearly shows X and TikTok pushing pro-AfD content to Germans whose own selections of who to follow are neutral. In other words, heavy pro-AfD thumb on the scale by Elon Musk and CCP. www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/in-g...

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A heartfelt thank you to former Senators Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema for repeatedly blocking popular policies to preserve “norms” and protect “the rights of the minority” We couldn’t have gotten here without you

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There is not much time left.

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“This is… where libertarianism morphs into neoreaction. Instead of advocating for a constitutional republic w/ minimal government, this new strain of thought pushes for a private, post-democratic order, where those w/ the most resources & technological control dictate the rules.” 2/21/25 1/

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DOGE's firing of the leading U.S. nuclear-safety authority has top scientific minds at the agency ready to jump ship, as a report claims a “brain drain” is imminent.

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“Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, largest in over 30 years *** Most of the cases are in children between ages 5 and 17.” abcnews.go.com/Health/texas...

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Trump again raises idea of running for an unconstitutional third term The suggestion followed a stretch of days in which Trump referred to himself as a king and quoted a dictator in suggesting that he was immune from following laws www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

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In fragile times, Europe's ability to combat corruption is falling short, hindering the bloc’s response to challenges that range from the climate crisis to fraying rule of law and overstrained public services.

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We are the Federal law. The last vestiges of the rule of law are on borrowed time

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Well done Maine Governor Janet Mills, slapping Trump down with “See you in court!” This is how you do it, stand up to the bully. Trump threatens all her state’s federal funding if she doesn’t comply with his EO on trans people playing sports. He ends with personal insults. Of course.

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