James Ward

Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran US media agency, voiding mass layoffs Lake, whom Trump appointed without Senate confirmation to run Voice of America parent agency, cut over 1,000 jobs

What? Trump and Lake acted illegally? Land sakes!

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Just thought of moral behavior as a service we are all providing. It's volunteer, often taken for granted like the natural world, but as vital as bee pollination or forest filtration of water.

“Politicise or disappear.” PACE Platform member Ekaterina Kuznetsova on the future of Russia’s indigenous nations

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The Andrews Sisters - Bei mir bist du shein (Album Version) YouTube video by ALPHARECORD

Apparently it was popular in Germany too, until Goebbels found out about its Yiddish origins, and tried to stamp it out. Then it continued underground.

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Hi Margo — I just learned that the composer of "Bei mir bist du schoen" was from the Kherson region. This was a serious hit in USO tours during WW2. Have you heard it? Might be worth translating & singing — against the totalitarians again.

"There" is here Our dissatisfaction led us to gamble again on a “disruptor.” We assumed the disruption would stay “over there,” targeting other people, other communities, and the System.

Our dissatisfaction led us to gamble again on a “disruptor.” We assumed the disruption would stay “over there,” targeting other people, other communities, and the System.

But disruption is not a precision tool...

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Another murder. ICE out of Minnesota now. They are not protecting the public — they are attacking it. Out!

Yes indeed.

Yes it is! Mafia klepto states.

Elon autem expropriandus est.

Impeach and remove or 25th amendment — the bases for both are clearly established.

"Tous les États, ces sont moi."

Is Trump a rational actor? He is, at the least, identifying state policy with a personal affront to himself.

Is he also rationally offering an international framework within which he may be Emperor of the World, to which the other nations may rationally assent?

What an excellent thought.

My goodness — look who's free.

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Russia is a terrorist state.
Росія, це терористична держава.
Rusiye terrorcı devlettir.
Rusia este un stat terorist.
რუსეთი ტერორისტული სახელმწიფოა.
Расія — тэрарыстычная дзяржава.
Rosja jest państwem terrorystycznym.
Ресей – террористік мемлекет.
俄罗斯是一个恐怖主义国家。

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"As Trump & Bondi Work To Traumatize DOJ Attorneys, There's An Organization Stepping In To Help"

A Chat with Stacey Young & Glenn Kirschner A recording from Justice Connection and Glenn Kirschner's live video

Justice Connection is supporting embattled DOJ personnel and the rebuilding of impartial justice in the USA.

A Chat with Stacey Young & Glenn Kirschner
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You got me there with that one. Well done!

Are they finally catching on to his eternal grifting and gaslighting?

And that holds even if his fulfillment of the conditions is unlikely. It actually seems optically dangerous for the board to propose this in the current situation. Do they think this will bring back Tesla's fortunes after EM led his hacker team in the evisceration of our civil service?

Thanks, Adam.

Thanks, Adam.

Anastasia Zinovkina, a Russian anti-Putin activist, is being tortured in a prison in Georgia. She is in terrible pain, medically and even physically neglected (she fell down and was not aided to get up for 3 hours), and kept in an unsanitary condition.

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The rich & the corporate structure are enticed on board by tax cuts, & warned by example of punitive actions if they don't cooperate, while tariffs move more of the people's money into regime coffers. The mafia system tries to engraft itself onto the corporate structure, for the graft.

These essential systems are now being disrupted in the US & its international connections, forcing society's attention to vital processes, while the disruptors seek to institute a mafia-capo system of loyalty & tribute at the center of a co-opted oligo-plutocracy. It is not of, by & for the people.

The "Deep State" (civil service, regulatory agencies) & the international economic system are like automatic bodily processes (breathing, digestion), in that we rely on them to function smoothly & efficiently without constant attention. This can lead to underestimating their systemic importance.

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Sometimes they sound like they actually want functional government Make your mind up, Steve-o (super genius)

Bannon seems to think he actually cares about national security. I rant on Substack.

Sometimes they sound like they actually want functional government
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