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"There are a lot of people who get rich from your anger. Starve them."

~ Arnold @Schwarzenegger
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the last several months, and Graff nails the thought: “It turns out, in the end, that there’s only one check and balance that actually matters: Good character. Everything else in a constitutional system follows and relies on that simple foundation.”
The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
The only check-and-balance that actually matters
www.doomsdayscenario.co
One of the indicators of rampant corruption is barefaced ineptitude of leadership while competent professionals are fired
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
Mine's working well and gave me this post about a cool kids book about banning books when I searched 'giraffe.'

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Hello everyone, and welcome to #PuppyBookClub! This week upcoming is #BannedBooksWeek (Oct 5-11)! Tonight, we are reading "This Book Is Banned" by Raj Haldar with illustrations by Julia Patton! It offers important messages about censorship in a way that children can relate to! 1/10
Strong start to Goliath, The 100-Year War Between Monopoly and Power, by @matthewstoller.bsky.social
Yet Argentina's still going to sell their soybeans to China. Great deal. :/
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One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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🧵Coal in the US was mostly dying because of cheap natural gas beginning in the 2000s. Then cheap renewables began to clobber it in the 2010s. It is a filthy power source and horrible emitter of greenhouse gases. There is zero economic justification for this & it will amount to corporate welfare.
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One in eight federal workers, or some 300,000, will have left the government by the end of the year, and it’s possible even more could be pushed out if the government shuts down next week. In interviews, some former federal workers shared what they left behind and what they face next.
Former Federal Workers on the Cost of Trump's Cuts
The New York Times photographed and interviewed two dozen former federal workers from across the country to get a sense of what they left behind and what they face next.
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Just saw Megalopolis at the Henry Ford Museum. That movie was a lot of unexpected things, chief among them the fact that it's a reverse Fountainhead.
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🧵Quick thread about how dense neighborhoods cultivate community (and FUN!)

My fiancée and I switch off planning date nights. But this week we had to improvise since we are both super busy. I saw on TikTok that a band was playing a free concert on the lake, so we biked over on a whim. It was PACKED.
I live to flabbergast and your work sounds smart and necessary, let's both keep it up!
Pre-ordered.

@marketplace.org also has an excellent podcast so you can hear this outstanding interview any time!
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It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Finally! Now do parking lots and every highway below ground level
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On September 2, 2025, the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal surrender, a powerful ceremony honored more than 1,000 US troops who died as prisoners of war—service members who endured unimaginable suffering and sacrifice.
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Is it possible that…urbanism is a winning strategy in cities?
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury

Keep reading, friends. 📚
Happy birthday to Tom Skerritt, #Detroit native, USAF vet, #PTSD volunteer, and Commander Mike "Viper" Metcalfe in Top Gun - he delivered his best line wonderfully, and it sticks with me to this day, "A good pilot is compelled to evaluate what's happened, so he can apply what he's learned."
"By Sunday afternoon roughly four FHP trooper vehicles and three OPD cars were parked at the Dunkin Donuts next to the crosswalk."
"...even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

"...the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/08/24/d...
DOT repaints Pulse crosswalk for a second time. FHP and OPD watching site
A squad of Florida Highway Patrol and Orlando Police Department officers surveilled the dozen people who were using chalk on the rainbow crosswalk on Sunday. Advocates said it was an intimidation t…
www.sun-sentinel.com