That's not to say USPS losing the revenue wouldn't be bad for them - they're legally required to offer universal service and can't stop if the Amazon revenue disappears - but it feels like a bluff by Amazon who needs USPS as much as USPS needs them.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

As Wired reported, the Network State has lobbyists working DC to make the Fascist Cities happen. They see three potential paths:

1. Multi-state compacts approved by Congress

2. Creation of federal enclaves with special economic zone status

3. Executive orders
www.wired.com/story/startu...

Again, tapping my “Trump gets to do all of this stuff because Congress never does its job” neon sign. (This applied to both parties).

Credit to Rand Paul. He hated extrajudicial drone strike killings under Obama and he HATES them under Trump where Congress has given no authorization.

Paul adds he wants Hegseth to testify before Congress under oath.

“And I think that Congress, if they had any kind of gumption at all would not be allowed administration to summarily execute people that are suspected of a crime”

See also the upper rungs of the legal profession and the tech world. People literally get offended if you suggest that there's a difference between what's good for their career and what's morally permissible, and that sometimes the two are mutually exclusive.

One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.

there’s been a building drumbeat of these columns from political columnists and conservative op-ed columnists over the last couple of weeks, some of whom seem to be struggling with how cruel, juvenile, stupid and incompetent this admin is