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Sanpaku
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Lapsed scientist. Book, film, and music enthusiast. Collapse aware since 2001.
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“Well, Senator, I see the Constitution as kind of like a puppy. An excitable, untrained puppy that’s starting to really get on my nerves.”
May 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year
March 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
French senator Claude Malheuret, not mincing words:

"We are fighting against a dictator backed by a traitor"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j51H...
"We Are Fighting Against a Dictator Backed by a Traitor" – A French Senator Speaks Out
YouTube video by Dustin Unnerstall
www.youtube.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Are we the baddies?

Today, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, co-sponsored by Kyiv and EU nations.
February 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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FEDS, ALERT!!!
Print all your SF50s or similar for your agency.
Make sure you have your EOD date
Get at least 1 month of earning statements.
Print at least 3 performance evaluations
If you can get your drop file.l, and a copy of your OPM file if you can.
February 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The six engineers that are assisting Elon Musk to violate the constitution and dismantle the US Federal government are reportedly Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Our new 'Ministry of Truth' is now forcing retractions of CDC science manuscripts for using language that been normative for decades.

Colossal wastes of time, energy, and taxpayer dollars until all these willfully ignorant people are out.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
insidemedicine.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
After seeing the absurd cabinet nominations from the incoming Trump administration, this WaPo opinion piece has me spooked:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Mike Johnson must block Trump’s scheme on recess appointments
Trump is threatening to bypass Senate approval of his Cabinet picks. The House speaker should stop him.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:16 AM