One accurate way of understanding this is that online extremists have direct contacts with the head of the FBI, who will fire the FBI agents they identify, even though it is against the law. Any principled agents who resist will also be fired.

Same pattern holds broadly across lots of the govt

Gut So, es ist eine Schande, dass sich Europas führerschaft nicht für die Rechte und Standards ihrer Bevölkerung stehen will.

And remember Europeans, if Trump
Is willing to help Russians kill Ukrainians today, he could do the same anywhere on the continent tomorrow.
Ukraine is the front line of Europe’s defense.

I think people forget that institutions don't really exist, they are just the people inside of them.

People who can and are being replaced.

IPCC SSP3 is a bad time

www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

But capture isn’t the end of the story. It’s the beginning of a reinforcement cycle that makes the institution more extreme over time, even without outside pressure.

Here’s how that loop works.