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Budapest Memorandum - Wikipedia
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March 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I think we can now conclude that Marx erred in thinking that Capitalism would evolve into Socialism. We know now that Capitalism evolves back into Feudalism!
February 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
How can we help the civil servants who are resisting? They're the only thing standing between us and a form of totalitarianism that Hitler and Stalin could only dream of.
Civil servants, judges and scientists who are resisting are the true heroes of the moment!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Civil servants are leading the American resistance – with GameStop as a guide | Virginia Heffernan
As Elon Musk tries to drive them out, federal workers are initiating a short squeeze on the broligarchy
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It's what the Germans came to call "Gleichschaltung".
February 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Trump handed massive tax cuts to the rich in 2017. Now he's planning even more cuts.

How are Trump and MAGA Republicans planning to pay for them?

By making it harder for millions of Americans to access Medicaid, food stamps, and other federal programs.

Trickle up economics.
February 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Good news! They're faking the deportation reports to appeal to their racist base.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations
Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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16 of the 26 Day One executive orders signed by Trump were ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.

Russ Vought, an architect of Project 2025, testifies before the Senate today as Trump's OMB nominee.

Project 2025 was always the MAGA agenda.
Trump’s First Orders Parrot Project 2025 Manifesto He Disavowed
After distancing himself from the corporate policy agenda during his campaign, President Donald Trump is issuing executive orders torn straight from its pages.
www.levernews.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Lawsuits are going to be off the charts these next few years.
This.👇🏻 #WHO
January 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The curtain rises. So far much chauvinistic showmanship with unclear efficacy.
January 21, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Desperately needed electoral reform: proportional representation.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem (Gift Article)
Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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2024 was the world's warmest year on record, but we still have Republicans claiming the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil and other polluters.

What planet are they living on?
Last year was the hottest in Earth's recorded history
NASA found that 2024 was hotter than any other year since at least 1880. Previously, 2023 had been considered the warmest on record.
www.nbcnews.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Do you see what they’re doing? Tell me you do.
November 22, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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Today, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez proposed a new task for to look at electoral reforms which could break up the two party system in Congress, expand the number of House districts, and move the House to a form of proportional representation.

It's a very, very good idea.
Blue Dogs Propose New Task Force to Look at ‘Winner-Take-All’ Election System
The bipartisan task force would investigate structural reforms like multimember districts and adding more House members in an effort to address growing polarization and distrust of Congress.
www.notus.org
November 19, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Most insightful analysis I've seen on the Democrats' debacle. Progressives do have answers in the form of the Green New Deal. The party bureaucracy, however, has sidelined the proponents of the Green New Deal until now the majority in the US prefer dictatorship. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Behind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis | Nesrine Malik
As authoritarians triumph by lying and scapegoating, there is no hope for centrists doubling down on a broken neoliberal system, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:28 PM