We already know how Trump likes to re-write history. The Epstein re-write may be far enough along to stand up to scrutiny, hence the turnaround. Or at least, he thinks so.

Jeffrey Epstein was a conduit, a facilitator, a "scrounger". But apart from "the girls", we don't know what else he was trading?

In the pretzel logic of the Hegsethorized Pentagon, small speedboats that may or may not be carrying Colombian cocaine, are enemy combatants subject to lethal force because they pose a threat, but it's not warfare because they are defenseless. And a prextext for assault on Venezuela (oilfields).

Of course. These trends have been in the works for decades, what Huxley and Orwell warned us about. But this technological triad - Artificial Intelligence, robotics, virtual reality - are peaking all at once. We haven't begun to consider the consequences.

A Minimum Basic Income, despite it's political/ideological complications, the dreaded "socialism", will nonetheless become essential in maintaining a consumer-driven economy. They can't just sell goods to other billionaires. They need consumers with money to spend.

DIRTY SECRET: The authoritarian tech billionaires, who have engineered a corporatist "hostile takeover" of the US government behind the carnival tent facade of Trump, have a vision of the future in which a third of the human workforce will be replaced by AI and robotics within a decade. Imagine it.

The nightmare scenario is the 'surveillance state', AI and facial-regognition databases eliminate rights of privacy in the name of fighting crime. AI & robotics replace millions of jobs, workers retreat into virtual-reality coccoons. Isolation. Conformity. Control.

Diversity is and always has been America's greatest strength and prosperity its greatest export. We haven't always been good at spreading either, but it's the hope of opportunity and justice at the heart of the American dream that is now at risk.

After the supposedly misleading editing of Kamala Harris by "60 Minutes" that led to the $16 million settlement, Trump was fine with their editing out his own meandering gibberish.

No strings.

Scarier still: ICE and CBP are now using "Mobile Fortify" facial-recognition software to instantly determine identity, citizenship and immigration status in randon stops of civilians.

It's the obligation of media to inform, not to just take temperatures.

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