politics
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There are at least two obvious ways to imagine Donald Trump trying to remain president after 2028. The first is the constitutional loophole: someone close to him — perhaps one of his children — runs for president with Trump as vice president, wins, t...
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Bernie is right . If healthcare, decent wages, taxing billionaires and protecting workers are now “radical” or “extreme”, then the current US administration is practicing something much closer to state terror against its own population. Americans ar...
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I don’t follow the games but I do follow US politics and obviously the Trump regime wouldn’t miss that one. FIFA loves to pretend football and politics should never mix. Adorable. By allowing the U.S. government to treat Iran as a political target du...
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There is something almost absurd in the way British politics often behaves as though replacing the Prime Minister will somehow solve the country’s deeper problems. The ritual has become familiar. A Prime Minister arrives with promises of renewal, ref...
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Gotta read about this when I have some time…
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Listening how Trump has lost the Iran war hawks
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A nation (🇺🇸) whose national security strategy recently warned Europe of “civilizational erasure” may actually fear its own.
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I was born and grew up inside an authoritarian Tibetan Buddhist hippie community that slowly revealed itself to be a cult . Why am I telling you this? Because once you have lived inside a coercive system, you begin to recognize patterns that others m...
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Well… I have serious doubts about this US decided to attack because Israel was already doing it and the US didn’t want to suffer a “blow” without also blowing things on its own Trump regime is stuck with a “partner” that is as rogue as the Trump regi...
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TL;DR The recent State of the Union spectacle was not just political theater. It reflects a deeper degeneration of representative democracy, where language is weaponized, institutions are hollowed out, and psychological mechanisms similar to cult dyn...
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One day history will note that it was not only Big Tech that cooperated with and was co-opted by the U.S. government, but the entire American establishment across sectors. The degree of compromise was pervasive. The silence of those who went along wi...
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“Let’s just call this what it is: Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK? He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a lo...
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Actually, even after Trump is gone the descent to hell will continue, the Vance’s and other neofascist elements of American Politics are just going to increase and for anyone following US politics, what will come after Trump may even be worse. there...
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I am watching ICE agents shoot a nurse in Minneapolis, and half the country believes the verified video of his previous encounter with federal agents is a deepfake. I am watching the infrastructure of verification get systematically dismantled by an...
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The sole revelations to be found in “Melania” are about how brazen the Trumps are and about their all encompassing, incredible lack of self awareness.
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Venezuela : the precedents by Snyder
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let me rephrase that title : Big Tech basically flipped their script and bowed to the King (other images come to mind but would be very vulgar) arstechnica.com/tech-poli…
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it wouldn’t be roasting, perhaps Trump wouldn’t even be elected in the first place. I feel like even the best comedians, commentators and opinionated individuals out there, all those not losing their north star, would greatly appreciate it if anythin...
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“A senior security engineer at a major European bank recently told me (off the record, obviously) that their “next-generation threat detection system” was producing better results than anything they’d used before. Only later did they discover that th...
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Assine a Petição para libertar Joseph Figueira Martin Em 26 de maio de 2024, Joseph Figueira Martin, um humanitário belga-português, foi preso em Zémio, uma cidade no leste da República Centro-Africana. Bélgica e Portugal têm que tomar ação! #Wagner
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Sign The Petition to free Joseph Figueira Martin On 26 May 2024, Joseph Figueira Martin, a Belgian-Portuguese humanitarian, was arrested in Zémio, a town in the east of the Central African Republic. Portugal and Belgium must act!
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Le comble de notre époque : après des décennies de perte de souveraineté économique, financière et technologique, l’Europe, les États-Unis et d’autres puissances prétendent la « récupérer » en fermant leurs frontières. Mais pas aux marchandises, pas...
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The Groyper Wars The seriousness of this story is rivaled only by its dizzying stupidity. www.webworm.co/groyperwa…
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On MAGA factions and the meme wars of 2025 and beyond : This is a PHD/level breakdown of the two alt-right movements set out to destroy each other and the rest of the USA in the process. The creator is Cy Canterel. On my reading list : Lost in the Ki...
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Chris Hedge on Kirk death “Martyrs are the lifeblood of violent movements. Any flinching over the use of violence, any talk of compassion or understanding, any effort to mediate or discuss, is a betrayal of the martyr and the cause the martyr died de...
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Aux États-Unis, l’administration Trump a marqué un tournant idéologique majeur. Sous couvert de réformes et de moralité, elle a mené une véritable offensive contre l’autonomie des femmes: remise en cause du droit à l’avortement, pressions sur les fin...
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The core problem in the 🇺🇸 right now is trust in information, democracy, institutions. Whatever is put forward, whether a “manifesto,” “killer’s note,” or shooting suspect’s story, no matter what the authorities claim, the public has come to believ...
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US of A: Soft-Secession ? “Meanwhile, red states pocket $1.24 for every dollar they send to Washington. Blue states are essentially paying red states to undermine democracy.” Interesting read … cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-tim…
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Fascist Amerika youtu.be/xuSNmjqY2… #ICE #GESTAPO
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Aucune puissance étrangère, russe, chinoise ou autre, n’aurait pu rêver de causer autant de tort à l’Occident que ce qui est permis de l’intérieur, entre des dirigeants à courte vue, des élites déconnectées et des électeurs inconscients des conséquen...
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No outside power, either Russian, Chinese, or otherwise, could dream of doing as much damage to the West as what’s being allowed/enabled from within, whether through short-sighted politicians, disconnected elites, or voters making choices without und...
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They did not break it with tanks. They did not need to. They used pens. Laws. Procedures. Deadlines. They said it was temporary. They said it was just to restore order. They said it was for the people. The people nodded. They wanted quiet. The Consti...
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In 2025, the strongest front against the Trump administration isn’t in city squares or union halls — it’s late‑night satire, South Park , Bluesky threads, YouTube monologues and shared memes. Street protests have surged, but for many immigrants and c...
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Excellent recap on The Epstein File Fiasco. This isn’t some wild conspiracy — it’s a damning showcase of institutional failure and a blatant cover-up masquerading as justice." by LegalEagle
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Migration to another country, especially one a fair distance away, isn’t undertaken by people who are truly destitute or who lack ambition. It requires resources, documents, connections. Having the will to leave, to seek out something new and leave e...
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Based on the book #Apple in #China Apple’s China Crisis - $1 Trillion Payment To Xi Jinping Exposed TLDR : There is no Exit door for Apple in China and the hardcore dependency has now become a geopolitical risk for both the US and Apple. Maybe Apple...
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Tout le magazine en vaut le coup, mais ce passage m’a marqué : “De la guerre anti-genre à la suppression du financement des universités, de la glorification de la destruction de #Gaza par Israël au rejet d’un pouvoir judiciaire indépendant, les nouve...
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When your Middle East policy is basically a horoscope with nukes. “We don’t really know, but trust us.”
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Publié le 6 juin 2025 « Le parasite se nourrit jusqu’à l’effondrement de l’hôte. Ensuite, il passe au suivant. Mais que se passe-t-il quand il n’y a plus rien à infester ? » — Notes d’autopsie politique, États-Unis, 2025 Trump et Musk ne sont pas des...
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Published: June 6, 2025 “The parasite feeds until the host collapses. Then it moves on. But what if there’s nowhere left to go?” — Political autopsy notes, United States, 2025 Trump and Musk are not opposites. They are not enemies. They are co-feeder...
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An NBC News and Get Real Security [analysis]( www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech… /internet-thinks-video-gaza-ai-s-proved-isnt-rcna209617) found no evidence of AI generation or manipulation in the video of people waiting for food in Rafah. #Gaza
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Ce livre est absolument captivant. #AppleInChina L’un des passages les plus saisissants montre comment la Chine a absorbé le savoir-faire d’Apple pour devenir la puissance technologique qu’on connaît aujourd’hui — au prix de l’écrasement de sa main-d...
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Absolutely not surprised by Musk exit from US government role. The Tax bill is just an excuse Musk is just groking how foolish, naive and ignorant his whole approach was and cannot phantom the idea that he failed, so he’s using the Tax bill to exit ....
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Réduire au silence par dessein : comment les algorithmes effacent la réalité Depuis quelque temps, mais surtout entre 2020 et 2025, nous assistons à une normalisation inquiétante de l’auto-censure collective. Non pas au nom de la sécurité ou de la se...
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Muted by Design: How Algorithms Erase Outcry Between 2020 and 2025, we witnessed the troubling normalization of self-censorship by design. Not in the name of safety or sensitivity, but to appease opaque algorithmic systems—systems that suppress certa...
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Une dérive sectaire à l’échelle sociétale se manifeste lorsque des événements aussi graves qu’un génocide peuvent se produire sans réaction collective, du fait d’un climat où toute critique devient risquée et peut être perçue comme une prise de posit...
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Quand une société sombre dans une dérive sectaire, elle finit par tolérer l’intolérable. Un génocide peut alors avoir lieu dans l’indifférence générale, car le dénoncer, c’est s’exposer à être cloué au pilori, accusé d’antisémitisme. Voilà le constat...
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Il est des dérives sectaires qui ne s’épanouissent plus dans de petits cercles, mais dans l’entièreté d’une société. Elles anesthésient les consciences au point qu’un génocide peut se produire dans un silence feutré, presque consenti — car s’en indig...
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