Trump Signs Order to Approve Mining Road Through Alaskan Wilderness

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Cyclist Aurélien Fontenoy is now the fastest athlete to climb to the second floor of the Eiffel Tower on an all-terrain bike. The athlete beat the previous record by almost seven minutes.

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Kash Patel’s Challenge Coin Is Perfect for Him The FBI director has created a memento that symbolizes his unfitness.

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Kash Patel made a challenge coin. Because when you can’t earn respect, you can always mint it. 🪙

In an autocratic system every leader gets to have a challenge coin

Trump’s regulators are working on the biggest overhaul of U.S. capital rules since the 2008 recession Six industry sources said big banks are optimistic that the sweeping overhaul will result in their capital levels remaining flat.

"As President Donald Trump's regulators revamp bank rules, big lenders expect their capital requirements could fall." f-st.co/Bt5LVzu

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin

Malignant narcissism at its best!

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

Can someone tell me if Jane Goodall and Donald Trump are members of the same species?

Answer: Benny Johnson who, in addition to his well documented hate mongering was fired by BuzzFeed after a review found 41 instances of plagiarism in his work, where he copied sentences and phrases without attribution from sources like Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia.

A quote from Kasparov’s book, Winter is Coming: “Somehow people always forget that it’s much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.”

Americans would do well to pay attention to those who witnessed their country’s march to authoritarianism.

“The Constitution is a piece of paper. It is a remarkable and world-changing piece of paper, but its power has endured only because Americans have historically been willing to fight and die for the principles it codifies,” writes, Gary Kasparov in the Atlantic.

Multiple-choice question: who said the following?

“May we pray that our rulers here—rightfully instituted and given power by our God—wield the sword for the terror of evil men in our nation.”

a. Saddam Hussein.
b. Muammar Gaddafi
c. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.

How the military plans to eliminate black servicemen from the armed forces: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Imagine dedicating your life to your lack of patience!

This Frustrated New York Pedestrian Calls Out Bad Walkers

This Frustrated New York Pedestrian Calls Out Bad Walkers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/n...

Franklin uttered the phrase on this very date (September 17), the last day of the Constitutional Convention, in 1787

“Freedom is slavery.”
- George Orwell

How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System

How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

There will be 10 survivors speaking on the 3rd.

To be clear: This executive order about architecture is not simply about “preference.” History shows that autocrats prefer classical-style architecture because it projects power, permanence, and historical legitimacy while suppressing dissenting aesthetics. It’s not about taste—it is about control.

Architecture under these regimes effectively became a mandated political tool—an extension of state power and identity.

Under Stalin, the USSR adopted Stalinist architecture—a grand, imperial, neoclassical style dubbed “socialist classicism”—that reflected state ideology and power

Hitler and his administration systematically suppressed modernist movements (like Bauhaus) and enforced classical, heroic-realism styles as the state-approved aesthetic. Modernist, abstract, or avant-garde architecture was deemed “degenerate” and effectively outlawed.

Molly Ivins, dressed in a sort of satin blouse with a neckthing that I'm going to call a scarf?. She's smiling with every cell in her body. Beaming radiantly the joy of being righteous and kind at the same time. Her eyes closed almost to a squint, and every pearly white on display. Gods bless you, Molly, you were a hell of a person.

My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote:
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."

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The Quiet Breakaway: How US Governors In 12 States Are Practicing Coordinated “Soft Secession” From Trump's America— Legally Governors, attorneys general, and mayors are quietly building a democratic firewall — one policy shield at a time. And it has a name: "Soft Secession"

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