Kalle Nemvalts

Quorum breaking is an excellent start. Grab whatever levers of power you have. That’s what Republicans do.

The offshore detention gamble: A billion-dollar shift to Gitmo - Niskanen Center President Trump has announced plans to direct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to prepare a 30,000-person migrant detention center at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay. If implemented, the ...

How much did the Guantanamo refit cost?

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Breaking quorum is a great start. Situation reversed, Republicans would not hesitate.

Breaking quorum is a great move! It can work!

Sure. Procedural moves are good too. Republican procedural moves are no more legitimate than Democratic procedural moves, like breaking quorum.

Republicans always use whatever levers of power they have available.

Democrats also must always use whatever levers of power they have available.

Pretty simple really.

Republicans use whatever levers of power they have available.

Democrats must also use whatever levers of power they have available.

Pretty simple really.

Republicans use whatever levers of power they have available.

Democrats must also use whatever levers of power they have available.

Pretty simple really.

Republicans use whatever levers of power they have available.

Democrats must also use whatever levers of power they have available.

Pretty simple really.

Breaking quorum is no more an outre political power play than designing an extreme partisan gerrymander in the first place.

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Breaking quorum is no more an outre political power play than designing an extreme partisan gerrymander in the first place.

Abbott and Paxton are not inherently in a stronger legal position here.

It’s a political fight using the tools at hand.

Before anyone gets lost in the legal weeds of whether Abbott can force a gerrymander … in everyday terms Republicans are trying to STEAL THE ELECTION.

Republicans will do anything to steal elections. Sure the gerrymandering is “legal” but IT’S STILL STEALING ELECTIONS.

Compare the 2020 MAGA “Stop the Steal” movement, which had almost no legal cover — which lost most of its court cases.

Which one is the real steal?

‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored

Nothing to add.
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ICE’s Mind-Bogglingly Massive Blank Check Congress has appropriated billions with few strings attached, creating a likely windfall for well-connected firms.

Another massive source of Trumpist corruption. Trump cronies in private-prison industry given tons of money to lock people up. Incarceration state with big payoffs for insiders. Most disturbing news today. Possibly.

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Was Steve Jobs a genius? Is Elon Musk a genius? Is Jeff Bezos a genius? Is Zuckerberg a genius?

Who did the actual work?

Not being a doomer here nor a naive idealist but I find it useful to see the dominant political mode as criminal and to keep probing for cracks. The Trump narrative is already breaking down in various ways. Obvious corruption. Idiotic economics. Increasingly unpopular atrocities by ICE. Healthcare.

NYT does carry some actual reporting but I’m reaching a limit with this kind of bullshit. There are better news sources not trying to “balance” their Trump coverage.

Lashing Out Over Russia and Jobs Data, Trump Displays His Volatile Side

Ridiculous normalization of Trump when everything is broken.

“[O]n Friday [Trump] used his commander in chief powers to respond to baiting posts from one of Mr. Putin’s online attack dogs.”

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Republicans are stealing elections for real. Under some kind of “legal cover” but still stealing elections.

Not like the totally fake STOLEN ELECTION claims of 2020. And Trump’s claims of stolen elections were thrown out in court. No legal cover whatsoever.

MAGA are stealing elections for real.

Really stealing elections, not like the fake accusations of 2020 which were pushed and propagandized until they stuck.

MAGA are stealing elections. Keep saying it. Make it stick.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

This article about Dr Luke Kemp gives a way to look at the current world situation outside the framework of power politics and propaganda. It’s not about left vs right. More about egalitarianism vs zero-sum competition for resources. Very useful and important.
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If this drawing is anything like a final rendering for the “White House Bathroom” it’s an exact metaphor for Trump’s miserable existence — a delusional bubble isolated from the real world.

The bubble WILL burst.

I think Kemp is right that the whole criminal Xi-Putin-Trump-tech-AI-nukes-crypto-finance setup is headed for some kind of major crackup, maybe soon. Too much pressure on world resources. Looming environmental disasters.

The voices of egalitarians need to salvage something out of this mess.

MAGA 2020 screamed “stolen election” — baselessly — and kept hammering the message til it stuck.

Here MAGA is out in the open stealing elections. Where are the screams?

Sure they have “legal cover”. But this is a blatant steal. Why aren’t people loudly and persistently screaming STOLEN ELECTIONS?

Architectural atrocity plopped into a space where it doesn’t and cannot fit, with absolutely no consideration for surrounding public environment. A desecration of the People’s House. Any “architect” involved with such a travesty must be permanently banned from the profession and laughed out of town.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

“History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says. “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.”

Fortunately we still have equalitarian voices. Not L vs R. Equalitarian.
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Plop!