Dave Secrest

We stupidly underestimate other nations built on the foundations of great civilizations last have lasted for millennia.
China.
Iran (Persia).
Japan.
Etc.
We are petulant infants on the wheel of civilization.

We stupidly underestimate other nations built on the foundations of great civilizations last have lasted for millennia.
China.
Iran (Persia).
Japan.
Etc.
We are petulant infants on the wheel of civilization

Who foresaw the Chinese Communist party becoming a force for stability that makes the current U.S. government look like armed, drunken, brawling sailors on leave?

Get ready for Fetterman Jr. in Maine unless the D governor fends him off… yeah she’s older, but reliably D and gets shit done.

The Last Institution Standing When History Rhymes: A Weekly Reckoning

Trump just tried to financially destroy Anthropic for refusing to enable autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
CEO Amodei’s response was remarkable, publicly stating the government’s order is legally suspect, and that compliance may be a choice, not a compulsion.
Analysis:

The United States government is currently covering up evidence the President sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl and is demanding every AI company allow their products to be utilized for mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous weapons systems.

Not great!

The National SecurityAdvisor and Secretary of State looks pretty “coked up” here.
The Secretary of Defense is an immature drunk.
The Director of the FBI is, too.
It figures.
There’s a deranged, demented, malignantly narcissistic nihilist and pedophile is in the Oval Office.
What have we done?

Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

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MAGA Is Coming for the People Who Can Stop Them The new elections executive order isn’t about voter fraud. It’s about dismantling the organizations that fought back — and it could work.

The first elections EO tried to rewrite the rules.
Courts blocked it.
The second one targets the organizations that won in court.
You don’t beat them in court.
You run out the clock.
Full analysis:
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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

This is now the Soul of America … on MAGA.
Enough.
Free the children.
Send the monsters in control of your government, that you pay, who work for you, straight to Hell, where they belong.
Vote.
We need 100 million votes to send them away in November.

Knowledge Base - EPSTEIN WIKI EpsteinWiki is a publicly accessible research archive organizing the full evidentiary record of the Jeffrey Epstein network — criminal cases, civil

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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

When Safety Becomes Sedition The Pentagon is threatening a private corporation with destruction in order to force it to build a capability specifically designed to violate the constitutional rights of every American.

The Pentagon told Anthropic: remove your restrictions on domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons by Friday or we destroy you commercially. Anthropic said no.
Here is what is at stake:

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When Safety Becomes Sedition The Pentagon is threatening a private corporation with destruction in order to force it to build a capability specifically designed to violate the constitutional rights of every American.

The Pentagon told Anthropic: remove your restrictions on domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons by Friday or we destroy you commercially. Anthropic said no. Here is what is actually at stake.
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When Safety Becomes Sedition The Pentagon is threatening a private corporation with destruction in order to force it to build a capability specifically designed to violate the constitutional rights of every American.

7/ The full five-level consequence cascade; including what this means for every allied government using American AI infrastructure and why this is the first frictionless surveillance architecture in human history- is in this week’s newsletter.
The deadline is today.
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6/ What a total Pentagon win looks like:
Claude cleared for domestic surveillance w/ no guardrails, integrated w/ Palantir’s data aggregation architecture, available now, at scale, to scan billions of conversations & detect forming dissent.
Not hypothetical.
Present capability pending authorization.

5/ A senior Pentagon official said it plainly: “We are going to make sure they pay a price for forcing our hand like this.” That’s on the record. That’s the government stating its intent to destroy a private company for refusing to build a domestic surveillance instrument.

4/ The Pentagon’s threat isn’t just contract cancellation. It’s supply chain designation that would make every company doing business with the military to certify it cut ties with Anthropic. 8 of 10 largest U.S. companies use Claude. Financial destruction as punishment for constitutional resistance.

3/ The two lines Anthropic won’t cross: AI-assisted autonomous kill decisions, and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens. These aren’t ideology. There’s no statute authorizing military mass surveillance of Americans. The Fourth Amendment hasn’t been rewritten. Yet.

2/ The specific demand is that Claude be available for “all lawful purposes.” That phrase is doing catastrophic work. Lawful is defined by whoever controls the law. This administration has already shown it intends to control the definition of lawful in every domain it touches.

Thread:
1/ The Pentagon told Anthropic: remove your restrictions on domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons by Friday or we destroy you commercially. Anthropic said no. Here is what is actually at stake.

5/ A senior Pentagon official said it plainly: “We are going to make sure they pay a price for forcing our hand like this.” That’s on the record. That’s the government stating its intent to destroy a private company for refusing to build a domestic surveillance instrument.

4/ The Pentagon’s threat isn’t just contract cancellation. It’s a supply chain designation that would require every company doing business with the military to certify it cut ties with Anthropic. 8 of 10 largest U.S. companies use Claude. That’s commercial destruction as punishment for resistance.

3/ The two lines Anthropic won’t cross: AI-assisted autonomous kill decisions, and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens. These aren’t ideology. There’s no statute authorizing military mass surveillance of Americans. The Fourth Amendment hasn’t been rewritten. Yet.

Next, he’ll be talking about “the nuclear.“
“It’s big, very big. Bigger than most people understand. No one’s really ever understood how big it was. Very powerful.”

The Cannon Problem Has a Solution: Appeal, Recusal, and Why Major Media Must Act Now The independence of the press is not an abstraction. It is a structural prerequisite for democratic accountability.

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The Cannon Problem Has a Solution: Appeal, Recusal, and Why Major Media Must Act Now The independence of the press is not an abstraction. It is a structural prerequisite for democratic accountability.

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Judge Cannon’s Secrecy Order Demands a Combined Appeal and Recusal Motion. Here’s Why. This morning, U.S.

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The War They Can’t Explain On the eve of a potential war with Iran, the administration that already bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities cannot tell you — or Congress — why it needs to do so again. That silence is the story.

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