Brian Klaas: “The United States is now a competitive authoritarian system” - EUROPP Is the United States still a democracy? It is either a democracy in crisis, or one that has tipped over the edge into competitive authoritarianism.

We’ve got to face reality. We have got to recognize that our task is to bring back America’s liberal democracy, not merely to save it.

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WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances It reads: "This man is your FRIEND He fights for FREEDOM" The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

Goes without saying that this is an illegal order that military commanders are bound to disobey.

Hmm...

Read every word of this.

Millions of Californians can now be profiled by the color of their skin and the language they speak, thanks to the Supreme Court.

This is not the slippery slope. We are already on the slide towards dictatorship.

Why don't you wear a suit? Do you own a suit?

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I also made an updated version of both, one of which has a plain white background
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Updated versions of my previous California ARNG ORBAT of the 40th Armored Brigade (Separate) in 1971. This has fixed the spelling mistakes and I made a version with just a white background #ORBATboys

I don’t hold any copyright on the image so it can absolutely be added to the CalGuard’s page

Thanks!

Elon using the social media platform he owns to DM random women with the promises of financial rewards to have his children so he can create a compound filled with women in Texas is the sort of thing that sounds like it should be a QAnon conspiracy instead of being a real story from WSJ.

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The document I used as a guide can be found here:

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#ORBATboys I created an ORBAT for the 40th Armored Brigade of the California ARNG as it was in 1971, according to an Annual Field Training document. According to this document, the Brigade had a strength of 3,915. This document came from the California State Military Museum.

3 years ago what Russians did in Bucha was uncovered, and it is now our responsibility to never let the world forget

CNN is basically just TASS at this point

This guy got cnn airtime yesterday

France is racing to accelerate defense production, more than doubling its output of Rafales, AASMs, anti-tank missiles, and drones.

French MOD Lecornu confirmed in an interview yesterday that French companies were working on civil-military production partnerships to do so.