@ml8ml8

The Executive Branch Officers who carried this out breached their duty to support the US Constitution and should be Impeached and removed from office.

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Did I mention that Trump's foolish policies would materially impact tourism to the US? Probably no big deal, travel and tourism is only ... [checks notes] ... 3% directly and 10% indirectly of US GDP.

Note: The liberal world order is not fading because of the folly of one raging narcisist, and it's all too easy to predict it will make a roaring comeback.

European countries make lots of weapons.

But they still rely on the the U.S. for intelligence, logistics, communications and command-and-control. Detaching from that reliance will be time-consuming and expensive.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

China Watchers Are Trying to Spot the Next Target of Xi’s Purges “Pekingologists” are hunting for clues in seating arrangements and funeral wreaths to determine which officials are in trouble.

China’s recent announcement that it was investigating its top military general was a bombshell with a mystery at its heart: What pushed Xi Jinping to purge a friend?

Nuke-talk is heating up among Europeans in Munich ‘Nuclear deterrence can give us new opportunities. Why not?’ Latvian PM tells POLITICO.

Multiple European countries are publicly backing talks on a homegrown nuclear deterrent to complement American atomic weapons following an erosion of trust in a Donald Trump-led U.S.

Ottawa’s shift away from US defence manufacturers aims to create 125,000 jobs ‘Buy Canadian’ strategy will raise military spending to 5 per cent of GDP and boost economy, new plan says

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Israel’s Wartime Brain Drain Raises Fears of Permanent Exodus An economy built on tech success watches nervously as high-skilled, high-earners leave the country, and expats hesitate to return.

With many Israelis tired of war and religious nationalism on the rise, economists are warning of a potentially irreversible brain drain.

TikTok’s Chinese Parent Has an App to Replace Hollywood ByteDance’s AI-video creator draws buzz for its realistic scenes and a backlash over privacy and copyright.

The company behind TikTok has developed an AI model that can turn a text prompt into a high-quality video with a story line, scene changes and distinctive characters on.wsj.com/4ajIf9j

This is really going to help the US.
Nice work, Trump, making Europe again.

With Donald Trump’s second presidency giving European hardline conservatives a powerful champion, groups on both sides of the Atlantic want to seize the moment.

Their goal? To repurpose America’s soft-power tools to rebuild the West in their image.

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The Human Toll of Trump’s Cuba Policy Washington wants political change in Havana. Ordinary people are paying the price.

Washington wants political change in Havana. Ordinary people are paying the price.

Google sued by Autodesk over AI-powered movie-making software Google has been sued by Autodesk for allegedly infringing its "Flow" trademark to market competing AI-enabled software used to make movies, TV shows and video games.

autodesk, which has been using FLOW as a trademark for its production management & video effects software since 2022, sued google for trademark infringement over its use of FLOW for its AI-powered movie-making software targeting the same consumers

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Seems important.

This statement by SecDHS Noem is evidence of criminal conduct.

Billionaire Angela Chao, sister-in-law of Mitch McConnell, died after Tesla went into pond She died on a Texas ranch last month after her car went into a pond and became submerged in water for an extended period of time

Also “deep pools” feels like an accusation that it wasn’t an accident when Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law drowned two years ago…

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Apparently it's OK to run regime changes now.
#MakeNationBuildingGreatAgain

She determined to retire rather than be Sached.

Apparently "indicting" foreign leaders is the easy way to defeat the War Powers Act and the US Constitution's grant of war-making powers to Congress.

The guidance was a bit more nuanced than Grassley suggests
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YouTube video by Veritasium The World's Most Important Machine

Chips are currently in humanities' inner most loop (intelligence, physics, power, chips, AI) of the race to AGI. If you don't know the Dutch company ASML and why they are so important or if you just like engineering and science, here's a cool video.
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when you're superbowl ad backfires.
#AllYourPrivacyIsOurs

YouTube video by This American Life What Is Your Emergency? | This American Life | Episode 880

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Yet another wild situation, created by ICE, in which ICE then calls 911 to demand local law enforcement help them with their chaos. This American Life did a phenomenal and startling show about this technique ICE uses.

So many conflicting yet durable trends both on the inflationary and deflationary sides.

PW Paul Wilson • 38 min ago There's nothing hypocritical about Ratcliffe complaining about immigrants while at the same time employing mostly foreign players at Manchester Utd. They are skilled immigrants. He's talking about the type of immigrants that do nothing and cost a fortune, like the ones at Spurs. Reply Like 20 Report

Final word on Ratcliffe

Seems important? Merz is no longer willing to rely on the US deterrent alone and building security within the EU.

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Public relations and the attention economy are so vital to way the world works. Meta plans to re-re-launch it's societal shaping product, but needs to do it at a carefully chosen time when critics are distracted. The problem? The invasion of personal privacy is a durable issue, it's not going away.

$40 billion dollars is alot of money. Like, alot alot.