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  • Pentagon draws up rules on possible use of force by Marines deployed to LA protests

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  • I have a sinking suspicion the Washington parade is an excuse to bring in a permanent military force to prevent anything like the January 6th events from happening again.

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  • Or, you know, parents could actually use parental controls.

  • Netflix Puts AI Ads in Paid Tier: Pirate Everything at This Point

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  • You may want to watch the newest season of Black Mirror

  • European tourism to the USA in free fall

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  • At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if you are trans-atlantic, their DEI policy mistakes this for something LGBT-related and you face automatic detention.

  • Trump Administration Sends More Migrants to El Salvador Despite Ongoing Legal Fight Over Deportations: Sunday's flight comes despite a judge temporarily blocking the deportations

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  • The Nazi regime chose to build most of their concentration camps in nearby compliant/dominated countries as well.

  • Elon Musk says xAI has acquired X in deal that values social media site at $33 billion

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  • I used to think it was a straight market manipulation to short the market, coupled with a crypto scam.

    Here's my latest prediction for the next step: as well as being a geopolitical tool, I think they plan to use Trump's tariffs as a way to funnel more tax revenue into US Government to be directly laundered for themselves personally. The reduced order volume doesn't matter to them because 25%, 50%, 100% or whatever tariff they charge goods and services will go straight to the US government to be compliantly fed into Musk's ever-expanding business interests via government contracts. Some of those in the loop get vested stock options and get to run away with exponentially more money than they would without tariffs. Musk has already paid his dues so probably thinks they owe him.

    They already tried to alter an agreement for 480,000 contract to Tesla for armed cybertrucks to be 480,000,000 and backdated it to look like it was agreed by Biden last year.

    I expect to see a multi-billion AI contract awarded solely to xAI in the near future.

  • Climate Change Is Fueling a Mental Health Crisis Among Adolescents

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  • Not just adolescents.

  • UK: Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein wants to list on the London Stock Exchange, but claims of abuse and links to China are causing the Government a headache

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  • Heaven forbid someone in Whitehall gets a headache. Won't someone please think of the beaurocrats!

  • Reminder that an alternative for Starlink is needed, exchange between Musk and the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs

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  • Look at it this way, if they did indeed arrest and frame an innocent man for convenience, maybe he will.

  • After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say

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  • Ah...balls.

  • After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say

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  • Fair point, but potential returns are massive, and if they were targeting likely evaders , they could compound the money spent on manual checks (a list of high ranking Republican members might be a good place to start)

  • After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say

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  • I may be behind, have they installed a Republican shill in directorship in the IRS as well as defunding them? If not, then they should still have agency in fund allocation

  • After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say

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  • They should have cut all IRS investigations except the wealthy.

  • Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’

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  • The USA was formed to screw Great Britain. What goes around comes around.

  • ‘Uber for Armed Guards’ Rushes to Market Following the Assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO

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  • This is where they find out that it is very difficult to tell the difference between apolitical bodyguards and anti-capitalists with a gym membership.

  • In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico

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  • Since Trump is slang for fart in UK, I propose it be re-renamed to Guff of America in his honour. I bet he wouldn't even notice.

  • Donald Trump is not joking about making Canada the 51st state, Justin Trudeau warns in hot mic comments

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  • I mean Trump has literally forced both Canada and Mexico to move a standing army in the thousands to the borders now, so I see he is not wasting time with this casus belli.

  • FBI agents file class action suit against Trump’s DOJ over ‘retribution’

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  • I agree, at least people are doing something. I just know that it's not enough, and its sad to sit across the Atlantic and see it all unfold in slow motion day after day. The Republican party aren't following the rulebook, running roughshod over countless historic conventions, firing people they have no right to fire, taken control of agencies responsible for paying employees. There is only a small window now before they take complete control of federal agencies. The opposition would need to also stop playing by the rulebook to even stand a chance.

    Project 2025 is like the military leaders from 1914 from the European nations that were desperate to put their untested war doctrines to the test, waiting for the excuse to do it. They have the manual. They have the machinery in place and someone has turned it on. They have thousands of people dedicated to seeing this plan through in official positions of power now, each with their own small but significant part to play in the takeover. I have a feeling it is now nearly impossible to turn it off.

    I really hope those opposed to the takeover have the conviction to stop what's coming, but I don't think they grasp even now what it will take to stop it now. There's an underlying assumption by key opposition figures that this will play out like a Hollywood storyline and giving big speeches with the right words will mean the Constitution and other existing legislation will save them. Trump's cabal didn't follow the law before, so it will do nothing to stop them now.

  • FBI agents file class action suit against Trump’s DOJ over ‘retribution’

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  • Civil lawsuits against a taxpayer-funded administration and the richest man in the world aren't going to touch the sides during this blitzkreig coup. Immediate intervention with arrests and sanctions, combined with widespread unrest from local authorities and public protests are likely to be the only way anything will change now, and it would have to happen soon, before Elon breaks into the final remaining departments to take over.