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@wdlindsy@toad.socialTrump "intends to send those he hates to foreign prisons beyond the reach of U.S. law. He does not care — he will not even seek to discover — if those he sends into these foreign hells are guilty of what he claims. Because this is not about their guilt — it is about his power."
~ Ezra Klein
#Trump #DOGE #tariffs #AbregoGarcia #power #authoritarianism #fascism
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https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17449825320140797757c9a82/raw
@wdlindsy@toad.socialAnd the puffed-up pomposity of Trump and his pretend-macho bully men is, as Myra Adams reminds us today, mirrored by his female disciples, his "MAGA mean girls" like Pam Bondi and Karoline Leavitt, who "have been 'liberating' America from its Constitution every day since Jan. 20."
#Trump #power #authoritarianism #fascism #masculinity #gender #PamBondi #KarolineLeavitt
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https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5254962-maga-mean-girls-are-trumps-loyal-foot-soldiers/
@wdlindsy@toad.social"He feels ashamed of his obesity, but instead of addressing it in a disciplined way, he orders his doctors to lie about it. And we have good reason to believe he doesn’t stack up to Arnold Palmer.
This would ideally be a problem for a therapist to address—but for our sins it’s become a problem for the country and the world."
@wdlindsy@toad.social"He’s never done manual labor—not for money, not for experience, not to help a friend move furniture from one apartment to another. He has no notable athletic accomplishments. He may be a decent golfer, but not as good as he claims, and he traverses the course in a cart, never on foot. He dodged the draft."
@wdlindsy@toad.social"Donald Trump is taken with manly men. He thinks about them a lot. They impress him. He’d deny it, because…well, for the obvious reason. ...
His mind is raining men, hallelujah. But not in a homoerotic way. This is how Trump processes his own soft-handed inadequacies.
~ Brian Beutler
#Trump #power #authoritarianism #fascism #masculinity
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https://www.offmessage.net/p/dont-let-soft-donald-trump-redefine
His ideas stem from personal insecurity, and you can…
Off Message @wdlindsy@toad.social"The tariffs, the treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the DOGE moves—they’re all fundamentally about the same thing" -- Trump's "thirst for one-man rule."
~ E.J. Dionne
Some 77 million Americans chose in the last election to hand the reins to power to a man eminently unsuited to hold those reins, since his inner emptiness is a matter of public record. Emptiness he hopes to cover with empty shows.
#Trump #DOGE #tariffs #AbregoGarcia #power #authoritarianism #fascism
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https://newrepublic.substack.com/p/trumps-tariff-madness-is-about-one
The tariffs, the treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia,…
The New RepublicFEMA 4/18/25 briefing mention of Puerto Rico power status.
Energy: 17k / -313k (<2%) customers in Puerto Rico are without power (Eagle-I, as of 7:30 a.m. ET)
Understanding the aesthetics of oligarchy can help us to see where their power comes from and maybe even do something about it....
https://youtu.be/Vh5PqBNit_c?si=BPXEwLd2UANgUUuy
#Socialism #Capitalism #Ideas #Ideals #Hope #Power #PeopleFirst #Politics #Aesthetics #Ideas #Philosophy #Bernie #UnitedStates #BernieSanders
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www.youtube.com#vendetta #politics using #mobster tactics. That's all this #criminal #administration can do. #Congress do your job and #impeach and #convict this #pos; put an end to such #illegal acts.
#impeach #government #USPolitics #defeatGOP #abuse #power
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-considering-blocking-trumps-order-193200625.html
‘Our moral intuitions about merit and personal worth are changing.’
an interview with Marion Fourcade about her book "The Ordinal Society" co-written by @kjhealy: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/23/from-uber-ratings-to-credit-scores-whats-lost-in-a-society-that-counts-and-sorts-everything/
#TheOrdinalSociety #concentration #merit #meritocracy #MarionFourcade #Fourcade #school #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #sociology #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #ranking #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #inequality #inequalities #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #power #socialControl #governance #regulation #rules #socialMedia #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #confidence #trust #dataDon
In her book, UC Berkeley sociology professor Marion…
Berkeley Newshttps://www.europesays.com/2002955/ Cyclone Tam live updates: Thousands to spend night without power, ferries and flights cancelled, roads submerged #across #And #being #cancelled #cause #continues #coromandel #Cyclone #extropical #ferries #flights #flooding #havoc #island #isolated #live #NewZealand #night #north #power #roads #spend #submerged #tam #thousands #TO #townships #updates #upper #without
The #authority to investigate & change #TaxExempt statuses rests solely w/ #IRS, & the president is BARRED from directly or indirectly requesting that the agency exercise that #power against taxpayers [including #universities].
Andrew De Mello, the IRS’s acting chief counsel, received the request Wed from ofcls in the #Treasury Dept…
The Trump admin has displaced numerous IRS leaders to empower political allies…
Trump on Tues [YESTERDAY] appointed Gary Shapley the agency’s acting commissioner….
A very good discussion with Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias and Karen Kramer on the #huntergatherer sexual division of labour debates, and why we impose our ideas about status for women. Do you imagine women need to hunt to have power?...because the Hadza wouldn't think so.
SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human · Episode
Spotify
On #organizations:
Here "Sociopaths" is a shorthand for the Protestant-Ethic will-to-power types who drive an organization to function despite itself.
"Among the Sociopaths, status is irrelevant. Table stakes and skill at using them is what matters. Sociopaths pay attention to what you have, and how well you bargain with it. Not who you are."
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/10/14/the-gervais-principle-iv-wonderful-human-beings/
#negotiating #office #merit #management #workCollectives #workCulture #power #tariffs #trade
It is not the desire for true riches that depraves man, but the desire for those that are false. A people never became corrupted for having grain, fruits, a pure air, better waters, more perfect arts, but for having gold, jewelry, subjects, power, a false renown, and an unjust superiority.
[Ce n’est pas le désir des vrais biens qui déprave l’homme, mais le désir de ceux qui sont faux. Jamais un peuple ne s’est corrompu, pour avoir du blé, des fruits, un air pur, des eaux meilleures, des arts plus parfaits, des femmes plus belles; mais pour avoir de l’or, des pierreries, des sujets, de la puissance, un faux renom et une injuste supériorité.]
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 16 “Des Mœurs publiques et privées; du Caractère des Nations [On Morality and the Character of Nations],” ¶ 39 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866), ch. 12]
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76205…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #corruption #depravity #desires #goods #luxury #needs #position #power #riches #satisfaction #truth #wealth
@spaceflight@spacey.space
#China could power ahead of the #US 
in the #MoonRace thanks to a few structural differences in its lunar base reactor. Minor structural adjustments could slash fuel consumption by 75 per cent 
while boosting #power output
and longevity. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3302163/chinese-nuclear-scientists-identify-flaw-nasas-lunar-reactor-design
China could power ahead of the US in the moon race…
South China Morning Posthttps://www.europesays.com/uk/?p=21784 NR7 Miner cloud mining adds 170,000 new users in a week through cloud computing power to mine Bitcoin #000 #170 #a #adds #bitcoin #cloud #Computing #in #Mine #Miner #Mining #New #NR7 #power #Technology #through #to #UK #UnitedKingdom #users #week
The next round of talks between the United States with Iran over the Middle Eastern country’s nuclear ambitions may take place in Italy. Read more from @euronews
https://flip.it/RwjOkk
#Iran #US #Nuclear #MiddleEast #Power
#MontyPython “Well, I didn’t #vote for you.” – Peasant Woman to King Arthur. But... Every Day we read this - 'This is the crisis moment': Political scientist says Trump crossed a crucial red line (April 14) - No he crossed it on Jan 20 and every day thereafter #media #journalism #corruption #power #blackmail #access #democracy #government #maga #politics #freedom #censorship #deportation #immigration #education #climate #healthcare #measles #economy #finance #insidertrading #wallstreet #markets