Simmon Li (he/him)

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This is important to pay attention to. Trump's saying the quiet part of the plan out loud. With the midterms increasingly looking like a bloodbath for the GOP, he's calling on the Republicans to take over the election. This is what an attempt to end democracy looks like. Read @ariberman.bsky.social

Trump goes public with plan to "take over" elections

After the FBI seized 700 boxes of ballots in Georgia, the president calls on Republicans to assert control over voting "in at least 15 places.”

motherjones.com

I used an LLM to summarize my daily notes from 2025, and it's cool to get back a high level prespective on the year. Supplemented it with git history, and it was actually quite insightful!

51% of Canadians believe the government should approach the United States as a threat or as an enemy. Far fewer now see it as a friend or ally. Canadians have a less favourable view of the US than India, a country which murdered Canadian citizens on Canadian soil.

As of March 2025, 13% of Canadians see the United States as an enemy and another 38% see it as a potential threat.

It's actually amazing how quickly the institutions of American democracy have toppled over. We're watching America barrel into a constitutional crisis of a magnitude of which I don't think is appreciated in mainstream media (Manufactured Consent and all)...

We want everyone to just pause, and reflect on this post. Someone wanted a history of chicken nuggets. They GOT a history of chicken nuggets. This is why AskHistorians exist. Human curiosity is a wonderful thing, and historians are wonderful things.

AskHistorians@askhistorians.bsky.social · 2y ago

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