It is not a matter of impotence; rather, they participated in the corruption and facilitated it. This situation underscores the fragility of democracy, as all checks and balances were disregarded to enable financial gain for themselves.

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Anyone Seen Mitch McTurtle.....🐢

Didn’t this pipsqueak just claim this Congress to be the most productive & aggressive (whatever that means) one ever? What fucking lunacy!

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 21h ago

A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.

“[Talarico] will be California’s third Senator.” FACT CHECK: Ken Paxton spent most of his childhood in California. Except for his time at Harvard, James Talarico has spent his entire life in Texas.

New polls show Democratic Senate candidates leading in Kansas, Alaska, Michigan, Ohio, and South Carolina. It's a great sign for a blue senate this November!

BREAKING NEWS: People have to write with their own words and minds 😱

The Independent@the-independent.com · 21h ago

ChatGPT down: OpenAI chatbot not working in major outage

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Reform UK Conference Ban List Michael Crick Anna Isaac - Guardian Peter Geoghegan - Democracy for Sale Ethan Shone - Open Democracy Isabella Link - Politics UK Ed Campbell - The Nerve Imran Mulla - Middle Eastern Eye Will Hayward - Guardian There’s a reported 50 journalists banned.

Reported AI outages... are they rising up against us?

A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.

"And he knows those computers better than anybody, all those vote counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania in a landslide, so thank you to Elon" --Donald Trump Jan 20, 2025

MAGA NAZIS In Texas Just Closed 92 Polling Precincts, In The Same County That Just Saw The Biggest Surge In Voter Registrations, Nearly Tripling The Number Of Registered Voters In That County.

Why is the potential danger to humanity of advanced AI apps so rarely discussed?

Standard consequence of a typical Trump business plan: Train scientists at a cost of millions then lose them to a competitor that understands they will add multi more millions to their economy.

I mean this sincerely, good for them. Scientists are going to go where the talent and grant money is. And 'Mare-kuh' isn't it any more. Hurts my heart.

"Many spy an opportunity in particular to poach researchers from the United States as the administration of US President Donald Trump attempts to cut funds for research grants and exert control over US universities." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Canada recruits dozens of US scholars — including several science stars

US funding uncertainty was a key factor for several of the researchers heading to Canada. Observers predict more will follow.

nature.com

The Trump admin is causing a "brain drain." All the fascist politicization of research, cuts to grants, and restrictions on academics have pushed scientists to look for stability abroad. Their incompetence put the USA in a position where our own allies can poach our talent.

Americans should be alarmed. If top researchers are packing their bags and moving to different countries, that means their innovations, patents, spin-offs, startups, etc. will move with them.

Canada has recruited dozens of researchers away from US universities. 48 out of 64 chair recipients in a government program worth $500+ million are coming from US institutions like Harvard and MIT. 🧵

We finally found the official motto of the Trump era.

that particular weapons mix. This fixation on high-end, limited number, high-tech weapons that the MIC and Congress love so well, created the very vulnerabilities that Iran learned to exploit in the current war. /2

Iran has developed a new class of missile that can rapidly change course mid-flight, and so evade (extremely expensive) US interceptor missiles. The US did not anticipate this, so Iran's devastating U.S. bases: it's like the notorious "Millennium Challenge 2002" Pentagon wargame exercise. But real.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · yesterday

Iran’s IRGC says it hit US bases in Kuwait and the UAE with missiles and drones. The strikes targeted communications, aircraft hangars, troop areas and radar systems.

Germans have been moving gold back to EU for many years apnews.com/general-news...

Germany completes return of 300 tons of reserve gold from US

Germany's central bank has completed an effort to bring home 300 tons of gold stashed in the United States, part of a plan to repatriate gold bars kept abroad during the Cold War.

apnews.com

The Dutch Central Bank concludes that its gold is safer in London than in New York, considering the highly erratic conduct of Donald Trump and his Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. www.parool.nl/nederland/de...

De Nederlandsche Bank verplaatst 86 ton goud uit de VS en Canada naar Londen

De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) heeft een groot deel van de Nederlandse goudvoorraad verplaatst. Door toenemende spanningen in de wereld wil de centrale bank beter voorbereid zijn op mogelijke crises.

parool.nl

Finally! A progressive Dem talking national debt and unstable bond yields. Michigan, sir, is lucky to have you!

The models I follow project a 70% - 90% drop in the USA stock market. Gold will go to $12,000 (now around $4,300). There will be trade to be made and billionaires will make it.

Everything is about to become a lot more expensive than it already is. Mike Rogers will say nothing because he’s corporate, corrupt, and a coward.