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@sylvanscenes.bsky.social

This is such a stupid thing to say. Because if it were true, we wouldn't need a Constitution and Bill of Rights written by humans. And every country would have had the same Constitution and Bill of Rights from the beginning of time.

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I feel like it should be a much bigger story that in early 2025 the MAGA regime requested a cybersecurity agency to secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it and directed them to not alert the voting machine company if it uncovered flaws. That’s called setting up for rigging an election.

The Duchy of Cornwall owned the by Prince of Wales is a giant business organization It is exempt from corporation and capital gains tax, uses infrastructure funded by others to make profit. Inevitably, leads to unfair competition and free-rider problem.

Royal financial privileges show that we are not in it together

This week, after perfunctory scrutiny, the UK parliament approved a core Sovereign Grant of £99.9m (from 2027/28) for the King, a 93% increase from the £51.8m for 2024/25 and 65% higher in real terms ...

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Good news for Elon: many Americans lack critical thinking skills, don't think for themselves. Bad news: many of us do have critical thinking skills, and can understand current events and decide that Musk is a threat to democracy. No secret benefactor or cabal is pulling our strings.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · last wk.

Live by the $38 billion government handout, die by the $38 billion government handout, you meddlesome dork.

No, Burchill, you don't get to take back your smug superiority, your support of Trump, your insistence that he was just working too smart for most people to understand, your belief in his innocence and honesty. You don't get to take that back, ever. ...

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BREAKING: Trump's head of FEMA just told states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. The Trump admin's disaster chief told state officials they must increase their financial reserves and emergency capabilities to handle most disasters on their own — without federal help.

FEMA tells states to handle disasters on their own

The Trump administration plans to cut disaster aid in as few as six months and shift responsibility to states, FEMA's administrator said in remarks obtained by POLITICO.

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MUST READ: Neil Bush, brother of one President Bush and son of another President Bush, explains why he voted for James Talarico. In part: “My vote was motivated by two things: deep concern about Ken Paxton's record and genuine admiration for the character and principles I see in James Talarico.”

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