“The SAVE Act isn’t about fraud—it’s a federal power grab dressed up as election integrity. Red states will follow, not because ballots are stolen, but because Trump wants control. #ElectionTruth #PowerGrabwww.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: Federal power gra...
Contributor: Federal power grabs on elections are not about fraud

Trump has called the SAVE Act his top priority. But why? His commission found no widespread problem that needed solving.

Los Angeles Times
AI CEO (Nerd) Says AI Will Stop Women With a Brain from Having Power

Palantir CEO Alex Karp told CNBC that AI will "disrupt" the political and economic power of "highly educated, often female voters who vote mostly Democrat."

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TRUMP'S AUTHORITARIAN ASSAULT: Evidence-Based Analysis of Power Consolidation, Democracy Erosion and Civil Rights Climate Rollbacks (June 2025) #Ai #ChatGPT #Perplexity Llewelyn Pritchard 13 June 2025

TRUMP'S AUTHORITARIAN ASSAULT

"Trump gets his Board of Peace, even as bigger countries steer clear. America’s traditional allies are taking a backseat on the effort ... Trump, who has three years remaining in his final term, has appointed himself the board’s lifelong chairman, giving himself the unilateral authority to veto decisions, approve the agenda, and select his own successor":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/trump-gets-his-board-of-peace-even-as-bigger-countries-steer-clear-00789617
#PowerGrab #VanityProject #corruption #SlushFund #politics
Trump gets his Board of Peace, even as bigger countries steer clear

America’s traditional allies are taking a backseat on the effort — which has raised billions in new commitments.

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Axios: "Trump's 'Board of Peace' for Gaza and beyond, is an attempt to establish a rival United Nations Security Council — with Trump holding the only veto."
#waste #fraud #abuse #PowerGrab #politics
Africa: Coup Contagion? a Rash of African Power Grabs Suggests Copycats Are Taking Note of Others' Success: [The Conversation Africa] In a scene that has become familiar across parts of Africa of late, a group of armed men in military garb appeared on state TV on Dec. 7, 2025, to announce that they had suspended the constitution and seized control. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPrC56 #Africa #CoupContagion #PoliticalCrisis #MilitaryCoups #PowerGrab
Africa: Africa's Power Grabs Are Rising - the AU's Mixed Response Is Making Things Worse: [The Conversation Africa] Hardly a month goes by without news of another unconstitutional change of government on the African continent. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPhpWz #Africa #PowerGrab #UnconstitutionalChange #AUAfricanUnion #PoliticalInstability

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Then, Tommy Vietor talks with Morris Katz, Samson Signori, and Alex Ball about the 2025 election campaigns and what they’ll mean for America and our politics.

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Exclusive: #US may cut #AirTraffic 10% by Friday without #shutdown deal

The shutdown has forced 13,000 #AirTrafficControllers & 50,000 Transportation Security Administration [#TSA] officers to work WITHOUT #PAY & snarled tens of thousands of #flights.

#Trump #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #law #Congress
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-may-cut-air-traffic-10-by-friday-without-shutdown-deal-sources-say-2025-11-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

#Republican #House Speaker #MikeJohnson has refused to negotiate with #Democrats until they first agree to reopen the government.

This is now the second-longest #shutdown.

The longest shutdown occurred during Trump’s first term over his demands for funds to build the US-Mexico border wall. That one ended in 2019 after 35 days.

#Trump #law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #plutocracy