The 27-Year-Old Diplomat Waging Trump’s #CultureWar With Europe
Five years out of college, Samuel Samson has driven the #Trump administration’s push to upend the #US’ postwar relationship with #Europe.
#ConspiracyTheories #GreatReplacementTheory #WhiteSupremacy #kakistocracy #FarRight #extremism #geopolitics #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/world/europe/trump-samson-europe.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cFA.-CcZ.FiZd6qWuySyg&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#AI #deepfakes #propaganda #astroturfing #politics #GiftArticle
'The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters.'
"Using language that would until recently have been unthinkable, Zelensky has indicated that he no longer views the United States as a reliable ally and, even more astonishingly, that all of Europe needs to start moving on from the transatlantic relationship."
The Inside Story of 5 Days That Remade #SCOTUS
Secret memos obtained by The NYT illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine “#ShadowDocket” rulings on presidential power.
Just after 6PM on a February evening in 2016, the Supreme Court issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling that sent both #climate policy & the court itself spinning in new directions.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b1A.W0_1.54-PmsieNhyB&smid=nytcore-ios-share
“After obtaining the papers, The Times confirmed their authenticity with several people familiar with the deliberations and shared them with a spokeswoman for the court. The Times posed detailed questions to the justices who wrote the memos; they did not respond.”
So after getting caught they didn't feel the need to explain themselves about the power grab? Got it
Burn it down. Create a new Supreme Court. This one is rotten.
Might be posted already. But here's a #GiftArticle on the that thing stuck in our craw, but has all the MilBoiz so excited.
#AusPol #AUKUS
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/23086/VPsCW9hm
In late January 2023, barely a year into the Albanese government’s first term, Defence Minister Richard Marles took chief of navy Mark Hammond – one of Australia’s most experienced submariners – to call on Labor’s most vocal AUKUS critic, Paul Keating. Marles’s mission was straightforward, if optimistic. He was hoping Hammond, a true believer in the $368 billion nuclear submarine program and one of its most persuasive advocates, might soften Keating’s withering opposition to the trilateral security pact, or at least win his silence.
"Speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information and private conversations, they described Patel’s tenure as a management failure and his personal behavior as a national-security vulnerability. They said that the problems with his conduct go well beyond what has been previously known, and include both conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences"
This admin is a damn joke
The #FBI Director Is MIA
#KashPatel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking & unexplained absences.
#Trump #law #NationalSecurity
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxRj40bt5Tcdpsjr9rTdgd3Q
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