Show threadsix_grandfathers_mountain7h ago

@kevinrns
RE
#Trump keeps lying....

Yea, he lies be he's a #Psychopath (no norms no empathy) aka #Sociopath (a reckless disregard for self and others) and knows he can get away with it.

He campaigned In this era of low education, stressed workers, climate change and wasteful #militaryindustrialcomplex (rich use him to make money) and homeland #Racism

https://www.vote.org/
⭕Check if you are still registered #midterms #midterms2026

@Isnotgood
Thx 4 orig Kevin boost

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BellingenNSW18h ago

Climate finance, defence spending and war

"Pope Leo XIV has said that the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” who spend billions on war, in comments that will be seen as another sharp escalation in his almost week-long feud with the White House over the US-Israel war on Iran....They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/pope-leo-xiv-tyrants-trump-spat
#war #destruction #FossilFuels #ClimateFinance #biodiversity #restoration #education #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #MIC #climate #DefenceSpending

Pope says ‘world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants’ amid feud with Trump’s White House

Pontiff denounces leaders who invoke religion to justify war, after US bishops offer him support after Vance remarks

The Guardian
Show threadPeter Riley1d ago

@knowprose

#Capitalism #FossilFuels #MilitaryIndustrialComplex

Show threadPeter Riley1d ago

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-project-maven-put-ai-into-the-kill-chain

#Ai #drones #KillChain #Maven #militaryIndustrialComplex #Palantir #Surveillance

How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain

Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare,” by Katrina Manson, about Drew Cukor and military uses of A.I.

The New Yorker
Show threadPeter Riley1d ago

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-project-maven-put-ai-into-the-kill-chain

#Ai #Capitalism #drones #KillChain #Maven #militaryIndustrialComplex #Palantir #Surveillance

How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain

Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare,” by Katrina Manson, about Drew Cukor and military uses of A.I.

The New Yorker
Show threadPeter Riley1d ago

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-project-maven-put-ai-into-the-kill-chain

#Ai #drones #KillChain #Maven #militaryIndustrialComplex #Palantir #Surveillance

How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain

Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare,” by Katrina Manson, about Drew Cukor and military uses of A.I.

The New Yorker
Show threadPeter Riley1d ago

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-project-maven-put-ai-into-the-kill-chain

#Ai #drones #killchain #Maven #militaryIndustrialComplex #Surveillance

How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain

Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare,” by Katrina Manson, about Drew Cukor and military uses of A.I.

The New Yorker
Show threadPeter Riley1d ago

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-project-maven-put-ai-into-the-kill-chain

#Ai #drones #Maven #militaryIndustrialComplex #Surveillance

How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain

Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare,” by Katrina Manson, about Drew Cukor and military uses of A.I.

The New Yorker
Show threadsix_grandfathers_mountain1d ago

@tartley @xankarn
RE
How can DT misunderstand something so basic?

@amyshark
@msbw
Thx 4 orig Alexander boost

All informed facts that Trump is that rare ⭕️triple threat dictator (with team)

1. #Psychopath (no norms no empathy) aka #Sociopath (a reckless disregard for self and others)

2. Repeat lying

3. Era of low education, stressed workers, climate change and wasteful #militaryindustrialcomplex

When his #MAGA Republicans leave the Capitol we STILL have our POST TRUMP PROBLEM #Racism

Peter Riley2d ago

Interview about (December?) military draft.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/13/automatic_draft_registration

Anti-Draft Coalition opposes plan for automatic draft registration; calls for repeal of the Military Selective Service Act.
https://hasbrouck.org/draft/

Even if team Trump wanted it, a military draft would be a fiasco
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/military-draft-iran/

#Conscription #Draft #Iran #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #Surveillance #Trumpland

Automatic Draft Registration Would Expand U.S. Surveillance State: Antiwar Activist

The federal government is preparing to begin automatically registering eligible U.S. men ages 18 to 26 for the military draft pool. The U.S. hasn’t had a military draft since 1973, but it still maintains a registry of eligible men in case the draft is restored. New rules around automatic military draft registration were tucked into the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act. We are joined by Edward Hasbrouck, an organizer with the Anti-Draft Coalition, which opposes the plan for automatic draft registration and is calling for repeal of the Military Selective Service Act. “The important thing is to take the draft off the table, remove it from the arsenal of war planning. Forcing the government to confront the question, before they make wars, of whether enough people will fight them actually constrains wars before they happen,” says Hasbrouck.

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