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Many people emailed me to ask how to manage potential financial uncertainties in 2025. I wrote up a brief two page summary; this is not financial advice, but it offers a summary of the risks and how, potentially, to respond.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iwjijEK_6oyN4hV2QahTN0pHcztDNjX5GeeUqWBq_Rw/view
MANAGING FINANCIAL INSTABILITY IN 2025

MANAGING FINANCIAL INSTABILITY IN 2025 The incoming Trump/Vance administration has the potential to unleash widespread economic harms, many of which are not on people’s radar. This document is not financial advice and I am not a financial advisor. I am an analyst of history and warfare, and this...

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Volodymyr Zelensky has defied expectations and harnessed the spirit of democracy to rally his people – and the world – to defend Ukraine.

The power of collective action is stronger than the iron fist of any autocrat.

Remember this when so-called “strongmen” suggest otherwise.

At least in Margaret Atwood’s novel the radical religious terrorists used guns to overthrow our government.

In the real version we’re literally electing them to office. I feel that not enough folks read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

They’re taking over state and local legislatures, councils and boards.

Christian Nationalists and Dominionists are absolutely a threat to our democracy.

They’ve had this plan for decades and now they’re enacting it. This is a clear and present danger.

It's now TWO YEARS and 55 days since Donald Trump's Jan 6 terrorist attack. In any other first world country he'd already be charged with crimes. Instead Trump is now running for President where he's actively spewing more lies to delegitimize our democracy. INDICT TRUMP!
By the way, the same corporations telling us they have no choice but to raise prices are simultaneously spending billions of dollars on stock buybacks to enrich their wealthy shareholders.

Oh this is rich. Ted Cruz is pushing a bill to cap Senate terms at 2 but has announced he’s running for his third term.

Watch Cruz’s “term limits for thee but not for me” schtick here: https://www.comicsands.com/ted-cruz-hypocrisy-term-limits-2659377836.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

Ted Cruz Ripped For Seeking A Third Term While Pushing Bill To Limit Senators To Two Terms

Yeah, that tracks.

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I confess myself a bit baffled by people who act like "how to interact with ChatGPT" is a useful classroom skill. It's not a word processor or a spreadsheet; it doesn't have documented, well-defined, reproducible behaviors. No, it's not remotely analogous to a calculator. Calculators are built to be *right*, not to sound convincing. It's a bullshit fountain. Stop acting like you're a waterbender making emotive shapes by expressing your will in the medium of liquid bullshit. The lesson one needs about a bullshit fountain is *not to swim in it*.

Dear America, what is being revealed is our deep connection to violence & brutality. We are at an inflection point. Doing nothing only promises more of this. We’ve become the horror of the world. Our leaders wear AR15 pins next to their hearts.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michigan-state-university-shooting-gun-tragedy_n_63ec2a8ee4b0808b91c3359b

The MSU Shooting Is Making Us See A New Kind Of Gun Tragedy

Survivors of previous shootings are now having to relive another massacre.

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WTAF. I suspected something foul re: the Matt Gaetz investigation in March 2022 when Roger Stone (Gaetz’s mentor) abruptly shifted from shunning Gaetz to re-embracing him. Today we learn that the DOJ has indeed decided to NOT charge #MattGaetz https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1509379042318774272.html
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@jennycohn1: Both Tucker Carlson & Roger Stone went from shunning Gaetz to re-embracing him. Gaetz suddenly looks like the cat who swallowed the canary. I hope they don’t know of something the rest of us don’t....…

There is perhaps no single piece of writing more important to read right now than this chapter in @4gwdotdotdot book, outlining the strategy to crash the global economy and trash the US Federal government. Everything outlined here is being attempted now.

https://www.academia.edu/19378796/CHAPTER_18_FOURTH_GENERATION_WARFARE_THE_PATRIOT_MILITIA_AND_THE_NORTH_PAUL_STRATEGY

CHAPTER 18: FOURTH GENERATION WARFARE, THE PATRIOT MILITIA, AND THE NORTH-PAUL STRATEGY

The Christian Reconstructionists have proven that they can conceptualize what they want to achieve, devise a theology and a follow-on strategy to achieve their goal, devote resources to achieving their goal, and then implement their strategy. Thus,