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As they become more extreme, their credibility wanes. Let them go there. Nutty is as nutty does.

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Yes, Russia is actively but asymmetrically at war with the West, but some Westerners, notably Trump, don't see the existential danger. Their greedy-goggles have distorted their vision.

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Creativity lives! Even in, or perhaps especially because of, these dark times.

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There you have it straight from the Russians who own and operate Trump. He's just jaw-boning the market.

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Knowing that Brits are usually more rational, this helps one understand the Brexit self-harm event pretty well. Russia is punching well above its weight due to its use of asymmetric tactics. It's past time the West gets this and adjusts to 21st-century warfare. Stop studying those old WW II movies!

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Is he talking about potential vs kinetic energy as if he were a HS physics teacher? He's obviously way out of his depth.

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Frankusz @frankusz.bsky.social · 15h

As usual, they falsely and deliberately conflate the immortal country, USA, with the mortal man, Donald Trump. This is a disservice to the country.

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Trump gives us every indication that he is literally owned by Russia's Putin. How Putin accomplished that will be one of the major questions addressed by historians of the future. A parallel mystery to solve is why Republicans, in a 180º twist, now support Trump's indentured servitude.

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Frankusz @frankusz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As well, recent research is pointing to a link between infections like Hep B and various cancers.

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This why Republicans have to go, all of them. They stand for nothing and will fall for everything Trump puts out.

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He does and some do but their numbers are getting smaller and smaller. Let's hope that this Great Awakening leads to a new and better, more effective Reconstruction Era.

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Farmers have long qualified for off-road diesel. This doesn't help them a bit.

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Frankusz @frankusz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Billionaire lawns it will be. Appropriate in that he has far more experience in cutting than in growing.

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It's shoot first and make up a story about it afterwards. That must be right there in the script most ICE actors are following.

Frankusz @frankusz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This will be counterproductive in that it will showcase martyrdom in the eyes of many, encouraging them to emulate the publicly executed person. Not a good look for an ostensibly civilized nation either.

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Frankusz @frankusz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Where obfuscation and deception are the primary goals of an organization, it's incredibly easy to piggyback on that to steal valor, mystique or credibility because there is no reliable validation method available to you and me and, especially, to Congress. It's a nested doll of fiction.

Text: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend

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I shall wear the "enemy" sobriquet with pride.

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In a humane democracy, punishment is not supposed to be meted out by law enforcement but here we are. The process has been so truncated that a cop is cop, judge and executioner all at the same time.

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William Barber II - Wikipedia

Religion has had many opportunities to redeem itself over the centuries, but the overall batting average is pitifully low. However, even as a nonreligious person (secular humanist), I have to admire the Rev. William Barber. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

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I've read that the AMA proscribes involvement in executions so all that's left are inexpert people. Low pay is a factor as well I suppose.

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We might as well have a sci-fi approach where people are placed into stasis for the duration of their sentence with annual awakenings where the sentence is reviewed. Would that be more humane? Would that improve a society?

Clearly our system of dealing with crime isn't working very well and needs a thorough re-think. This is especially so for capital punishment which does not produce penitence, redemption or serve as a deterrent to others.

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Trump's laissez-faire approach to data center development is clearly an instance of political obtuseness. He could at least favor oversight and some level of regulation in order to keep control, but with this stance, he will lose all control, all influence. Dumb with a "b".

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Trump does care about the wellbeing of his peers (billionaires) and Trump does not care about the rest of us. Too simple?

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Frankusz @frankusz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, the House of Representatives should be made more representative by increasing the number of seats but how can this be done w/o amplifying the gerrymander issue? Surely, these two problems should be addressed in concert. BTW, how, exactly, is the electoral college positively affected by this?

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Voter fraud assertions are rapidly joining the flat-earth level of veracity. Is America starting to awaken? Is this what "woke" refers to?

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Frankusz @frankusz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, the US judicial system is based upon the bedrock idea that an adversarial contest between equally competent representatives will most likely reveal the truth and yield justice. This, OTOH, is a conspiratorial and performative contest where defendants, truth and justice are sacrificed.

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Vought tops my list of rapid impeachment targets once Democrats are in the majority. Trump's announcement should be heard as: **vote like your future depends on it** because it does. With the neutered Republican majority in Congress, Vought has the power to really screw us over and over.

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My wife and I both received our $90 bribe from Trump today via direct deposit. We promptly donated it to ActBlue. secure.actblue.com/my-express/

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Putting ideological and partisan goals ahead of truth and justice will always inevitably result in muddled thinking. Alito now qualifies as a poster child for this sad outcome. Is there a camp we can advocate sending him to?

The best way to render Trump less harmful is to go after his enablers. Defeat as many Rs at the polls as possible, get majorities and then start impeaching starting with the worst offenders such as Russell Vought. Trump will be painfully impotent and deserves every bit of that pain.

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Thanks for that edifying explanation.

Drug smuggling has proven to be a great pretext for just about any assault on anyone. However, there is a discomforting bias against working on the demand side of this market. What is the Trumpian rationale for that?

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This is inspirational. I think that I may open a church myself. It will be called "The Church of Immediate Gratification" with apologies to George Carlin and other comedians who riffed on the traditional Catholic title Our Lady of Prompt Succor (which translates to "Our Lady of Quick Help"). Fun.

How confident can one be that this was a genuine suicide? How rigorously was Epstein's own suicide investigated? The movers and shakers of this time in history seem unconstrained by a moral code or the prospect of being found out. They seem to believe that they are invulnerable. Are they right?

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Nurture probably explains more of human diversity than nature. This may be why the powerful work so hard to provide rich environments for their kids and piss-poor environments for everyone else's kids. Nepo-culture soon makes a country weak and poor with a small, self-satisfied elite at the top.

Isn't plague very curable these days if caught in time? Why did that not happen in this case?

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Frankusz @frankusz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With commercial and state funding making this happen, how long will it take for the moon to start hosting electric signage to the point where it looks like a scene in Blade Runner. I can envision Coca-Cola neon, Make-up Videos and Trumpian PSAs covering that part of the moon always facing us.

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This will bear watching. If an isolated totalitarian regime cannot contain this, what hope do we in fractious democracies have? Of course the Covid-19 experience was educational for most but many still did not get the lessons it offered.

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We should be helping Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. They are all on the top of Putin's target list.

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Hypocracy is right on brand for GOP pols.

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Agreed. It's the tool users that we most need to worry about.

It's just a small jump to add recognizing faces to recognizing licence plates. Vast data centers could hold all that tracking info for who knows what kind of pattern analysis. We'll all get profiled. So is it already time to make ourselves up as masked ICE agents? Not just for Halloween – every day.

Little things like being able to secure food and shelter?

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It is really quite amazing to see people who are not institutionalized due to mental disorders displaying behaviours such as here enlisting others to adopt their false beliefs. Assuming it's performative politics you have to wonder about who the intended audience is and what they think of them.