Tag: Executive Power
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Trump Arch
Meanwhile, just weeks ago, eight million people took to the streets and said: we will have no kings in this land. Note to my future self. On Friday the Trump administration unveiled plans for what they’re calling a Triumphal Arch. At 250 feet tall, with gold lions, golden eagles, and a gilded Lady Liberty on…
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Glasswing
Welcome to the future. Note to my future self. Anthropic was planning on releasing its latest version of Claude but instead stopped short. In testing the new model they call Mythos, they found that the model had such powerful cybersecurity capabilities that it would be literal chaos for them to release it into the market.…
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Paper Tiger
With three carrier strike groups in the Persian gulf, the US is prepared to go it alone and appears to be burning its bridges behind it. Note to my future self. On NATO’s birthday it is being hollowed out. On this day April 4, 1949 the North Atlantic Treaty was signed and so was born…
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Surrendering the Strait of Hormuz
I grew up during the 1970’s oil crisis and gas rationing – and this feels like it is going in an eerily familiar direction. During Trump’s speech, oil prices soared by 11%. Note to my future self. Last night President Trump gave a live White House address that was billed as an important update in…
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Mail In Voting
These are the things we will look back on and say — we wish we had done more to stop the slide into dictatorship. Today Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the department of homeland security and the postal service to only send mail ballots to a pre approved list of people. It’s DHS…
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The Point
That is our point. Yesterday 8 million Americans demonstrated that in this land we will have no Kings. I received many derisive comments yesterday from MAGA who were mocking the historic protests. “He’s not a king he’s your daddy” is one example. “We haven’t had a king for 250 years so what’s your point?” is…
Notes To My Future Self 