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\nWe\u2019re witnessing, in real-time, a profound consolidation of power and collusion among political and tech elites\u2014the ruling class of this country, and the world \u2013 wherein the tools and technologies that this industry has built, and continues to build, can now be deployed in service of an authoritarian regime. What happens when Trump decides he\u2019s not so hot on TikTok\u2019s algorithm showcasing Democratic candidates ahead of the midterms? Or when he really sinks his teeth into this notion of \u201cwoke A.I.\u201d? How about when the Department of Homeland Security<\/em> decides it needs even more surveillance power over American citizens?
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\n(status_ more…)<\/a><\/p>\nGil Duran: WIRED Editor: Tech Billionaires Threaten US Democracy<\/a><\/h2>\nSlate: Trump Wants to Send the National Guard to Chicago. It\u2019s Clear What This Is Really About.<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThis is not crime policy. Trump is overriding state sovereignty, occupying local streets with federal troops, and transforming constitutional limits into stagecraft for a national audience. It is the open demonstration of a governing philosophy that substitutes force for persuasion, imagery for reality, and political theater for democratic restraint.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – August 25, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\n\u201cFinally,\u201d he said, \u201cto the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme, to the public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man, to any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous, we are watching, and we are taking names. This country has survived darker periods than the one that we are going through right now. And eventually, the pendulum will swing back, maybe even next year. Donald Trump has already shown himself to have little regard for the many acolytes that he has encouraged to commit crimes on his behalf. You can delay justice for a time, but history shows you cannot prevent it from finding you eventually.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you hurt my people, nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law. As Dr. King once said, the arc of the moral Universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Humbly, I would add, it doesn’t bend on its own. History tells us we often have to apply force needed to make sure that the arc gets where it needs to go. This is one of those times.\u201d
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Orange is the new nightmare<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nI am scared, but I am also resolute. This nightmare will end and those inflicting death and pain will pay for their misdeeds and wickedness and crimes against humanity. I know this because of that History minor I received so many years ago.<\/p>\n
I know we can end this together. They can\u2019t keep going at this pace when citizens rise up.<\/p>\n
I am awake\u2026you are too.<\/p>\n
Shake your neighbors. Wake them from the nightmare.
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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James Eagle: The real reason Trump attacked the Fed<\/a><\/h2>\nDonald Trump’s Monday night bombshell, firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook “effective immediately”, marks a watershed moment for American capitalism. Not because Cook will actually be removed (she won’t), but because this desperate act of political theatre reveals something far more sinister: the world’s reserve currency is being undermined by a toxic cocktail of fiscal recklessness and institutional vandalism.<\/p>\n
Let’s be clear: Cook isn’t going anywhere. The Supreme Court has already signalled that Fed governors cannot be removed without genuine cause, and claiming two properties as primary residences on mortgage applications, while potentially problematic, hardly constitutes the gross malfeasance required by law. Cook’s defiant response, backed by heavyweight attorney Abbe Lowell, sets up a legal battle Trump will almost certainly lose.
\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\nWSJ: Trump Says He Is Removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nWe\u2019re witnessing, in real-time, a profound consolidation of power and collusion among political and tech elites\u2014the ruling class of this country, and the world \u2013 wherein the tools and technologies that this industry has built, and continues to build, can now be deployed in service of an authoritarian regime. What happens when Trump decides he\u2019s not so hot on TikTok\u2019s algorithm showcasing Democratic candidates ahead of the midterms? Or when he really sinks his teeth into this notion of \u201cwoke A.I.\u201d? How about when the Department of Homeland Security<\/em> decides it needs even more surveillance power over American citizens?
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Gil Duran: WIRED Editor: Tech Billionaires Threaten US Democracy<\/a><\/h2>\nSlate: Trump Wants to Send the National Guard to Chicago. It\u2019s Clear What This Is Really About.<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThis is not crime policy. Trump is overriding state sovereignty, occupying local streets with federal troops, and transforming constitutional limits into stagecraft for a national audience. It is the open demonstration of a governing philosophy that substitutes force for persuasion, imagery for reality, and political theater for democratic restraint.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – August 25, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\n\u201cFinally,\u201d he said, \u201cto the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme, to the public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man, to any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous, we are watching, and we are taking names. This country has survived darker periods than the one that we are going through right now. And eventually, the pendulum will swing back, maybe even next year. Donald Trump has already shown himself to have little regard for the many acolytes that he has encouraged to commit crimes on his behalf. You can delay justice for a time, but history shows you cannot prevent it from finding you eventually.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you hurt my people, nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law. As Dr. King once said, the arc of the moral Universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Humbly, I would add, it doesn’t bend on its own. History tells us we often have to apply force needed to make sure that the arc gets where it needs to go. This is one of those times.\u201d
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Orange is the new nightmare<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nI am scared, but I am also resolute. This nightmare will end and those inflicting death and pain will pay for their misdeeds and wickedness and crimes against humanity. I know this because of that History minor I received so many years ago.<\/p>\n
I know we can end this together. They can\u2019t keep going at this pace when citizens rise up.<\/p>\n
I am awake\u2026you are too.<\/p>\n
Shake your neighbors. Wake them from the nightmare.
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\n- \n
James Eagle: The real reason Trump attacked the Fed<\/a><\/h2>\nDonald Trump’s Monday night bombshell, firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook “effective immediately”, marks a watershed moment for American capitalism. Not because Cook will actually be removed (she won’t), but because this desperate act of political theatre reveals something far more sinister: the world’s reserve currency is being undermined by a toxic cocktail of fiscal recklessness and institutional vandalism.<\/p>\n
Let’s be clear: Cook isn’t going anywhere. The Supreme Court has already signalled that Fed governors cannot be removed without genuine cause, and claiming two properties as primary residences on mortgage applications, while potentially problematic, hardly constitutes the gross malfeasance required by law. Cook’s defiant response, backed by heavyweight attorney Abbe Lowell, sets up a legal battle Trump will almost certainly lose.
\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\nWSJ: Trump Says He Is Removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nThis is not crime policy. Trump is overriding state sovereignty, occupying local streets with federal troops, and transforming constitutional limits into stagecraft for a national audience. It is the open demonstration of a governing philosophy that substitutes force for persuasion, imagery for reality, and political theater for democratic restraint.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – August 25, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\n\u201cFinally,\u201d he said, \u201cto the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme, to the public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man, to any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous, we are watching, and we are taking names. This country has survived darker periods than the one that we are going through right now. And eventually, the pendulum will swing back, maybe even next year. Donald Trump has already shown himself to have little regard for the many acolytes that he has encouraged to commit crimes on his behalf. You can delay justice for a time, but history shows you cannot prevent it from finding you eventually.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you hurt my people, nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law. As Dr. King once said, the arc of the moral Universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Humbly, I would add, it doesn’t bend on its own. History tells us we often have to apply force needed to make sure that the arc gets where it needs to go. This is one of those times.\u201d
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Orange is the new nightmare<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nI am scared, but I am also resolute. This nightmare will end and those inflicting death and pain will pay for their misdeeds and wickedness and crimes against humanity. I know this because of that History minor I received so many years ago.<\/p>\n
I know we can end this together. They can\u2019t keep going at this pace when citizens rise up.<\/p>\n
I am awake\u2026you are too.<\/p>\n
Shake your neighbors. Wake them from the nightmare.
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\n- \n
James Eagle: The real reason Trump attacked the Fed<\/a><\/h2>\nDonald Trump’s Monday night bombshell, firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook “effective immediately”, marks a watershed moment for American capitalism. Not because Cook will actually be removed (she won’t), but because this desperate act of political theatre reveals something far more sinister: the world’s reserve currency is being undermined by a toxic cocktail of fiscal recklessness and institutional vandalism.<\/p>\n
Let’s be clear: Cook isn’t going anywhere. The Supreme Court has already signalled that Fed governors cannot be removed without genuine cause, and claiming two properties as primary residences on mortgage applications, while potentially problematic, hardly constitutes the gross malfeasance required by law. Cook’s defiant response, backed by heavyweight attorney Abbe Lowell, sets up a legal battle Trump will almost certainly lose.
\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\nWSJ: Trump Says He Is Removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n\u201cFinally,\u201d he said, \u201cto the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme, to the public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man, to any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous, we are watching, and we are taking names. This country has survived darker periods than the one that we are going through right now. And eventually, the pendulum will swing back, maybe even next year. Donald Trump has already shown himself to have little regard for the many acolytes that he has encouraged to commit crimes on his behalf. You can delay justice for a time, but history shows you cannot prevent it from finding you eventually.<\/p>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
Jess Piper: Orange is the new nightmare<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nI am scared, but I am also resolute. This nightmare will end and those inflicting death and pain will pay for their misdeeds and wickedness and crimes against humanity. I know this because of that History minor I received so many years ago.<\/p>\n
I know we can end this together. They can\u2019t keep going at this pace when citizens rise up.<\/p>\n
I am awake\u2026you are too.<\/p>\n
Shake your neighbors. Wake them from the nightmare.
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\n- \n
James Eagle: The real reason Trump attacked the Fed<\/a><\/h2>\nDonald Trump’s Monday night bombshell, firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook “effective immediately”, marks a watershed moment for American capitalism. Not because Cook will actually be removed (she won’t), but because this desperate act of political theatre reveals something far more sinister: the world’s reserve currency is being undermined by a toxic cocktail of fiscal recklessness and institutional vandalism.<\/p>\n
Let’s be clear: Cook isn’t going anywhere. The Supreme Court has already signalled that Fed governors cannot be removed without genuine cause, and claiming two properties as primary residences on mortgage applications, while potentially problematic, hardly constitutes the gross malfeasance required by law. Cook’s defiant response, backed by heavyweight attorney Abbe Lowell, sets up a legal battle Trump will almost certainly lose.
\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\nWSJ: Trump Says He Is Removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\nI am scared, but I am also resolute. This nightmare will end and those inflicting death and pain will pay for their misdeeds and wickedness and crimes against humanity. I know this because of that History minor I received so many years ago.<\/p>\n
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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James Eagle: The real reason Trump attacked the Fed<\/a><\/h2>\n
Donald Trump’s Monday night bombshell, firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook “effective immediately”, marks a watershed moment for American capitalism. Not because Cook will actually be removed (she won’t), but because this desperate act of political theatre reveals something far more sinister: the world’s reserve currency is being undermined by a toxic cocktail of fiscal recklessness and institutional vandalism.<\/p>\n
Let’s be clear: Cook isn’t going anywhere. The Supreme Court has already signalled that Fed governors cannot be removed without genuine cause, and claiming two properties as primary residences on mortgage applications, while potentially problematic, hardly constitutes the gross malfeasance required by law. Cook’s defiant response, backed by heavyweight attorney Abbe Lowell, sets up a legal battle Trump will almost certainly lose.
\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\nWSJ: Trump Says He Is Removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook<\/a><\/h2>\n
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