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Because US voters are clamoring for more wars?
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Trump: We’re looking at Cuba very closely. That will be taken care of in the next 2.5 years. Or sooner.

Dallas, We Have A Problem: 6 Issues Against Arizona https://insidethestar.com/dallas-we-have-a-problem-6-issues-against-arizona

Systems don't solve problems.
Systems can provide leverage that can make it easier for people to solve problems. They can also influence and/or bias their users in a variety of ways.
Systems can't solve social problems, because systems don't solve problems.
It's difficult to use systems to make social problems easier to solve, because in a social problem, different people have different goals, and a system that provides one person leverage towards one particular outcome can have side effects and/or be used by someone else towards a different outcome. All problems have these issues, but social problems have them baked in from the start.

Amy Chozick, who wrote a profile of Elizabeth Holmes, talks about ghosting Nathan Fielder after tentatively agreeing to be filmed for You Can See Everything (Amy Chozick/New York Times)
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Opinion | I’m in ‘You Can See Everything.’ Here’s My Side of the Story.
I’m in ‘You Can See Everything.’ Here’s my side of the story.

One takeaway from Ramaswamy and Vance deciding to make child rape apologia their closing argument in Ohio
is that Republicans seem to have taken from Trump’s success the idea that "nothing matters".
(It’s not only Republicans who have made that inference, of course.)
The problem is that Trump imitators can’t get away with the same kind of things that Trump can:
The crude insult comedy that works to at least some extent for an established reality TV star

Trumpism without Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Money
One takeaway from Ramaswamy and Vance deciding to make child rape apologia their closing argument in Ohio is that Republicans seem to have taken from Trump’s success the idea that LOL nothing matters. (It’s not only Republicans who have made that inference, of course.) The problem is that Trump imitators can’t get away with the […]

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Maps are only for cars

Cowboys lengthy history of problems with Cardinals stretches 2 decades https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/10/31/dallas-cowboys-have-an-arizona-cardinals-problem-…

Some Middle Eastern powers are waking up to the threat to their sovereignty posed by a US system that consistently privileges Israel’s priorities.
It is early days, but for a Gulf state leader to call for a Gulf security pact that includes Iran,
as Badr Albusaidi, Oman’s foreign minister, did this week,
is a potential Berlin Wall moment.
The implication is that the US should no longer be the security provider for the Gulf.
Iran is viewed with deep suspicion acro…

As Trump fans the flames of a world on fire, can diplomacy take back control?
Amid the chaos, havoc and war caused by a capricious and amoral US president, countries are waking up to the dangers of being excluded and abused by America

US Author Gil Duršn
warns that Silicon Valley “billionaires have enough money to buy both sides" in any US election.
In his book „The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy,“
Duršn pieces together public statements from powerful tech investors like Peter Thiel
that amount to a chilling attack on democracy as we know it.
Duršn criticizes both Republicans and Democrats for refusing to take on the big money in tech.

What happens when Washington runs amok?
Ask a Native American
The late 19th and early 20th centuries were a time of rapid expansion for the United States.
Native Americans, and their claims to land and sovereignty, stood in the way.
In order to solve this “Indian problem” Washington sought to destroy tribes and tribalism.
It was an effort buoyed by moneyed interests who wanted to profit from tribal resources,
and by religiously minded folks who wanted …

Contributor: What happens when Washington runs amok? Ask a Native American
When forces unite with no care for the Constitution, the rule of law or anything you learned in civics class, you can end up with the entrenched overreach of the Plenary Power Doctrine.