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The trump administration’s National Security Strategy made it official:
The American-dominated liberal world order is over.
This is not because the United States proved materially incapable of sustaining it.
Rather, the American order is over because the United States has decided that it no longer wishes to play its historically unprecedented role of providing global security.
The American might that upheld the world order of the past 80 years will now be used ins…

America vs. the World
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

📈 The U.S. LNG Boom Could Make Energy More Expensive for Americans
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-US-LNG-Boom-Could-Make-Energy-More-Expensive-for-Americans.html

The U.S. LNG Boom Could Make Energy More Expensive for Americans
America's rapid expansion of liquefied natural gas LNG exports is tightening domestic supply and could drive up heating, electricity, and industrial costs for U.S. consumers.

Are you politically homeless? May I suggest: Anarcho-syndicalism! 😉
#Anarchism #Anarchy #Politics

My God. This puts the finger RIGHT on my experience
America is lonely by design - Flux https://plus.flux.community/p/america-is-lonely-by-design

America is lonely by design
A meditation on how the American Dream dissolved into an isolation nightmare

Snapshot: Trump Excuses Murder and Blames the Victim (Steven Beschloss/America, America)
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-trump-excuses-murder-and
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p105#a251119p105

PEN America elects novelist Dinaw Mengestu as president, as the organization navigates free speech challenges across the US and criticism of its Gaza response (Jennifer Schuessler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/arts/dinaw-mengestu-pen…

Dinaw Mengestu Will Be New President of PEN America
The novelist Dinaw Mengestu will lead the literary group at a time of escalating threats to free expression at home and abroad.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/well/european-american-sauna.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FVA.jle7.aYZXzDH1G_JY&smid=url-share

The Europeans Have Some Notes About American Sauna Culture
Don’t get them started on the bathing suits. Or the dancing.

Are the Cowboys Still America’s Team in the Analytics Era? https://insidethestar.com/are-the-cowboys-still-americas-team-in-the-analytics-era

While fascist ideas never found a foothold among the majority of Americans,
they exerted considerable influence during the period between the first and second world wars.
Extremist groups like
the Silver Shirts,
the Christian Front,
the Black Legion and
the Ku Klux Klan claimed hundreds of thousands of members.
Together they glorified a white Christian nation purified of Jews, Black Americans, immigrants and communists.
During the 1930s and …

America faced domestic fascists before and buried that history
Although thousands of Americans embraced fascist ideas during the interwar years, a new study examines why the US has had little appetite to remember that past.

U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced dumb-ass legislation today
that would allow private entities to play at Pirates🏴‍☠️in the Caribbean
The "Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act"
authorizes felon-president Trump to commission American pirates,
under "letters of marque"
to seize property and persons on land or sea.
Representative Tim Bimbo Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.

Patriots of the Caribbean: Lee Bill Authorizes American Privateers to Seize Cartel Assets with President’s Approval
U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation today that would allow private entities to stop drug cartel smuggling and violence. The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act authorizes President Trump, as provided under the Constitution, to commission American operators under letters of marque to seize cartel property and persons on land or sea. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.