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Exhibition to explore the making of America to feature rare Declaration of Independence https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/exhibition-to-explore-the-making-of-america-to-feature-rare-declaration-of-…

Exhibition to explore the making of America to feature rare Declaration of Independence - The National Archives
The National Archives can today announce a major exhibition exploring the birth of the United States of America to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 2026. 

The Trump administration announced on Monday that
all foreign-made drones and their components
posed “unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States”
and would be put on a federal blacklist of equipment makers prohibited from selling their goods freely in the country.
A fact sheet released by the Federal Communications Commission left some room for exceptions.
The Pentagon or the Department of Homeland Security can clear a drone or component fo…

Trump Administration Declares Foreign-Made Drones a Security Threat
Americans won’t be able to buy new models from DJI, the Chinese maker of most of the world’s drones. But U.S. pilots can keep the drones they have.

Already over 12 years ago, the Google data center in Hamina, Finland, was equipped with a sauna powered by the facility's residual heat 🙀.
https://www.wired.com/2012/10/google-finland-data-center-2

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change #America

Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change
If you've been following recent debates about health, you've been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts and health insurance costs—but much less about one of the greatest threats to global public health: climate change.

Just wrote this:
"Real American citizens would never encounter such an un-American experience, and rest assured if you do get taken, maimed or killed by ICE, or ICE-like forces, you weren't really an American to start with, were you?"
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/ice-didn

Ice Didn’t Do What They Did and Do
A statement from the US Department of Homeland Security: "Guys, guys, except for all the times we have targeted, arrested, unlawfully detained, been violent with, and hurt American Citizens, ICE doesn't do those things to American citizens. We should be grateful that ICE is doing the vital work of culling

The 28 point peace proposal is a mix of the Munich peace agreement, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop-Pact.
Two major powers conspire to carve up a smaller one, like with the Molotov-Ribbentrop-Pact. The victim of an aggression is pressured my western powers to give in to the aggressor, like with the Munich peace agreement.
This is terrible. This finally is the prelude to WWIII, and we all will suffer. In Europe, in Asia, in Africa, and also in the Americas. No exceptions.

Trump im Umgang mit Selenskyj - verlässlich unbeständig
Mal macht Trump Selenskyj für Russlands Angriffskrieg verantwortlich, mal kritisiert er Putin. Trumps Haltung gegenüber der Ukraine und Russland ist von immer neuen Richtungsänderungen geprägt. Lesen Sie hier einen Überblick von Anne Schneider.
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Trumps Beziehung zu Selenskyj: Verlässlich unbeständig
Mal macht Trump Selenskyj für Russlands Angriffskrieg verantwortlich, mal kritisiert er Putin. Trumps Haltung gegenüber der Ukraine und Russland ist von immer neuen Richtungsänderungen geprägt.

Good Morning #Canada
Today, we celebrate #PunctuationDay. I restrained myself from placing several exclamation marks after that opening line. You're welcome¡
Canada generally follows the American rules for punctuation, except when we don't. I believe punctuation was invented because the English language was not confusing enough for English professors who needed more than a comma to get angry about. But I'm not here to discuss the proper rules of using the squiggly bits because I don't know them, and rules are for civilized people.
Instead, I would like to offer an article from the archives of that radical media provider Reader's Digest Canada. Here are some unique punctuation marks that I highly recommend that we start us8ng to confuse and enrage those pesky English professors.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CreativeWriting
https://www.readersdigest.ca/culture/little-known-punctuation-marks/

John Woodrow Cox writes about
“H,” an Afghan man who supported the US during the war in Afghanistan.
After arriving here through the humanitarian parole program, he applied for asylum and built a life
—and raised two US-born kids
—with his wife.
But the Trump administration has since terminated the protections that allow Afghans like H to stay,
with one Homeland Security staffer calling him an “unvetted alien from a high threat country.”
H is anythin…

He supported the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Now he may be deported to the Taliban.
He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.