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It seems like, again, just following the plain logic of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence (which, again, I do not subscribe to), that every law passed under Trump, every supreme court justice appointment by Trump, every supreme court ruling by Trump appointed justices, all the illegal firing, etc, must all, necessarily, be null and void.
And if not following from the insurrection act, or from the oath of office, then following from the Declaration of Independence itself. The logic here being that a constitution is a contract between the people and their government, which the later upholds in order to maintain its legal status. The violation of said laws by the government violates "consent of the governed" (which, again, I have issues with the concept entirely but we're just going to ignore that) and therefore nullifies the authority of that government, granting " the right of the people to alter or to abolish it."
That seems a lot like the hard reset some folks have been looking for. Given that existing flaws allowed this state to be reached, it would also be necessary for the true authority to correct those mistakes before assuming authority that derives from these principles.
Now, personally, I don't subscribe to any of this logic but it's interesting to explore, as an outsider, where the logic goes.

Jamie Raskin: “**And the minute that somebody in public office thinks that they’re a king, they’re a queen, they’re an emperor, they’re a dictator, that it is time for the people to evict, eject, reject, impeach, try, convict, and start all over again. Because the most important words of our Constitution are the three first words of the Constitution: ‘We the people**’”
This Democrat just reminded us why we all must declare ‘No Kings’
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/13/2327843/-This-Democrat-just-reminded-us-why-we-all-must-declare-No-Kings

The Supreme court ruled
in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States
that the Constitution did not grant the president an “illimitable power of removal,”
at least over certain types of officials.
This included the head of the Federal Trade Commission, whose firing by President Franklin Roosevelt had sparked the case.
Humphrey’s Executor stood basically untouched for decades, until Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito – both of whom had previously served in the exe…

Supreme Court ignores precedent instead of overruling it in allowing president to fire officials whom Congress tried to make independent
Can the president fire leaders of more than 50 independent agencies overseen by Congress because he wants to? The Supreme Court may say yes, upending decades of constitutional law.

I asked AI to design a challenge coin* for the U.S. Marines for their campaign in Los Angeles against the American people.
Here’s what it suggests. Are you few the proud yet?
*medallion recognizing membership/achievement/boost morale, often collected or exchanged.
#USpol #USMC

Also, John Adams was cautioned by European royalty that his Constitution gave the President more power than any monarch of Europe ever had. Minor point, I know.
Crowned as king, Trump would become no more than a tourist attraction. He'd love that, and folks could toss peanuts at him!

Wow. Yes. From a California district court:
“At this early stage of the proceedings, the Court must determine whether the President followed the congressionally mandated procedure for his actions. He did not. His actions were illegal—both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.” https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner/114673375048335011

"White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, he says the administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, . ."

Trump team mulls suspending habeas corpus to speed deportations. Can it?
Top White House aide Stephen Miller says the Trump administration is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, he says President Donald Trump’s team is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right for people to legally challenge their detention by the government. Such a move would be aimed at migrants as part of the Republican president’s broader crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border. …

Now personally, I'm not invested in the law and I reject the logical underpinnings of the whole thing. The US is founded on land that already had people on it, that already had multiple systems of authority, so there can be no claim that it has any legal authority to exist at all.
But it's hard to ignore the inconsistency here. Accepting the logic from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, there is no way in which the current state can be legitimate and which Trump has the authority to do anything. The last legal president, again, following the logic that assumes such a thing even possible, was Barak Obama. Since the transfer of power, the country has failed to enforce the law.
If the executive cannot complete their oath, then they are considered vacant under the 25th amendment. If the cabinet fails to invoke article 4, then they too are involved in the insurrection (again, simply following the logic outlined pretty clearly here) as are any who would fail to support the invocation.
Since a full takeover of the federal government by insurrectionists wasn't really planned for, I'm guessing that it would necessarily go to the states, being the only remaining legal authority.

Trump is invoking emergency powers at a record rate. Here's what that means (Kat Lonsdorf/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/nx-s1-5424666/trump-national-emergencies-democracy-supreme-court-constitution
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p19#a250609p19

On June 13, military veterans and their families and supporters protested in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC,
-- demanding that taxpayer dollars for Donald Trump’s ill-fated military parade and his decision to send troops to Los Angeles should be used instead for housing, healthcare, food, and taking care of veterans.
Around 60 demonstrators were arrested by Capitol police

Thes vets swore to defend the Constitution against all enemies—including Donald Trump
“We need to unite across the spectrum to push back. Veterans like us need to continue to speak out, so that we can motivate other veterans to speak out, and also show them the hypocrisy of this administration.”

Y'all were wondering which way the army would break. This is as clear an answer as you're going to get.
This isn't a mistake. It's a message.
Edit: cut out "During drills they were perfectly in time" because I don't have receipts to show. Linking to a longer video in a threads post that shows a bit more intense of a juxtaposition between themselves and the division in front of them. This thread makes the same claim about drills, but I also don't see video.
https://www.threads.com/@davidmorehouse/post/DK7ExrKs5iw?xmt=AQF0w52awa66lUQeIuolzDaz8uSFcMmJLHALm9RZc4P75w
Edit: to clarify a bit, this is one division. The division in front of them in the longer video is in step. This isn't "the whole army is going to refuse" but this may be, "some units are fed up enough to make it clear they don't want to play, which is saying a lot."
Any division that exists needs to be cultivated. The way you cultivate that is absolutely not by lumping them all together. Some of the military voted for Trump, some don't care, some hate him. All of them are being treated like shit right now. All of them swore an oath to defend the constitution. Some of them probably know what that means.
I'm absolutely not a fan of the military, but I will take every opportunity I can to humanize these folks. Look for every opportunity you can to remind them that they are welcome on our side whenever they're ready to actually fulfill their oath, and we will appreciate every subtle bit of resistance they give to those who are violating it in the meantime.

Which part of the Oath of Enlistment do you think Marines in LA will uphold?
"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

The latest executive order from Trump administration removed the following sentence from a previous executive order.
" e) Open source software plays a critical role in Federal information systems."
🔗 https://www…

Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation's Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency

I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
https://youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw

Trump is a fascist scumbag whose regime, backed by a complicit Roberts Court, is dismantling democracy, enforcing ethnic cleansing, and crowning himself dictator while trampling the Constitution and human rights.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/07/01

Protest the Weapons Industry Gala night of the year
5:00pm Thursday July 10
National Convention Centre
27 Constitution Ave, Canberra
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/protest-weapons-industry-gala-night-year

Protest the Weapons Industry Gala night of the year
War and genocide are good for business. That’s what the Defence Industry Awards 2025 are celebrating: war, death, destruction —and how best to profit from them. Join us to protest genocide and the war profiteers. And let’s tell the Albanese government to end two-way arms trade with Israel, dump AUKUS, impose full sanctions and close US bases in Australia. The Australian government and defence industries MUST • STOP ARMING ISRAEL • Stop the two-way arms trade with Israel • FULL sanct…

#GiftLink - "His barbed speeches, viewed tens of millions of times, have cast the president as an “incendiary emperor” and suggested that “never before has anyone so trampled on the Constitution.”
This French Senator Has Become Trump’s European Nemesis - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/world/europe/france-senator-malhuret-trump-europe.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OU8.up5W.vhxolyqM8H7P&smid=url-share

Happy Constitution Day Denmark!
A short history of Greenland, in six maps
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/06/04/a-short-history-of-greenland-in-six-maps?giftId=eed38d68-7aa9-468b-9b2c-32bfca227c11&utm_campaign=gifted_article

At some point, the Supreme Court will have shredded the US Constitution so much that we need to start over after the war.
#constitution #scotus #CivilWar

SEC accuses GOP-linked Georgia lender of $140M Ponzi scheme (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2025/07/sec-accuses-gop-linked-georgia-lender-of-140m-ponzi-scheme/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p158#a250710p158

We are barely 6 months into #TheAmericanFascist Presidency and we already find ourselves with fundamental rights in the American Constitution under direct threat and the power of the judiciary to enforce and check the power of the President being pulled back.
And Democratic Party members seem to be all talk and very very little action or leadership to counter this.
Are they waiting for the midterms to take back Congress?
At this pace, surely they see the risk that there may not BE midterms. Or that the results are negated, disputed or invalidated.
I can’t fathom how they are not removing themselves from Congress now in protest and calling for a general protest/strike of all freedom loving Americans to restore the constitution, force the Trump appointed fascist enabling judges to resign, and force Trump and his Administration to go.
July 4th is coming. Independence Day? Or not? Democracy or not?
#usa

“What Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s family is going through is just unimaginable,”
says Baltimore-based journalist Baynard Woods,
“but it is also what we’ve all allowed to happen over generations of letting the drug war and our deference to police departments erode the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution,
which should protect us all from illegal search and seizure,
such as these seizures that ICE is committing all around the country right now.”

What the government can do to you without due process
The Trump administration is pushing immigrants into a legal black hole created by America’s failed drug war.

1000 words.

"The administration’s claims to monarchical power are a real threat to America’s constitutional order. But its executive orders and policy feints are so haphazard and poorly articulated that they amount to a kind of autocratic takeover written in smudge-able crayon: terrifying, cartoonish, and vulnerable to erasure, all at once.
This is not to say that Americans should ignore Trump’s efforts to make confetti of the Constitution. Rather, when evaluating any one Trump policy, one has to keep front of mind the possibility that it simply won’t exist by the end of the week. Despite an energetic effort by some right-wing intellectuals to make Trump out to be some kind of 14-dimensional-chess player, his approach doesn’t resemble chess so much as a denial-of-service attack on a functioning government."
#USPolitcs
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-self-destructive-agenda/683013/

In the United States, the power to use military force, including ordering airstrikes, is not granted explicitly to the President in the U.S. Constitution. Rather, this authority comes from Congress's power to declare war and grant the President the authority to take military action under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution. This authority is further developed through the War Powers Resolution of 1973, which places limits on the President's ability to deploy U.S. forces into hos…

Authoritarianism and the decentring of the constitution
https://ift.tt/Ar46wTX
by Mayur Suresh The impetus for this project stems from a disquiet, felt by so many in different…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Authoritarianism and the decentring of the constitution
by Mayur SureshThe impetus for this project stems from a disquiet, felt by so many in different parts of the world, of the arrival of authoritarian strongmen who had been elected to power. As Kim Scheppele’s influential article tells us, “By now, we know the pattern” of a charismatic leader elected to power, on the back of a wave of popular disenchantment with the state. This leader promises to wipe away the roadblocks that he says have held the country back: established elites, oppos…

Trump White House puts preschool funding first on its list of "woke programs" to be eliminated.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cuts-to-Woke-Programs-Fact-Sheet.pdf

We can’t trust this administration with unchecked power
— especially not when it’s holding hands with the billionaires building machines that could replace us.
Trump’s second term is already a constitutional demolition derby:
ICE raiding sanctuary cities with no due process.
Mass deportation orders streamlined through algorithmic “targeting” lists.
Tariff trade wars launched without congressional oversight— crashing small businesses, jacking up prices, creating glo…

How Do We Stop Trump, Thiel & Their Approaching AI Autocracy?
A Human Sovereignty Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Well worth reading this story of a dedicated guardian of the American People and the US Constitution, and the enemies within who forced them from their post.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/goodbye-to-all-that

FFOTUS has tossed our US Constitution into the paper shredder and disclaimed any restraints on his powers.
OK. Then....
Congress can play the same game - it can hire its own armed forces. (How and where it gets the money is an exercise left to the reader.)
And generals, more likely colonels, in the US military can say "we don't need no stinkin' commander-in-chief to tells us what to do." This would bring on a good 'ol South American Banana Republic …

X sues New York, claiming a law requiring social media companies to disclose how they deal with hate speech and disinformation violates the US Constitution (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I donated to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
https://www.brennancenter.org/
"The Brennan Center for Justice is an independent, nonpartisan law and policy organization that works to reform, revitalize, and when necessary, defend our country’s systems of democracy a…

'Aaron Fritschner, deputy chief of staff for Rep. Beyer (D-Va.) observed that Trump's tariff letter to S. Korea was a violation of the KORUS trade agreement between S. Korea and the U S that was ratified by Congress in 2007, under Bush's administration. "The Constitution gives control of trade policy entirely to Congress, POTUS has no legal authority to do this"'
'Utter buffoon': 'Senile' Trump mocked over letters he had 'no legal authority' to send - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump/trump-mocked-senile/

For no reason, here’s a piece I wrote in 2018 about the #SupremeCourt for @… on #race,

Travel ban decision follows the Supremes' record of racial classification
(RNS) — The high court’s ruling Tuesday is not surprising. When it comes to welcoming people to America, the court almost never acts for the rights promised in the U.S. Constitution without first denying them.

Making a Gil Scott-Heron mix tape for some friends. "Winter in America" really hits hard.
The Constitution, a noble piece of paper
Would free society. It struggled but then died in vain
And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner
Hoping for some rain
It's winter in America
And all of the healers have been killed or betrayed
It's winter in America
Ain't nobody fighting
‘Cause nobody knows what to save
Save your soul

Welcome all Americans who wish to join a moral movement in defense of: 
Freedom, Equality, Justice and
The Constitution
https://www.thesaveamericamovement.org/

The Save America Movement
We welcome all Americans who wish to join a moral movement in defense of freedom, equality, justice and the Constitution.

"term-limited Trump would run roughshod on the Constitution with little to no interference from the other two branches of government."
'We knew': Analyst who predicted worst Trump abuses says they're 'all coming to pass' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-abuses-washington-post/

https://www.impeachtrumpagain.org/ reminder to please sign this if you haven’t already

IMPEACH TRUMP. AGAIN.
Impeach Trump. Sign the petition NOW to defend democracy and demand accountability! He is disqualified from office, and has violated the U.S. Constitution.

Keep the pressure on the very few republicans who know none of this is okay
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lr3xaxp7m22l

Looks like nuGoebbels is setting the stage for the US President to not just ignore, but declare the US Constitution invalid and no longer in force.
#Autocracy #Authoritarian #Fascism #NeoNazi #Nationalism
https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/114660795243249473

Today's SCOTUS ruling on the maximum scope of district and circuit (appellate) court rulings is going to create a hierarchy of zones in the US.
These zones will align with the boundaries of the Federal courts (and thus may be altered by Congress).
Some of these zones will have more freedom - such as those in California - and some will will have less - such as those in Texas.
We are slowing moving the US away from the Constitution and back towards the failed Articles of …

Salaires minimums
Le Conférence des chefs des départements cantonaux de l’économie publique signale au Conseil national que la loi soumise «viole clairement» la répartition des compétences entre la Confédération et les cantons, telle qu’inscrite dans la Constitution fédérale, et porte ainsi «gravement atteinte» Š l’autonomie des cantons. Son adoption entraînerait une «insécurité juridique», avec l’existence de «deux lois parallèles et contradictoires»
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/sous-la-coupole-le-parlement-menace-les-salaires-minimums-genevois-et-neuchatelois

Fellow citizens: What are you going to do between now and July 4, 2026, to protect and preserve our independence from a tinpot dictator❓
So, fellow citizens, I ask you:
Bow down to authoritarianism and normalize anti-democratic behavior.
Or
Reflect on the challenges facing the nation and become an advocate for policies that align with liberty, freedom, sovereignty, democracy, and the principles enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
This is your America. The choice …

Give Me Liberty or a Tinpot Dictator
Peggy Noonan has been a voice of conservative reflection for The Wall Street Journal since leaving the Ronald Reagan administration as his primary speechwriter. Five of Noonan’s books have been New York Times bestsellers. Consuming every word of her weekly column keeps me politically balanced.In her...

And I thought it was radical little me and my trouble maker lefty friends that thought Trump mighy turn out very very badly.
What happens to Canada when the US President is completely unbound by the constitution?
😬 🔫 🇺🇸
#uspoli #canpoli #cdnpoli #never51 #americanfascism #TheAmericanFascist
https://journa.host/@w7voa/114662211197379834

Hispanic reporter arrested at protest now in ICE custody, faces deportation (Lautaro Grinspan/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
https://www.ajc.com/news/2025/06/hispanic-reporter-arrested-at-protest-now-in-ice-custody-faces-deportation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p120#a250618p120

While it may not feel like it since January,
the rule of law still matters.
The U.S. remains a signatory to dozens of international agreements related to the use of force,
which ultimately protect our national security interests.
We have a raft of U.S. laws, including a Constitution and Bill of Rights,
that determine how and when our nation may legally engage in conflict abroad.
We are ill-served as a public when the most crucial decision a government can …

Trump endangers US by ignoring rule of law – Marin Independent Journal - EUROPE SAYS
Congressional approval for military engagement still matters. Here’s why.

'What if the next president issues an executive order: we're collecting all the guns. We're collecting them all tomorrow, we're going house to house, and we interpret the Constitution. The 2nd Amend. is saying, well, we're only talking about militia. And that's, oh, I don't know, the National Guard. Therefore, your AR-15 is now going to be collected by our authorities.'
**Supreme Court just opened the door for the government to grab guns: legal expert** - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-guns-major-ruling/

If Trump embodies the theory of the “unitary executive,” it’s because conservative jurists like John Roberts and Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have
— along with their Republican-appointed colleagues
— effectively rewritten the Constitution to allow for the exercise of virtually unaccountable power by Republican presidents.
Yes, you can attribute some of the worst of this administration to the specific authoritarian vision of Trump and his allies.
But a good deal of…

Opinion | Now Can We Stop Talking About What a Maverick Trump Is?
The president is a normie Republican. Stop thinking otherwise.

Preston Damsky is a law student at the University of Florida.
He is also a white nationalist and antisemite.
Last fall, he took a seminar taught by a federal judge on “originalism,”
the legal theory favored by many conservatives that seeks to interpret the Constitution based on its meaning when it was adopted.
In his capstone paper for the class, Mr. Damsky argued that the framers had intended for the phrase “We the People,” in the Constitution’s preamble, to refer exc…

A White Nationalist at University of Florida Wrote a Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
The University of Florida student won an academic honor after he argued in a paper that the Constitution applies only to white people. From there, the situation spiraled.

Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending
The Supreme Court will hear a significant campaign finance case next term
that will examine whether it violates the Constitution to restrict the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with individual candidates.

The national Republican senatorial and congressional committees,
then-Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio)
and then-Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) filed suit over the limits…

Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending
The Republicans who sued are asking the Supreme Court to lift restrictions on how much political parties can spend on candidates, saying they violate free-speech protections.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
issued a scathing dissent in response to the Supreme Court’s majority opinion on Friday
that limited federal judges’ ability to temporarily pause Donald Trump’s executive orders nationwide.
The 6-3 decision, authored by Trump-appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett, allows the president to implement his order to end automatic birthright citizenship as litigation on the matter continues.
As The New York Times reported,
“the practice of g…

Supreme Court ruling on nationwide injunctions sparks fiery dissent from Justice Jackson
The Biden appointee said the Trump administration “wants to continue doing something that a court has determined violates the Constitution.”

Ranked choice voting expansion in Maine sent to Gov. Mills
Proponents say a court case in Alaska casts doubt on a Maine Law Court advisory opinion that the voting method violates the Maine Constitution
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/06/18/ran

Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran-war-senate?source=bluesky&medium=directpost

Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran
The American people do not want to enter Netanyahu’s war with Iran. American involvement would not only put our troops into harm's way, but risk escalating an already volatile situation into all-out regional conflict. Unfortunately, Trump is engaging in wildly dangerous provocations in the press and on social media. We know we cannot trust this would-be authoritarian to diplomatically de-escalate this conflict and save lives. Fortunately, there’s something we can do about it. Our Constituti…

Trump appears eager to create optics that support his claim that public dissent constitutes an existential threat to the nation.
He also apparently seeks to get the American public used to seeing our armed forces in a new light.
In the president’s version of America, the military should be seen less as an apolitical body loyal to the Constitution.
-- Rather, it should be viewed as an institution that serves at the behest of a leader and his ideological and political agen…

Opinion | Trump Wants You to Get Used to This
The president wants to get Americans used to seeing the armed forces in a new light.