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Not everyone agrees...
https://youtube.com/shorts/gcO8dHeKjU0
But I think this assessment may overestimate the competence of the administration (they won't just crash things because their heads are just that full of shit), and may underestimate the ability of the administration (or really, the heritage foundation or other fash planners) to just make some shit up work around any limitation. The use of private donations on the ballroom and to fund military ops is a pretty clear test of that.
No matter what, the government will be shut down. All the things you care about will either be eliminated right now, or slowly over time. That's been happening since the 70's, and even faster since the 90's, so it shouldn't be surprising that it's happening now.
That's the scenario to prepare for, and you should prepare for it even if democrats somehow get control of the government again. Much of the public sector has been privatized and destroyed under democratic administrations.

ICE purposefully rammed their vehicle into a protestor’s truck in California.
In Chicago, federal agents tear gassed local police during a protest.
This is what happens when a wannabe dictator is running the country.
This is why millions of Americans peacefully stood up to defend our rights in the No Kings protests.
Peaceful protest is not a crime. It’s the foundation of our democracy.
I’m Fred Wellman
—Army combat veteran, entrepreneur, dad, MeidasTouch …

California's Prop 50 to combat Trump's blatant rigging of our elections is listed here.
Californians: This is the whole ballgame. Vote YES on Prop 50.
✅ Key Contests This November That Will Shape the Future of Democracy - Democracy Docket
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Key Contests This November That Will Shape the Future of Democracy
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When Clear Skies Cloud Trust: Environmental Cues and the Paradox of Confidence in Government
Xiangzhe Xu, Ran Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23554 https://a…

When Clear Skies Cloud Trust: Environmental Cues and the Paradox of Confidence in Government
Government trust, as a core concept in political economy and public policy research, serves as a fundamental cornerstone of democratic legitimacy and state capacity. This paper examines how environmental conditions, particularly sunlight efficiency, influence reported government trust through both affective and cognitive mechanisms. Leveraging World Values Survey Wave 7 data merged with NASA POWER high-frequency weather data, we propose and validate a novel ``salience and attribution'' mechanis…

Random thought: humans view trees as vulnerable because they can't move out of the way of danger. But consider:
1. A single tree can produce tens of thousands of offspring.
2. Many of those seeds can remain dormant and viable for millennia.
3. Some living trees survive fit millennia themselves.
4. Trees vastly outnumber humans, maybe up to 100:1.
5. Many seeds die, but those that don't have found a niche that supplies them everything they need without having to move.
In contrast, humans:
1. Only produce a few dozen offspring at most. Barely replace their own population.
2. Cannot remain dormant once birthed.
3. Only survive for a century tops. Can only reproduce for maybe half that time.
4. So few of us. Individual humans live hundreds of feet apart, or at least dozens even in the densest cities.
5. Need to constantly burn energy moving around for their next meal. Could starve and die at any time in just a few days if they can't find water.
At a species level, the survival of humans begins to look much more perilous than the survival of many tree species.
Also I forgot to add:
6. Humans kill *each other* all the time. What the fuck humans?!? We have made ourselves our own biggest threat.
Trees do compete locally for water and sunlight and thus do kill each other, but only via circumstance, not intentionally.

Superconvergence of High-order Magnus Quantum Algorithms
Di Fang, Jiaqi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22897 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22897

Superconvergence of High-order Magnus Quantum Algorithms
The Magnus expansion has long been a celebrated subject in numerical analysis, leading to the development of many useful classical integrators. More recently, it has been discovered to be a powerful tool for designing quantum algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation in quantum computing. In particular, surprising superconvergence behavior has been observed for quantum Magnus algorithms applied to the simulation of the Schrödinger equation, with the first- and second-order methods exhibiting doubl…

"Perry, a former Army National Guard brigadier general and combat veteran, said in an interview on “The Chris Stigall Show” last week that Democrats in Congress don’t care about the Constitution or the nation’s defense and suggested they only join the military when they want to run for office. "
Perry's comments roil Democratic veterans - Roll Call
https://rollcall.com/2025/10/22/perrys-comments-roil-democratic-veterans/

Very effective algebraic and hermitian K-theory of the cyclic group of order two
Prerna Dhankhar, Rebecca Field, Arjun Nigam, J. D. Quigley, Albert Jinghui Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25006

Very effective algebraic and hermitian K-theory of the cyclic group of order two
We compute the $2$-completed integral motivic homology, effective algebraic K-theory, and very effective hermitian K-theory of the geometric classifying space of the cyclic group of order two over algebraically closed fields, the real numbers, and finite fields.

Republicans and Democrats pitch competing plans to tackle affordability (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/22/congress-affordability-democrats-republicans/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p6#a251222p6

This quote encapsulates some of my thinking about AI and knowledge creators, language communities: '"Inclusive institutions" reward you for baking more cake. Inclusive institutions like the rule of law, contracts, and open competition ensure that if you invest, you will reap the rewards.
"Extractive institutions" are how elites grab instead of bake cake. 
They siphon state revenues, seize assets, block competition, smother innovation, centralise power, explo…