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Reforms Underway in Lyut Assault Brigade: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/05/reforms-underway-in-lyut-assault.html

This week’s post jumps from Super Bowl ticket prices to Oklahoma’s new steps toward transparency on asset forfeiture—and then into a long-running fight over casket sales and licensing. Sports, policy, and skepticism included. 🏈⚖️
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/foo…

Football Dreams, Government Overreach, and Small Businesses Pushing Back – Bob Mueller
Super Bowl prices, Oklahoma reforms, and a look at why asset forfeiture transparency and licensing laws matter to regular people.

"Rubbish and recycling in England: what’s changing and why it matters"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Recycling

As many expected,
the Trump administration has persisted in waging its war on Iran without congressional authorization.
In doing so, the White House  continues to act in violation of not only the U.S. Constitution and the UN Charter,
but also the 60-day deadline on unauthorized hostilities imposed by the War Powers Resolution (WPR).
What’s new is the White House argument in a May 1st letter to Congress that the WPR’s 60-day clock stopped because the “hostilities that…

Ongoing Iran War Reveals Necessary War Powers Reforms
It is Congress’s responsibility to assert its constitutional prerogatives with respect to the use of force and to rein in a lawless executive.

Open dumping & failed reforms bury Sri Lankan cities in waste problem https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/open-dumping-failed-reforms-bury-sri-lankan-cities-in-waste-problem/

Open dumping & failed reforms bury Sri Lankan cities in waste problem
COLOMBO — As Sri Lankans celebrate the traditional New Year on April 14 each year, a period marked by family gatherings and renewal, there are no celebrations at Keerthirathna Perera’s home anymore. In 2017, the Perera family was in celebration mode in their two-level home in Meethotamulla, in western Sri Lanka. But their festive lunch […]

Football Dreams, Government Overreach, and Small Businesses Pushing Back
From Super Bowl ticket shock to Oklahoma policy changes, this post reflects on football fandom, small-business fights, and why new transparency rules around asset forfeiture matter for civil liberties and everyday people more than most realize.

Football Dreams, Government Overreach, and Small Businesses Pushing Back – Bob Mueller
Super Bowl prices, Oklahoma reforms, and a look at why asset forfeiture transparency and licensing laws matter to regular people.

In my view, the SEND reforms are in the right direction but will fail because insufficiently funded.
Send reforms not enough to fix ‘broken’ system | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/send-reforms-not-enough-fix-broken-system…

No shortcuts for Ukraine's EU accession, Dutch FM says. Reforms key to progress: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/05/no-shortcuts-for-ukraines-eu.html

Africa’s Data Protection Reforms: A Continental Perspective on the Drivers of Change in Legal Frameworks
https://fpf.org/blog/africas-data-protection-reforms-a-continental-perspective-on-the-drivers-of-change-in-lega…

Jeffries: Democrats 'steadfast' in demands for ICE reforms (Mike Lillis/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5743946-jeffries-democrats-ice-reforms/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p96#a260218p96

Time and again in the communist bloc, economic reformers from Moscow to Pyongyang planned to introduce rationality and markets into planning.
They often thought they had won the argument,
-- and not just among dissidents in labor camps but at the highest levels of their Politburos.
Yet almost every time, their proposed reforms were either whittled down to nothing before implementation, or passed and then reversed after a few months or years.
Why?
These reformers …

Why communist reformers always lost
Communism had reforming optimists too. Their failure can help today’s reformers to avoid the same fate.

"Reform’s Operation Restore Justice is nothing less than the total mobilisation of state power for the sole purpose of attacking those deemed unworthy of being in the UK. We need to be very clear about this. If you think what is happening in the US cannot happen here, you are simply not paying attention."
Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover

Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover
See | Hear | Act | Do

OpenAI's economic agenda is oddly socialist and wildly hypocritical, and is largely undermined by OpenAI's support for Republicans who attack welfare programs (Eric Levitz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/485461/openai-economic-policy-superpac-sam-altm…

OpenAI is pivoting to…socialism?
Last week, OpenAI endorsed a long list of highly progressive economic reforms. And yet, the company’s leadership is bankrolling Republican opponents of the welfare state.

The US Congress has passed a 45-day extension of a law that grants US intelligence agencies warrantless spying powers.
Bitter infighting over section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in the Republican wing of Congress has repeatedly tanked conservative leaders’ plans to renew the controversial surveillance law for multiple years.
The deadlock continued on Thursday, as the Republican House speaker Mike Johnson refused to include key reforms pushed by hardliners in …

"Reform’s Operation Restore Justice is nothing less than the total mobilisation of state power for the sole purpose of attacking those deemed unworthy of being in the UK. We need to be very clear about this. If you think what is happening in the US cannot happen here, you are simply not paying attention."
Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover.

Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover
See | Hear | Act | Do

So, we got zero meaningful reforms of ICE/CBP, which already has enough funding from last year’s bill to run for years. Do I have that right?

Thousands of teachers affiliated with the CNTE, a teachers’ union, marched through Mexico City on March 18,
setting up a 72-hour protest camp in the Zocalo square to demand salary increases and the repeal of education and pension reforms.
https://bsky.app/profile/reuters.com/p…

Reuters (@reuters.com)
Thousands of teachers affiliated with the CNTE, a teachers’ union, marched through Mexico City on March 18, setting up a 72-hour protest camp in the Zocalo square to demand salary increases and the repeal of education and pension reforms.

Hungary’s incoming leader aims to tackle corruption,
the previous administration’s influence,
and dependence on Russia.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/15/hungary-peter-magyar-tisza-fidesz-orban-election-sulyok…

Magyar’s Big Plans for Budapest
Hungary’s incoming leader aims to tackle corruption, the previous administration’s influence, and dependence on Russia.

EU says no shortcut to Ukraine reforms amid 2027 membership speculation: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/eu-says-no-shortcut-to.html

'Dramatic changes are necessary': Hakeem Jeffries defends Democrats' push for ICE reforms amid funding fight (Dana Bash/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/02/08/politics/video/house-minority-leader-hakeem-jeffries-dhs-funding-gov-shutdown-trump-obamas-elections
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p43#a260208p43

Love this for them...
#MAGA #corruption #vote #resist #impeach

One of the main areas of pushback that Republican leadership in Congress has faced in trying to pass an extension of "section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (Fisa) is push to keep the bill “clean”,
-- despite GOP hardliners insisting that reforms and additions are needed.
Some members of the conference, like Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, have said that
if Donald Trump’s sweeping voter ID bill ends up falling off th…

Government proposes yet another revision to the NPPF (Planning Framework) for England and Wales.
Here's what we said about the last one.
Open Letter about NPPF to GM Labour MPs | Steady State Manchester https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/01/1…

Open Letter about NPPF to GM Labour MPs
This open letter has been sent to Greater Manchester labour MPs. It raises a series of concerns about the government’s planning reforms, as set out in the new National Planning Policy Framewo…

A new law in Argentina, approved on Wednesday by 137 votes to 111, with three abstentions,
will enable provincial authorities to decide which glaciers are protected and which are open for development based on whether they represent a “relevant water function”
“What is at stake is the protection of key water reserves in Argentina,”
says Andrés Nšpoli, a lawyer and executive director of the Foundation of Environment and Natural Resources (Farn), an environmental and human rig…