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Must-read "The mad king's digital killswitch"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics

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.

📈 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.

#PirateABookOrPlay

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

Two unions representing USAGM and VOA employees sue Trump, USAGM, and Kari Lake over an August 28 executive order revoking USAGM collective bargaining rights (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/09/unions-sue-trump-kari-lake-voice-of-america/

Trump, Kari Lake sued for union-busting at Voice of America
The lawsuit claims the August 28 order was retaliation for unions’ litigation and grievances opposing the agency’s dismantlement.

The Tangerine Tyrant is a clear and present danger to the American People and the national security of the United States.
"The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and 'respect for human rights.'"

Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S
The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and "respect for human rights."

Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was walking to a store in 1981
when two members of the United Klans of America abducted the Black youth,
beat him, cut his throat and hung his body from a tree on a residential street in Mobile, Alabama.
Angry that an interracial jury had failed to convict a Black man for killing a white police officer in Birmingham,
the Klansmen selected Donald at random
and lynched him to threaten the Black community.
On the same evening…

Donald v. United Klans of America
Michael Donald Lynching Case Shutting down the notorious United Klans Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was walking to a store in 1981 when two members of the United Klans of America abducted the Black youth, beat him, cut his throat and hung his body from a tree on a residential street in Mobile, Alabama. Angry that an interracial jury had failed to convict a Black man for killing a white police officer in Birmingham, the Klansmen selected Donald at random and lynched him to threaten the B…

I live by the conviction that anarchism is not a fixed goal to be reached, nor a perfect order to be imposed upon life. Every system that claims finality becomes a prison, and every so‑called final solution turns into domination over human beings. Anarchism, for me, stands in opposition to this tendency, it is the refusal to accept limits set by authority, dogma, or any power that seeks to bind the living stream of human development.
To me, anarchism is not the end of history, but the …

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.