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International Nuclear Watchdog Issues Stark Warning in Wake of US Iran Strikes | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/international-nuclear-watchdog-warning-iran-strikes/?utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=owned&utm_content=bufferec702&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=aud-dev

Trump is not only breaking down the USA political system for a dictatorship, but he is also wrecking the international checks and balances and the diplomacy and replacing it with chaos and arbitrary erratic violence...

Clear and present danger ahead...

The on Friday rejected a measure that would have forced to go to for approval of another strike against [he was supposed to for the first]. The resolution had little chance of succeeding in a -controlled & Trump lick-spittle Congress.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/trump-war-powers-iran-strike.html?smid=url-share

You can blow the limbs off a child. Fine. No problem at all. You can murder journalists, doctors & academics. You can evaporate entire families. You can starve thousands of people to death. You can burn children to a crisp. And you will NOT BE CONDEMNED BY THIS OF A GOVT.

But non-violently spray a bit of paint on an -enabling Elbit facility or on some RAF war planes & that makes you a terrorist!

We all need to stand up and say:

started reading History and Politics of Star Wars by Chris Kempshall

Chris Kempshall: History and Politics of Star Wars No rating

I've decided to start this book, after watching the recent excellent video on the #StarWars Series #Andor by #transwoman youtuber Jessie Gender (www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjMsPsaVyr8), which cites this study multiple times. I also feel that this could be an interesting tengential approach to the issue of #autoritarism and #fascism, as it appears that George Lucas' political messages (because, yes, Star Wars has always been political and well, woke) is based more on a popular idea of what #dictatorship and #imperialism are based more than on pure historical and political science theory. This is like looking at something from the embossed traces it left on the ground. It might also help me choose my next readings on these topics, while making for a really agreable reading, as I'm now quite exhausted and not in the state to digest more complexe analysis.

How Reframed the Star Wars - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjMsPsaVyr8
This is yet another excellent analysis by of probably one of the best TV series as of late. The video is very long, but for good reasons! She goes quite into details about not only the , but also about the art of it, the , the , the , and how it wowes quite an insightful historical and sociological description of how a becomes a .

Trump has sent Marines to a US city.

What the hell is the bar for impeachment any more? Because this sounds like an impeachable act to me.

Look, Trump is going to invoke the Insurrection Act (improperly, obviously, seeing that there is no insurrection happening) and use the military to occupy LA. There seems to be no credible pushback from our representatives against this entirely predictable action.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvg7vxx888kt

How very clever to divert attention from Trump’s dreadful “Big Beautiful Bill” by filling the media with a manufactured spat between him and Elon Musk. If they curate the row well, they should make it last until after the bill has passed and all the damage is done..

Guys like Yarvin exist just to prove to the outside world that Trump and the MAGA movement have nothing to do with Populism and even less with Democracy. This is a pro-authoritarianism, pro-dictatorship, pro-centralization movement. The end-goal is absolute power for the Sovereign.

"A decade on, with the Trumpian right embracing strongman rule, Yarvin’s links to élites in Silicon Valley and Washington are no longer a secret. In a 2021 appearance on a far-right podcast, Vice-President J. D. Vance, a former employee of one of Thiel’s venture-capital firms, cited Yarvin when suggesting that a future Trump Administration “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people,” and ignore the courts if they objected. Marc Andreessen, one of the heads of Andreessen Horowitz and an informal adviser to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has started quoting his “good friend” Yarvin about …

Bonkers. The under is dictating that remove a student editor’s disciplinary record.

"Prior to Mr. Wasserman's Harvard Law School graduation, scheduled to take place on May 29, 2025, HLR must retract the disciplinary action it instituted against him," the DOJ told in the THIRD letter, sent May 23. "Any record of his discipline must be permanently expunged."


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/politics/harvard-law-review-investigation-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=6296BFCD-17CD-4F4F-9A86-5C84648D5823

Still, the department was intent on removing the reprimand from Mr. Wasserman's file inside The Law Review. "Prior to Mr. Wasserman's Harvard Law School graduation, scheduled to take place on May 29, 2025, H.L.R. must retract the disciplinary action it instituted against him," the Justice Department told Harvard in the third letter, sent on May 23. "Any record of his discipline must be permanently expunged." The department also told The Law Review to "retract any instructions to Mr. Wasserman or others to delete responsive documents." It was an extraordinary effort to use federal power on behalf of a friendly witness. Fearing the wrath of the Trump administration, Law Review officials tore up the reprimand and dropped their demand that Mr. Wasserman stop disseminating the documents and that others return or delete them.