CNN: Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/03/16/world/cuba-power-grid-collapse-intl-latam

#disasters #war #power #energy #cuba

I guess it is fair to say that the greatest #curse I have ever witnessed #placed on someone, is the #power of giving up, and/or #failure at the first sign of a #true #challenge as such.

To undo it, you have to just #try again. And in that #moment you realize that #success is #empowered to find you again, after asking to ensure you're still there and committed to hold the balance of power elsewhere by the same #commitment in turn.

I just got called a #Nazi by someone who mentioned me in a post then later deleted it.

So I will call that person a #coward because they can't stand by their convictions the way the Nazis did.

Name calling is so over rated and stupid. Insecure people shouldn't have to be able to influence diversion like this on a constant basis.

this exact response is the reason why centralized platforms target you now.

Here's a fact for you guys.

#Hitlerian ideology existed far longer than the #European attempted #colonization of everything into a #German #Reich which effectively makes #Nazism prone to regional difference, all be it one with the potential #historical #power to have long lasting consequences on the people who at the time, didn't see it coming as satellite states emerged from it.

So let's face it. I'm not #German I'm #Canadian and speak #English and no other #language as such.

For anyone who really wants to know, the term #neonazi exists for people who #self-identify as being simpathetic to Hitlerian doctrine.

I've #studied this extensively, because I think in a lot of ways, we never concluded #WWII completely from the #human #psyche and that is very frustrating to see this #tribal resurgence come back into #living #memory again.

So let's say that the year is 1940 something and not 2020 something. And let's point out the fact, that #National #Communism is an idea that got exported 80 some odd years into the #future to now.

Even if that's the case, the world has changed a lot since that time. And we've gotten stupider as a result of being primarily lazy with our own ambitions.

This is how dumb you guys are for doing this. And I know what you try to #suggest as such. That we are in such a #state of irreparable #disagreement, that this is the best you can come up with to #distance yourself from any sort of wider #context that doesn't fit your #narrative of #people who disagree with you.

So what? Can we not have an honest conversation about a few things without making solutions barred by political disconnectivity? That's exactly what the Nazi's proposed to do accept their solution wasn't just silence, it was death and destruction on a scale that has never truly went away ever since subsequent governments around our world, came into power and upgraded weapons systems continuously while operating elite networks from the shadows. In an effort, to instigate things like the #world #economic #forum and other big #thinktank organizations into a much broader sense of hostility than any of us individually call for as citizens of any and every nation.

I will say it loudly and #proudly as such. I am not someone who wants any group of people to face a premature end of their life on this planet, based on factors that nobody can control. And even if we can, I still want us to live our lives unimpeded by political #violence of any kind. And that includes #faith based groups to get along within #community spaces that do not challenge monomorphic #dominance at every step of the way.

I am disgusted at the #tribalism going on infecting every aspect of a normal #life facing my generation. And to just throw words like this out there, without any existential #planning or forethought on how this entire wretched #ideology can finally meet the dustbin of #history as such, to put it to #rest has no basis in #reality at all.

Look. I'm against people controling my life in ways I don't want them to. But that's true for all of us. So if you're going to name call, just remember that not everyone will take that lying down with a straight face and not move a mustle in the direction of a #fighting stance your way afterward.

I will not react in that manner, because I do put #peace and #prosperity first. And I don't censor people if they have opposing views to my own. But that's me. It's not you, and if you're that much of a coward to the point where you essentially do the same thing, only after you #feel #safe behind a cyber void, all the power to you.

But I bring this up publicly because reputations like this, although they're not supposed to, they actually do effect how highly you rank as a content provider. And on a shared internet, that carries more weight than you might think. Especially in today's toxic divided world where prayer is so much needed more so than ignorance and stupidity, where none can be found.

I don't want to live in a world where people start literally weaponizing eternity over a personal choice of faith. Nor do I want to live in one, where not choosing faith of any kind, let alone mandated ones, will land you as a person who is a continuous victim of statelessness by your actual neighbor in kind.

The Abrahamic religions are a perfect example (one of many in context) that have done more harm to divide people, than any other group in human history combined. And I am not one to book ban, but if those religions want to continue spewing their vile trash all over the place, it's time to set a precedent. But even still, that requires rethinking your approach to lead by example, and not paying attention to the example someone else can't lead by. Which again, makes book banning, the thing the Nazi's did, utterly archaic and barbaric to me

Wake up people. We don't live in a world that's so hard done by, that it can't be repaired. And it starts with refusing to use a tool at your disposal against someone you barely even had words with, because you can.

The only way you'll learn discernment, is by understanding this as a core concept. I have all the tools at my disposal as a server instance owner to really stick it to people if I choose to. But so too does the US government own nuclear weapons to stick it to us if they chose to. And I count my blessings every time I wake up, and we haven't regressed that far into mass destruction to which there is no return. So likewise, because and due to that, I practice discernment out of choice, even when I can legally get away with being a lot harsher. I do not do so out of pity, but out of respect.

So let's take a second and thank the Nazi's for coming into our lives. Not for their ideology, or their vile addiction to power and hatred. But because they taught us, to be better people to not be like them because they failed at suppressing the human spirit.

I don't want to see you pull some shit online you wouldn't in get away with in real life. Not because I want you to be oppressed, but because the more we treat our communities like bridges connecting real people together, the less likely we'll respond to situations with outlandish and stupid methods of containment until and unless we have no other choice but to defend against systematic collapse.

Please know the power of your presence and use it. I don't want to have to be the only one who does. I'm fully aware that I'm not in control of what someone else does. But so long as they're not doing something to you that you wouldn't want, let them be and move on. That's what being responsible gets you in 2026.

I wish I didn't have to spell this out. But honestly, what hurts me more so than the accusation of something that isn't even real. Is that, you use that as a justification to do something that is real, with lasting consequences on not just reputation, but disinterest without a trail of provocation to go along with it. It'd be not unlike setting your neighborhood ablaze because the pizza delivery guy was 5 minutes late.

If this kind of antisocial behaviour isn't course corrected, our 30 something year old generation will be the last to have known the meaning of true freedom as we know it, because people like you, will get more attention by being underhanded, rather than straight up and honest about where we stand. And as such, would force the natural rather than enforced suppression of sudden unpredictability, back where it rightfully belongs. In the could have been moments of our lives, but not in the never were enactments of them.

Or in other words, focusing on the self you become not as a hot headed entity, or a cold calculating monster. But the one in between, that sees both sides, and not just the one you embody because you think it's going to matter to a fault, rather than a cause.

Stay informed, and know you are not alone in caring for the same things I do. History doesn't always get things right, but that's why we talk about it, rather than remaining silent and hoping it goes away on its own.

For some situations, that can happen. But this isn't one of them.

Thank you for all that you are. I appreciate you.

I am writing an open #letter to all #political sides as an #introduction to #hope I wish to turn #hurt away from and closer into as such through #affirmative #action accordingly if at all possible.

Let me start out by saying, that I #believe in the #power of real human prayer as #unbound #energy finding its way through us. And in turn, I'm no #religious #person by and large, but I am going to send this #prayer out there anyways because I feel it needs to be #said as is.

This will be a prayer covering several #topics of conversation that I #feel are important and significant enough to relay as one broadcast.

#extremism

To all #people I #pray that:
You realize living on your own #political #island sounds great in theory, be it on the #left or the #right of the spectrum. Or even at the #top or #bottom of it as well. But being unable to find or care for the #center of it, leaves you #vulnerable to #attack more so than anything else. And that is not a state of things I #desire for you to have to #live by.

#awareness

I pray that:
As #individuals you #collectively and #personally #understand that there are differences between the #perception of how you come across to others, and how others #perceive you in turn. It is okay to have a #difference of opinion, but to be #blind sighted by this, leaves you open to being #weaponized and I do not #wish that for you to have to #experience at all.

#sovereignty
I pray that:
You can #recognize how someone wants to be able to experience #respect without having to diverge or divulge your #interest in a #potential #conflict as such. In order for us to be able to #trust each other, we have to #remember how to #treat one another as #equals rather than constantly #competing for #dominance based on denying that there #exists a spectrum of #agreeability at play that we are all apart of.

#CommonSense
I pray that:
We keep building upon #frameworks that do not need to become a totally separate #foundation that exists just to serve you. But rather, exist as #modular #blocks that can join and detach from one another as already built #structures full and complete. This way, we are not trying to conflict over what block we have to share space with someone else in prioritizing. Because the entire thing is ours to shape in our own way. And so as a #metaphor, I feel it is #important to attach to the idea of having a sense in common, as opposed to a common sense where applicable, of things that cause us to #fight over how #relevant it is to most of us around the #actual or #planned #change currently in motion.

#battles
I pray that:
We are able to tell when to be #still and when to #move upon any #focus that #captivates us in part. Whether it exists as apart of a #whole or not. Doing so will help us make the best #impact #possible for the change we want to make a #reality for the #cause we are #concerned for.

And ultimately, I pray that we can move past the blatant need to have an #existential #crisis be on full display at the #crossroads of #agendas being carried out as they are each in turn, #instigated by #georegional #tribalism that serves nobody accept to put #humanity as a whole last, not first, as I intend to do.

All of these things are #real and can be #fixable and #doable as such. And I want to make sure, that this reality does not have a chance to get far out of #control the way it currently has.

For it is #outcomes like this, that #incomes should never have appropriately #manifested into #place that I want to #avoid and keep #preventable from ever #happening again.

To me, I find it very #unfortunate that we are living through #times of such blatant #hardship that should not have to be so unnecessary in today's day and age. For in this latest #protest #style #news #video we see this very inteersection of mounting, preventable #activities #culminating all at once in a display of #violent #behaviour best #repurposed for other #interests in my #opinion acordingly.

#posted by #YouTube #reactor and #media #podcaster #RebelNews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjT3kK5lHKk

In #America #israel and #Canada or anywhere else in our #world we should not have to worry about #migration #problems at home #effecting the #symptom of #indifference at the #core of #ineffective #deference as such. Rather, if we simply #agree to #adapt our time towards #focusing on the #things we can #bear #witness to as our own #personal #legacy then I say we have done enough for our #community be it or we tied to a particular #faith or not.

I say this, in my own #human name for all it is worth. Because that is who I am now, and if any #guardian #angel believes this to be #true then all I ask, is that you add yours to this prayer and pass it forward.

Thank you for your #attention to this #matter as such. I #appreciate it and you very much for the #blessing that you are.

I think some of the strange shifts we're seeing in high-profile folks in tech who already had authoritarian impulses---which, let's be real, is uncomfortably common among tech workers---is that they are groping for ways to embrace taking power that do not run afoul of other values they've endorsed. This really can't be done unless the person was already pretty antisocial, so we see weird behavior such as running self-serving "surveys" about AI with foregone conclusions, microaggressions and dissembling, attacks and other forms of hostility, being "one shotted" or conflating a computer program with humanness, etc. It's really a general problem, in that view, given how the US regime has shifted away from social democracy/liberalism into a much more brash, violent, and authoritarian stance. There are a variety of ways to cope with such a shift, one being to embrace it while bursting into a cloud of internal contradictions.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #tech #dev #software #power

People who hate wind generated power and solar energy always start talking about how those are "bad for birds" like that talking point from the 90's would have ever been relevant. These same people also never fight exessive logging, never support biodiversity even in their own yards, or help local birds in any way.

If you care about birds -save forests.

Tech has evolved and birds are more aware of the windfarm blades than you are of your surroundings.

#solar #water #power #bethechange

In this #HotTake I explore the idea that #authoritarianism and #communism are not the same thing.

To cling to authority, means to give your #power of decision making away to somebody else.

To prioritize a particular group of people, in a community, means to give them the first deal available that's close at hand.

“Iran is a country of 92 million people with a 2,500-year-old civilization that once rivaled the ancient Greeks and Romans. Its historical self-image is that of a major civilizational #power, not a peripheral state that can be pressured by other countries.”
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-attack-02-28-26-hnk-intl

The secretive network offers a glimpse into just how central one of the world’s richest men, who has a net worth of more than $650 billion, has made #Texas to his operations & ambitions. More than 50 of his at least 90 companies there are subsidiaries or other entities affiliated with his #business #empire, such as the rocket company #SpaceX & the electric vehicle maker #Tesla, as well as his nonprofit #Musk Foundation.

#law #fraud #elite #impunity #money #power

The Times’s examination also offers a window into how #Musk used private #companies to support #Trump during the 2024 #election. Tapping these companies to cover the expenses of a #superPAC is “highly unusual”, #CampaignFinance experts said, & ended up obscuring how #money was being spent because they are not subject to the disclosure requirements of super PACs.

#law #business #fraud #elite #impunity #power #billionaires

Marcin Romanowski, the former deputy justice minister in the right-wing Polish government, is in hiding in Hungary, accused of misusing public funds. The former #PrinceAndrew — #AndrewMountbattenWindsor — became the first member of the British #royal family in several centuries to be arrested; he’s been accused of crimes related to his relationship with the late #SexTrafficking financier Jeffrey #Epstein.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

They’re all unfortunate not to be “American”. Otherwise they probably would have gotten away scot-free.

One way to look at the rise of Donald #Trump is as part of a decades-long backlash among the American leadership class to the idea of #accountability. Since Richard #Nixon was forced to resign, powerful people in both political parties have worked assiduously to ensure that their leaders would escape the consequences of their actions.

#US #law #power #plutocracy

#Trump has evaded punishment for #crimes both low (campaign-finance violations, for which he was #convicted, though he will serve no time thanks to his 2024 victory) & high (his attempted overthrow of the federal government in the aftermath of his #2020election loss, for which he was spared by #SCOTUS’ decision to grant him a kingly #immunity).

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

This is not just about #Trump; his #impunity is the product of a society that has worked hard to help the #rich & #powerful elude punishment for #criminal behavior.

Gerald #Ford pardoned his predecessor [#Nixon] in the name of “healing,” but inadvertently set a precedent that executive lawbreaking was no #crime.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

The #Reagan admin engaged in blatant violations of federal #law during the #IranContra scandal, in which it sold weapons to the #Iran regime & used the finances to support anti-communist death squads in #Nicaragua. George H. W. #Bush, the former head of the #CIA, pardoned nearly all of the officials implicated in Iran-Contra—a move that many Americans supported, because they believed that fighting communism justified extreme measures.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

George W. #Bush’s admin broke laws fighting the “War on Terror” but almost no one faced consequences, because many Americans believed that fighting terrorism justified extreme measures.

Bill #Clinton lied under oath, was impeached, & then was acquitted—& many Americans supported that too, because they sympathized with lying about infidelity.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

After that, #Congress decided in bipartisan fashion that it had had enough of special counsels sniffing around the #ExecutiveBranch. Barack #Obama pledged to look forward & not backwards, not only closing the door on prosecutions for executive lawbreaking but also failing to hold accountable those responsible for the 2008 financial crisis & the ensuing #GreatRecession.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

While #Congress & the presidency have been working hard to raise the #ExecutiveBranch above the #law, #SCOTUS has done its part to ensure that laws against #bribery & #corruption are near-unenforceable. With a series of rulings on #CampaignFinance, the #JohnRoberts Court has ensured that the #rich can try to buy #elections without formally breaking the law. As a result, #politicians are #indebted to a few hundred #billionaires who drop unholy amounts of cash every #election cycle.

#US #power

Such erosion of anti-#corruption #law has often been a bipartisan project. In 2016, the #bribery conviction of fmr VA Gov Bob McDonnell for receiving gifts from donors was overturned unanimously by #SCOTUS. Since then, the #JohnRoberts Court has slowly dismantled anti-corruption law. In 2024, it decided in Snyder v. United States that federal law does not bar receiving “gratuities” given after the fact for “official acts.”

#US #accountability #power #plutocracy

Convenient not just for politicians, but also for justices who enjoy lavish lifestyles funded by #billionaires with interests before #SCOTUS!

The logic of the #JohnRoberts Court’s quest to legalize white-collar #crime led to #Trump v. United States, which decided in 2024 that the president is basically entitled to commit whatever #crimes he wants in the course of his “official duties,”

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

Which successfully shields #Trump & potentially future presidents from federal #criminal prosecution for any “official” actions while in office. This was comically framed by #SCOTUS’ right-wing justices as protecting #democracy, rather than undermining it.

Although some of these decisions were more defensible than others, together they suggest a pattern of #elite class solidarity: powerful people making sure that powerful people rarely face real consequences.

#US #law #accountability #power

The #MeToo & Black Lives Matter [#BLM] movements can be seen as, at least partially, a brief rebellion against this culture of #elite #impunity. Left with few formal avenues for redress, large numbers of people demanded that the powerful—bosses & celebrities who had used their status to coerce others into sexual relationships, or police officers who had used their authority to kill without consequence—be made to pay a price for hurting others.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

An echo of that earlier outrage followed the revelations of the #EpsteinFiles, though this round has so far been diverted into mutual partisan recrimination, more than the focus on institutional changes that characterized those earlier movements.

This is not to say that the rich & powerful are never held to account. #BobMenendez is one counterexample, & #Epstein himself was a #billionaire who died in a jail cell, after all.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

But #Epstein’s #crimes were taken seriously by authorities only after the #journalist #JulieBrown uncovered the extent of his crimes & the lenient response from law enforcement over decades.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

Unfortunately, many Americans who might have been outraged at this edifice of #impunity have instead directed their resentment toward the #poor & #weak, supporting a cruel & unforgiving system of #criminal “justice” that harshly punishes those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder while exempting many at the top from any #accountability at all.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

So you did a few death-squad massacres or wedding bombings? Well, that was what America’s leaders had to do to fight communism & terrorism. You can even take a sack of cash from an undercover FBI agent if you’re the #Trump #immigration czar #TomHoman. But if you overstayed your #visa or got an #abortion, you deserve to have the book thrown at you.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

#Trump himself can be seen as benefiting from a backlash against #accountability in the last place powerful people in America seem to face it∶ the court of public opinion. Trump, & other powerful figures, made the public an offer∶ Let us get away with what we want to do, & you will too.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

#GiftArticle

How America [The #US] Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account

Our national project of #elite #impunity

By Adam Serwer

Around the world, powerful men are facing consequences for their actions. Former Brazilian President Jair #Bolsonaro was convicted of trying to overthrow the government in a #Jan6 style #coup, as was his South Korean counterpart, #YoonSukYuol.

#law #accountability #power #plutocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/elite-accountability-powerful-impunity/686134/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxYP6ztvC2RKlz2tQfl1JB90

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." ~ Carl Jung

#quote #love #power #bridge #photography

Alt...

View of a wooden foot bridge in bright sunlight with leafless trees and dried brown fallen leaves covering the ground under a blue sky. A larger bridge of a roadway is in the distance. The railings of the bridge are casting linear shadows across the floor planks ahead.

The fascist fan boy continues to emulate his heroes

#DOJ headquarters has become the latest federal building to display a giant #Trump banner.

Large banners of Trump now hang from multiple federal buildings in Washington, including the nation’s top law enforcement branch, in an unabashed statement of #power & #influence over the #government.

#fascism #strongmen #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/us/politics/trump-banner-doj.html?smid=url-share

The #Constitution gives #Congress the #power to levy #tariffs. But the #Trump administration argued that a 1977 #law allowing the president to regulate importation during “emergencies” also allows him to set tariffs. Other presidents have used the law dozens of times to impose #sanctions, but Trump was the first president to invoke it for #import #taxes.

#law #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #geopolitics #SCOTUS

#Africa #solar #power
#energy
https://apnews.com/article/solar-energy-china-imports-battery-cbf5477a563219881b5db52ae16f7bd6

tl;dr: This #video adds to what #TimothySnyder wrote in the addendum to #OnTyranny.

https://youtu.be/ZekpT8DaV_0

It's not that I disbelieved Timothy Snyder; it's that I listened to the #audiobook of On Tyranny when the rest of my bookclub read the physical book.

That audiobook had an entire bonus section with an additional twenty points centering #Ukraine. Timothy Snyder shared that he'd written these down the previous evening. I was not prepared to communicate about the additional material because it was seriously as long or longer than the original book. I'm sure there's an expanded version out there by now, but as an audiobook listener, I'll let y'all go find it.

Aside: When a random new-to-me channel shows up in my #YouTube feed, I check when it joined. If it's too recent, I pass, regardless of the content. This channel started in 2017.

Today, I was served the random video linked above that ties into Snyder's Ukraine content.

This video affirms everything Snyder said, and adds context like the difference between the #Russian and #Ukrainian #words associated with #power. Like the words for #money and #treasury. Being reminded that #Russia has #Mongol roots added the piece I was missing.

Repeal of the #EndangermentFinding would remove the regulatory requirements to measure, report, certify, & comply with federal #GreenhouseGas emission standards for cars, but may not initially apply to stationary sources such as power plants, officials told the Wall Street Journal earlier this week.

The transportation & #power sectors are each responsible for around a quarter of #US greenhouse gas output, according to #EPA figures.

#Trump #law #PublicHealth #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

The #EndangermentFinding by the #Obama admin is the legal underpinning of nearly all #climate #regulations under the #CleanAirAct for motor vehicles, power plants & other #pollution sources that are heating the planet.
#Legal challenges are certain for an action that repeals all #GreenhouseGas #emissions standards for cars & trucks, & could unleash a broader undoing of climate regulations on stationary sources such as #power plants & #oil & #gas facilities, experts say.
#Trump #law #PublicHealth

They are just gonna learn how to use @tails_live / @tails / #Tails and espechally @torproject / #TorBrowser and continue on...

Remember: "#AgeVerification", like any "#KYC" is #cyberfascist and needs to be opposed as a matter of principle!

• Espechally #Online which is for many the only #SafeSpace they have for #expression, #help, #education and #communication!

  • #SocialMediaBans will only be used as a gateway to prevent people from organizing and is the #gerontocracy's attempt at consolidating #power

It's like banning #minors from buying #newspapers!

#Safety #fascism #AntisocialMedia #SocialMedia #ban #India

@rl_dane

Is it not convenient to just chunk the battery and work with your 19 Volt power adapter?

#ThinkPad #battery #power #eol #technology

“She is campaigning over & over again to get that #pardon from President #Trump, & this president has not ruled it out,” he said. “And so that is why she is continuing to not cooperate with our investigation.”

#law #power #rape #EpsteinFiles

The #House #Oversight Committee will this morning depose #GhislaineMaxwell, the longtime companion of #JeffreyEpstein who is in prison on federal #SexTrafficking charges.

Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence, is expected to invoke her #FifthAmendment right against self-incrimination & decline to answer questions, according to Democratic members of the committee.

#EpsteinFiles #law #power #rape
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/09/us/president-trump-news/ecb9e0ea-9037-5d3c-804f-2bd4a7560c66?smid=url-share

#GhislaineMaxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffrey #Epstein who is serving a federal #SexTrafficking sentence, invoked her #FifthAmendment right in response to every question asked during a deposition before the House #Oversight Cmte on Monday.

Rep Suhas Subramanyam of Virginia, one of the #Democrats on the Oversight Cmte, condemned Ghislaine Maxwell’s pursuit of #clemency during her deposition, but also faulted #Trump for not shutting down the idea.

#law #power #rape #EpsteinFiles

alimcforever is one of the few accounts on IG that gives detailed information based analysis on various topics. They're long but worth it.

Her take on GM is almost overwhelming when you realize the powerful players that are manipulating and taking advantage of ... everything for their own gain.

"Ghislaine Maxwell was not primarily a “madam.” Her documented function was information control and access brokering. The evidence shows three interlocking operations." #epstein #ghislanemaxwell #power #money #history

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUYF_yQjO8x/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

A detailed view of one of my mixing consoles {Yamaha}

Composed in 85F warming light using my Philips Spot Light which I've had since I was a 17 years old teenager!

#Yamaha #JOYO #Console #mixing #faders #potentiometer #AUX #Auxiliary #BUS #gain #Phantom #Power #48V #technology #Audio #music #signal #flow

@haui @antifaintl Granted, those that seeked to start #WW2 did so because their #greed form #money and #power was not saturateable with any actual economy.

1929 happened not in a vacuum, but due to extreme overproduction that exceeded #MarketDemands so extremely that it had to pop as a #BubbleEconomy.

• And OFC not the #Banksters and #Billionaires but #WageWorkers got shafted - like EVERY SINGLE TIME!

Interestingly, the #capitalist - #fascist "#BusinessPlot" in the #USA failed because their attempt to recruit a #USMC #veteran resulted in him blowing the whistle, which the #press at the time that was wholly embedded in it discredited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

Überholen ohne einzuholen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhVOkm8B9z4

Da hat er wohl recht, der @TheMorpheus Linux und die gesamte Open-Source-Bewegung haben in den vergangenen Jahren einen Breakpoint erreicht. Spätestens mit Ollama und Deepseek ist es endgültig und unbestreitbar die absolute Hochtechnologie in allen Bereichen, was Software betrifft. Es ist auch für Unternehmen und Forschungseinrichtungen oder allgemein gesellschaftliche Player keine Frage mehr, ob man das lustige Anarcho-Nerd-Projekt unterstützt, sondern man muss es nutzen, will man irgendwie konkurrenzfähig bleiben. Selbst die deutschen Beamten fahren ihre Ochsenkarren bald mit Linux auch wenn man es ihnen nicht sagen wird, damit sie nicht aufwachen (die Geschichte lehrt uns, dass ein aufgewachter deutscher Beamter eine echte Gefahr für die umliegenden Gemeinden darstellt).

Konnte man als interessierter Freund der Bewegung vor 10 Jahren noch gut informiert sein, welche Projekte gerade am Start sind, ist das heute unmöglich. FOSS ist in alle Bereiche vorgedrungen und die Superschurken haben es nicht gemerkt. So super können die dann nicht sein. Wir haben die Macht übernommen, weil es eine ganz andere Macht ist als die klassischen Machtverhältnisse, die immer zentralisiert sind und waren. Man kann eine demokratische Welt bilden, ohne König, ohne Parlamente, ohne Plenum, und trotzdem oder gerade deswegen auf die einzelnen individuellen Dinge eingehen, auch wenn sie sich widersprechen sollten. Das ist eine vollkommen neue Art, die Welt zu betrachten, und wir sind dabei. Žižek hat vor der Umnachtung immer gesagt „Es kommt darauf an, ihnen die Eier abzuschneiden.“ Und irgendwann schauen sie an sich herunter und fragen sich, wo ihre Eier sind. Und obwohl es schon zu spät ist, haben sie ihre Kastrierung noch nicht mal bemerkt und zombien herum..

https://word.undead-network.de/2026/02/03/ueberholen-ohne-einzuholen/

#foss #oss #linux #opensource #power #freedom #politics #democracy #powertothepeople #community #ollama #deepseek #breakpoint

We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.

You start out of power. You win a war of mass politics—you get enough of the mass of people to support your cause—and this carries you in to state power, which you use to consolidate and further that political project.
#power #resist #resistance
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerlessness-to-power/

Yesterday's @TechConnectify was great!

A much shorter unintentional followup from @hankgreen focusing on the stupidity of coal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfvBx4D0Cms

#USPol #USPoli #USPolitics #Coal #Electricity #ElectrifyEverything #Power

It's high time the world stuck together and turned its collective back on the #USA in every way.

(While watching out for their backstabbing attempts, of course.)

Even if the #US makes it through this #Trump nightmare, the US must NEVER be trusted again. The US is neither reliable or safe.

#power #democracy #RulesBasedOrder #greatpowers #nato #un #us #Europe #newworldorder #middlepowers

“We should not allow the rise of hard powers to blind us to the fact that the #power of #legitimacy, #integrity, & #rules will remain strong — if we choose to wield it together,” #Carney added.

#Trump did not take kindly to those remarks of unity & dignity, responding with #threats in Davos before yanking the “Board of Peace” invitation.

“#Canada lives because of the #UnitedStates. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements,”Trump said.

#MafiaState #geopolitics #law #MadKing

#GiftArticle

Defund #Science, Distort #Culture, Mock #Education

It’s not just about cuts to #research.
It’s about #power.

By Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum

#SevenMountainMandate #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/01/reality-reshaped/685289/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxVCfwC75UsaONz24l2NqAdQ

How #Trump has challenged a constitutional foundation

In his first year back in the White House, Trump has presided over a sweeping expansion of #executive #power while eroding democratic norms.

#law #democracy #Constitution #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary #legislative #Project2025 #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/g-s1-106562/trump-democracy-constitution-executive-power

They grasped a basic truth∶ #Power is more sustainable when it is exercised with restraint, & influence is larger when #allies feel dignity rather than fear.

#US #Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #economy #law #InternationalLaw #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MadKing #WEF

#Trump enjoys using America’s vast #strength — built over generations — almost for sport. He placed #tariffs on #Switzerland, & then raised them sky high because the Swiss president, he said, “rubbed [him] the wrong way.” He relished recounting how quickly the Swiss came to him seeking relief. This was less strategy than a #power play.

#US #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #economy #law #InternationalLaw #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MadKing #WEF

And he adores the #Gulf monarchies because they are swimming in cash, a form of #strength he respects.

This is the opposite of how American leadership has worked in the modern era.

The #US has been the world’s dominant #power for close to a century. But its leaders understood that primacy is not only about #coercion; it is also about #legitimacy, reassurance & voluntary cooperation.

#US #Trump #MafiaState #geopolitics #law #InternationalLaw #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #MadKing

ICE officers can assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, internal memo says
Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people's homes without a judge's warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, as the Trump administration prepares to ramp u...
#immigration #enforcement #power #Maine
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-immigration-enforcement-ice-no-warrants-9.7055362?cmp=rss

hahahaha

PC Gamer: Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-ceo-warns-that-we-must-do-something-useful-with-ai-or-theyll-lose-social-permission-to-burn-electricity-on-it/

#ai #llm #power

Unconstitutional

Federal #immigration officers are asserting sweeping #power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s #warrant, according to an internal #ICE memo obtained by The AP, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.

#Trump #law #Constitution #FourthAmendment #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d

"I’s worth noticing the craft, the composition, and the content of these 17 minutes [of PM Carney] on stage. ...

It made several important ideas 'real,' by naming them. That is one of the most powerful things any piece of writing can do. Through the speech, Carney threaded the idea that world relations were at a rupture, not a 'transition.'”

~ James Fallows

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/8

https://fallows.substack.com/p/a-speech-for-the-history-books

"[Carney] didn’t say Donald Trump’s name, though. He didn’t need to. What he said was calmly, straightforwardly earthshaking enough as it was."

~ Evan Hurst

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/6

https://www.wonkette.com/p/canadian-pm-mark-carney-declares

"As Prime Minister of a country whose own territory it is the stated policy of the US president to annex- and which would be encircled by America if Trump succeeds in his ambition of seizing Greenland – he surely feels both the gravity and urgency of the moment keenly."

~ Simon Nixon

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/7

https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/mark-carneys-speech-showed-america

"A new era of religious leadership in the U.S Catholic Church has dawned — driven by the immoral and destructive extremes of the Trump administration. ... No longer can Catholics within the administration's apparatus or supporters of it twist reality to accommodate policies clearly at odds with Catholic social teaching and the heart of the Christian Scriptures."

~ National Catholic Reporter

#Trump #Catholic #PopeLeo #morality #power
/1

https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/editorial-church-speaks-out-new-era-has-dawned

"We have reached, in our national life, that point of no escaping.

There is no hiding from the inhumanity in depriving the neediest abroad of life-saving medicine and food. There is no longer turning away from the brutal treatment of not only immigrants but also U.S. citizens at the hands of a paramilitary force accountable to no one."

#Trump #Catholic #PopeLeo #morality #power #immigrants #ICE #food #healthcare #war
/2

"There is no rationale that any longer justifies a self-indulgent president and his minions lusting after an irrational and destructive hemispheric hegemony.

We have asked previously what it means to be a Catholic in this country at this moment. The American hierarchy has begun to answer the question and it cannot be surprising that the answer is more challenging than comforting."

#Trump #Catholic #PopeLeo #morality #power #immigrants #ICE #food #healthcare #war
/3

"Carney just gave the first speech today of the new global order as it exists. … He was the first major leader to say… America, the United States of America, is no longer a hegemon. We are in a multipolar world, a multilateral world, where the great powers, Russia, China, the United States of America, are finding their equilibrium through panic, fear, greed, & just the pursuit of all of the middle powers."

~ Mike Madrid

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/4

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/under-trump-a-weak-isolated-america

"It's a brilliant articulation of the new architecture that is going to frame the world going forward. So the days of the American hegemonic power, this from 1988 to today, this is the first day you heard the articulation from what was an ally saying America is no longer the lone superpower. It's over."

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/5

#Trump then moved onto the topic of
#energy.

"We're going heavy into #nuclear. I was not a big fan because I didn't like the risk, the danger, but the progress they've made with nuclear is unbelievable, & the safety progress they've made is incredible," Trump said.

"We're very much into the world of nuclear energy, & we can have it now at good prices & very, very safe."

He repeated his regular criticism of #wind #power.

#MafiaState #geopolitics #economy #Europe #NATO #InternationalLaw #WEF

"It does what a great speech should do: it gives us the language to process and understand what is happening. It does so from a position of moral clarity. And it includes a call to action to what remains of the liberal world. ...

We can’t respond and act to this hugely consequential geopolitical moment if we are complicit in the denial of our leaders and media. This is a week in which the world we have known has swung on its axis."

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/2

"We cannot simply carry on as if it’s business and normal. ...

We’ve been lucky through a golden age of peace and prosperity but as he so clearly articulates, that age is gone. Ahead lies [sic] dragons."

Cadwalladr's posting has the full text of Carney's speech. It's also at the Guardian link below.

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/3

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/mark-carney-davos-canadian-prime-minister-donald-trump-new-world-order

"Mark Carney’s speech at Davos yesterday really is worth your time. It made some of the front pages today but the news cycle moves so fast that it’s already yesterday’s news. Part of the challenge of this moment - and I believe the job of journalists - is to focus on the signal, not the noise. And if you have time to take in one thing properly, this week, I’d suggest it’s this."

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/1

https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-rupture

#Trump has never been someone to ask what he can do for his country.

In his 2nd term, as in his 1st, he is instead testing the limits of what his country can do for him.

He has poured himself into the #exploitation of the #presidency — into finding out just how much #money #people, #corporations & other #nations are willing to put into his pockets in hopes of bending the #power of the #government to the #service of their #interests.

#SelfService #law #emoluments #kleptocracy #MafiaState

... ⬆️
With additional Helpers. Each charging station now features 5 additional sensors that display actual charging and discharging power, as well as energy calculations.
I need to write a blog post about my findings...
#HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #Power #Energy #PowerConsumption

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A screenshot with a list of 10 additionally created template sensors in Home Assistant.

The people around #Trump could find ways to stop him, as some did in his first term, but they seem too #corrupt or too #power-hungry to try. That leaves #Republicans in #Congress as the last barrier [sigh]. They owe it to the American #people, & to the #world, to stop Trump from acting out his fantasy in #Greenland & doing permanent damage to American interests.

#Unfit #25thAmendment #MafiaState #idiocracy #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #law #InternationalLaw

“I’m giving this speech today because I believe that’s exactly the plan,” she said. “I believe that #Trump is ready to bring the full weight of the federal government against Americans he perceives as enemies. Why? Because he has one goal: making sure that he & his ilk never have to give up #power.”

#military #MilitaryLaw #law #LegalEthics #DOJ #Constitution #RevengePolitics

Two dynamics are fundamentally reshaping the structure & functioning of the #US #government. The first, which is quite well known, is #Congress’s decline. The second, perhaps somewhat less appreciated but no less significant, is #SCOTUS’ ascent—its expansion of its #power into areas previously thought to be off-limits.

#law #democracy #government #Constitution #Legislative #BalanceOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #SeparationOfPowers #ActivistCourt

#Trump’s exercise of raw #power upends #WorldOrder, sending friends & foes reeling

He has toppled #Venezuela’s leader, vowed to control its vast #oil reserves & threatened other #LatinAmerica countries with similar #military action. He has talked openly about annexing #Greenland, even by force. Beyond the Western Hemisphere, he has warned #Iran the #US could strike it again.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #InternationalLaw
https://www.reuters.com/world/trumps-exercise-raw-power-upends-world-order-sending-friends-foes-reeling-2026-01-13/

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People walk next to an anti-US mural on a street as protests erupt over the collapse of the currency's value in Tehran, Iran, January 2, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Finally Russia feels what Ukraine has been feeling for 3 years: The freezing cold of winter, no power, no heat.

Consequences: This is what ends wars.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cwm_-ObtPGc

#belgorod #voronezh #russia #power #nafo #slavaukraini #RussiaIsATerroristState

Ummm…

#Trump Lays Out a Vision of #Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’

On topic after topic, Trump made clear that he would be the arbiter of any limits to his authorities, not #InternationalLaw or #treaties.

#felon47 #law #indecency #degenerate #idiot #rapist #greed #sociopath #racist #WhiteSupremacy #misogyny #amorality
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-interview-power-morality.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Trump declared Wednesday evening that his #power as commander in chief is constrained only by his “own morality,”brushing aside #InternationalLaw & other checks on his ability to use #military might to strike, invade or coerce nations around the world.
Asked in a wide-ranging interview if there were any limits on his #global powers, Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”

#felon47 #law #rapist #greed #WhiteSupremacy #amorality

On the domestic front, #Trump suggested that #judges only have #power to restrict his domestic policy agenda — from the deployment of the #NationalGuard to the imposition of #tariffs — “under certain circumstances.”

But he was already considering workarounds. He raised the possibility that if his tariffs issued under emergency authorities were struck down by #SCOTUS, he could repackage them as licensing fees.

#law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #MartialLaw #autocracy

As the #Trump admin asserts a #NewWorldOrder guided by #military #force & #economic #power — & Trump calls for a massive increase in military spending to confront these “dangerous times” — #US #allies are insisting that global stability depends on following #InternationalLaw.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Maduro #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy

German prosecutors are launching a terrorism investigation into an arson attack that triggered a power blackout affecting about tens of thousands of homes in Berlin. A climate activist group called Vulkangruppe, or Volcano Group, claimed credit for the attack and said they had been targetting “the fossil fuel economy” driving climate change. Read more from @dw
https://flip.it/7ZKhjE
#Germany #ClimateChange #Climate #Berlin #Blackout #Power

"That’s the whole framework: power and oil. The White House isn’t hiding it anymore—likely because Trump can’t stick to the approved talking points."

#Trump #Venezuela #oil #EconomicElites #imperialism #power #SpheresofInfluence
/21

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/2026-will-test-our-resolve

"We are entering a new age now. An age of force, of power, of MANLY STRENGTH. Stephen Miller declared the arrival of this new age on CNN on Monday night."

#Trump #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #masculinity #domination
/13

"Our leader has determined and decreed, that the Constitution, domestic US law, the UN Charter, international law, and Senate ratified treaties with other nations no longer apply in our new Imperial age. The era of law is behind us now. American democracy, the post WWII rules-based order, the Four Freedoms, Pax Americana are now relics of a bygone era."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #masculinity #domination
/12

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/all-hail-our-new-emperor-of-the-americas

The precarious strategy of managing #Trump, rather than confronting him, looked more exposed when the president & his inner circle revived their talk of “getting” #Greenland & even floated the idea of #military action. To European ears, it sounded less like bluster than a retrograde worldview now backed by unvarnished American might: #power over process, #leverage over #law, #loyalty conditioned on utility.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #law #sovereignty #InternationalLaw

Working with vintage power today from the early 1990's when my career started. The newer motor drives are a small fraction of this size. Most of the bulk is magnetic chokes and capacitive resistive snubbers filtering the voltage spikes from the semiconductor triacs. The other half of the cabinet, not shown, are even more massive transformer filters. We are documenting why this motor drive has failed increasingly over the last several months. The motor it powers is only 150 horsepower, or about 110 kilowatts.

#power #automation #MotivePower #HighVoltage

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A large electrical cabinet with 480 volt three phase, fused at 600 amperes on each phase. This is about to be replaced with a modern drive that a lot smaller and more powerful.

#CiliaFlores & #Maduro have been partners since at least the late 1990s, when both were lawmakers. They married in 2013, the year he became president. After Chávez’s death, she was widely seen as critical to consolidating & sustaining Maduro’s hold on #power, bringing a loyal #political base & deep institutional #influence.

#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

Within #chavismo, #CiliaFlores commands both respect & fear, said Roberto Deniz, a Venezuelan investigative journalist who has reported extensively on the Flores family.

“She is a fundamental figure in #corruption in #Venezuela —absolutely fundamental— & especially in the structure of #power,” said Zair Mundaray, who worked as a snr prosecutor under both #Chávez & #Maduro. “Many people consider her far more astute & shrewd than Maduro himself.”

#law #Trump #oil #sovereignty #InternationalLaw

A federal indictment unsealed on Saturday charged #CiliaFlores, along with #Maduro & son, with collaborating with drug traffickers.

“She has been basically co-governing the country since he came to #power, & in many ways is the strategy or power behind the throne,” said Risa Grais-Targow, the #LatinAmerica director for Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy. “She’s been key to his staying power, but also now his downfall as well.”

#law #Trump #Venezuela #oil #sovereignty #InternationalLaw

PC prediction, slightly going out on a limb: with 12VHPWR / 12V2x6 connectors still melting, PC power supplies and high-end GPUs will switch to using a higher voltage to feed the extremely power-hungry beasts. Probably 24V, but they could go higher.

With the cards already doing DC-DC conversion down to much lower voltages for the GPU and memory, there's no need to stick with 12V, and doubling the voltage will allow them to cut the current needed in half -- and since it's the high current levels that is causing all the thermal issues, it's an obvious fix.

#PC #GPU #power #melt #ATX12V2X6 #12VHPWR #12V2X6 #voltage #current #melting

Over the past two decades, the Roberts Court has pioneered and perfected the practice: #Sanewashing
—defined as “attempting to minimize or downplay a person or idea’s radicality to make it more palatable to the general public”
—It has become a prominent, if entirely underappreciated, feature of the Roberts Court.

Relying on judicial sanewashing, the Roberts Court has ERODED:
#due #process protections,
political #accountability,
and civil rights,
while simultaneously #consolidating #power for itself, corporations, gun owners, Christian conservatives, and state officials who owe their political influence to heavily gerrymandered districts.

All this has been accomplished while the Roberts Court has sought to present itself as a neutral, nonpartisan institution, free from corporate interests and policy preferences and guided solely by constitutional and democratic principles.

As the Roberts Court has transformed into a #conservative policymaking body, it has maintained that it is merely fulfilling its constitutional mandate.

The judicially sanewashed opinions of the Roberts Court haven’t been limited solely to sanewashing the law;
-- Often, they also involve extensive sanewashing of the facts too.
For example, in tandem with whitewashing the anti-racist purpose of the Reconstruction Amendments in Shelby County v. Holder,
the Roberts Court also recast former Confederate states subject to the #Voting #Rights #Act, or VRA, as aggrieved and mistreated, and in need of legal protection by the Court.

According to the sanewashed facts in Shelby County, the VRA was no longer necessary because racially discriminatory voting practices were “rare”
and the remaining sections of the statute would be sufficient to protect minority voting rights.
In the decade since the Court offered those tepid reassurances,
states formerly subject to the VRA’s preclearance requirements have passed an avalanche of discriminatory #voter #suppression laws
as the Roberts Court has simultaneously sought to further weaken the law.
🆘 The Court is now prepared to strike down the remaining vestiges of the statute it promised would remain in place to ensure voting rights remained protected.

Similarly, when sanewashing the First Amendment to recognize new speech rights by corporations to engage in unlimited political spending in #Citizens #United,
the Roberts Court tried to assure a skeptical public that dismantling decades of campaign finance regulations would strengthen the integrity of elections and allow voters to hold officials accountable.
🔥Fifteen years later, the ruling has unleashed a torrent of unregulated corporate spending in American politics,
enabling #superPACs to raise limitless funds from corporations
and undisclosed donors to exercise an outsized influence on election results.
⭐️Between 2010 and 2024, political spending by super PACs grew from $62.6 million to $4.1 billion.

Americans are so disgusted with #darkmoney in politics that an overwhelming majority supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.ERO

https://newrepublic.com/article/204788/supreme-court-judicial-sanewashing-roberts

How GOP Lawmakers’ Power Transfers Are Reshaping Everything From Utilities to Environmental Regulation in North Carolina
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The GOP-led North Carolina legislature spent nearly 10 years trying to control the elections board. But it’s also taken aim at other commissions in the state by shifting who has power to appoint members that historically belonged to the governor.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-legislature-power-transfers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NorthCarolina #GOP #Elections #Power #USPolitics

Though the justification was drugs in general, the operation would concentrate enormous naval firepower off the coast of #Venezuela.

The result has been an increasingly militarized pressure campaign intended to remove #Maduro from #power.

It has been marked by #US strikes that have killed at least 105 people on boats in the #Caribbean & the eastern #Pacific, a quasi-blockade of #oil tankers entering & leaving Venezuelan ports & threats by #Trump to carry out land strikes in Venezuela.

#law

The topics of #territory & the #nuclear #power plant are both expected to be discussed when Zelensky sits down with #Trump in Palm Beach, FL, on Sunday afternoon. The 2 men are also expected to hold a call with European leaders, many of whom #Zelensky spoke with by phone on Saturday night before flying to Florida.

Ukraine has been pushing for a Trump-Zelensky meeting for weeks, since the US restarted its diplomatic efforts to broker a settlement.

#geopolitics #Ukraine #Russia #Europe

President Volodymyr #Zelensky of #Ukraine will visit Mar-a-Lago on Sunday afternoon for a much-anticipated meeting with #Trump, bearing a revised 20-point peace plan aimed at ending the war with #Russia. But Zelensky has acknowledged two major sticking points in talks with Washington: the fate of the #Donbas region of eastern Ukraine & control of a #nuclear #power plant occupied by Russia.

#geopolitics #US #extortion #Europe #allies #NATO #PutinsPuppet #StandWithUkraine
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/world/europe/zelensky-trump-ukraine-russia-talks.html?smid=url-share

The degree to which anyone not a white man would've been shot dead on the highway cannot be overstated, holy shit.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3maqmotbkzs2k

#tennessee #police #nashville #TheTennesseeHoller #TennesseeHoller #SpeakerSexton #HighwayPatrol #arrogance #power #TrafficStop

Number of times the power went out in my Boston apartment in five years: 1

Number of times the power has gone out in the first two days of this winter here in Maine: 2

#Electricity #Heat #Power #Maine #Winter #Weather

#LarryEllison was also accused of conspiring to ethnically cleanse #Palestinians from #Israel-occupied territories, committing #WarCrimes, & funding #genocide. Though the lawsuit was dismissed.

#billionaires #Plutocracy #money #power #media #StateMedia #FreePress #censorship #antitrust #WarnerBrosDiscovery #WBD #Paramount #Oracle #law
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/palestinians-lawsuit-in-us-vs-adelson-others-is-revived-idUSKCN1Q826S/

Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
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For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it finally succeeded.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-governor-power-transfers-gop?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NorthCarolina #GOP #USPolitics #Elections #Power

"The New York Times’s David Brooks ... wrote that the Epstein Files were 'overblown' and we should 'move on.'"

~ Rebecca Schoenkopf

Would this be the same David Brooks who uses his New York Times platform to lecture the rest of us about virtue, civility, and "traditional" values

#Epstein #Trump #CoverUp #EconomicElites #gender #power #class #media #DavidBrooks #NewYorkTimes
/9

https://www.wonkette.com/p/mamas-dont-let-your-babies-go-to

The case has tested the govt's #power to sway the nation's oldest & wealthiest university, which has resisted a pressure campaign targeting #colleges around the country.

Judge Allison Burroughs ruled in Sept that the #Trump admin's sweeping #funding cuts violated #Harvard's #FirstAmendment rights. The judge said the govt put #unconstitutional conditions on Harvard's federal funding & failed to follow federal procedures for the govt to sanction universities for “#CivilRights” violations.

#law

"The establishment doesn’t want to think about Epstein because they don’t want to think about how he got away with all of it, at such a scale, and for so long.

This is one reason—perhaps the main reason—why Epstein matters. ...

So, yes, a real reckoning with Epstein would mean a real re-thinking of questions of gender, wealth, and power."

~ William Kristol

#Epstein #Trump #CoverUp #EconomicElites #gender #power #class #media
/6

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/screw-it-lets-rename-the-moon-trump-institute-of-peace-kennedy-center-coin-epsitein-files

Wajahat Ali says,

"What we see [in the Epstein story] is a big club. And we ain't in it. And this big club is a very wealthy, powerful man who believe the world and its girls are their oysters. "

Then:

"I'm saying this since the summer now, that this is the biggest cover up in modern history."

#Epstein #Trump #CoverUp #EconomicElites #gender #power #class #media
/7

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/donald-trump-most-likely-raped-girls

"David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, 'The Epstein Story? Count Me Out' is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.

He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose."

~ Parker Molloy

#Epstein #Trump #CoverUp #EconomicElites #gender #power #class #media #DavidBrooks #NewYorkTimes
/8

https://bsky.app/profile/parkermolloy.com/post/3mabplodtjc2y

#Trump is getting into the #fusion #power business through a $6 billion merger of his social media firm & #Google backed #TAE technologies, just days after industry representatives urged #federal #funding.

The all-stock deal announced Thursday is a bet on the power boom spurred by #ArtificialIntelligence #datacenters & adds to the Trump family's growing roster of ventures very much connected to his presidency from cryptocurrency to mobile services.

#law #emoluments
https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-media-tae-technologies-combine-6-billion-deal-2025-12-18/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Guess solar panels would be the next step in the preparation for nuclear winter. Wait. Will there be sun during nuclear winter? Oh…

#apocalypse #power #poweroutage

NOLA: Tiny Louisiana parish becomes AI boomtown as Meta builds $10B data center: 'It's changing fast'

(paywall)

https://www.nola.com/news/business/meta-louisiana-ai-data-center/article_77f553ff-c272-4e6c-a775-60bbbee0b065.html#tncms-source=special-report

#AI #power

ADVERTISING DEFINED FOR THE AGES #politics #news #advertising #culture #economy #power

The lawsuit from the nonprofit #NationalTrust for #HistoricPreservation, which was filed Friday in the US District Court for DC, represents the first major legal challenge to Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot addition & is poised to test the limits of his #power. The organization argues that the admin failed to undergo legally required reviews or receive congressional authorization for the project, which #Trump has rushed to launch in hopes of completing it before his term ends in 2029.

#law

"Authoritarians believe there is no difference between truth and power, because if the former is allowed to operate separate from the latter, then it might be the case that ordinary people may develop some capacity for moral discernment."

~ Mike Brock

#authoritarianism #truth #power #media #disinformation
/1

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-unitary-executive-theory-23c

#Power without friction always ends the same, because friction was the safeguard.

No guard rails enable silent drift; no pushback amplifies blind spots, and no consequences invite decay.

Without guard rails, decision speed increases but accuracy collapses, so small errors snowball into systemic failures and people stop speaking up because #risk feels fatal.

(1/2)

Justice Kagan [I think, maybe it was Sotomayor] just gave Amit Agarwal, the lawyer for fired FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, the opening needed to discuss Professor Caleb Nelson’s article on the “unitary executive theory” I mentioned & linked earlier in the thread. ↑→

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115684689986721167

#law #HumphreysExecutor #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #power #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵

The Sinking Fund Commission has come up several times. Historians & legal scholars regard it as the nation’s first #independent agency. Created in 1790 by the first #Congress, the 5-member commission approved payments to settle America’s Revolutionary War debts.

The commission’s structure was proposed by #AlexanderHamilton, who saw it as a way to insulate members from #political pressures.

#law #HumphreysExecutor #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #power #SeparationOfPowers 🧵

The group included some members – like the vice president – who could not be fired at will by the president. #Hamilton, then the Treasury Secy, served on the first Sinking Fund Commission alongside Secy of State #ThomasJefferson, his bitter political rival.

#law #HumphreysExecutor #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #power #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵

Several conservative #SCOTUS justices have signaled for years that they were ready to overturn the 1935 precedent — #HumphreysExecutor v. US — at issue today.

CJ #JohnRoberts wrote in a 2010 opinion in #FreeEnterprise Fund v. Public Company Oversight Board that the president’s #power generally includes “the authority to remove those who assist him in carrying out his duties. Without such power, the president could not be held fully accountable for discharging his own responsibilities.”

#law 🧵

Justice #Kavanaugh pushes the lawyer for the fired #FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter about the #Trump admin’s argument that “independent agencies are not accountable to the people.” The justice asked how the lawyer would respond to the argument that “they’re not elected as #Congress & the President are, & are exercising massive power over individual liberty & billion dollar industries.”

#law #HumphreysExecutor #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Autocracy #power #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers 🧵

The enormous sweep of last year’s #SCOTUS decision granting #Trump substantial #immunity from prosecution is apparent in this argument, where there has been repeated reference to that decision’s expansive vision of presidential #power.

#law #HumphreysExecutor #ActivistCourt #Autocracy #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵

#SCOTUS has ruled #Congress cannot limit the president’s #power to fire agencies led by a single official. The question before the court today is if it can insulate members of multi-member commissions from removal.

In 2020, in ruling Congress could not limit the president’s power to fire the head of the #CFPB, CJ #JohnRoberts wrote the ruling “does not foreclose Congress from pursuing alternative responses to the problem—for example, converting the CFPB into a multimember agency.”

#law #Trump🧵

The lawyer for fired FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter argued that a decision by the justices allowing the president the #power to fire leaders of #independent agencies meant that “everything is on the chopping block.” Justice #Alito immediately jumped in, saying that he was skeptical that ruling would lead to such sweeping ramifications.

#law #HumphreysExecutor #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵

#SCOTUS weighs another step in favor of broad presidential #power sought by #Trump

Chief Justice #JohnRoberts has led the Supreme Court ‘s conservative majority on a steady march of increasing the power of the presidency….

The justices could take the next step in a case being argued Monday that calls for a unanimous 90-year-old decision limiting #ExecutiveAuthority to be overturned.

#law #ActivistCourt #independence #HumphreysExecutor
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-executive-power-firing-0b2e5e38911f17059187a92eb533b273