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US attacked Iran because of 'imminent threat', says Marco Rubio. #US #Iran #BBCNews, From YouTubeVideos
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Trump: The Weakest President in 50 Years -- His Own People Just Proved It

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and House Speaker Mike Johnson have now handed the American left the most damning indictment of Donald Trump's leadership imaginable -- and they don't even seem to realize it.

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Why I Switched from ChatGPT to Claude -- and Why You Should Too

Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI refused Pentagon demands to remove AI safeguards against autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Trump banned them for it. Now, with an illegal war on Iran launched without Congressional approval, the question of who controls AI in wartime has never been more urgent.

Trump missing one major instrument of power Harvard professor emeritus Joseph Nye Jr. joins CNN's Jim Sciutto to discuss soft power, a term Nye created., From YouTubeVideos
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Trump Has Trashed/Damaged Trillions in Soft Power Assets

Donald Trump, as a malignant narcissist, is unable to trust or feel real empathy. He is a transactional man. That makes him see soft power as weakness and a waste of resources. It has led to him destroying trillions of dollars in soft power assets built over decades.

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How Will AI Treat Humanity When It Surpasses Us In 20-40 years

Thoughts about the future of AI and the relationship between ai and humans as AI becomes more powerful and better at doing things than humans.

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Crowdsourcing a. 50-year Progressive vision

A group of us have been working on envisioning a left-wing version of the Lewis Powell memo, with a goal goal of building a left-wing, Progressive infrastructure that can stand up to and beat withthe right wing has created in the 54 years since the Powell memo. An essential element of such a project requires long-term vision. What are the goals for 5, 10 years? 20, 25, 30 and 50 years out. What would the left like?

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How Passive Authoritarianism Enabled History 's Worst Regimes

I had AI list history's 25 worst cases of authoritarianism that caused death destruction, suffering, fear, and how authoritarianism worsened it. Then I asked it to list for each of the 25, how passive authoritarianism enabled these horrific portions of History. Then, I asked it to identify the 10 patterns of passive authoritarianism that allowed these horrific criminal historic events to happen. Here's what I foun

Robert Redford kicks off the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, From CreativeCommonsPhoto
R.I.P. Robert Redford Lifelong Progressive

Robert Redford was a prominent progressive voice for decades, with his activism spanning environmental causes, political reform, and social justice issues.

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Don't Assume a Lefty Killed Kirk.

Most people are speculating that the shooter of Charlie Kirk was a left winger. but he was not without critics on the right who might also be suspects. for example, he had built great power with his turning point organization. Whoever takes over that job could be a suspect.

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Get to Know Charlie Kirk: 24 chunks

I instructed Deep seek AI to: summarize well-known remarks or actions or statements by Charlie Kirk who was just killed list 25 of these that had the most social media exposure. Here's what it came up with

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Dem leaders should retire

Their failure to do their jobs intelligently with courage, handed the White House to Trump in 2016 and 2024 and allowed Biden to stay in the White House after he was no longer competent. That is a huge crime, and it should be seen as one, to prevent real democratic