Developing the philosophical & thinking mind by learning and teaching from the ancient philosophers and contemporary thinkers. ex-GOP #antifascist 🇺🇸🇺🇦
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I read and study a lot, hence my personal library of over 12,000 books. I take the best mental models from all the various areas I’ve studied and work to use them. You can too! #mentalmodels
The Thing Most Needed In a World Dominated By AI (92nd Street) youtube.com/shorts/TXJpogQwd… via @YouTube <--Have a good liberal arts background so you don't get crushed by AI and you'll even be able to control it
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Elon Musk has ordered a slowdown of military-grade Starlink assets used by Ukraine in its war against Russia, according to a new report.
Read more: forbes.com/sites/antoniopequ…
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Researchers are leaving the US because of Trump's politicization of science youtu.be/1f7YT3xoJDQ?si=WIjw… via @YouTube
I’m disgusted by the ad being pushed by @VivekGRamaswamy and by the support by @JDVance of the same.
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So the agency built to protect the vote got gutted by DOGE, and the Trump admin asked what was left to hack a voting machine. In secret.
Imagine if this came out about Joe Biden. Trump would call it one of the greatest crimes in American history. Full story covered in today's show, link in comments ⬇️
Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, U.S. officials and people familiar with the matter said wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli… via @WSJ
Capitalism. Social Democracy. Democratic Socialism. Socialism. Communism.
5 terms frequently used, often misunderstood.
Before defending or condemning an ideology, shouldn’t we understand it first?
Knowledge before judgment. Critical thinking before opinion.
#CriticalThinking
Trump and his administration makes stuff up on a regular basis. They are using lies and his DOJ to intimidate voters and citizens in general.
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The audacity of Elon Musk, who lied about his immigration status and now contributes to the downfall of America.
Of course he is trying to buy your vote.
The reason the top 1% get richer and everyone else gets poorer is, in a major part, due to the “Buy, Borrow, Die” Strategy… Our tax system is set up to benefit the wealthy and take away from everyone else…
Enshittification is also involved in physical objects, such as cars, refrigerators, and any other hardware that are smart devices, including our smartphones… #enshittification #degradation
Back in 2022, Cory Doctorow popularized the word, enshittification, in which he described it as the degradation of social media platforms… #enshittification #degradation
Trump has destroyed our country and is further in Putin’s grasp… He’s hurt the United States and doesn’t care! theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Trump ran on tax cuts. But his economic policies have driven up taxes and costs for all but the wealthiest 1% of Americans, a think tank reports. usatoday.com/story/money/per…
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An American president would tell Putin to fuck off. An American president would tell Putin to get the fuck out of Ukraine. An American president would stand with Ukraine. Trump however is not an American president. He works for Putin. So he’ll do what Putin tells him to do.👇
BREAKING WSJ:
Vladimir Putin has proposed that he, Trump, and Xi Jinping meet next month to talk about Ukraine in an attempt to negotiate an end to the four-year conflict that would favor Moscow. wsj.com/world/russia/putin-f…
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North American Boomers inherited the land of opportunity, we’d better clean up after ourselves. @The_Rae_Girl
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Russia sanctions relief. A reported investigation into Ilhan Omar’s citizenship.
Two very different stories. One central question: What limits should constrain presidential power?
The latest essay at The Warning: steveschmidt.substack.com/p/…
NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Home Office Moscow youtu.be/ZP4xSZ7NaE8?si=DYyN… via @YouTube