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Chójźina<p>One argument often leveled against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchy</span></a> is the old "How do you stop bad people from taking power?" gambit.</p><p>Well, uhmm...how do parliamentary democracies in tandem with capitalism stop bad people from grasping power?</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Thatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thatcher</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mussolini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mussolini</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Netanjahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netanjahu</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 28, 1977: AFSCME Local 1644 struck in Atlanta, Georgia, for a pay raise. This local of mostly African American sanitation workers saw labor and civil rights as part of the same struggle. They saw their fight as a continuation of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. For several years, they organized to get black civil rights leaders elected to public office. They succeeded in getting their man, Maynard Jackson, elected mayor of Atlanta. After all, as vice mayor, Jackson had supported their 1970 strike. Yet, in his first three years as mayor, he refused to give them a single raise. Consequently, their wages dropped below the poverty line for a family of four. Jackson accused AFSCME of attacking Black Power by challenging his authority. He fired over 900 workers by April 1 and crushed the strike by the end of April. Many believe this set the precedent for Reagan’s mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during the PATCO strike, in 1981.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AFSCME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AFSCME</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PATCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PATCO</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atlanta</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sanitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sanitation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blackpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackpower</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wages</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reagan</span></a></p>
MindTGap 🇺🇸<p>Rupert Murdoch: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past<br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Hysteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hysteria</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/HysteriaPodcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HysteriaPodcast</span></a> <br>On episode 17 of "This F*cking Guy," Hysteria podcast hosts Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco dive deep into Rupert Murdoch’s unscrupulous past. From building a fake news media empire, to backstabbing his kids better than Logan Roy, to a relationship history to rival Henry VII, this guy is the grandpappy of evil meets ick.<br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Murdoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Murdoch</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Thatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thatcher</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Epstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Epstein</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/RoyCohn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoyCohn</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/RogerStone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RogerStone</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AUSpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AUSpol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/UKpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKpol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYC</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NYpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYpost</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Fox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fox</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NewsCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewsCorp</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Roger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roger</span></a> Ailes <br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbjTlwpC0c0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=DbjTlwpC0c</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nu/@janhoglund" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>janhoglund</span></a></span> <br>Think about how much money it would cost to put back &amp; restaff every agency <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OrangeHitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrangeHitler</span></a> &amp; his sidekick <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheElongatedMuskrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheElongatedMuskrat</span></a> destroyed.</p><p>If any <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrat</span></a> attempts it, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> will scream bloody murder about how "the financially irresponsible Left is exploding the National Debt and doubling/tripling the size of government."</p><p>So we need to prepare:</p><p>21months into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>'s first term, his massive tax cuts raised unemployment to 10.8%. He had to expand the gov't to dig us out.</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Nonilex</span></a></span> </p><p>👉The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DumbingOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DumbingOfAmerica</span></a>: The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StultificationOfThePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StultificationOfThePeople</span></a>👈</p><p>(2/2)</p><p>... dumber the people, the more easily they can be controlled, as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeorgeOrwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeOrwell</span></a><br>discovered decades ago.</p><p>//</p><p>1)<br>Dumbing of America:<br><a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/how-did-we-get-here-the-dumbing-of-america-from-reagan-to-and-beyond/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">salon.com/2023/08/31/how-did-w</span><span class="invisible">e-get-here-the-dumbing-of-america-from-reagan-to-and-beyond/</span></a></p><p>2)<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109730219700294592" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1097</span><span class="invisible">30219700294592</span></a></p><p>3) If you like a good, high-school senior level of the Alignment of German society in the 1930's, I recommend this: </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113908931207716944" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1139</span><span class="invisible">08931207716944</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p><p>//</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Nonilex</span></a></span> </p><p>👉The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DumbingOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DumbingOfAmerica</span></a>: The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StultificationOfThePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StultificationOfThePeople</span></a>👈 1)</p><p>(1/2)</p><p>After <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> successfully started with the dismantling of higher education for the not-well-to-do as part of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reagonomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagonomics</span></a> 2), the extremist part of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> called <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmericaFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericaFirst</span></a> in the 1930's and 40's, and now <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> are now going a step further by axing primary/2ndary ed., and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alignment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alignment</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gleichschaltung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gleichschaltung</span></a>) 3) of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> system through <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a>-controlled state bodies. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheStultificationOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheStultificationOfAmerica</span></a><br>The...</p>
EAS Watcher<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/WEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WEA</span></a> for Borden, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Glasscock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glasscock</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Howard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Howard</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Mitchell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mitchell</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Scurry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scurry</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 10:30 PM CDT. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Borden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Borden</span></a>,</p>
EAS Watcher<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/WEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WEA</span></a> for Borden, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Glasscock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glasscock</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Howard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Howard</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Mitchell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mitchell</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Scurry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scurry</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: Dust Storm Warning issued March 18 at 9:07PM CDT until March 18 at 10:30PM CDT by NWS Midland/Odessa TX Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Borden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Borden</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Glasscock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glasscock</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Howard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Howard</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Mitchell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mitchell</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Scurry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scurry</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TXwx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TXwx</span></a>** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***</p>
EAS Watcher<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/WEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WEA</span></a> for Borden, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Glasscock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glasscock</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Howard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Howard</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Mitchell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mitchell</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Scurry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scurry</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 10:30 PM CDT. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX ** DO NO</p>
John Refior<p>Republicans (used to?) idolize Reagan. But the Reagan administration would likely love the racism of the present day Republican party, and loathe most of the rest of it. Electing a Russian asset president of the US would be inconceivable to them.</p><p>If the author of the excerpt below, Andrew Michta, sounds like a Reagan Republican, it's because he pretty much is. He's written right-leaning editorials, blames Biden for the world's problems, etc.</p><p>And yet he writes that if Trump hands Russia significant territorial gains in Ukraine—and so far giving Putin everything he wants seems to be the no. 1 goal of this administration—it will essentially undo America's victory in the Cold War:</p><p>"In 1991, the Soviet Union lost the Cold War, as it could no longer compete either in the economic, political, or military spheres... Post-1991, the United States exercised its victor’s prerogative, together with its democratic allies, to structure the post-Soviet space in Central Europe and the Baltics in a way that stabilized the region and served the United States’ interests and those of its European allies.</p><p>"...it was not the West’s aggressive pursuit of an anti-Russian agenda, but rather the weakness and lack of strategic clarity it communicated at every turn post-Cold War that encouraged Moscow’s revisionism. It was not the West’s alleged geostrategic assertiveness, but its timidity each time Putin used military power to occupy territory—first in Georgia in 2008, then in Ukraine in 2014, in Syria in 2015, and finally in Ukraine for the second time in 2022—that set the stage for the unfolding tragedy in Eastern Europe.</p><p>"The West is poised to communicate weakness once again, only this time unabashedly and without pretense that it is doing so because of norms or the 'rules-based international order.' If the final peace agreement on Ukraine simply ratifies the status quo on the battlefield, the Trump administration will hand Moscow a major win, in effect undoing the consequences of the Western victory in the Cold War."<br><a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-real-reason-russia-invaded-ukraine-hint-its-not-nato-expansion/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-</span><span class="invisible">atlanticist/the-real-reason-russia-invaded-ukraine-hint-its-not-nato-expansion/</span></a></p><p>The Republican Party has advertised itself as racist since ~1964. That seems to be its only center of gravity.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a></p>
EAS Watcher<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/WEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WEA</span></a> for Glasscock, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Midland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Midland</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Upton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Upton</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 2:15 PM CDT. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SA</p>
EAS Watcher<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/WEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WEA</span></a> for Glasscock, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Midland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Midland</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Upton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Upton</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 2:15 PM CDT. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Glasscock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glasscock</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Midland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Midland</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a></p>
EAS Watcher<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/WEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WEA</span></a> for Glasscock, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Midland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Midland</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Upton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Upton</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: Dust Storm Warning issued March 14 at 1:20PM CDT until March 14 at 2:15PM CDT by NWS Midland/Odessa TX Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Glasscock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glasscock</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Midland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Midland</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Upton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Upton</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TXwx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TXwx</span></a>** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***</p>
AccordionBruce<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@SnowshadowII" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SnowshadowII</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@ironcladlou" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ironcladlou</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SrRochardBunson</span></a></span> <br>In the 70s at the New York <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CatholicWorker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CatholicWorker</span></a> soup kitchen they were talking once about what they were going to do when all the elderly bums died?</p><p>They’d been feeding people since the 1930s, but not many new folks were living on the streets</p><p>Then Reagan got elected, cut taxes and invented modern homelessness</p><p>Which journalists had to explain and define for people — it was a new phenomenon</p><p>“Homeless” </p><p>Never forget: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> invented that</p>
Manny Dexter<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://urbanists.social/@MissGayle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MissGayle</span></a></span> </p><p>Yes. My father was a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a>. He died while <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> was in the White House. My mother was a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrat</span></a>. It was my dad who took me to political events when I was in high school. </p><p>He expected electeds to do their jobs. That is, represent the voters who put them there. This why I can legitimately name things Republicans supported that were actually good for people. </p><p>- Exploring cloud seeding to combat drought as an alternative to <br>rerouting or damming waterways. </p><p>- Ethanol in gasoline. The idea was it burned cleaner and would be a way to use agricultural overproduction as well as use waste from food crops.</p><p>- Universal Basic Income. Nixon supported UBI, but his crookedness tainted the idea.</p><p>In the late 1970s, the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> ran an operation called Abscam, targeting corruption. The Republican rep for my dad's district not only turned down the bribe, he reported it to the FBI.</p><p>These assclowns are not conservative. Move fast and break shit is the exact opposite of conserving. Redundancy is conservative; efficiency is not.</p>
Jan Heisinen<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@rvps2001" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rvps2001</span></a></span> Imagine Ronald <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> 's reaction, if he saw what <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> does...</p>
Paul Schoe<p>Fabulous story of how Paula <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Wallenburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wallenburg</span></a>, a smart <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Swedish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Swedish</span></a> female <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/submarine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>submarine</span></a> commander “ran rings” around the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> Ronald <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>.</p><p>As the article ends: 'It must have been tough on those U.S. antisubmarine specialists — sunk by a woman.</p><p>----<br>Side note: In the USA, women are not allowed to serve on submarines.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@cybeardjm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cybeardjm</span></a></span></p>
EAS Watcher<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/WEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WEA</span></a> for Glasscock, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 4:15 PM CDT. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOUR</p>
EAS Watcher<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/WEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WEA</span></a> for Glasscock, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 4:15 PM CDT. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Glasscock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glasscock</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TXwx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TXwx</span></a>** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE</p>
EAS Watcher<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/WEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WEA</span></a> for Glasscock, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: Dust Storm Warning issued March 12 at 3:22PM CDT until March 12 at 4:15PM CDT by NWS Midland/Odessa TX Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Glasscock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glasscock</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TXwx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TXwx</span></a>** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***</p>
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