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Bytes EuropeRolling Thunder: What we know about Germany’s potential call-ups so far (Updated) <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/826494/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.byteseu.com/826494/</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/about" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#about</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/bavarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bavarian</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BayernMunichAlumni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BayernMunichAlumni</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/call" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#call</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/far" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#far</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/football" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#football</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FrontPage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FrontPage</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Germany</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GermanyInternationalSoccer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GermanyInternationalSoccer</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/know" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#know</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/potential" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#potential</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rolling</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#s</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/so" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#so</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SoccerSg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoccerSg</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/thunder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thunder</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/updated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#updated</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ups</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/we" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#we</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/What" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#What</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/works" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#works</a>

🍂:･*Fweeblies*:･🍂Tiny comm for <a href="https://furaffinity.net/user/theonelump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://furaffinity.net/user/theonelump</a><a href="https://pawb.fun/tags/furryart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#furryart</a> <a href="https://pawb.fun/tags/tiger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tiger</a> <a href="https://pawb.fun/tags/boblogik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boblogik</a> <a href="https://pawb.fun/tags/theonelump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theonelump</a> <a href="https://pawb.fun/tags/tinycomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tinycomm</a> <a href="https://pawb.fun/tags/rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rolling</a>

(((Cindy Weinstein)))Miss You Congeniality<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MashupComedyFilmsAndSongs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MashupComedyFilmsAndSongs</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/HashTagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HashTagGames</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rolling</a> Stones

Relax Milano 😴📍🤘 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Choppergirl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Choppergirl</a> Unhealthy Obsession Tour 🎸 Rolling Stones ☁️ Paint it Black 🌫️ Pink Floyd ☁️ Dogs of War <a href="https://odysee.com/@choppergirl:d/Paint-It-Black-D---Rolling-Stones---Dogs-of-War---Pink-Flyod---WW2-fighter---Third-Pass:5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://odysee.com/@choppergirl:d/Paint-It-Black-D---Rolling-Stones---Dogs-of-War---Pink-Flyod---WW2-fighter---Third-Pass:5</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Odysee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Odysee</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/song" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#song</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#black</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dogs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paint</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rolling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stones</a>

Ufficio Zero Linux OSEcco a cosa stiamo lavorando..... Una release che nasce come collaborazione con <a href="https://mastodon.uno/@devol" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@devol</a> e che avrà tutti i servizi del fediverso già installati, insieme al browser LibreWolf. Farà il suo debutto presto, ma nell'attesa se vorrete seguirci vi diremo di più....<a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/devol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#devol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/UnoLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnoLinux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/ufficiozero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ufficiozero</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/ufficiozerolinuxos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ufficiozerolinuxos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/privacyforall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacyforall</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rolling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/lorena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lorena</a>

DoomsdaysCWThe top 10 most impactful <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weather</a> events of 2023From powerful <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hurricanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hurricanes</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tornadoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tornadoes</a> to drought-busting storms and the deadliest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildfire</a> in the US in a century, here is a look back at the most unforgettable weather events of 2023.By Monica Danielle, AccuWeather senior producerPublished Dec 26, 2023 1. Record-breaking January tornado outbreakIn a month typically clocking inches of snow, there were a whopping 168 tornadoes reported over two outbreaks, more than triple the historical average for January, setting a new record for the month.An outbreak on January 12 produced 70 tornado reports across seven states. This date included two EF3 tornadoes that resulted in at least 9 deaths and 34 injuries across <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alabama</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Georgia</a>. An EF2 tornado also caused devastation in the historic city of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SelmaAlabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SelmaAlabama</a>, about 40 miles west of Montgomery. 2. Violent EF4 tornado rips through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mississippi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mississippi</a>, killing 17On March 24, two dozen twisters touched down across the Southeast, including the deadliest and one of the year’s most violent tornadoes. The EF4 tornado ripped through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rolling</a> ForkMississippi, and claimed the lives of 17 people, including a couple killed by a large semi-truck that was tossed into their home. 3. The most notable tornado outbreak of the yearThe most notable tornado outbreak of 2023 was the deadly and now historic outbreak that impacted large portions of the Midwest, South, and East U.S. on March 31 and April 1. The year's second and final EF4 tornado was one of 122 twisters reported across multiple states. AccuWeather's own storm tracker and meteorologist, Tony Laubach, captured incredible footage of one of the strongest tornadoes of the year when he intercepted the twister in southeast <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iowa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iowa</a> near the city of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ottumwa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ottumwa</a>. 4. Drought-busting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtmosphericRivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AtmosphericRivers</a> unload record-breaking <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/snow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snow</a>Coming into 2023, drought was a major concern for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#California</a> and other parts of the West. "This is a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/megadrought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megadrought</a>," California Governor Gavin Newsom said. "Some scientists argue it's the most significant in 1200 years of human history." But it wouldn't be long until the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drought</a> was wiped out completely. 5. Smoke from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a>'s worst-ever wildfire season blankets US citiesCanada experienced its worst wildfire season on record, obliterating all other years in terms of area burned. Over the course of the fire season, flames scorched an estimated 18.4 million hectares—an area roughly the size of North Dakota. According to NASA, on average, just 2.5 million hectares burn in Canada each year. 6. Deadliest US wildfire in more than a century sweeps through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Maui</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hawaii</a>The wildfire that ignited in Maui on August 8 was the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century, killing at least 106 people and all but incinerating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lahaina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lahaina</a>, destroying every building in the town of 13,000. 7. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HurricaneIdalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HurricaneIdalia</a> slams <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Florida</a>'s Nature CoastThe above-normal 2023 Atlantic hurricane season was characterized by record-warm <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtlanticSeaSurfaceTemperatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AtlanticSeaSurfaceTemperatures</a> and a strong <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElNi%C3%B1o" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElNiño</a>. A total of 20 storms were named in 2023, along with a tropical depression and an unnamed subtropical storm. This ranks fourth for the most-named storms in a year since 1950 and the most on record during an El Niño-influenced season. Seven storms were hurricanes, three intensifying to major <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hurricanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hurricanes</a>. 8. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HurricaneLee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HurricaneLee</a> stirs up rough surf, and dangerous rip currents along East CoastBefore making landfall in far western <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NovaScotia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NovaScotia</a>, Hurricane Lee caused dangerous surf and rip currents along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Lee claimed two victims, a 51-year-old man who was killed by a falling tree branch in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Maine</a> and a teenager who drowned off the coast of Florida amid rough seas churned up by the hurricane. The monstrous storm cut power to more than 280,000 electric customers across Maine, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as it roared ashore. 9. The hottest year in recorded historySix record-breaking months and two seasons – summer and autumn – were recorded in 2023, making it the hottest year ever recorded. 10. El Niño nears historic strengthThe global weather phenomenon El Niño, in which surface waters are abnormally warm in the eastern tropical Pacific, was a major player in many of the top weather events in 2023. The major shift to El Niño following three years of La Niña, could evolve into one of the strongest El Niño events observed over the past 75 years, new data shows. <a href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/the-top-10-most-impactful-weather-events-of-2023/1603146" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/the-top-10-most-impactful-weather-events-of-2023/1603146</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCatastrophe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USWx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USWx</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USWeather</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Weather2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Weather2023</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeatherExtremes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeatherExtremes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtremeHeat</a>

Great_Albums<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GreatAlbums1960s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreatAlbums1960s</a> - <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rolling</a> Stones – Let It Bleed (1969). The Stones crossfade from the acid sixties to the adrenalized seventies. Jimmy Miller’s production intensifies the LP’s lyrical dreg through the dirt of reality. “Gimme Shelter” brings the darkness as guest Merry Clayton’s “Rape! Murder! It’s just a shot away” suggests there’s no escape from it. Brian Jones’ tragedy seems burned into the grooves, as “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” offers a tentative glint of hope. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GreatRockAlbums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreatRockAlbums</a>

Great_Albums<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GreatAlbums1960s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreatAlbums1960s</a> - <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rolling</a> Stones – Beggars Banquet (1968). After the experiments of ’67, the Stones returned to their bluesier roots – this time as seasoned masters of the form. “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Street Fighting Man” capture the grit and cynicism of the burned-out 60s, “No Expectations” is a rare country (or “country”) song on which Jagger doesn’t wink, “Salt of the Earth” is the band’s first gospel blues, and “Stray Cat Blues” is a furiously prowling rocker. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GreatAlbums1960s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreatAlbums1960s</a>

RowinSpeezToday’s playlist is all about rolling, and they are all joints and jams.<a href="https://spotify.link/gBqa69QUvDb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://spotify.link/gBqa69QUvDb</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/playlist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#playlist</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rolling</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/joints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#joints</a>

Chuck DarwinA World of Slaves: Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.Nancy MacLean notes that when the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kochs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kochs</a>’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of <a href="https://c.im/tags/shutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shutting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/down" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#down</a> government, <a href="https://c.im/tags/destroying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destroying</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labor</a> unions, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rolling</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/back" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#back</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/services" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#services</a> that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University. Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics? It wasn’t. MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing. MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a <a href="https://c.im/tags/hostile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hostile</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/takeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#takeover</a> that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society. Peter <a href="https://c.im/tags/Temin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Temin</a>, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lafer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lafer</a> of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why. MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like <a href="https://c.im/tags/privatization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privatization</a>. Efforts to “reform” <a href="https://c.im/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#public</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Social</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Security</a> are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree. Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, <a href="https://c.im/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weakening</a> pro-public forces and <a href="https://c.im/tags/enhancing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enhancing</a> the <a href="https://c.im/tags/lobbying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lobbying</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a> and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to <a href="https://c.im/tags/dismantle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dismantle</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> and make way for a return to <a href="https://c.im/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a>. The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point. The <a href="https://c.im/tags/oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchs</a> require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people. This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly <a href="https://c.im/tags/expanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#expanding</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#police</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#powers</a> “to control the resultant popular anger.” The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/aggressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aggressive</a> use of <a href="https://c.im/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#state</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a>.👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill <a href="https://c.im/tags/prisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prisons</a> with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented <a href="https://c.im/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a>? ☑️They could, and have. 👉Might they engineer a <a href="https://c.im/tags/retirement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retirement</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crisis</a> by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done. 👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign <a href="https://c.im/tags/forced" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#forced</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/arbitration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arbitration</a> agreements? ☑️Check. 👉Gut <a href="https://c.im/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#public</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.👉Would they even refuse children <a href="https://c.im/tags/clean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clean</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a>? ☑️Actually, yes.MacLean notes that in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Flint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Flint</a>, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like <a href="https://c.im/tags/poisoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poisoned</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a>. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge. In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to <a href="https://c.im/tags/lead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lead</a>, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.Libertarian economist Tyler <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cowen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cowen</a> has provided an economic <a href="https://c.im/tags/justification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justification</a> for this kind of <a href="https://c.im/tags/brutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brutality</a>, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.To many this sounds grotesquely <a href="https://c.im/tags/inhumane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inhumane</a>, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America. In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of <a href="https://c.im/tags/heartlessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heartlessness</a> made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be. MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as <a href="https://c.im/tags/subordinate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#subordinate</a> members of the species, akin to…<a href="https://c.im/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a> who are dependent.’”Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies? Then that means <a href="https://c.im/tags/you" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#you</a>.<a href="https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america</a>

Chuck DarwinFormer CBC Aides Launch Caucus-Aligned Super PACFormer aides to members of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Congressional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congressional</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Black</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Caucus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Caucus</a> on Tuesday launched the first-ever <a href="https://c.im/tags/super" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#super</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PAC</a> affiliated with the caucus’s political action committee, adding a powerful new player to the stable of Democratic groups with plans to spend big in the 2024 election.The <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rolling</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sea</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Action" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Action</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fund</a>, so named for lyrics in the Black national anthem, intends to spend upwards of $10 <a href="https://c.im/tags/million" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#million</a> on TV and digital advertisements, field organizing and other forms of engagement directed at Black voters in an effort to help Democrats retake the House of Representatives. The group will focus its resources on <a href="https://c.im/tags/swing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#swing</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/seats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seats</a> where <a href="https://c.im/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Black</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voters</a> make up 8% of the electorate or more and thus where their <a href="https://c.im/tags/turnout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#turnout</a> plays a pivotal role in deciding election outcomes.<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/congressional-black-caucus-former-aides-democratic-super-pac_n_64b5d62fe4b08cd259d806f3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/congressional-black-caucus-former-aides-democratic-super-pac_n_64b5d62fe4b08cd259d806f3</a>

Tucker Teague🌇 👩‍🦽 🚴 🏙️ 🛹 🚶 🌆 🚊 👩‍🦽 🌃 🚗 🚚 🏘️ 🚶‍♀️ 🚴‍♀️ 🚎 👨‍👩‍👦 🚦 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActiveTransportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActiveTransportation</a> poll:Is your city well suited to active transportation? That is, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanPowered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanPowered</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mobility</a>, such as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biking</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/walking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#walking</a>, or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rolling</a>? And does it have good <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transit</a> options?Is it easy to get around without a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/car" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#car</a>, easy to get to and from many destinations without a car, broadly <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/safe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#safe</a> for general <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#human</a> mobility and supports vibrant <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communities</a>, natural human interactions, and healthier <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/living" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#living</a>?

WalkBikeAndoverWe're a resident-led advocacy group based in <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/AndoverMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AndoverMA</a>, working to make <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/biking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biking</a>, <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/walking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#walking</a>, and <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rolling</a> safer and more accessible to people of all ages and abilities. Subscribe to our newsletter to make sure you don't miss any local advocacy opportunities.<a href="https://www.walkbikeandover.org/email-list" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.walkbikeandover.org/email-list</a>

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