Category: Politics
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Jared Yates Sexton: Preparing for the Storm
Happy new year to you. I hope in 2024 you found some things of value. Perhaps, like myself, you were both dismayed by what happened but also motivated. As I’ve discussed in a previous Audio From A Collapsing State, moments of immense danger and rising authoritarianism have a tendency to bring clarity.
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New Term for Republicans – Hatriots
Republicans sure seem to hate democracy. In a multitude of ways, Republicans are subverting the most basic principle of our nation: that the people decide. Like a tin-pot dictatorship, they are using the heavy hand of government power to try to remain in power regardless of the vote of the people.
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Trump’s Mental Decline
Several speech and cognitive experts have noted changes in Trump’s communication style over recent years. Analyses have highlighted patterns such as increased tangentiality, simplified sentence structures, and repetitive language, which some experts suggest could be indicative of cognitive decline.
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The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community’s work has never been harder or more important. This book by General Michael V. Hayden, The Assault on Intelligence, is a must read.
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Christian Nationalism
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is dedicated to ensuring that all members of the United States Armed Forces fully receive the Constitutional guarantee of religious freedom to which they and all Americans are entitled by virtue of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.