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  1. @gutenberg_org

    ⬆️ 👀 ❗

    "in 1905, #Moscow printers demanded to be paid for setting not only letters but also #punctuation marks, which required the same action and the same amount of time as the alphabet. What is known as the #CommaStrike spread popular #boycott throughout the country, leading to the #czar ceding #Russia its first constitution. A #comma can, more or less, get the blood boiling."

    Citing jstor.org/stable/43204460?seq=

  2. #Trump appointed a new #Czar, Heather Honey, for #Election #Integrity at the #DHS. She is an election #denier who worked to overturn #2020election result's in Trump's favor. She is installed into a position that does not exist, to use the power of the #federalgovernment to control the outcome of elections. Open effort to systematically rig 2026 elections. #democracy state's right #votingrights #elections

  3. @elumundo@america

    Scott #Hubbard, #NASA's first #Mars #Czar: 'Musk will only get to Mars first if he's willing to kill someone'

    TERESA GUERRERO
    Updated 05/23/2025 - 03:34 ET

    mundoamerica.com/news/2025/05/

    (ed : hard to image #starship as a bigger death trap than Tesla, but here we are 🤷🏽)

  4. @elumundo@america

    Scott , 's first : 'Musk will only get to Mars first if he's willing to kill someone'

    TERESA GUERRERO
    Updated 05/23/2025 - 03:34 ET

    mundoamerica.com/news/2025/05/

    (ed : hard to image as a bigger death trap than Tesla, but here we are 🤷🏽)

  5. @elumundo@america

    Scott #Hubbard, #NASA's first #Mars #Czar: 'Musk will only get to Mars first if he's willing to kill someone'

    TERESA GUERRERO
    Updated 05/23/2025 - 03:34 ET

    mundoamerica.com/news/2025/05/

    (ed : hard to image #starship as a bigger death trap than Tesla, but here we are 🤷🏽)

  6. @elumundo@america

    Scott #Hubbard, #NASA's first #Mars #Czar: 'Musk will only get to Mars first if he's willing to kill someone'

    TERESA GUERRERO
    Updated 05/23/2025 - 03:34 ET

    mundoamerica.com/news/2025/05/

    (ed : hard to image #starship as a bigger death trap than Tesla, but here we are 🤷🏽)

  7. @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social

    Ep 4-4-2025
    Trump's Malevolent "Master Plan"

    youtu.be/JiZlWP6OxDU?feature=s

    #us #politics war with #iran 🤔 #israel

    Copying #putin rise to power a American #Czar to a T 🙄

  8. @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social

    Ep 4-4-2025
    Trump's Malevolent "Master Plan"

    youtu.be/JiZlWP6OxDU?feature=s

    #us #politics war with #iran 🤔 #israel

    Copying #putin rise to power a American #Czar to a T 🙄

  9. Trump’s " #Censorship #Czar " investigates NPR and PBS, and urges Congress to defund them Federal Communications Commission Chairman #Brendan #Carr has ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

    Trump’s FCC chair investigates...

  10. The question isn’t if China will turn on Russia, but when

    Putin’s war on #Ukraine blinds him to Russia’s real threat: a hungry #China waiting in the wings.

    Like #Czar Nicholas II, #Russian President Vladimir #Putin has misidentified his primary foe. Fighting a #war of choice, he allows the real menace to his country to gather strength. China, not Ukraine, constitutes Russia’s existential threat

    kyivindependent.com/the-questi

    #RussianAggression #HybridWar #threats

  11. To the nativists, this may be a betrayal in policy terms.

    But for the broader Trumpian approach to politics,
    -- blaming Americans instead of scapegoating immigrants gives away the whole game.

    Look at JD #Vance:
    he catapulted himself to fame in 2016 through Hillbilly Elegy,
    -- where he wrote the following about the white working class in rural Ohio:

    “What goes on in the lives of real people when the industrial economy goes south is about reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible.

    It’s about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it.”

    Vance has dropped that line of argument in recent years
    and replaced it with attacking immigrants,
    -- like those in Springfield, Ohio.

    💥It’s a reflection of Trump’s entire project from day one:
    he sells a world in which the country’s (and your) problems are the fault of immigrants,
    the “enemy within”
    — whoever.

    🔥The tech oligarch position on this dramatically undermines that in a rhetorical sense,
    and reveals the extent to which they are out of step with the people whose votes they just harvested.

    (2/2)

    c.im/@cdarwin/1137233151724841

    talkingpointsmemo.com/where-th

    #Ramaswamy
    #Musk #Sacks

    #Loomer #Fuentes

    #Sriram #Krishan #crypto #AI #czar

  12. Who Got Duped?
    -- MAGA Activists Worry That Nativism And Tech Oligarchy May Not Go Hand In Hand

    Over the past few days, a fight has erupted within the MAGA right over legal immigration, specifically about ➡️whether the country should admit more high-skilled immigrants.
    On the one side, you have opportunistic tech oligarchs like Elon #Musk and David #Sacks.
    These are incredibly wealthy figures who are open about using their newfound influence in government to serve both their ideological and their private business interests.
    On the other are figures like Laura #Loomer, Nick #Fuentes, and other nativist
    (and often openly racist) online personalities who had been vocal Trump supporters long before the Silicon Valley right joined the coalition.

    The two sides began to argue on Sunday, after Donald Trump appointed #Sriram #Krishan,
    a partner at Andreesen Horowitz,
    👉White House policy adviser on Artificial Intelligence
    to work with Sacks, the Trump administration’s #crypto and #AI #czar.
    This may seem like a relatively minor White House appointment.
    However, Krishan has also been a proponent of 💥removing country caps on green cards and H1-B visas,
    -- which allow American companies to hire foreign workers for certain specializations.

    To the far-right, nativist influencers that have from the start glommed onto Trumpian scapegoating of immigrants,
    Krishan’s position crossed a line.

    Loomer, an anti-immigrant provocateur who traveled with Trump during his campaign, called it
    “deeply disturbing.”

    Sacks replied, perhaps not fully understanding his audience,
    by noting that Indian immigrants face an 11-year wait for green cards.

    This was catnip for Loomer,
    who replied by suggesting that Sacks was in on a new version of the great replacement theory,
    and spent the next several days making vile statements about immigrants,
    accusing those who disagree with her on H1-B visas of hating Americans,
    and demanding that senior Trump officials denounce their Silicon Valley allies.

    Sacks, whose recent political positions have included strident opposition to American support for Ukraine, denounced the “crude” attacks.

    Soon, other Trump-involved tech oligarchs,
    like Elon #Musk and Vivek #Ramaswamy, jumped into the fray.

    Musk wrote that “the number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low.
    Think of this like a pro sports team:
    if you want your TEAM to win the championship,
    you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be.
    That enables the whole TEAM to win.”

    Ramaswamy swooped in on Thursday to explain his view that American companies were forced to hire foreign skilled labor due to a deficit in homegrown American culture itself.

    “A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ,
    or the jock over the valedictorian,
    will not produce the best engineers,” Ramaswamy wrote,
    adding later:
    “More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers.”

    As you might imagine, MAGA nativists of various stripes regard this Silicon Valley defense of skilled immigration with a paranoid and often racist eye.

    #Fuentes, the groyper leader, described Ramaswamy’s position as an attempt to get
    “500 million indians to move here.”

    Others reacted to Ramaswamy’s premise that there may be something wrong with America.

    Jeremy #Carl, a senior fellow at the nativist Claremont Institute,
    pushed back in a gentler fashion while still suggesting that Ramaswamy’s vision would “destroy the things that actually make America great.”

    In a very obvious and over-the-top way,
    this imbroglio illuminates a real divide among the most vocal members of Trump’s coalition:
    -- tech oligarchs who want foreign labor for their businesses,
    -- and nativists who take Trump’s rhetoric on immigration very seriously and who in many cases want to apply it to nonwhite immigrants.

    But there’s another thing that’s taking place here on a deeper level.

    Ramaswamy explicitly (and Musk implicitly) laid their supposed inability to find engineering talent at the feet of American culture.

    Ramaswamy was very blunt about this,
    calling for “fewer Saturday morning cartoons.”

    Musk complained that the number of
    “super talented” and “super motivated” engineers in the U.S. is “far too low.”

    (1/2)
    talkingpointsmemo.com/where-th

  13. Trump border chief threatens jail for Denver mayor amid deportation dispute

    #Tom #Homan, Donald Trump’s hardline incoming #border #czar, has threatened to put the mayor of #Denver in jail
    after the latter said he was willing to risk incarceration to resist the president-elect’s migrant mass deportation plan.

    The threat was issued against #Mike #Johnston, a Democrat, who said he was not afraid of being jailed and encouraged people to protest against mass round-ups of immigrants in their cities and communities.

    Johnston’s remarks came after Trump focused during the presidential election campaign on the Denver suburb of #Aurora, which he said had become “a war zone” where apartment buildings had been taken over by Venezuelan gang members.

    Asked to respond by Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Homan said: “Me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing;
    he’s willing to go to jail. I’m willing to put him in jail.”

    Johnston had originally been asked by a local Denver television station to respond to Homan’s previous vows to arrest local leaders and politicians who stood in the way of deportation efforts.
    He said he was not willing to go to jail, though he is “not afraid of that” in a Friday interview with 9 News.

    “I think the goal is we want to be able to negotiate with reasonable people how to solve hard problems,” he told the outlet.
    theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n

  14. The word #czar comes from the first Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, which became #kaiser in German, which is closer to how it was pronounced in Latin.

    What do words even mean, amirite

    #language #etymology #government
    press.coop/@nytimes/1131294816

  15. Turn and Burn 🔥 #Mondays ✈️

    Good morning defenders of freedom and 'democracy' ( ed : all our leaders can be bought by anyone 🫤) it is time once again to don our flight suits and helmets 🪖 and put the hurt on the mad mad #czar of Muscovy 🇷🇺 army! #SlavaUkraine 💪🏽🌻🇺🇦 #NATO #NAFO 4ever


    #F22 Raptor 🇺🇸
    • 🎥 @markfingar •

  16. @DarthPutinKGB Mon Dieu is dear supreme #Czar of earth and beyond feeling uncomfortable 😳😉

  17. A hapless #Jew from #Chelm loved to read the #Russian newspapers. When his #rabbi asked him why, he said, "Rabbi, normally, I'm just a simple shop-keeper. But in the #Czar's newspapers, I'm powerful, control the banks, the government!"