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[StopTheMadness @bugfud]

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[𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐘 𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐃 @aalkermd]

Just wanted to make sure you saw this. #Hamilton #Fauci

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

"Last year, I wrote about Curtis Yarvin, the Fascist Whisperer to the Silicon Valley dickheads who needed someone to tell them that being greedy, soulless monsters was actually a net positive to society. A new Ayn Rand for a new generation of sociopaths.

Yarvin saw the writing on the wall and recommended running for the hills.

Now, another prominent fascist fuck packed his family up and sent them to Argentina, famous for being a haven for Nazis on the run from the consequences of being, well, Nazis.

Underscoring his belief in the country, Mr. Thiel, 58, has temporarily relocated his family to Argentina and enrolled his children in a local school, two of the people said. The Argentine government has also explored offering the billionaire permanent residence or even citizenship, a person familiar with Mr. Thiel’s plans said, though it’s currently unclear whether he would accept.

“Unclear?” Sure. He moved his family there because he’s just thinking about fleeing the United States. Which is what totally normal people do when they’re just thinking about doing something.

Thiel, if you’ll recall, is the creepy, drippy wet fascist who has been openly talking about how we need to end the rule of law because it keeps billionaires from achieving their dreams of becoming immortal digital gods.

One year ago, I’m sure Peter Thiel was feeling pretty fucking good about his life choices. Donald Trump was wiping his ass with the Constitution. The courts, the press, higher education, corporations; all of them were bowing in submission.

Everything was going exactly the way the billionaires wanted it to go. The government was being dismantled, world leaders across the globe were doing everything possible to appease Trump, and the American public seemed too stunned to really get in the way.

But that was then.

They could rig the elections again, but as I have pointed out repeatedly, stolen elections have to be plausible, even if just barely.

It was barely plausible that Kamala Harris lost all seven swing states by razor-thin margins. Literally no one will believe Republicans will hold onto the House in a blue wave when they’ve been losing almost every special election since November 2024.

Not with the economy in the middle of tanking, while the price of gas has almost doubled. It’s not even remotely plausible, and stealing an election under those conditions will lead to nationwide riots.

But Trump has his paramilitary ready, right? No, he does not. At the same time Rapey Kegsbreath was failing to warp the real military into a White Christian Nationalist army for JAY-zus, the regime has failed to create a functioning brownshirt contingent in the streets. ICE was part of the way there, but it never quite congealed into the Gestapo Stephen Miller was going for.

The $1.8 billion slush fund to pay a mercenary force might have helped round out those numbers, but Trump pissed off Senate Republicans so much that they’re getting in the way.

And so are the courts. Goddamn fucking courts and their lousy independence! Whose stupid idea was THAT?!"

Another Delightfully Definitive Sign The Fascist Fucks Have Lost https://t.co/eaRTFGWKql

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Why are so many American elites bunkering down? It’s not the chaos—that’s a feature not a bug. They’re preparing to escape accountability.

Thiel is building a jurisdictional bunker, Musk is building a corporate bunker & Trump is building a literal bunker.
https://t.co/vnL7axq4oI

[Rock Photography @Photomusicrock]

Playing AC/DC’s music in retirement facilities is the way!

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

WOW THIS IS A VERY THOUGHT-PROVOKING PERSPECTIVE

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Last week: @thenerve_news.

This week: the FT View.

We forensically tracked cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne’s donations against Nigel Farage’s crypto policy statements.

Yesterday the FT pulled out this same point in its main editorial & notes the similarity to Trump.
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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Peter Thiel is expanding his operation to Argentina (via Milei) and specifically avoiding California’s proposed billionaire tax. The idea that he’s abandoning his American operations is dumb.

[Drey @thedreydossier]

The “Peter Thiel is fleeing America” story is so unserious. Fleeing what? His protégé is vice president, his companies feed on government contracts, and his politics are already sitting in the room.
This is not a man running from the state; this is a man shopping for the next state to optimize.

Call it what it is: post-democracy expansion.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Today, May 27, on the same day EU foreign ministers are meeting in Limassol to discuss the possibility of direct dialogue with Russia, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in the WDR 0630 podcast that she hopes the war in Ukraine will end "in 10 years - and in such a way that Ukraine is an independent, free, and sovereign country."

This is Merkel’s third public appearance on the same platform within ten days, and it coincides with active discussions in Brussels over who could represent the EU in negotiations with Moscow.

Merkel’s candidacy as an unofficial diplomatic actor has a fundamental problem: she is simultaneously the most acceptable and the least legitimate option.

Her very appearance in the public space looks staged. She's made three public appearances on the same platform within ten days. On May 18, at the WDR Europaforum, Merkel said that Europe is "not using its diplomatic potential sufficiently", then, later that day, she rejected the idea of taking on an official mediator role. Today, May 27, on the WDR 0630 podcast, Angela Merkel said she hopes the war will end "in 10 years." Between these two appearances, Politico published an EU shortlist: Angela Merkel, Alex Stubb, Mario Draghi, and Putin’s negotiator Kirill Dmitriev publicly reacted to Merkel's remarks. The Kremlin is listening to her. The coincidence with the Brussels discussions is too much to be an accident.

Merkel is acceptable for this role because she is not discredited like Schröder and not viewed as an enemy by Moscow like Kaja Kallas. But this is a passive quality: "not the worst option" is not the same as "the right choice."

The Minsk process is not merely a "ballast," as Brussels diplomats softly describe it. It is a failure that Russia took use of to prepare for a full-scale invasion. Merkel herself admitted in a 2022 interview that Minsk gave Ukraine "time to strengthen itself." But this is simultaneously an admission that the negotiations were conducted not for peace, but for delay. If this is her diplomatic methodology, then Merkel is not suited for a role that requires a real settlement.

Merkel is no longer in power - and she herself emphasized this as an argument against her official candidacy. But then another question arises: what is her mandate in the unofficial track? Who authorized her? To whom is she accountable? An unofficial channel without an institutional anchor is either a private initiative the Kremlin can ignore, or parallel diplomacy that undermines the EU’s official position.

And, finally, today’s statement about "10 years" undermines Merkel's own claim that Europe is failing to use its diplomatic potential. If a person calling for more active diplomacy is herself setting a decade-long horizon, then this is either an absence of strategy or preparation of public opinion for a frozen conflict. Neither option makes Merkel a strong diplomatic actor.

[Steven Hassan, PhD @CultExpert]

Does Tucker Carlson really believe that Trump had him under a “literal spell”?

In my conversation with journalist Virginia Heffernan @page88 we discuss why some powerful figures explain Trump’s influence through demons, prophecy, and the Antichrist, instead of seeing the psychological process of influence and coercive control.
When people with these beliefs are shaping policy, everyone needs to pay attention.

Watch the full conversation here: https://t.co/JlXQUz6fnr

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Some nursing homes struggle to attract visitors. One in the Netherlands chose to invite roommates instead.

In the Dutch city of Deventer, a retirement home called Humanitas introduced an idea that would eventually gain attention around the world.

Rather than accepting loneliness as a normal part of aging, they approached it as something that could actually be solved.

For over ten years, Humanitas has allowed university students to live inside the nursing home rent free.

In return, the students spend about thirty hours each month connecting with residents. Sometimes that means sharing meals, having conversations, helping with technology, joining activities, or simply keeping someone company during a quiet afternoon.

They are not nurses or employees. They are simply part of the community.

At first, the idea sounded like a smart response to expensive student housing.

But the real impact appeared in the lives of the residents. Reports from outlets such as PBS NewsHour and AARP described seniors becoming more social, more active, and less isolated once younger people became part of everyday life.

What makes the story even more meaningful is that many students chose to spend far more time there than the agreement required.

Some even stayed connected after graduating. Over time, casual interactions turned into genuine friendships.

Humanitas didn’t really create something new. It brought back something many societies once had naturally: different generations living side by side instead of separately.

Maybe the issue was never aging itself. Maybe it was the distance we created between generations.

Sometimes the most powerful ideas are simply old human connections rediscovered.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

How does the Antichrist operate on the physical plane? He constructs a system for usurping freewill for himself.

“We could never win an election… because we were such a small minority, but maybe you could change the world unilaterally through a technological means… Technology is this incredible alternative to politics… It is not a way to fix it. It is a way to escape.”

Peter Thiel has partnered with Russia, Israel, Saudi, Jeffrey Epstein, and countless fascists around the world to build this “technological means.” We are living inside it. This website is one of its biggest tools.

Peter Thiel is one demented 80-year-old heartbeat from essentially being the president. James Bowman was plucked out of Yale by Peter Thiel and converted to “JD Vance” in a lab.

[Steven Hassan, PhD @CultExpert]

I’ve been warning for years about the influence Putin and Russia appear to have over Donald Trump.

McFaul makes some powerful points about the similarities between Putin’s rise to power and what many people are now witnessing within MAGA politics in America.

As a cult expert and author of The Cult of Trump, I believe it’s critical to recognize the warning signs of authoritarian influence, propaganda, attacks on independent media, and personality cult leadership before it’s too late. History shows us that coercion and control don’t happen overnight. They happen gradually, while people are distracted, divided, or demoralized.

But I also remain hopeful. Unlike Putin’s Russia, America still has democratic institutions, free speech protections, independent voices, and the power to organize, vote, and push back against cult-like political movements.

We cannot afford apathy. We need more people engaged, informed, and willing to think about power, influence, and manipulation inside movements like MAGA and around figures like Trump.

Do you think the parallels between Putin’s Russia and Trump’s movement are becoming harder to ignore?

Video credit: @ambmcfaul

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Ashley St. Claire says Elon Musk offered her $40 MILLION to stay silent about his “10,000 space lasers” and the 2024 election.

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[Haymi Behar @HaymiBehar]

Turkey is no longer going through ordinary political polarization.
It is entering a period where the legitimacy of institutions themselves is being questioned.

The main opposition leader is removed by court order.
The strongest opposition presidential figure is in prison.
Markets panic.
The judiciary becomes the center of politics.
Every election starts feeling less like democratic competition and more like a struggle over the rules of the system itself.

The danger is not simply authoritarianism.
Turkey has survived coups, economic collapses, military interventions and political violence before.

The deeper problem is institutional exhaustion.

When courts are seen as political actors, elections become fragile.
When opposition parties fight for legal survival, politics hardens.
When investors can no longer separate political risk from legal risk, trust disappears.

Turkey is still an incredibly resilient country.
Young population.
Strong entrepreneurial culture.
Strategic geography.
Industrial depth.
A powerful state tradition.

But resilience is not infinite.

A system where every major political conflict eventually moves into the judiciary stops producing long term stability, even for those currently holding power.

The real question is whether Turkey can still preserve faith in the idea that political power changes through institutions rather than through institutional warfare.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Thomas Massie will serve in Congress until January of 2027. During that time expect him to team up with Ro Khanna in an effort to build a left-right “America First” coalition rooted in “antiwar” rhetoric, targeting voters 55 and under.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Anyway, Massie and Khanna are still the foundation for what Putin is trying to build next and 10,000 stray votes in Kentucky don’t change that. It may inform their approach, but it doesn’t make it go away, and 99% of the population is misreading this at every level.

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

With the corrupt deal Trump's defense attorney @DAGToddBlanche crafted, TRUMP will get out of billions in taxes and YOUR taxes will pay the terrorists, cop assailants, child sex predators, and Russia useful idiots who broke the law for him.

[Sung Drip Woo @YaBoyRoshi]

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[Max Velocity @MaxVelocityWX]

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