Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
Bitcoin still on track for $1.8M in 2035, says analyst
MIT study finds that AI doesn’t, in fact, have values
Coronavirus and Public Health:
Child, adult COVID survivors more likely to have heart disease, symptoms, data suggest
Politics:
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Military Contractors Pitch Prison Plan for Immigrants
Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince and a team of defense contractors are pitching the White House on a plan to vastly expand deportations to El Salvador — transporting thousands of immigrants from U.S. holding facilities to a sprawling maximum security prison in Central America.
The proposal says it would target “criminal illegal aliens” and would attempt to skirt U.S. immigration laws by designating part of the prison — which has drawn accusations of violence and overcrowding from human rights groups — as American territory.
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US fires Greenland military base chief for 'undermining' Vance
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How China Will Ensure the Trade War Hurts the U.S.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has no shortage of pressure points to ensure Americans feel the pain from President Trump’s superpower trade war.
China on Friday increased its tariffs to an eye-watering 125% in response to Trump’s 145% levies. And ever since trade war 1.0, Beijing has also been developing a wider array of tools that it’s now putting to use.
US coffee shops worried about bitter price hike after tariffs
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Trump Admin Defies Court Order To Provide Basic Info On Man It Wrongly Deported
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Trump admin misses judge’s deadline to detail steps for wrongly deported man’s return
This Is Why Dictatorships Fail
The Cabinet is composed of sycophants and loyalists who are willing to defend contradictory policies, even if doing so makes them look like fools. The courts haven’t decisively intervened yet either. No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning.
This is what arbitrary, absolute power looks like. And this is why the men who wrote the Constitution never wanted anyone to have it. In that famously hot, stuffy room in Philadelphia, windows closed for the sake of secrecy, they sweated and argued about how to limit the powers of the American executive. They arrived at the idea of dividing power between different branches of government. As James Madison wrote in “Federalist No. 47”: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands … may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
More than two centuries later, the system created by that first Constitutional Congress has comprehensively failed. The people and institutions that are supposed to check executive power are refusing to restrain this president. We now have a de facto tyrant who thinks he can bend reality to his will…
Credulous Roberts Court Still Pretends To Believe Trump And His DOJ
State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
History Has Lessons For Universities As They Consider Giving In To Authoritarian Demands
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”Unbelievable and egregious”: NC voters fear retroactive disenfranchisement after court ruling
Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn his election loss by throwing out 65,000 votes
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