Some of the Framers understood.
George Mason, namesake of my university, gave the warning below as Virginia debated ratifying the new US Constitution on June 18, 1788.
Perversion of our Constitution will harm all Conservative and Liberal Americans.
press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/doc...
“It wasn’t only that America was a big, dynamic country with many world-class research institutions. It was that here, unlike so many other places, differences of opinion were encouraged, and the prevailing ethos was to let the best ideas win.”
Compelling article, must-read. 🧪
Americans reject authoritarian rule, we reject the perversion of our troops into a political toy and palace guard, deployed against Americans in the homeland.
We understand that the ongoing poisoning of our institutions will harm all Conservative and Liberal Americans.
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Anyone in the public can submit a comment on the US Administration's proposed rule to effectively ban employment by asylum seekers, for the next 13 days.
The comment period closes on April 24th, and comments can be submitted here—>
www.regulations.gov/docket/USCIS...
We also explain why the Administration's assertion that work authorization is the principal reason people seek asylum in the US finds no support in the very data it cites.
Asylum applications fell after 1994, but for reasons unrelated to the prior EAD reform that happened to occur at the same time.
I joined with my brilliant colleagues Natalia Rigol of Harvard University and Amy Nice of Cornell University to write a detailed analysis of how asylum seekers affect US economic growth & job creation—effects that banning their labor will reverse.
Posted here—>
www.regulations.gov/comment/USCI...
The proposed rule would suspend acceptance of almost all new initial asylum-based Employment Authorization applications for an open-ended period that, the Administration itself estimates, could last from 14 to 173 years, and possibly longer.
www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-03595
The US Administration has proposed a new rule that would bar almost all asylum-seekers from legally working, for at least a decade.
My colleagues and I have written and submitted a detailed analysis of how this act will impact the United States economy.
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WAR DEPARTMENT—WASHINGTON 25, D. C. ● 24 March 1945 FASCISM! Note For This Week's Discussion: Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis; (2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.
Fascists in America may differ slightly from fascists in other countries, but there are a number of attitudes and practices that they have in common. Following are three. Every person who has one of them is not necessarily a fascist. But he is in a mental state that lends itself to the acceptance of fascist aims. 1. Pitting of religious, racial, and economic groups against one another in order to break down national unity is a device of the "divide and conquer" technique used by Hitler to gain power in Germany and in other countries. With slight variations, to suit local conditions, fascists everywhere have used this Hitler method. In many countries, anti-Semitism (hatred of Jews) is a dominant device of fascism. In the United States, native fascists have often been anti-Catholic, anti-Jew, anti-Negro, anti-Labor, anti-foreign-born. In South America, the native fascists use the same scapegoats except that they substitute anti-Protestantism for anti-Catholicism.
In 1945, the US government published a Q&A to help military service members identify and combat fascism.
If you have not read it, it remains illuminating, timely, and urgent—>
archive.org/details/Army...
Anne deyimleri FTW!
Thank you, it's common in my family and maybe not by accident because several generations back they are Çerkez!
A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.
But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
"I can't understand why the NATO countries, one of which we spent a year THREATENING TO INVADE, aren't standing shoulder-to-shoulder when we announce plans to KILL A CIVILIZATION in a country literally at their border"
…is a question that plenty of us could answer for you, if asked.
It is foolish, childish, & obviously unrealistic for the people controlling the US government to do nothing but threaten, denigrate, & punish our European allies for 15 months, then expect them to "support" a unilateral war that goes directly against their interests.
This policy is: America Last.
Turks have an unforgettable traditional saying that distills centuries of life under authoritarian Ottoman rule:
⟶ Öküz tahta çıkarsa öküz padişah olmaz, saray ahır olur
“When an ox ascends to the throne, he doesn’t become king; the palace becomes a barn”
I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad
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This is a policy decision of the White House.
The Administration has purged judges who adjudicated asylum cases on their merits, and replaced them with people who deny over 95% of cases—> www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
The United States effectively no longer has an asylum system.
Our asylum system was created by our Congress, under the rule of law, and it is the duty of the Executive Branch to administer that system.
It has instead disemboweled the system so that it no longer grants asylum.
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What is not being done is any recourse to the one document that provides for situations where a president needs prompt removal from office: the constitution of the United States. The checks and balances are already there, ready to be used. But they are ignored, as if these provisions did not exist. The United States may as well not have a written constitution. For what is now happening is not because of any inherent strength of the presidency in the United States political system. It is happening because the legislative and judicial branches are letting it happen. The constitutional tools are there to fix this, but those who can use these tools are refusing to use them. And the international legal order offers no constraint. Although it is important in principle to recognise that what Trump is threatening is in breach of international laws, nobody expects these laws to make any practical difference. There will be no sanctions on Trump or the United States for the threat to destroy an entire civilisation. Many world leaders also are just waiting for the problem to somehow go away.
Why President Trump’s threat of genocide matters
He may avoid immediate constitutional and legal sanctions, but this threat should not be forgotten
New by me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
I am still reeling from Tuesday’s civilizational destruction threats.
Thank you, I'm very interested in how this looks from your perspective. Is there a link you could easily share, on what USC is doing and the results you're getting?
“Prediction markets” are websites where you take the money you worked hard to earn, and give it directly to the friends & family of White House insiders.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
It is difficult to imagine a more expansive and decisive geopolitical victory for Vladimir Putin’s vile dictatorship than what lies at the end of this path.
The US Administration is crippling our capacity to attract and retain the most treasured researchers on earth, central to AI competitiveness and our entire research capacity.
This will permanently harm all Conservative and Liberal Americans.
To all the people taking this post as an opportunity to vent your hatred of Christianity: You do not get to define what Christianity is, just as the Secretary of Defense does not. Block me and never contact me again.
America has a vast and historic opportunity, at this moment, to collectively decide what it is, what we are, what America means. We define the country by our choices now.
