Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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Text from article: Reason to Show Up No. 1: Bursting the illusion of invincibility Authoritarians worldwide depend on projecting strength and inducing fear. They rarely gain control unless people go along, institutions capitulate in advance, and society fails to put up a fight. But when millions turn out, especially in red states and small towns, it punctures that image and signals that we aren’t intimidated. No Kings 3 has added hundreds of events that even include remote rural regions of Alaska. Wherever Trump looks, he will see opposition. It also shows the world that most Americans now oppose Trump, and that the actions he is taking that harm other nations and their people do not reflect the will of most of us. Millions of protesters at thousands of events across the nation and world shape electoral perceptions, as I’ll discuss below. And the Republicans’ decision to ignore the protests this time shows they know they’re working. They want to deprive them of media oxygen, so we need to counter by showing up anyway. Our anger is now driven by a war Trump has recklessly begun and can’t seem to end; by spiking costs of fuel, food and other necessities; and a cynical, transparent cover-up of the Epstein files to protect billionaire pedophiles, which appear to include Trump himself. We need to voice that anger and keep showing Trump and the world that Americans do not support his criminal actions or their consequences.
Text from article: Reason to Show Up No. 1: Bursting the illusion of invincibility Authoritarians worldwide depend on projecting strength and inducing fear. They rarely gain control unless people go along, institutions capitulate in advance, and society fails to put up a fight. But when millions turn out, especially in red states and small towns, it punctures that image and signals that we aren’t intimidated. No Kings 3 has added hundreds of events that even include remote rural regions of Alaska. Wherever Trump looks, he will see opposition. It also shows the world that most Americans now oppose Trump, and that the actions he is taking that harm other nations and their people do not reflect the will of most of us. Millions of protesters at thousands of events across the nation and world shape electoral perceptions, as I’ll discuss below. And the Republicans’ decision to ignore the protests this time shows they know they’re working. They want to deprive them of media oxygen, so we need to counter by showing up anyway. Our anger is now driven by a war Trump has recklessly begun and can’t seem to end; by spiking costs of fuel, food and other necessities; and a cynical, transparent cover-up of the Epstein files to protect billionaire pedophiles, which appear to include Trump himself. We need to voice that anger and keep showing Trump and the world that Americans do not support his criminal actions or their consequences.
Text from article: Reason to Show Up No. 1: Bursting the illusion of invincibility Authoritarians worldwide depend on projecting strength and inducing fear. They rarely gain control unless people go along, institutions capitulate in advance, and society fails to put up a fight. But when millions turn out, especially in red states and small towns, it punctures that image and signals that we aren’t intimidated. No Kings 3 has added hundreds of events that even include remote rural regions of Alaska. Wherever Trump looks, he will see opposition. It also shows the world that most Americans now oppose Trump, and that the actions he is taking that harm other nations and their people do not reflect the will of most of us. Millions of protesters at thousands of events across the nation and world shape electoral perceptions, as I’ll discuss below. And the Republicans’ decision to ignore the protests this time shows they know they’re working. They want to deprive them of media oxygen, so we need to counter by showing up anyway. Our anger is now driven by a war Trump has recklessly begun and can’t seem to end; by spiking costs of fuel, food and other necessities; and a cynical, transparent cover-up of the Epstein files to protect billionaire pedophiles, which appear to include Trump himself. We need to voice that anger and keep showing Trump and the world that Americans do not support his criminal actions or their consequences.
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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Text from article: Case in point: Miller just met with Texas state legislators and floated a truly extreme proposal. The New York Times reports that Miller discussed the idea of ending state public funding for the education of undocumented children, and asked the lawmakers why they hadn’t passed a bill limiting funding for education so it only goes to kids who are citizens or are lawfully present in the United States. This idea—denying public school to undocumented children—has mostly passed under the radar, but it’s a long-held dream of the anti-immigrant right. The basic aim is to destabilize the lives of undocumented families as another way to encourage them to self-deport. But there’s an even more pernicious ideological aim at work here. Getting a red state to attempt this would run afoul of a 1982 Supreme Court decision, which blocked states from denying public education to young people based on immigration status. Plyler v. Doe is not as well known as the other big civil rights rulings, but it’s momentous: It held that restricting public education this way would violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s enshrinement of equal protection before the law.
Text from article: Case in point: Miller just met with Texas state legislators and floated a truly extreme proposal. The New York Times reports that Miller discussed the idea of ending state public funding for the education of undocumented children, and asked the lawmakers why they hadn’t passed a bill limiting funding for education so it only goes to kids who are citizens or are lawfully present in the United States. This idea—denying public school to undocumented children—has mostly passed under the radar, but it’s a long-held dream of the anti-immigrant right. The basic aim is to destabilize the lives of undocumented families as another way to encourage them to self-deport. But there’s an even more pernicious ideological aim at work here. Getting a red state to attempt this would run afoul of a 1982 Supreme Court decision, which blocked states from denying public education to young people based on immigration status. Plyler v. Doe is not as well known as the other big civil rights rulings, but it’s momentous: It held that restricting public education this way would violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s enshrinement of equal protection before the law.
Text from article: Case in point: Miller just met with Texas state legislators and floated a truly extreme proposal. The New York Times reports that Miller discussed the idea of ending state public funding for the education of undocumented children, and asked the lawmakers why they hadn’t passed a bill limiting funding for education so it only goes to kids who are citizens or are lawfully present in the United States. This idea—denying public school to undocumented children—has mostly passed under the radar, but it’s a long-held dream of the anti-immigrant right. The basic aim is to destabilize the lives of undocumented families as another way to encourage them to self-deport. But there’s an even more pernicious ideological aim at work here. Getting a red state to attempt this would run afoul of a 1982 Supreme Court decision, which blocked states from denying public education to young people based on immigration status. Plyler v. Doe is not as well known as the other big civil rights rulings, but it’s momentous: It held that restricting public education this way would violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s enshrinement of equal protection before the law.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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Headline: Commentary, national debt The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it By Steve H. Hanke and David M. Walker March 23, 2026, 11:14 AM ET Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is the co-editor, with Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield, of Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022). David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation.
Headline: Commentary, national debt The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it By Steve H. Hanke and David M. Walker March 23, 2026, 11:14 AM ET Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is the co-editor, with Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield, of Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022). David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation.
Headline: Commentary, national debt The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it By Steve H. Hanke and David M. Walker March 23, 2026, 11:14 AM ET Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is the co-editor, with Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield, of Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022). David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation.
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Headline and text from article: So, As It Turns Out, Brain-Dead, Morally Bankrupt, Rampant Incompetence Matters How do we know? Look around you. by David Rothkopf Mar 22, 2026 Pickett charged. France built the Maginot line. The Empire left a big honking hole in the side of the Death Star, which allowed it to be destroyed. The history of military stupidity could fill volumes. But never, never has anyone seen a combination of ignorance, incoherence, and incompetence as we have seen from Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and their Capitol Hill chorus of wingnut oompa loompas. I have long felt that one of the many flaws of the culture of Washington, DC—which, candidly, I see as responsible for many of this country’s ills—is that the least admired or discussed quality we seek in our leaders is management skill.
Headline and text from article: So, As It Turns Out, Brain-Dead, Morally Bankrupt, Rampant Incompetence Matters How do we know? Look around you. by David Rothkopf Mar 22, 2026 Pickett charged. France built the Maginot line. The Empire left a big honking hole in the side of the Death Star, which allowed it to be destroyed. The history of military stupidity could fill volumes. But never, never has anyone seen a combination of ignorance, incoherence, and incompetence as we have seen from Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and their Capitol Hill chorus of wingnut oompa loompas. I have long felt that one of the many flaws of the culture of Washington, DC—which, candidly, I see as responsible for many of this country’s ills—is that the least admired or discussed quality we seek in our leaders is management skill.
Headline and text from article: So, As It Turns Out, Brain-Dead, Morally Bankrupt, Rampant Incompetence Matters How do we know? Look around you. by David Rothkopf Mar 22, 2026 Pickett charged. France built the Maginot line. The Empire left a big honking hole in the side of the Death Star, which allowed it to be destroyed. The history of military stupidity could fill volumes. But never, never has anyone seen a combination of ignorance, incoherence, and incompetence as we have seen from Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and their Capitol Hill chorus of wingnut oompa loompas. I have long felt that one of the many flaws of the culture of Washington, DC—which, candidly, I see as responsible for many of this country’s ills—is that the least admired or discussed quality we seek in our leaders is management skill.
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