U.S. military regulations impose strict limitations on service members’ political activities, especially in uniform, and Article 88 forbids officers from using contemptuous words against the President or Vice President.

As a civilian I don’t think calling for legal impeachment is contemptuous, nor is peaceful First Amendment Activity. The GOP-majority congress has let us all down, choosing party and Trump over country.

As a tiny cultural adjustment, the bible should be rewritten with all the references to child abuse deleted (such as Proverbs 23:13). Adjust the text so it agrees with our best scientific understanding of abuse. Editing the bible was done long ago in a negative sense, in the service of slavery, the Slave Bible. Thus, it should be entirely permissible to rewrite it in a positive sense, such as editing out any advocacy that may be interpreted as advocating the beating of kids. Then future Christian families won’t be able to as easily justify child abuse because “it says so in the bible”. One cultural ripple effect that minimizes harm to children is thus eliminated.

Hegseth isn’t a doctor, but he can direct military medical policy? The US leadership system is broken.

Just drain it and leave it dry. Stop spending money on vanity.

The Trump administration has gutted key elements of the nation’s election security infrastructure. Experts warn that the changes could reduce visibility into nationwide cyberattacks and foreign influence campaigns while making it more difficult for state and local election officials to coordinate defensive operations.

Interesting to think of foreign influence campaigns in the context of Trump v. Slaughter and the possibility that any president could potentially turn to the darkside and work against the good of the country as a whole.

It’s interesting to think of the desire to avoid Universal Basic Income in the context of Trump’s recent outburst about communism. Raimando was a democrat, not a republican. There are times when the parties sound too much the same.

A massive increase in Executive Branch power, reaching close to Kingly powers, the Unitary Executive.

In California, decades ago we used to be able to throw away our household trash in one container. Now we have 3 containers, and it’s recently become a fine-profit center: if folks don’t properly separate their recycling, greenery, and trash components, the AI-surveillance cameras mounted on the trucks will catch it and fine the subscriber (never mind that these trash-recycling-greenery containers are unlocked and on the street where anyone can open and toss something in). In similar fashion, if society adopts robots for household chores, how long until household inspections are held to fine people (as a profit center) who don’t keep their homes sufficiently neat?