H1B visas not being taken up our Oxbridge Trump sycophants is an utter betrayal of Trump fandom
Living the dream vicariously is simply for voyeurs
View attachment 21696You haven't cottoned on that it's a GLOBAL network of corruption and influence that is being demolished?
It's probably hard to watch for people who have long since sold their souls and got the rainbow lanyard to prove it.
"When America sneezes, the world catches a cold"
USAID in afghanistan is going to be a treasure trove for musk and the lads.
i went for a meeting at the USAID office once about two hours after the roundabout outside their compound had been car bombed. it killed about thirty people from what i can remember. but that kind of thing happened all the time. i found a group of pretty scared people who hadn't been in the country very long and didn't have a handle on it. it's an abiding memory of what government employees were like when they were deployed to afghanistan, they were facing threats that they weren't prepared for and they were hardly allowed outside as a result, so didn't have the chance to begin to understand the country they were working in. there's not really an easy solution to that one
First (no doubt of many) test of the legality of all this
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Judge temporarily blocks Musk’s ‘Doge’ team from accessing treasury records
Injunction granted in response to lawsuit alleging the Trump administration allowed Musk’s team access to sensitive data in violation of federal lawwww.theguardian.com
US judge to enter 'limited' temporary order to block Trump from moving to dismantle USAid
A US judge on Friday said he will enter a “very limited” temporary order blocking Donald Trump’s administration from taking certain steps to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USaid), according to Reuters.
US district judge Carl Nichols in Washington said he would issue the order following a lawsuit by the largest US government workers’ union and an association of foreign service workers, who sued on Thursday to stop the administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency.
In a notice sent to the foreign aid agency’s workers on Thursday, the administration said it will keep 611 essential workers onboard at USaid out of a worldwide workforce that totals more than 10,000. This move has largely been directed by Elon Musk, who’s spearheading the president’s effort to shrink the federal bureaucracy.
A justice department official, Brett Shumate, told Nichols that about 2,200 USAid employees would be put on paid leave under the administration’s plans, saying: “The president has decided there is corruption and fraud at USAid.”
The judge noted that Elon and DOGE have provided zero evidence of corruption or fraud at USAID.
- Trump followed Joe Biden’s lead by revoking the former president’s access to classified government information and removing his security clearance and daily intelligence briefings.
- Trump appointed himself as chair of the John F Kennedy Center for the performing arts saying he was immediately terminating multiple people from the board of trustees.
- Alaskan lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a resolution to halt the renaming of Denali to Mount McKinley.
- Trump signed an executive order targeting South Africa, after Marco Rubio accused the country of “anti-Americanism”.
- Trump said he is in “no rush” to make his plan to put the United States in charge of the Gaza Strip a reality.
- The Health and Human Services Department and agencies under its umbrella – such as the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – may be the next targets of Trump’s mass layoffs.
- Trump said he would soon be signing an executive order to end federal support for paper straws, saying they don’t work and to “BRING BACK PLASTIC!”
During his regime, Enver Hoxha banned all hair longer than 4 cm (1.6 in) for men, as well as all beards. No man could enter the country whilst wearing one of the banned hair styles
Fair.Donald Trump says he won't deport Prince Harry as 'he has enough problems with his terrible wife'
The US election also begins the cruel process of reconfiguring the post-globalization epoch, a new global order that reverses a number of trends that had advanced since the Cold War. The infrastructures that sustained the neoliberal order will be reconstructed, for better or worse. At the same time, the US election marks a true liberation of political thought from the stagnation of ideological claims such as Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history” thesis and the grand discourses of empire’s thermodynamic ideology of globalization—as well as their other pole (or twin), the elite left lost in political correctness. (Neoreactionary Curtis Yarvin termed this elite left the “cathedral.”)What I call “thermodynamic ideology” is the belief that societies must be open to economic activities, that economic rights determine political rights such as freedom of speech and human rights. It is also a political epistemology in the sense that it is transposed from science to the political domain. “Free markets” and “open systems” are the buzzwords of this ideology, whose triumph was marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, as Jean-François Lyotard witnessed:Marxism, the last shoot stemming from both the Enlightenment and Christianity, seems to have lost all of its critical power. When the Berlin Wall fell, it failed definitively. By invading the shops in West Berlin, the East German crowds gave evidence that the ideal of freedom, at least of the free market, had already invaded Eastern European minds.This ideology culminated in the entry of China into the WTO in the early 2000s. China’s opening to global capitalism and the nonantagonistic attitude of the Chinese Communist Party vaguely admitted to the triumph of the liberal ideology of globalization, even giving the illusion that China would eventually follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union. Though this apparent unification between East and West through global capitalism marked the end of the Cold War, it was not the end of antagonism or conflict. As I suggested in “On the Unhappy Consciousness of Neoreactionaries,” the optimism of globalization has ended. The thermodynamic ideology behind neoliberalism simply doesn’t work when the process of globalization advances to such an extent that American imperial power ceases to be the sole monopoly power. China and Russia’s quest for a multipolar world clearly signals this obsolescence.
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On the Recurrence of Neoreactionaries - Journal #151
Yuk Hui on the recent US election and the return of neoreaction.www.e-flux.com