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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia

As of 2024, the total fertility rate across Russia is estimated to be 1.41 children born per woman,[18] which is below the replacement rate of 2.1 and among the lowest in the world.[19] Subsequently, it has one of the oldest populations in the world, with a median age of 41.9 years.

I mean, I agree that they've got to do something, but I don't think that that this is likely going to do it. I don't think that the limiting factor here is sex appeal.

I'm also dubious about the information-control thing they've been doing:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-battling-birth-rate-dip-is-working-child-free-ideology-ban-says-putin-2024-09-24/

Russia, battling birth rate dip, is working on 'child-free' ideology ban, says Putin ally

Sept 24 (Reuters) - The Russian parliament is working on a law that would ban what the authorities cast as the harmful promotion of a child-free way of life with heavy fines for "childlessness propaganda", a close ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.

I think that the larger issue is people not wanting to raise children.

More-specifically, a regressive tax, one which hits the poor harder.

I am pretty sure that that's up to Trump's discretion to grant and am skeptical that Trump would grant it.

https://www.newsweek.com/john-bolton-disappointed-after-trump-removes-his-secret-service-detail-2018535

Bolton, national-security hawk who played a key role in shaping U.S. foreign policy during the first Trump administration, has continued to require Secret Service protection due to threats from Iran, even after leaving the White House in 2019.

After Bolton was fired by Trump, the president terminated his security detail. However, former President Joe Biden reinstated the protection upon taking office in 2021.

The purported plot against Bolton in 2021, one of the most thoroughly documented alleged assassination attempts, is part of what U.S. prosecutors and former government officials describe as ongoing efforts by Iran's Revolutionary Guard. These efforts aim to target Trump-era officials responsible for a 2020 U.S. airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Guard's elite Quds Force.

"The Justice Department filed criminal charges in 2022 against an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official for attempting to hire a hitman to target me. That threat still exists, as shown by the recent arrest of someone trying to orchestrate President Trump's assassination. The American people can decide for themselves which president made the right call," Bolton said in his statement to CNN.

On Tuesday, CNN reported that former National Security Adviser John Bolton expressed frustration and disappointment over former President Donald Trump's decision to revoke his Secret Service protection just hours after he returned to the White House.

"I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has made this decision," Bolton said in a Tuesday statement to Newsweek. "Despite my criticisms of President Biden's national security policies, he made the decision to extend Secret Service protection to me in 2021."

Bolton has a hostile nation-state actively trying to assassinate him for his work for Trump. Trump pulled his protection because he doesn't like him.

Judge Boasberg has ruled against Trump in one major case and I imagine will most-likely do so in at least a second.

Finstad said he held a Feb. 26 telephone town hall joined by 3,000 people in his district.

clicks on link

https://www.facebook.com/RepFinstad/posts/pfbid0bBgaYsihdnArsU3kw2fr6mhT1zXCQJjZNnaYMmhAgffAoEVKs8z5khzANPDaWJxcl?rdid=WrvrHq7dpyeCxxAZ

Finstad: Great to talk to and answer questions from the amazing folks in #MN01! Thank you to the 3,000 constituents from across southern Minnesota who tuned in to our Constituent Update Call last night!

Sarah Kujawa: How do we get notified of these? I am your constituent and didn’t get an invite

Anastasia Hopkins Folpe: Sarah Kujawa exactly

Jacque Drew: Sarah Kujawa I just called all 3 offices and asked the same question. No one had an answer but would pass my request along.

MarilynPalmer Frisch: Sarah Kujawa probably another mistruth we have to deal with!

Tori Ann Gross: Sarah Kujawa exactly. I'm on the email list, have called and asked your staffers specifically when you'll be holding a town hall with constituents. How are you notifying people of your events??

Jenni Hollar: Sarah Kujawa it was a lame attempt to appear that he's listening to constituents.

Karen Klefstad Monson: Sarah Kujawa and you note there is no response from him here.

Sharon Vandenorth: Interesting. I spoke about this very lack of communication w your Rochester office yesterday morning and he never mentioned an "update call". Invitation only? That's one way to control the content isn't it. Shameful lack of honesty.

Shannon Helget: I called your office and voiced my concerns yesterday. I wasn't informed of any phone call or town hall meeting where I could hear directly from Congressman Brad Finstad. How do you plan to notify all constituents in your district of these opportunities? You represent ALL of us.

Hmm.

It was the only search result relevant to my query.

Paste it into archive.org's Wayback Machine. Good odds that they've stored a copy. I'd do it for you and just link to the page, but you don't list the URL...

https://web.archive.org/

The 15 inch version comes with a 100 Wh battery, which is a rare find.

It looks like Trump already did that.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/politics/who-is-judge-james-boasberg/index.html

In a series of social media posts, Trump smeared Boasberg as a “Radical Left Lunatic Judge” and called for his impeachment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boasberg

James Emanuel "Jeb" Boasberg (born 1963)[2] is an American lawyer and jurist who is the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Appointed by President George W. Bush, he served as a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 2002 to 2011, before Barack Obama nominated him to the US district court for the District of Columbia. Chief Justice John G. Roberts appointed him to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in 2014, and he served as the presiding judge of the FISC from 2020 to 2021. In 2020, he was appointed to the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court and designated chief judge.

If he's "radical left", no doubt this is all part of some sort of grand conspiracy between President Bush, President Obama, and conservative Chief Justice John G. Roberts to infiltrate communists into high positions in the government.

They admitted to using a fucking app over established communications to avoid being on the record

January 20, 2025, Inauguration Day. Trump releases a statement on his top priorities for his presidency:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/01/president-trumps-america-first-priorities/

President Trump’s America First Priorities

DRAIN THE SWAMP

President Trump is taking swift action to end the weaponization of government against political rivals and ordering all document retention as required by law.

March 11, 2025. Jeffrey Goldberg receives chat group invitation for Cabinet-level officials for planning attack on Yemen.

I see that top Trump priorities on swamp-draining lasted

assuming, perhaps generously, that this was the first such incident with Signal

almost seven weeks.

Well, okay. I don't know about the weaponization of government against political rivals. I seem to recall what looked like rather a lot of that, actually. But at least the document retention.

There's an already-extant ground-based vessel navigation system, Loran-C, though I'm sure that it's possible to improve on it and I have no idea how much of the receiver hardware is still out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loran-C

The introduction of civilian satellite navigation in the 1990s led to a rapid drop-off in Loran-C use. Discussions about the future of Loran-C began in the 1990s; several turn-off dates were announced and then cancelled. In 2010, the US and Canadian systems were shut down, along with Loran-C/CHAYKA stations that were shared with Russia.[2][3] Several other chains remained active; some were upgraded for continued use. At the end of 2015, navigation chains in most of Europe were turned off.[4] In December 2015 in the United States, there was also renewed discussion of funding an eLoran system,[5] and NIST offered to fund development of a microchip-sized eLoran receiver for distribution of timing signals.[6]

The National Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2017, proposed resurrecting Loran as a backup for the United States in case of a GPS outage caused by space weather or attack.[7][8]

Upon actually investigating the article, it appears to mention it as well. :-)

I'm sure not, but even without looking at any technical details, it will have at least a couple benefits:

• First, it's short range. GPS satellites are in geosynchronous orbit, which is a pretty high orbit. Wikipedia says about 22,000 miles away. For GPS, the jammer is going to be far closer than the legitimate signal.

• Second, I'm guessing

though we'll see

that this is going to be a civilian system, and I suppose that they could even try to mandate that militaries not use it. GPS was, from the beginning, a military system, and there are weapons being used in Ukraine that use it for guidance. Unless you're solely out to be a dick

which isn't impossible

probably not a lot of benefit to stomping on civilian-only frequencies.

which is vulnerable to jamming

This has, in fact, been a serious problem in the Baltic region, as Russia's military has been jamming GPS there for some time, and it dicks up navigation for ships and aircraft there.