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Tuesday open thread: This is untenable. Something must give.

An image from the Chilean coup of 1973. As I've written before, my favorite science fiction television program is not any of the Star Trek iterations. It is, instead, the seminal series by J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 .  Throughout its first four seasons, there were two interrelated story arcs: the battle against the ancient evil of the Shadows, and a creeping fascism at home in the Earth Alliance. The president of the Earth Alliance turns out to be in league with the Shadows, instituting martial law and forming a fascist state. This leads to a civil war, with large parts of the Earth's military rebelling against illegal and unconstitutional actions. Babylon 5 was much on my mind as these three stories came across. Donald Trump Closes Key Military Base as the CIA Sounds the Alarms US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine I've stopped trying to predict what's going to happen. I was under the delusion that at least a bare ...

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