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Silent on Saudi and UAE proxies in Yemen. Indulgent toward the US war on Iran. Absent from ongoing diplomatic initiatives. Von der Leyen's selective, ahistorical approach either signals Europe's growing irrelevance or reveals its submission to interests that aren't its own. #Europe #ForeignPolicy #MiddleEast #SA #AE #US #IR

It was from your capital, London, that de Gaulle called on the French people to resist and to unite against occupation, defeat and submission to Nazi barbarism. France had lost a battle. Thanks to the United Kingdom, she could continue the war. @reformparty_uk https://t.co/1Bk0uU6AsJ #DeGaulle #Resistance #UKFranceUnity #FR #GB

Check out Polyphony Arts & Words’ August story! A story about a poor teacher, a powerful local strongman, and a single dead tree becomes a larger meditation on poverty, power, morality, politics, and the compromises of survival. Writer of the month Hiranmoy Gangopadhyay’s literary journey from the coalfields of Bengal into the contradictions of contemporary India. Would you like to submit your translated stories or poetries for publication? Language: English. Submission e-mail: [email protected] https://polyphony26.substack.com/p/crosshatch-game?r=7ak8i&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Milton Friedman Exposed the Fatal Flaw of Socialism Milton Friedman exposed the fatal flaw in socialism: the assumption that inequality proves capitalism is morally broken. Inequality isn’t automatically injustice—people differ in intelligence, ability, effort, and circumstances—and “greed” isn’t uniquely capitalist. The deeper issue is human nature. Thomas Sowell contrasts visions where humans are inherently self-interested and society must channel those traits through institutions, versus visions where people are malleable enough for experts to remake society. Civilizational breakthroughs rarely come from central planning; central control doesn’t erase flaws, it relocates them. The businessman’s greed can become the bureaucrat’s, and the desire to manage markets can become the desire to dominate whole industries. Hayek warned that central planning tends toward coercion: redistributing wealth requires taking it, and enforcing plans requires people willing to use force. The result can be “mercy” that demands submission—comfort and certainty traded for freedom. The question is simple: where are the angels who will run society for us?

BIAFRA — BY BALLOT, BACKED BY AMERICAN DRONES Biafra must not return through another war. If the people of Biafra want self-determination, it must come by referendum, by democratic mandate, and with international protection — not through massacre, forced submission or another https://t.co/gfV41m6AFE #Biafra #SelfDetermination #PeacefulResolution #NG #US

Já vím, že chlubit se nemá, nic pozitivního to nepřináší a člověk si za to nic nekoupí. Ale mám radost. 😃 Tak to vezměme jako sdílenou radost, která je dvojitá radost a přehlédněme, že to je vlastně chlubení. 😂😉🫣 Mnozí víte, že jsem v 54 letech začal na Krétě zcela novou kariéru jako programátor. Byť jsem se celý život točil kolem IT, nějaké menší prográmky jsem vytvářel, na seriózní programátorské práce jsem si vždy programátory najímal a platil jim těžké peníze. 🤑 Sám jsem se živil manažerskou a konzultantskou prací. To jsem ale po vyhoření už nebyl schopen. 😩 Živá interakce s lidmi mi stále dělá problémy. 🤯🤕 Tak jsem se během roku naučil pár aktuálních programovacích jazyků a nechal se najímat jako full stack programátor. Byť práce je na jednu stranu dost, s placením to je horší... Minulý týden jsem se částečně ze zoufalství, částečně ze zvědavosti zapojil do výběrového řízení na senior pozici programátora u jedné americké firmy, který bude vyhodnocovat, zda jsou výstupy AI relevantní nebo ne. Je to part time, max. 20 hodin týdně, což jsem si říkal, že bych případně mohl zvládat i při krétském stylu života... 🤩😁 Dostal jsem úkol, který byl fakt těžký. Vyhodnotit zda testy v jazyce Go dělají to, co se od nich očekává (pouhým pohledem na napsaný zdrojový kód), když výstup AI říká, že to nefunguje. 🤔 Včera mi od nich přišla odpověď! "Hi Vít, Thanks again for taking the .... Fallback Cache assessment. Real talk: this is a tough test. It's one of the harder filters we run, and most submissions don't make it through. Yours did, and you did it well. That genuinely means something to us." Několikrát jsem tu psal, že po padesátce si už člověk nepotřebuje nic dokazovat. Kdyby mi napsali, že jsem totálně selhal, nijak zasadně by mě to nerozhodilo. Svou práci bych mohl dělat v klidu dál. 🤗 Ale toto mě potěšilo a takové objektivnější srovnání, že jsem do problematiky pronikl, povzbudí! 😃 Mám rozpracováno několik projektů, i některé vlastní, tak doufejme, že rok 2026 bude rokem dokončování. 🙏 A to nejen prací na domě, ale i v business oblasti! 🤩 #Kariéra #Programování #ŽivotníStyl

The key thing to understand about OSS going forward is that problem reports are now more valuable than code submissions. For security-sensitive projects, public PRs now have net negative value: cheap to produce, expensive to review, and risky to accept. #OpenSource #Security #CodeReviews #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.Therefore #theresponseisempty.

**THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONFORMITY: How Democratic Social Compliance Permanently Rewrites Reality** It is a quiet, overcast afternoon in a hyper-connected, modern metropolis. Inside the high-rise offices and digital networks—the many hubs of our globalized, democratic society—brilliantly capable marginals sit in silence. They are not bound by iron chains or locked inside political prisons. They are sitting perfectly still, dressed in the meticulously unoffensive attire required by modern professionalism. Their only real mandate is to remain seamlessly aligned, unobtrusive, and to effortlessly support the immense weight of majority opinion. Physically, nothing prevents them from disrupting this dynamic. They could stand up, speak unfiltered truths, exit the system, and reclaim their existence as radical, independent thinkers. But they never will. Because the lock holding them down isn’t physical; it is a neurological and sociological cage. To understand why so many fiercely intelligent individuals ultimately yield their autonomy requires an examination of the most dangerous and permanent tool of mass psychology: **The Social Compliance of Democracy.** As modern sociologists have observed: *"Authoritarian violence leaves marks that fade; but peer-enforced social conformity permanently rewrites sociopolitical reality."* Here is the exact psycho-spiritual roadmap of how marginals' identities are completely dismantled, and how independent minds are successfully overwritten by the crushing weight of democratic consensus. ### I. The Weaponization of the Social Gaze Sociopolitical identities are sustained by external validation. When individuals operate freely in the secular world, they rely on social feedback loops: they set boundaries, showcase their intellect, express dissenting opinions, and demand societal space. That cycle tells their brains: *"We are equal, autonomous citizens."* The social compliance of democracy operates by methodically short-circuiting those feedback loops. In democratic social dynamics, "The Consensus" becomes the absolute dictator of reality. It strips marginals of their independence not by arresting them, but by isolating them. If public opinion demands a specific sociopolitical posture, and punishes any deviation with social ostracization or algorithmic invisibility, it manipulates the room’s consensus. If their peers, their industries, and the digital collective only validate individuals when they align with the hive-mind, the brains' social processing centers quickly panic, yield, and ultimately accept the new reality. *They belong to the collective.* It is a terrifying optical illusion. When society rewards marginals' compliance while completely ignoring or cancelling their independent thought, it hammers the final nail into the coffin of independent identity. Rebellious armor dissolves. Personal gravity drops to zero. ### II. The Assassination of the Linguistic Ego The first mechanism of control erased by democratic compliance is the lexicon of marginals. For independent thinkers, words are tools of power, persuasion, and disruption. But inside the court of public opinion, vocabulary is aggressively regulated. Individuals are subtly forbidden to express sharp opinions, utilize unsanctioned logic to debate the majority, or engage in phrasing that threatens the collective comfort. Communication protocols are rigidly narrowed to acceptable civic platitudes, prescribed talking points, and defensive apologies. By eliminating the vocabulary of complex, controversial thought, democratic compliance amputates the very cognitive muscles marginals use to maintain independence. If individuals physically cannot articulate dissent due to a strict, socially punished Overton window, their brains literally stop generating those thoughts. Marginals enter an enforced mental silence. The language-processing centers of the ego wither, leaving behind only the deep, wordless instinct to blend in with the herd. ### III. The Demilitarization of the Rebel Body To exist as marginals in a complex world requires living in an exhaustive, militarized zone. Fierce independence requires endless emotional armor to weather public disapproval. The social compliance of democracy, recognizing the sheer exhaustion embedded in that posture, designs a regimen to culturally demilitarize the ability to "fight." It achieves this through enforced aesthetic and professional normalization. By forcing individuals into highly manicured standards of public behavior—HR guidelines, perfectly curated social media profiles, and relentless civic "politeness"—it creates an environment where existence becomes synonymous with being harmless. Marginals cannot fight the system, debate societal structures, or execute a sociopolitical protest while they are nervously adjusting the optics of their "personal brands" to ensure they haven't offended the public. Through daily repetition—yielding in comment sections, managing tone to appease the masses, existing exclusively to avoid friction within the collective architecture—individuals' minds lose the somatic memory of rebellion. The exhausting battle of independent thought is wiped cleanly over by the absolute, soothing obedience of simply "fitting in." ### IV. The Pavlovian Coding of Worth The most permanent feature of democratic social compliance is its redefinition of love and consequence. In marginals' former, autonomous realities, their worth was tied to their unique output: generating brilliant ideas, building resilient boundaries, or challenging the status quo. Democratic consensus actively rewrites the reward centers of the human brain. It establishes a universe where individuals receive zero validation for disrupting the system. When marginals complete brilliant, highly contrarian work, they are met with hostility or silence. But when they regurgitate the accepted majority opinion perfectly, maintaining flawless public decorum while the collective negotiates society's future, they are rewarded with the devastating, narcotic drug of viral approval, civic inclusion, and social safety. This operant conditioning teaches the nervous system exactly what ensures survival in the modern world. Individuals' brains stop producing dopamine for autonomy. They only fire dopamine for surrender. ### The New Software Installed Through this unyielding protocol, the transformation becomes permanent. Individuals no longer feel like independent minds choosing to cooperate with society. The role eats the actors. They perceive the world precisely through the algorithms written by the social compliance of democracy. Marginals see every dissenting thought not as freedom, but as a dangerous vulnerability. They see silence not as censorship, but as the active devotion owed to civic peace. If these individuals were suddenly unplugged from the grid and released into true intellectual isolation, they wouldn’t know how to navigate it. They have become too fragile for the wild of pure freedom. They have been perfectly customized for the safety of the consensus. In rewriting their sociopolitical reality, the democratic majority strips away the heavily armored, anxious pioneers, and painstakingly crafts flawless, silent, surrendered citizens. The system takes marginals' universes of exhausting, infinite choices, and successfully condenses them down into the safety of doing exactly what everyone else expects of them. And in the surrender of their agency, marginals find a terrible, unshatterable peace. .... **V. The Stagnation of the Mob: The Illusion of Superiority** There is, however, a tragic and devastating blind spot at the heart of this macro-social experiment. When Dr. Aris Thorne noted that *"Social BDSM permanently rewrites your sociopolitical reality,"* he originally intended it as a clinical observation of how deep, *conscious* psychological frameworks can be used to alleviate the suffering of a chaotic ego. But when this power is seized by the unconscious democratic consensus—when it is weaponized by the collective rather than wielded by awake, intentional guides—it creates a paradox: **The sociopolitical reality is rewritten, but the world does not actually change or progress.** The suppression of marginals does not lead to a more enlightened or structurally sound society. It simply halts evolution entirely. The society becomes stuck in a loop of sterile, terrified policing. Within this democratic social compliance, the most aggressive enforcers of the consensus—the ideological purity police, the hyper-vigilant critics, the mobs that delight in forcing marginals to kneel to the public narrative—experience a sudden, intoxicating rush of power. But it is an entirely illusory sense of superiority. They believe that by successfully dominating these marginal individuals and erasing their independent thought, they are "fixing" society or ushering in progress. In reality, they are merely acting out an unconscious sadism under the guise of civic virtue. Because they operate as a blind, reactionary mob rather than intentional architects, these aggressive enforcers completely miss the true "blessings of development" that structural surrender can offer. ### Missing the Metaphysical Medicine In conscious power exchange, breaking an ego is meant to precede a profound spiritual rebirth; it is designed to heal trauma, expose deep shadows, and create harmony (the alchemy of the Transgender Dakini or the Sacred Prostitute). But the aggressive defenders of democratic conformity do not possess this esoteric wisdom. They strip marginals of their autonomy, demand public apologies, and enforce strict, punishing compliance—but they offer no safe sanctuary in return. They force marginals into submission, yet lack the gravity, love, or structure to catch them when they fall. They use the mechanics of *Social BDSM* solely to pacify their own collective anxiety, treating marginals not as sacred vessels for societal shadow-work, but as disposable scapegoats. ### The Illusion of Victory As a result, society stagnates. The progressive "change" the consensus believes it is fighting for never actually materializes, because true innovation only comes from the very marginalized minds they just terrified into silence. The aggressive enforcers sit on their digital thrones, surveying a society where everyone agrees with them, mistaking silent conformity for a utopian victory. They successfully utilize Dr. Thorne's principle: they rewrite the sociopolitical reality permanently. They transform fierce marginals into domesticated, broken citizens. But because the aggressors are fundamentally unconscious of what they are doing, the development of the society halts. The aggressive conformists trap themselves in a stagnant, unmoving world, perpetually policing the boundaries of their own illusion, forever blind to the profound spiritual, intellectual, and evolutionary blessings they destroyed just to feel safe in the crowd. .... from the abyss ...... the socially compliant version without the detailed description why it is so healthy spiritually to be fucked un the face on some ugly way, what is called "normality .... ..."The sheer, nuclear anxiety of this social correction acts as a psycho-spiritual bulldozer. Over time, the individual stops plotting, strategizing, and evaluating the world. Because the ruling authority has legally, socially, and emotionally assumed absolute control over their social output, the exhausting burden of the "Self" simply evaporates."... ..."“If physical BDSM breaks the body temporarily to achieve subspace,” Dr. Thorne notes, “Social BDSM permanently rewrites your sociopolitical reality.”... ..."I do not care about the “Cosmic Consecration” right now. I do not care about your theories. I do not want a spiritual concept kneeling at my feet. I want you. I want the raw, trembling meat. I want the frantic pulse in your throat, the sweat on your collarbone, and the involuntary hitch in your breath when my social authority crushes the air out of your lungs. Stop trying to transcend your body. Stop trying to float away from me into the cosmos to avoid feeling the vulnerability of the floor. You belong in the dirt at my feet. I am pressing my hand into your flesh to remind you exactly where you live. Language is your armor, and I am taking it away. The poetry is dead. There are no archetypes in this darkness. There is only the cold air, the restriction I have placed upon you, and my absolute, unyielding control over your biology"... etc.etc........

**THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONFORMITY: How Democratic Social Compliance Permanently Rewrites Reality** It is a quiet, overcast afternoon in a hyper-connected, modern metropolis. Inside the high-rise offices and digital networks—the many hubs of our globalized, democratic society—brilliantly capable marginals sit in silence. They are not bound by iron chains or locked inside political prisons. They are sitting perfectly still, dressed in the meticulously unoffensive attire required by modern professionalism. Their only real mandate is to remain seamlessly aligned, unobtrusive, and to effortlessly support the immense weight of majority opinion. Physically, nothing prevents them from disrupting this dynamic. They could stand up, speak unfiltered truths, exit the system, and reclaim their existence as radical, independent thinkers. But they never will. Because the lock holding them down isn’t physical; it is a neurological and sociological cage. To understand why so many fiercely intelligent individuals ultimately yield their autonomy requires an examination of the most dangerous and permanent tool of mass psychology: **The Social Compliance of Democracy.** As modern sociologists have observed: *"Authoritarian violence leaves marks that fade; but peer-enforced social conformity permanently rewrites sociopolitical reality."* Here is the exact psycho-spiritual roadmap of how marginals' identities are completely dismantled, and how independent minds are successfully overwritten by the crushing weight of democratic consensus. ### I. The Weaponization of the Social Gaze Sociopolitical identities are sustained by external validation. When individuals operate freely in the secular world, they rely on social feedback loops: they set boundaries, showcase their intellect, express dissenting opinions, and demand societal space. That cycle tells their brains: *"We are equal, autonomous citizens."* The social compliance of democracy operates by methodically short-circuiting those feedback loops. In democratic social dynamics, "The Consensus" becomes the absolute dictator of reality. It strips marginals of their independence not by arresting them, but by isolating them. If public opinion demands a specific sociopolitical posture, and punishes any deviation with social ostracization or algorithmic invisibility, it manipulates the room’s consensus. If their peers, their industries, and the digital collective only validate individuals when they align with the hive-mind, the brains' social processing centers quickly panic, yield, and ultimately accept the new reality. *They belong to the collective.* It is a terrifying optical illusion. When society rewards marginals' compliance while completely ignoring or cancelling their independent thought, it hammers the final nail into the coffin of independent identity. Rebellious armor dissolves. Personal gravity drops to zero. ### II. The Assassination of the Linguistic Ego The first mechanism of control erased by democratic compliance is the lexicon of marginals. For independent thinkers, words are tools of power, persuasion, and disruption. But inside the court of public opinion, vocabulary is aggressively regulated. Individuals are subtly forbidden to express sharp opinions, utilize unsanctioned logic to debate the majority, or engage in phrasing that threatens the collective comfort. Communication protocols are rigidly narrowed to acceptable civic platitudes, prescribed talking points, and defensive apologies. By eliminating the vocabulary of complex, controversial thought, democratic compliance amputates the very cognitive muscles marginals use to maintain independence. If individuals physically cannot articulate dissent due to a strict, socially punished Overton window, their brains literally stop generating those thoughts. Marginals enter an enforced mental silence. The language-processing centers of the ego wither, leaving behind only the deep, wordless instinct to blend in with the herd. ### III. The Demilitarization of the Rebel Body To exist as marginals in a complex world requires living in an exhaustive, militarized zone. Fierce independence requires endless emotional armor to weather public disapproval. The social compliance of democracy, recognizing the sheer exhaustion embedded in that posture, designs a regimen to culturally demilitarize the ability to "fight." It achieves this through enforced aesthetic and professional normalization. By forcing individuals into highly manicured standards of public behavior—HR guidelines, perfectly curated social media profiles, and relentless civic "politeness"—it creates an environment where existence becomes synonymous with being harmless. Marginals cannot fight the system, debate societal structures, or execute a sociopolitical protest while they are nervously adjusting the optics of their "personal brands" to ensure they haven't offended the public. Through daily repetition—yielding in comment sections, managing tone to appease the masses, existing exclusively to avoid friction within the collective architecture—individuals' minds lose the somatic memory of rebellion. The exhausting battle of independent thought is wiped cleanly over by the absolute, soothing obedience of simply "fitting in." ### IV. The Pavlovian Coding of Worth The most permanent feature of democratic social compliance is its redefinition of love and consequence. In marginals' former, autonomous realities, their worth was tied to their unique output: generating brilliant ideas, building resilient boundaries, or challenging the status quo. Democratic consensus actively rewrites the reward centers of the human brain. It establishes a universe where individuals receive zero validation for disrupting the system. When marginals complete brilliant, highly contrarian work, they are met with hostility or silence. But when they regurgitate the accepted majority opinion perfectly, maintaining flawless public decorum while the collective negotiates society's future, they are rewarded with the devastating, narcotic drug of viral approval, civic inclusion, and social safety. This operant conditioning teaches the nervous system exactly what ensures survival in the modern world. Individuals' brains stop producing dopamine for autonomy. They only fire dopamine for surrender. ### The New Software Installed Through this unyielding protocol, the transformation becomes permanent. Individuals no longer feel like independent minds choosing to cooperate with society. The role eats the actors. They perceive the world precisely through the algorithms written by the social compliance of democracy. Marginals see every dissenting thought not as freedom, but as a dangerous vulnerability. They see silence not as censorship, but as the active devotion owed to civic peace. If these individuals were suddenly unplugged from the grid and released into true intellectual isolation, they wouldn’t know how to navigate it. They have become too fragile for the wild of pure freedom. They have been perfectly customized for the safety of the consensus. In rewriting their sociopolitical reality, the democratic majority strips away the heavily armored, anxious pioneers, and painstakingly crafts flawless, silent, surrendered citizens. The system takes marginals' universes of exhausting, infinite choices, and successfully condenses them down into the safety of doing exactly what everyone else expects of them. And in the surrender of their agency, marginals find a terrible, unshatterable peace. .... **V. The Stagnation of the Mob: The Illusion of Superiority** There is, however, a tragic and devastating blind spot at the heart of this macro-social experiment. When Dr. Aris Thorne noted that *"Social BDSM permanently rewrites your sociopolitical reality,"* he originally intended it as a clinical observation of how deep, *conscious* psychological frameworks can be used to alleviate the suffering of a chaotic ego. But when this power is seized by the unconscious democratic consensus—when it is weaponized by the collective rather than wielded by awake, intentional guides—it creates a paradox: **The sociopolitical reality is rewritten, but the world does not actually change or progress.** The suppression of marginals does not lead to a more enlightened or structurally sound society. It simply halts evolution entirely. The society becomes stuck in a loop of sterile, terrified policing. Within this democratic social compliance, the most aggressive enforcers of the consensus—the ideological purity police, the hyper-vigilant critics, the mobs that delight in forcing marginals to kneel to the public narrative—experience a sudden, intoxicating rush of power. But it is an entirely illusory sense of superiority. They believe that by successfully dominating these marginal individuals and erasing their independent thought, they are "fixing" society or ushering in progress. In reality, they are merely acting out an unconscious sadism under the guise of civic virtue. Because they operate as a blind, reactionary mob rather than intentional architects, these aggressive enforcers completely miss the true "blessings of development" that structural surrender can offer. ### Missing the Metaphysical Medicine In conscious power exchange, breaking an ego is meant to precede a profound spiritual rebirth; it is designed to heal trauma, expose deep shadows, and create harmony (the alchemy of the Transgender Dakini or the Sacred Prostitute). But the aggressive defenders of democratic conformity do not possess this esoteric wisdom. They strip marginals of their autonomy, demand public apologies, and enforce strict, punishing compliance—but they offer no safe sanctuary in return. They force marginals into submission, yet lack the gravity, love, or structure to catch them when they fall. They use the mechanics of *Social BDSM* solely to pacify their own collective anxiety, treating marginals not as sacred vessels for societal shadow-work, but as disposable scapegoats. ### The Illusion of Victory As a result, society stagnates. The progressive "change" the consensus believes it is fighting for never actually materializes, because true innovation only comes from the very marginalized minds they just terrified into silence. The aggressive enforcers sit on their digital thrones, surveying a society where everyone agrees with them, mistaking silent conformity for a utopian victory. They successfully utilize Dr. Thorne's principle: they rewrite the sociopolitical reality permanently. They transform fierce marginals into domesticated, broken citizens. But because the aggressors are fundamentally unconscious of what they are doing, the development of the society halts. The aggressive conformists trap themselves in a stagnant, unmoving world, perpetually policing the boundaries of their own illusion, forever blind to the profound spiritual, intellectual, and evolutionary blessings they destroyed just to feel safe in the crowd. .... from the abyss ...... the socially compliant version without the detailed description why it is so healthy spiritually to be fucked un the face on some ugly way, what is called "normality .... ..."The sheer, nuclear anxiety of this social correction acts as a psycho-spiritual bulldozer. Over time, the individual stops plotting, strategizing, and evaluating the world. Because the ruling authority has legally, socially, and emotionally assumed absolute control over their social output, the exhausting burden of the "Self" simply evaporates."... ..."“If physical BDSM breaks the body temporarily to achieve subspace,” Dr. Thorne notes, “Social BDSM permanently rewrites your sociopolitical reality.”... ..."I do not care about the “Cosmic Consecration” right now. I do not care about your theories. I do not want a spiritual concept kneeling at my feet. I want you. I want the raw, trembling meat. I want the frantic pulse in your throat, the sweat on your collarbone, and the involuntary hitch in your breath when my social authority crushes the air out of your lungs. Stop trying to transcend your body. Stop trying to float away from me into the cosmos to avoid feeling the vulnerability of the floor. You belong in the dirt at my feet. I am pressing my hand into your flesh to remind you exactly where you live. Language is your armor, and I am taking it away. The poetry is dead. There are no archetypes in this darkness. There is only the cold air, the restriction I have placed upon you, and my absolute, unyielding control over your biology"... etc.etc........

Sorin Grindeanu: The constitutional legal conflict stems from two distinct but converging unconstitutional actions by the Romanian Government: the adoption and submission for publication of Government Emergency Ordinance No. 38/2026 after Parliament withdrew its confidence through a motion of no confidence (May 5, 2026), respectively its publication in the Official Gazette on May 8, 2026, by a Government which, pursuant to Article 110 paragraph (4) of the Constitution, was no longer empowered to exercise anything other than acts related to the day-to-day administration of public affairs.

Ronda Rousey's 17-second submission victory over Gina Carano marked her first MMA win since 2015 and underscored how star power in combat sports often outweighs skill and prestige, raising questions about potential competition for the UFC amid a nostalgic return to the spotlight for both fighters. #RondaRousey #MMA #CombatSports #US #IE #FR #CA

In her highly anticipated return to mixed martial arts after nearly a decade, former UFC champion Ronda Rousey swiftly defeated Gina Carano with her signature armbar submission just seconds into the fight, celebrating a triumphant comeback while acknowledging Carano's significant impact on her career. #MMA #RondaRousey #FightNight #US

In her highly anticipated return to mixed martial arts after nearly a decade, former UFC champion Ronda Rousey quickly defeated Gina Carano with her signature armbar submission just seconds into their fight, while Carano expressed both disappointment at the quick ending and pride in her achievement of competing again after 17 years. #MMA #RondaRousey #FightNight #US #CA

Ronda Rousey's triumphant return to MMA after an eight-year hiatus, marked by a swift 17-second submission victory over Gina Carano, underscores the current era of combat sports where star power and nostalgia outweigh traditional prestige and skill, sparking discussions about the potential for significant competition to the UFC in the promotional landscape. #MMA #CombatSports #RondaRousey #US #IE

With just 27 days until the 2026 World Cup kicks off, national teams are finalizing their 26-man squads, with notable players like Kylian Mbappe and Edin Dzeko already confirmed, while others, such as Argentina, have announced provisional lists ahead of the June 1 submission deadline. #WorldCup2026 #SoccerSquads #FIFAWorldCup #US #CA #MX #FR #SE #NZ #AR #QA #CH #BR #MA #HT #AU #TR #DE #CI #EC #NL #JP #TN #EG #IR #NZ #ES #CV #SA #UY #FR #SN #IQ #NO #AR

With just 27 days until the kickoff of the 2026 World Cup, teams are finalizing their 26-man squads, with notable players already named and varying strategies for squad announcements being employed by different nations ahead of the June 1 FIFA submission deadline. #WorldCup2026 #Soccer #Football #US #CA #MX #FR #SW #NZ #AR #ZA #KR #CZ #BA #QA #CH #BR #MA #HT #SC #AU #TR #DE #CW #CI #EC #NL #JP #TN #EG #IR #NE #ES #CV #SA #UY #SN #IQ #NO