those who purport to serve we the people must be accountable to we the people
if you wanted to change just one simple thing that would shift a great deal of power from leviathan to we the people, one could do a lot worse than eliminating the idea of “qualified immunity” a doctrine by which agents of the state acting in their official capacities as such cannot be held individually to account if they were in the “normal course” of duty “just doing their jobs.”
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/unqualifying-immunity
"Let me give you a number that should end every argument about national security. 417 kilograms.
That's roughly how much rare earth material goes into a single F-35. A Virginia-class submarine needs about ten times that.
Now ask the question nobody in Washington wants to answer out loud: who controls the supply? The chokehold, metal by metal.
NdPr. Neodymium-praseodymium oxide is the heart of the super-magnet.
China controls about 90% of rare earth processing and 93% of magnet manufacturing. America has exactly one rare earth mine, Mountain Pass.
And Beijing has shown the leash. Export controls in April 2025. A harsher second wave in October 2025. That sec
https://mailchi.mp/wealthresearchgroup/brics-chokehold-intensifies-russia-china-and-greenland-critical