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Is MAGA still a thing nowadays? Or are we now back to business as usual?
Some things that are not quite business as usual:Is MAGA still a thing nowadays? Or are we now back to business as usual?
Is MAGA still a thing nowadays? Or are we now back to business as usual?
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (TMTG) is an American media and technology company headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, that operates the Truth Social social-media platform and is majority-owned by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. Founded in February 2021 by Andy Litinsky and Wes Moss, TMTG went public on March 26, 2024, after merging with Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC), a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
On December 18, 2025, TMTG announced a merger with TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion company backed by Google and Chevron, in an all-stock deal valued at more than $6 billion. The merger aims to combine TMTG’s social media and cryptocurrency ventures with TAE’s fusion energy technology to address the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence data centers. If completed, the merger would create one of the world’s first publicly traded nuclear fusion companies, with plans to begin construction on the “world’s first utility-scale fusion power plant” in the following year.
Devin Nunes, CEO of TMTG, and Michl Binderbauer, CEO of TAE Technologies, are set to become co-CEOs of the combined entity, while Donald Trump Jr. will remain on the board. Shareholders of both companies would each own approximately 50% of the merged company. TMTG also plans to provide up to $300 million to support TAE’s fusion initiatives.
The announcement led to a significant surge in TMTG’s stock, with shares jumping over 20% in pre-market trading on December 18, 2025. This move follows TMTG’s earlier pivot into cryptocurrency, including a May 2025 announcement to establish a $2.5 billion bitcoin treasury.
Despite its high-profile ventures, TMTG has faced persistent financial challenges. In 2024, the company reported a net loss of $400.9 million on $3.6 million in revenue, with Truth Social struggling to attract advertisers and gain market share beyond its core user base. The company has only 29 employees as of 2024.
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The US has launched airstrikes against alleged Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) targets in Syria in what President Donald Trump described as "very serious retaliation" for the killing of American personnel earlier this month.
This matter passed through my mind unconsciously... Thank you for mentioning it.I've been wondering if it even is ISIS that they're bombing - and not the remnants of Assad's Syrian Arab Army - which might've still been holding on to hope of overthrowing the Jolani regime at some point.
The US military launched a rare wave of airstrikes against dozens of sites believed to be associated with remnants of the Islamic State group
in retaliation for an ambush in Palmyra last week that killed two US soldiers and an American interpreter.
The Islamic State has not claimed direct credit for the ambush
The December 2025 Palmyra attack was an ambush carried out on 13 December 2025 against Syrian and US troops stationed near the Syrian city of Palmyra. The attack was conducted by a lone Syrian security officer, allegedly affiliated with the Islamic State.
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to “eliminate” Daesh group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two US troops and an American interpreter almost a week ago.
Trump separately wrote on his Truth Social platform that Syria’s government, which was formed after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in late 2024, was “fully in support” of the US military operation.
Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also repeated its commitment to combatting ISIL and said it “invites the United States and member states of the international coalition to support these efforts”.
He had risen through the ranks of the group then known as the Islamic State of Iraq, or ISI, and then with help from ISI’s successor, ISIS, Jolani founded an Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra.
“The Government of Syria, led by a man who is working very hard to bring Greatness back to Syria, and is fully in support,” he added.
The Stable Inversion
In a previous essay, I described the mechanics of stable falsehood. A lie tilted slightly from truth requires constant energy to maintain—struts, supports, continuous adjustment against the pull of reality. But a lie fully inverted finds its own equilibrium. It doesn’t argue with reality; it replaces it.
Consider a pole balanced perfectly vertical. This pole represents truth in stable equilibrium. It requires no energy to maintain. Gravity holds it in place. Now tilt the pole twenty degrees. Enormous energy must flow into the base to prevent collapse. Struts, supports, constant adjustment—the structure becomes a project, an ongoing effort against the pull of reality. The Leaning Tower of Pisa has required eight centuries of engineering intervention to prevent its collapse—counterweights, soil extraction, cable anchors, structural reinforcement. A partial deviation from vertical demands perpetual maintenance.
This is how falsehood should work. A deviation from truth requiring continuous subsidy. Reality reasserting itself the moment support falters.
There is another equilibrium point.
Invert the pole completely. One hundred eighty degrees. What was north is now south; what was up is now down. The fully inverted pole also balances. Not because it has escaped gravity, but because the inversion is complete enough to create its own coherent structure. The weight distribution that held the upright pole in equilibrium now holds the inverted pole in equilibrium. The internal logic is consistent, even though every element points in the wrong direction.
A partial lie—the pole at twenty degrees—requires constant energy because it participates in both systems. It must account for the truth it partially acknowledges while supporting the falsehood it partially asserts. The contradiction is unstable.
A complete inversion has no such problem. It does not argue with reality; it replaces it. The internal coherence becomes its own stability. Once trillions of dollars of infrastructure are built around that inverted pole—careers, institutions, industries, identities—the structure can stand for generations.
You are standing beneath poles that feel stable. You now know stability proves nothing.