28 Feb 2025 Reading time: 1 minute 
This is my second highlights post, for February 2025! I first want to start out with a bit about my first highlight post:
My first highlights post! This one is large because it’s 2 months. This has so many great posts, if I do say so myself. If you like a collection like this, definitely check that one out as well!
Another addition to my tariff series. Discussion of the foreign relations aspect of tariffs.
Theres a few articles I want to highlight on the consequences of potentially removing USAID and topics related to it. All of them have unique aspects - one thing remains across all of them; USAID helps the world and its people - yes - but it also helps America, and Americans in a significant manner.
“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!”
Hard, yes; impossible…. no.
A massive AI breakthrough came out of China that threw the stock market into a large downturn.
A Chinese AI startup, named DeepSeek - released an AI model that has comparable performance and sophistication as the state of the art American models.
Another post about some great movies I think you should watch! These are less head-heavy and have some more levity.
28 Feb 2025 Reading time: 1 minute This is the sixth recap of my new mini project, where I post a quote by a Founding Father each day to this Bluesky account.
“We may define a republic to be … a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior.“
- James Madison
“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it“
- James Madison
”Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
- Thomas Paine
”Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
- Thomas Jefferson
“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.“
- James Madison
“There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy.“
- John Adams
”For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”
- Thomas Paine
21 Feb 2025 Reading time: 1 minute This is the fifth recap of my new mini project, where I post a quote by a Founding Father each day to this Bluesky account.
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.“
- George Washington
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.“
- Alexander Hamilton
“Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.“
- George Washington
“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.“
- George Washington
“A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.“
- Alexander Hamilton
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.“
- George Washington
“The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.“
- James Madison
