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go to your questions shortly. Before we do, I'm going to turn it over to Brian for some current

moment analysis of what's going on that he wants to talk about. Here we go. Thank you, Nicole.

Thank you to all the patrons. Thank you for sharing your questions. Also, I'm going to open by talking

about the recent indictments of Trump and what that means politically or might

mean politically. I'm going to also talk about the artificial intelligence and what that's

going to mean or might mean. We want to talk about Ukraine. We're going to talk again about China.

The new McCarthyism that's being directed against organizations in the

peace movement, peace activists, anti-war people, and critics of U.S. foreign policy.

So we have a lot to cover. But I want to begin by talking about the now four indictments of

Trump. The recent indictment in Georgia is a sprawling indictment. It includes

18 or perhaps 19 individuals, including Giuliani and Mark Meadows, who was Donald Trump's

chief of staff. So we have now four indictments brought after Trump announced his presidential aspirations for

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