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A modern-day political convention. Chicago is about to rap up another big convention right now tonight. I understand now the evening portions of such conventions have a script. Whether it is the RNC or the DNC, I see patterns in the evening portions of these conventions..... 1. Invocation/prayer. 2. Official gavelling per parliamentary rules to announce the commencement of the convention (that is, to put it "in order"). 3. Minor speakers, usually with breaks in between, helped by either a live band or a DJ. 4. Then the grand finale - the major speaker or speakers. 5. Final grand acknowledgment after the last speaker. (If the balloons drop on one night, allow for about 10 minutes or so....before benediction.) 6. Benediction/prayer. 7. Official gavelling to adjourn the convention. So when the gavel starts, it is like a courtroom session--people need to pay attention to what is happening. When the gavel strikes for the last time, the people are officially dismissed.

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Trust in politics - how does the government rebuild it?? Trust us a two-way street. Perhaps it starts when we see politicians trusting all those working on the ground? I am super excited to be sitting on this panel tomorrow as part of the We're Right Here campaign. I'll be discussing the need for a Community Power Act, and the power and creativity that can be unleashed in communities when they feel trusted. Restitch seems like such a fitting name for the base of this conversation. #internationalwomensday2024 #communitypower #bethechange #trustinchange #trusteachother #collaborationbuildstrust #letstalk #restitch24

Many thanks to OGIS Director Alina Semo & OIP Director Bobak Talebian for fielding so many questions, & State Department Chief FOIA Officer Eric Stein for his fulsome answers. Thanks to the U.S. National Archives, video of today's public meeting is online. I'll summarize the answers to my questions in text, separately. https://lnkd.in/egn5_DCv #OpenGov

We have had a slow and sometimes painful progress toward unity in CARICOM. Fruition of this unification is the only way larger nations with thinly masked neocolonial agendas will be forced to shift from the invidual manipulation of each siloed nation, to negotiating on equal footing with a future energy and technology super power, CARICOM.

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In the end, what does Mr. Attal propose, to keep his place? Is it to repeat the previous experience of the previous mandate? A coalition of circumstances and chaos in the National Assembly? this time with different actors: the NFP instead of the PR and the UDI? If necessary, with 49-3? By ignoring the majority vote of the French if it exists after the 2nd round?  Suffice to say that nothing will come out of this next term except the agitation in the National Assembly and its paralysis? Where is the best interest of France?