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America's Got Talent: Boston Dynamics lässt Spot-Roboter tanzen, Panne inklusive
Boston Dynamics beweist die besonderen Talente seiner Spot-Roboter bei der Talentshow "America's Got Talent" – auch wenn es eine Panne gab.

Joan Westenberg: "A failed state. With very good fonts." Whoah <-- read the whole thing --> https://www.theindex.media/america-is-a-failed-state-with-good-branding/

He is totally right,
“The only thing they are looking for is a way to kill Ukraine,” says Kyiv’s leader.
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-deceive-america-volodymyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin-donald-trump-talks/

Photos: What America Was Like During the Great Depression - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/great-depression-photos-of-america-unemployment-2020-5

Who would vote for Elon Musk's America Party? (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/who-would-vote-for-elon-musks-america
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p50#a250711p50

Trump’s NASA Cuts Would Hurt America for a Long, Long Time https://www.404media.co/trumps-nasa-cuts-would-hurt-america-for-a-long-long-time/

america-chan

Congratulations to the Rev. Emily Hartner '07 M.Div. She is the newly elected Bishop of the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)! https://www.salisburypost.com/2025/06/03/nc-lutherans-choose-first-female-bishop/

heise | Mit dem "Trump Phone" gegen das iPhone: Made in America?
US-Präsident Donald Trump verlangt Apple-Geräte aus den USA. Die Firma seiner Söhne macht deshalb jetzt Druck. Was steckt hinter dem "Trump Phone"?

Europe playing catch up to America.
Team Western Values!
https://xcancel.com/hussedogru/status/1925845756927197233#m

Stephen Miller can't make America white. LA is paying for his impotent rage (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/11/stephen-miller-cant-make-america-white-la-is-paying-for-his-impotent-rage/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p24#a250611p24

"America's Team" Documentary: Netflix announces Summer 2025 release date https://insidethestar.com/americas-team-documentary-netflix-announces-summer-2025-release-date

UK researchers: 80 game cheat-selling websites generate $12.8M to $73.2M annually, with 30,000 to 174,000 monthly buyers across North America and Europe alone (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-multimillion-dollar-grey-ma…

America being America in America instead of in some foreign country.
What’s that saying about leopards and faces again?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/8/trump-deployed-national-guard-arrives-in-la-to-cr…

NO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, June 14
10:30am – 12pm PDT
Chase Palm Park
236 E Cabrillo Blvd.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/788033/

Das Race Across America wird derzeit von Alpenbewohnerinnen dominiert.
Die drei Herren sind aus Österreich und Isa Pulver ist Schweizerin.
#RAAM

Hunderte aktive #Waldbrände in #Kanada beeinträchtigen derzeit die #Luftqualität weit über die Landesgrenzen hinaus.
Besonders betroffen sind

Zohran Mamdani on Andrew Cuomo, Abundance and Anti-Semitism by Pod Save America
#nyc

"Rhode Island Freedom to Read Act is First in Nation with Special Guarantees to Writers and Readers Against Censorship"
https://pen.org/press-release/rhode-island-freedom-to-read-act…

DAZN, which paid $1B to show FIFA's Club World Cup, expects 2025 to be a "transformational" year, despite low usership in the US, UK, Africa, and South America (Philip Buckingham/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6404831/2

We're going to need so much community and mutual aid to deal with the coming climate change reckoning combined with the complete abandonment by the US government. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfj…

Burn baby burn!
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/entertainment/english/trumps-own-supporters-are-burning-maga-hats-epstein-list-is-the-reason-why/videoshow/122370627…

When fascist America criticizes something, it just shows normal people it's the right thing to do.
Keep em coming.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/europe-news-vn516gnfz/-/a-8Qqz7xxOQ7i_sRc4r8ECag:a:89340020-/0

Rosie O'Donnell is a threat to humanity! Rosie O'Donnell is America's Godzilla.

"Miller is a psychopath. Trump is an addled and delusional wannabe dictator."
And ICE is nothing but a goon squad. Unvetted blunt objects being used by America's worst fascists.
☑️ Poor little ICEmen – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2025/07/10/poor

Federal funding cuts hit local Voice of America employees (Elise Sandlin/WITN)
https://www.witn.com/2025/07/10/federal-funding-cuts-hit-local-voice-america-employees/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p36#a250712p36

Here's a great modern version of the classic "Join or Die" cartoon from the American Revolution to prepare for Friday.
#NoKings #uspol

How Smithsonian Magazine is handling Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America

Red state partners with PragerU to develop teacher licensure assessment | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-red-state-begin-requiring-new-teachers-pass-prageru-america-first-assessment-keep-licensure

I’m waiting for someone — with better animation skills than I have — to make a satirical film where Superman and Captain America round up Trump, his government, project 2025 leads, and Netanyahu and dump them all in an alligator-infested swamp where they all get eaten. They are all craven cowards who attempt to feed each other to the gators in an attempt to save themselves.
The film ends with Supe and Cap standing in front of the White House, US flag waiving and the Star Spangled Banne…

Good Morning #Canada
Today is Mountain Day in Japan, but Canadians have some pretty impressive mounds of rock as well. Did you know that Canada has the oldest mountain range in North America? At over 4 billion years old, the Torngat Mountains has seen some things. This mountain range, 300km long and covering 30,000 square km, is located on the Labrador Peninsula at the northern tip of Newfoundland and Labrador and eastern Quebec. Torngat National Park is open year round, but due to its remote location, it only gets 600-ish visitors annually. Visitors must be accompanied by armed Inuit escorts because polar bears are prevalent on the rocky shores. Getting eaten by a polar bear is likely too much excitement for a camping trip.
#CanadaIsAwesome #NationalParks
https://youtu.be/YEqKxOFDOYQ?si=4VgwXtvAEomogKXo

The Rapid Rise of Killings by Police in Rural America - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/us-news/police-killings-rise-rural-sheriffs-1663159a?st=cxiyKL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/06/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reprioritizes-cybersecurity-efforts-to-protect-america/
Trump issued an executive order to “amend problema…

🧶 Can America Get Unstuck?
#politics

US launches AUKUS review to ensure it meets Donald Trump's 'America First' agenda (ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-12/aukus-pentagon-review-donald-trump-america-first/105406254
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p149#a250611p149

I will try to use "Demon Copperhead" in my book club next spring here in Wiesbaden, Germany.
#books #acitivism

'America's Team' Netflix series a fascinating look at Jerry Jones, Cowboys https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/12/dallas-cowboys-netflix-documentary-review/85609140007/

“Siloviki” is perhaps the most borrowed word in Russian studies
— probably because it explains so much about Putin’s Russia.
Its members are the police, the border control, the army, the security services, the spies.
For their service to the regime, they are rewarded with early pensions,
plenty of cash and almost total immunity from investigation for corruption or brutality.
In truth, the American security state, with its qualified immunity, surveillance appar…

I know that America is currently unwell and knowing it "theoretically" is one thing, having lots of colleagues and friends professionally affected is another, having our server's admin, one of the kindest, most generous people that I know, physically attacked, and their finger broken, by the LAPD, is another altogether.
https://neuromatch.soci…

After Elon Musk announced a US political party called the America Party, Donald Trump called Musk a "TRAIN WRECK" fueled by discontent over EV subsidies ending (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/06/elon-musk-…

Paul Krugman says nothing here the well-informed don’t already know, but I’m quoting here because he says it so crisply:
❝Until ICE moved in Los Angeles was, in fact, remarkably peaceful.…Los Angeles [minus ICE] is probably as safe as it has ever been.❞
❝The events unfolding in Los Angeles as you read this and, I fear, the events likely to unfold across much of America soon, quite possibly this weekend, suggest that the motivations of Trump and his cronies go deeper than mere (mere!) sadism. They want to use false claims of chaos to justify a power grab that, if successful, would mark the end of the American experiment.❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-finally-know-what-american-carnage

@… I used to follow a bot that identified MAGA accounts on Twitter that praised America and used the Liberian flag in their posts. It was kinda funny.

thank you, miccosukee tribe for being the last line against fascism in america, and sorry for once again carrying that burden

The RSNA Lumbar Degenerative Imaging Spine Classification (LumbarDISC) Dataset
Tyler J. Richards, Adam E. Flanders, Errol Colak, Luciano M. Prevedello, Robyn L. Ball, Felipe Kitamura, John Mongan, Maryam Vazirabad, Hui-Ming Lin, Anne Kendell, Thanat Kanthawang, Salita Angkurawaranon, Emre Altinmakas, Hakan Dogan, Paulo Eduardo de Aguiar Kuriki, Arjuna Somasundaram, Christopher Ruston, Deniz Bulja, Naida Spahovic, Jennifer Sommer, Sirui Jiang, Eduardo Moreno Judice de Mattos Farina, Edu…

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory - @…
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar0ec480cc

OK, Americans. Where will you be this Saturday?
I know you'll be at a No Kings march, because that's where anyone who cares about this country needs to be. But which one? There is almost certainly one near you, if not several.
Find one, sign up, march, make noise. America does not go down without a fight.
https://www.no…

72 years later, this image still seems to resonate.
'In America - At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served' (Krokodil # 4, 1953) by Yuliy Ganf. The solider at the table being well fed is labeled “war” and the neglected tables are labeled 'Education', 'Health Care', 'Libraries' and 'Art'.
#USpol

The latest executive order from Trump administration removed the following sentence from a previous executive order.
" e) Open source software plays a critical role in Federal information systems."
🔗 https://www…

Wow. I remember when $MSFT was $8/share. But AI is just "slop" & has no value, right? 🙄
✅ NEWS: Hottest Job in Corporate America? Executive in Charge of A.I.
https://kurtsh.com/2024/04/18/news-hottest-job-in-corporate-ame…

Saw this on Reddit; Russia offers asylum, reckon he'll go elsewhere?
Musk selling AI technology to China, while pulling out of America - Google Search
https://www.google.com/search?q=Musk selling AI technology to China, while pulling out of America&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

"In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin American nation at the very heart of a global crisis."
Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau

Sweet, Arizona has TWO on this list of the USA's top twenty most boring cities 😂🤣
Edit - found the link these rankings came from, with the explanations of how they came up with them: https://financebuzz.com/most-boring-cities-in-america-ranked

In the dishy new book
“2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,”
Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf describe how
Sergio Gor, a Trump aide who rose by publishing Trump’s coffee table books, created draconian loyalty tests during the transition.
It’s Trump's paradox:
If you choose your cabinet based on looks, you are likely to end up with a cabinet that makes you look bad.
Running government is harder than bloviatin…

Hyundai: Autonome Drohnen reduzieren Inventurzeit um 90 Prozent
Drohnen führen in der Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America vollautomatisch Inventurprüfungen durch. Die Zeit dafür konnte um 90 Prozent reduziert werden.

Kid at college fair: Do you have a cricket club?
College rep: Cricket?!? In America?!?!?
Kid: … My dad is from India.
Rep: Oh! Well… my husband is from Jamaica, so actually I know exactly what you mean!

A Trump administration letter to Congress outlines a plan to restructure VOA that would shrink the agency to 18 employees, down from roughly 1,400 in March (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-voice-of-america.h…

Heute beginnt das Race Across America, eines der härtesten Radrennen der Welt.
Zum Tracking geht es hier entlang: #RAAM

Robert F Kennedy Jr, promoted a company whose meals contain ultra-processed ingredients – which he has repeatedly railed against
– on his “Make America healthy again” tour.
The US health secretary appeared at an enormous food plant in Oklahoma for a company called "Mom’s Meals",
which makes 1.5m
“medically tailored” meals each week and ships them all over the country.
Companies including Mom’s Meals have been criticized for hijacking the “food is medici…

America's 10 strongest state economies prepared for recession
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/12/10-strongest-us-economies-recession-top-states-for-business-rankings.html

A Cytology Dataset for Early Detection of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Garima Jain, Sanghamitra Pati, Mona Duggal, Amit Sethi, Abhijeet Patil, Gururaj Malekar, Nilesh Kowe, Jitender Kumar, Jatin Kashyap, Divyajeet Rout, Deepali, Hitesh, Nishi Halduniya, Sharat Kumar, Heena Tabassum, Rupinder Singh Dhaliwal, Sucheta Devi Khuraijam, Sushma Khuraijam, Sharmila Laishram, Simmi Kharb, Sunita Singh, K. Swaminadtan, Ranjana Solanki, Deepika Hemranjani, Shashank Nath Singh, Uma Handa, Manvee…

You know what America needs? America needs someone to beat the shit out of Jake Paul.

"We started this country by grabbing rifles we had laying around and starting to shoot at the soldiers of the one of the most powerful empires on earth, all because they taxed our breakfast beverage."
https://medium.com/the-geopolitical-ec

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/

🔸"In Trauma”: A key Trump adviser says a Trump administration will seek to make civil servants miserable in their jobs.
🔸Military: In private speeches, he laid out plans to use armed forces to quell any domestic “riots.”
🔸1776 and 1860: He likened the country’s moment to those fractious periods in American history.

America's 10 weakest state economies most at risk in recession
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/12/10-weakest-us-economies-recession-top-states-for-business.html

🤠🤠🤠 Counting down 'til AMERICA'S TEAM: THE GAMBLER AND HIS COWBOYS comes to Netflix on August 19 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pm1KukcE6i4

Trump's risky role as the would-be CEO of America (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/12/trump-corporations-ceo-economy-tariffs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p9#a250812p9

What Vance expressed to the friendly Claremont audience was a dramatically reduced vision of American citizenship.
It’s one in which having ancestors who have lived here for generations entitles you to more;
a vision of citizenship that’s long existed around the world, with a notable and aspirational exception in the United States.
“Identifying America just with agreeing with the principles, let’s say, of the Declaration of Independence — that’s a definition that is way ove…

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski: “I’ve seen the clip. It's horrible. It is shocking at every level. It's not the America I know."
https://www.threads.com/@thetnholler/post/DK0Iv_2SvYt

As Trump Fails to Deliver, Russia Looks to Musk's America Party for Leverage (Dave Troy/America 2.0)
https://america2.news/as-trump-fails-to-deliver-russia-looks-to-musks-america-party-for-leverage/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p135#a250707p135

Netflix series on Jerry Jones premieres Aug. 19 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/netflix-series-on-jerry-jones-premieres-aug-19

The Head of a New RFK-Backing Group Promoted 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/leland-lehrman-make-america-healthy-again-institute-antisemitism-september-11/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p67#a250610p67

Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys Netflix documentary series gets official release date https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jerry-jones-dallas-cowboys-netflix-documentary-series-official-release-date

DOJ Has Lost So Many Lawyers It Might Not Have Enough Left To Help Trump Destroy America - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/08/doj-has-lost-so-many-lawyers-it-might-not-have-enough-left-to-help-trump-destroy-america/

Like moth to flame, Cowboys owner Jones puts club in spotlight with new Netflix special https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/08/12/cowboys-netflix-premiere-of-americas-team/85622495007/

Musk's America Party has helpers -- and challenges (Brittany Gibson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/08/elon-musk-america-party-helpers-challenges
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p44#a250708p44

9 JUNE 2025
America STOP THIS PLEASE
This young girl, her mom
Dragged off by ICE
Not a criminal
Thousands & thousands are going through this all over our Country
Think if this was your family
https://bsky.app/profile/patti3333.bsk

Jerry Jones on new Netflix series, how taking risks helped him win with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jerry-jones-on-new-netflix-series-how-taking-risks-helped-him-win-with-cowboys

America, Go Back to Civics Class, Please
https://socialcontractwithjoewalsh.substack.com/p/america-go-back-to-civics-class-please

The White House has seen its share of shady deals.
Ulysses S. Grant’s brother-in-law used his family ties to engineer an insider-trading scheme that tanked the gold market.
Warren Harding’s secretary of the interior secretly leased land to oil barons, who paid a fortune for his troubles.
To bankroll Richard Nixon’s reelection, corporate executives sneaked suitcases full of cash into the capital.
But Americans have never witnessed anything like the corruption that Presi…

U.S. sees most single-year measles cases since it declared disease eliminated (Helen Branswell/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/measles-america-breaks-33-year-record-anti-vaccine-sentiment-key-factor-behind-outbreaks/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p117#a250709p117

Jerry Jones on new Netflix series, how taking risks helped him win with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jerry-jones-on-new-netflix-series-how-taking-risks-helped-him-win-with-cowboys

Circle the Continental Divide, Wyoming

The drive: On the 480-mile loop, join the club of adventurers who have crossed the Continental Divide not once but twice
— at the scenic Togwotee Pass and the point between Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.
After traversing the natural landmark,
you still have hundreds of miles to explore.
On the Wind River Indian Reservation, cue up the TravelStorys audio tour
and spend a night in a furnished tepee owned and o…

Will Trump Force America to Break Up? – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/trump-american-secession-break-up-vance-immigration-deportation/

How Trump's America mirrors the Gilded Age of robber barons
Fortunes built on dominant positions,
even outright monopolies;
a society in which 1% of the population held 50% of the country's wealth.
Among the most enthusiastic admirers of this turn-of-the-century era is none other than Donald Trump

America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This (Casey Michel/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/trump-corruption-foreign-regimes/683487/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p81#a250710p81

Official statements from Elon Musk's newly founded "America Party,"ranked by whether they make any damned sense at all
https://thewhitepages.net/p/official-statements-from-elon-musks

Trump and Republicans in Congress will do their part to damage the American economy, at a moment of fear and instability.
In the broadest terms, their Big Bad Budget bill is an enormous upward transfer of wealth
— perhaps the largest in history
— taking from those with lower incomes and giving to the rich.
And in its details there are dozens if not hundreds of blows to the economy.

Trump Says He's Making America More Competitive. Is He? (Jess Bidgood/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/politics/trump-tariffs-taxes-economy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p147#a250709p147

Little more than a year ago,
Kristi Noem’s political prospects appeared to be in freefall.
The then South Dakota governor was criss-crossing the country on an ill-fated book tour,
widely seen, at least initially, as an audition to be Donald Trump’s running mate.
Instead, Noem found herself on the defensive – a position Trump never likes to be in – after revealing in her memoir that she had shot the family’s “untrainable” hunting dog,
a 14-month-old wirehair poi…

"Here’s a tip, Tom Homan: Cuban born convicted narco-cartel drug dealer named Orlando Cicilia still in America. He’s not hard to find. He’s Marco Rubio’s brother-in law."
'Not hard to find!' Trump official's drug-dealing kin floated for deportation - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/marco-rubio-2673068099/

Trump Is Destroying the Future of America to Own the Libs (Robinson Meyer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/opinion/electric-vehicles-china-clean-energy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p48#a250810p48

Trump and his officials are waging a war on electricity infrastructure.
This campaign is primarily driven by their opposition to the solar and wind farms that they associate with their foils, the Democrats.
Even as electricity has clearly become more important to the economy
— and even as the country’s biggest technology firms strive to secure any spare electron for their new metropolis-size data centers
— Trump and his team have begun a regulatory coup to smother n…

Mayor of Kansas City Quinton Lucas: "what they did this time has undermined, destabilized health care in rural Missouri and rural middle America and rural parts of our entire country. You are going to see more hospitals closed in rural parts of America. You are going to see more people die and more people die earlier in rural America."
Trump move seen as 'astonishing' attack on red states and rural voters - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-astonishing-megabill-kc-mayor/

Democrats have been completely unable to mount an opposition,
but Vermont's Independent Senator Bernie Sanders is drawing record crowds with his
"Fighting Oligarchy Tour."
Six months into Trump's second term, his quest to remake America rolls along, highlighted by the passage last week of his sweeping domestic policy bill
- despite polls showing it's unpopular with most Americans.

The Fight to Plan America's Birthday Party (Michael Scherer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/america-250-birthday-party-fight-trump/683774/?gift=nHf7iWmpOKBdlkwz68mfUFHKv-OskAQirJGeHJJqKYI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p110#a250806p110