Inter American Press Association: press freedom in the Americas suffered a "dramatic deterioration" in 2025; the US has "restrictions" on freedom of speech (Astrid Sušrez/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/americas-pr
For years, hacked Dutch telco Odido forwarded the names and MAC addresses of all devices on a home network to American AI-enabled Wi-Fi analytics firm Lifemote.
https://nltimes.nl/2026/03/11/odido-routers-forwarded-customers-personal-dat…
Racist Christian nationalist pastor
Joel Webbon says that
black people have become haughty and arrogant
and that "violence has to be enacted" to deal with America's
"black problem."
https://www.peoplefor.org/right…
"America, Not Americans": Inola Residents Say Trump's Industrial Push Is Coming at Their Expense - Oklahoma Watch
https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/03/11/america-not-americans-inola-residents-say-trumps-industrial-push-is-coming-at-their-expense/
Hoe vaak hebben de VS geprobeerd Groenland te kopen? | historianet.nl
https://historianet.nl/maatschappij/geschiedenis-van-amerika/hoe-vaak-hebben-de-vs-geprobeerd-groenland-te-kopen
Fraai stukje over de Amerikaanse grondaankopen die Amerika vormden.
#Birds #birdsOfMastodon #naturephotography
A Dickcissel (who decided that was a good name for a bird?) and a Blue Grosbeak.
me trying to explain why the American justice system is completely corrupt and broken to Americans who lived through George Floyd and ICE and still don't get it: “okay so, imagine you own legos but a company takes them away...”
Lordy, even I know that they're already required to: "Government agencies are generally required to buy American-made products under the Buy American Act of 1933, which mandates that federal agencies acquire domestic end products for public use."
Trump says federal agencies ‘must buy American’ products
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5871796-buy-american-trump-push/
Six years after a US-China tit-for-tat cycle of journalist expulsions, the number of US journalists in China is dwindling, making it harder to cover the country (Eliot Chen/The Wire China)
https://www.thewirechina.com/2026/05/10/no-country-for-american-reporters/…
Beneath Democrats’ near-universal opposition to what they call the president’s “war of choice”
are simmering tensions about the way America should engage with the world,
especially when it comes to the Middle East.
Since losing to Trump and his America First agenda in 2024,
which promised not to start new wars, leading progressives have urged Democrats to reclaim the “anti-war” mantle.
“Voters, especially young people and working families, are exhausted by ‘for…