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us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 874843 nodes and 1088296 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Outbreak. Measles is back and killing people in Canada because Canadians irresponsibly aren't geting vaccinated. <--- Fixed it for you Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-measles-outbreak-canada-united-states-tr…

"Les États-Unis sont-ils encore une démocratie ?
Je dirais que les États-Unis sont aujourd'hui un système "autoritaire compétitif". Il s'agit d'un jargon de science politique qui désigne les pays qui ont les apparences de la démocratie, mais où des règles du jeu équitables ne s'appliquent plus."
#USA

The Trump administration is picking its own favoured students
-- and boundaries for speech
https://www.economist.com/united-states/20

"For starters, like shark attacks, the number of events attributed to left-wing terrorism this year is so low in absolute terms that it simply does not justify inducing panic with eye-popping headlines."
Correctly Assessing U.S. Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence
https://www.justsecurity.org/122278/correctly-assessing-left-wing-terrorism-and-political-violence-in-the-united-states/

Mass killings
Was looking through Wikipedia's list of mass killings in America (#guns #GunViolence #Shooting

The Tangerine Tyrant is a clear and present danger to the American People and the national security of the United States.
"The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and 'respect for human rights.'"

Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S
The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and "respect for human rights."

TIL: There’s competitive sauna as a sport, aka “aufguss”
https://slate.com/life/2025/09/sauna-benefits-bathhouse-popularity-united-states.html

I Went to Watch the Steamiest Sport in the World. Now I’m Hooked.
Could aufguss catch on in the States, like so many Scandinavian phenomena before it?

Zelensky urges 'strong response' from US if Putin rejects talks with Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/21/zelensky-urges-strong-response-from.html

A profile of Wang Jian, a journalist who has moved to the US in 2018 due to increasing press restrictions in Hong Kong and has built a news operation on YouTube (Lauren Hilgers/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct

Not typically accustomed to getting news via #LinkedIn but somehow this was a noteworthy surprise...
Not sure its exactly "good news" but is a sign of the times that #FakeNews and #Satire specialists of

Ofcourse Trump is lying about his criminal acts....
#Trump

Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats
Trump says the U.S. is blowing up boats carrying deadly fentanyl to the United States. U.S. and other officials say the route under attack carries cocaine and marijuana to Europe and Africa.

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

"Solar accounted for 70% of new global power capacity in 2024"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Solar accounted for 70% of new global power capacity in 2024
A new IEEE report shows solar dominated new generation in 2024, with 70% of added global capacity from PV and record installations in China and the United States.

Traiterous scum.
https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/115237346204539624

El nivel de narcicismo de este señor es realmente patético. Sin mencionar el hecho de que esta política es una especie de regreso a la venta de oficios y dignidades de épocas pasadas.
Contexto: https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/09/19/eeuu/trump-pres…

Citizens United is the court decision that essentially ended meaningful campaign finance law in the United States.
Billionaires and centi-millionaires started gaining publicity and critical reactions to the scale of their spending and the impact it had on elections.
Political giving at scale by the extremely wealthy wasn’t new.
Perhaps the difference was the internet.
Whatever it was, the years after 2010 spawned the idea that the very wealthy and the extremely powe…

The Age of Monsters
We live in an age of monsters: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, the...

POTUS: Pedo Of The United States
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: cancel the hit squad.
#satire #potus45

The Situation: Hopscotch is Now Illegal on D.C. Sidewalks | Lawfare #Fascism

Is the GOP still pro 2nd Amendment?
The Supreme Court will examine if regular marijuana users can legally own firearms, stemming from the case United States v. Hemani. https://ground.news/article/supreme-court-to-decide-if-drug-users-can-carry-guns_171e77

The Weaponized World Economy (Foreign Affairs)
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/weaponized-world-economy-farrell-newman
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p6#a250819p6

Philadelphia will open historic Pride visitors center to mark 250th anniversary of the United States - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/philadelphia-will-open-historic-pride-visitors-center-to-mark-250th-anniversary-of-the-united-states/

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 20. Oktober 1958 führte die USA mit "San Juan" den 20. Atomtest der Operation Hardtack II, eine Serie von 37 #Atomtests auf der #Nevada Test Site, NTS, durch. Von Ballontests bis zu unterirdischen Explosionen wurden verschiedene Methoden erprobt.

haha, the united states once worked on a nuclear bomb that could wipe out the entirety of france (sundial, a 10,000 megaton bomb) very glad we came up with this instead of building houses for homeless

Not only was airfield at Bagram built in 1950s by Soviet Union, but potus was one who wanted US out of Afghanistan.
“It was Trump's administration that signed the peace agreement with the Taliban that paved the way for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan near the end of his first term.”
Bad things may well happen to US soldiers if potus follows through on this.
quote source:

Lavrov says Russia wants to join China, the US, Britain and France in providing Ukraine security guarantees: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/lavrov-says-russia-wants-to.html

Apple raises the price of Apple TV in the US and some markets globally after previously raising the price in 2023; in the US, the price will rise $3 to $12.99 (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/21/apple-tv-subscription-price-increase/

Apple TV+ subscription price increasing to $12.99 per month from today - 9to5Mac
Apple today announced that the monthly price of Apple TV+ is rising in the United States and some international markets....

3h ago 13.33 CEST
Recognising Palestinian state 'key' for peace, says Luxembourg PM – Middle East crisis live
https://www.th…

"175 researchers urge UK Prime Minister to stand up to President Trump on climate change"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

175 researchers urge UK Prime Minister to stand up to President Trump on climate change - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
A letter, sent to coincide with the start of President Trump’s State Visit to the UK, calls for the Prime Minister to “challenge robustly the President of the United States, Donald Trump, about his reckless approach to climate change”.

Etude publiée dans The Lancet Regional Health - Americas :
"Le racisme, le sexisme hostile, l'homonégativité, la transphobie, la xénophobie, l'antisémitisme et l'islamophobie étaient tous fortement associés au soutien et Š la volonté de commettre des actes de violence politique aux États-Unis. "
A lire ici

The far right is surging in the United States,
driven in part by white nationalists exploiting economic anxieties
and a populace increasingly frustrated with the political status quo.
Now, as the Trump administration rolls back diversity, equity and inclusion policies,
cracks down on immigration and offers pardons to white supremacists,
some see an opening.
In creating their community, the founders of "Return to the Land" are challenging anti-d…

Arkansas Housing Development Restricted to White Residents Sparks Legal Concerns
Housing rights experts say a community restricted to white residents is illegal, but the creators believe they could win a potential challenge in court in the current political climate.

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 64892 nodes and 76809 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

The World Economy Was Already Broken (Foreign Affairs)
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/world-economy-was-already-broken-adeyemo-zoffer
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p4#a250819p4

Just finished "Dreams from Many Rivers" by Margarita Engle. It's a Latin-American history of the United States, written in poems that take on the points of view of a number of both fictional and actual people. It starts with the arrival of Spanish colonists in Puerto Rico, which was in fact the first part of the present-day States to experience European colonialism.
Its super informative and a great read to appreciate the complexities of history that ICE and the US white supremacist movement are trying to sweep under the rug. Like how the fuck do you deport a person whose indigenous and then Mexican ancestors lived in Arizona for centuries but now that it's claimed by the US since they speak Spanish they're "foreign."
It's a pretty quick read since it's a lot of short poems, and it's got lovely illustrations by Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

My father was an Antifa member in the 1940s. His cell was "The Fifth Armored Division of the United States Army."

Calibrated Generative AI as Meta-Reviewer: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Discourse Analysis of Reviews of Peer Reviews
Gabriela C. Zapata, Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, Duane Searsmith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15035

Calibrated Generative AI as Meta-Reviewer: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Discourse Analysis of Reviews of Peer Reviews
This study investigates the use of generative AI to support formative assessment through machine generated reviews of peer reviews in graduate online courses in a public university in the United States. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics and Appraisal Theory, we analyzed 120 metareviews to explore how generative AI feedback constructs meaning across ideational, interpersonal, and textual dimensions. The findings suggest that generative AI can approximate key rhetorical and relational fe…

❝Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth. They were born into democracy and have no appreciation of what life is like without it.❞
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/wang-jian-china-journalist-reports-united-states-donald-trump-xi-jinping

After recent tests, China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/after-recent-tests-china-appears-likely-to-beat-the-united-states-back-to-the-moon/

Speaker Johnson should be ashamed of himself.
He should also have gone to one of the rallies in his congressional district
—there appear to have been three of them, and two more right nearby
—and seen for himself the flags
and the “I love my country” signs
and talked to some of the good and decent people from all walks of life who attended.
In Leesville, he might have met people like organizer Bradley Hesson, who told KALB-TV:
“We’re out here to show…

Mike Johnson Understands Nothing About the United States of America
The speaker led a rogues’ gallery of Republicans impugning the patriotism of the No Kings rallygoers. On Saturday, the real Americans had their say.

Maybe it wasn’t a waste of time after all.
““We were able to win the following concession: That the United States could offer Article 5-like protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO,” Witkoff told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
But the question is, what about the territory?
#RussiaUkraineWar
https://apnews.com/article/trump-witkoff-ukraine-russia-putin-war-048aa829a69b4020ca368577bfe18aee

Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 20. Oktober 1962 führte die USA den Checkmate Test durch als Teil von Operation #Fishbowl. #Checkmate war ein Waffeneffekt-Höhentest des Nuklearsprengkopfes W-50. Da Checkmate außerhalb der Atmosphäre explodierte, entstand kein Feuerball.

"For Russians Like Me, Silencing Jimmy Kimmel Looks Dangerously Familiar"
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/19/for-russians-like-me-silencing-jimmy-kimmel-looks-dangerously-familiar-a90567

For Russians Like Me, Silencing Jimmy Kimmel Looks Dangerously Familiar
Opinion | The removal from the air of a second American comedian since President Donald Trump was elected in the United States should send chills down the spine of every journalist who worked in Moscow in the early 2000s.  That was how President Vladimir Putin began consolidating his power – by attacking mainstream media, starting with television and, notably, TV comedians.  In 2000, Putin was deeply unhappy with the coverage he was getting on the NTV television channel, whose journali…

» @… reported that in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump’s Justice Department deleted a study from its website stating that right-wing violence ›continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism‹ in the United States. This comes as the Trump administration and Republicans generally blame political violence solely o…

😆 it’s not schokking at all. The 黄牛s ( people who bought tickets just to re-sell them) in China have being known to collaborate with platforms like such to raise the prices for a long time. https://flipboard.com/@pitchfork/news-pqu92e91z/-/a-uCnrzOak…

Federal Trade Commission Sues Ticketmaster and Live Nation Entertainment
Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, have long been the target of ire from musicians and concertgoers alike due to their use of hidden fees and the prevalence of ticket scalpers on their platforms. Last year, under President Joe Biden, the United States Justice Department …

Week Without Driving
> "If you can drive or afford a car, you may not understand what it’s like to rely on walking, rolling, transit and asking for rides. But for nearly a third of people living in the United States – people with disabilities, young people, seniors and people who can’t afford cars or gas – this is our every day."
Monday, September 29 – Sunday, October 5, 2025

Week Without Driving
Sep 29th – Oct 5th, 2025 - An experience created for everyone to learn firsthand about barriers and challenges for nondrivers. Join, support, or become a host.

Escalating the friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America,
Donald Trump said Sunday, the United States will slash assistance to Colombia because its leader, Gustavo Petro,
“does nothing to stop” drug production"
The U.S. president warned that Petro “better close up” drug operations “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
Hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest U.S. strik…

Trump announces an end to US aid to Colombia
It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance. Trump says he'll slash U.S. assistance and enact tariffs because Colombia's leftist president “does nothing to stop” drug production and is an “illegal drug leader.” Petro is rejecting the accusations and defending his work to fight narcotics in Colombia, the world’s largest exporter of cocaine. Colombia …

PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/pfas-forever-chemicals-found-in-98-of-us-waters-tested/

PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested
A recent study from the U.S.-based environmental nonprofit Waterkeeper Alliance has found “forever chemicals” contamination in 98% of the waterways it tested in the United States. The findings come at a time when representatives from the world are gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for the United Nations plastics treaty negotiations to hammer out a plan to […]

Frank Zappa vs. the establishment
https://substack.com/@thememoryhole/note/c-142238216?r=8k45f&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

TMH (@thememoryhole)
Frank Zappa on the Threat of Fascism in the United States (1986)

From David Suzuki
We need real solutions for affordability, energy security and responding to the threats from the United States.
Canada’s electricity demands are set to triple in the coming decades. We have an opportunity to build shovel-ready, made-in-Canada projects by upgrading Canada’s power grid with renewable power, not fossil fuels.
Did you know Canada’s provincial electricity grids are more connected to the United States than with each other?
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Liam Lynch:
🎵 United States of Whatever
#LiamLynch
https://jacobrabin.bandcamp.com/track/united-states-of-whatever-liam-lynch
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Jub05dvpbF4Im83NqMCUg

Currently making my way through this podcast, S4, which is all about how the USA was founded, and how its supposed ideals have played out since then.
It strikes me that the root problem, before the genocide, the slavery, the exploitation and racism, is oligarchy.
#history #AmericanHistory

The Land That Never Has Been Yet
Scene on Radio host/producer John Biewen :Over the past few years, the survival of the United States as a democratic republic has become a topic of national conversation—Trumpian authoritar

Wrote some stuff about what's happening. It's a little dark, I'm a little exhausted. I hope you enjoy it and subscribe.
#USpol

Kimmel and Killing
censorship and extrajudicial killing make each other more likely Just as the United States was switching broadcast television signals from analog to digital, I made my network television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! playing Thomas Prusik Parkin, who impersonated his dead mother, Irene Prusik, to collect her Social Security benefits,

🫧 A pollution paradox: Wildfires in the western United States may improve air quality
#usa

A pollution paradox: Wildfires in the western United States may improve air quality
Climate change is driving more frequent and more intense wildfires around the world, including in the United States. These huge blazes cause a range of problems that affect health, the environment, property and the economy. However, a new study reveals a surprising paradox: the heat from wildfires in the western U.S. may actually improve air quality in the eastern part of the country.

At first I thought „Oh no, I need to peel off laptop stickers!“, but then I remembered that I won’t travel to the United States anytime soon (for large values of “soon”).
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/17/politics/antifa-terrorist-designation-trump

Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization
President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday morning UK time.

This is amusing. In a story about Laufey’s upcoming concert in North America, it states that 400,000 tickets were sold and that’s the same as 80 of the big arena in Reykjavík.
Unmentioned: this is the equivalent of every person in Iceland buying a ticket!
https://icelandmonitor.mb…

A major achievement for Laufey
Leifur Björnsson, head of exports at the Iceland Music Office, says the demand for tickets to Laufey Lín’s upcoming concert tour in the United States and Canada is almost without precedent in Icelandic music history.

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 21. September 1958 führte die USA mit "Luna" den 4. Atomtest der Operation Hardtack II, eine Serie von 37 #Atomtests auf der #Nevada Test Site, NTS, durch. Von Ballontests bis zu unterirdischen Explosionen wurden verschiedene Methoden erprobt.

#FactFriday
An unwalled version of a walled article that originally appeared in Rolling Stone (not happy that Rolling Stone has such an important health article behind their wall - I've seen other places unwall important articles - shoutout to @…). I personally …

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

TIL that Arab people are considered “White” because U.S. laws have been and are always messed up. Enjoy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_v._United_States

Dow v. United States - Wikipedia

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 547028 nodes and 670443 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

From the abandoned Nazi fortress in Los Angeles, to today’s Hollywood executives, to the history of the United States and all of Western Civilization, my new article:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/tinpot-in-tinseltown/

Tinpot in Tinseltown
from the abandoned Nazi fortress in Los Angeles, to today’s Hollywood executives, to the history of the United States and all of Western Civilization When I heard a rumor there was an abandoned Nazi bunker in Los Angeles, I had to find out more. I looked into it, and

Heute vor 90 Jahren: Am 21. Oktober 1935 startete die #USA ihr #Nuklearprogramm. Sie war das erste Land, das Atomwaffen herstellte und im Krieg einsetzte (Hiroshima, Nagasaki). Bis zum Ende des Kalten Krieges führten sie 1.054 Nukleartests durch.

POTUS: Pedo Of The United States
bot by @…
No laws were broken in the making of this bot: no waterboarding please and thank you.
#satire #potus45

From Long Island to the Baltics: Drop Site Investigation Reveals New Details About Canary Mission's Operations (Jacqueline Sweet/Drop Site News)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-funding-funders-networks-transactions-doxxing-united-states-deportation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p71#a251016p71

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 21. August 1965 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 5. #Atombombe "Ticking". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

It all should have been stopped the instant he started openly monetizing his hotel blocks from the White House
and sending his children to represent the United States of America at international meetings.
But we decided none of the laws, rules, or norms apply this One Special Boy 🤷‍♂️
https://

Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251018/p56#a251018p56

I saw, during my reporting in Hungary, how much putting friendly oligarchs in charge of the media matters in authoritarian consolidation.
That's starting to happen in the United States
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:eyfljkh234pjizrlqp4kduaa/po…

Heartbreaking.
“This essentially says the United States is no longer your ally, that the United States doesn’t see clearly beyond the rhetoric of your regime,”
https://www.

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

Versant strikes a multiyear deal for League One Volleyball, its second sports rights deal after signing one with the United States Golf Association in August (Jessica Golden/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/16/versant-league-one-volleyball-multi-yea…

Versant strikes multiyear media deal with League One Volleyball
Versant has struck a multiyear media rights deal with League One Volleyball, the second media rights agreement for the Comcast spinoff.

Consider how far a
"use of force authorization" could be read to extend
when it starts with no limiting principle
-- no armed attack, no organized armed group fighting the United States
-- and is in fact explicitly authorizing widespread murder of mere suspects
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Kristen Welker of NBC Meet the Press (Marco Rubio/United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/08/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-with-kristen-welker-of-nbc-meet-the-press/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p13#a250818p13

LOL, yeah, this is a thing:
Petition · Replace Bad Bunny with George Strait for the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show - United States · Change.org
https://www.change.org/p/replace-bad-bunny-with-george-strait-for-the-2026-super-bowl-halftime-show

Kentucky Republican Rand Paul raised concerns about the legality of the Trump administration’s strikes on boats that it claims are carrying drug traffickers,
as well as Trump's statement that the United States might conduct direct attacks on Venezuela’s territory.
“When you kill someone, you should know, if you’re not at war, not in a declared war,
you really need to know someone’s name at least,” Paul said.
“You have to accuse them of something.
You have …

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-united-states-is-eating-trumps-tariffs-2025-10-13/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p52#a251013p52

I wrote this this morning:
"Tomorrow, about 2,600 protests plan to peacefully show the world, the administration and themselves that the United States remains a nation predicated on having No Kings.
Can the president come down hard on these protests with the military?"
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/no-su…

No Surrender
No Soldiers in the Streets, No Kings in This Land For all the military violence there has been in the world during my life, my tactic for surviving it has taken me next to no effort: not being there at the time. By largely luck, I have not yet been

The real collusion between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/08/14/the-real-collusion-between-donald-trump-and-vladimir-putin
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p45#a250815p45

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

USDA will construct a sterile fly production facility in Edinburg, TX,
at Moore Air Force Base,
an ideal location due to the existing infrastructure and proximity to the United States-Mexico border.
Built with the Army Corps of Engineers, the facility will produce up to 300 million sterile flies per week to combat New World Screwworm.
This will be the only United States-based sterile fly facility
and will work in tandem with facilities in Panama and Mexico to …

In the United States, more than 2,500 demonstrations against US President Donald Trump are planned nationwide for Saturday.
The organizers expect millions of participants under the motto
"No Kings".
The first protests are underway in Ann Arbor and other places.
Demonstrations against the growing US authoritarianism also gathered in European capitals.

"No Kings": Hunderte Demonstrationen gegen Trump laufen an - Hubu.de - News & FreeMail
In den USA sind für Samstag landesweit über 2.500 Demonstrationen gegen US-Präsident Donald Trump geplant.

Miss United States Files Restraining Order Against GOP Rep. Cory Mills
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/miss-united-states-lindsey-langston-files-restraining-order-rep-cory-mills

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 540981 nodes and 664215 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
The United States plans to repatriate two alleged fishermen to Colombia and Ecuador after military forces attacked their vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday.

Facing questions about the legality of the strikes, the Trump administration has sought to justify the killings by claiming the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with Latin American drug cartels that are linked to Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro’s alleged e…

U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
It is unclear if the two surviving alleged drug smugglers have any links to Venezuelan criminal organizations.

Frankly, Trump may have a greater impact on the English language than any president in the history of the United States, believe me. 🤣
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/trump-speaking-style.html?smid=nytcor…

Opinion | The Insidious Creep of Trump’s Speaking Style
The fact that we’re talking like Donald Trump could mean that we’re starting to think like him as well.

(Soundtrack of the Mighty Mouse theme, but somehow janky: “Here I come to save the day!”)
Thankfully, the United States has only ever had good experiences deploying troops to the Middle East.
🤦‍♂️
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-gaz

US sending about 200 troops to monitor Gaza ceasefire deal
The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and private-sector players. That's according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details that weren't authorized for release. They said Thursday that U.S. Central Command is going to establish a “civil-military coordination center” in Israel that will help facilitate the flow…

Grassley Opens Senate Judiciary FBI Oversight Hearing, Releases Additional Records Demonstrating Political Weaponization and Misconduct at Biden FBI (United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary)
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/grassley-opens-senate-judiciary-fbi-oversight-hearing-releases-additional-records-demonstrating-political-weaponization-and-misconduct-at-biden-fbi
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p106#a250916p106

"President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in a 'non-international armed conflict…'"₁
Funny thing about Non-International Armed Conflicts (NIACs), they're "subject to International humanitarian law"₂ and randomly drone striking civilians in boats without any apparent evidence is still a war crime.
sources:
₁

US is in 'armed conflict' with drug cartels, Trump says
President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in an “armed conflict." That's according to a Trump administration memo obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The memo appears to represent an extraordinary assertion of presidential war powers, with Trump effectively declaring that trafficking of drugs into the United States amounts to armed conflict requiring the use of military force — a new rationale for past and future acti…

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year,
the Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.
According to the New York Times, the proposal that Donald Trump is now weighing would prioritize Europeans who are allegedly
“targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”
The pro…

Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism
The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.

Miss United States Lindsey Langston accuses Rep. Cory Mills of threatening to publish her nude pics, sex videos (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/06/us-news/miss-united-states-lindsey-langston-accuses-rep-cory-mills-of-threatening-to-publish-her-nude-pics-sex-videos/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p138#a250806p138

A bipartisan group in the Senate is planning to force a vote on legislation that would
bar the United States from engaging in hostilities inside Venezuela without explicit authorization by Congress.
The measure faces long odds given the unwillingness of most Republican lawmakers to challenge Donald Trump,
who would be all but certain to veto it.
But a vote on the legislation, which is required, would put Congress on the record on whether to rein in Trump’s escalating…

Senators Move to Force Vote to Bar Ground Strikes in Venezuela
The bid comes after the Senate rejected a similar measure to curb President Trump’s attacks against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean Sea.

Miss United States Files Restraining Order Against GOP Rep. Cory Mills (Roger Sollenberger/Drop Site News)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/miss-united-states-lindsey-langston-files-restraining-order-rep-cory-mills
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p124#a250805p124

A democratic nation actually can overcome deep polarization and division
and punish politicians who undermine democracy.
Just not the United States,
even though our leaders have spent decades beating their chests about the wonders of American democracy.
The Brazilian Supreme Court’s recent conviction of Jair Bolsonaro
on five charges related to his attempt to overturn the 2022 election results there and stay in power
is a great illustration that democrat…

Brazil Stopped Its Trump. It’s Pathetic that We Couldn’t Stop Ours.
Brazil barred Bolsonaro from running again and is sending him to jail. Other countries have done it, too. Why is the United States a unique failure?

The U.S. government said Saturday it is suspending visitor visas for Gazans
after a far-right influencer with the ear of Donald Trump complained that wounded Palestinians had been allowed to seek medical treatment in the United States.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/…

U.S. suspends visas for Gazans after far-right influencer posts
The announcement came one day after a series of furious social media posts by Laura Loomer.

Treasury Secretary Bessent,
a former hedge fund manager,
is orchestrating a $20 billion lifeline to prop up the Argentine peso,
which has been declining in value.
The backstop is intended to support Argentina’s economy
and its president, Javier Milei.
On Friday, Mr. Bessent said the Treasury Department had intervened for at least a second time to buy pesos
At the center of his bet is that the currency of Argentina
— a debt-ridden country whose…

Bessent Stakes Credibility and Taxpayer Money on Argentina Bet
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s multibillion-dollar bailout of a serial defaulter raises the specter of losses for the United States.

For all of its efforts to drive a domestic manufacturing boom in key industries,
the United States remains heavily reliant on Asian expertise to build batteries -- the powerful technologies that underpin drones, electric vehicles, and much more. 
It’s a reality that was laid bare last week when U.S. immigration officials raided an EV battery plant construction site in Georgia
and detained around 475 workers,
most of whom were South Korean nationals.
The plant i…

Trump’s Hyundai Raid Drains U.S. Battery Brains
The United States can’t build the powerful technologies on its own.

Trump plans to announce on Wednesday that Apple Inc. is pledging $100 billion in additional investment in the United States, the company’s latest move to ramp up its domestic production and avoid the president’s threat of tariffs on its iPhones.

What the White House is calling the American Manufacturing Program, will focus on bringing more of Apple’s supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the United States.
The company said in February that it planned to spend $500 billi…

Trump to Announce Additional $100 Billion Apple Investment in U.S.
The White House said the pledge would bring more of the company’s supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the United States.

Hurricane Erin strengthened into a fearsome Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 160 mph for much of the day on Aug. 16
as it traveled west just north of the Virgin Islands, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The hurricane is not expected to make a direct hit on the United States,
but will still drive dangerous surf conditions along the East Coast, said Michael Brennan, hurricane center director.
"The weather can be otherwise pretty nice to be at …

Hurricane Erin a Category 4 after briefly strengthening to fierce Category 5 storm
Hurricane Erin briefly strengthened into a Category 5 storm. It is not expected to make a direct hit on the U.S. but will create dangerous surf.

Trump said Tuesday that the United States could step in to disarm Hamas
— “quickly and perhaps violently”
— if the organization did not do so itself,
a potential vulnerability in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement
that has tentatively brought an end to two years of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Hamas, which has controlled Gaza for nearly two decades,
has not yet publicly agreed to or signed anything that specifies how it will disarm,
though …

Trump says U.S. will disarm Hamas if it does not do so itself
Hamas has not yet publicly agreed to or signed anything that specifies how it would disarm, but Trump suggested he had received verbal assurances.

Of the 202 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine this century,
fewer than 70 percent hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03247-6

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.