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Mehdi Hasan on Gaza & the US
"The idea that the United States of America, the world’s only superpower, cannot tell its ally, “You know what? We’re going to put aid into Gaza because we want to, and you’re not going to stop us, especially since we’re the ones arming you,” is bizarre. It’s something I think Biden will never be able to get past or live down. ... we can’t even get our own aid in, while they’re bombing with our bombs"
#MehdiHasan #Gaza #Biden

Senate Dems put Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on notice - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/louis-dejoy-usps/?utm_medium=email

Senate Dems put Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on notice
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday led a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy about the potential impacts of mail processing facility reviews that are underway as part of the United States Postal Service leader's controversial decadelong Delivering for America plan.Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Angu...

Why is the Press Making Trump Seem More Normal?
Yes, a presidential candidate just accused the sitting President of the United States of delivering the State of the Union address while high on cocaine.

I’m guessing that unless you listened to the Friday episode of Pod Save America, most of you are learning this information for the first time.
And it's not because you aren’t avid consumers of news. It’s because the traditional political media decided to ignore thi…

Why is the Press Making Trump Seem More Normal?
Believe it or not, much of the political press has an inadvertent pro-Trump bias

US disapproves of Ukrainian strikes inside Russia, says State Department official: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/us-disapproves-of.html

A crook gets to lie, steal, and cheat his way to become President of the United States and then appoint his accomplice's friends as the Judges of the United States.
Not only in America.

Denied care: How #racism caused America's expensive health care crisis
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/01/17/2217847/-

Denied care: How racism caused America's expensive health care crisis
This is part one of a two-part series on racism in health care. Part 2 is here. Despite being the sole high-income nation in the world without universal health care, the United States government refuses to recognize basic medical care as a fundamental...

I know nobody can control what their parents name them, but I gotta say, I would have changed my name *the day* I turned 18. Like, I would have had the paperwork all drawn up and waiting to file, years in advance.

Entry #3 in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. APPLE INC., 2:24-cv-04055 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68362334/united-states-of-america-v-apple-inc/?order_by=desc#entry-3

The problem is not, as this story suggests, "high prices."
The problem is shamefully low pay in the United States.
Too many people are working multiple jobs at tipped-wage starvation scale ($2.13 US) while corporations reap the benefits of their labor.
https://…

The border crisis factor no one talks about: #American #guns
One of the main reasons the border has drawn so many migrants and asylum seekers is 🔸the flow of guns from the U.S. into Mexico.🔸
This link between our guns and the people who seek safety at the border is particularly clear in Texas.
Gov. Greg…

The border crisis factor that no one talks about: U.S. guns
The majority of guns in Mexico come from America, supplying the organized crime groups whose violence and drug trafficking drives civilians to seek safety in the U.S.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05193 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Motifs in earthquake networks: Romania, Italy, United States of America, and Japan
We present a detailed description of seismic activity in Romania, Italy, and Japan, as well as the California seismic zone in the United States of America, based on the statistical analysis of the underlying earthquake networks used to model the aforementioned zones. Our results on network connectivity and simple network motifs allow for a complex description of seismic zones, while at the same time reinforcing the current understanding of seismicity as a critical phenomenon. The reported distr…

"How Duluth, Minnesota, is preparing for the EV future"
#US #USA #America #Minnesota

How Duluth, Minnesota, is preparing for the EV future
Nearly 33 million electric vehicles (EVs) nationwide—that is the number of vehicles the United States should be prepared to support through a national charging network by the year 2030, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimated in a recent study. Improving reliable, equitable, and widespread access to electric vehicle charging infrastructure in all communities will be critical to ensuring the continued success of the EV revolution.

Look at us, problematic and such.
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@VOANews/112377411119742797

Voice of America (@VOANews@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Globally, press freedoms are in decline says Reporters Without Borders. See the results of their global index: ⁠ 1: Norway 🇳🇴 2: Ireland 🇮🇪 3: Denmark 🇩🇰 24: France 🇫🇷 26: United Kingdom 🇬🇧 45: United States 🇺🇲 68: Japan 🇯🇵 92: Brazil 🇧🇷 161: India 🇮🇳 136: Algeria 🇩🇿 179: China 🇨🇳 180: North Korea 🇰🇵 https://www.voanews.com/press-freedom #voanews

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Peaches
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://open.spotify.com/track/5huLMzIzFEdVcvEzt2hfk1
https://decadesmix.bandcamp.com/track/the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-peaches-decades-mix-118

#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot
Via New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
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John Adams said that ‘the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.’ But X user @purityballdad isn’t so sure.

A crook gets to lie, steal, and cheat his way to become President of the United States and then appoint his accomplice's friends as the Judges of the United States.
Not only in America.

Okay #BlueMoon beer — I liked you better when you were an independent brewery.
But props for your coaster telling the people how to make their own #PinholeCamera for the #SolarEclipse…

On this day in 1948, the representative of the United States of America told the Security Council:
"The Security Council is authorized to take forceful measures with respect to #Palestine to remove a threat to international peace.... The Security Council, under the Charter, can take action to prevent aggression against Palestine from outside. The Security Council, by these same powers, can take action to prevent a threat to international peace and security from inside Palestine."

😡 Theories that explain the crisis in democracy are inadequate for Latin America, experts say
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-theories-crisis-democracy-inadequate-latin.html

Theories that explain the crisis in democracy are inadequate for Latin America, experts say
The theories offered by the dominant literature in political science today to try to explain the sources of the political polarization that has endangered democracy around the world are adequate for the United States and Europe, but do not make sense for the countries of Latin America. For this reason, greater collaboration among political scientists is needed to identify other, more plausible hypotheses for the phenomenon that the region is also experiencing.

"How Duluth, Minnesota, is preparing for the EV future"
#US #USA #America #Minnesota

How Duluth, Minnesota, is preparing for the EV future
Nearly 33 million electric vehicles (EVs) nationwide—that is the number of vehicles the United States should be prepared to support through a national charging network by the year 2030, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimated in a recent study. Improving reliable, equitable, and widespread access to electric vehicle charging infrastructure in all communities will be critical to ensuring the continued success of the EV revolution.

The thing to understand about Israel is that it's not a country. It's a field office of the CIA that's not bound by any US laws. Those billions in "aid" $$$ is just the CIA's budget being laundered in public. For all intents and purposes Netanyahu is a CIA field office chief.
This is what Joe Biden meant when he said "Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region."
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🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
The United States Of America:
🎵 Stranded in time
#TheUnitedStatesOfAmerica
https://open.spotify.com/track/7bqYkEC5uAUOL73XJbzw2V

Selenskyj dankt für US-Votum über milliardenschwere Hilfe
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat dem US-Repräsentantenhaus für die Billigung der milliardenschweren Militärhilfe für den Kampf gegen den russischen Angriffskrieg gedankt. Er sei beiden Parteien sowie persönlich dem republikanischen Vorsitzenden des Repräsentantenhauses, Mike Johnson, "dankbar für die Entscheidung, die die Ges…
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) on X
I am grateful to the United States House of Representatives, both parties, and personally Speaker Mike Johnson for the decision that keeps history on the right track. Democracy and freedom will always have global significance and will never fail as long as America helps to…

Few news outlets seek hard hitting pieces that confront power due to the legal climate, business relationship concerns, online news outlets' downfall, more (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/17/2024/very-few-ha…

Okay #BlueMoon beer — I liked you better when you were an independent brewery.
But props for your coaster telling the people how to make their own #PinholeCamera for the #SolarEclipse…

Despite the Ukraine aid vote, the neo-isolationist threat still looms
Is America back for good or only for now?
There is no way to answer that question with any degree of confidence.
And that, in turn, should give U.S. allies pause about whether they can still count on the United States.

While overwhelming majorities of both houses wound up backing aid to Ukraine,
narrow majorities of Republicans opposed the bill in the House
and in the first Senate vo…

Why U.S. aid to Ukraine is still in jeopardy
U.S. allies may be relieved by Congress’s action, but they’d be wise to keep strengthening their defenses, given Donald Trump’s possible election next fall.

Dean Phillips gives up without actually quitting, Binkley quits - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/02/27/dean-phillips-gives-up-without-actually-ending-campaign/

Report on the 49th Annual United States of America Mathematical Olympiad
Bela Bajnok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11639 https://arxiv.o…

Report on the 49th Annual United States of America Mathematical Olympiad
We provide the problems and their solutions to the 2020 USA Mathematical Olympiad.

The United States imposed sanctions on #Chinese #hackers on Monday and accused them of working as a front for Beijing’s top spy agency, part of a broad effort to place #malware in American electric grids, water systems and other

U.S. Accuses Chinese Hackers of Targeting Critical Infrastructure in America
The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the hackers, who they said were working as a front for Beijing’s top spy agency.

"Indonesian palm oil, Brazilian beef top contributors to U.S. deforestation exposure"
#US #USA #America #Brazil

Indonesian palm oil, Brazilian beef top contributors to U.S. deforestation exposure
If you’re in the United States, your meal might come with a side of deforestation.  The US imported palm oil, cattle products, soybeans, cocoa, rubber, coffee and corn linked to an estimated 122,800 hectares (303,445 acres) of tropical deforestation between October 2021 and November 2023 — an area the size of the city of Los […]

“Your victory will be our ultimate vindication, your liberty will be our ultimate reward and the unprecedented success of the United States of America will be my ultimate and absolute revenge.”
‘My ultimate and absolute revenge’: Trump gives chilling CPAC speech on presidential agenda | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Leaving Iraq May Be Washington’s Wisest Choice
U.S. leverage in the region could be higher without a troop presence in Iraq.
In retaliation for the killing of three U.S. soldiers in Jordan in late January, the United States launched two sets of airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias in Iraq earlier this month.
While some in Washington criticized the airstrikes as performative and widely telegraphed, the strikes
—which targeted an Iraqi Shiite militia designated as…

Leaving Iraq May Be America's Wisest Choice
U.S. leverage in the region could be higher without a troop presence in Iraq.

Between that, legal concerns, corporate interests and the omnipresent, industry-wide hatchet men around every corner …
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/17/2024/very-few-have-balls-how-american-news-lost-its-nerve

Kamala Harris on Trump: ‘No previous US president has bowed down to a Russian dictator before’
"The idea that the former president of the US would say that he – quote – encourages a brutal dictator to invade our allies, and that the United States of America would simply stand by and watch,” Harris said.
“No previous US president, regardless of their party, has bowed down to a Russian dictator before.
“We are seeing an example of something I just believe that the Ameri…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13773 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Wildfire Modeling: Designing a Market to Restore Assets
In the past decade, summer wildfires have become the norm in California, and the United States of America. These wildfires are caused due to variety of reasons. The state collects wildfire funds to help the impacted customers. However, the funds are eligible only under certain conditions and are collected uniformly throughout California. Therefore, the overall idea of this project is to look for quantitative results on how electrical corporations cause wildfires and how they can help to collect…

“While this bill sends military equipment to Ukraine,” #Biden said Tuesday, “it spends the money right here in the United States of America in places like Arizona, where the Patriot missiles are built; and Alabama, where the Javelin missiles are built; and Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Texas, where artillery shells are made.”
Ukraine aid will be spent on American manufacturing, Biden says | AP News<…

Ukraine aid will be spent on American manufacturing, Biden says
As President Joe Biden pushes House Republicans to pass needed aid for Ukraine, he wants voters to understand that nearly two-thirds would actually be going to U.S. factories, like a munitions plant set to open this summer in a gleaming new industrial park in suburban Dallas. Administration officials combed through the foreign aid in the $95 billion bipartisan supplemental funding bill passed by the Senate. Of the $61 billion for Ukraine, nearly $40 billion would go to U.S. factories that make …

The American right kicked off the assault on reporters who cross powerful people, beginning in earnest with Peter Thiel’s success in shuttering Gawker in 2016. That year, future President Donald Trump promised to “open up the libel laws.”
Media lawyers say plaintiffs attorneys have also been emboldened by the massive $788 million settlement that Fox agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems for its on-air lies about the company.
Lawyers suing media organizations have gotten more aggr…

"The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come"
#US #USA #America #Wind

The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come
America's first commercial-scale offshore wind farm is officially open, a long-awaited moment that helps pave the way for a succession of large wind farms. Danish wind energy developer Ørsted and the utility Eversource built a 12-turbine wind farm called South Fork Wind east of Montauk Point, New York. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul went to Long Island Thursday to announce that the turbines are delivering clean power to the local electric grid. It’s a turning point for the industry, but what’s…

"Mexico’s avocado industry harms monarch butterflies, will U.S. officials act? (commentary)"
#US #USA #America #Mexico

Mexico’s avocado industry harms monarch butterflies, will U.S. officials act? (commentary)
Monarch butterflies are returning to gardens across the United States, but a few months ago, I stood in a mountain forest in Mexico where the monarchs spend the winter. They clustered on trees by the thousands and when the sun hit them, they swarmed in a cloud of bright orange confetti. I was surrounded by […]