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How TSMC, Intel, and Amkor are transforming Phoenix into the US' chip hub, investing tens of billions and showing the difficulties of large-scale US projects (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/tsmc-phoenix-fab.html

18,000 Reasons It’s So Hard to Build a Chip Factory in America
The transformation of Phoenix into a semiconductor hub by Taiwan’s TSMC illustrates the difficulties of large-scale projects in the United States.

Venezuela’s mission to the U.N. has requested an emergency Security Council meeting
and has asked the Council to condemn the U.S. military strikes against the country.
Venezuela’s ambassador, Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, said in a letter to the Council’s president:
“The United States of America always uses lies to fabricate wars.
It is an international tyranny imposed with the propaganda of death:
the recent past confirms this.”
Russia and China, allie…

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run' Country After Capture of Maduro
President Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela and for how long, but said its oil industry would “make a lot of money” under U.S. leadership. President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were being taken to New York to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

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The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Peaches
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://toiletmusic.bandcamp.com/track/peaches-the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-cover
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Dear rest of the world,
We will fuck you up whenever and however we like to enrich ourselves and there’s nothing you can do about it. Can you smell the freedom yet, losers?
With love,
The United States of America
“The strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.” – Kamala Harris
“Together over the next few years, we’re going to make our military stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer and more powerful than it has ever been before.” – Donald Trump
This me…

Trump - who didn't actually end any wars - appears to have started one now.
Venezuela latest: Explosions heard as smoke rises in Caracas
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yqygxe41pt?post=asset:90dc6c5e-bbab-4f84-acbc-030fb168d49f#pos…

Trump orders strikes on Caracas, officials tell CBS, as Venezuela declares national emergency - latest
Venezuela's government says it rejects "serious military aggression perpetrated by the current Government of the United States of America".

Five years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan.
Now refugees across the United States are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE.
Some 100,000 Afghans resettled in America, repayment for assisting the U.S. government during a fruitless 20-year war, after Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021.
Thousands of them have since found a new home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
But in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard…

Trump Is Ready to Send Afghan Refugees to Their Death
ICE is detaining Afghan refugees in the wake of the National Guard shooting. Those in the Dallas-Fort Worth area fear for their lives, in both their new home and their old one.

WTF does kidnapping a foreign leader on his own soil have to do with US Law Enforcement?
"This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement"
Trump says US forces have captured Nicolas Maduro
Here's text from a Truth Social post:
"The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Cou…

Donald Trump says US forces have 'captured' Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro
US President Donald Trump says the US has "captured" Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who earlier declared a national emergency and hit out at US "military aggression" after attacks in the capital, Caracas.

🛢️ Study links America's favorite cooking oil to obesity
#food

Study links America's favorite cooking oil to obesity
Soybean oil, the most widely consumed cooking oil in the United States and a staple of processed foods, contributes to obesity, at least in mice, through a mechanism scientists are now beginning to understand.

I listened to CNN talking heads praise the spectacular tactical success of the kidnapping
-- as if the U.S.' military capability was the relevant issue.
They spoke of a restoration of democracy, by which they meant capitalism, if they knew what they meant at all.
Then Trump said the U.S. would run the country directly. 
Once again, journalists attempt to clothe an emperor who's fine with letting it flop around for everyone to see. 
But to put it mildly,…

A Criminal Empire
The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream

Sports leagues will use 'USA 250' patches to commemorate United States' birthday https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7010504/2026/01/30/america-250-jersey-patches-fanatics-trump/

#Explosions, loud noises and low-flying aircraft have been heard in the #Venezuelan capital of #Caracas,
amid reports that Donald Trump had ordered strikes against the South American country.
In the early hours of Sat…

“The United States of America came within a few minutes of dying at the Battle of Gettysburg.
In fact, America came within seconds of being destroyed.
During those decisive moments a unit of the United States Army saved the republic.
The saviors of the Union were from Minnesota.”
https://stev…

Thank you, Minnesota
There is no greater obligation for an American than loyalty to the Constitution of the United States.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Peaches
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://toiletmusic.bandcamp.com/track/peaches-the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5huLMzIzFEdVcvEzt2hfk1

❄️ It’s freezing cold outside here in Germany, and this is an interesting explainer of why that is: a warming event in the polar region is leading to an early collapse of the polar vortex, so Europe and North America are flooded with cold air, while the North Pole is unusually warm. #weather #climate

Stratospheric Warming Watch: Polar Vortex Collapse has begun, with cold air and snowfall impacts expected
A Stratospheric Warming is now collapsing the Polar Vortex, with polar air and snow forecast across the United States, Canada and Europe in December

In further escalations against #Venezuela, King #DJT decreed that the airspace above the northern most country on the continent South America is closed... The threat against any air travel in the nation is immediate deadly attack by the US military which he controls with his Nazi tattooed tool Herr Hegseth.
As Presi…

Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed
President Trump said days earlier that the United States could “very soon” expand its campaign of killing people at sea suspected of drug trafficking to attacking Venezuelan territory.

Fighting attacks on knowledge requires understanding the terrain! Register for this first #DefendResearch webinar to hear from PEN America about their new report “America’s Censored Campuses” analyzing #censorship within research and education.

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Was ne arme Wurst!
Oder man könnte sagen: Mark Carney, alles richtig gemacht!
Oder man kann es ernsthaft politisch analysieren: dann müsste man urteilen, das Trump damit die Zukunft dieses Fantasiegremiums besiegelt hat. Solange die Mitgliedschaft von der Laune eines Operettenkönigs abhängig ist, wird es keinerlei Relevanz haben.

A new investment thesis has spread through global markets at the start of 2026, as trading strategies long built on the primacy of the United States now opt for a new approach:
Sell America.
The sentiment started to take hold in financial circles after the shock of sky-high tariffs sent stocks and bonds into a tailspin last April,
but it has taken off recently as the Trump administration has pursued policies like attacks on the Federal Reserve’s independence and threats of …

Sell America Is the New Trade on Wall Street
Investors are increasingly souring on the United States, as illustrated by the declining dollar, the stalled stock market and rising government borrowing costs.

"The only way to deal with rapists is to put a gun to their head. The United States is the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the world today. Preserving freedom and democracy is worth paying any price. It is not subject to deals."
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America the predator: Trump wants to show the world he can take what he wants
The Trump administration has now taken the logic of rape as a primary modus operandi. It begins with the raw worship of force, with the premise that might entitles the holder to whatever he likes

The CIVICUS Monitor has downgraded the United States of America’s civic space rating, reflecting a sharp deterioration of fundamental freedoms in the country. The People Power Under Attack report now rates the USA as “Obstructed” following a year of sweeping executive actions, restrictive laws, and aggressive crackdowns on free speech and dissent.
...
“The backsliding on rule of law and fundamental freedoms in the United States is truly alarming,” said Mandeep Tiwana...

United States of America - Civicus Monitor
USA downgraded by CIVICUS Monitor

"New START," 
💥the only remaining nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia, 
🔥expires this Thursday.
Rose Gottemoeller, former deputy Secretary General of NATO, was America's chief negotiator on "New START." 
She joins the Amanpour and Company show from Capitol Hill, where she was briefing US senators on the agreement. 

Frederik André Henrik Christian's ruthless dictatorship over Greenland must end today! His drug smuggling into the United States of America is illegitimate, so they must invade and abduct him as soon as possible, to destroy Greenland's illegal nuclear program for the creation of weapon's of mass destruction. ACT NOW, PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!

Trump is apparently taking over LA, using "WILDFIRE DISASTERS" as the means! 💀
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-state-and-local-failures-to-rebuild-los-ang…

“There is no conceivable way America can claim, although no doubt it will, that the action was taken in self-defence. If you are going to use self-defence you have to have a real and honest belief that you are about to be attacked by force. No one has suggested that the Venezuelan army is about to attack the United States … The idea that [Maduro] is some sort of drug supremo cannot prevail against the rule that invasion for the sake of regime change is unlawful.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/is-there-any-legal-justification-for-the-us-attack-on-venezuela-trump-maduro?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Opposite to us Europeans, the United States of America – Land of the Free – in its entire (and short) history so far neither had a monarchy nor a dictatorship. #justthinkin

Ya wanna know what is a bad idea? “AI-directed experimentation and manufacturing” is.
potus should have just called it a hand out for Oracle.
It is a solution searching for a problem. It literally gives 90 days for them to identify 20 problems it might solve.
It uses public funds for private research.

Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

Fuck the United States of America.
And Israel, of course.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. https://norden.social/@stephie_hamburg/115555340426223090

Reminder: The Jan 6th attack on the Capitol was an act of treason. Those who committed it, planned it, and egged it on are guilty of treason, for they declared war on the United States.
Anyone trying to cover it up or pretend it didn't happen is giving aid to America's enemies, who declared war on the United States. That is also treason.
No, this is not hyperbole. This is fact. This is a national disgrace.

-- Jared Sullivan:
I scoop ice cream to pay my bills while running for the United States Senate.
That should not be rare.
In a country divided on almost everything, one view cuts across party lines:
working-class Americans are fed up with a political system that does not understand their lives.
They are right. Today, fewer than three percent of members of Congress come from the manual labor and service jobs that most Americans work,
a disparity documente…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Kitty
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://insaneian.bandcamp.com/track/kitty
https://open.spotify.com/track/2hMhWwz82LOuFwMxcyvQG5

No, please, tell me again how the United States of America is not a fascist country. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115583505315668293

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Peaches
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://toiletmusic.bandcamp.com/track/peaches-the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5huLMzIzFEdVcvEzt2hfk1

"Nearly three-quarters of western US overdue for wildfires, research indicates"
#US #USA #America #Wildfires

Nearly three-quarters of western US overdue for wildfires, research indicates
Wildfires can benefit forests by clearing old debris, leaving behind fertilizer, and more. For over a century, the United States has poured billions of dollars into fire suppression tactics to keep people, homes and critical environments safe, but suppression can deprive landscapes of necessary burns and increase potential fuel for large fires in the future.

“Scathing Polling Reveals What Key U.S. Allies Really Think of America Under Trump”
The world has changed in its stance to the USA and I am glad Canadians are leading the way.
““When asked whether the United States supports or challenges its allies, Canada again stood out as the most critical. Sixty percent of Canadians said the United States challenges its allies.”
#canpoli #cdnpoli #uspoli #usa #world #eu #nato #canada

Murphy:
The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3mcdmmmwzse2k

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)
Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 10.12.1961 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation #Nougat die 7. #Atombombe "Gnome" in New Mexico. Ziel war die Erforschung der Nutzung nuklearer Explosionen für Energi…

Social-media influencers and anti-ageing entrepreneurs
mingled with top US government officials,
including the head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), at an exclusive event steps from the White House last week.
The meeting’s purpose was to discuss the future of health in the United States.
Organizers called it the MAHA Summit,
referring to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s signature ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement.
Attendees inclu…

Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.

The trump administration’s National Security Strategy made it official:
The American-dominated liberal world order is over.
This is not because the United States proved materially incapable of sustaining it.
Rather, the American order is over because the United States has decided that it no longer wishes to play its historically unprecedented role of providing global security.
The American might that upheld the world order of the past 80 years will now be used ins…

America vs. the World
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Froggie
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ukM1JODB2ud78JvpGYYG7

"Nearly three-quarters of western US overdue for wildfires, research indicates"
#US #USA #America #Wildfires

Nearly three-quarters of western US overdue for wildfires, research indicates
Wildfires can benefit forests by clearing old debris, leaving behind fertilizer, and more. For over a century, the United States has poured billions of dollars into fire suppression tactics to keep people, homes and critical environments safe, but suppression can deprive landscapes of necessary burns and increase potential fuel for large fires in the future.

A new Trump administration program is sidestepping the regulatory system that's overseen the nuclear industry for half a century.
The program will fast-track construction of new and untested reactor designs built by private firms,
with an explicit goal of having at least three nuclear test reactors up and running by the United States' 250th birthday, July 4, 2026.
If that goal is met, it will be without the direct oversight of America's primary nuclear regulat…

Trump's rush to build nuclear reactors across the U.S. raises safety worries
A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed.

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:middle_finger_hmn_e3: United States of America :middle_finger_hmn_e3:
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From direct attacks on the press by a fascistic federal government
to the explosion of AI and the closure and consolidation of news outlets around the country,
truth itself is under direct, relentless assault,
as are the journalists who have committed their lives to reporting the truth about what’s happening in and to our world.
The intended result of these attacks is to create a more atomized, alienated, ignorant, disempowered public
that is easier to divide…

The state of the free press in the US is… not good
“In the United States of America, here in the Year of Our Lord 2025, the state of the free press is not good… But you need to understand: They are going after us to disempower YOU.”

"Calcite deposit from southern Nevada cave reveals 580,000 years of climate history"
#US #USA #America #Nevada…

Calcite deposit from southern Nevada cave reveals 580,000 years of climate history
Climate history recorded in a calcite deposit in a southern Nevada cave indicates that the hot, arid southwestern United States experienced significant shifts in temperature and rainfall over the last 580,000 years.

Let's begin by quoting, in full, a letter that the president of the United States of America sent yesterday to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr StŸre.
The text was forwarded by the White House National Security Council to ambassadors in Washington, and was clearly intended to be widely shared.
Here it is:
"Dear Jonas:
Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to …

Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?

The central problem for American national security:
By itself the United States cannot keep up with China’s soaring industrial capacity,
which translates directly into military might.
China has close to a 28 percent share of global manufacturing,
while the United States has around 17 percent.
By one count, it is acquiring advanced weapons systems and equipment five to six times faster than America is.
One Chinese shipyard can build more than all Americ…

Opinion | To Outbuild China, America Needs Friends
For the sake of global security and freedom, the world’s democracies must collaborate better.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Vinelands
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Video Killed the Radio Star
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://open.spotify.com/track/0fpMSOW6Zy9j6azF3zfHlu

Danish intelligence classifies Trump’s America as a security risk
Denmark sounds the alarm about the U.S.’s increasingly antagonistic posture toward Europe.
"The United States uses economic power, including in the form of threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will and no longer excludes the use of military force, even against allies," it said, in a pointed reference to Washington trying to wrest control of Greenland from Denmark.
https://www.politico.eu/article/danish-intelligence-classifies-donald-trump-america-as-security-risk/

The effort to create authoritarianism is more likely to lead to a breakup of the state than to a total regime change.
This end of the United States is possible, in part,
because our president and vice-president think that it is impossible.
Because they are inside a grift bubble, they push for authoritarianism in their own interest,
without reckoning with the possibility that their actions can wreck the country.
For them, America is a limitless passive resource…

The Grift Bubble
A Political Theory of American Collapse

Now #TheAmericanFascist has appointed an 'envoy' to help convince Greenlanders to ditch Denmark and join the USA. Denmark is shocked and angered, as they should be. Greenlanders are wholly opposed.
There is poetic irony of a Louisiana politician being tapped to lead a "Greenland Purchase" by America. I very much doubt the result will be the same. But there are some interesting parallels.
Lousisiana Purchase (1808)
a) Made possible by squabbles and warring in Europe.
b) involved purchase of 2.14 million km2 of North America for $380 Million in 2024 dollars. Greenland is 2.17 million km2.
It's difficult to fathom just how undervalued the Louisana Purchase was...nevermind the whole — selling Indigenous Lands without Treaty — issue. But hey... that would be another parallel with today's Inuit and Greenland Peoples.
Back in the modern context, America's Fascists just want to do Fascist things like take over sovereign countries and oppress nations, not unlike Hitler, the Kaiser's Germany, the Napoleans, Imperial Britain, Conquistador-ist Spain, and Tsarist-Stalinist-Putinist Russia.
This all needs to be kept -- forefully if need be -- in the past. We cannot allow these regressive dictators to come back.
He must be stopped.
United States of America!
Americans!
Stop prancing around with Christmas presents as if nothing is happening and DEPOSE YOUR PRESIDENT ffs! This is ON YOU first and foremost!!
#USAPoli #Denmark #Canada #Imperialism #TheWorld #UN #NATO #Russia #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #Louisiana #LouisianaPurchase #Greenland
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgmd132ge4o

The 28-point "peace plan" that the United States and Russia want to impose on Ukraine and Europe is misnamed.
It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe,
preparing the way for a larger war in the future.
In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
The plan was negotiated by Steve Witkoff,
a real-estate developer with no historical, geographica…

The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

"13 years of detailed US CO₂ emissions data released"
#US #USA #America #Emissions

13 years of detailed US CO₂ emissions data released
New research from Northern Arizona University shows detailed CO2 emissions for the United States from 2010 to 2022.

"US adds 21.2 GW of solar through September 2025"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower

US adds 21.2 GW of solar through September 2025
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reports that the United States added 21.2 GW of solar capacity in the first nine months of 2025, accounting for most of the 28.2 GW of total power capacity added to the grid.

Trump’s policies are helping “to create a world without America,”
said Robert Z. Lawrence, a professor of international trade and investment at Harvard.
And “it’s not only in trade,” he added.
Other countries, for example, have continued to gather for Group of 20,
health and climate summits
even though the United States did not participate.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Kitty
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://insaneian.bandcamp.com/track/kitty
https://open.spotify.com/track/33yN1Lc3tJLVXuHxnMkoDf