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• Governor JB Pritzker # @GovPritzker
This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States.
No officials from the federal government called me directly ...
Governor Gavin Newsom &
@CAgovernor
👉 This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.
America is on the brink of martial law.
🔸Do not be silent.…

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.

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)

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Exhibition to explore the making of America to feature rare Declaration of Independence https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/exhibition-to-explore-the-making-of-america-to-feature-rare-declaration-of-…

Exhibition to explore the making of America to feature rare Declaration of Independence - The National Archives
The National Archives can today announce a major exhibition exploring the birth of the United States of America to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 2026. 

2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.

The Wikipedia article also includes this sentence in its opening paragraph:
❝However, France only controlled a small fraction of this area, most of which was inhabited by Native Americans; effectively, for the majority of the area, the United States bought the preemptive right to obtain Indian lands by treaty or by conquest, to the exclusion of other colonial powers.❞
Britannica has nothing like that. It discusses the Louisiana Purchase without a single mention that the indigenous people of North America even exist.
3/

I've been thinking about that stupid "Unified Executive" rubbish that the maga-klan likes to spout.
They argue that Art II Sect 1 sez "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." meaning that the entire executive, all of it, every bit, is carried within the human frame of the President.
OK.
That language does not admit of any possibility of delegation of any part of that executive authority to another. So if …

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The United States of America:
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#TheUnitedStatesofAmerica
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"After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors"
#US #USA #America

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

David Sirota says that while the United States is now
“immersed in corruption” in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics,
it is the result of a decades long agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system
and to essentially make anti-bribery laws unenforceable.
“This is all part of a plan by a corporate movement that sees democracy — the government providing what people want — sees that as a threat.”

Master Plan: David Sirota on Trump & the Decadeslong “Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”
We speak with journalist David Sirota about his new book, Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. Co-authored with Jared Jacang Maher, the book is based on their award-winning investigative podcast of the same name for The Lever. Sirota says that while the United States is now “immersed in corruption” in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics, it is the result of a decadeslong agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system and to essent…

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:

With the impending arrival of Typhoon #OpongPH (#Bualoi) and the recent protests against corruption in government-funded flood control projects, the recent release of the 2025 World Risk Report, with its topical focus on flooding, is very timely.
And to the surprise of no one, the

❄️ 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

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

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…

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.

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

Airstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and in the Pacific violate international human rights law.
The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that
U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are
“unacceptable” and must stop.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared to mark t…

UN human rights chief says US strikes on alleged drug boats are 'unacceptable'
The U.N. human rights chief says U.S. military strikes on vessels allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are unacceptable and must stop. The condemnation on Friday appeared to mark the first from a U.N. organization. U.S. President Donald Trump has justified the attacks as necessary to stem drug flow into the U.S. Volker Türk, the rights chief, calls for an investigation, noting over 60 reported deaths since early September. The strikes reportedly violate international human right…

#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 …

It is not clear that Trump’s image can be featured on a coin.
An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy.
The Trump admin is planning to do it anyway.
-- Alan Rappeport

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin
The coin, bearing President Trump’s face, would honor the 250th birthday of the United States.

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.

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…

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

#Occupado

🔥 Climate-driven wildfires reversing pollution progress in N. America: study
#usa

Climate-driven wildfires reversing pollution progress in N. America: study
Global air pollution is worsening, with the United States and Canada experiencing the sharpest increases due to record-breaking, climate-supercharged wildfires that are undoing decades of progress, a study said Thursday.

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.

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Interaction Dynamics of Borrelia Surface Proteins with Fibronectin
Kavindi Madduma Hewage, Carlos Munoz, Mehmet Ozdogan, Catherine A. Brissette, Nuri Oncel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11931

Interaction Dynamics of Borrelia Surface Proteins with Fibronectin
Lyme disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, is a significant public health concern in North America, with approximately 500,000 cases reported annually in the United States. The dissemination of B. burgdorferi from the initial tick bite site to various tissues is facilitated by surface adhesins that bind to extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins such as fibronectin (Fn). This study investigates the binding dynamics of B. burgdorferi surface proteins RevA, BBK32, BmpA, OspA, and Osp…

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 …

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.

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#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Kate Molleson explores the years after Berio moved to the United States of America, and married his second wife - Susan Oyama.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l0jh

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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

"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.

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…

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://

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?