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FCC Chair Brendan Carr announces a voluntary campaign for broadcasters to celebrate the United States' 250th birthday by airing patriotic content (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics…

FCC Asks Broadcasters to Run “Patriotic, Pro-America Content” In America 250 Push
FCC chairman Brendan Carr's Pledge America campaign suggests that TV and radio stations air PSAs or begin their days with the Pledge of Allegiance .

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.

US choking off Cuba's oil.
"…country is only able to produce about 40% of…energy it requires. Blackouts …become commonplace — …can last 10 to 15 hours & have even reached…Havana."
https://www.dw.com/en/cuba-oil-fuel-embarg

US oil blockade: How long before Cuba collapses?
As the US oil embargo on Cuba takes hold, the country is rapidly running out of fuel. The effects on the country's economy and population could be devastating, a Latin America expert in Havana told DW.

Trump threatens Iran with further attacks if Hormuz does not reopen within 48 hours
Donald Trump has posted this on Truth Social in the past few minutes:
“If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time,
the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

CFP: _U.S. Catholic Historian_: Rome and America: Essays in Honor of Pope Leo XIV https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142449/cfp-us-catholic-historian-rome-and-america-essays-honor-pope-leo-xiv

"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

On this day in 1923, the U.S. Supreme Court *unanimously* decided that people of South Asian descent could not be American citizens, and retroactively stripped citizenship from many who had already been naturalized. Years of organized persecution followed. https://www.saa…

CFP: _U.S. Catholic Historian_: Rome and America: Essays in Honor of Pope Leo XIV
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Treaties and Empire Seminar Series: Trần Thị Xuân (Hamburg University) - Interpreters and Foreign…
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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

“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.

Good but depressing analysis of the war with Iran. Must-read.
#iran

How America's War on Iran Backfired
Seventeen years ago, while serving as an Iran desk officer in the U.S. State Department, I asked a more veteran colleague about the latest inflammatory statement by Mahmood Ahmadinejad, then the Iranian president. My colleague responded: “Stop paying attention to Ahmadinejad. Only focus on Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He makes the important decisions.” He added: “But don’t worry. Change is coming. Khamenei”—who was then 69 and widely believed to have cancer—“could die at…

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.

"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.

CFP: _U.S. Catholic Historian_: Rome and America: Essays in Honor of Pope Leo XIV https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142449/cfp-us-catholic-historian-rome-and-america-essays-honor-pope-leo-xiv

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!!!

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
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

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?

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.

Nintendo of America sues the US government, seeking a refund with interest for tariffs that the company says Trump implemented in "unlawful" EOs (Nicole Carpenter/Aftermath)
https://aftermath.site/nintendo-tariffs-sue/

Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs
Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade

Clear message from the Trump regime to European clients* dependent on US tech companies: those will be brought under control.
*) like the Dutch tax authority preparing to outsource all of its VAT collection.

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:middle_finger_hmn_e3: United States of America :middle_finger_hmn_e3:
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Too late, he's doubled down: “That staffer should be fired immediately, and the President should publicly condemn this action,” Burns continued. “This kind of insensitive and racist communication does not reflect the heart, values, or leadership of the President of the United States, nor does it represent the America we are striving to build.”
Trump-allied pastor: Staffer who posted Obamas video 'should be fired immediately'
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5727010-racist-video-prompts-outrage/

“In fact, speaking as President of the United States of America, by far the Most Powerful Country Anywhere in the World, WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE”
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#TheAmericanFascist #USA #Canada #IranUSAIsraelWar

🛢️ 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.

Event: WebinAAR on Religion and Museums
Co-Sponsored by The Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL)withSB Rodriguez-Plate, Sarah Dees, Erika Gault, and Hussein Rashid This is the second of our “Religion and America at 250” webinAAR series that will engage central questions around the meaning of religion, the meaning of America, and the intersections of those terms and with special consideration of the 250th anniversary of the United States.

Hussein RashidEvent: WebinAAR on Religion and Museums
Co-Sponsored by The Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL)withSB Rodriguez-Plate, Sarah Dees, Erika Gault, and Hussein Rashid This is the second of our “Religion and America …

Jared Kushner,
arched with the swagger of the world’s most confident mediocre white man,
walked into the most sensitive nuclear negotiation of the decade on behalf of the United States
— representing governments that had paid him $157 million
— carrying a pager given to him by the intelligence service of the country that wanted war most,
without a single technical expert,
and delivered a conflict so catastrophic and convenient that it is impossible to expl…

Jared Kushner’s Corruption Is a National Security Disaster
The president’s son-in-law dragged America into a war because he only serves his conflicted interests

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/

Limiting global warming can reduce US wildfire smoke-related deaths by thousands annually #UnitedStates

Limiting global warming can reduce US wildfire smoke-related deaths by thousands annually
Using future climate scenarios based on wildfire damages in North America, scientists estimate that up to 10,000 or more lives may be saved annually in the United States if society is able to mitigate climate change by keeping the global mean surface temperature (GMST) at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-Industrial age (1850-1900) levels. Currently, the GMST is at 1.3 to 1.4 degrees C but is projected to reach 3 degrees C with the current direction of climate change. The findings are detailed in a…

🇺🇦 #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

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.

Does international law still matter? The strike on the girls’ school in Iran shows why we need it.
Article 52 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions stipulates that “Attacks shall be limited strictly to military objectives.”
The United States of America signed this protocol (in 1977) but has not ratified it. Israel is not a party to it.

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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.

“When there’s a supply disruption in the Middle East, that raises prices for every barrel of oil in the world,”
said Christopher Knittel, associate dean for climate and sustainability at M.I.T.
“Those price increases then trickle down to products that use oil, gasoline being the most relevant one.”
⚠️But isn’t the United States the world’s largest oil producer?
Yes, but not all American-produced oil can be easily used by American refiners.
The United States is a n…

America Is an Oil Exporter. Why Does a Mideast War Raise U.S. Gas Prices?
The U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran have intensified and the conflict has widened, shaking global energy markets.

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…

Donald Trump has criticized the Supreme Court, accusing it of having 
"unnecessarily RANSACKED" the United States.
The court
—which has a 6-3 conservative majority, including three justices Trump appointed during his first term
—struck down the president's global tariffs in a 6-3 vote in February.
In a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday,
Trump thanked the three justices who sided with him in the case,
but said others

Trump Slams Supreme Court, Says It 'Ransacked' America
Trump said Supreme Court justices “openly disrespect the Presidents who nominate them to the highest position in the Land.”

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".

United States of America ↔️ names a cafe "Utter Idiots". #KarmaManager

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…

🇺🇦 #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

Even now, America can’t rally.
What has Trump done?
These are supposed to be the most American of days.
The United States had a historic showing at the Winter Olympics.
This year is the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding.
And we are at war.
In normal times, each would summon national pride and unity.
But they’re happening together — the rally-around-the-flag effect should be supercharged.

It’s not.
At his State of the Union a…

Why America is in no mood to rally around the flag
Polarization and Trump erode the public’s desire for patriotic unity.

#resist #ICE #immigration #LAVA

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.

At least 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are on board with Trump’s new military alliance.
They are calling it the America’s Counter Cartel Coalition.
Latin America’s top right-wing leaders are involved,
including El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele and Argentina’s Javier Milei.
They met in Florida for the event, on March 7.
The United States has promised to use lethal force to destroy cartels and narco-traffickers in those nations.
Kristi Noem,…

The Donroe Coalition: Trump’s new right-wing military alliance
Last weekend, Donald Trump met with right-wing allies from Latin America to kick off a new military coalition to attack so-called drug cartels and push his agenda up and down the hemisphere. This is episode 8 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.

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.

"Study ties particle pollution from wildfire smoke to 24,100 US deaths per year"
#US #USA #America #Pollution

Study ties particle pollution from wildfire smoke to 24,100 US deaths per year
Chronic exposure to pollution from wildfires has been linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually in the United States, according to a new study.

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.

“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

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.

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

It was outside the United States that the dissonance struck most deeply.
I remember sitting on high-speed trains that glided so fast and silently they seemed to erase distance itself,
watching wind farms cross the horizon like silent fleets.
In country after country
— places far smaller and, on paper, far poorer than ours
— I kept asking the same question:
how could they manage to build what we could not?
Why did the richest nation on earth feel like…

The Terrifying New Era of American Imperialism
Donald Trump's war against Iran is part of a terrifying new era of American imperialism, one in which the military budget never stops growing.

The United States has gone to war against Iran.
America has only one ally—Israel—in this operation
(the Arab states of the Gulf, which fear the Iranian regime, are targets of Iran, but so far are not participating in the attack),
and both Washington and Jerusalem are making claims about “imminent” threats that require “preemptive” strikes.
But we should dispense with such statements:
Iran is not presenting immediate danger to the United States or Israel.
E…

Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran
A few paths to success, many to failure

#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…

“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

🇺🇦 #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

"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.

-- 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…

"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. 

If the United States is now kidnapping and killing dictators without direct provocation,
it will come back to bite us
after demolishing our moral authority in the world
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-comme…

War Is Peace: Trump’s Regime-Change Reversal
President Trump launched a war of regime change in Iran without a plan — a move that will demolish America's moral authority in the world.

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