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Just a couple of weeks into his war in Iran Trump began demanding other countries solve the problem he had created.
“Many Countries,” he said on social media on March 14, “will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the [Hormuz] Strait open and safe.”
He added that “Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others” would put their own sailors in harm’s way on his behalf.
They didn’t.
“This is not our war, we h…

No one is coming to bail Trump out of his disastrous war
He's the only one who can end this.

CFP: _U.S. Catholic Historian_: Rome and America: Essays in Honor of Pope Leo XIV
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The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Peaches
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
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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…

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

Donald Trump announces mass murder for tonight.

Just finished "Red Stones" by Ernesto Saade. A harrowing graphic novel account of fighting and a massacre during the 1970s-1980s civil war in El Salvador. An excellent reminder of the realities of opposing an autocratic state and of the horrific legacy of the United States in fostering so many oppressive regimes throughout Central America which continues to this day.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

“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.

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

“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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GASP
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#TheAmericanFascist #USA #Canada #IranUSAIsraelWar

Удивительно, что наибольшую угрозу миру и мировой экономике представляет финансируемый Россией президент Соединенных Штатов Америки.
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116378120214660033

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.

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.”

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 …

Just finished "Red Stones" by Ernesto Saade. A harrowing graphic novel account of fighting and a massacre during the 1970s-1980s civil war in El Salvador. An excellent reminder of the realities of opposing an autocratic state and of the horrific legacy of the United States in fostering so many oppressive regimes throughout Central America which continues to this day.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/115487157141470250
To all those wondering why Venezuela caved to the United States of America should get their answer in the megatons of foreign policy currently being dropped on Iran.

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…

"Why doesn't the US recycle more plastic? Study points to lack of access"
#US #USA #America #Recycling

Why doesn't the US recycle more plastic? Study points to lack of access
A new University at Buffalo study finds that people in the United States generate similar amounts of plastic packaging waste regardless of income, education level or where they live. Yet wealthier and more college-educated communities are much more likely to recycle soda bottles, takeout containers and other plastic packaging. Why? It's complicated, but the study, published in Communications Sustainability, suggests that unequal access to recycling infrastructure plays a key role.

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.

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.

🍄 Usage of psychedelic psilocybin rises after state decriminalization, new study finds
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Usage of psychedelic psilocybin rises after state decriminalization, new study finds
Psilocybin is a naturally occurring psychedelic compound that is the active ingredient in certain types of mushrooms (also called magic mushrooms), long used by Indigenous communities in parts of Mexico and Central America in spiritual and ceremonial practices. In the United States, psilocybin has been criminalized and classified as a Schedule I controlled substance, largely due to concerns about its potential risks. However, its potential benefits as a therapeutic agent for mental health and c…

gonna tell my kids this was piratpartiet

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

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.

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

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

France is on its 5th Republic.
Perhaps it is time for serious citizens of the United States of America to start thinking about the successes and failures of the USA’s first republic and start working on a constitution and system of government for the 2nd American Republic.
It could be argued that this is a natural cycle for all democracies. France went back and forth from Republic to Empirical Fascist half a dozen times in 200 years before landing on its fifth iteration in 1958.
Many other countries (Spain, Germany, Austria) have had similar progressions.
#usa #theAmericanFascist #democracy #republic

"US installs record 18.9 GW of energy storage in 2025"
#US #USA #America #Energy

US installs record 18.9 GW of energy storage in 2025
The United States added 18.9 GW of energy storage capacity in 2025, a 52% increase year on year, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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.

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The United States of America:
🎵 Cloud Song
#TheUnitedStatesofAmerica
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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.”

"March heat surges past 100 in California and Arizona, smashing records"
#US #USA #America #California

March heat surges past 100 in California and Arizona, smashing records
A burst of unusual March heat is hitting the United States this week and into next, busting previous monthly heat records by wide margins. While heat is most acutely felt by people exposed to it, graphics and charts convey the scale of this extreme event. Temperatures in the West remain far above what's typical for March, a sign the early season heat is not letting up. Compared with the average highs for March between 1991 and 2020, temperatures across some parts of Oklahoma, Nebraska, northern…