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@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social
2025-10-16 15:35:04

„Wenn Faschisten sterben, jammern Demokraten nicht“ – dieser Satz kostet Mario Sixtus (ZDF) sein US-Visum. Das US-Außenministerium zeigt: Wer die falsche Meinung äußert, wird bestraft. Doch wo bleibt die Debatte über Meinungsfreiheit und politische Zensur? #USPolitik #Medien

@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us
2025-09-15 18:53:23

Only to split it into smaller chunks, the reason: Pulling 8 #USB #cables one by one through one of those #LEGO

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-17 18:43:40

Apparently, in the U.S., communism is more dangerous than anarchism. Guess free healthcare scares them more than Molotov cocktails.
/s
#Satire #Humor #US

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-10-17 05:11:27

"The purpose Bolton stated of creating a group chat in which he would later share his notes...was “For Diary in the future!!!”
I believe the only/big reason #Bolton joined Trump admin was to write a book, I mean "diary", and he gathered info for that from Day 1.
#uspol

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-17 11:00:33

"UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #US #USA

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-17 14:59:44

What would win the next US election?
#USPol #Shitpost
An anthropomorphic guillotine
Barnaby Jones's last single
3:22 of silence from The Offspring
The WKUK "it's illegal to say" sketch

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-17 17:11:43
Content warning: US right-wing violence, 2 insightful threads on Fedi

"these guys grew up ... surrounded by guns at home and guns in the media, indoctrinated with the idea that the fastest, most masculine way to solve a problem is by shooting it."
#USPol #violence #CharlieKirk

@jom@social.kontrollapparat.de
2025-09-18 09:32:57

Democracy in the US is going to the dogs right now, and yet there are still people who fly there for a vacation or a conference with a clear conscience. It's unbelievable.
#USA

@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us
2025-10-17 14:17:34

Weekend project:
#USB #LEGO #Network #Power

@pre@boing.world
2025-09-17 13:36:57
Content warning: UKPol USPol "Investment"

A lot of media today excited that US companies are "investing" in the UK with announcements timed with the visit from that wanker they elected over there.
But "investment" here means US companies buying UK land and staff and companies, right?
The whole press is celebrating more of the UK being sold to American owners. Like its a really great thing that UK workers will have American bosses and American companies will own and manage sites here.
Seems an odd thing to celebrate. I'd be happier if UK companies were repossessing US assets in this country and the country's wealth was expected to remain with UK owners.
Oh well. Expect "investment" has already meant those media companies are owned by Americans eh?
#ukpol #uspol #investment #thatWankerTheyElected

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-10-17 05:59:29

Heute vor 51 Jahren: Am 17. Oktober 1974 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Estaca". Die Operation Bedrock war eine Serie von 27 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1974/75 auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Bedrock (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS)
Quelle: OpenStreetMap
Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-17 13:00:44

"UK-US nuclear deal: what does it mean and will it really lead to a 'golden age'"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #US #USA

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-09-18 09:57:48

Liberals: You have a choice. When Trump comes for you, you can buckle and comply or you can radicalize and fight harder. Decide now what you're going to do, because a lot of us will die if you decide to save yourself.
We will win in the end, with or without you. But, if you survive, you will always know which choice you made and you will have to live with it.
#USPol

@cdonat@hostsharing.coop
2025-09-16 07:40:14

If I'd be a #conspiracy theorist, I'd conclude, that the #murder of #CharlieKirk was staged by the

@annsev@troet.cafe
2025-09-14 14:11:36

Richard #Grenell (#USA, former ambassador to Germany) is a conceited macho, not particularly intelligent, but obsessed with power. These fifth-rate types, who suddenly see their political opportunities, prove to be particularly perfidious.
Grenell should be declared persona non grata by the EU.
People l…

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-12 06:45:11

Father Larry Dowling's account of leading a Eucharistic Procession to offer Holy Communion to those held by ice in Broadview, IL (near Chicago) and being barred from doing so.
"No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ."

Larry Dowling

I had…privilege…of leading…Eucharistic Procession… to…ICE Detention Center in Broadview…to pray…bring Holy Communion…to…men & women detained…under inhumane conditions. 

Over 1,000 Catholics…marched in peaceful prayer & song, facilitated by…Police Departments &…State Police. I cannot speak more highly of…public safety officers in providing us safe passage. 

Upon arrival…was…different…no ICE or Federal representatives…When requesting to talk w/…representative…over…phone, After…br…
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2025-08-31 06:35:38

"Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode"
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@adulau@infosec.exchange
2025-10-11 06:32:08

Imagine working in your country’s cybersecurity center or CERT, and suddenly being reassigned to border control and deportation duties. Something is clearly broken and dangerously so.
What will you do as a cybersecurity professional?
#us #cybersecurity

Website with news stories about how our US Gov't is being attacked, and what's happening and being planned to fight that.
unbreaking.org/
This is very readable. And it's VITAL reading for those who love humanity and persisting despite great odds.

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-17 16:36:31

Do you oppose US imperialism?
#USPol #USA #US #Imperialism

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-08-28 18:42:01

More on CBP treatment of Canadians at the US border, this time with CBP’s own statistics, which are interesting: cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-09-15 10:32:50

People keep trying to point to an event where the "right/left" political violence thing got out of hand. You cannot point to anywhere in US history where the right hasn't been murdering leftists. It has never happened.
They've been talking about civil war since they lost the last one, and most of US politics before that was just trying to prevent the first one.
There isn't a wave of right/left violence. Right wing violence has just gone unchecked for so long, and been so accepted, that now they're killing each other regularly. The Trump assassination attempts were all from the right. #CharlieKirk was killed by another fascist for not being fascist enough.
Fascists have so completely taken over that they see each other as legitimate targets because they've run out of "leftists" worth murdering. That's the story. That's what people can't wrap their heads around.
Everyone is worried about the right wing response, worries about right wing escalation, but they called for civil war over the cracker barrel logo. They're already maxing out their base. All the proud boys and other Nazis are already hired by ICE. They're also already going as hard as they can. They don't need any excuses. They have total control of everything. This bumbling mess is *the best they can do.* They call for civil war every few days.
We're not seeing a war between the left and the right. We're seeing a war between the right and the far right, where both side opportunistically punch left when they can and liberals help them justify their actions.
#USPol

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-10-28 03:01:32

What do you think? Did Venezuela just “thwart” a false flag?
“Venezuela says it has thwarted what it calls a CIA-linked plot to attack a US warship anchored in Trinidad.
It claims the US would have blamed Venezuela for the attack on the USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer, to justify aggression against it.”
Australia Broadcasting reporting: #usa #venezuela #war
Yup. Trump wants a confrontation.
No. Venezuela likely faking the false flag.

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-10-13 20:25:48

Trump allowed Israel to almost completely destroy Gaza, kill tens of thousands innocent civilians, now we should praise him for making "peace" on the rubble that is left. Meanwhile in his own country, democracy and the rule of law are in fast decline. The breakdown of the values the USA once stood for is almost complete. Next will be the further destruction of US economy and society, it will not be a pretty sight I am afraid.

@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2025-10-18 10:15:25

Ein globales Abkommen zur #CO2-Bepreisung in der #Schifffahrt wurde auf Druck der #USA und anderer #Ölproduzenten

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-09-16 07:39:42

Zelensky: US-Russia summit was ‘successful’ for Putin.
Truer words were never spoken? 🤔
#Russia #Ukraine #Zelensky #Putin #USA

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-09-27 06:55:10

»Frühere Beraterin Bidens — Trump fordert Entlassung von Microsoft-Managerin:
#US-Präsident #Trump geht weiter gegen politische Gegner vor. Nun fordert er den Rausschmiss von #Microsoft-Managerin Monaco. Sie war…

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-10-16 08:02:17

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 16.10.1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombomben "Barbel" und "Turnstone". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Whetstone Salmon, 5.3kt. 
Autor: USDE - https://www.sonicbomb.com/v1.php?vid=content/atomic/US/salmon&h=360&w=480&ttitle=Salmon%20%7C%20Whetstone&d=Date:%2022/10/1964%20@16:00%20UTC%20%7C%20Type:%20Sub=surface%20@-830m%20%7C%20Yield:%205.3Kt
Lizenz: Public domain
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-28 08:50:42

Ah, good thing Ireland didn’t bet a major chunk of its economy on US Big Tech creating jobs or anything.
*phew!*
#BigTech #USA #AI

Amazon has six sites in Ireland, including the Amazon
Fulfilment Centre in Baldonnel Business Park in Dublin, Ireland.
Amazon to cut 30,000 office
jobs internationally following
Al investments
It is not yet clear whether Irish employees will
be impacted.
Today 8:40 a.m.
AMAZON WILL LAY off tens of thousands
of office workers as the e-commerce and
tech giant trims costs amid ramped-up
investments in artificial intelligence,
according to US media reports.
Some 30,000 positions will be cut in a be…
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-18 12:00:23

"U.S. Spending Bill to Grant $40 Billion in Fossil Fuel Subsidies"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-09 05:00:40

Fallujah, Iraq is ~15sq mi (~25sq km) & had ~4,000 fighters US military and allies faced in 2nd Battle of Fallujah, one of fiercest fought by US this century.
Caracas Venezuela is ~300sq mi (~433sq km) & Venezuela has ~4.5 million militia now activated.
potus & kegseth must be stopped.
#USpol

@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io
2025-10-16 21:46:46

I became a US citizen yesterday!
4 years in the making, a dream for much longer than that. I was fortunate to have one of the fastest routes to citizenship and to have mostly experienced a very smooth process with lovely immigration agents who processed my cases with respect and dignity.
I spent the last 9 months living in fear, watching immigrants get demonized and even permanent residency (green cards) to be treated as “a privilege” to be revoked at whim.
I've been quiet, afraid to say anything in public that could be misinterpreted or used against me.
I've repeatedly said goodbye to my city, I've cried walking my favorite streets, bracing for the worst as top officials bragged about getting rid of immigrants and "cleaning up" the country as if we were filth.
Now, I intend to find ways to use my citizenship for the greater good and to be civically engaged in ways not available to people here on visas and green cards, affected but forced to suffer in silence. I am looking forward to discovering what that will look like for me.
#USA #citizenship #immigration #immigrants
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@tezoatlipoca@mas.to
2025-10-01 19:13:11

While the #us is a #shitshow we also are letting the rich assholes get away with too much shit up here in #Canada
Axe! Axe! Axe!

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-10-09 23:02:40

US buys Argentine pesos, finalizes $20 billion currency swap
apnews.com/article/trump-besse

Dr Evil making finger quotes while sarcastically saying "America first".
@rettichschnidi@swiss.social
2025-09-06 11:57:50

Land of the Free, home of the brave:
«In der Annahme, es könnten nordkoreanische Sicherheitskräfte sein, eröffneten die US-Elitesoldaten mit ihren schallgedämpften Spezialwaffen das Feuer und töteten mehrere Zivilisten.»
Das war 2019 unter #Trump!
Können wir bitte den #USA nicht mehr in den Ar…

@kingconsult@berlin.social
2025-11-10 18:44:05

Landgericht Bonn: Wer sich auf #Facebook & Co. anmeldet, ist selbst schuld.
> Ein deutscher Nutzer amerikanischer #SocialMedia-Plattformen müssen sich von vornherein darüber im Klaren sein, dass in den #USA

@rperezrosario@mastodon.social
2025-11-03 00:45:05

Daylight Savings Time (DST) in the twenty-first century, yay or nay?
Please consider boosting for a more statistically significant result.
#daylightsavingstime #dst #us

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-17 17:25:56

Charlie Kirk, much like Kim Jong Un and his die-hard loyalists!
#CharlieKirk #Kirk #Charlie #US

An older man with a beard and suit smiles confidently. Text above reads "They are gonna make his birthday a national holiday." Below: "I guarantee it."
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2025-09-10 06:07:09

Want to complain about #Rx requirements for a #COVID booster in the US? #uspol
You have until September 13 to submit a written comment to the

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-09-11 16:49:16

1. There is no “transgender ideology”. Just people trying to be themselves.
2. Antifascist ideology is what most of us learned in school as “being a good citizen”
#CharlieKirk #uspol #bullet

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-17 19:00:44

"Beavers restored to tribal lands in California benefit ecosystems"
#US #USA #America #California

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-11-06 16:15:59

A friend of mine, who I'm pretty sure is left-leaning (meaning, in the US at least, a Democrat) asked me:
"Isn't democratic socialism different from actual socialism?"
Ohhh, where do we begin! But the good thing is, people are asking these questions... Not just straight up condemning "socialism" because of the name.
#USPOL

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-09-16 06:03:06

Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 16. September 1969 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Jorum". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969/70 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Mandrel (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS)
Quelle: OpenStreetMap
Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-10-07 16:21:10

"I have made [PM Mark Carney] very popular”
"We're going to be talking about Gaza”
"We could have peace in the Middle East”
he jokes “The Merger of Canada and USA”
Carney: ‘that's not where I was going”
Carney looks bemused as The American Fascist talks about the ‘hell hole' that DC was.
he's talking about "zero" people coming through the south border.
... Carney doing his best to keep a straight face... the things that must be going through his mind as the Fascist rambles about Canada benefiting from Venezuelan boats being blown up.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #US

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2025-08-28 07:54:09

"CDC erupts in chaos after ousted chief Susan Monarez refuses to resign"
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a
This is the way: resistance!

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-03 07:16:35

What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#USPol

@erk709@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-08 02:08:20

Judging from certain comments from certain citizens of the #US, one might start wondering if this is how Americans view the rest of the world.
#humor #politics

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-09-09 16:03:27

I am thinking about the discussion Trump will have with Qatar, "yes, sorry but you needed to be bombed and ofcourse we really want to keep the large US military base in your country..." 😂 , if Qatar just lets this go they will lose all credibility.
#qatar #usa

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-15 20:50:35

I keep coming back to the mirror dualities of the oppressed and oppressor under authoritarianism.
The oppressed is portrayed as both weak and godlike. The stereotypes are always some variation on sloth and incompetence, but yet somehow also a menace capable of destroying the "pure" society. To use the most relevant current example, Antifa being both little femme soy boys who would always get beat up by "real men" while also being an international terrorist organization on the brink of overthrowing the US government, the unarmed presence of whom makes the heavily armed agents of ICE flee for their lives. Antifa is both having absolutely no impact on ICE, and also having such an impact on ICE that the military needs to come in to protect them. The contradiction is obvious but never seems to occur to those who hold both to be true at the same time.
But few talk about the duality of the oppressor. The sovereign throughout history has always been both a ruler above the law, sometimes even the representative or incarnation of a divine force. Yet, this same superhuman/god-man is also a baby who needs constant care. This is absolutely a through line from the very earliest records of sovereign cults to modern cult leaders, CEOs, and Trump today. Power, for these people, is expressed both as the ability to force others to enact their will and in the ability to compel others to care for them. Can any of these "men" cook? Can they fix anything themselves? They are driven everywhere, cooked for all the time, constantly protected from danger. Kings are still dressed, at least for rituals. I could dissect masculinity here, but that's a whole thing.
It is as though the drive to care for our children, who must be taught to behave within acceptable norms, is hijacked by "leaders" who demand our care and attention... even at the expense of our literal children. And recently we've seen some of those very CEOs, with LLMs and return to office demands, show that their judgment is also little better than children, making decisions while pretending to understand a subject.
The oppressed are portrayed as both god-like and impotent and are, in fact, neither. Meanwhile the rulers portray themselves only as invulnerable and are, in fact, childish in their ability to survive without constant support. Their greatest fear from the collapse of society is figuring out how to make sure people keep taking care of them.
It just keeps rattling around in my head.
#USPol

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-14 10:00:04

"Jump in US greenhouse gas pollution pushed global emissions higher – report"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2025-09-20 08:10:58

Vor der angeblichen Pleitespekulation wurde gemeldet, #Windrose Technology habe einen Großauftrag aus den #USA im Wert von 60 Millionen US-Dollar.
Mehrere hundert E-Lkw des Typs R700 sollen bis 2026 an die kalifornische Spedition

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-11-05 23:15:06

this whole "shutdown government services because politics" is truly the most insane and ridiculous "feature" of the United States government.
#uspoli #shutdown #airlines
globalnews.ca/news/11513116/us

@annsev@troet.cafe
2025-10-25 12:40:55

Das gehörte wohl mal in aller Deutlichkeit gesagt - ob ein Gericht allerdings dafür die richtige Bühne ist? Womöglich gerechtfertigt dadurch, dass die Politik das auszusprechen kläglich versagt und sich feige wegdeduckt.
#USA Kritik an Darth Trump Administration

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-09 08:13:42

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-10-07 15:01:20

Six US Surgeons General, Democratic and Republican—including one appointed by Trump is his first term—spoke out with one voice to condemn anti-science HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
#uspol

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-11-15 08:16:42

Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 15. November 1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Storax die Atombombe "Wolverine". Storax war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 62/63 insgesamt 47 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Detonation der Storax Sedan, 104 kilotons, 1962.
Autor: USDE - https://sonicbomb.com/v1.php?vid=content/atomic/US/sedan_storax&h=482&w=592&ttitle=Sedan%20%7C%20Storax&d=Date:%2006/07/1962%20@17:00%20UTC%20%7C%20Type:%20Subsurface%20@-190m%20%7C%20Yield:%20104Kt
Lizenz: Public domain
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-10 16:00:36

"The Energy Sector Has Spent Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on Lobbying This Year. Watchdogs Say That’s Only Half The Story"
#US #USA #America

@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social
2025-09-23 07:51:00

Demokratischer US-Gouverneur Newsom: »Null Zweifel«, dass Trump keine freie Wahl mehr zulässt
Der Demokrat Gavin Newsom gilt in den USA als eine Art Oppositionsführer. Er sagt: Es sei »schockierend«, dass nicht mehr Leute gegen Trump aufstünden. »Das ist ein höllischer Moment für unser Land.« #Spiegel #USA

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-09-09 15:33:30

I have no sympathy whatsoever for the Hamas people killed in Qatar. However it illustrates Trump doesn't really care about negotiations with Hamas or Qatar as the country where they take place. Also he confirms international law is meaningless for him.This will further hurt the US position in world politics.
#usa

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-10-15 06:05:32

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 15. Oktober 1966 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Khaki". Die Operation #Latchkey war eine Serie von 38 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1966/67 auf der Nevad…

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Latchkey (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS)
Quelle: OpenStreetMap
Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-09-09 05:03:57

Depending how you want to analyze it, an even split or a majority in this small poll believe the US send its military against Venezuela directly.
😔
#usa #venezuela #war
mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/1

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-23 04:26:56

Not good.
#USpol

Classic “Intel Inside” logo, but instead it says, “MAGA Inside.”
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-11-16 14:00:40

"Trump’s DOE may soon force more coal plants to stay open"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-15 21:08:22

Apparently Trump is Gay, and Clinton's initials are B.J.
#Gay #Politics #US #USA

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-11-15 10:47:15

"Trump’s latest tariff TACO probably won’t make your life more affordable"
First time I see mainstream media use TACO. In both the headline and the story text. 🌮👏
#taco #news #tariffs #USA #media #MSM

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-09-26 16:32:52

Interesting, "How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us."
#trump

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-16 12:00:33

"Chart: Trump is slowing climate progress. Here's how much."
#US #USA #America #Climate

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-11-14 15:00:54

"AI data centers projected to strain US energy and water resources by 2030"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #US #USA

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-11-14 06:51:45

Heute vor 45 Jahren: Am 14. November 1980 testen die #USA die #Atombombe "Dauphin". Die Operation #Guardian war eine Serie von 14 US-amerikanischen

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Guardian (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS)
Quelle: OpenStreetMap
Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-14 12:07:36

#USA #US #Politics #Meme

Cartoon character Bart Simpson looks surprised, with the text "What an odd thing to say" below a news headline about seizing government institutions.
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-30 10:05:59

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-06 14:00:33

"Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells"
#US #USA #America

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-11-13 07:09:15

Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 13. November 1969 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Scuttle". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969/70 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Mandrel (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS)
Quelle: OpenStreetMap
Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-11 11:00:40

"Wildfire smoke could kill 71,000 people per year in the US by 2050, study warns"
#US #USA #America #Wildfires

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-12 16:00:36

"Fossil-fuel firms receive US subsidies worth $31bn each year, study finds"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-10-12 13:29:20

Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 12. Oktober 1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Storax die Atombombe "Wolverine". Storax war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 62/63 insgesamt 47 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Detonation der Storax Sedan, 104 kilotons, 1962.
Autor: USDE - https://sonicbomb.com/v1.php?vid=content/atomic/US/sedan_storax&h=482&w=592&ttitle=Sedan%20%7C%20Storax&d=Date:%2006/07/1962%20@17:00%20UTC%20%7C%20Type:%20Subsurface%20@-190m%20%7C%20Yield:%20104Kt
Lizenz: Public domain
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-08-26 11:36:53

Since leaving the US, things have gotten a lot better for me but it's still hard existing under capitalism. Just being a human is hard enough, but parenting is an order or magnitude harder.
Even here, with all the complexity of being an immigrant, it's somehow still less emotionally challenging than being in the US.
I wrote up a reflection on some of my feelings before leaving tangled up with some of the challenges I still have. I hope this helps some folks feel less alone, or makes it easier for other folks to understand why some parents are having a hard time.
CW: just.... Lots... Death, gun violence, trauma, etc
#USPol

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-13 14:00:40

"Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-10-12 13:29:10

Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 12. Oktober 1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Storax die Atombombe "Roanoke". Storax war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 62/63 insgesamt 47 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Detonation der Storax Sedan, 104 kilotons, 1962.
Autor: USDE - https://sonicbomb.com/v1.php?vid=content/atomic/US/sedan_storax&h=482&w=592&ttitle=Sedan%20%7C%20Storax&d=Date:%2006/07/1962%20@17:00%20UTC%20%7C%20Type:%20Subsurface%20@-190m%20%7C%20Yield:%20104Kt
Lizenz: Public domain
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-11-15 19:44:39

"Massachusetts considers expanding effort to ban gas in new buildings"
#US #USA #America #Massachusetts

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-30 19:36:00

As a security engineer, whenever anyone talks about a control it's always important to ask "by what mechanism?"
> "Oh, that can't happen because we have a system to stop it."
By what mechanism?
> "We have documentation that says...."
Yeah, that's not a mechanism.
People keep saying, "Trump can't do that!" But like... by what mechanism?
> "The constitution says..."
Yeah... a documented list of rules is not self-enforcing. What is the mechanism?
What makes this impossible? Oh, it's possible under certain conditions? Oh, it's always possible and you're completely relying on the idea that there will never be a malicious actor? Yeah, that's gonna get exploited. Oh shit, now you're owned.
What do you do with a system that's completely owned? Once it's compromised it can never be trusted again. What would you tell a client who told you, "Patching is really hard, so we're just gonna ban the attacker's IP."
What, you're not even gonna reinstall?
I assume we've all had the "burn everything down and start again" client. I wonder how many of us thought we would see the US government ask for them to hold it's beer.
#USPol

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-09-12 14:00:38

Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 12. September 1969 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Minute Steak". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969/70 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Mandrel (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS)
Quelle: OpenStreetMap
Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-15 18:00:05

"Illinois farmers find that sheep and solar arrays go well together"
#US #USA #America #Energy

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-09-12 14:00:29

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 12. September 1966 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Derringer". Die Operation #Latchkey war eine Serie von 38 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1966/67 auf der…

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Latchkey (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS)
Quelle: OpenStreetMap
Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-13 14:00:35

"Meat from Endangered Sharks Being Sold in U.S. Stores"
#US #USA #America #Sharks

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-09 16:00:36

"How cutting US air pollution could save 6,000 lives a year by 2030"
#US #USA #America #AirPollution

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-09-11 05:23:55

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 11. September 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Spoon". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Whetstone Salmon, 5.3kt. 
Autor: USDE - https://www.sonicbomb.com/v1.php?vid=content/atomic/US/salmon&h=360&w=480&ttitle=Salmon%20%7C%20Whetstone&d=Date:%2022/10/1964%20@16:00%20UTC%20%7C%20Type:%20Sub=surface%20@-830m%20%7C%20Yield:%205.3Kt
Lizenz: Public domain
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-01 18:00:57

"Washington State Protects the Old-Growth Forests of Tomorrow, Creates 77,000 Acres of ‘Legacy Forests’"
#US #USA #America #Washington

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-01 12:00:23

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

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-11-11 10:26:03

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 11. November 1966 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Ajax". Die Operation #Latchkey war eine Serie von 38 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1966/67 auf der Nevad…

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Latchkey (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS)
Quelle: OpenStreetMap
Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-08 12:00:47

"Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world"
#US #USA #America #Energy

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-06 18:00:39

"US solar set to surpass wind in 2025, overtake coal by 2028"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-14 19:00:04

"California’s first solar-covered canal is now fully online"
#US #USA #America #California

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-11 16:00:39

"More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-30 10:00:40

"US is violating human rights laws by backing fossil fuels, say young activists in new petition"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-13 17:00:40

"America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in six months"
#US #USA #America #WindTurbines

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-13 19:00:36

"Chicago River Follows the Seine to Become Biodynamic and Swimmable Once Again"
#US #USA #America #Chicago

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-11-04 15:00:11

"No high-level US representatives will go to UN climate talks, Trump officials say"
#UN #UnitedNations #US #USA