@copter_chief Just to get this straight: So the Trump regime can threaten Panama with "taking back" the Canal by force, but needs to **discuss** the "return" of wrongfully deported migrants from torture prisons with a corrupt El Salvadoran banana potentate???

Lacks all credibility & willingness to correct Trump's wrongdoings!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/26/panic-and-defiance-in-panama-after-trump-threatens-to-take-back-canal
#RuleOfLaw #FirstFelon #Trump #HeritageFoundation #StephenMillerHateCrimes #Project2025 #Pathocracy #Lawlessness #Psychopathy #Populiars #DefraudingAmerica #LootingAmerica #Subversion #Insurrection #Coup #Overthrow #AmericaHasBetter #Law #Justice #Freedom #Democracy #HumanRights #CivilRights #ImmigrantNation #USPol #USPolitics

Some Star Trek art for Trek Tuesday.

Enjoy.

#scifiart #scifi #fanart #StarTrek #TrekTuesday

Reform UK have revealed the logo for the newly-formed DOGE team. We believe they should be applauded for their honesty.

Halo of the Cat's Eye
Credits: Isaac Newton Group, Inst. Astrofisicade Canarias
#nature #space #astrophotography

Lindsey Graham's 'Deranged' Post About Greta Thunberg Is Condemned Online
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lindsey-graham-greta-thunberg_n_683d519de4b0cceca406f465?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Entertainment @entertainment-huffingtonpost

i often find the social network style of mastodon a bit jarring. I will have funny posts followed up by news of genocide and it puts someone like me who is very sensitive into a tailspin

on the otherhand, the manipulative nature of social media with their opaque algorithim feeding me ads interspersed with content similar to what ive seen feels like a dead end

really would like a transparent algorithimic feed I can set to like "chill" or "news"; it would make me more sane, and very easy to do

lost packet form 😉

As a pretext for excluding women, Hegseth says the Army needs more lethality--which includes physical tactical skills, leadership, grit. Standards were never lowered for women, but the 1st woman in Army Ranger school carried the same pack as men plus 250 tampons. https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/415145/women-in-combat-ranger-school-pete-hegseth-fitness-standards

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@georgetakei The #ConfederateFlag is a symbol of #WhiteSupremacy AND #heritage. The heritage of #WhiteSupremacists. #Histodons #Resist #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.

Residents of Russia’s Irkutsk region report multi-kilometer traffic jams caused by police inspections of trucks suspected of transporting drones.

Kids turning 18 today in the U.S. have lived their whole lives without a president signing legislation to raise minimum wage.

No Democrat this century has raised it.

#MinimumWage #ClassWar

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Apparently the White House is assessing ways to “persuade” women ti have more children.

I can save them a ton of time and energy:

Universal healthcare

Universal basic income

Childcare & paid time off

Education

clean air & water

Affordable housing

Legalized abortion

Address climate change

Stop Being Fascists

It’s really not that hard.

#uspol #fascism #birthrate #pregnancy #abortion #MyBodyMyChoice

If you live in a community with 98% vaccination rates, you can afford to be the 2%.

You can post wellness memes about "natural immunity" and still get herd immunity as a side effect.

Your child is statistically safe, not because of your parenting, but in spite of it.

https://www.theindex.media/the-herd-immunity-illusion/
https://www.theindex.media/the-herd-immunity-illusion/

Trump is ‘remarkably like’ 1930s far-right regimes, billionaire investor warns

Ray Dalio writes in book president wants to ‘dictate’ Maga policies and calls his skirting of democratic norms more ‘aggressive’ than Andrew Jackson and FDR
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/ray-dalio-trump-policies-book-dictator

#US, #Europe lift ‘range restrictions’ on #Ukraine missiles
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/27/us-europe-lift-range-restrictions-on-ukraine-missiles-why-it-matters

"Speaking at a forum organised by public broadcaster WDR, the #German chancellor said there were “no longer any range restrictions for weapons that have been delivered to Ukraine – neither by the British, nor by the French, nor by us, and not by the Americans either”.

“That means Ukraine can also defend itself by, for example, attacking military positions in #Russia,” Merz said. “Until a while ago, it couldn’t … It can now.”

“We call this ‘long-range fire’ in jargon, also supplying Ukraine with weapons that attack #military targets in the hinterland,” he added.

However, it was not immediately clear whether Merz was referencing the relaxation of restrictions on longer-range weapons in November 2024, when the US allowed Ukraine to use long-range missiles, such as the ATACMS to conduct strikes inside Russian territory.

...In September last year, President Putin had warned that if Ukraine’s Western allies allow it to use long-range weapons to strike inside Russia, it would mean NATO would be “at war” with #Moscow.

“This would in a significant way change the very nature of the conflict. It would mean that #NATO countries, the US, European countries are at war with Russia,” Putin had said."
#FuckWarmongers

I'm not the only one to note that Nigel Farage gets a lot more coverage for his speculative policy proposals (when announced) than the Greens ever do.

You don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to see a disparity in coverage & wonder why our media organisations are so willing to give the Right a platform, while only reporting the Green party's activities occasionally & spasmodically?

†he lurch to the Right isn't an accident of politics, it looks like its orchestrated by the media..

#politics

In 2024, 98% of Meta’s $165bn of revenue came from advertising with nearly $70bn profit.

Profit has come at the expense of our privacy and the right to opt-out threatens Meta's intrusive advertising model.

So Meta is expected to expand 'consent or pay' to keep lining their pockets. You either pay for its services or let #Meta use your data for advertising.

#StopStalkerAds

#dataprotection #gdpr #facebook #privacy #consentorpay #advertising #surveillancecapitalism #ukpolitics #ukpol #data

Meta must provide a tracking-free version of their services that's accessible without having to pay.

Our report outlines alternatives to 'consent or pay' that aren't reliant on harvesting users' personal data.

This includes contextual advertising or subscriptions for advertisers.

#StopStalkerAds

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/consent-without-paying-alternatives-to-metas-surveillance-advertising-models/

#dataprotection #gdpr #meta #facebook #privacy #consentorpay #advertising #surveillancecapitalism #ukpolitics #ukpol #data