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2025-May-02 Friday

492 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19

1,227,441 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total

#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask

@religionprof This doesn't seem to be a rational take and I certainly intend to quiz a few of them to find out what they think. I'm going to ask about the qualifications to be #Pope and the shameless desire for power, as well as the gravity of what we as #Americans expect of our leaders.

without 'doing politics'

#Trump and the #MAGAs
have destroyed the future of #America
it's a fact
America is already >now< over... crushed.

Rebuilding everything Trump and MAGAs have destroyed and smeared will be painful
and it will take a long long time
it's not just about 'politics' 'economy' or 'alliances'
it's the 'concept' of #America (the land of the free and opportunity)
the pride of being 'Americans'
that Trump and the MAGAs have erased.

I'm truly sorry for decent #Americans.

#Trump will rename Veterans Day to celebrate US victories in World Wars

The president says #Americans did "more than any other country, by far, in producing a victorious result" in the conflict.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9vzrxxjdwo

(c) #BBC #News

Starting July 1, Academic Publishers Can't Paywall #NIH-Funded #Research

Accelerating Access to Research Results: New Implementation Date for the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy
Earlier implementation of the Public Access Policy will help increase public confidence in the research we fund while also ensuring that the investments made by taxpayers produce replicable, reproducible, and generalizable results that benefit all #Americans.
https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/accelerating-access-research-results-new-implementation-date-2024-nih-public-access-policy
#OpenAccess

Reporter: What do you say to #Americans who can't afford to be patient? He said he would lower prices on day one.

#Miller: But he did lower prices across the board on day one

Reporter: Grocery prices went up last month

#American #Panopticon
Trump is pooling data on #Americans. Experts fear what comes next
A fragile combination of decades-old laws, norms, and bureaucracy has so far prevented repositories such as these from assembling into a centralized #surveillance state
Since Trump’s second inauguration, #Musk and #DOGE systematically gained access to sensitive data across the fed gov, in ways people in several agencies have described as dangerous and disturbing
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/american-panopticon/682616/
https://archive.ph/v2tTs

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mcdonalds-results-economy_n_68136d89e4b03d2b311be5af

McDonald's Store Traffic Falls Unexpectedly As Diners Grow Uneasy About Economy

#MCD #McDonalds #NYSE #stocks #wallstreet #markets #usa #decline #global #sales #economic #uncertaintay #trump #tariffs #food #dining #restaurants #consumer #confidence #revenue #americans #us #inflation #trumpflation #stagflation #recession #burgers #hamburgers #hamburglar #fries #fastfood #takeout #takeaway #families #household #budgets #spending #mainstreet #business

Trump is losing support for his immigration and economic policies — the two issues that largely fueled his election #Trump #Poll #Dictator #Americans #Dangerous #Axios

Exclusive: Most Americans now ...

Now is that before or AFTER they cut #Narcan from the budget? Asking for a friend... Attorney General #PamBondi claims Trump has saved two thirds of #Americans from dying: "3400 kilos of #fentanyl. In the last 100 days. Which saved, Are you ready for this, media?...258 Million lives."

"presents itself as a neutral glimpse into the minds of disaffected #Americans, but... it platforms a dangerous cocktail of #misinformation, grievance #politics & #authoritarian nostalgia—all without a single factual challenge.

This isn’t #journalism. It’s stenography...

In a country where the truth has already been bent into oblivion by years of conspiracy & #propaganda, refusing to correct blatant falsehoods is not neutrality—it’s surrender."
https://www.theindex.media/we-read-the-nyts-trump-voter-focus-group-so-you-dont-have-to/

#News #Media #Press #US

Sub-heading and text from article:
When fact-free grievance is treated like perspective, democracy loses.

The New York Times' April 29th, 2025 piece, "Tariffs, Immigration, and Trump’s First 100 Days: 14 Former Democratic Voters Discuss," offers a transcript of a focus group moderated by Frank Luntz and Patrick Healy. The participants are 14 former Democratic voters who backed Donald Trump in 2024. The piece presents itself as a neutral glimpse into the minds of disaffected Americans, but in reality, it platforms a dangerous cocktail of misinformation, grievance politics, and authoritarian nostalgia—all without a single factual challenge.

This isn’t journalism. It’s stenography for the reactionary id.

The moderators claim their role is to listen, not fact-check. That decision isn’t passive; it’s editorial. And it has consequences. In a country where the truth has already been bent into oblivion by years of conspiracy and propaganda, refusing to correct blatant falsehoods is not neutrality—it’s surrender.

Mind you #maga #GOP #Republicans still strongly support him. Majority of #Americans say #Trump is a "dangerous #dictator" who poses a threat to #democracy and believe he's overstepped his #authority by actions such as the mass #firing of #federal employees, a new survey says. Only four in 10 Americans expressed favorable views of Trump after his first 100 days in office, according to the survey by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/prri-poll-most-americans-trump-dangerous-dictator

Having a nice conversation with my Norsk buddy @midtsveen and just a reminder for #americans - #Trump adorable little EOs do NOT apply to private citizens. They are directives for the Federal government and the Feds alone. You as a private citizen do NOT have to comply with them. #rights #unitedstates

Woke up to three US-defaultist posts almost back to back. "The country" which one? "The President" of the world? And the one I hate the most "Our country."

If you do this and we don't have a prior relationship, that's an unfollow, possibly a mute. If we have a prior relationship, I'm reconsidering it at the moment. Also some of you are not directly guilty of it, but boost such posts quite a bit. Not cool.

#USDefaultism #UnitedStates #Americans

#Americans seem to be waking up to the fact that they have elected a ruinous madman. #Trump

https://newrepublic.com/article/194577/trump-unpopular-100-days-approval-ratings-falling?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter

#USA #America #Elections

I dont give two shits about #ChristopherColumbus except I get a day off of work. He didn't even land in the US, so I constantly wonder why so many #americans have such a hard-on for the guy. He was a european monarchist, not a Republican Jesus-worshipping ammosexual, yet he has the support of the bumpkin class here

❝Most #Americans 🇺🇸 say #Taiwan 🇳🇫 #independent, #poll shows❞
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2025/05/01/2003836119
#美國人
 #台灣
 #獨立
 #民調

No more comedian at the White House correspondents’ dinner ☹️

I’ll agree with the WH on this one — the move is a cop out. And another troubling sign of the #corrosion of media rights and #Americans’ freedom of speech.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wd7npdl4ro