Why can #Canada seemingly pivot their economy so quickly when a hostile neighbor starts threatening war? Their population has a social safety net and isnt so debt-riddled due to consumerism and abusive corporate practices. Their economy is resilient in ways we cant conceive. Why is it hard for the #US populace to protest en mass? The same exact reasons in reverse. #uspol
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𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝒍𝒈𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝑪𝒂𝒈𝒆
"The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control the populace."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-administration-voter-perception/681598
The Atlantic · Americans Are Trapped in an Algorithmic Cage
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But the US will have an over abundance of fundamentalist Christian’s who are intent on waging a holy war against all infidels.
‘The Voice of America is Being Silenced’ - 1,300 Journalists on Leave as Trump Freezes US Global Media Agency
Ladies and Gentlemen, what you are experiencing here is fascism at work.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/49013
#US #USA #Government #Politic #Trump #Musk #Journalists #Journalism #GlobalMediaAgency #VoiceofAmerica #VOA #RadioFreeEurope #Radio Liberty
Kyiv Post · ‘The Voice of America is Being Silenced’ - 1,300 Journalists on Leave as Trump Freezes USAGM
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#Bukele posted a video on Sun of what he says is 238 members of Tren de Aragua arriving in #ElSalvador. He said they would be transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center in the country, for 1 year.
#MarcoRubio, #Trump’s secy of #State, last month said Bukele had agreed to accept deportees from the US of ANY NATIONALITY [including US #citizens]. Bukele's social media posts on Sun refer to "a very low fee" that the #US paid to El Salvador for the #deportations.
Canadian stocks to beat U.S. for longest stretch since 2022
> If the current trend holds, it would be the third straight quarter for Canada’s market to outpace its #US counterpart
https://financialpost.com/news/canada-stocks-us-longest-stretch-2022 #CANADA #economy #stocks
financialpostCanadian stocks on track to beat U.S. for longest stretch since 2022There’s at least one area where Canada is holding its own as the trade spat with U.S. President Donald Trump: the stock market. Read more.
New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Paris and London on Monday to seek alliances as he deals with unstable American President's attacks on Canada’s sovereignty and economy.
https://apnews.com/article/carney-canada-uk-france-trump-arctic-60993a6e738f797977ef544dc5857ea3
#Canada #geopolitics #US #UnitedStates
As an American citizen with no criminal record born in Kentucky to parents who were both natural born citizens, I do not want to be crossing any international borders with the US right now.
Much moreso if I were an expat living in the US.
What a fucked up time to be alive!
PS Let's say expat, like we call American carpetbaggers overseas.
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#Trump is also decimating the #US #defense industry, as #EU countries are quickly developing technologies and equipment to fill the holes left by his desertion of our #NATO #OTAN allies.
(Example: Drones could be more important in modern warfare than bigger systems—and #Ukraine owns the absolute cutting edge of this technology.)
So what happens to Lockheed, Boeing, etc when their foreign customer base sees it can do without them?
Canada:“…Urban Grocer [Victoria] has removed almost all…#US fruits & vegetables from its shelves, following a dip in the sale of American-grown products… “As soon as…Trump (tariffs) hit, it was like a light bulb went off...,” said the store…manager... “People are just pissed right off… Prior to all of this, one of our most popular spinach was Popeye Spinach. We used to sell 60-80 bags a day… In the last week that we had it, we sold 2 bags. That’s a message.” | SaanichNews https://www.saanichnews.com/local-news/us-produce-wears-out-welcome-with-victoria-grocery-store-7879210#
Saanich News · U.S. produce wears out welcome with Victoria grocery store
US Green Card holder stripped naked, “violently interrogated” by ICE https://www.byteseu.com/833352/ #America #Politics #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USPolitics #USA #USAPolitics
U.S. Army veteran Liz Breuker commemorates fallen U.S. volunteer fighters, who fought with the Ukrainian army, at a memorial site in Independence Square, in Kyiv, #Ukraine. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
President Donald Trump said on Saturday that General Keith Kellogg's role has been narrowed from special envoy for Ukraine and Russia to only Ukraine, after Russian officials had sought to exclude him from talks aiming to end the war.
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@bookish @lavaeolus We’d definitely be healthier, happier if #library #ethics were the rule not the exception in the #US.
US warplanes raze four areas in Yemen
US warplanes targeted, in particular, a residential area north of the capital, Sanaa.
![White smoke rises from a densely populated residential area struck by U.S. airstrikes in Sanaa, the capital, Yemen, Saturday, March 15, 2025 [Osamah Abdulrahman/ AP]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/169/505/456/567/671/original/04ad85e267c16842.webp "White smoke rises from a densely populated residential area struck by U.S. airstrikes in Sanaa, the capital, Yemen, Saturday, March 15, 2025 [Osamah Abdulrahman/ AP]")
U.S. President Donald Trump has invoked a centuries-old immigration law once used to justify the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II to ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/16/world/politics/trump-immigration-deportations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #immigration #us
The Japan Times · Judge halts Trump’s wartime powers plan to speed deportations
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Boasberg issued a 14-day restraining order blocking the #Trump admin from deporting 5 men from #Venezuela, who advocates feared were going to be spirited away to notorious mega-prisons in the Central American nation of El Salvador after that country offered to jail them. Later in the day, the judge expanded the protection from removal to all non-citizens who might be subject to the proclamation in #US federal detention centers in the #UnitedStates.
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In invoking the #law, #Trump claimed the #US was facing an "invasion" from a criminal organization that has been linked to kidnapping, extortion, organized crime & contract killings.
Furthermore, Trump claimed members of the gang were "conducting irregular warfare & undertaking hostile actions against the #UnitedStates" with the goal of destabilizing the country.