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anjaschutz ("Anja") wrote:
Left Meta, so I’m posting this into the void rather than to friends—but I might as well introduce myself with this pic. #handsoff
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MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:
Little known fact:
The USA uses potash on 95% of their crops
80% of the potash they use comes from Canada.
There is no viable substitute for potash.
The USA imports 6 million tons from Canada every year.
Trump is going to decimate the USA's farmers and agriculture sector with his idiotic trade war.
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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Domestic Enemy Hat") wrote:
Defiantly moronic.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lm5mq6aohk2e
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hanse_mina ("Hanse Mina") wrote:
A US neo-Nazi terrorist group with a Russia-based leader is calling for targeted assassinations and attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine in an effort to destabilize the country as it carries out ceasefire negotiations with the Kremlin.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/the-base-neo-nazi-russia-ukraine
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GNUmatic@deppenkessel.de ("Ⓐ Dirk Ritter") wrote:
At least «The Atlantic» isn't bending the knee to the KKK regime. They are featuring protests prominently instead. Pretty good. Noted.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/04/photos-nationwide-protests-against-trump-and-musk/682320/
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touaregtweet ("Touaregtweet") wrote:
This.
👇
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
"[The abduction of Rümeysa Öztürk] was not 'law enforcement.' It was a political kidnapping, an act of state terror. It mirrored, in form and intent, the very tactics the Gestapo used to silence dissent, disappear the 'undesirables,' and spread fear through calculated, extrajudicial violence in Nazi Germany."
~ Henry Giroux
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #fascism #deportation #Nazis #Ozturk
https://truthout.org/articles/amid-state-abductions-trumps-fascism-is-no-longer-creeping-its-here/
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AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:
I cannot stress this enough tho - Elon Musk, as you understand him, simply does not exist without US govt subsidies and contracts. In 2012 that guy was worth 2.5B dollars; which is absolutely "rich" but not "I am going to buy the political process of multiple Pig Empire nations simultaneously" rich.
The guy doesn't "sell cars" or "invent shit" - he got rich by taking in government contracts, converting that guaranteed investment into excitement about his stocks, and shucking carbon credits.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Worth it just for the alpha-latrotoxin animations.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/06/an-in-depth-look-at-one-of-my-favorite-spiders/
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popcornreel@mas.to ("Omar Moore") wrote:
Never have truer words not been silenced. #handsoff #sanfrancisco
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arcseconds@sonomu.club ("Arcseconds") wrote:
In 2013 I recorded a pop album. I never released it. I think I was nervous about my singing. Or I thought a pop album wasn't the direction I wanted to take my music.
In retrospect, that was silly. I am immensely proud of this album. I hope that you enjoy the second entry in the Lost Tapes series: Messages.
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
Change your username to "12.8K discerning, perceptive, intelligent people" and then when you like a post it will say:
"12.8K discerning, perceptive, intelligent people and 11 others favorited your post 1m"
And people will get all excited about having their post blow up and wonder what's wrong with the 11.
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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:
posting this so i can pin it:
what up we're trying to make a federated bittorrent tracker, in the short term as an emergency information preservation vessel to avoid a fascist memoryhole, in the long term as a merger between the lessons of the federated and pirate web:
- web: https://sciop.net/
- code: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop
- in re: @SafeguardingResearch : https://safeguar.de/
- Safeguarding forum: https://forum.safeguar.de/
more details when i write them
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haecksen@chaos.social wrote:
Under the motto “Utopia Test Environment”, we invite you to develop new ideas, discuss them together and design a just, diverse and non-discriminatory analogue and digital future.
More details and the submit form:
https://pretalx.c3voc.de/chaos-feminist-convention-2025/cfp
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dyckron@mstdn.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:
That's not how you demagogue!
Alberta's top doctor should be given green light to speak publicly on measles, health experts say
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-top-doctor-to-speak-publicly-measles-1.7501486
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
NYT - Texas measles outbreak claims the life of a second child. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/health/measles-death-texas.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.9k4.-axm.xQubqLRVFw0Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“According to doctors in Texas, Mr. Kennedy’s endorsement of alternative treatments has contributed to patients delaying critical care and ingesting toxic levels of vitamin A.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘8-year-old girl died early Thursday morning of “measles pulmonary failure” at a hospital in Lubbock, Texas’
the Trump administration has the blood of our children on its hands
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘the operating overhead of the agency, as a share of benefits paid out, has shrunk by 20% over the last ten years and is now less than 1%... said he was concerned the situation was creating a “negative feedback loop” where, as more employees leave, more work is put on those remaining, depressing morale and inducing more to leave “until the agency ends up in a death spiral with staffing, inducing office closures”.’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/musk-doge-social-security
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Ted Cruz warns of midterm ‘bloodbath’ if Trump tariffs cause a recession
Texas senator’s comments another sign of Republican unease over ‘reciprocal tariffs’ and stock market plunge”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/ted-cruz-midterm-trump-tariffs-recession
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MJmusicinears@mastodon.world ("MJ Muse") wrote:
In small town Malone upstate NY ruby red farm Trump country #HandsOff
Attachments:
- video: 949eb7c67293f204.mp4
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Unless Trump folds, the tariffs will make the price of everything go up. Unemployment will go up. People will buy less stuff, and companies will spend less money on advertising that powers tech platforms. The tech industry, which has thrived on the cheap labor, cheap parts, cheap manufacturing, and supply chains enabled by free and cheap international trade, will now have artificial costs and bureaucracy tacked onto all of this.”
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ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us ("Emeritus Prof Christopher May") wrote:
I think one thing we might conclude from Liberation Day & other of Trump's economic 'policies' is that this may well accelerate a massive reorientation of the global economy.
A structural shift that in other circumstance may have taken decades may end up taking more like three or four years, including:
the coalescence into a multipolar world of large trading blocs (Africa, Asia, Europe);
the emergence of a new preferred reserve currency;
a move to regional/localised supply chains
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Remittancegirl@mstdn.social ("Madeleine Morris") wrote:
A dramatic drop in foreign air travel to the US.
Via @jeffasher.bsky.social
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tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Chill spring morning light,
Warm cat purrs on my lap,
Coffee steams in peace.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Nazi saboteurs who were captured attempting to infiltrate the United States in 1942 to carry out attacks were given a trial by military commission before the United States punished them for violating the laws of war.
Whereas those accused of being Nazis had an opportunity to plead their case before a board, those accused of being members of Tren de Aragua were given no opportunity to contest their status as enemy aliens before they were rounded up and shipped to...”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr., who campaigned on prohibiting stock trading by members of Congress, has emerged as one of the most active stock traders in the freshman class.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“It is not clear to some Republicans why Mr. Trump has been raising money so aggressively, according to eight people involved in conservative fund-raising who have kept track of his Mr. Trump’s efforts. Never before has a president ineligible for re-election vacuumed up so much money for a super PAC.
Some of Mr. Trump’s associates believe it is prudent to fund-raise when the money is available, as corporate interests and others seek to get access to the president or make amends...”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"On Friday, as markets continued to tumble, thousands of golf fans visited Doral, as did Eric Trump, Mr. Trump’s son, and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s $925 billion sovereign wealth fund. Mr. Al-Rumayyan is also the chairman of LIV Golf, and was there to see its stars compete."