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  @wood5y@mastodonapp.uk WTF is a "terrorist connection?" If vandals vandalized Trump's Scottish golf course, they committed vandalism. Sucking up to Trump is not a worthwhile endeavor.

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  WaPo says Trump has cut about 200 intel agency jobs in the last six weeks. He's done the same with other bureaucracies. He says it makes his job easier, because he doesn't have to face pushback from people who know what they're doing. Trump doesn't rely on facts and analysis. He relies on his gut, which means blind guesswork and personal bias. It's his lifelong way of decision-making. It's ruining the govt the way it would ruin a normal business.

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  @ElizabethEiler@universeodon.com Privatizing TSA substantially increases cost or substantially lowers security. It can only be one or the other. It also puts a screen between whatever replaces TSA employees and transparency and accountability. Plus, it cuts the number of unionized employees on the federal workforce. A win-win for Trump and his wannabe dictatorship, a lose-lose for the USG, American travelers, and the American public.

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  @QudsNen@mastodon.neometropolis.net Another Congress that suggested "integrating" the military with another country's would be accused of treason, of tossing American sovereignty out the window. It's what Republicans do when describing, say, the ICC. Integrating with NATO or other treaty partners ain't the same thing. The US maintains its own command structure, staffing, and decision-making. Trump and Netanyahu want to permanently embroil the US in constant ME warfare o...

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  Admittedly, Trump and his DOJ attack and attempt to delegitimize the press any chance they get. Facts are their enemy. But the surprising scope of the subpoenas the DOJ is trying to use in its investigation of NYT's reporters's claims about the frailties of Trump's Qatari Bribe Palace suggests that the DOJ is looking for information about more than the subject matter of the investigation it admits to. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-2677249534/

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  @georgetakei@universeodon.com LOL. The spot price for gold is nearly US$4000/troy ounce. Exactly how much "gold" is in Donald Trump's $1.00 gold piece.

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  According to an intern at the WaPoop, "Hany Farid, a digital forensics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, confirmed there is no evidence the image [of Mitch McConnell and his wife] was AI-generated." That the picture is genuine is not as important as what it doesn't say. McConnell isn't moving or walking. He isn't speaking. He apparently can't sit up in bed on his own. We only know what his staff say he said. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl...

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  @georgetakei@universeodon.com Of the thousands of suitable retorts to Trump's claim that Kamala Harris is "half a person," there's a line from Will Smith in Men in Black, when he replies to a colleague cop so fat, his belt won't hold up his pants: "What do you mean? I am half the man you are."

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  @lonespur@mastodon.social Lovely: "Advertising is the graffiti of the rich."

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  Donald Trump was NOT "misquoting" the Declaration of Independence, when he claimed it says, "we are all made in the image of one almighty God." At best, you might say that Trump "misattributed" his point to the wrong document. But you could only do that if you consciously ignore how frequently Trump makes shit up. https://crooksandliars.com/2026/07/trump-misquotes-declaration-independence

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  "Vance Says His Faith Makes Him Averse To 'Low Wage Foreigners'. More race-baiting from fake Christians JD Vance and Laura Ingraham along with more lectures to the Pope." JD Eyeliner has learned how to say he's neither a Catholic nor a Christian without saying it. He is, however, a poseur. It's all he's ever been, all he ever will be. https://crooksandliars.com/2026/06/vance-says-his-faith-makes-him-averse-low

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  According to CNN, "[t]he U.S. Navy was searching for a missing crew member after a helicopter made an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea." An "emergency landing" in open water is what anyone not writing a press release calls a crash. Hope all four crew members are safe, including the one the Navy has not yet found or rescued. https://www.rawstory.com/navy-searches-for-missing-crew-member-after-helicopter-makes-emergency-arabian-sea-landing/

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  Very few average men and women race to the US to give birth to their children. Wealthy women and their partners do, and they do it in luxury. The numbers are not large enough to justify the enormous expense, probably hundreds of millions annually, and political capital being spent on this issue by Trump and Republicans. It's worth it to them, though, to try to divide us. If we stand together, they fail. https://www.rawstory.com/markwayne-mullin-birth-tourism/

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  Trump and his patrons are in the process of inventing the crime of "birth tourism." They are seeking to prosecute its alleged perpetrators for some sort of fraud. The atrocity is not with alleged birth tourism, which harms no one. It's Trump's attempt to criminalize it - while he engages in real crimes on nearly a daily basis. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/01/trump-birth-tourism-supreme-court

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  As with Trump's obsession with the chimera of voter fraud, "birth tourism" has become his new, Great Satan, an enemy he must purge from the body politic. That's like treating a sneeze as a global pandemic. It's another Trump fraud. Presumably, it's designed to enrage the base and distract from Trump's rapid decline and his lengthening list of massive failures. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/01/trump-birth-tourism-supreme-...

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  A superb critique of Alan Greenspan: "Alan Greenspan, iconic economist of the New Gilded Age and capitalist extremist who made the world worse for his ideological running of the economy, is dead at the age of 100....Alan Greenspan was a horrible economist who made the nation and world worse through his obsession with Randian quackery.... "It was during the early 1950s that Alan Greenspan fell for the worst author to ever write in the English language: Ayn Rand." https://www.law...

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  @deviantollam@defcon.social Was the ICE goon firing his weapon through the wall of his hotel room trying to kill another agent, another guest, or did he not care whom he killed? The reckless disregard is the sort of thing an employer or the state usually sanctions with vehemence.

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  @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Palantir and Pete Thiel are existential threats to personal privacy AND national sovereignty. Thiel and other tech bros truly believe they are the sole sovereigns of earth.

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  @georgetakei@universeodon.com Given the cascade of lies from Trump already, it's past time for Congress to launch its own investigation of the Renee Good killing.

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  @rbreich@masto.ai Unlike its constituent states, an independent issuer of its own currency does not use taxes to raise revenue and pay its bills. It's uses it to express its priorities and economic policy. Donald Trump's priority is to immunize his corporate sponsors from paying tax. He uses other arms of the govt to immunize them from regulations and liability through the court system. Trump's policies are to protect himself and his donors, and to inflict pain and humiliation on...

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  @billyjoebowers@mastodon.online I'd start by not giving Nazis credit for making the stock market do so well.

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  @rbreich@masto.ai Republicans can't win on their policies and ideas -- and refuse to change their policies and ideas, because their billionaire donors like the current ones so much -so they have to stop people from voting them out.

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  @georgetakei@universeodon.com Thanks, George.

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  @lisagetspolitik@union.place Even if Trump pardons Bondi right after he pardons Stephen Miller, Bondi should lose her law license.

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  TIL that Anheuser-Busch InBev brews its famously American beers Budweiser and Bud Light in Halifax, NS, and that Southern Comfort is produced and bottled in Montreal. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/american-alcohol-boycotts-bans-canada-trade-war-nslc-nova-scotia-9.7194289

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  @Taweret@timeloop.cafe LOL. Sounds like a baseball fan who thinks that only home runs count. Like strikeouts, they are not the whole game.

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  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, when asked about wanting to become President or gain a Senate seat: "What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever." https://www.rawstory.com/aoc-2676872410/

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  @davetroy@toad.social It's a truism that Trump hates legal process. Since this is a personal, not national endeavor, he'll regret that. He appears not to have incorporated his "BOP" anywhere. That makes it an unincorporated association. It becomes a sort of de facto partnership, meaning its members are jointly and severally liable for what its members do. That's a big problem. Neither Trump nor any other member wants liability for what it or any member of the BOP does....

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  @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk Interesting idea, except that there are no illegal immigrants. Undocumented perhaps. Plus, there are existing institutions charged with investigating, arresting, indicting and prosecuting those who commit sex-related crimes. There's no need to promote more violence than the UK and US governments are already doing.

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  @kongakong Marco Rubio plans to be the real el Jefe of both Cuba and America. It's his obsession, or rather the obsession of the billionaires backing their little courtier. The main outcome will be chaos, maiming and death, which the billionaires seem to relish, in the belief they are immune to it. Peut-etre.