#News about conditions on the #USA’s #USS-Lincoln in the #Iran war: “Conditions on US aircraft carrier at sea for more than 250 days raise alarms: Thousands of US military members who have lived aboard an aircraft carrier for more than 250 days are reportedly contending with food shortages, broken plumbing and exhaustion, leading lawmakers to demand answers from the Pentagon and pressure the #Trump administration over the Iran war.” The BBC quotes a letter from Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal to Secretary of Defense Hegseth: “Shortages of basic supplies, water contamination, plumbing issues, deteriorating mental health, deck safety concerns and disruptions in the mail system, which have caused many care packages in route to the ship to be lost in transit for months.” And California Congressman Mike Levin: “moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry down for weeks, long stretches with no hot water, a meal that came down to half a cup of rice and two tortillas. No soap, deodorant, or toothpaste.”
on 02026-08-18depressing #video about the #history of efforts against #malaria, ending by explaining how things are getting worse since #Trump II. Basically an infomercial for Giving What We Can. Not a very high-information-density video, with a lot of talking-head filler and stock footage. #EA
on 02026-07-31“Tracking retaliatory use of arrests, prosecutions, and investigations by the #Trump administration” #politics #USA
on 02026-07-25#Effective-altruism recommendations for #politics, mostly focused on the #USA and in particular #Trump
on 02026-07-25“#Trump’s talk, in his familiar discursive style, also included digs at former President Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris. He also falsely claimed a mandate to hire transgender executives under the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act caused its failure.” #news
on 02026-07-18#news: #photovoltaic #solar-energy “supplied 12.8% of [#USA] electricity in May even as #Trump boosts coal over clean #energy”, while coal was only 12.2% (and probably insignificant outside of electricity). Nice (minimally related stock) photo of #sheep grazing under #solar panels in Saltillo, Texas. “#Seia and Wood Mackenzie said solar and battery storage were practically the only energy resources being built in the first quarter, making up 91% of all new generating capacity [presumably in the US].” Sourced from #Ember but without a proper citation. #energy
on 02026-06-11God damn it, docs.nrel.gov no longer exists. But in 02018 utility-scale #solar system costs were US$2.27/W for 500kW to 5MW systems. Cites PVinsights for global module prices dropping from US$0.31/W to US$0.22/W in 02018. Great plot of "PV value chain spot pricing" from 02007 to 02018, and says “global solar investments” were US$132B in 02018, two-thirds in large-scale PV, 26% in small-scale solar. #Trump #USA #energy #politics #censorship #PDF #energy #solar-energy
on 02026-05-30apparently #Trump’s Department of Justice has reclassified #marijuana from Schedule I (“hard drugs”) to Schedule II (“like Tylenol with codeine”). This is #news from April 23. #politics #drugs #USA
on 02026-05-09#news that Shirley Meng, top battery scientist “who also heads a Department of Energy (DOE) research hub, is now heading back to Asia”, is moving from the #USA to #Singapore and “stepping down as director of the $62 million Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA) based at Argonne National Laboratory” because of #Trump #politics #energy-storage. But for two years “she will maintain a partial appointment at UChicago and continue to run her lab.”
on 02026-05-01#USA bankruptcy filings increased 11.9% (11.4% for businesses, 11.9% for non-businesses) in the year ended March 31, 02026, over the year before. #news #politics #Trump
on 02026-04-28apparently the #football association invented a peace prize in October in order to award it to #Trump. #facepalm
on 02026-04-21#news #humor #video with #Colbert saying #Trump is “indefinitely” extending the #USA’s ceasefire with #Iran, perhaps because they aren’t going to show up for today’s negotiations in Islamabad. Shows a photo of serious edema in Trump’s ankle. #politics
on 02026-04-21#Reason #video about what will happen with homemade “ghost” guns. The number of "ghost guns" (without serial numbers) recovered at #California #crime scenes went from 26 in 02015 to 167 in 02016, then doubled every year until 02019 (1623 guns), then leapt to 4671 in 02020 and 12388 in 02021, where it stabilized; the now-defunct Polymer 80 had sold 200k kits in California over the 6 years before the Supreme Court’s 02025 decision in Bondi v. Vanderstok. Outlines #Cody-Wilson and his arrest in Taiwan for paying for sex with a 16-year-old “who’d posed as a legal adult on a hookup app”. #Trump announced plans to ban gun ownership by transgender people. Talks about #Myanmar.
on 02026-04-15#news from rabid anti-#Trump propaganda channel reports that Chinese tanker Rich Starry has run the #USA blockade past #Iran and escaped, just as the Russian tanker recently reached Cuba. And the USS George W. Bush carrier strike group is off the coast of Namibia as it sails to the Mediterranean around Africa to avoid the Houthis at the Bab el-Mandeb.
on 02026-04-13#video from Sal Mercogliano on #shipping #news today. He says #Trump’s blockade on #Iran violates #UNCLOS, but UNCLOS isn’t for wartime, and also that it implicates the War Powers Act in #USA.
on 02026-04-13#news #video by Sal Mercogliano about #shipping today in the wake of #Trump’s announced blockade of #Iran. The daily report of the Joint Maritime Information Center (“part of the Combined Maritime Forces under the Fifth Fleet”) says 4 tankers have gone through the Strait of Hormuz in the last 24 hours, 3 on April 11 (perhaps before the Trump blockade). There’s still 800 to 1000 ships in the Persian Gulf. Mercogliano says that right about now is when the tankers from the first of March would have reached Europe, Australia, and America, so this is when the economy starts to feel the #oil shortages outside of Asia; in Asia, the replacement crude from America will arrive at half the flow rate because it takes the finite number of tankers twice as long. Russia and China block the UN Security Council resolution to open the Strait, as Russia’s export revenues surge. The #Saudi Red Sea port of Yanbu can only load 4.5 million barrels per day, even though the pipeline the Saudis just repaired can transfer 7, but even that is much less than the 20 that normally comes through the Persian Gulf.
on 02026-04-12comprehensive #news overview #video of the whole #Iran war and ceasefire so far, including #Trump blockading the strait. #politics
on 02026-04-12Now #Trump instead of #Iran is blockading the Strait of Hormuz. #news
on 02026-04-12#news #video: #Iran talks have failed after only one day. It all unraveled while #Trump was at a UFC match. #politics #USA
on 02026-04-11disturbing #metal anti-#Trump #AI #video supporting #Iran, but maybe made by Indonesians. With some #humor.
on 02026-04-11anti-#Trump propaganda AI rap #video from #Iran. #humor
on 02026-04-11#news summarizing #Trump #politics concerns driving #France to #Linux: “Since taking office in January 2025, Trump has upped his attacks on world leaders — straight-out capturing one and aiding in the killing of another. He has also weaponized sanctions against his critics, who include judges on the International Criminal Court, effectively cutting them off from transacting with U.S. companies. Those who have been sanctioned have reported having their bank accounts closed and access to U.S. tech services terminated, as well as being blocked from any other U.S. service.”
on 02026-04-10#Trump sent guns to protestors in #Iran earlier this year but thinks the Kurds have them. #politics #news #USA “‘We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds, and the president says he thinks the Kurds kept them,’ Yingst said on Fox News, paraphrasing the president.”
on 02026-04-07“Benjamin Netanyahu said the country supported #Trump’s decision to suspend attacks against #Iran for two weeks but said the ceasefire does not include #Lebanon, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.” #Israel #politics #news
on 02026-04-07#Trump #Iran war ceasefire #politics #news
on 02026-04-07“Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks” and Israel also agreed. #Trump #USA #politics #Iran #news
on 02026-04-07full 4-hour #video #interview with #Ethan-Thornton of #Mach-Industries, 3 weeks ago. The interviewer, Shawn Ryan, is this ex Navy SEAL dude who is into some bullshit about supernatural beings building the pyramids.
Thornton doesn’t really understand the Tragedy of the Commons, thinks it’s about companies making insufficient profits because of competition.
Atlas Shrugged is his favorite book.
His childhood summers were fixing old tractors and combines on the West Texas farm of his grandfather farm, who also had a hobby of building and flying experimental aircraft.
He got a visit from the ATF in high school after he started Mach at 16 because he built .50-calibre oxyhydrogen rifle #weaponry and had paid a machinist to build a better one.
“I think the stratosphere is sort of the most important military domain moving forward.”
Also as a teen he stole his mom’s credit card and bought a microscope and two sheep’s brains online to learn about neurosurgery.
He says he’s motivated by “individual sovereignty”, which is why he’s passionate about #Ukraine’s national sovereignty, but “China/Taiwan is orders of magnitude more important”.
“Decentralization” is also why Viper is vertical takeoff: so there’s no runway to bomb.
He envisions making up to 2 million Vipers and having them do everything a fighter jet can do, although right now it’s a kamikaze.
Ryan points out that decentralization means discarding the entire world military infrastructure of bases. Thornton points out that it means you can’t require a tanker to refuel. Containerized anti-ship missiles mean any container ship is a potential destroyer in disguise.
Thornton mentions Anduril’s "Eagle Eye".
At 2h48m Ryan presents him a rifle as a gift.
He says the company would not be in business today if he hadn’t moved from Austin to Huntington Beach, in Orange County, CA, where 95+% of the engineers he needed to hire lived (“niche RF, niche propulsion, niche GNC”).
Both Ryan and Thornton are fairly right-wing, but both agree that the US government has lost a lot of trust internationally and needs to regain it, in particular alluding to Trump and Vance’s shenanigans to increase European defense spending and to #Trump’s unpredictable #tariffs, but don’t see how that trust can be regained. Also interesting to hear Thornton express concern about and opposition to the “terrifying” “neofeudalist” planned obsolescence of iPhones, John Deere tractors, etc., which I normally think of as a left-wing concern.
on 02026-04-04#ACOUP on how #USA #Trump #politics relate to fascism exactly
on 02026-03-20persuasive #video about #energy #futurism (mostly #solar-energy) and #economics, ending up in a fiery anti-#Trump #politics diatribe
on 02026-03-14#Trump #censorship of academics. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02026-03-11Epstein Files mentions of #Trump: “I was 13 years old when Donald J Trump raped me.”
on 02026-02-16Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show that #Trump deprecated. #politics #video #toread
on 02026-02-16#NVIDIA got #AI #export-controls to #China lifted in #USA by lobbying #Trump #politics
on 02026-01-15#USA #immigration #human-rights #news: “Atlanta journalist says he ‘won’t be the only’ one deported by #Trump officials: Emmy award-winner Mario Guevara warns administration ‘has the power’ after he was arrested and sent to El Salvador. (...) three days after Guevara’s interview, the British journalist Sami Hamdi was detained by federal immigration authorities.” #censorship
on 02026-01-13#USA #immigration discrimination #Trump #news
on 02026-01-13archive of <https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/01/04/an-american-oil-empire-is-a-deeply-flawed-idea> on the flaws in #Trump’s plans to take #Venezuela’s #oil for the #USA. #politics
on 02026-01-11“351 days into Donald #Trump’s term, the president’s net approval rating is -17%, up 0.8 points since last week. 39% approve, 56% disapprove, 4% not sure.” #USA #politics
on 02026-01-06Ozy’s recommendations for #Effective-Altruists in #USA to donate to #politics to stop #Trump
on 02026-01-06#Trump administration retaliations against his opponents in #politics and also Kilmar Ábrego García (Abrego Garcia)
on 02026-01-06#news from June about how #Elmu had, and #pmarca has, a lot of influence on #USA #politics via #Trump, following #cryptocurrency clashes with #Biden
on 02026-01-06Chenyang “Platy” Hsu compares #Trump’s favored Times New Roman with other #fonts, like Palatino, Caslon, Baskerville, New Century Schoolbook, Frutiger, Univers, Myriad, and of course Calibri. “At this point, it might sound as though the argument is trending toward a defense of the Department’s earlier choice: Calibri. Unfortunately, Calibri is also a poor fit for formal contexts. While seriousness and authority aren’t the exclusive province of serifs, Calibri does little to convey those traits.” #politics #CC BY-NC-ND
on 02025-12-30“Australians are among some visitors to the US who may soon have to provide their social media history from the prior five years to enter the country, according to a new #Trump administration proposal.
The proposal, posted on the Federal Register by US Customs and Border Protection, suggests travellers coming from countries that are part of a visa waiver program would need to give additional personal information as part of an electronic application.
The requirement would be for travellers using the Electronic System for Travel Authorization, or #ESTA, as part of a visa waiver program for citizens from 42 countries, including Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Japan, Israel and Qatar, as well as many other European countries. (...) The new proposal – open for public comment until February 9 – would make that information [social media history mandatory and (...) “high value data elements,” including the person’s phone numbers and email addresses over the prior five years, plus close family members’ names and birth dates, along with their birthplaces, residences and phone numbers over the prior five years] mandatory, though it’s unclear how it would impact those wishing to come to the US.” #USA #immigration #politics
on 02025-12-11#News from October: “Without question, #Trump can claim credit for the ceasefire and hostage exchange deal. #Qatar, #Turkey and #Egypt used their leverage with Hamas to force it to accept.
That made it a joint effort, but Trump’s role was decisive.
Without his push to demand Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s agreement to terms that he had previously rejected, the deal would not have been signed.” #politics #Israel #Gaza #USA
on 02025-12-11#Trump lifts most #export-controls on #NVIDIA to #China for #AI, permitting sales of up to H200, and promising the same to Intel and AMD. #politics
on 02025-12-11Donors to #Trump’s White House Ballroom include “Ripple and Coinbase. (...) Nvidia, [the trading firm] Susquehanna International Group and ExtremityCare [which makes costly human cell and tissue medical products] (...) Google, Palantir, Amazon and Microsoft, as well as cell phone carrier T-Mobile (...) Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, twin brothers who own crypto exchange Gemini (...) Lockheed Martin (...) Booz Allen Hamilton”. #USA #politics #corruption
on 02025-12-11hilarious can’t-believe-it’s-not-satire article on #Trump #politics switching the #USA State Department back from Calibri to Times New Roman
on 02025-12-11discussion of #Trump #politics switching the #USA State Department back from Calibri to Times New Roman, with an amused comment by Lucas de Groot, whose studio designed Calibri #fonts
on 02025-12-11#humor #video about Chen Rui, #China’s #Trump from Chongqing
on 02025-11-05#video from #Mother-Jones of the leaked group chat text on #China #soybeans: “Finally - just a heads up. I’m getting more intel, but this is highly unfortunate.
We bailed out Argentina yesterday (Bessent) and in return, the Argentine’s [sic] removed their export tariffs on grains [sic], reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China, at a time when we would normally be selling to China. Soy prices dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us.” #Trump #USA #politics
on 02025-10-29archive of https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63 on #Trump pardon of #CZ of #Binance. “The pardon may also prematurely end the Justice Department’s three-year Binance monitorship, set up to ensure the company complies with U.S. financial crime laws. However, it likely won’t end a separate monitorship established by the Treasury Department without the additional approval of Trump or the Treasury secretary.”
on 02025-10-23#politics #history #Robert-Mercer funded #Breitbart and fueled #Brexit and #Trump
on 02025-10-21#news #video about #Trump’s #Argentina bailout from the #WSJ, mentioning how #China bought millions of tonnes of Argentine #soybeans after #Milei dropped export retenciones after the September US$20B bailout (structured as a currency swap), enraging some #USA farmers. Also apparently in October the US Treasury bought pesos for the Exchange Stabilization Fund! Then there was an additional US$20B “private finance facility”.
on 02025-10-175.35 GW #Esmeralda-7 #solar #photovoltaic #energy project in Nevada, #USA, canceled due to #Trump #politics
on 02025-10-14more #Sora-2 #video #humor with #Trump kissing Putin, selfie video from the Last Supper, Tupac and Biggie and Jesus at the Goodwill store, Michael Jackson and Hitler shouting in each other’s faces
on 02025-10-07"#Trump’s recent order calls for the National Guard to have a standing force ready for “quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety.”” “ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO ADDRESS THE CRIME EMERGENCY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA” is the name of the EO. “ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.” But only 600 soldiers? “Just this week, a federal judge ruled that Trump’s federalization and deployment of the California National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Governor Newsom was a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the president from using the military for domestic policing unless he first invokes the Insurrection Act. (...) But if the courts do intervene, don’t expect Trump to give up on the idea. The most likely scenario is a similar project, but staffed with #ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, or DHS officers instead.” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-10-02InfoBAE claims #Citrone convinced #Bessent to convince #Trump to bail out #Argentina at the #IMF. I’m skeptical. #USA #politics
on 02025-09-30Holy shit, #Trump has gone too far right for the Drudge Report, which leads with a photo of Jimmy #Kimmel and the headlines “ABC MARTYR / NETWORK UNDER GOVT CONTROL / ‘VIEW’ CENSORED / TRUMP ORDERS REMAINING LATE NIGHT HOSTS REMOVED / THREATENS LICENSES”. #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-09-18#news “Top Oversight Dem launches probe into ABC’s Kimmel suspension” today. Reprinting a press release: “California Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, announced Thursday he is launching an investigation into ABC’s suspension of “Jimmy #Kimmel Live!” following the host’s remarks regarding the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
His probe will review the Trump administration, ABC and TV station owner Sinclair amid what Garcia says are ongoing efforts to “censor opposition.”
“Every American has a duty to stand up for our First Amendment values. We will not be silent as our freedoms are threatened by corrupt schemes and threats. Anyone who is complicit will need to answer to us,” the lawmaker said in a statement.” This seems sort of like a ko threat in go: by threatening something defensible but even more damaging, #Trump can divert the opposition’s efforts from releasing the Epstein files. #USA #politics #human-rights #censorship
on 02025-09-18#CNN #news #video describing the cancelation of #Kimmel as part of #Trump’s “crackdown on dissent”. #USA #politics #human-rights #censorship
on 02025-09-18#Trump was saying there were “very fine people” protesting against tearing down the statue in #Charlottesville, as well as on the other side, but explicitly excluded the “neo-Nazis and white nationalists” from his “fine people” characterization, saying that they should be “condemned totally”. #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-16more translated Weibo posts, talking about the #Kirk assassination from the perspective of someone in #China: “You can say that Robinson removed a vermin for the world, and removed a threat to China. (...) So, this Kirk event has destined that once #Trump is out of office, the Democrats will be back in power. And this homosexual, Robinson, with hands covered in blood might encourage others from the same camp to learn from him.” #politics #USA
on 02025-09-16no real #news in the Charlie #Kirk case today at the arraignment, just repetition of the note under the keyboard, the transgender roommate and/or romantic partner, and the planned crackdown on dissenting #politics by #Trump
on 02025-09-16#Trump #tariffs may need to be refunded, about a trillion dollars for #USA #politics
on 02025-09-09#WSJ #news about #Trump #tariffs and resulting pricing uncertainty in #USA on, for example, hand-hammered copper sinks, due to #politics
on 02025-08-30#PDF of Supreme Court #citizenship nationwide injunction #USA #politics decision, in “#Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. CASA, Inc., et al”. #politics
on 02025-08-30“Supreme Court sides with #Trump administration on nationwide injunctions in birthright #citizenship case.” Oh shit. #news from July 27. “By a vote of 6-3, the justices repudiated the concept of universal or nationwide injunctions, which prohibit the government from enforcing a law or policy anywhere in the country. The justices did not, however, weigh in on the question at the center of the three lawsuits before the court: whether the birthright citizenship order itself is constitutional.” Sotomayor’s dissent: “That holding renders constitutional guarantees meaningful in name only for any individuals who are not parties to a lawsuit.” #politics #USA
on 02025-08-30#news #toread “#Trump reacts to court striking down #tariffs as illegal under federal law” #USA #politics
on 02025-08-29#Trump spox Karoline Leavitt refuses to predict whether #Trump will invade #Venezuela. #USA #politics #news
on 02025-08-29#Trump spox Karoline Leavitt refuses to predict whether #Trump will invade #Venezuela. #USA #politics #news
on 02025-08-29#news broadcast from Russian propaganda outlet #WION on #Maduro declaring his defiance of invasion. Mostly stock footage, talking head filler, and CGI. #Trump says it’s not an invasion, just an anti-drug-trafficking operation. Is #Venezuela the Ukraine of #USA? #politics
on 02025-08-29the Boston-Washington superconducting maglev #trains project is dead: “The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has cancelled the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Baltimore-Washington Superconducting Magnetic Levitation (SCMAGLEV) Project on the Permitting Dashboard.” #Trump #USA #politics
on 02025-08-27#news about #Trump destroying #NASA #CO2 monitoring satellites, the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. #space #politics #toread #USA
on 02025-08-27#news #video from #Fox saying #Trump is more or less invading #Venezuela. #USA #politics
on 02025-08-27#news #Trump nationalizes 10% of #Intel #USA #politics
on 02025-08-23#Trump: “Exciting news! The Treasury Department has announced that they are suspending all enforcement of the outrageous and invasive Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting requirement for U.S. Citizens. This Biden rule has been an absolute disaster for Small Businesses Nationwide. Furthermore, Treasury is now finalizing an Emergency Regulation to formally suspend this rule for American businesses. The economic menace of BOI reporting will soon be no more.” #USA #politics #news
on 02025-08-21“#Trump Celebrates After Killing Anti-Money-Laundering Law”: “the government will no longer require shell companies to disclose their owners and beneficiaries, allowing wealthy corporations and individuals to hide their profits from the public. The rule was part of the Corporate Transparency Act, or CTA, passed in 2021. (...) Republicans have long opposed the CTA, claiming that the requirements are too steep for small businesses and companies to fulfill. The rule on beneficial ownership was supposed to go into effect in January, but a federal court order froze enforcement of the rule.” #news #politics #USA
on 02025-08-21#Trump’s money-laundering #history: “In 1993, the Associated Press reported that two of Trump’s Atlantic City casinos were fined by Treasury Department regulators for “willfully failing to report” transactions involving more than $10,000 — a violation of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). Five years later, the department fined Trump Taj Mahal Associates, the company managing the eponymous Atlantic City casino, for violating the same law.” #USA #politics #news (from 02017)
on 02025-08-21#news #humor #video of how 93% of #Trump #deportations are of people with no violent criminal record and 60% are of people without even a traffic ticket. #USA #politics
on 02025-08-12#USA #economics #news. #Trump fired the director of the #BLS for the sharp downward revisions in job numbers.
on 02025-08-08#Trump wants 100% import #tariffs on semiconductors to #USA, except for companies planning to build fabs there, and demands that #Intel’s CEO resign
on 02025-08-08#news #video on #Trump #tariffs coming back into effect yesterday, in many cases over 30%. #USA GDP grew at annualized 3% during the second quarter. But the labor department revised its job growth numbers for May and June downwards by a large factor, like 6× or something. Mostly filler: talking heads and stock footage. From the #WSJ. #economics
on 02025-08-08“CBS #News investigation of Jeffrey #Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies” saying the #Trump administration is lying because of #politics
on 02025-07-30“Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the #Trump administration over the #UK’s demand that #Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times.
The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including Vice President JD #Vance. (...) US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi #Gabbard has also suggested the order would be an “egregious violation” of Americans’ privacy that risked breaching the two countries’ data agreement.” #privacy #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-07-21#Trump administration #Epstein “suicide” footage claimed to be “raw, unedited” was edited before release by Microsoft Windows user account MJCOLE~1 using Adobe software
on 02025-07-11#video #news #humor on #Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” which cut US$930 billion from Medicaid, US$488 billion from clean energy, US$285 billion from something called SNAP, raised the debt ceiling by US$5000B, and added US$157B to the military. It’s anticipated to increase the deficit by US$3400B—by 02034, so US$340B per year, because it also had US$4500B (per year?!) in tax cuts.
on 02025-07-09#humor #video of wholesome influencer Uncle Goose from China visiting the US with a Chinese English translator Brian, who is famous for imitating #Trump
on 02025-06-12#humor #video of #Tony from #LC-Sign imitating #Trump, among other things
on 02025-06-12#Elmu opposes #Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill”, which hasn’t passed the #USA Senate yet. #politics
on 02025-06-05#Microsoft has locked the International Criminal Court (#ICC), including Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, out of their email because of #Trump #sanctions #politics over #Israel.
on 02025-05-20#humor #news #video chronicling #Trump’s crackdown on freedom of speech and journalism. #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-05-19#news #video about #Proud-Boys and #politics in #USA, with Lincoln Heights arming citizens in response to about ten Klansmen putting up a banner over the freeway when #Trump was inaugurated, until the police hauled them off in a van (but didn’t arrest them). Also the Socialist Rifle Association.
on 02025-05-15“Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was arrested Friday as he protested at a controversial private detention facility that is expected to play a key role in President Donald #Trump’s plans for mass #deportation of immigrants. (...) Baraka has criticized GEO Group for refusing to allow city inspectors inside and has made his standoff with the company a focal point in his campaign for governor.” #politics #USA #human-rights
on 02025-05-09#Trump threatens #Mattel with 100% #tariffs if they move production out of the #USA #politics
on 02025-05-09#news #video on #China policy on #tariffs from the #SCMP; apparently the vice premier is going to Switzerland to have talks with #Trump officials in a few days, and there’s a lot of monetary easing on the part of the central bank. #politics
on 02025-05-08#news #video saying world stocks have recovered back to their level of a month ago when #Trump announced his #USA #tariffs
on 02025-05-04#news #video about #human-rights in #USA under #Trump including his attacks on #Harvard and the court rulings against #deportations
on 02025-05-04“Spooked by Trade Wars, Trump Officials Hoard Supplies: ‘It Would Be Stupid Not To!’: Some Trump administration officials are stockpiling toilet paper and food before #Trump’s #tariffs cause prices to skyrocket” #USA #politics #survivalists
on 02025-05-03#human-rights #news #video on #Trump #deportations; Mohsen Mahdawi has been released on bail. #Interview with Farber.
on 02025-05-03#video #humor #music #politics of a rap satire song with #Elmu, #Trump, Sam Altman, etc.
on 02025-05-01superhero #humor #music #video of #Trump #politics in anime style
on 02025-05-01#news #humor #video #music of #Trump, Putin, etc. #politics
on 02025-05-01#Vietnam considering cracking down on #transshipment of products of #China to evade #Trump #tariffs in #USA #politics
on 02025-04-30#news #video largest container port in Western Hemisphere, Los Angeles, projects shipping volumes down 35% next week because of #Trump #tariffs. #USA #politics
on 02025-04-30#video #news saying Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, says the best-case scenario for #USA is a mild recession from #tariffs. US stock market down 8.4% in #Trump’s first 100 days, Canada up 3.4%, UK up 10.2%, Germany up 18.5%, Mexico up 20.9%.
on 02025-04-30#Trump leak of war plans to Atlantic editor Goldberg: Trump spokesperson Brian Hughes forwarded Jeffrey Goldberg’s phone number to Mike Waltz in an email in October so Waltz could call him to comment on a story Goldberg was going to run about Trump’s “attitude towards sounded service members”, and Waltz saved it as Hughes’s number, which is how he ended up adding him to the Signal group. #news "According to the White House, the number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone, which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number to an existing contact that it detects may be related. (...) the White House had authorized the use of Signal, largely because there is no alternative platform to text in real time across different agencies, two people familiar with the matter said. Previous administrations, including the Biden White House, did not develop an alternative platform to Signal, one of the people said. As a temporary solution, the Trump White House told officials to use Signal as they had done during the transition instead of regular text-message chains.”
on 02025-04-30#USA #Trump mouthpiece Jack Keane threatens #Iran with “an Israeli-led US-supported attack” if they “force us” by continuing to pursue nuclear power. #politics #history #news
on 02025-04-30Scott Alexander is opposed to #Trump but says the populist Right needs to take responsibility for the #tariffs disaster. #politics #USA
on 02025-04-30#news #video Karoline Leavitt says #Trump has 18 proposals on paper from countries around the world who “recognize that they have, in fact, been ripping off the United States” on #tariffs #politics
on 02025-04-25#news on #Trump backing down somewhat on #China #tariffs #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #video about #Trump defense secretary Pete Hegseth texting secret war plans again, this time to his wife, brother, and lawyer, according to a NYTimes article. Hegseth is now going on a witch hunt for leakers and fired three of his top aides. Karoline Leavitt: “This is what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you and working against the monumental change that you are trying to implement.” #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #video saying #Trump is easing off on the trade war with #China following a meeting with Target and Walmart CEOs #politics
on 02025-04-23#news on #Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan threatening to arrest Democratic state governors in the #USA #politics
on 02025-04-17#news that #Trump wants to bomb #Iran and is attempting to impose untenable “designed to fail” conditions on an anti-nuclear deal so he can go to war with them
on 02025-04-17#news by #Al-Jazeera summarizing #Trump
on 02025-04-17#news saying the #USA Federal Reserve is planning a bailout of the stock and bond market (perhaps via reverse repurchase agreements: treasury securities sold by the Federal Reserve in temporary open market operations, as was done massively in 02022 and 02023, a number that has dropped from US$400 billion two weeks ago to under US$100 billion now), because #Trump’s pause on #tariffs hasn’t stopped the bond market from getting tighter and tighter as hedge funds deleveraged. #politics
on 02025-04-17#news on #Trump #deportations in defiance of Boasberg’s court order. #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news on #China offering #USA and EU citizens 240-hour visa-free shopping tours to buy luxury brands from OEM factory outlets at factory prices, blitzing TikTok with information about how those brands are really produced in China, in response to #Trump #tariffs. #USA #politics
on 02025-04-17#news on #Trump’s IRS considering revoking #Harvard’s tax-exempt status. Also #Abrego #deportations. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news: #El-Salvador blocks #USA senator Chris van Hollen from visiting Kilmar Armando #Abrego García after #Trump #deportations to #CECOT #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news current state of #Trump deportation of Kilmar Armando #Abrego García, who is not from #Venezuela, to #El-Salvador #CECOT #deportations #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news #video of Steve Bannon saying #Trump will run for a third term and win in 02029; Congressman Andy Ogles from Tennessee has already introduced a Constitutional amendment. Also talking about #Project-2025.
on 02025-04-12#news #video speculating that #China will invade #Taiwan now that they don’t have to worry about losing trade with the #USA, having already lost it to the #Trump #tariffs. Points out that Chinese imports from the US are easily replaceable things like soybeans, unlike fine chemicals and microchips. #politics
on 02025-04-12#news #video #toread from #Deutsche-Welle about the #Trump #China #tariffs exempting smartphones and laptops #politics #USA
on 02025-04-12#news #video: The #Trump administration says it will exclude electronics such as smartphones and laptops from latest #tariffs. That means such devices and their components won’t be subject to the current 145 per cent tariffs levied on #China, or the 10 per cent baseline tariffs elsewhere. #politics #USA
on 02025-04-12#news #video about #China’s new #USA export restrictions (not a full ban) on #rare-earths and other #critical-minerals in response to #Trump #tariffs.
on 02025-04-09#video #news Ray Dalio criticizing #Trump but agreeing that the #USA’s trade imbalance is unsustainable and the lack of manufacturing is dangerous. But “3 million people, 1% of the population”, “are brilliant,” “half of them are foreigners,” “they go to the best schools”, and “make unicorns.” He’s also concerned about getting the budget deficit down to 3% of GDP and getting the debt down.
on 02025-04-09#video #news on #China and #USA #politics, mostly about #Trump #tariffs, mentioning that the #Hutchison ports sale to BlackRock has been paused by Beijing
on 02025-04-09#video from the European Commission opposing #Trump #tariffs; the posture Ursula von der Leyen articulates here doesn’t seem to leave space for making common cause with China in response, though, promising more protectionist measures in response (and not just against the US). #politics
on 02025-04-09#video #news on #Elmu criticizing #Trump #tariffs and also personally attacking Peter Navarro: “He ain’t built shit.”
on 02025-04-07#video of reverse-engineering the #Trump #tariffs formula. #news
on 02025-04-07#video #news with Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner on #Trump #tariffs: “Most of us are supportive of the president’s pro-business policies (...) but (...) these are not precision tariffs. This is a Navarro nuclear-style attack on American business.” JP Morgan raises recession odds from 40% to 60%.
on 02025-04-07talking-head and stock-footage #video from #Visual-Economik about the Plazza Accords and #Trump’s (poor) chances of achieving something similar today by way of promising to remove #tariffs.
on 02025-04-05#PDF proposal to restructure the global trading system, apparently by Stephen Miran, who seems to be #Trump’s advisor and the architect of his #tariffs.
on 02025-04-05#USA #human-rights #Trump #politics
on 02025-04-02#USA #politics #humor #news #video mentioning #Elmu leaving #Trump’s administration
on 02025-04-02#news #video with footage from Rep. Hank Johnson reading a prepared statement in a #USA Congressional House Judiciary Committee hearing about #politics and #Trump’s attacks on #human-rights
on 02025-04-01#news #video by Joe #Rogan condemning #Trump for sending innocent people, like Maryland father Kilmar Armando #Abrego García (whose 5-year-old US-citizen son is autistic) who fled El Salvador in 02011, and gay makeup artist Andre José Hernandez Romero from #Venezuela, to #El-Salvador in #deportations to #CECOT
on 02025-04-01#news #video saying #Trump administration is admitting one Maryland father, granted protected status in 02019, was mistakenly included in the #deportations to #El-Salvador due to an “administrative error”, but can’t be brought back. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-04-01#news #video from today saying #Ukraine is declining #Trump’s peace deal with Russia. #politics
on 02025-03-31#news #video on #Trump saying yesterday he’ll give #Iran “bombing the likes of which they have never seen before” if they don’t agree to a nuclear deal. Also threatened “secondary tariffs” on Russian oil and “military force” to annex Greenland. #USA #politics
on 02025-03-31#video on semiconductor manufacturing in #China and #USA. Footage of #Trump saying the CHIPS act was a “terrible, terrible thing” and “We should get rid of the chip act”. #ASML’s biggest market is now Mainland China rather than #Taiwan, selling US$10.9 billion per year there, and they’re opening a reuse-and-repair center in Beijing. The US had pulled ahead in Q4, but that was because of the #CHIPS-Act. #Ant-Group is using chips made by Alibaba and Huawei instead of NVIDIA to train their MoE #AI models.
on 02025-03-28#news on #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador: the names of the 238 detainees, disclosed on March 20. They’re still being held incommunicado. #human-rights #politics
on 02025-03-28this singer from #Venezuela has a YouTube channel; he’s one of the victims of #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador because he has tattoos. #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28MSNBC relays Mother Jones’s #journalism on the tattoo-based #Trump #deportations #news to #CECOT in #El-Salvador for people from #Venezuela #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28#news on #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador: immigrants from #Venezuela get snatched off the street because they have tattoos, for example, an #autism awareness tattoo. Apparently all of the families whose members have been disappeared report that they are being held incommunicado and that they have tattoos. #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28#video #news: #Trump threatens a 25% “secondary tariff” on any country that buys oil or gas from #Venezuela starting April 2; oil is 80% of its exports and 17% of GDP. #USA #politics
on 02025-03-26#USA #politics #news of #Trump deportations under the Alien Enemies Act; apparently the deportees are being held incommunicado, and their names have not been released to their families.
on 02025-03-25#humor #video ridiculing #Trump #politics and predicting a “Chinese century”
on 02025-03-18#California Coastal Commission wins #politics lawsuit against #Musk for #SpaceX, but he can refile. ““The concern is legitimate when a local body injects politics in its decision-making,” [Trump-appointed district judge Stanley] Blumenfeld told SpaceX attorney Tyler Welti. “I get the concern. But where is the harm?”” #Trump #space #California
on 02025-03-18“She joined the majority on Thursday in rejecting the Defense Department’s application on behalf of Musk’s SpaceX to increase the number of satellite launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base from 36 to 50 per year.” #politics #Trump #Musk #SpaceX #space #California
on 02025-03-18Last October: “The suit pointed to comments made during last week’s public hearing by commissioners, who made note of Musk’s political involvement during this election. According to the suit, [#California Coastal] Commissioner Caryl Hart [wife of Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart] noted SpaceX is led by someone who has “aggressively injected himself into the presidential race and made it clear what his point of view is.” Commissioner Gretchen Newsom added, “Right now Elon Musk is hopping around the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet.”" #politics #Trump #Musk #SpaceX #space
on 02025-03-18#news #video saying #Israel is the only country to run its #F-35 #weaponry on domestic software, and (presumably because of #Trump’s freeze on aid to Ukraine) European #politics are concerned about this suddenly. Seems to mostly be a question of electronic countermeasures or countercountermeasures. #Deutsche-Welle
on 02025-03-14#Fox #news #video about #PRC’s statement that it is ready for “any kind of war” with #USA on the basis of #Trump’s #tariffs. Trump announces the creation of a “office of shipbuilding” and promises to invade #Panama to get the canal back. #politics #China
on 02025-03-06#USA #Fox #news #video on #Trump revoking the legal #immigration status of 240k people who fled #Ukraine. #politics
on 02025-03-06#video on whether drug #cartels in #Mexico will use #drones or similar #weaponry against #USA Marines etc. (as they have been against rivals) who are apparently patrolling the border now; #Asmongold does a live “react to” stream to a pro-#Trump #politics YouTuber; he predicts an invasion of Mexico. Illegal #immigration is being blamed for US gangs in New York in homeless shelters.
on 02025-03-06#news #video on #Trump backing down on #USA tariffs on #Canada and #Mexico, but only on autos. Almost entirely a tiresome talking head lecture #politics
on 02025-03-06#video of #Trump defense secretary Hegseth describing US taxpayers as working to support US soldiers, saying he wants to make the #USA military the world’s biggest and “most badass” and “restore the warrior ethos”.
on 02025-03-04#video on Norway’s Holtback Bunkers Corp. cutting off fuel supplies to the #USA military until #Trump leaves office, following his criticism of Zelenskyy. #Ukraine #news
on 02025-03-02#news: the #Economist discusses the possibilities of European self-defense. “There are approximately 230 Russian and Ukrainian brigades in #Ukraine, though most are under-strength. Many European countries would struggle to produce a single combat-capable brigade each. (...) Europe has impressive air forces, with a lot of modern jets. But those jets do not have a meaningful stockpile of munitions capable of destroying enemy air defences or striking distant targets on land or in the air[.] (...) “This”, pronounced Mr Merz on February 24th, “is really five minutes to midnight for Europe.”” #Trump #politics
on 02025-02-28#news: the #Economist describes #Trump’s #politics as “mafia-like” and predicts disaster
on 02025-02-28#news #video of #Zelenskyy and #Trump yelling at each other in front of the US media in the Oval Office today. #Ukraine #politics
on 02025-02-28#video #news on #USA #Trump #politics: “NATO is a deterrent organization. It kept the peace for four generations. I think that’s over. (...) Fortunately, both the French and the Brits have a nuclear capability. Otherwise, the nuclear assurance that the US grants to our allies in Europe would be gone also.” Gen. Barry McCaffrey, (Ret.), US Army
on 02025-02-20#video #news of #UK defense minister Healey listing #weaponry sent to #Ukraine last year: “10000 #drones” is the only thing worth mentioning. Hegseth says #Trump’s approach to the war is that the war must end. “We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine, but we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. (...) The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement. (...) As part of any security guarantee, there will not be US troops deployed to Ukraine.” Not sure what he thinks about Donetsk and Luhansk. #politics
on 02025-02-12#Trump "brazenly defies laws" #USA #politics #news https://archive.ph/Ib2yr
on 02025-02-06#news on #USA FBI acting director Driscoll attempting to defend the FBI from #Trump. #politics
on 02025-02-05#Economist #news on #Trump’s tariff policy against the #EU and how they might respond #politics
on 02025-02-04New Yorker #news article about #Trump’s history and new expansionist policy. #history #USA #politics
on 02025-01-29#video of #pmarca saying it’s “morning again” in #USA #politics due to #Trump, 74 minutes. I didn’t realize Al Gore sponsored the legislation that created NSFNET; I thought his advocacy started with the com-priv era.
He mentions the end of Chevron deference, which he argues means that executive agencies should abandon their quasi-legislative functions. He also questions the idea of “independent agencies” in the executive branch, like the FTC and NRC. The interviewer, the Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson, argues that the CFPB's director not being fireable by the president is “unconstitutional on the face of it”, prefiguring the Slaughter verdict (I’m writing these notes in 02026).
Cites #Yarvin approvingly at 25'54" saying that we’re 80 years into FDR’s personal monarchy.
Also mentions #Elmu has been “living at” Mar-a-Lago.
Also mentions the #history of Nixon’s “Project Independence”, which I hadn’t heard of, to build 1000 #nuclear #energy power stations in the US, which turns out to be at best a very incomplete description of Project Independence.
Describes #Anduril’s original business plan as “We have to invest in this company, and his business plan is to hunt Mexicans at the southern border in 2016. And we’re just like, oh, God, we just basically have a heart attack.” So Andreessen Horowitz didn’t invest, and Trump didn’t want Anduril to do it, so they switched to military systems, which became accepted in Silicon Valley with the tragedy in #Ukraine.
Robinson claims that the US’s “only sustainable advantage over the Chinese is going to be technological innovation”, since they’re more numerous and richer, which doesn't make sense to me — how are they richer if they’re dumber, as he’s implying? Pmarca doesn’t disagree, citing the Pentagon’s new COO, Steve Feinberg, as someone who can make this happen.
At 56'40" he says the Ukrainian sea drones are built out of commercial jetskis.
At 60'40" pmarca makes the very reasonable points that productivity growth in the US has been low since about 01970, and that low growth creates zero-sum economics, which creates zero-sum politics, “where the only way for anybody to get anything is to take it away from somebody else.”
on 02025-01-29#USA #politics #Trump purporting to revoke birthright citizenship for children of legal temporary residents; ACLU and others are challenging the EO
on 02025-01-21#history of Jeff #Bezos and Donald #Trump’s relationship from Business Insider. #USA #politics
on 02025-01-09#news #video from Russian propaganda channel #Firstpost quotes the NYT quoting Vivek Ramaswamy promising “#Milei style cuts, on steroids” in #USA #politics under #Trump, but says “Milei-nomics” has “pushed 5 million people into poverty”
on 02024-12-23Michael Moore confidently predicts #Trump will lose the #USA election in 02024, as of October 4.
on 02024-12-21#news #video mentioning #Syria coup and a #Trump #interview
on 02024-12-09#news #video nine months ago from #Deutsche-Welle on #solar #manufacturing in #Europe, for example by #Switzerland company #Meyer-Burger in #Germany, which is opening a new factory in #Colorado-Springs, #USA. Credits national #China policy prioritizing #polysilicon production in the early 02000s. Lots of talking-head filler by Richard Black, director of policy and strategy at #Ember. Says #Brazil is “leading the renewable #energy boom taking place across the continent”, but apparently is trying #import-substitution with tariffs, and #ABSOLAR isn’t convinced local producers are enough. Says #Trump plans to cut Biden’s US subsidies. “Today, solar-powered energy is the cheapest form of electricity for the majority of the countries that use it. (...) Estimates put the cost somewhere between 300 and 900 dollars per kilowatt by 2030.” I guess when they made this video the mainstream solar module price was €0.14/Wp, and now it’s 29% lower at €0.10/Wp (US$106/kWp). Panasonic and LG recently exited the market. #photovoltaic
on 02024-11-27#USA (especially #Trump) persuaded #Australia, #New-Zealand, #Japan, #France, #Germany, and the #UK to ban or partly ban #Huawei after adding them to the #export-controls list in 02019; the UK in particular mandated removal of Huawei equipment from #5G networks by 02027. #HarmonyOS #politics #China
on 02024-11-27#video of right-wing video game streamer #Asmongold commenting on (and kind of endorsing) #Trump’s mass #deportation plan #USA #politics
on 02024-11-26#news #video saying Rand Paul will chair the Homeland Security committee next year and will not support the use of the military in #Trump’s planned deportations. #USA #politics
on 02024-11-24incoming border czar Tom Homan plans “shock and awe” assault on immigrants on day 1 of #Trump regime, using the military but, thanks to the Posse Comitatus act, not for arrests. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02024-11-20When #Trump tried to invoke the Insurrection Act to suppress the George Floyd protests. #USA #politics #history
on 02024-11-19#Scanalyst gives the far-right point of view on the #Trump assassination attempt. Gross. #USA #politics
on 02024-07-28#Trump receives US$4 million in donations in #Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, and USDC; also mentions the conference. “In recent months, Trump has positioned himself as the pro-crypto candidate for president, a reversal from his previous stance during his time in the White House.” #politics #USA
on 02024-07-28the “#Bitcoin 2024” conference listed both #Trump and RFK Jr. as speakers, as well as Russell Brand (the actor, not the programmer), Snowden (!), and Vivek Ramaswamy #politics
on 02024-07-28#Trump accepts #Bitcoin #Lightning Network campaign donations as of June 1
on 02024-07-28Far-right-wing news site Breitbart reports that #Trump promises to commute Ross Ulbricht’s #Digital-Silk-Road sentence. Though if he really wanted to do that, he could have done it in his previous presidency.
on 02024-07-28#USA NSA helped to track down certain #Bitcoin users, in an 02013 project called Oakstar, to interdict funding for terrorism (02018 news item). Also #Trump forbade US citizens to buy #Venezuela’s #Petro #CBDC. #history #politics
on 02024-07-28#Scanalyst on how #Trump gave a speech at The #Bitcoin Conference and is apparently backing Bitcoin now, and there’s a letter to the DNC asking them to “pivot away from the anti-bitcoin policies of Elizabeth Warren” #politics
on 02024-07-28#USA #politics #Trump’s "Truth Social", a GPL-violating Mastodon instance, defaced by pranksters
on 02021-11-11ump-has-been-a-racist-all-his-life-and-he-isnt-going-to-change-after-charlottesville/ #Trump #USA #racism #politics
on 02017-11-25#politics of #Trump against civil servants via Cernovich; the CFP raises eyebrows
on 02017-07-11#solar #photovoltaic #energy is “now” (2017-06-09 I guess) 1.6% of #USA electricity, and should reach 2% by the end of 2017, despite #Trump, according to SEIA. Also mentions #Suniva. Naïve extrapolation of such a 25%-semestral exponential growth rate would project that solar would reach 25% of total US electric supply 5.7 years later, around August 2022.
on 02017-06-17MODIS (36-band, infrared, 250m resolution) data is available, but old #datasets are being “decommissioned”: “The Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) plans to decommission the following Terra and Aqua MODIS product collections on June 30, 2017. Starting on July 1, 2017, users interested in accessing and acquiring Collection-5 (C5) decommissioned land products may do so from the Land Processes DAAC. Users will have no recourse to access the C5.1 MODIS atmosphere collections starting August 1, 2017, and are advised to use the C6 collection. Users will have no recourse to access the C5 MODIS L1 products starting January 1, 2018, and are advised to use the C6 MODIS L1 collection.” Not sure if this has to do with #Trump #politics trying to cover up #climate-change. Also they have a self-signed TLS certificate. #space #remote-sensing
on 02017-06-14post on the #backfire effect and #USA #politics, among other things. A lot of it is about the “#Trump supporters are illogical because they disagree with us” meme.
on 02017-06-14#Trump can fire special counsel Robert Mueller. #USA #politics
on 02017-06-14Dennis #Rodman is visiting North #Korea, but not as an official emissary of #Trump. #USA #politics
on 02017-06-14#politics betting markets on #Trump
on 02017-05-29#Trump speech in #Saudi Arabia
on 02017-05-21#Trump attack on #Yemen in February. #politics
on 02017-05-19#Trump investigation over Comey firing has surprise resignation: House Oversight Committee chairman resigns, not from the committee, but from Congress. #USA #politics
on 02017-05-19#Trump in the #USA is like Hugo #Chávez Frias in #Venezuela. #politics #history
on 02017-05-19#Trump is not in favor with the CFR, who consider Bannon to be the “puppet master”. #USA #politics
on 02017-05-19#Trump #USA #politics #history
on 02017-05-19#FBI, #USA #politics, and #Trump
on 02017-05-19Did #Trump win because of Cambridge Analytica and microtargeting? #politics #USA #history
on 02017-05-19more on #Trump attack on #Syria. #USA #politics #WWIII
on 02017-04-07#USA launched 59 Tomahawk missiles at #Trump’s order and destroyed the military airfield in Ash Sha’irat, #Syria, in response to a chemical-weapons attack in Idlib on Tuesday, even though OPCW certified Syria’s armed forces free of chemical weapons; “President [Vladimir] Putin regards the US attacks on Syria as an aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law, and under a trumped-up pretext at that.” #WWIII #poltiics
on 02017-04-07Nafeez Ahmed, writing for Motherboard, does an #interview with Johan Galtung (“‘founding father’ of peace and conflict studies”), who predicts #USA will decline under #Trump
on 02017-03-11Spies and their intrigues against #Trump. #deep-state #USA #politics
on 02017-03-11#Trump #USA #politics: ‘Judiciary has taken far too much power’ #immigration
on 02017-03-11#linguistics and meter: “shitgibbon” fits the metrical scheme of “wankpuffin”, “cockwomble”, “fucktrumpet”, “dickbiscuit”, “twatwaffle”, “turdweasel”, “cuntpuffin”, “spunkpuffin”, “shitpuffin”; “fuckwomble”, “twatwomble”; “jizztrumpet”, “spunktrumpet”; “shitbiscuit”, “arsebiscuits”, “douchebiscuit”; “douchewaffle”, “cockwaffle”, “fartwaffle”, “cuntwaffle”, “shitwaffle”, “crapweasel”, “fuckweasel”, “pissweasel”, and “doucheweasel”, but not “bunglecunt” and “shitehawk”. “Monosyllabic expletive + trochee”. #Trump
on 02017-03-11Sensationalized #Trump #USA #politics #history article about #Cambridge-Analytica #fake-news microtargeting: “The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine.” Not true yet, but will be in a few years.
on 02017-03-11Melania #Trump filing libel lawsuits to suppress #free-speech about her apparent history of #prostitution from 1995 to 1998
on 02017-03-11“the power of a massive populist movement that has now upended the two most stable democracies in the world” #USA #England #politics #Trump #Brexit
on 02017-01-30Analysis of #USA #Trump #politics
on 02017-01-30#Trump #Muslim-ban #politics #human-rights #USA
on 02017-01-30US CBP agents obey #Trump and defy #USA courts to enforce the #Muslim-ban. #politics #human-rights #bigotry
on 02017-01-30federal judge sends #USA marshals to prevent #Trump from enforcing the #Muslim-ban. #politics #human-rights #bigotry
on 02017-01-30Eliot Cohen’s wishful thinking about #USA #politics and #Trump.
on 02017-01-30“#Trump’s temporary immigration ban set a mental anchor in your brain that is frankly shocking. It will make his eventual permanent immigration plan (”extreme vetting”) look tame by comparison.” Also mentions ISIS bomb drones. #USA #politics #human-rights #bigotry #Muslim-ban
on 02017-01-30#Trump #USA #politics #bigotry #Muslim-ban
on 02017-01-30#Trump proclaims his inauguration day the “National Day of Patriotic Devotion” in #USA #politics
on 02017-01-23#Trump will remove the Army general heading the D.C. National Guard in his first minute in office. #USA #politics
on 02017-01-16In the 2016 #USA election, #Trump might have won the popular vote too if people had thought their votes mattered.
on 02017-01-03IBM wants to escape tax. #Trump #politics
on 02016-11-22Glenn Greenwald comments on #USA #politics right after the #Trump election (and how it relates to Brexit)
on 02016-11-21Martin #Shkreli “leaks” exclusive Wu-Tang Clan album ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ which he bought for US$2M, to bribe #USA for #Trump winning. #politics
on 02016-11-21Al Jazeera editorial by #USA law professor Khaled A. Beydoun against #Trump. #politics
on 02016-11-21#Trump advisor Steve Bannon wants to “destroy the state” for Tea Party goals. #politics
on 02016-11-21Ian Welsh on facing reality in the face of #Trump #politics
on 02016-11-20Washington Post profile of #Trump protegé Seth Bannon #politics
on 02016-11-20Nafeez Ahmed says #Trump will destroy himself but gives no details on why or how
on 02016-11-13how #USA might protect its judiciary from #Trump
on 02016-11-13#Trump announces some transition team appointments, and Ken Blackwell cites the old Mussolini apologetic to defend Trump’s pick: “‘Bannon is going to be keeper of the image of Trump as a fighter against the status quo, and Reince is going to utilize his personal connections with the speaker and others, to make the trains run on time,’ said Ken Blackwell, a former Ohio state official and a member of the Trump transition team.” Also Bannon, who headed his campaign, is the publisher of Breitbart. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-13#Thiel formally on #Trump “Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee”. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-11#Thiel to be “informally” #Trump advisor on technology. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-11How to survive in #Trump’s autocracy, based on experience with Putin. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-11Gingrich wants #Trump to set up a new McCarthy-style committee. Literally, by name, in quotes. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02016-11-11ongoing #Trump #racism incident list. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-11Six colleagues come forward to back up Natasha Stoynoff’s story of being sexually assaulted by #Trump
on 02016-10-18Lou Dobbs published 74-year-old Jessica Leeds’s home address and phone number, taken from public records, after the NYTimes published her accusation that #Trump had sexually assaulted her. #politics
on 02016-10-14#Trump lied when he claimed he didn’t know anything about Temple Taggart McDowell, who he forced a kiss on in 1997. #politics
on 02016-10-14The Committee to Protect Journalists says #Trump is a threat to freedom of speech. #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02016-10-14#Trump will be prosecuted for raping a 13-year-old girl in like 1994; Cheney Mason is the prosecuting attorney, while the victim is anonymous. #politics
on 02016-10-14I’ve never heard of CIA spy Evan McMullin before, but apparently he could be the next president of the #USA, but only if he doesn’t win too many votes and turn more states against #Trump. #politics
on 02016-10-14#Trump was in #porn, but not having sex
on 02016-10-11“Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen #USA beauty pageant said Donald #Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants — some as young as 15 — were changing.” One was Mariah Billado. Others (Jessica Granata, Allison Bowman, Crystal Hughes) say he couldn’t have been there (or they would have seen him, I guess.) #politics
on 02016-10-11CBS News’ Emily Schulthers thinks the relevant aspect of #Trump’s tape bragging about sexual assault was that it contained “lewd remarks”, not that it was admitting to sexual assault. Also, in 1992 he made lascivious remarks about a 10-year-old girl in an “Entertainment Tonight” Christmas feature, and in 2001 he would walk into the dressing rooms of beauty pageants where contestants including Tasha Dixon were “half naked”, as he bragged on the Howard Stern show in 2005. #politics
on 02016-10-11Jessica Leeds, who sat next to #Trump in first class on a plane 36 years ago, when she was 38, says he grabbed her breasts without her consent and tried to put her hand up her skirt; Rachel Crooks, who was 22, says he kissed her against her will when they met in Manhattan, when she was a receptionist at a company in his building, making her cry; Temple Taggart, former Miss Utah, said he kissed her more than once when she was 21. Trump denied everything and began yelling at the reporter over the phone #politics
on 02016-10-11Mindy McGillivray says #Trump sexually assaulted her in Mar-a-Lago, Florida 13 years ago, grabbing her ass #politics
on 02016-10-11Journalist Natasha Stoynoff, who had been interviewing celebrities for 20 years and once sparred with Mike Tyson, writes about how #Trump pushed her against a wall and french-kissed her by surprise in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, in 2005, then told her they were “going to have an affair”, then tried to surprise her at her massage-therapy appointment, but didn’t quite get to raping her. He denies it #politics
on 02016-10-11#politics Glenn Beck endorses Clinton; he’s been opposed to #Trump for a while. Posted on his Facebook page but reported on Trump organ Breitbart. “If the consequence of standing against Trump and for principles is indeed the election of Hillary Clinton, so be it. At least it is a moral, ethical choice.”
on 02016-10-11#Trump thinks Hillary Clinton used “chemical” to expunge her email. #USA #politics
on 02016-10-112016 #USA presidential election forecast (today: #Trump has 17.8% chance with the polls-only forecast, 21.1% with the polls-plus forecast)
on 02016-10-10#Trump and #rape and the “grab her by the pussy” tape
on 02016-10-07#Trump #racism #politics will question the legitimacy of the #USA presidential election if he loses)
on 02016-10-07#Trump #trolling #Twitter with bots
on 02016-10-02Former #Trump supporters discussion
on 02016-08-12The etymology of "shitgibbon" #Trump #politics #Scotland
on 02016-08-03supposedly #Trump had positions on other issues in the #politics of the Republican platform besides just Ukraine. Like Israel-Palestine.
on 02016-08-01The accusations that #Russia is supporting #Trump by cracking Democrats’ email. #politics
on 02016-08-01politicians call #Trump’s call for #Russia to crack Clinton’s email “treason” #politics
on 02016-08-01Analysis of #Trump’s RNC nomination acceptance speech, claiming it was brilliant. #politics
on 02016-07-24#Trump, as a “thin-skinned authoritarian”, would destroy democracy. #politics
on 02016-07-24#Trump #politics are largely funded by Russians, perhaps #Putin
on 02016-07-24why #Trump #politics is bad, an extensive list of links
on 02016-07-24In 1990, Donald #Trump had one of his employees (a cousin) greet him with “Heil Hitler” and kept My New Order, a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, in a cabinet by his bed. #politics #fascism
on 02016-07-07Cody Brown speaks out against Peter #Thiel and his destruction of Gawker, which has a #Trump aspect (Thiel’s lawyer just filed a new lawsuit against Gawker for investigating Trump’s hair or wig or whatever it is)
on 02016-06-21Sam Altman speaks out against #Trump despite saying he agrees with him about some important issues
on 02016-06-21Donald #Trump admits to #rape of Ivana Trump but claims a technicality in the #law keeps him safe.
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