New Year’s attacks fuel fears of extremism in military
Brad Dress,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Did you particularly note that the two terrorists that recently murdered innocent Americans were militarily trained MAGAts? The rising percentage of MAGAts in active service, or recent retirement, in the armed forces is a trend I having been following and reporting on (see SR archive) in SR for years. It really concerns me because if Trump orders the use of the militar … ⌘ Read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook to Donating $1 Million to Trump’s Inaugural Fund
Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal donation directly from Cook rather than a donation from Apple.

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Trump Bibles, Rudy coffee, Tucker nicotine pouches: the rightwing knick-knack racket
Adam Gabbatt,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is another American trend that is getting almost no coverage in the increasingly coorrupted U.S. billionaire owned media. Once again I saw the trend but have had to go to another British newspaper to get a decent article describing the trend. The Republican Party has become a billionaire-controlled organiz … ⌘ Read more

Jimmy Carter made eradicating Guinea worm disease a top mission
RUSS BYNUM and SAM MEDNICK,  Reporters  -  Associated Press

Stephan: This article describes what policies that foster wellbeing look like. This is multi-decade work by President Carter before and after his presidency. Do you think we will see anything remotely like this during the Trump Presidency. I don’t.

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Trump Medicare Pick Dr. Oz Says Uninsured ‘Don’t Have Right to Health’ in Resurfaced Clip
David Badash,  Staff Writer  -  The New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: Both my wife and I, like many of you, pay for and receive Medicare so we could be affected by what Mehmet Oz has in mind. This should not be  mistaken for the evil Medicare Advantage programs designed to enrich insurance corporations.  You would think Mehmet Oz’s heartless nonsens … ⌘ Read more

‘Concentration Camps’: Border Czar Says Trump to Detain Migrant Families
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Tom Homan looks like a thug and, I suspect, has been chosen by Trump because he has no qualms about behaving like one. I fear that on 21 January Homan will start the trend Trump has constantly promised, and that it is going to provoke a civil uprising in Blue states and in Red states it may become so intense that, as in the K … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s Pick to Lead Federal Housing Agency Has Opposed Efforts to Aid the Poor
Jesse Coburn and Andy Kroll,  Staff Writers  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Homelessness, as I reported in SR yesterday, is up 18%. Tens of thousands of Americans, live on the streets, and eat whatever they can beg, find, or be given. All of this results from the fact that fostering wellbeing is no longer a priority in the United States, only greed and power shape our social … ⌘ Read more

Spain’s MetroCHARGE Powers EVs With Energy Recovered From Barcelona Subway Train Brakes
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some good news although, once again, it is not a development in the United States. While we are about to go backwards to sustain the carbon era to the profit of the oligarchs that have supported criminal Trump’s election, the other democracies of the world are trying to exit that era, a … ⌘ Read more

US business leaders set to break record on donations to Trump inaugural fund
Edward Helmore,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Fascism is our new reality brought on by a level of explicit corruption of the American government never before seen in the last 250 years. The oligarchs have openly bought Trump, and the Republican Party, and Project 2025 is what they have in mind for you and me.  This was not imposed on us, forty-eight percent of voters … ⌘ Read more

‘Kind of amazing’: Ethics expert aghast by Trump Christmas merchandise spree
Brad Reed,  Managing Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Donald Trump and I met in New York at a charity function arranged by Gloria Vanderbilt when he was about 20 and I was about 24. We began talking because as we stood at the bar he noticed that like himself I had asked the bartender for iced sparkly water with a lime slice in it. He introduced himself and when I asked him what … ⌘ Read more

Panama’s president and Trump spar over Panama Canal
Eric Bazail-Eimil and Mia McCarthy,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

Stephan: Fascist Trump is giving the world a heads-up on the kind of international crises he is going to create as soon as he is sworn into office. He is making it clear that he isn’t going to address any of the geopolitical problems, he is going to bully little countries that have no means to oppose him. Trump is first and last a coward and a bully.

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Trump says US owning Greenland ‘absolute necessity’
Tara Suter,  Staff Writers  -  Yahoo News

_Stephan: Trump threatened Greenland in his first administration, and he is at it again. What do you notice about both Greenland and Panama? Small, free, and non-threatening. Just what a bully like Trump likes. It would not surprise me if, by the end of Trump’s term, the United States far from being a world leader became a nation despised around the world. Look at the caliber of peo … ⌘ Read more

How Musk Outmaneuvered Trump
Robert Kuttner,  Co-founder and Co-editor and Professor - Brandeis University’s Heller School  -  The American Prospect

Stephan: Have you noticed how many times Trump has either made such a bad decision, Gaetz’s nomination, that it failed, or was outplayed by an oligarch? I think this is going to go on for the next four years, as the oligarchs who own the Congress strive for what they want, not what is best for Americans.

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A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action?
Nesrine Malik,  Columnist  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Day after day, in both the American and international media, I see and read, or watch, horror story after horror story of Israel’s ongoing genocide of Muslims, much of it done with weapons given to fascist Netanyahu by Presidents Trump and Biden. Two men who, in my opinion, are both too old to hold th … ⌘ Read more

Editor’s Note – Americans Did it to Themselves
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: As I watch the chaos of the incoming Trump administration, several trends have stood out for me. The first is how it is possible that such corrupt and incompetent men and women have been elected as the representatives of the districts and states they are supposed to serve. What I think we are seeing is the manifestation of what the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United ma … ⌘ Read more

Trump Pledges: “Death to America”
John B. Alexander,  Commentator  -  Daily Kos

Stephan: John Alexander lays out what is going on very accurately. He also makes a point that I think is critically important yet not properly discussed in media, and certainly not in social media. Donald Trump and his MAGAt Congressional zombies are in office because American voters put them there. It is the voters that created what is happening to the United States.

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Where the Hell Are the Democratic Warriors Ready to Take the Fight to Trump’s Fascism?
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: As I frequently do I agree with Thom Hartmann’s call for some spine in the Democratic Party. As I have watched the last several weeks of the news on the Congress what has stood out for me is the spinelessness of the Democratic Congress members. They are all patting each other on the back for the budget e … ⌘ Read more

New ethics inquiry details more trips by Clarence Thomas paid for by wealthy benefactors
Associated Press Editorial Staff,    -  The Guardian (U.K.) | Associated Press

_Stephan: The christofascist Supreme Court majority engineered by Leonard Leo, Mitch McConnell and Trump, has produced the most corrupt court in the history of the United States. Not only corrupt but incredibly arrogant. They have no ethic standards they are required to … ⌘ Read more

Here’s what happens when the world’s richest man buys the presidency
Sabrina Haake,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Here are the four things I think citizens should be demanding, with tens of millions going into the streets across the nation to demonstrate for them. First, the Supreme Court Citizens United decision has to be rendered meaningless by the Congress passing legislation that can overcome Trump’s veto. Second, Congress should pass le … ⌘ Read more

Insurers Are Dictating Care and We’re Sick, Sick, Sick of It!
Adam Brown,  Emergency Care Physician, Entrepreneur, and Healthcare Executive.  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: In order to create change in any culture it requires 10% or more of the community, state, culture to change its consciousness about something. It can be good or bad. Trump got elected because there was a critical coherence of consciousness centered on fear, genderism, racism, and resentment. To change … ⌘ Read more

More in U.S. See Health Coverage as Government Responsibility
Jeffrey M. Jones,  Staff Researcher  -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Here is another aspect of the changing coherence consensus emerging on healthcare. Note particularly the difference by political party. Republican voters simply do not understand that they are going to be severely impacted by the chaos Trump, Musk, and Johnson are trying to get the country into. That said, I think a new coherence … ⌘ Read more

Republicans cry foul with some judges ‘unretiring’ before second Trump term
Anthony Adragna,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

Stephan: The Republicans have been trying to take over the nation’s judiciary for several decades led by Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society. This “unretiring” of Democratic judges, blocks Trump as this article describes. This isn’t getting much media attention, but it is going to have an interesting positive effect.

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Dr. Oz Exposed for Colossal, Multimillion Dollar Conflict of Interest
Edith Olmsted,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Out of half a dozen stories I saw today reporting the organized corruption that constitutes the incoming Trump administration, I picked this one because it is going to directly affect your life if you are a recipient of Medicare of Medicaid. But I thought I should also mention that Elon Musk spent $277 million buying Trump the Pr … ⌘ Read more

Donald Trump Controls a Publicly Traded Company. Now He Will Pick Its Regulator.
Justin Elliott, Robert Faturechi and Alex Mierjeski,  Staff Writers  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: After having tea with my wife, and debriefing with her about how hard it is becoming to do SR every day because of how depressing it is to report on what is happening to the United States, I decided I did need to do this corruption story because, I think it finally settles th … ⌘ Read more

As Trump escalates war on facts, scientists warn “we are going to get screwed”
Matthew Rozsa,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: So many Americans, including a large number of Republican Congress members, led by Trump, are so poorly educated that they have become convinced environmental science is some kind of conspiracy, not the actual truth. Every scientist I know, including myself, sees this Trumpian war on facts as an ongoing catastrophe for Amer … ⌘ Read more

Here’s what happens when the world’s richest man buys the presidency
Sabrina Haake,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Here is what I think is a very insightful commentary on what is going to happen starting 21 January when the United STates becomes an authoritarian oligarchy instead of a democracy. All the weak-minded Trump voters are about to discover what they have done to themselves as they, and the rest of us, experience the worst and most bia … ⌘ Read more

‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research
Ian Sample ,  Science Editor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: You’ve probably never heard of “mirror life” microbes. I had heard of them, and read a paper on on this research, but had not understood the threat to all life on Earth they represented. We are about to see if greed trumps the safety of life on this planet.

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‘Our big fear’: How Trump’s plan to privatize USPS could have ‘disastrous consequences’
Carl Gibson,  AlterNet Staff Writer  -  Raw Story | AlterNet

_Stephan: Since he took office as Postmaster General, I have been reporting in SR about Louis DeJoy’s destruction of the Postal Service. It is much slower and more expensive than it was when he came into office. I consider it one of the major failures of the Biden administration and the Republica … ⌘ Read more

‘The next recession starts here’: Trump team weighs abolishing bank regulators
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: The Trump authoritarian oligarchy is trying to take the United States back to the 1930s before there were government regulations that protected the general population from exploitation by the uber-rich the the corporations they controlled. I would not be surprised to see a recession by next summer, and people losing all … ⌘ Read more

Ontario Threatens to Cut Off U.S. Energy Exports If Trump Makes Good on Tariff Plan
Janna Brancolin,  Staff Writer  -  msn | The Daily Beast

Stephan: I think the U.S. economy will be devastated if the stupidity of Trump’s tariff plan is enacted. Here is an aspect of the Canadian response that neither Trump nor his congressional submissive seems to have even considered.

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Trump’s policies ‘should be turning off farmers’ – why did so many vote for him?
Stephen Starr,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: As I read or watch American journalism media I have been struck by the interviews with Trump voters who, if Trump does what he says he will, are going to be severely impacted, but don’t seem to think that will happen to them. It is very weird, but it seems to be the case. So by March, I think we are going to … ⌘ Read more

The great disruption: Climate change provoked migration and its effect on American healthcare
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Trump is turning the United States from a democracy into an authoritarian plutocracy. I think most of the uber-rich he has appointed will be confirmed by the Republican Congressional whores. If this does happen I predict that by March the American healthcare system will be turned o … ⌘ Read more

Weakened US public broadcasters will fight for their lives in 2025
Max Tani,  Staff Writer  -  SEMAFOR

_Stephan: If you watch PBS/NPR, or listen to it on the radio as my wife and I do, I am sure you have noticed a significant increase in time spent on fundraising. This article describes why this is happening, and where it is headed. The Trump autocracy and their Republican servants in Congress, I think, and this article confirms, are going to try and cut off … ⌘ Read more

‘Nonsense’: Historians balk at Trump ending birthright citizenship with executive order
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: There are probably people reading this who became American citizens by being born in the United States, in accordance with the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution on July 9, 1868. The Fourteenth Amendment and what is known as the Citizenship Clause which states: “All persons born or naturalized in … ⌘ Read more

Arctic Refuge Is One of Earth’s Last Truly Wild Places. Trump Calls it America’s “Biggest Oil Farm.”
Maanvi Singh,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: The Trump authoritarian oligarchy is going the significantly increase the use of carbon energy and the destruction of the environment. Nothing I am seeing in this transition period suggests the future holds much good news. Quite the contrary. I think by March we are going to se … ⌘ Read more

Nine States Poised To Shrink Medicaid Coverage
Phil Galewitz,  Senior Correspondent  -  Kaiser Family Foundation | Truthdig

_Stephan: The Republican Congressional prostitutes whose services have been rented out to the illness profit system corporations are just waiting for Trump to come into power so that they can cut Medicaid. As this article describes, this would leave over 3 million Americans, many of whom voted for Trump, without health coverage.  If you live in any of the … ⌘ Read more

Les mondialistes perdent leur sang-froid
Avec l’élection de Trump aux États-Unis, et, moins récemment, celle de Milei en Argentine et de Bukele au Salvador, les évidences socialistes qu’on nous ressassaient jusqu’à présent se sont brutalement fanées et comme l’évoque un précédent billet, l’observateur attentif peut même commencer à déceler un « effet domino » : puisque ces politiciens montrent qu’une autre voie est […] ⌘ Read more

Trump’s ‘Government of Billionaires’ Boasts Combined Wealth Greater Than New Zealand’s GDP
David Gilmour,  Staff Writer  -  msn | MEDIAite

_Stephan: On January 20th we will officially become a government of oligarchs, grifters, and sex offenders, headed by a multiple felon, rapist, and traitor.  Welcome to the USA. That may sound like a politically partisan statement, but it isn’t. It is a simple statement of fact. One can only imagine h … ⌘ Read more

‘Dirty and dumb!’ Trump may cancel major government contract
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet | Common Dreams

Stephan: A first taste of Trump’s new administration’s corruption, further damage to an already deeply wounded postal service, with more sure to follow.

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The deep roots of Americans’ hatred of their health care system
Dylan Scott,   Editor and Senior Correspondent  -  VOX

_Stephan: The expense, quality, and social outcome data of America’s illness profit system (IPS) has become so expensive and bad that many apparently see the shooting of United Healthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson as a killing done by someone enflamed with rage by something that happened to them done by the IPS.  I think Trump, the oligarchs who serv … ⌘ Read more

There’s only one way to defeat Trump’s billionaires boys club
Thoma Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story | AlterNet | Commentary

Stephan: I think Thom Hartmann has it right. I have been quite struck by the contrast between how the people of the nations of Georgia and South Korea responded to authoritarianism, and the weakness of the American response. I don’t think most Americans have a clue as to what is about to happen to them.

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Donald Trump’s Second Administration Will Be As Women-Hating as Ever
Rebecca Gordon,  Lecturer Department of Philosophy - University of San Francisco  -  The Nation

_Stephan: As I study the trends shaping the United States, it has become clear to me that one of the most central trends is the MAGAt attempt to reimpose on American society a kind of late 19th century genderism, mostly by defining what is acceptable behavior for women. Women are supposed to be … ⌘ Read more

What Trump’s Victory Means for the Private Prison Industry
Lauren-Brooke Eisen,    -  Brennan Center for Justice

Stephan: The United States has the shame of being the country with the largest  and most racist incarcerated population in the world.

In 2024, there were over 1.9 million people incarcerated in the United States, including:

_- 1,566 state prisons

• 98 federal prisons
  
• 3,116 local jails
  
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Republican senator prepares ‘DOGE Act’ targeting agencies
Kevin Bogardus,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Tennessee MAGAt Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn has always been a notably inferior and incompetent member of the Senate, although the people of Tennesse don’t seem to see this. She has also always been a submissive doxy to Trump, and I am not surprised that he chose her to introduce legislation to legalize his previously non-existent DOGE agency that is going to gut d … ⌘ Read more

The Right Has a 150-Page Battle Plan to Shut Down Progressive Civil Society
Negin Owliaei and Maya Schenwar ,    -  truthout

_Stephan: The MAGAt Republicans under Trump’s guidance first with Project 2025 and now with legislation like HR 9495 have made it very clear what they intend, and this is what I think is going to happen to the United States. By March, I think America will have become a plutocracy with Trump as an authoritarian leader. What I w … ⌘ Read more

How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US – visualized
Oliver Milman ,  Environment Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I have given you a number of articles about what climate change is doing, and is going to do to the cost of home and business insurance if you can get it at all. The insurance industry, both healthcare and real estate, poured millions of dollars into getting Trump elected, so I doubt he is going to d … ⌘ Read more

Transcript: Expert Stunned as Trump Picks 9th Billionaire for Top Job
Greg Sargent,  Contributing Writer  -  The New Republic

Stephan: When I tell you that the United States is about to become a racist, genderist, christofascist authoritarian nation, that is not a politically partisan statement. It is an emerging factual reality.

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Billionaire investor with military contracts picked to be No. 2 at Trump’s Pentagon
Sarah K. Burris,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

Stephan: Welcome to the christofascist authoritarian oligarchy the United States is about to become.

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The US supreme court’s trans rights case threatens decades of civil rights precedent, experts say
Sam Levin,    -  The Guaardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The MAGAt-controlled Supreme Court, like Republicans in general, don’t seem to understand or even care about the wellbeing and medical reality of children as well as the LGBTQ subpopulation. With Trump in the Presidency, Congress dysfunctional, and the corrupt MAGAt majority dominating … ⌘ Read more

Federal Court Rules Idaho Can Enforce Law Banning Interstate Travel for Abortion
Julia Conley ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout | Common Dreams

_Stephan: As we enter Trump’s christofascist mafiosa regime Republicans at the state level feel evermore empowered to control women. This court ruling in Idaho by the Federal Ninth Circuit Court will be used in other Republican-controlled states to limit their women from traveling to another state to get he … ⌘ Read more

Bukele, Milei, Trump : l’effet domino
Avec l’arrivée de Donald Trump en janvier prochain, avec la présence de Javier Milei en Argentine depuis 1 an et celle de Nayib Bukele au Salvador depuis 5 ans, c’est toute une réalité violemment antagoniste avec les utopies gauchiste qui s’installe dans le paysage mondial et, notamment, dans le médiaverse. Ceci n’est pas sans conséquence, […] ⌘ Read more

China is on a collision course with Trump. It just fired a warning shot
China has not wasted any time responding to the latest US attempt to restrain its development of a crucial industry. It was an unusual move and may be a sign of things to come. ⌘ Read more

Who are the people Trump has picked for key positions in his second administration so far
Steve Benen,    -  PBS News

_Stephan: Well, I found two good news stories, so now I have to deal with the reality of what is happening to America. Convicted multiple felon, rapist, and traitor Donald Trump, who a small majority of citizens chose to be the country’s leader, is creating the equivalent of a mafia cabal as this articles describes to l … ⌘ Read more

Trump is taking the mask off after lying to us for more than a year
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

Stephan: Thom Hartmann and I usually agree, and we certainly do about this. I think by March we are going to have a pretty good idea whether we will remain a genuine democracy or whether we are on the path to becoming a pseudo-democracy like Hungary and Russia.

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Nearly a Quarter of Republicans Would Vote for Trump to Get Third Term
Matt Keeley,    -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: We are watching the complete dismemberment of American democracy as Republicans at both the state and Federal level try to alter the laws to allow them to stay in power no matter what voters say. It is all straight out of the fascist playbook. So is Trump frequent mention that he will run for a third term even though that violates … ⌘ Read more

Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Belittling, Abusing, and Lying to Women
Pemy Levy,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: It is notable that so many of Trump’s nominations, like himself, are sex offenders. there is no precedent in our history for this. But as bizarre as that is what kind of man is Pete Hegseth, who Trump wants to make Secretary of Defense. His own mother has come out to accuse him of his vile behavior treating women includi … ⌘ Read more

Jack Smith Makes It Official: Donald Trump Got Away With Everything
Dan Friedman,  Senior Reporter  -  Mother Jones

Stephan: For the first time since the United States was created we have a President who is a convicted sex offender, multi-felon, and traitor. A man who seeks to end democracy and make the country a christofascist authoritarian nation ruled by an oligarchy. It will be interesting to see what the U.S. is in March.

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A Corporate Media System Bound to Capitalism Delivers for Trump for a Second Time
Victor Pickard,  Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication - Co-director the Media, Inequality & Change Center  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: This is an article confirming what I have been telling you for several years now about the failure of American corporate media to properly and accurately cover Trump and the MAGAt movemen … ⌘ Read more

Merrick Garland and his ‘Justice’ Department should never be forgiven
D. Earl Stephens,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story | Commentary

Stephan: I completely agree with this article. I think in the future historians and legal scholars are going to condemn Merrick Garland’s weakness and incompetence as Attorney General. As a result of Garland’s mismanagement of DoJ Trump is getting away scot-free from literally dozens of crimes and traitorous activity.

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As Trump touts plans for immigrant roundup, militias are standing back, but standing by
Amy Cooter,  Director of Research, Academic Development, and Innovation at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism  -  The Conversation

_Stephan: I have been doing reports on these MAGAt citizen militias of insecure White men, including a number of sheriffs for years now. These men adore guns, and train like soldiers because it makes th … ⌘ Read more

Mercedes reinvents the brakes for electric vehicles
Joe Salas,    -  New Atlas

_Stephan: Here is some good news about an important new development for braking in EVs. Sadly, American automakers are falling further behind technologically, and this is going to be seriously exacerbated if Trump carries through with his Mexican, Canadian, and Chinese tariff schemes.  American automakers are heavily dependent on those countries to produce their cars and trucks, and thousands of … ⌘ Read more

Why Mass Deportations Would Cripple California’s Economy
Mark Kreidler,    -  The American Prospect

_Stephan: When you combine Trump’s tariffs and his deportation schemes, what you get is that you and I are, by Robert Reich’s estimate, going to face about $6,000 in additional annual expenses. It is going to particularly impact Trump working and middle-class voters in Red states. And that doesn’t even address the massive social disruption that will arise from ripping im … ⌘ Read more

NASA Satellites Show Major Drop in Global Freshwater Since 2014
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is an aspect of climate change I have not seen previously. It is going to have a significant impact on countries all over the world, particularly developing nations with poor infrastructure. It will though impact large parts of the United States. Humanity is simply not doing what needs to be done, and Trump doesn’t even seem to think c … ⌘ Read more

Donald Trump ‘to expel all transgender people from military’
,    -  The Telegraph (U.K.)

_Stephan: If Trump, the first felonious, rapist, criminal ever elected President actually does this, the effect on the military will devastating.  Few Americans, I think realize that military as part of American society is a much smaller percentage than it was. In 1970, when I became Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations the number of active-duty service members w … ⌘ Read more

‘Mind-Blowing’: Study Shows Fungal Networks Can Solve Problems and Make Decisions
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: There are so many negative trends that I just don’t want to do any more tonight. So here are two stories that don’t deal with the destruction of American democracy by Trump and the Republican Party he controls. The research I have been doing for the last 60 years has convinced me that Max Planck, … ⌘ Read more

The Rise of Trump and the Fall of American Empire
Alfred McCoy,  Fred Harvey Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison  -  truthdig

_Stephan: This geopolitical analysis of what is likely to happen during the upcoming Trump administration, in my opinion, is accurate. I think Alfred McCoy describes the American future with brutal insight.  Trump and his gang of MAGAt mafioso, I believe are going to leave office with China the leading nation in the … ⌘ Read more

Clinicians React to Trump’s Appointees; Beyonce in the OR? Diagnosing Shiny Legs
Gillian Booth and Katie Smith,  Social Media Editor | Social Media Assistant  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: It is clear from reading the social posts of physicians and nurses that they are seriously alarmed by what the Trump administration and the MAGAt Republicans in Congress have in mind for health care. I have selected this story because it offers links you can click … ⌘ Read more

China looks to step into global vacuum as Trump vows to pull U.S. back
Christian Shepherd and Katrina Northrop,  Reporters  -  msn | The Washington Post

_Stephan: While America is lost in the nightmare of our culture wars, and we are about to put into office an administration based on the mafia, China is becoming the world leader. What is worse neither our politicians of either party, our media, or the American people seems capable of telling ourselves t … ⌘ Read more

MAGA’s ‘virility’ and ‘alpha male’ fixation tied to sex scandal-plagued nominees: reporter
Matthew Chapman,  News Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: One of the central problems American society faces is that an increasing number of men, particularly White men, and definitely including Trump himself, are so unclear and insecure about what honorable manhood is. Male insecurity is the hallmark of the MAGAt world. There has never been a time in the … ⌘ Read more

‘There Is No Climate Crisis’ Says Fracking CEO Chris Wright, Trump’s Pick to Head Department of Energy
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Of the sex molesters, hucksters, and sickos Trump has picked for his administration Chris Wright, who would take over the Department of Energy, is hardly getting mentioned. And yet if he is confirmed he could literally damage Earth itself, and the matrix of … ⌘ Read more

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GOP Takes First Steps To Shut Down Climate Groups
,    -  The Lever

_Stephan: I have already covered the first failure of The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, which failed but still earned, to the astonishment of many including myself, 15 Democratic votes. But it will be back. This is about taking away the nonprofit status of organizations Trump and the MAGAts in Congress do not like. It was because I saw this coming that I did not make SR a … ⌘ Read more

A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned
Greg Sargent,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: If you are an hourly worker and you voted for Trump, you just got screwed out of overtime pay, although you may not know it yet since after I found it on an academic legal site I only found this report in The New Republic in the general audience press. The media as the article describes either didn’t understand the judge’s decision … ⌘ Read more

Big Tech didn’t like Biden. Trump won’t be any better for Google & Co
The Biden administration has used antitrust legislation to target the technology giants, even seeking to break up Google. The Trump nominees to key posts overseeing the tech sector won’t be much friendlier. ⌘ Read more

Trump’s Newest Enemy ⌘ Read more

Maintenant, c’est vous les médias.
Décidément, la campagne et l’élection de Donald Trump auront servi de « révélateur » et ainsi montré que le journalisme occidental, dans son acceptation historique, n’est plus que l’ombre de lui-même et a largement fait place à une véritable presse de propagande, dont les messages sont devenus de plus en plus délirants et outranciers à mesure qu’elle […] ⌘ Read more

Buoyed by Trump win, US pro-crypto lobby group opens Australian outpost
‘Stand With Crypto’, a lobby group backed by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, is hoping to capitalise on a wave of momentum from Donald Trump’s decisive US election win. ⌘ Read more

France Afuera : plus de liberté, moins de cerfa !
Magie du succès, depuis que Musk les enchaîne (avec SpaceX, Starlink, la fréquentation en hausse constante de X.com et dernièrement, son habile soutien à Trump), tout le monde – ou presque – se réclame volontiers de ses idées ou de sa paternité… Notamment en ce qui concerne la mise en place du DOGE. Le DOGE ? […] ⌘ Read more

For $US130m, Musk bought himself a spot in Trump’s inner circle. But what exactly has he gained?
Months of budding bromance have culminated in this: a comprehensive election victory, one that firmly bears the mark of the world’s richest tech bro. ⌘ Read more

Et maintenant, l’effondrement français
Contre toute attente et contre les tombereaux de conseils avisés de France Inter ou de Libération, les Américains ont une nouvelle fois élu Donald Trump. Cela a immédiatement plongé la quasi-intégralité de la journalisticaillerie française dans un désarroi profond, empêchant nos fiers soldats de l’information juste et vérifiée de reporter quelques éléments sur la situation […] ⌘ Read more

So let’s recap… We’ve got Putin waging war against Ukraine. Netanyahu waging war against Palestine. Iran getting involved. Kim Jong Un helping Russia and sending soldiers as resources for Putin’s war. And now Trump has won a 2nd term in the US where we’ll see him scrap EU sanctions and fines against US companies violating EU laws and what else? 🤔

What dafuq is wrong with this world?! 🌍

So let’s recap… We’ve got Putin waging war against Ukraine. Netanyahu waging war against Palestine. Iran getting involved. Kim Jong Un helping …
So let’s recap… We’ve got Putin waging war against Ukraine. Netanyahu waging war against Palestine. Iran getting involved. Kim Jong Un helping Russia and sending soldiers as resources for Putin’s war. And now Trump has won a 2nd term in the US where we’ll see him scrap EU sanctions and fines against US companies violating EU laws and what else? 🤔

What dafuq is wrong with this world?! 🌍 ⌘ Read more

Présidentielle américaine : le contentieux Trump
Petit-à-petit, la poussière de la semaine journée électorale américaine retombe et, avec elle, l’excitation de cet événement dont beaucoup comprennent – souvent confusément – qu’il va fortement influencer le monde pour les prochains mois. Et comme on l’avait déjà prévu dans ces colonnes et ailleurs, la situation va encore devoir s’éclaircir. Eh oui : comme l’avaient […] ⌘ Read more

‘Delete, delete, delete’: Musk’s political plans put millions of Americans at risk
Elon Musk’s company stewardship gives us some clues about what his role in a Trump administration might look like, and it’s not good news – for anyone. ⌘ Read more

Présidentielle américaine : le camp démocrate se crispe
Au contraire des sondages qui sont sont toujours bâtis sur différentes méthodes statistiques (quotas par exemple), les images suivantes sont les paris Trump vs Harris, dans lesquels des individus ont mis de l’argent sur leur candidat préféré ou celui qu’ils espèrent voir gagner. Ceci veut dire que beaucoup de gens estiment (ou préfèrent) voir Trump […] ⌘ Read more

Trump vs Harris on Computer Tech Policies
How President Donald Trump & Vice President Kamala Harris differ on Net Neutrality, TikTok, AI, Broadband, Internet Censorship, & Section 230. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @falsifian@www.falsifian.org @prologic@twtxt.net Maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about and You’ve probably already read this: Everything you need to know about the “Right to be forgotten” coming straight out of the EU’s GDPR Website itself. It outlines the specific circumstances under which the right to be forgotten applies as well as reasons that trump the one’s right to erasure …etc.

I’m no lawyer, but my uneducated guess would be that:

A) twts are already publicly available/public knowledge and such… just don’t process children’s personal data and MAYBE you’re good? Since there’s this:

… an organization’s right to process someone’s data might override their right to be forgotten. Here are the reasons cited in the GDPR that trump the right to erasure:

• The data is being used to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information.
  
• The data is being used to perform a task that is being carried out in the public interest or when exercising an organization’s official authority.
  
• The data represents important information that serves the public interest, scientific research, historical research, or statistical purposes and where erasure of the data would likely to impair or halt progress towards the achievement that was the goal of the processing.
  

B) What I love about the TWTXT sphere is it’s Human/Humane element! No deceptive algorithms, no Corpo B.S …etc. Just Humans. So maybe … If we thought about it in this way, it wouldn’t heart to be even nicer to others/offering strangers an even safer space.
I could already imagine a couple of extreme cases where, somewhere, in this peaceful world one’s exercise of freedom of speech could get them in Real trouble (if not danger) if found out, it wouldn’t necessarily have to involve something to do with Law or legal authorities. So, If someone asks, and maybe fearing fearing for… let’s just say ‘Their well being’, would it heart if a pod just purged their content if it’s serving it publicly (maybe relay the info to other pods) and call it a day? It doesn’t have to be about some law/convention somewhere … 🤷 I know! Too extreme, but I’ve seen news of people who’d gone to jail or got their lives ruined for as little as a silly joke. And it doesn’t even have to be about any of this.

P.S: Maybe make X tool check out robots.txt? Or maybe make long-term archives Opt-in? Opt-out?
P.P.S: Already Way too many MAYBE’s in a single twt! So I’ll just shut up. 😅

‘Land of dreams’: The Australian high-flyers on edge as Trump and Harris duke it out
Australia’s tech insiders are enjoying a surge in optimism from the Fed’s bumper rate cut, but all eyes are now on the US election. ⌘ Read more

Tech Journalist publicly hopes for another assassination attempt on President Trump
While multiple Open Source talking heads suggest shooting was “staged”… Including a public representative from Mozilla (makers of Firefox and Thunderbird). More from the Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ ⌘ Read more

Tentative d’assassinat de Trump : tout se déroule comme prévu
Après Jair Bolsonaro, Shinzo Abe, Robert Fico, c’est donc au tour de Donald Trump de subir une tentative d’assassinat. Comme de coutume aux États-Unis, la tentative a immédiatement versé dans le spectaculaire, surtout du côté de la presse de grand chemin. Et spectaculaire est probablement le seul qualificatif pour la façon dont cette dernière a […] ⌘ Read more

Élection présidentielle américaine : les derniers mois de Biden ?
Fin juin, les citoyens américains ont eu le douteux privilège de regarder sur CNN le premier débat présidentiel de l’actuelle campagne électorale en cours aux États-Unis, opposant Donald Trump pour les Républicains et Joe Biden pour les Démocrates. La surprise ne fut dévastatrice que pour les plus niais et les plus captifs des bobards actuels […] ⌘ Read more

Quand la gauche perd les minorités
Saperlipopette, tout ne se déroule vraiment pas comme prévu outre-Atlantique ! Il était pourtant évident que Trump avait perdu les élections et qu’il ne pourrait se représenter tant il serait embarrassé par ses ennuis judiciaires ! Mieux encore : son positionnement politique, résolument anti-progressiste, ne pouvait que lui attirer du mépris d’une population majoritairement démocrate, voyons ! En effet, […] ⌘ Read more

The Register spins to protect Red Hat in discrimination lawsuit
Tump! Immigration! Insurrection! Muslim Tavel Ban! Elon Musk! What do any of those things have to do with a discrimination lawsuit against Red Hat, the worlds largest Linux company? Well… nothing. Nothing at all. But Tech News outlet, The Register, wants you to stop thinking about Red Hat doing something wrong… and, instead, be angry at anyone who would attack Red Hat. Because Trump. Or something. ⌘ Read more

Democrats and Republicans putting forward their ‘weakest candidates’
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says the only Democrat who can lose to Donald Trump is Joe Biden, and the only Republican who can lose to Joe Biden is Donald Trump.

It is all but sealed that the 2024 US election will be a Trump-Biden rematch, as the former president continues to dominate the Republican primaries.

“Both parties have sort of gone out … ⌘ Read more

‘Unforgivable’: Donald Trump won’t ‘protect’ Prince Harry
Former US president Donald Trump revealed if he is re-elected he will not protect Prince Harry from allegations he lied on his US visa application.

When applying for a visa, applicants must disclose their past drug use, and the Prince famously revealed in his book ‘Spare’ that he took drugs.

However, sources close to Harry claim he answered truthfully on his application, and there is no … ⌘ Read more

Trump, Biden to visit Texas border on the same day
FOX News Correspondent Madeleine Rivera has more on the upcoming visits. ⌘ Read more

Battle over border bills continues in Congress
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are planning to visit the U.S. border on the same day, separated by just 300 miles as a bipartisan group in the House is working to provide an alternative to the Senate’s failed national security bill. ⌘ Read more

Tuesday, February 27 | Top stories | From the Newsroom
Malcolm Turnbull criticises Donald Trump’s ties to Vladimir Putin, NSW Police uninvited from Mardi Gras, Cristiano Ronaldo faces suspension for inappropriate gesture, and Taylor Swift’s Australian tour concludes with her backup dancer delighting the crowd with Aussie slang. ⌘ Read more

‘Outsider’s wet dream’: Donald Trump embraces Javier Milei
The meeting of former US president Donald Trump and Argentina’s President Javier Milei is an “outsider’s wet dream”, says Sky News host Paul Murray.

The two greeted each other at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland on Saturday.

Milei could not contain his excitement while meeting the former US president for the first time.

During the encounter, Trump tol … ⌘ Read more

GOP laments 2021 ‘failed coup’, vows to ‘continue pushing to end democracy’, with Trump at forefront
Former President Donald Trump cast November’s presidential election as “judgment day” and declared himself a “proud political dissident” during a speech before conservative activists outside of Washington Saturday as he again cloaked his campaign in religious imagery. Speaking at the Conservative Political … ⌘ Read more