FinchHaven sfba

Reading #DonaldTrump's first interview on #FOXNews @ #Twitter since getting back from #China and I won't even bother transcribing and posting any of it

Trump is being "interviewed" by #BrettBaier (think it is) and Trump is utterly incoherent

No big surprise there, I guess...

#Taiwan #China #Iran #IranWar #SaudiArabia #DonaldTrump #Trump #PeteHegseth #MarcoRubio #StephenMiller #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP

@ProPublica

Why?

Because #StevenMiller hates #Hispanics

All Hispanics

#Trump #ICE #DHS

@divya

Just scrolled through some of their most recent posts

They're either not using #Hashtags at all, or are using hashtags that are already so specific to them that'd I'd never see them unless I was Following them already

#StudentArtSFO #CCA

There is *some* method to this madness

cc @sfomuseum

@aaron.rupar

#StochasticTerrorism

Just wait until some of these innocent people #Trump is calling out get a 2:00 am pizza delivery by some masked male, or their homes get #SWATTed

#DonaldTrump #Trump #PeteHegseth #MarcoRubio #StephenMiller #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP

@thejapantimes

"Trump's once strategically useful unpredictability..."

There is, for some reason, a global intellectual mindset that #DonaldTrump is some sort of god tier, twelve-dimensional chess player and that his tactics are beyond the understanding of mere humans

#GlobalFinancialMarkets seem to be particularly enamored of this viewpoint, even though it's clearly hallucinatory

#Trump is nothing more than a profoundly disturbed, acute narcissist and a demonstrated, serial, pathological liar

Trump has the attention span of a goldfish and merely leaps to the last thing the last #TrumpWhisperer said to him before they left the room

Global Financial Markets need to come up to speed, and quickly

Trump is *not* what they want to think he is

#commentary #worldnews #us #uschinarelations #china #taiwan #pla #globaleconomy #trade #tariffs #iran #xijinping #donaldtrump

When you've lost the #GatewayPundit, you're in deep, deep trouble politically

"The O’Keefe Media Group on Tuesday released undercover video of White House insiders bragging about internal subversion against President Trump

"Benjamin Ellisten, a Budget Analyst Manager within the Executive Office of the President, expressed, “We have to get rid of Trump

“He’s [Trump] f*cking it up for everybody….We’ve got to get rid of him,” he said

"Meanwhile, Benjamin Ellisten, a Budget Analyst Manager within the Executive Office of the President, expressed

“We have to get rid of Trump,” while also calling the president “a madman” and insisting his coworkers “can’t know” how he truly feels about the current sitting President of the United States

When OMG contacted Ellisten for comment, he sounded flustered and claimed he had “no idea what we’re talking about” before abruptly hanging up the phone."

Here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/breaking-two-high-level-white-house-insiders-caught/

#DonaldTrump #Trump #PeteHegseth #StephenMiller #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP

@BruceMirken

Not my original work, came across it yesterday, but my pinned post is increasingly relevant:

"Read an interesting quote yesterday that I should have Bookmarked

Something like:

"I believe those things that help me understand the world around me better"

versus

"I believe those things that help me get along with the people I have around me better"

One supports gaining personal wisdom, the other supports staying in the herd"

We can think of it as two very different, entirely separate classes of people:

Those whose lives are their own and are reality-based, and those whose lives are based in sustaining their membership within their tribe

#DonaldTrump #Trump #PeteHegseth #MarcoRubio #StephenMiller #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP

@klausblog

Firefox web browser on an Ubuntu desktop

Why does this take an "app"?

Oh

You're on your phone, of course

Where there has to be An App For Everything(tm)

#fediask #fediverse #technology #internet #bookmarking #information #raindrop #pinboard

@aaron.rupar

This all meme-warfare by the #WhiteHouseRapidReactionForce

The remnants of #ElonMusk's #DOGE gang, who were all obsessively online twenty-something edgelords from 4Chan /Pol

Kicking #Libtard ass 24/7 for the lulz

#DonaldTrump #Trump #PeteHegseth #MarcoRubio #StephenMiller #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP

@troed

Yeah

OK

Too cute by half

#Muted, #Blocked, #DomainBlocked

Bye...

@troed

So here we go again

Some bright-eyed young coder bro is back indexing every post that shows up in his Home feed:

"When your Mastodon Home feed loads new toots, the extension detects that the page content has changed and re-indexes the tab. This means every toot that appears in your browser gets added to your local index automatically."

What if I don't want to be "found" simply because I use a generic hashtag our bright-eyed young coder bro is indexing on a page that uses that hashtag, who I don't Foilow, and who I would otherwise be unknown to?

Famous last story, again

How do I #OptOut

Who do I #Block?

Y'all never seem to understand that not everyone --> wants <-- to be found by some complete stranger

Or do I need to go on #Github and open an Issue?

#Hister

@Nonilex

Let's dial up the Way Back Machine:

Roswell, New Mexico, Area 51, 1947:

"July 8, 1947, issue of the Roswell Daily Record, featured a story announcing the Roswell Army Air Field "capture" of a "flying saucer" from a ranch near Roswell"

All you young kids didn't study any American history in school, did ya?

Oh

No one ever taught this to you young kids in American history because it was quickly seen as a fraud

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident

#Trump #UFOs #RoswellNM #Area51 #1947 #Fraud #Space #Science

@indivisibleteam

The #SCOTUS decision on the #VotingRightsAct is exactly what #LeonardLeo and the #FederalistSociety paid for in #ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts

@hamoid

The post I see immediately under yours says

"...and 5 more"

How do you want it to work?

#Mastodon #WebClient #MastoHelp

@samlitzinger

The #FederalJudiciary has been neutered, castrated

As long as there are no real consequences to any of #Trump's "defiance" why should Trump or #TrumpAttorneys ever stop?

@georgetakei

The #SCOTUS decision on the #VotingRightsAct is exactly what #LeonardLeo and the #FederalistSociety paid for in #ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts

@aaron.rupar

Diner chef, yelling out through the pass through to the waitresses out in the diner:

"We're 86 on the beef stroganoff..."

Once again we see that the entire #RepublicanParty, to the last man but particularly #President #DonaldTrump, are confirmed, serial, #PathologicalLiars

Not one word any #Republican says can be believed

Period

Full stop

@aaron.rupar

And #Trump is so obtuse and unselfaware that he actually wonders why *anyone* would attempt to #Assassinate him

Just when you thought #SocialMedia could *not* get any worse, this:

Zach Bussey 🇨🇦 -- @zachbussey
1h

#YouTube is testing a #Conversational #Search powered by #AI.

This experiment is available for #Premium members in the #USA.

So is the #DowJones down on "Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh confirmation hearing" or did #Trump just say something stupid

Again?

#Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #Trump #PeteHegseth #StephenMiller #BenjaminNetanyahu #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP

@samlitzinger

"despite what you hear in the chatter in public"

"Wright said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Is this what you'd call 'cognitive dissonance'?

#Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #Trump #PeteHegseth #StephenMiller #BenjaminNetanyahu #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP

Jasmine El-Gamal -- @jasmineelgamal

“We could not get to a situation where the Iranians could accept our terms.”

Those words just now from #VicePresident #JDVance demonstrate the fundamental flaw in these "negotiations"--a simplistic expectation on the part of the US that Iran would agree to American terms in the span of hours or days.

That is not a negotiation. That is an ultimatum. Those are two very different things.

To offer an ultimatum and have it be accepted, the other party has to perceive itself as having no choice--in other words, to be weak enough that they have to accept terms, rather than begin talks.

Iran does not see itself as that weak...far from it. So why would the US think it could go in and dictate terms?

A very discouraging update indeed.

#Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #PeteHegseth #BenjaminNetanyahu

Laura Rozen reposted:

Tyler Pager -- @tylerpager

"As #VicePresident #Vance enters the 16th hour of talks here in Islamabad, #PresidentTrump and #MarcoRubio have arrived at an arena in #Miami to watch #UFC327"

Laura Rozen reposted:

Erik Halvorsen -- @erikhalvorsen18

"Trump’s approval rating on the economy hits a new low"

Laura Rozen @lrozen

"the metaphors/comparisons about cage fighting write themselves"

#DonaldTrump #Trump #StephenMiller #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP #NoKings #Antifa

@LeslieBurns

My point was entirely focused on the fact that "men" were specifically mentioned

What with Pete #KineticStrike #Hegseth being who he is and all, that specific declaration carries a lot of weight with me

IOW: no women need apply, and no women will even be "selected"

There will be no girls in Hegseth's #MansArmy

And there's the issue of exactly what dataset / database is the source here

The IRS was it? A specific subset culled by #Musk's little #DOGE #Shitlords?

@BruceMirken

Yeah

But Pete #KineticStrike #Hegseth ain't gonna have no girls in his #MansArmy

@samlitzinger

"“First lady Melania Trump on Thursday held a rare news conference to rebut allegations that she had a close relationship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.”"

Melanoma who?

zzzzzz...

#Trump #Epstein #Ghislaine

OK

This oughta turn a few heads

If all that's going on doesn't have your attention so far, maybe this will wake you up

Here we go...

"Automatic registration for US military draft to begin in December

The Selective Service System (SSS) — the government agency that maintains a database of --> men <-- to be called up to serve in the case of a national emergency — submitted a proposed rule to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on March 30, according to the office’s website."

"Automatic registration for US military draft" based on data from what database? One stolen by #Musk #DOGE #Shitlords?

And notice: men

No women

Pete #KineticStrike #Hegseth don't want no wimmen in *his* #MansArmy

Here: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5822914-automatic-registration-military-draft/

#DonaldTrump #Trump #StephenMiller #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP #NoKings #Antifa

@samlitzinger

But the #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsAssociation will all be sporting their "#FirstAmendment" pocket squares, which will teach #Trump a much-needed lesson to be sure, and a lesson Trump will be sure to take to heart

#WCA #WhiteHouse

@riaschissl

"I'm running a quick pulse check on how YOU all actually feel about LLMs and AI talk in your timeline."

#Mute and #Block on sight

Bye...

@JasperCorydon

#Mute and #Block and get on with your life

Fuck "JD"

It's not your job to parent him

@ufwupdates

"#Easter is an important day for many and sharing a meal is a traditional part of this celebration. People like "Bonita" who harvests carrots in #CA’s #CentralCoast, make these sacred meals possible. #WeFeedYou"

@normative.bsky.social

"...what’s the aggregate cost of millions of people devoting daily brain bandwidth to this criminal lunatic?"

You mean, the method by which #FOXNews continues to #Brainwash millions of #Americans, like it has for more than a decade?

Why not spread some #EasterFun?

Why not indeed...

Republicans against Trump -- @RpsAgainstTrump

BREAKING: #StevenCheung, #Trump spokesman, denies rumors that Trump was taken to #WalterReedHospital:

“On this #Easter weekend, he has been working nonstop in the #WhiteHouse and #OvalOffice,” Cheung wrote on #Twitter

The White House called a lid at 11:08 a.m., meaning no public appearances or events are expected from the president for the rest of the day."

Well, poot...

We never get to have any fun... ;)

Apr 3 morning update:

Jeet Heer reposted:

Seth Harp -- @sethharpesq

"American officials should stop snorting cocaine between meetings."

No one ever talks about this but the use of stimulant drugs including dextroamphetamine and modafinil among ruling class elites is a huge part of why US foreign policy is so violent and insane.

Gandalv -- @Microinteracti1
5h

A French general just looked at Trump’s plan to build a runway inside Iran to fly out uranium under active bombing.

His response: “American officials should stop snorting cocaine between meetings.”

#Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #PeteHegseth #BenjaminNetanyahu #BangerMemes

@agnes

To search for

@mastodon.hongkongers.net

it looks like it might be Canadian, given all the CBC profiles it's running

Going to find one that looks like a major origin and #Mute #Block and #DomainBlock

mmm... no

Given this:

https://fediverse.observer/mastodon.hongkongers.net

it's Chinese

(Guess "hongkongers.net" should have been a tipoff)

Thanks for the tip...

#Mastoadmin

@w7voa

"#PresidentTrump "won his second round matchup of the #SeniorClubChampionship today in Jupiter, Florida, and advances to the championship [golf] round tomorrow," according to a White House official."

News item:

"#Zuckerberg, #Bezos and #Musk each lose more than $23 billion after #Trump #Tariffs spark market meltdown

#CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/05/trump-tariffs-zuckerberg-bezos-musk-lose-billions-on-market-meltdown.html

cc @cnbc

#Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg