#stateoftheunion — Public Fediverse posts

If #Communism was a problem, why did Pres. Donald Trump fail to even mention it in his #StateOfTheUnion speech? We did not hear Republicans complain about Communism until several weeks ago. Where did it spring up from? Republicans saw they were about to lose a big election in November and they needed some nonsense to stir up their voters. This Republican scheme to fool the public could and it should fail.
copy: @renewedresistance #politics

RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues

https://www.eetimes.com/risc-v-is-inevitable-state-of-the-union-keynote-argues/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916805

#HackerNews #RISC-V #StateOfTheUnion #Keynote #TechTrends #OpenSource #HardwareInnovation

North Carolina senator says Trump’s Iran deal could be ‘doomed to fail’

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – One of North Carolina’s tw…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Cease #Ceasefire #CNN #deal #donald #doomed #east #end #fail #fire #happened #Iran #jake #latest #middle #nc #NorthCarolina #on #political #politician #Politics #say #says #Senate #Senator #show #StateoftheUnion #sunday #tapper #thom #tillis #to #tom #Trump #update #updates #War #what #yesterday
https://www.newsbeep.com/556831/

Trump could have persuaded Americans about the need for an #IranWar during his recent #StateOfTheUnion speech, or during his even more recent 19 minute speech to the American people. He failed to do so.

Polls show that the #IranWar is an unpopular war. Susan Glasser, an American journalist, said Trump's 19 minute speech was a lot like a Truth Social post. Truth Social, despite its name, is a place where truth is hard to find. It is partially owned by often dishonest Donald Trump..

Senior Trump officials seem to have no idea what ICE agents are supposed to be doing at airports

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-confusion-ice-tsa-airports

Last night during our banned book club meeting I learned that I.C.E. kidnapped some people from the parking lot of our local grocery store with the help of our police department last week and our state penitentiary subcontracts prison labor to corporations.

Great. Now I have two local issues to be depressed about this morning.

Maybe I'll just go back to bed.

#Sigh
#StateOfTheUnion
#StupidestTimeline

Senator Padilla to Deliver Spanish Response to State of the Union Address

Senator Alex Padilla will give the Democratic Party's Spanish response to the State of the Union address. This is the first time.

#PadillaResponse, #StateOfTheUnion, #DemocraticParty, #SpanishLanguage, #USPolitics

https://newsletter.tf/senator-padilla-spanish-response-state-of-union/

For the first time, a Democratic Senator will give the response to the State of the Union in Spanish. Senator Alex Padilla will speak.

#PadillaResponse, #StateOfTheUnion, #DemocraticParty, #SpanishLanguage, #USPolitics

https://newsletter.tf/senator-padilla-spanish-response-state-of-union/

"Boasted about low gasoline prices, which he said were below 230 a gallon in most states. None of that was true. I don't think there was a single actually true number in the speech. But the general position was, you know, things are doing great.

Doesn't look that way this morning."

#Trump #GoldenAge #StateoftheUnion #economy #gasoline #prices #affordability #inflation #food #jobs #JobLoss #employment #unemployment
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"It's 17 days since the State of the Union address in which Donald Trump basically tried to allay concerns about affordability and all of that by insisting that everything is great. Talked about a golden age, about fantastic job growth like nothing you've ever seen."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #GoldenAge #StateoftheUnion #economy #gasoline #prices #affordability #inflation #food #jobs #JobLoss #employment #unemployment
/11

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/wheres-my-golden-age

A picture is worth a thousand words of (political) analysis.

#USPol #politics #StateOfTheUnion #Iran

Weekly output: teens + AI chatbots, Android updates, Trump on data-center energy use, Archer + Starlink, balcony solar, customer feedback, CDA 230 + AI, Bluetooth updates

BARCELONA–It’s a treat to be able to start off a post with this dateline. This is the 13th trip that’s afforded me that opportunity and the 12th involving MWC. But this trip isn’t like the ones before it in one way; on my way across the Atlantic, my country started a war of choice because the president felt like it. The world is better without Iran’s worthless, murdering theocrat Ali Khameni, but I have little confidence in the Trump administration’s ability to do the right things for that long-suffering country.

In addition to the links you see below, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me in which I shared lessons learned from more than 10 years of booking Airbnbs.

2/24/2026: Most Teens Use AI for Homework Help. 10% Let It Do Everything, PCMag

Getting an advance copy of this new study from the Pew Research Center gave me a chance to note a new student-understudy chatbot called Einstein and quiz the CEO behind that app.

2/25/2026: Android Update Puts Gemini AI In the Driver’s Seat for Ride-Hail, Food Orders, PCMag

I have somehow become PCMag’s Android-updates guy. This report included a little testimony about Google’s call-scam-detection feature misfiring for me, an important bit of context to include in a post telling readers about Google bringing that tool to Samsung’s new Galaxy S26 series of phones.

2/25/2026: As Energy Costs Soar, Trump Pushes AI Giants to ‘Produce Their Own Electricity’, PCMag

I didn’t watch the entire State of the Union address because self-care is an important thing, but after reading about President Trump’s call for data-center operators to pay for their electricity and power infrastructure, I knew I’d have to write about that initiative.

2/27/2028: Archer Aviation Taps Starlink for Air Taxi Connectivity, PCMag

I still don’t quite get the point of adding Starlink connectivity to aircraft that won’t fly longer than 15 minutes or higher than 4,000 feet above major cities, but this was an easy post to crank out Friday morning before heading to Dulles that afternoon to start my journey to Spain.

2/28/2026: After Years of Shining in Europe, Balcony Solar Comes Out of the Dark in the US, PCMag

This story had been in the works for literally months–I took the photo you see at the top of the piece on the afternoon that I arrived in Berlin for IFA in September–but the policy picture has also changed dramatically, and for the better, over the intervening months.

2/28/2026: What’s the Best Way to Get Customer Feedback in 2026? Hint: It’s Not Email, PCMag

Two weeks after the customer-experience firm Medallia had me at its annual conference in Vegas (with my hotel covered upfront and my airfare to be reimbursed), PCMag ran my recap of what I learned there.

3/1/2026: Online Platforms Are Not Liable for What Users Post. Should That Include Gen AI?, PCMag

I spent Thursday at the Cato Institute for this enlightening conference marking the 30th anniversary of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the 1996 act that bars you from suing an online platform for something that one of its users posted.

3/1/2026: Bluetooth Is Getting an Upgrade. Here’s What It Means for Your Devices, PCMag

I took almost all of the notes for this at CES in January, but I needed more time to confirm some details and then write the post, after which its lack of a news peg left it easy to set aside for a bit.

@synapsenkitzler @kaoliva Original Bernie bei YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2qpYkLZxeY

oder lieber via Invidious: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=W2qpYkLZxeY

#BernieSanders #StateOfTheUnion #StopTrump

Trump emphasizes achievements and policy priorities in State of the Union address

📰 Original title: Trump issues patriotic rallying cry as he faces tough political headwinds

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/posts/post/82d05cfa-df98-481a-9304-cb6ffc76f90e

#politics #donaldtrump #stateoftheunion #uspolitics

"On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump puffed up his chest, thrust out his chin, presented his aged jowls to the TV cameras, and from the rostrum of the House Chamber gave his best Mussolini impression. …

Hannah Arendt wrote about the banality of evil. There was, in this speech, enough banality to fill an oil tanker."

~ Sasha Abramsky

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #fascism #authoritarianism #lies #strongman
/2

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-sotu-mussolini/

"Every president emphasizes good news and downplays bad news. But Trump’s (State of the Union] speech was different. It was an object lesson in how a strongman manufactures a story so colossal and positive that it blurs the very idea of limits."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #fascism #authoritarianism #lies #strongman
/1

https://mmansour.substack.com/p/the-delusion-of-the-golden-age-how

"The State of the Union is that we have a president who is prepared to go to war with Iran to prevent files leaking out that show that he’s a rapist of children.

That’s not even a lie. That’s the state of the union. That’s where we are right now."

~ Greg Olear

#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #EpsteinClass #coverup #Iran #war #StateoftheUnion
/1

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-the-files-v-defilers

#StateOfTheUnion #NielsenRatings down 11% from last year's numbers. #StevenColbert and #TheLateShow ratings up 7%

If Pres. Donald Trump plans to send our military into battle in Greenland or in Iran, in his #StateOfTheUnion speech he should have said why he thinks this is needed. Instead he spent much of his time talking about the men's Olympic hockey team:

Interior Secretary Doug "Burgum reups Trump’s push to take Greenland":
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5749416-greenland-us-mineral-rights/
copy: @renewedresistance #UnnecessaryWars

Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address Pulls 32.6 Million Viewers, Down From Last Year
#Variety #News #DonaldTrump #StateoftheUnion

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-ratings-down-from-last-year-1236674098/

Donald Trump’s State Of The Union Address Drew 32.64 Million Viewers, Falling From Last Year & First Term
#News #Politics #Ratings #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #StateoftheUnion

https://deadline.com/2026/02/trump-state-of-the-union-ratings-fall-1236737945/

"In SOTUs presidents rarely call out their predecessors by name. Four separate times Trump said that the country’s remaining problems all traced back to Joe Biden."

~ James Fallows

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #Biden #Democrats #retaliation
/7

https://fallows.substack.com/p/nasty-brutish-and-long

CHART OF THE WEEK

At the #StateOfTheUnion, President Trump backed a bill to ban lawmakers and their families from buying stocks. Another bill would bar them from owning stocks at all.

Some members reported tens of millions in trade value in 2025.

Chart:

"Two more minutes of that and I'd be wearing a MAGA hat" - Jimmy Kimmel on the People's State of the Union.

He's not wrong, the Democrats are begging to lose if that's the best they can do as their alternative. @MeidasTouch fucked up there big time; it felt like a high school protest without any of the energy and inspiration.

#StateOfTheUnion #USPol #Trump #Epstein #meidasTouch #Politics #Protest #DNC #Democrats #Useless #JimmyKimmel #PeoplesStateOfTheUnion

Stephen Lillie's cartoon commentary on Trump's State of the Union address with its misrepresentation of what his tariffs have done to the economy and voters' concerns about affordability.

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #SOTU #economy #affordability #inflation #prices
/7

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/feb/25/stephen-lillie-donald-trump-state-of-the-union-cartoon