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I love the panic in the #Canadian news, "85% of the cloud computing market is occupied by 3 big #USAnian companies! We must build our own cloud to keep Canadians' personal and private data in Canada!"

Brother, what would you say if I told you there's another way to ensure no Canadian's data ends up on #computers belonging to a big American company?

#cloud #computing #OldManYellsAtCloud #ownership #infrastructure #DataSecurity #DataPrivacy #Canada

I love the panic in the #Canadian news, "85% of the cloud computing market is occupied by 3 big #USAnian companies! We must build our own cloud to keep Canadians' personal and private data in Canada!"

Brother, what would you say if I told you there's another way to ensure no Canadian's data ends up on #computers belonging to a big American company?

#cloud #computing #OldManYellsAtCloud #ownership #infrastructure #DataSecurity #DataPrivacy #Canada

I love the panic in the #Canadian news, "85% of the cloud computing market is occupied by 3 big #USAnian companies! We must build our own cloud to keep Canadians' personal and private data in Canada!"

Brother, what would you say if I told you there's another way to ensure no Canadian's data ends up on #computers belonging to a big American company?

#cloud #computing #OldManYellsAtCloud #ownership #infrastructure #DataSecurity #DataPrivacy #Canada

I love the panic in the #Canadian news, "85% of the cloud computing market is occupied by 3 big #USAnian companies! We must build our own cloud to keep Canadians' personal and private data in Canada!"

Brother, what would you say if I told you there's another way to ensure no Canadian's data ends up on #computers belonging to a big American company?

#cloud #computing #OldManYellsAtCloud #ownership #infrastructure #DataSecurity #DataPrivacy #Canada

I love the panic in the #Canadian news, "85% of the cloud computing market is occupied by 3 big #USAnian companies! We must build our own cloud to keep Canadians' personal and private data in Canada!"

Brother, what would you say if I told you there's another way to ensure no Canadian's data ends up on #computers belonging to a big American company?

#cloud #computing #OldManYellsAtCloud #ownership #infrastructure #DataSecurity #DataPrivacy #Canada

It's kinda #sad when a #Canadian who's just a moderately-informed layman interested in world affairs and #geopolitics has a better grasp of what the USA starting a #war with #Iran would entail in terms of consequences than the "president" who ordered it or the Secretary of Defence that is carrying it out.

#USPol #SecDef #Trump #Hegseth #Kegbreath #MangoMussolini #idiot #consequences #FAFO #USA #USAnian

It's kinda #sad when a #Canadian who's just a moderately-informed layman interested in world affairs and #geopolitics has a better grasp of what the USA starting a #war with #Iran would entail in terms of consequences than the "president" who ordered it or the Secretary of Defence that is carrying it out.

#USPol #SecDef #Trump #Hegseth #Kegbreath #MangoMussolini #idiot #consequences #FAFO #USA #USAnian

I paid a lot more to fill up my car a few days ago than I had for months beforehand. But it has just kept going up since then.

The discount gas at CostCo is listed as being the cheapest in my city right now, at $1.599 / litre. Just over a month ago - I only fill up about once a month - I was paying $1.099.

45% jump because Pedophile of the United States (#POTUS) bombed #Iran to start operation Epstein Fury. I don't doubt it's going to go up a hell of a lot more, and stay high for the forseeable future.

I think Canada should shut down all #petroleum exports to the USA. Keep the oil here and refine it, increase domestic supply to at least #temper the #price increases. USAnians can pay more for scarcer gas - it might finally get the #MAGAts to start complaining to their #Congresscritters and #Senators to get a leash on their dog.

#gasoline #gas #GasPrices #Canada #USA #USAnian #EpicFury #EpsteinFury #OperationEpsteinFury #EpsteinFiles #Epstein #TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #Trump #pedophile #inflation #trade #distraction #WagTheDog #CanPol #USPol

I paid a lot more to fill up my car a few days ago than I had for months beforehand. But it has just kept going up since then.

The discount gas at CostCo is listed as being the cheapest in my city right now, at $1.599 / litre. Just over a month ago - I only fill up about once a month - I was paying $1.099.

45% jump because Pedophile of the United States (#POTUS) bombed #Iran to start operation Epstein Fury. I don't doubt it's going to go up a hell of a lot more, and stay high for the forseeable future.

I think Canada should shut down all #petroleum exports to the USA. Keep the oil here and refine it, increase domestic supply to at least #temper the #price increases. USAnians can pay more for scarcer gas - it might finally get the #MAGAts to start complaining to their #Congresscritters and #Senators to get a leash on their dog.

#gasoline #gas #GasPrices #Canada #USA #USAnian #EpicFury #EpsteinFury #OperationEpsteinFury #EpsteinFiles #Epstein #TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #Trump #pedophile #inflation #trade #distraction #WagTheDog #CanPol #USPol

I paid a lot more to fill up my car a few days ago than I had for months beforehand. But it has just kept going up since then.

The discount gas at CostCo is listed as being the cheapest in my city right now, at $1.599 / litre. Just over a month ago - I only fill up about once a month - I was paying $1.099.

45% jump because Pedophile of the United States (#POTUS) bombed #Iran to start operation Epstein Fury. I don't doubt it's going to go up a hell of a lot more, and stay high for the forseeable future.

I think Canada should shut down all #petroleum exports to the USA. Keep the oil here and refine it, increase domestic supply to at least #temper the #price increases. USAnians can pay more for scarcer gas - it might finally get the #MAGAts to start complaining to their #Congresscritters and #Senators to get a leash on their dog.

#gasoline #gas #GasPrices #Canada #USA #USAnian #EpicFury #EpsteinFury #OperationEpsteinFury #EpsteinFiles #Epstein #TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #Trump #pedophile #inflation #trade #distraction #WagTheDog #CanPol #USPol

I paid a lot more to fill up my car a few days ago than I had for months beforehand. But it has just kept going up since then.

The discount gas at CostCo is listed as being the cheapest in my city right now, at $1.599 / litre. Just over a month ago - I only fill up about once a month - I was paying $1.099.

45% jump because Pedophile of the United States (#POTUS) bombed #Iran to start operation Epstein Fury. I don't doubt it's going to go up a hell of a lot more, and stay high for the forseeable future.

I think Canada should shut down all #petroleum exports to the USA. Keep the oil here and refine it, increase domestic supply to at least #temper the #price increases. USAnians can pay more for scarcer gas - it might finally get the #MAGAts to start complaining to their #Congresscritters and #Senators to get a leash on their dog.

#gasoline #gas #GasPrices #Canada #USA #USAnian #EpicFury #EpsteinFury #OperationEpsteinFury #EpsteinFiles #Epstein #TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #Trump #pedophile #inflation #trade #distraction #WagTheDog #CanPol #USPol

I paid a lot more to fill up my car a few days ago than I had for months beforehand. But it has just kept going up since then.

The discount gas at CostCo is listed as being the cheapest in my city right now, at $1.599 / litre. Just over a month ago - I only fill up about once a month - I was paying $1.099.

45% jump because Pedophile of the United States (#POTUS) bombed #Iran to start operation Epstein Fury. I don't doubt it's going to go up a hell of a lot more, and stay high for the forseeable future.

I think Canada should shut down all #petroleum exports to the USA. Keep the oil here and refine it, increase domestic supply to at least #temper the #price increases. USAnians can pay more for scarcer gas - it might finally get the #MAGAts to start complaining to their #Congresscritters and #Senators to get a leash on their dog.

#gasoline #gas #GasPrices #Canada #USA #USAnian #EpicFury #EpsteinFury #OperationEpsteinFury #EpsteinFiles #Epstein #TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #Trump #pedophile #inflation #trade #distraction #WagTheDog #CanPol #USPol

So I hear tomorrow is open-mike night at the old folks' assisted-living facility?

That merits live media coverage somehow?

#USPol #USAnian #Trump #dementia #rant #speech #ramble

So I hear tomorrow is open-mike night at the old folks' assisted-living facility?

That merits live media coverage somehow?

#USPol #USAnian #Trump #dementia #rant #speech #ramble

The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

#festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

#festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

#festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

#festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

#festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

Well, this is a real scheduling fustercluck. Who thought having the Superbowl and the winter Olympics on at the same time was a good idea?

Now I have to try to figure how I'm supposed to ignore both of them simultaneously.

#sports #SportsBall #SuperbOwl #Olympics #yawn #NoFunLeague #NFL #USAnian

Well, this is a real scheduling fustercluck. Who thought having the Superbowl and the winter Olympics on at the same time was a good idea?

Now I have to try to figure how I'm supposed to ignore both of them simultaneously.

#sports #SportsBall #SuperbOwl #Olympics #yawn #NoFunLeague #NFL #USAnian

RE: https://mastodon.fyksen.me/@fredrik/116005566048627976

If the security model for your public product depends on #USAnian corporations, your security model is broken.

[The single widely used Norwegian mobile payment app requires Google Play to work]

#infosec #brokenByDesign #foss

RE: https://mastodon.fyksen.me/@fredrik/116005566048627976

If the security model for your public product depends on #USAnian corporations, your security model is broken.

[The single widely used Norwegian mobile payment app requires Google Play to work]

#infosec #brokenByDesign #foss

So the #USAnians sent a "special envoy" to Greenland.

This is a #diplomatic faux pas to start with - #Greenland is an autonomous division of the #Danish kingdom, and so all diplomatic actions should (at least to start) be done by approaching Denmark, through the USA ambassador to Denmark. Bypassing that is Not Done. Extremely rude. Like, "drop your trousers and shit on the floor in front of the queen" #rude.

So that's bad enough.

But the *reason* for the envoy is to try to convince Greenland to #separate from #Denmark, and join the #USA. i.e. it's just another extension of the "We'll take Greenland" #bullshit the #insane #orange mental-defect-in-diapers was pushing a while back. This is, from a diplomatic standpoint, unspeakably rude. Unimaginably so. Simply unfathomable, except for the fact that the USA *elected* that #fascist #asshole to behave this way.

So the normal diplomatic response would be for the Danish PM to summon the USA #ambassador, and ask him for an explanation, and the ambassador would be expected to provide an #apology to some degree.

But given Trump's penchant for appointing his kind of c*cksuckers as ambassadors, and zero respect for any kind of #behavioural standards, the appropriate response here would be for the Danish PM to summon the USA ambassador, and then #stab him in the #face.

#USPol #diplomacy #TuckFrump #FauxPas #FoxPaws #diplomat #Trump #MangoMussolini #king #SmallHands #SDE #demented #dementia #USAnian

So the #USAnians sent a "special envoy" to Greenland.

This is a #diplomatic faux pas to start with - #Greenland is an autonomous division of the #Danish kingdom, and so all diplomatic actions should (at least to start) be done by approaching Denmark, through the USA ambassador to Denmark. Bypassing that is Not Done. Extremely rude. Like, "drop your trousers and shit on the floor in front of the queen" #rude.

So that's bad enough.

But the *reason* for the envoy is to try to convince Greenland to #separate from #Denmark, and join the #USA. i.e. it's just another extension of the "We'll take Greenland" #bullshit the #insane #orange mental-defect-in-diapers was pushing a while back. This is, from a diplomatic standpoint, unspeakably rude. Unimaginably so. Simply unfathomable, except for the fact that the USA *elected* that #fascist #asshole to behave this way.

So the normal diplomatic response would be for the Danish PM to summon the USA #ambassador, and ask him for an explanation, and the ambassador would be expected to provide an #apology to some degree.

But given Trump's penchant for appointing his kind of c*cksuckers as ambassadors, and zero respect for any kind of #behavioural standards, the appropriate response here would be for the Danish PM to summon the USA ambassador, and then #stab him in the #face.

#USPol #diplomacy #TuckFrump #FauxPas #FoxPaws #diplomat #Trump #MangoMussolini #king #SmallHands #SDE #demented #dementia #USAnian

So the #USAnians sent a "special envoy" to Greenland.

This is a #diplomatic faux pas to start with - #Greenland is an autonomous division of the #Danish kingdom, and so all diplomatic actions should (at least to start) be done by approaching Denmark, through the USA ambassador to Denmark. Bypassing that is Not Done. Extremely rude. Like, "drop your trousers and shit on the floor in front of the queen" #rude.

So that's bad enough.

But the *reason* for the envoy is to try to convince Greenland to #separate from #Denmark, and join the #USA. i.e. it's just another extension of the "We'll take Greenland" #bullshit the #insane #orange mental-defect-in-diapers was pushing a while back. This is, from a diplomatic standpoint, unspeakably rude. Unimaginably so. Simply unfathomable, except for the fact that the USA *elected* that #fascist #asshole to behave this way.

So the normal diplomatic response would be for the Danish PM to summon the USA #ambassador, and ask him for an explanation, and the ambassador would be expected to provide an #apology to some degree.

But given Trump's penchant for appointing his kind of c*cksuckers as ambassadors, and zero respect for any kind of #behavioural standards, the appropriate response here would be for the Danish PM to summon the USA ambassador, and then #stab him in the #face.

#USPol #diplomacy #TuckFrump #FauxPas #FoxPaws #diplomat #Trump #MangoMussolini #king #SmallHands #SDE #demented #dementia #USAnian

So the #USAnians sent a "special envoy" to Greenland.

This is a #diplomatic faux pas to start with - #Greenland is an autonomous division of the #Danish kingdom, and so all diplomatic actions should (at least to start) be done by approaching Denmark, through the USA ambassador to Denmark. Bypassing that is Not Done. Extremely rude. Like, "drop your trousers and shit on the floor in front of the queen" #rude.

So that's bad enough.

But the *reason* for the envoy is to try to convince Greenland to #separate from #Denmark, and join the #USA. i.e. it's just another extension of the "We'll take Greenland" #bullshit the #insane #orange mental-defect-in-diapers was pushing a while back. This is, from a diplomatic standpoint, unspeakably rude. Unimaginably so. Simply unfathomable, except for the fact that the USA *elected* that #fascist #asshole to behave this way.

So the normal diplomatic response would be for the Danish PM to summon the USA #ambassador, and ask him for an explanation, and the ambassador would be expected to provide an #apology to some degree.

But given Trump's penchant for appointing his kind of c*cksuckers as ambassadors, and zero respect for any kind of #behavioural standards, the appropriate response here would be for the Danish PM to summon the USA ambassador, and then #stab him in the #face.

#USPol #diplomacy #TuckFrump #FauxPas #FoxPaws #diplomat #Trump #MangoMussolini #king #SmallHands #SDE #demented #dementia #USAnian

So the #USAnians sent a "special envoy" to Greenland.

This is a #diplomatic faux pas to start with - #Greenland is an autonomous division of the #Danish kingdom, and so all diplomatic actions should (at least to start) be done by approaching Denmark, through the USA ambassador to Denmark. Bypassing that is Not Done. Extremely rude. Like, "drop your trousers and shit on the floor in front of the queen" #rude.

So that's bad enough.

But the *reason* for the envoy is to try to convince Greenland to #separate from #Denmark, and join the #USA. i.e. it's just another extension of the "We'll take Greenland" #bullshit the #insane #orange mental-defect-in-diapers was pushing a while back. This is, from a diplomatic standpoint, unspeakably rude. Unimaginably so. Simply unfathomable, except for the fact that the USA *elected* that #fascist #asshole to behave this way.

So the normal diplomatic response would be for the Danish PM to summon the USA #ambassador, and ask him for an explanation, and the ambassador would be expected to provide an #apology to some degree.

But given Trump's penchant for appointing his kind of c*cksuckers as ambassadors, and zero respect for any kind of #behavioural standards, the appropriate response here would be for the Danish PM to summon the USA ambassador, and then #stab him in the #face.

#USPol #diplomacy #TuckFrump #FauxPas #FoxPaws #diplomat #Trump #MangoMussolini #king #SmallHands #SDE #demented #dementia #USAnian

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The federal Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, accompanied by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., today held a press conference at which they announced a new federal regulation that purports to pre-empt all federal and state law that make use of seatbelts mandatory on trains, planes, buses, and private vehicles, on the grounds of YOU'RE NOT MY REAL MOM! Spokespersons for the two agencies hid under their desks while yelling "No obbla inglays!".

#USPol #USA #USAnian #freedumb #idiot #BobbyBrainworm #JFK #SeanDuffy #Trump #moron #regulation #law #YoureNotMyRealMom

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The federal Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, accompanied by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., today held a press conference at which they announced a new federal regulation that purports to pre-empt all federal and state law that make use of seatbelts mandatory on trains, planes, buses, and private vehicles, on the grounds of YOU'RE NOT MY REAL MOM! Spokespersons for the two agencies hid under their desks while yelling "No obbla inglays!".

#USPol #USA #USAnian #freedumb #idiot #BobbyBrainworm #JFK #SeanDuffy #Trump #moron #regulation #law #YoureNotMyRealMom

@offby1

... and it doesn't even include #USAnian, which is the one I see (and use) most often!

@offby1

... and it doesn't even include #USAnian, which is the one I see (and use) most often!

So, about https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-covert-cia-action-venezuela.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk8.a2x1.YtgE-iuJUdk5 ...

The USAnian government (read: White House) has ordered the CIA to conduct clandestine operations in Venezuela. There's only one possible object: "regime change", which used to be known as toppling a foreign government, or fomenting a coup. The CIA has a long history of these attempts, though they aren't actually very good at it. They tend to either fail, or produce huge unexpected negative consequences [1].

Of course this is illegal under international law. That generally has no effect on USAnian actions.

But when any other country is found to have even the slightest influence operation going on in the USA [2], the chickenhawks in Congress start baying for blood [3]. Hypocrisy much?

[1] Unexpected to the CIA and the government. Actual experts on the countries in question (or even interested laypeople) universally predict these consequences accurately, in advance.

[2] Or at least, this used to be the case. Russian foreign influence operations paying large sums of money to MAGA-type "influencers" have gotten a rather positive welcome of late.

[3] I'm aware that chickens don't actually bay.

#USPol #RegimeChange #Venezuela #coup #topple #government #law #illegal #InternationalLaw #USAnian #CIA #incompetence

So, about https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-covert-cia-action-venezuela.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk8.a2x1.YtgE-iuJUdk5 ...

The USAnian government (read: White House) has ordered the CIA to conduct clandestine operations in Venezuela. There's only one possible object: "regime change", which used to be known as toppling a foreign government, or fomenting a coup. The CIA has a long history of these attempts, though they aren't actually very good at it. They tend to either fail, or produce huge unexpected negative consequences [1].

Of course this is illegal under international law. That generally has no effect on USAnian actions.

But when any other country is found to have even the slightest influence operation going on in the USA [2], the chickenhawks in Congress start baying for blood [3]. Hypocrisy much?

[1] Unexpected to the CIA and the government. Actual experts on the countries in question (or even interested laypeople) universally predict these consequences accurately, in advance.

[2] Or at least, this used to be the case. Russian foreign influence operations paying large sums of money to MAGA-type "influencers" have gotten a rather positive welcome of late.

[3] I'm aware that chickens don't actually bay.

#USPol #RegimeChange #Venezuela #coup #topple #government #law #illegal #InternationalLaw #USAnian #CIA #incompetence

If you are a #weirdo like me, and enjoy reading #legal documents, particularly when written by judges or lawyers who have a real flair for writing, and if you are #weirder and like following the legal and #constitutional aspects of the USA's descent into #fascism even though you are not #USAnian and do not live in the USA, then the ruling written by Justice William G. Young in the case about the administration violating the free speech rights of noncitizens legally in the #USA is an absolute corker.

The entire thing is good, but at 161 pages, it's a bit of a slog, particularly because it has to document the entire timeline of the case.

Instead, start reading at page 149.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

Why? The last dozen pages are explicitly laying out the legal and constitutional problems with Donald #Trump himself. This text is something that should have been published months ago in the New York Times or The Atlantic or some other serious #journalism outlet. That it takes a judge to write it is the ultimate indictment of the USA's mainstream #media.

Elsewhere, he also calls out Congress and the fourth estate for their failures to rein in the aspiring dictator, though he has to tread carefully while doing it.

#USPol #NYT #NewYorkTimes #Atlantic #TheAtlantic #MainstreamMedia #news #ruling #invective #FourthEstate #journalist #fail

If you are a #weirdo like me, and enjoy reading #legal documents, particularly when written by judges or lawyers who have a real flair for writing, and if you are #weirder and like following the legal and #constitutional aspects of the USA's descent into #fascism even though you are not #USAnian and do not live in the USA, then the ruling written by Justice William G. Young in the case about the administration violating the free speech rights of noncitizens legally in the #USA is an absolute corker.

The entire thing is good, but at 161 pages, it's a bit of a slog, particularly because it has to document the entire timeline of the case.

Instead, start reading at page 149.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

Why? The last dozen pages are explicitly laying out the legal and constitutional problems with Donald #Trump himself. This text is something that should have been published months ago in the New York Times or The Atlantic or some other serious #journalism outlet. That it takes a judge to write it is the ultimate indictment of the USA's mainstream #media.

Elsewhere, he also calls out Congress and the fourth estate for their failures to rein in the aspiring dictator, though he has to tread carefully while doing it.

#USPol #NYT #NewYorkTimes #Atlantic #TheAtlantic #MainstreamMedia #news #ruling #invective #FourthEstate #journalist #fail

If you are a #weirdo like me, and enjoy reading #legal documents, particularly when written by judges or lawyers who have a real flair for writing, and if you are #weirder and like following the legal and #constitutional aspects of the USA's descent into #fascism even though you are not #USAnian and do not live in the USA, then the ruling written by Justice William G. Young in the case about the administration violating the free speech rights of noncitizens legally in the #USA is an absolute corker.

The entire thing is good, but at 161 pages, it's a bit of a slog, particularly because it has to document the entire timeline of the case.

Instead, start reading at page 149.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

Why? The last dozen pages are explicitly laying out the legal and constitutional problems with Donald #Trump himself. This text is something that should have been published months ago in the New York Times or The Atlantic or some other serious #journalism outlet. That it takes a judge to write it is the ultimate indictment of the USA's mainstream #media.

Elsewhere, he also calls out Congress and the fourth estate for their failures to rein in the aspiring dictator, though he has to tread carefully while doing it.

#USPol #NYT #NewYorkTimes #Atlantic #TheAtlantic #MainstreamMedia #news #ruling #invective #FourthEstate #journalist #fail

If you are a #weirdo like me, and enjoy reading #legal documents, particularly when written by judges or lawyers who have a real flair for writing, and if you are #weirder and like following the legal and #constitutional aspects of the USA's descent into #fascism even though you are not #USAnian and do not live in the USA, then the ruling written by Justice William G. Young in the case about the administration violating the free speech rights of noncitizens legally in the #USA is an absolute corker.

The entire thing is good, but at 161 pages, it's a bit of a slog, particularly because it has to document the entire timeline of the case.

Instead, start reading at page 149.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

Why? The last dozen pages are explicitly laying out the legal and constitutional problems with Donald #Trump himself. This text is something that should have been published months ago in the New York Times or The Atlantic or some other serious #journalism outlet. That it takes a judge to write it is the ultimate indictment of the USA's mainstream #media.

Elsewhere, he also calls out Congress and the fourth estate for their failures to rein in the aspiring dictator, though he has to tread carefully while doing it.

#USPol #NYT #NewYorkTimes #Atlantic #TheAtlantic #MainstreamMedia #news #ruling #invective #FourthEstate #journalist #fail

If you are a #weirdo like me, and enjoy reading #legal documents, particularly when written by judges or lawyers who have a real flair for writing, and if you are #weirder and like following the legal and #constitutional aspects of the USA's descent into #fascism even though you are not #USAnian and do not live in the USA, then the ruling written by Justice William G. Young in the case about the administration violating the free speech rights of noncitizens legally in the #USA is an absolute corker.

The entire thing is good, but at 161 pages, it's a bit of a slog, particularly because it has to document the entire timeline of the case.

Instead, start reading at page 149.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

Why? The last dozen pages are explicitly laying out the legal and constitutional problems with Donald #Trump himself. This text is something that should have been published months ago in the New York Times or The Atlantic or some other serious #journalism outlet. That it takes a judge to write it is the ultimate indictment of the USA's mainstream #media.

Elsewhere, he also calls out Congress and the fourth estate for their failures to rein in the aspiring dictator, though he has to tread carefully while doing it.

#USPol #NYT #NewYorkTimes #Atlantic #TheAtlantic #MainstreamMedia #news #ruling #invective #FourthEstate #journalist #fail

So the #USAnian company that owns almost all the daily #newspapers in #Canada is now branching out into ... parcel delivery?

https://postmediaparcelservices.com

So someone thought "We know something about going to peoples' houses, we should be good at logistics"?

Weird. I only found out about this because I got an email from them about a delivery. I guess they got a contract with Amazon, because that's the only one I'm expecting?

Weird.

#PostMedia #courier #delivery #parcel #Amazon

So the #USAnian company that owns almost all the daily #newspapers in #Canada is now branching out into ... parcel delivery?

https://postmediaparcelservices.com

So someone thought "We know something about going to peoples' houses, we should be good at logistics"?

Weird. I only found out about this because I got an email from them about a delivery. I guess they got a contract with Amazon, because that's the only one I'm expecting?

Weird.

#PostMedia #courier #delivery #parcel #Amazon

@ginaintheburg

I don't think Canada can be any clearer to Americans who think we'd be happy to join the USA. Our collective response, barring a few weird MAGA-like oddballs (less than 5%), is:

"GO FUCK YOURSELVES"

Canada is a sovereign nation, and will remain that way. Woe to the power that tries to change that.

#Canada #sovereignty #USAnian

@ginaintheburg

I don't think Canada can be any clearer to Americans who think we'd be happy to join the USA. Our collective response, barring a few weird MAGA-like oddballs (less than 5%), is:

"GO FUCK YOURSELVES"

Canada is a sovereign nation, and will remain that way. Woe to the power that tries to change that.

#Canada #sovereignty #USAnian

Just when you thought he couldn't get stupider or more historically ignorant...

His Orangeness Mango Mussolini, the Melon Felon, has a bee in his bonnet [1] about canals, but it's not just about #Panama now. On his social network - a fork of Mastodon, of course - he wrote:

> American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel,
> free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would
> not exist without the United States of America.

The Panama canal, maybe.

The Suez canal, however, was proposed by a #Frenchman, financed primarily by #Europeans, built by forced and voluntary labour sourced from countries in the region under the management of the French, and then operated by a French company with a contract for 99 years.

The USA had absolutely #zilch to do with the Suez canal. Which is probably for the best, because the USA was kind busy fighting its own civil war and then the #reconstruction that followed it - the canal was built from 1859 to 1869.

So, Mr. Trump: pull your head out of your ass, admit your ignorance, apologize to Egypt, France, and the rest, and slink off to your history-free corner of D.C. with your tail between your legs.

[1] Maybe it's good he has a bee in there. There isn't much else rattling around in that particular bone soap dish.

#MangoMussolini #MelonFelon #Trump #ignorant #ignorance #stupid #stupidity #canal #PanamaCanal #SuezCanal #Suez #history #ahistorical #USPol #USA #USAnian

Just when you thought he couldn't get stupider or more historically ignorant...

His Orangeness Mango Mussolini, the Melon Felon, has a bee in his bonnet [1] about canals, but it's not just about #Panama now. On his social network - a fork of Mastodon, of course - he wrote:

> American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel,
> free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would
> not exist without the United States of America.

The Panama canal, maybe.

The Suez canal, however, was proposed by a #Frenchman, financed primarily by #Europeans, built by forced and voluntary labour sourced from countries in the region under the management of the French, and then operated by a French company with a contract for 99 years.

The USA had absolutely #zilch to do with the Suez canal. Which is probably for the best, because the USA was kind busy fighting its own civil war and then the #reconstruction that followed it - the canal was built from 1859 to 1869.

So, Mr. Trump: pull your head out of your ass, admit your ignorance, apologize to Egypt, France, and the rest, and slink off to your history-free corner of D.C. with your tail between your legs.

[1] Maybe it's good he has a bee in there. There isn't much else rattling around in that particular bone soap dish.

#MangoMussolini #MelonFelon #Trump #ignorant #ignorance #stupid #stupidity #canal #PanamaCanal #SuezCanal #Suez #history #ahistorical #USPol #USA #USAnian