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ploot

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  • Trump admin walks back tariff exemption on electronics

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  • Sorry, they walked back the walkback of the walkback? Does anyone know what's going on?

  • Trump admin walks back tariff exemption on electronics

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  • They have to be doing it deliberately. The aim is to destroy the USA.

  • Trump admin walks back tariff exemption on electronics

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  • I think that's it, and they victimize LGBTQ+ people and immigrants because their supporters love it and it buys them time to implement their kleptocracy. Some of the Trump people are true-believer Nazis, but some of them are just greedy assholes who will throw anyone under the bus for their own gain.

  • Majority of Americans hold unfavourable view of Israel, Pew poll finds

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  • Clearly it's time to deport the majority of Americans to foreign prisons.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Russia is not on Trump's tariff list

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cdjl3k1we8vo

  • Now Musk is boosting claims Wisconsin Supreme Court election was ‘stolen’

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  • It's not that I feel any particular sympathy for Elon Musk. But I'm sure there are lots of people living with small dicks who don't experience any need to become crazy Nazis, and lots of crazy Nazis with sizeable penises. I just feel this whole "a man needs a big dick to be secure, and any insecure man has a small dick" thing is a somewhat offensive outlook.

  • 'Sobering reality' for Trump as he rages at night to friends about negative press: report

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  • This is just how he is. He did the same in his first term. If you took away anger and resentment, he wouldn't have a lot else left in his life.

  • Now Musk is boosting claims Wisconsin Supreme Court election was ‘stolen’

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  • botched gender affirmation surgery that left him with a mangled useless sex organ

    I keep hearing this around here. Is there any actual reason to think it's true?

    Even if the bit about the surgery is true, it's a very reductive explanation of issues which clearly aren't new in his life. He was brought up by far-right parents and his father apparently showed him no love. He has been poisonously insecure all his life, only now he has the power to inflict his psychological troubles on the world. Ever since he got financially lucky in the 1990s, he has had the money to buy influence and pay people to do what he wants, so he has never become equipped to deal with people as equals and has all kinds of issues and insecurities around power. He discovered early that, while he had trouble making friends, he could make an impression on people by being edgy and controversial, and has never managed to move beyond this into a more mature persona.

    I feel like saying "it's all because of his wonky penis" trivializes how profoundly this man's life has messed him up, and how many complex factors are at work in his psyche. It also implicitly insults anyone else who doesn't have "normal" genitalia.

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  • No, I'm on Fastmail. It's full-featured and has a slick web UI, but it's not as good for privacy as Tuta, Proton, etc. Also, although Fastmail is Australian they apparently host their servers in the USA.

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  • My email provider will auto-generate aliases with no limit, and I also subscribe to Mozilla Firefox Relay, which allows me to invent email addresses on the fly and have them relay emails to my inbox. The advantage of the Firefox Relay is that it isn't tied to the email provider so if I switch provider the aliases can still work.

  • Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say

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  • A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.”

    Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others.

    So they're not allowed to talk about reality, or how to make anything better. And the fascists in charge must know this is what they're doing, but they don't care.

    I keep thinking of how the Buddha recognized three poisons of the mind: greed, hatred and ignorance. Right-wing politics is pure poison.

  • An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison | Trump administration says it mistakenly deported immigrant with protected status but courts are powerless to order his return

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  • ICE are not taking any care about what the tattoos are. There was a story of someone being sent to prison in El Salvador because they had an autism awareness tattoo, which looked a bit pride-y because it was rainbow colored. If they don't like the look of you they'll find an excuse. Nazis are like that.

    Meanwhile the utterly incompetent Secretary of Defense has white nationalist tattoos all over him and that's just fine with them.

  • An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison | Trump administration says it mistakenly deported immigrant with protected status but courts are powerless to order his return

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  • It's real Nazi science, this identification of criminals by skin colour, tattoos, and gestures. Perhaps they should study head shape too. Anyway, trigger their Nazi spidey sense and you'll be kidnapped and trafficked into permanent imprisonment and slavery in a foreign country where you have no legal rights. They don't have to prove you did anything. And half the US population will cheer because they can't imagine it will ever happen to them.

  • Man tackled by parishioners, handcuffed at Kansas church after Jesus-like prayer -“He has long hair and a beard.”

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  • And when the police arrived they started questioning him about whether he agreed with Trump on deportations and Gaza. The police questioning people on their political views seems to be becoming standard in the USA.

    “Why are they saying you pushed a priest?”

    “They were trying to pull me away from the pulpit. I grabbed the pulpit and just held on. I didn’t push anyone. They had four guys grabbing me and dragging me off there.”

    “What made you want to preach today?” “I’m worried about human beings, our brothers and sisters who live within our midst and are being targeted by the government.”

    “What do you consider to be targeted by the government? What class of people are you …”

    “Undocumented immigrants.”

    “So you don’t agree with deportations and things like that?”

    “Uh-huh.”

    “Did you say anything like that?”

    “I didn’t even get there.”

    Looking at a copy of Gillcrist’s prepared remarks, the officer said, “So I see you mention Gaza and Ukraine in here. What’s your message with that?”

    “They’re our brothers and sisters. When we stop seeing people that way it’s so easy to start making laws or enacting policies that harm them.”

  • Elon Musk calls for 'arrests' after woman points her finger at a Cybertruck

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  • Deep down, he knows, and it torments him. Unfortunately he's rich enough to take it out on the world.

  • Elon Musk calls for 'arrests' after woman points her finger at a Cybertruck

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  • "It is time to arrest those funding the attacks," he wrote. "Arresting their puppets and paid foot-soldiers won’t stop the violence."

    How much funding does he think it takes to get people to protest against the world's most publicly obnoxious Nazi?

  • Trump says "there will be bombing" if Iran does not make nuclear deal

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  • This pattern of behaviour is why no country will consider any agreement with the USA to be trustworthy ever again.

  • Trump says "there will be bombing" if Iran does not make nuclear deal

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  • So there was a deal with Iran which Trump ripped up, and now he's threatening Iran with war if they don't make a deal with him like the one he ripped up?

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  • Still, it's significant that only 32% of Republicans support Trump's genocidal policy.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Physicists are mostly unconvinced by Microsoft’s new topological quantum chip

    www.sciencenews.org /article/microsoft-topological-quantum-majorana

  • Trump sends innocent man to El Salvador for having autism awareness tattoo

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  • Hegseth has white supremacist tattoos. Those are approved of.

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    New undersea cable tech listens for sabotage — can be retrofitted to existing fiber optic lines

    www.tomshardware.com /tech-industry/new-undersea-cable-tech-listens-for-sabotage-can-be-retrofitted-to-existing-fiber-optic-lines
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    As a professor and climate scientist, I'm suddenly on America's 'enemies list'

    www.statesman.com /story/opinion/columns/your-voice/2025/03/17/tamu-professor-climate-scientist-us-enemies-list-distracts-from-real-problems-opinion/82057985007/
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    'Terrified': 'Shocking' new numbers seen as 'referendum on Trump's mishandling of economy'

    www.rawstory.com /trump-wreck-economy-mishandling/
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    America has a problem: GOP Congressman Chalks Beyoncé’s Historic Grammy Win Up to ‘DEI’

    www.thedailybeast.com /obsessed/gop-congressman-dismisses-beyonces-historic-grammy-win-as-dei/
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    I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know.

    slate.com /news-and-politics/2025/02/opm-fork-musk-trump-federal-personnel-management-employee.html
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    Single-photon LiDAR delivers detailed 3D images at distances up to 1 kilometer

    phys.org /news/2025-02-photon-lidar-3d-images-distances.html