RobertWT@RobertWT@mastodon.iemastodon.ie

The words "detain" and "detention" have definitions that are mostly benign -- e.g. "detained by traffic on the way to lunch" and "grade-school kid has after-class detention..."

That's why using "was detained" is carrying water for ICE when the reality is "was kidnapped off the street and imprisoned..."

Journalism needs to be much more precise, but that would require less stenography and more thinking before publishing.

President Musk is getting $8 million every day from government contracts while Republicans plan to cut Social Security.

31 March 1880 | Russian Jew, Israel Leib Sachnowitz, was born in Russia. He emigrated to Norway in 1907.

He arrived to #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

tRump and his goon squads won't stop until we #StandUpFightBack!

h/t @rbreich

BREAKING NEWS: Elon Musk has always been a douche bag.

I hate to break it to you but Hitler 1.0 wasn't slick or devious either. He pretty much just tweeted it out. No one thought he was being serious either. It's depressing but true. #subtoot #ButNicely

What the actual LEGO!!! ... You are a f... Danish company. And even if you were a US company, this would be cowardice and unacceptable!

Now it not the time to remove diversity. Now is the time to firmly prove that you stand for it!

(source: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/lgbtq-og-diversitet-er-forsvundet-fra-legos-aarsrapport)

Apparently due to lack of oversight, increased insecticide use in the US has virtually wiped out bees, with sharp population declines worrying experts.

I don't know who needs to hear this but that whole Libertarian Ayn Rand psychopathic horseshit that you mind your business, and I'll mind mine is nothing but a recipe for utter, complete, total, all-encompassing disaster.

Americans are broken. Their systems are broken. Chaos and death are setting up new branch offices there. Talk of an HQ move.

Trump voters: "We are voting for Trump because we want a strong economy."

Three months into Trump's second term:

Five Recession Indicators Now Raising Alarm in the US
https://www.newsweek.com/five-recession-indicators-usa-trump-tariffs-economy-downturn-2051996

Trump administration’s spending is on pace to surpass Biden levels
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/despite-musks-claims-the-trump-administrations-spending-is-on-pace-to-surpass-bidens-levels-19cdf24c

Dow closes 700 points lower as inflation and tariff fears worsen
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

Stagflation Warning Signs Emerge In The U.S. Economy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/garthfriesen/2025/03/29/stagflation-warning-signs-emerge-in-the-us-economy/

Are we great again yet?

Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
quote:
"Americans might chuckle at that idea, but such arrogance is unwarranted. We are the only ones ever to have invoked Article 5, the mutual defense obligation of the NATO treaty, after 9/11; and our European allies did respond. Per capita more Danish soldiers were killed in the Afghan war than were American soldiers. Do we remember them? Thank them?"
https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenland
via @Remittancegirl

Landry Ayres notes,

"The White House is using national security as a pretext for suppressing ideological dissidents."

And this is "part of a larger pattern—one that threatens not just immigrants, but all of us."

#Trump #immigrants #ICE #NationalSecurity #students #fascism #FreeSpeech
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-cruel-and-lawless-deportations

29 March 1933 | Polish Jewish boy, Serge Radzyner, was born in Warsaw. He emigrated to France.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 14 September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

Reminder

#Denmark hits back at 'tone' of US vice-president's criticism over #Greenland

'This is not how you talk to your close allies,' says Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/29/denmark-hits-back-at-tone-of-us-vice-presidents-criticism-over-greenland