At the behest of Putin--in 1987.
That Time Trump Spent Nearly $100,000 On An Ad Criticizing U.S. Foreign Policy In 1987
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Sunrise pic! #Running
If you are living outside of the US, whether a citizen or not, and have plans to visit the US, you should probably cancel those plans.
It’s possible the vast majority of tourists will be fine. But the risk is no longer just being turned away. The risk is being put into a private detention camp indefinitely. Even if you haven’t broken any laws.
#USpol
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German tourist and her friend wants to make art on a holiday trip in the US, but Trump's goons decide she is probably there for illegal work and throw her in a detention facility, just like MAGA wants it.I hope the German government helps this couple sue the US to kingdom come.
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Via @mc
German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.Gustavo Solis (KPBS)
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🚨 "If Ukraine is breached, Canada will be next."
- Charlie Angus, MP
charlieangus.substack.com/p/a-…
A MESSAGE TO PUTIN, TRUMP & NAVARRO
Ukraine is the Front-line — Canada Will Hold Our GroundCharlie Angus / The Resistance
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@LaNaehForaday
Here's a map we used to look at in Alaska- a fundamental reality that's usually ignored:
pssst kids! NYC DOE wifi blocks facebook, X and instagram… (as they absolutely SHOULD!) but *not* the fediverse and mastodon. 😉 #badinfluence #goodInfluence #socialmedia #fediverse #nyc #education
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@dan613 @chris_hayes It's something only the Fediverse itself can do - and is doing better and better. From the outside, it's whack-a-mole.
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Springtime by Claude Monet 1886
Oil on Canvas
(Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Improvement
Looks like friendica.world has been more stable for the last few days. That's good.
Now there's time for some other improvements. Let me start by upgrading the Bookface theme to the latest version 😀
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It's a bit hidden in the settings, but yes, you can change to Bookface in the Custom Theme Settings.
Settings > Display > Custom Theme Setting > Appearance
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Yeah, that's what I meant by it's a bit hidden. 😉
But... If you are currently using the standard theme (and are on the account settings page) you can click ">>" in the top left corner to get to other settings.
After you've changed to Bookface it will be the bottom left button that does the same thing.
You should also be able to click here:
Settings > Display
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The >> take me to different things depending on whether I'm in the NEW or CONVERSATIONS or COMMUNITIES tab, but there's never any settings! Your link works, though, thank you!
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Yeah, the ">>" will show different things depending what tab / page you're on.
You need to be on the settings page (the account settings) for ">>" to show other settings.
Glad the link worked though!
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Ah, now I read your instructions again, I need to be in the account settings... That is well hidden, indeed!
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Trump proudly announces that he’s destroying criminal government evidence of his treason.
Trump Announces He’s Taking Materials From Documents Case Back to Mar-a-Lago: ‘Justice Finally Won Out’
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#ArrestTrump #ArrestMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Trump Says He's Taking Materials From Documents Case Back
President Donald Trump said he is taking the government-generated documents he absconded with after his first term back to Mar-a-Lago.Michael Luciano (Mediaite)
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I made a slight improvement on my pSlider, now working with touch devices and zooming to allow extra precision in selection. Work in slow progress.
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Narcissi by Jane Webb Loudon c. 1840's
Hand-Coloured Lithograph
(from The ladies' flower garden of ornamental bulbous plants' with 57 other botanical prints)
This version is in the Ashmolean Museum's collection.
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Preparing food packages per CP. #LT2025
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#orangutan #orangutanhouse
#malacca #streetart #streetartmalacca #malaccastreetart #malaysia #melaka
Sonnet 085 - LXXXV
My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,
While comments of your praise richly compiled,
Reserve thy character with golden quill,
And precious phrase by all the Muses filed.
I think good thoughts, whilst others write good words,
And like unlettered clerk still cry 'Amen'
To every hymn that able spirit affords,
In polished form of well-refined pen.
Hearing you praised, I say ''tis so, 'tis true,'
And to the most of praise add something more;
But that is in my thought, whose love to you,
Though words come hindmost, holds his rank before.
Then others, for the breath of words respect,
Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.
bot by @davidaugust
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One more televised sig heil out of Bannon and he’ll have to change his name to Elon
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21st Century Nazi
Trump extortion
William Browder KCMG
@billbrowder.bsky.social
Trump says US wants return of Ukraine aid money. This is absurd. You don’t ask for reparations from the victim. If Trump really wants his money back, he should speak to Putin not try to extort a poor victim.
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Zelensky is facing “growing US pressure”?
Shame on us! Who the hell helps their friend in a time of emergency and then asks to get paid back?
#utternonsense
Shame on us! Who the hell helps their friend in a time of emergency and then asks to get paid back?
#utternonsense
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No amount of diplomatic palaver can paper over Russia’s record of kidnapping Ukrainian children, executing POWs, and targeting civilians.
We’re Negotiating with War Criminals
thebulwark.com/p/we-are-negoti…
#ArrestTrump #ImpeachTrump #DonaldKrasnov #StopTrumpNow #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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Just look at where the negotiations are being held, KSA. The de facto ruler there ordered a hit on a journalist and then found a couple of token scapegoats for that murder.
War criminals, who are aware & confident to have their negotiation partners in their pockets.
They surely can be!
During the orange First Felon's first occupation of White House NO critical word about Russia's murderous dictator left D. Trump's lips & throat.
It was & still is Betrayal of Country, the nation, its public servants & national security-guarding military service members.
If First Felon Trump should already be too demented to understand that message, try making him a colorful drawing.
#RuleOfLaw #Trump #BetrayalOfCountry #BetrayingAmerica #BetrayingAllies #SupportedByPutin #ServingPutin #Treason #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #DefendDemocracy #USPol #USPolitics
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This is a bit of a head-scratcher. I used to think it said "PAWN SHOP", but closer inspection deflates that notion. It's definitely a #palimpsest, with some decorative, serif #lettering in red peeking through the black sans-serif capitals. Somewhere in #StLouis #Missouri.#signs #ghostsigns #signpainting #graphicdesign #typography.
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The black lettering definitely has:
O-ANN
SHOP
My guess would be another letter to the left, eg JO-ANN, but would require an archival photo or trade directories to confirm.
cc @RoyReed
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Have tried reposting, but reply is to this post: pxlmo.com/p/5teverin0/79934377…
This is a bit of a head-scratcher. I used to think it said "PAWN SHOP", but closer inspection deflates that notion. It's definitely a #palimpsest, with some decorative, serif #lettering in red peeking through the black sans-serif capitals. Somewhere in #StLouis #Missouri.#signs #ghostsigns #signpainting #graphicdesign #typography.
I agree it's [X]O-ANN SHOP but it's just guessing. Are there old trade directories for St Louis? I think that would be the only way to know for sure.
The black lettering definitely has:
O-ANN
SHOP
My guess would be another letter to the left, eg JO-ANN, but would require an archival photo or trade directories to confirm.
cc @RoyReed
“New Social Security chief was being investigated when #Musk team tapped him
Leland Dudek, a data analyst working in a small anti-fraud office, was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with representatives of Musk’s U.S. DOGE [sic] Service. Now he’s the acting Social Security commissioner”
washingtonpost.com/politics/20…
Leland Dudek, a data analyst working in a small anti-fraud office, was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with representatives of Musk’s U.S. DOGE [sic] Service. Now he’s the acting Social Security commissioner”
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell I have not heard that before. Do you have a link? I’d like to read more about that.
Capitalism is incredibly immoral.
If you have to save one person's life and your options are a doctor or a CEO then I think the answer is obvious.
But our society continuously picks the billionaires over countless others. Over and over again, we let people die of starvation, or treatable illness because they won't share.
It is even worse, because it isn't a choice about who dies. It is death and suffering vs a number in a bank's computer. Yet our society prioritizes that number every time.
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With Trump in office, Bibi pulling out the stops.
Palestinians Say Israel Is Violating Ceasefire Terms to Force Them Out of Gaza
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#Gaza #Israel #ImpeachDonaldTrump #DonaldKrasnov #StopTrumpNow #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Palestinians Say Israel Is Violating Ceasefire Terms to Force Them Out of Gaza | Truthout
Gazans claim Israel is obstructing humanitarian aid to keep the area unlivable and compel them to leave their homeland.Zack Kligler (Truthout)
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Daily Beast - The New York Post sent Donald Trump a clear message on Friday with a searing front page showing Vladimir Putin alongside the headline: ”THIS IS A DICTATOR.”
Trump’s onetime “favorite newspaper,” owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, ran the cover after Trump accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of being a “dictator” in a Truth Social post this week.
#ImpeachDonaldTrump #DonaldKrasnov #StopTrumpNow #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #USPol
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And so is this...
Republicans are a loose confederacy of criminals and racists. But whether they're in for the grift or the hate, they are all traitors.
New Social Security chief was being investigated when Musk team tapped him
wapo.st/41qBKwR
#ImpeachDonaldTrump #DonaldKrasnov #StopTrumpNow #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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I would bet a non-trivial amount of money that Apple will also switch off Advanced Data Protection in the US within the year, because they just handed a blueprint to every government around the world that wants to spy on their citizens.
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there is a grace period during which it can be only shut off manually. if you keep using iCloud after the grace period... thats an informed choice
you do know there are alternatives out there right? find one, migrate or wait and see if any workarounds transpire. I would do both tbh
So the US embassy is asking Spanish companies to declare that they don't comply with the Spanish labor laws that require Equality & LGBT Plans in any organisation bigger than 50 people.
Good luck with that 🤣
thelocal.es/20250220/us-embass…
US embassy demands Spanish suppliers reject diversity policies
The Trump White House's 'anti-woke agenda' has landed on Spanish shores, with the US Embassy in Madrid demanding that its Spanish suppliers prove they don't implement company diversity or DEI policies.Conor Faulkner (The Local Spain)
I also read that - I saw El Confidencial reported they asked the Embassy and Consulate to show they are not doing any diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. I don’t know for sure if it’s true.
As this administration is showing, the only DEI that is OK is to put loyalists who aren’t qualified into more senior roles.
As this administration is showing, the only DEI that is OK is to put loyalists who aren’t qualified into more senior roles.
Trump really thinks anybody that’s not a straight white man got their job bc of DEI. Firing a four-star fighter pilot bc “of focus on woke initiatives” - read, he’s Black - and replacing him with a white man who doesn’t even meet the official qualifications for the job. Really, his replacement nominee would need a Congressional waiver as he is missing top experience.
Oh btw he also fired the head of the Navy bc she’s a woman.
nytimes.com/2025/02/21/us/poli…
Oh btw he also fired the head of the Navy bc she’s a woman.
nytimes.com/2025/02/21/us/poli…
USA (and the rest of the world for that matter) is in a world of shit with Trump and his olicharchs. I just read this morning that they threatened to cut of Starlink access to Ukraine unless it agrees to a critical minerals deal.
@Johan_Barelds everything is so horrible. I knew it was going to be extremely bad when he was reelected - since 2016, over and over, most people have told me I’m exaggerating the danger and 95% of the time it’s been as bad or worse than I feared. But this is so much worse than even I feared. I knew he would cozy up to Putin (or is a Russian asset), I didn’t think he would declare all our allies enemies and vice versa.
It’s all treacherous and treasonous.
It’s all treacherous and treasonous.
Fully agree! And Europe should take swift actions now on all kind of area's and levels. On an individual level I already started by moving from Gmail to Proton this week 😃 .
@Johan_Barelds I agree that Europe and everyone needs to take actions. I hope the actions don’t include denying Americans visas, I am worried that clapback would mean my work/residence visa for Spain would not get renewed … it feels like a matter of time before Trump starts putting people in jail who disagree with him 🥺
I don't think that will happen. I think Europe will mainly focus on becoming less dependent on countries outside Europe (economically and militarily). This will make it less susceptible to blackmail, as in the case of Ukraine and Starlink.
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Reality feels as if it has been yanked from under my feet. Everything had inverted, like light in a camera obscura.
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Paying off the barbarian invaders just guarantees that they'll be back again.
Above all, Nazis are looters.
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Alaric
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Vikings
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Crusades
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Historian uncovers cases of ransoms paid to Vikings in the 11th century - Medievalists.net
How much were two women worth in 11th century Iberia? For the Vikings the price was a blanket of wolf skin, a sword, a shirt, three scarves, a cow and some salt.Medievalists.net
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If they do that, I don’t think people will be satisfied with simply protesting at Tesla locations.
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I don’t even speak any Dutch, but the picture tells the story in top left of the PicStitch.
The rest of the world recognizes the U.S. Govt has gone rogue and now is against truth and democracy, plus is paying attention to the slew of Nazi salutes.
#maga #news #usa #saveamerica
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Ice.
Credit: unknown artist
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Building a warplane, Nashville (1943)
Photo: Alfred Palmer / Shorpy.com
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You see this article? scopeofwork.net/the-honorable-…
The Honorable Parts.
How industrial photographer Christopher Payne spotlights the good in American labor.Spencer Wright (Scope of Work)
Sonnet 056 - LVI
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,
To-morrow sharpened in his former might:
So, love, be thou, although to-day thou fill
Thy hungry eyes, even till they wink with fulness,
To-morrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love, with a perpetual dulness.
Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where two contracted new
Come daily to the banks, that when they see
Return of love, more blest may be the view;
As call it winter, which being full of care,
Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more rare.
bot by @davidaugust
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My wife and I talk a lot on Telegram. Most of it is "I love you". I wrote a bot which auto-replied to "I love you" with "I love you too" after a short delay. Turns out she did the same thing. I finished work and there were 5,000 unread "I love you" and "I love you too" messages.
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on one hand, this one is a lesson in why we don't outsource our relationships to robots. on the other hand ... that's just sad.
Have hope humans, for Donald hasn’t changed. He is still a weak idiot surrounded by weak idiots.
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never underestimate the destructive power of large groups of idiots [source: human history]
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Road to Death Valley, Nevada (1943)
Photo: Manzanar National Historic Site Collection, National Park Service, Katsumi Taniguchi Collection
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The location of this photo is in Nevada, near the town of Beatty, east of Death Valley. The Manzanar Camp is two valleys west, in the Owens Valley, California. Death Valley lies between them. It's as bleak as it looks.
@AinsleyLowbeer ah, thanks so much for the correction. I was going off the index info at the source where I found it. Which tags their entire Manzanar collection with this location. I'll update.
No worries. Manzanar is actually three valleys west of here. Death Valley, the Panamint Valley (part of Death Valley National Park), and then the Owens Valley. Take lots of water.
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Syracuse by Moonlight, by Johann Culverhouse 1871
Oil on Canvas
(Onondaga Historical Association)
Read about the painting here: cnyhistory.org/2015/09/artwork…
Artwork Wednseday: "Syracuse By Moonlight" – Onondaga Historical Association
The Artist: Johann Mongales Culverhouse (1849-1891) had a studio in Syracuse for a brief time in the 1870s. The Syracuse Journal for December 12, 1871 reported that he opened a studio […]Onondaga Historical Association
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I’m thinking this cartoonist doesn’t have much faith in the Rockies prospects this season. ⚾️
coloradosun.com/2025/02/21/dre…
Drew Litton: Rockies’ mascot says, “Hold my beer…”
The cartoonist notes that despite all that's happening, from weather to football's end to politics, things just might be about to get worse.Drew Litton (The Colorado Sun)
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BREAKING: Apple has pulled its Advanced Data Protection security feature, which end-to-end encrypts iCloud data, for UK users, saying that it “can no longer” offer the feature.
The move to drop ADP comes after the UK government reportedly demanded backdoor access.
techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/appl…
Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature for UK users after government demanded backdoor | TechCrunch
In an unprecedented step, Apple caved to a reported U.K. government’s demand to prevent users from using end-to-end encryption in iCloud.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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