#uspol Timeline

71d

Afghan pilots who fought in 20-year war against Taliban in limbo after Trump blocks US resettlement plans
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/28/asia/afghanistan-war-pilots-limbo-us-resettlement-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

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First Sergeant Axel SCHULZ supervises the boarding of a large Hercules C-130 and calls on his comrades to board quickly.

Schulz serves with the paratroopers. He is responsible for flight planning at Salerno Airfield in eastern Afghanistan. He is also responsible for fast handling during take-off and landing.

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65d

Make
America
Great
(Depression)
Again

(sorry)

#MAGA #USPol #economics #StockMarket #Trump #tariffs

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66d

When you've lost Joe Rogan...

Joe Rogan breaks with Trump, calling Venezuelan deportations ‘horrific’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/trump-joe-rogan-deportations

#PresidentBystander #Signalgate #WhiskeyLeaks #EndTrump #EndMusk #AgentKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #DOGE #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

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65d

Fox News has removed the stock market data from the chyron.

#FoxNews #MAGA #fascism #uspol #stockmarket #DOW #Nasdaq

Photo of Fox News showing no scrolling stock market data

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New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/

This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.

#surveillance #tech #SocialMedia #GregAbbott #police #border #privacy #security #USpol #politics #news

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I think it's wild that cryptocurrencies are also crashing along with the US stock market. I mean, I feel like they're doomed to crash generally but there legitimately seemed to be enthusiasm in that industry that Trump would make the line go up.

#TrumpRecession #TrumpCrash #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #USEconomy #USPol

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Regarding what follows, I have no standing in economics but I do know a bit about it, I can do math, and I've read the opinions of a few experts I trust. As far as I can tell this document I link below is word salad. Among many head scratchers in it, one of the considerations proposed for choosing a tariff rate is "Do the nation’s leaders grandstand against the United States in the international theater?" This is not economics, it's petty grievance disguised as policy. Words are cheap. What matters is what these nations' leaders do. The framing this document takes, that the US is somehow cheated by the current global trade arrangement and world order, is false on its face. Again, this is grievance disguised as policy. Anyway, here goes:

As an analyst at Hudson Bay Capital, Stephen Miran authored the blueprint for the tariff strategy the Trump administration is now using:

Tariffs provide revenue, and if offset by currency adjustments, present minimal inflationary or otherwise adverse side effects, consistent with the experience in 2018-2019. While currency offset can inhibit adjustments to trade flows, it suggests that tariffs are ultimately financed by the tariffed nation, whose real purchasing power and wealth decline, and that the revenue raised improves burden sharing for reserve asset provision. Tariffs will likely be implemented in a manner deeply intertwined with national security concerns, and I discuss a variety of possible implementation schemes. I also discuss optimal tariff rates in the context of the rest of the U.S. taxation system.

(emphasis mine)

From https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/research/638199_A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf

Miran became the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, appointed by Trump, in March 2025. He seems to be a conservative think tank creature too.

#USPol #USEconomics #TrumpTariffs #TrumpRecession #TrumpCrash

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Rage, rage against the lying orange shite. #USpol

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59d

I hope there are journalists digging into who sold and who bought stocks and cryptocurrencies, which ones and when, leading up to Apr 2 and in the next few weeks.

The low-effort generative AI looking tariff rates is a tell. The fact bitcoin moved the same way as US stock indices has a bad smell about it too.

#TrumpAndDump #PumpAndDump #tariff #USPol #USEconomy #con

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I just saw Mark Elias' tariff theory. It is a far darker idea than tariffs as sales tax to replace income tax.

His idea is that it is just a Grand Corruption Machine. It is designed such that leaders from business, US states and other countries have to go to Trump and beg for relief from the tariffs that apply to them. The begging involves making Trump richer.

The idea that trillions of dollars are being wiped from the stock exchanges, a severe recession seems imminent, inflation is spiking and the entire world order is being upset so that Trump can play at being king of the world and get some kickbacks does seem like a very Trumpian plan.

#uspol

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I plan to keep tooting about my current situation of my SSDI check not showing up this month.

I do have people around me to help me out, potentially temporary housing, and access to food...

I might lose my internet, I never know.

My future is uncertain.

When policitcs fuck with lives, I cant just ignore the political articles.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-doge-goons-cause-major-crash-to-social-security-site/

#USpol
#MySSCheckIsMissing

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58d

In all the talk of US trade deficits forcing Trump et al. to erect tariff barriers to "rebalance trade", we've lost or ignored the fact that the US has an enormous digital trade surplus. See, for instance, this paper Estimating digital product trade through corporate revenue data. The US's main conventional export is currently petroleum, but it exports over twice as much in digital advertising. The US's overall "digital exports" are larger than the total exports of France, which is the world's 7th leading exporter. However, these numbers are not typically included in reports about trade deficits or surpluses.

#Trump #tariffs #USPol #USEconomy #GlobalTrade #trade

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Some local coverage for the Oregon #HandsOff protests from OPB:

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/04/05/hands-off-protests-oregon-washington/

“Hands Off” protests began in Tigard in Southeast Portland Saturday morning, with dozens more planned in Oregon, from Gold Beach to Astoria, to Hood River, Enterprise, Redmond and Klamath Falls.

#USPol #Resist #Protest #Oregon #Portland #Tigard

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51d

"Wait, I’m sorry, the guy smashing a car window to abduct an immigrant may not be with ICE at all, but a member of a far-right militia group?"
-W Stancil

"My search says this individual's name is Michael Meyer, he commonly goes by the name Lewis Arthur, and his group, Veterans on Patrol (VOP), is associated with the Oath Keepers."
-M Datson
He has a criminal record⬇️
🚨Update, I apologize, the ID of the man hasn't been established.
#OathKeepers #ICE #Immigrants #DHS #USPol
https://tucson.com/news/local/man-leading-internet-claims-of-tucson-child-sex-trafficking-camp-arrested-again/article_be4184b7-fb9f-5f68-ab4c-8354814f4784.html

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I think I've already posted this but it's worth re-posting:

"Trump admin's attacks on chronic disease research abandons long COVID and ME/CFS patients... Again"

https://www.salon.com/2025/04/01/admins-on-chronic-disease-research-abandons-long-and-mecfs-patients-again/

"Budget cuts and the dismantling of federal agencies are making it harder for patients with long COVID and ME/CFS"

@mecfs @longcovid

Edit: added hashtag

#USPol #LongCovid #MEcfs #Research

Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University, has spent more than two decades studying a debilitating chronic illness that is often misunderstood and stigmatized, known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Lipkin's work faces an uncertain future after grants from the federal government were terminated last week, stripping patients with this chronic disease of one of the few sources of research endeavoring to understand their condition and find treatments, he said.

The Center for Solutions for ME/CFS is one of a few centers across the country dedicated to studying this condition, but it can no longer remain operational, Lipkin said. It was receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health, but the Trump Administration cut about $250 million in grants to Columbia, which the agency said occurred due to the university's "continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”

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Why isn't the world going insane at Republican politicians visiting concentration camps and posing in front of people who will likely be dead within the decade.

This wasn't even normal in 1942. It's not even normal in North Korea - Fascist regimes usually keep their death camps a secret.

#USA #USPol #Fascism #Nazis #concentrationcamps #deathcamp #CECOT #MAGA #Religion #Supposed #Catholic

Rep. Riley Moore of West Virginia's 2nd District shared photos from inside El Salvador's high-security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) on Wednesday.

He is seen here standing in front of a cake full of mostly naked prisoners, with both hands thumbs up. Next to the holiday-snap from hell is a close up of the caged prisoners showing about 25 of them crammed into a cage with tiers of bare steel platforms with no bedding for them to sleep on.

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The wonder occasioned by the fact that the things we are at present experiencing are ‘still’ possible in the twentieth century is no philosophical wonder.

--Walter Benjamin

When the state of exception...becomes the rule, then the juridico-political system becomes a machine which may at any moment turn lethal.

-- Giorgio Agamben

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Just out from @josephinelee and Joelle DiPaolo: After three decades of fighting back against #vouchers, the governor enlisted the help of the president to destroy the last vestiges of Republican resistance this week. https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-trump-house-vouchers-pass/

#education #schools #Trump #GregAbbott #politics #USpol #news #TXlege #Texas #Republicans #democracy