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There are 195 countries in the world. Trump is currently threatening military action against Venezuela and Greenland (part of Denmark).

Why these two countries?

Picture 1: Venezuela ranks number 1 in oil reserves.

Picture 2: Greenland ranks number 8 in rare earth deposits.

Maybe Greenland is safe for now, because Denmark is a member of NATO. But Venezuela is not, and that is where 10 of the largest US war ships are now launching “Operation Southern Spear”.

Gondor

@grootinside@troet.cafe replied · 2 days ago

@randahl
To me, it's just further proof that it's not Trump, it's #project2025 to use him as an "instrument" for interests.

I think it's common sense that he's simply incapable of planning anything other than satisfying his own ego.

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@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social · 6 days ago

Disgusting. Vile. Illegal. Republicans.

GOP sneaks $500K bonus for senators probed by Jack Smith into shutdown-busting budget bill
https://www.rawstory.com/senate-phone-records-jack-smith/

#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #AmericanFascistParty #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

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@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social · 6 days ago

Disgusting. Vile. Illegal. Republicans.

GOP sneaks $500K bonus for senators probed by Jack Smith into shutdown-busting budget bill
https://www.rawstory.com/senate-phone-records-jack-smith/

#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #AmericanFascistParty #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Jeff Jarvis

@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social · last week

It takes too long to get to the answer, which is definitively yes. Which is to say that depriving people of insurance is to kill them.
The government is shut down over health care. But does insurance save lives? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/09/government-shut-down-health-insurance-deaths/

Andreas K

@yacc143@mastodon.social replied · last week

@jeffjarvis Please note, that #Project2025 lists government shutdowns as an “on-purpose” measure to achieve its goals, so don't assume it happened accidentally, it's a #Trump / #GOP tactic.

Permanent layoffs of federal employees, that crass targeting of agencies which are funded/unfunded, that's slightly beyond your typical shutdown.

The Conversation U.S.

@TheConversationUS@newsie.social · last week

Trump was already cutting low-income energy assistance – the shutdown is making things worse as cold weather arrives https://theconversation.com/trump-was-already-cutting-low-income-energy-assistance-the-shutdown-is-making-things-worse-as-cold-weather-arrives-269342

The Conversation

Trump was already cutting low-income energy assistance – the shutdown is making things worse as cold weather arrives

Nearly a quarter of US households struggle to pay their energy bills at the same time as America’s social safety nets, including home heat aid, are disappearing.

Preston MacDougall

@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science replied · last week

@TheConversationUS #DonaldTheDeplorable is going his damned best to turn the #UnitedStates into another #Russia. #Qanon in the #Kremlin is celebrating the ‘success’ of Agent #Krasnov.

#Project2025 , #American#Carnage2.0, #USpol #kakistocracy , whatever you want to call it, it is all just the means of achieving the *same* underlying goal; #Russia taking revenge on the #UnitedStates for the disintegration of the #SovietUnion after losing losing the #ColdWar.

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social · last week

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@mckra1g@mastodon.social · last week

When access to food becomes leverage, it stops being a policy issue and becomes a moral one. Food should never be weaponized. Back in 2019, I remember seeing a video online of a boy unwrapping a banana for Christmas. People laughed—but I couldn’t. I’d been on food stamps, buying Christmas Cap’n Crunch and Hershey’s as “gifts.” This tweet struck a chord. As Gwendolyn Brooks said, “We are each other’s bond.”

#SNAP #USpol #Trump #news

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mckra1g/115516343882192345

❝ Food should never be weaponized.❞

because it’s #eugenics.

everybody needs to call EUGENICS #MAGA #GOP #Republicans taking hostage #foodStamps #welfare #SNAP for the privilege of killing #Obamacare #Medicaid and their #Medicare extensions.

the #shutdown isn’t just about the #EpsteinFiles. it is about enacting the core mission of #Project2025 : normalize killing millions of Americans by destroying the federal government.

and if killing millions sounds familiar, yes: eugenics is #genocide.

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social · last week

Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦

@mckra1g@mastodon.social · last week

#SNAP #USpol #Trump #news

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mckra1g/115516343882192345

❝ Food should never be weaponized.❞

because it’s #eugenics.

everybody needs to call EUGENICS #MAGA #GOP #Republicans taking hostage #foodStamps #welfare #SNAP for the privilege of killing #Obamacare #Medicaid and their #Medicare extensions.

the #shutdown isn’t just about the #EpsteinFiles. it is about enacting the core mission of #Project2025 : normalize killing millions of Americans by destroying the federal government.

and if killing millions sounds familiar, yes: eugenics is #genocide.

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DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Analysis: Trump’s greatest ally is the Democratic Party's refusal to call for mass action.

The oligarchs were terrified by the mobilization of the left in the 1960s. They called it America’s “excess of democracy”.

They "set out to build counter-institutions to delegitimize & marginalize critics of capitalism... They bought the allegiances of the two ruling political parties."

Project 2025

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic

#USPol #oligarchy #Europol #Trump #Dictatorship #generalstrike #Project2025 .

Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party

The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.

DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Analysis: Trump’s greatest ally is the Democratic Party's refusal to call for mass action.

The oligarchs were terrified by the mobilization of the left in the 1960s. They called it America’s “excess of democracy”.

They "set out to build counter-institutions to delegitimize & marginalize critics of capitalism... They bought the allegiances of the two ruling political parties."

Project 2025

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic

#USPol #oligarchy #Europol #Trump #Dictatorship #generalstrike #Project2025 .

Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party

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DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Analysis: Trump’s greatest ally is the Democratic Party's refusal to call for mass action.

The oligarchs were terrified by the mobilization of the left in the 1960s. They called it America’s “excess of democracy”.

They "set out to build counter-institutions to delegitimize & marginalize critics of capitalism... They bought the allegiances of the two ruling political parties."

Project 2025

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic

#USPol #oligarchy #Europol #Trump #Dictatorship #generalstrike #Project2025 .

Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party

DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Analysis: Trump’s greatest ally is the Democratic Party's refusal to call for mass action.

The oligarchs were terrified by the mobilization of the left in the 1960s. They called it America’s “excess of democracy”.

They "set out to build counter-institutions to delegitimize & marginalize critics of capitalism... They bought the allegiances of the two ruling political parties."

Project 2025

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic

#USPol #oligarchy #Europol #Trump #Dictatorship #generalstrike #Project2025 .

Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party

David Chavalarias - FR

@davidchavalarias@piaille.fr · 2 weeks ago

🎂Enjoy your meal America ! "The U.S. Agriculture Department has withdrawn a plan to limit salmonella in raw poultry"

This is one of 4,000 grotesque or tragic facts referenced by Dutch journalist @locuta about Trump's first year in office

We have created an interactive map for you with all these Trump facts ⬇️
https://maps.gargantext.org/maps/trumpnews

It shows that Donald #Trump continues to follow the advice of MAGA ideologue #SteveBannon (2018) to the letter: "Democrats don't matter. The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit."

Bannon clarified that ⬇️

Mapping Donald Trump's 47th presidency

David Chavalarias - FR

@davidchavalarias@piaille.fr replied · 2 weeks ago

“it's not about persuasion, it's about disorientation.” Except that, with virtually unlimited power, #Trump can now afford to attack the #Democrats as well.

This collection of more than 4,000 facts demonstrates the relentless implementation of the Heritage Foundation's famous #Project2025 program, which Trump had denied wanting to follow during his presidential campaign and which he is now implementing beyond the expectations of its authors.

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DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Analysis: Trump’s greatest ally is the Democratic Party's refusal to call for mass action.

The oligarchs were terrified by the mobilization of the left in the 1960s. They called it America’s “excess of democracy”.

They "set out to build counter-institutions to delegitimize & marginalize critics of capitalism... They bought the allegiances of the two ruling political parties."

Project 2025

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic

#USPol #oligarchy #Europol #Trump #Dictatorship #generalstrike #Project2025 .

Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party

DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Analysis: Trump’s greatest ally is the Democratic Party's refusal to call for mass action.

The oligarchs were terrified by the mobilization of the left in the 1960s. They called it America’s “excess of democracy”.

They "set out to build counter-institutions to delegitimize & marginalize critics of capitalism... They bought the allegiances of the two ruling political parties."

Project 2025

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic

#USPol #oligarchy #Europol #Trump #Dictatorship #generalstrike #Project2025 .

Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party

DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social replied · 2 weeks ago

The US oligarchs' 50-year project: from the 1960s so-called "excess of democracy" to Project 2025

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic

#USPol #oligarchy #Europol #Trump #Dictatorship #generalstrike #Project2025 .

Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party

The oligarchs were terrified by the mobilization of the left
in the 1960s: Huntington's so-called “excess of democracy”.
They planned counter-institutions to delegitimize &
marginalize critics of capitalism & imperialism.

They bought the allegiances of the two ruling political
parties. They imposed obedience to neoliberalism within
academia, government agencies & the press.

They neutered the liberal class & crushed popular
movements. They set the FBI on anti-war protestors, civil
rights, Black Panthers, American Indian Movement, Young
Lords & other groups that empowered the disempowered.
They broke labor unions, leaving 90% of the workforce
without union protections. Critics of capitalism &
imperialism, eg, Chomsky & Ralph Nader, were blacklisted.
The campaign, laid out by Lewis Powell Jr in his

1971 memorandum titled “Attack on American Free
Enterprise System,” set into motion the creeping corporate
coup d'etat, which five decades later, is complete.

The differences between the two ruling parties on
substantive issues — such as war, tax cuts, trade deals &
austerity — has become indistinguishable.

Chris Hedges Nov 04, 2025
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic — The oligarchs were terrified by the mobilization of the left in the 1960s: Huntington's so-called “excess of democracy”. They planned counter-institutions to delegitimize & marginalize critics of capitalism & imperialism. They bought the allegiances of the two ruling political parties. They imposed obedience to neoliberalism within academia, government agencies & the press. They neutered the liberal class & crushed popular movements. They set the FBI on anti-war protestors, civil rights, Black Panthers, American Indian Movement, Young Lords & other groups that empowered the disempowered. They broke labor unions, leaving 90% of the workforce without union protections. Critics of capitalism & imperialism, eg, Chomsky & Ralph Nader, were blacklisted. The campaign, laid out by Lewis Powell Jr in his 1971 memorandum titled “Attack on American Free Enterprise System,” set into motion the creeping corporate coup d'etat, which five decades later, is complete. The differences between the two ruling parties on substantive issues — such as war, tax cuts, trade deals & austerity — has become indistinguishable. Chris Hedges Nov 04, 2025 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic

DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Analysis: Trump’s greatest ally is the Democratic Party's refusal to call for mass action.

The oligarchs were terrified by the mobilization of the left in the 1960s. They called it America’s “excess of democracy”.

They "set out to build counter-institutions to delegitimize & marginalize critics of capitalism... They bought the allegiances of the two ruling political parties."

Project 2025

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic

#USPol #oligarchy #Europol #Trump #Dictatorship #generalstrike #Project2025 .

Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party

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Democracy Matters :verified:

@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social · 2 weeks ago

REMINDER: this is the kind of shit Republicans pull. Next it will be videotaping children's genitals without parental consent...

GOP lawmakers pass bill allowing child genital exams without parental consent
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-lawmakers-pass-bill-allowing-child-genital-exams-without-parental-consent/

#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #AmericanFascistParty #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol