I, for one, am scheduling all the elective surgeries I've been putting off for years, while we still have Medicare. One ankle is fixed, one ankle and one knee to go.
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Apparently Google is going to bend the knee to Trump, renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/bowing-to-trump-google-maps-plans-to-quickly-rename-the-gulf-of-mexico/
So I'm going to start using Mapquest.
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"Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!"
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The #fascists are moving to deport legal immigrants as well. There will be "reviews" of individual cases of humanitarian parole, which is the legal status for people fleeing humanitarian crises.
The order affects Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians, and Venezuelans, as well as the Ukrainians I sponsored to come here.
Republicans' objections to illegal immigration were always in bad faith. They're happy to hurt powerless people regardless of the law.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5268986/trump-humanitarian-parole-immigration
[#]Fascism
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Second, the U.S. is about to have fascists firmly in control of all three branches of government. Greenland knows this. If they wanted to become a U.S. state anyway, I'd oppose admitting them to the union on that basis alone.
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@DeanObeidallah raised an interesting theoretical question: if we were offered a deal where #Greenland and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico could all become U.S. states at once, would we take the deal?
(Assume the people of Greenland voted in favor of joining the U.S.)
First, in a universe where the Republicans need to compromise, the Democratic Party probably has enough power to ram DC statehood and Puerto Rico #statehood down the Republicans' throats. No need for a deal.
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There are just some things where an Internet search engine is the wrong tool. Here's one:
I watch British TV shows, often mysteries set in villages like Midsomer Murders. Here's a photograph of something I keep seeing: on the stone wall of someone's cottage, there's something that looks like a reversed letter S.
Does anyone on the Fediverse know what that thing is called? Is it structural, or some kind of symbol?
[#]FediHelp
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Never let the fascists see you cry.
-- John Fugelsang
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One of the huge drawbacks to the U.S. failure to sign the #RomeStatute (the treaty that authorizes the #InternationalCriminalCourt) is that we cannot now prosecute #Trump and his #fascist #collaborators for crimes against humanity.
But there's a clever exception: non-signatory countries can invite the #ICC in, granting jurisdiction within their territory. This is, e.g., why the ICC can investigate Russian #WarCrimes in Ukraine.
Imagine an international arrest warrant for Trump.
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We should have a steeply progressive income tax, and a wealth tax, and enforceable laws against bribery and corruption.
The fact that a billionaire is buying the United States government is precisely why we need them.
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OK, I'll bite. @FediTree !
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[#]FediBlock recommended for undefined.social. I reported a user supporting pedophilia. There's been no response for five days.
https://archive.ph/KQ4Eg
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I'm building a Corsi-Rosenthal box for Thanksgiving.
https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/news/corsi-rosenthal-box-diy-box-fan-air-filter-covid-19-and-wildfire-smoke
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For those with the option of #MovingToCanada, this article on getting a Canadian mortgage may be useful.
https://www.levelupmortgages.com/blog-posts/non-residents-guide-to-getting-a-mortgage-in-canada
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We are going to see massive theft of public funds by the #fascists and their rich #collaborators. We need to face the fact that the thieves won't be jailed, or even investigated, they'll just get richer.
The fact that rich thieves almost always get away with it should be the strongest argument for a #WealthTax.
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We are watching in real time as Trump literally orders the Republican majority in the Senate to accept all his cabinet nominees without any background checks, without hearings, without debate, without even a vote.
And mainstream media figures are earnestly discussing whether Republican members of Congress, who have always bent the knee before, are suddenly going to get completely new personalities and refuse him this time.
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In the year before the election there was a silly idea being bandied about:
"The Republican Party will split in two, one traditional Republican, the other MAGA."
There was an even sillier one:
"The traditional Republicans are going to throw MAGA out of the party."
The idea that the #Republican Party was somehow being intimidated or dragged along unwillingly by their #fascist fringe was always laughable. The leadership is fascist, the base is fascist. There are no moderates.
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Everyone who is able, has to support journalists that aren't working for the interests of billionaires. I'm going to support @TexasObserver with a monthly donation, for the duration.
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[#]Caturday beard grooming
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How rich is too rich?
I think if you can buy a government that suits you, you're too rich.
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