Basically everyone on this train is going to the Chicago #HandsOff protest. 💪

#uspol

#MAGAnomics #USpol #PublicHealth #Vaccination

There already is a #MeaslesEpidemic in the #UnitedStatesOfAiling people... just saying...

s/: In a year or so, I'll ask #Kennedy, "How's that #GreatReplacementTheory thing going for ya?/s

masto.ai/@Nonilex/114287349759…

#Sarcasm

Nonilex

2025-04-05 20:56:02

Most #pharmaceuticals are made at least in part in foreign nations

#Trump has been saying for weeks that he plans to impose #tariffs specifically on pharmaceuticals….He has said those levies could be 25% or higher. Drugmakers still expect tariffs targeting them to be announced soon.

“The pharmaceutical companies are going to come roaring back, …to our country because if they don’t, they got a big tax to pay,” Trump said Wed.

#economy #medications #PersonalFinances
nytimes.com/2025/04/04/health/…

Trump’s Next Tariffs Target Could be Foreign-Made Pharmaceuticals

President Trump wants to bring pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the United States. Experts warn that tariffs could result in shortages and higher prices for generic drugs.

^{Rebecca Robbins (The New York Times)}

#HandsOff #UsPol protests reported in #LeMonde

"Le Monde – Aux Etats-Unis, plusieurs manifestations contre la politique de Donald Trump et les coupes budgétaires menées par Elon Musk"
lemonde.fr/international/artic…

Aux Etats-Unis, plusieurs manifestations contre la politique de Donald Trump et les coupes budgétaires menées par Elon Musk

Une série de mouvements citoyens de gauche appellent à manifester, samedi, dans tout le pays contre ce qu’ils qualifient d’« accaparement du pouvoir » par le président républicain.

^{Le Monde avec AFP (Le Monde)}

Good sign.

#HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #USpol #protest

Good take by @harvard_law profs Nikolas Bowie and Benjamin Eidelson:
bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/opi…

"#Harvard has suffered real legal setbacks in recent years, including a major [#SCOTUS] loss on affirmative action, and some stakeholders may be leery of another public fight…But a 400-year-old institution should be making decisions with a time horizon of centuries, not news cycles. Making a principled stand now — with the law squarely on its side — is the single best thing Harvard could do to earn its continued place as a symbol of genuine excellence, free inquiry, and commitment to the public good. Filing suit would also enhance Harvard’s legal position going forward, as any retaliation by the administration would be an even clearer violation of the First Amendment."

#Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

Opinion | There’s only one answer Harvard should give Trump

The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.

^{The Boston Globe}

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

#TrumpKillsUsAll #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlue #FightFascism #USPol

@mina
#BlackRock #Merz #DEpol #USpol

(3/3)

... jede andere Investmentgesellschaft👈, wobei sich die Gesamtreserven auf 9,5 Gigatonnen #CO2Emissionen oder 30 % der gesamten energiebezogenen #Emissionen von 2017 belaufen."

web.archive.org/web/2022040905…

👉Die #US-Technofeudalherren (inkl. #PeterThiel) und - #Oligarchen dürfen ihre plutokratische Macht nicht weiter nach #Europa ausdehnen... Man sieht, wohin das in den #USA mit #MAGA, #Musk und #Trump geführt hat!

//

New report confirms BlackRock’s big fossil fuel problem

As long as Blackrock is the top investor in fossil fuel development, Larry Fink’s sustainability claims will remain hollow and hypocritical.

^{Audrey Fox (Friends of the Earth)}

“President Trump’s team is selectively stripping away the public record, reconstructing his preferred vision of America in the negative space of purged history, archivists and historians said. As data and resources are deleted or altered, something foundational is also at risk: Americans’ ability to access and evaluate their past, and with it, their already shaky trust in facts.“

nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technol…

#history #histodons #uspol #democracy

The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It

As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and historians said.

^{Tiffany Hsu (The New York Times)}

#BlackRock #Merz #DEpol #USpol

(2/n)

...👉 drei Viertel des #amerikanischen Bruttoinlandsprodukts entspricht👈"."

web.archive.org/web/2022060206…

#TheEconomist und die #BaslerZeitung haben deshalb
BlackRock als die "Weltgrößte #Schattenbank" bezeichnet.

web.archive.org/web/2018020119…

web.archive.org/web/2021121016…

Schier unvorstellbar!

Die Anlagestrategie der Firma hat u. a. auch direkte Auswirkungen aufs globale #Klima:

"👉BlackRock besitzt mehr Öl-, Gas- und Thermalkohlereserven...

Die grösste Schattenbank der Welt

Der nicht regulierte Bankensektor ist in den Fokus der Öffentlichkeit gerückt. Einer der grössten Akteure ist der US-Vermögensverwalter Blackrock, der neue Arbeitgeber des Ex-SNB-Chefs Philipp Hildebrand.

^{lü (Tamedia Espace AG)}

#ICE is the #Gestapo: "On Friday, (3.7), while on a Zoom call w/an ISSO advisor who continues to reassure me that I was in legal status, ICE came knocking @ my door w/o a warrant. If I had been alone I would have opened the door. My roommate, an American citizen, recognized the knock as that of law enforcement. Given the lack of warrant she refused to let them in & repeatedly asked them to identify themselves; something they refused to do."

normanfinkelstein.com/letter-f…

#USPol
#Ranjani Srinivasan

Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada

Visit the post for more.

^{Norman Finkelstein}

"There was also not enough time for scientists to properly shut down the laboratories before they were locked out from their email systems and the building, two CDC officials said, with equipment still running and hazardous materials left unattended."

cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-cdc-la…

#PublicHealth #HHS #CDC #InfectiousDiseases #STI #chlamydia #gonorrhea #HIV #hepatitis #syphilis #laboratories #testing #surveillance #DOGE #USpol

RFK Jr. cuts CDC labs investigating outbreaks of STDs and hepatitis

CDC officials are warning of delays and disruptions due to cuts to laboratory staff.

^{Alexander Tin (CBS News)}

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(5/n)

... conventional weapons.

As in the 1930's, a #fascist movement has been siwing division where there should be unity.

We must never forget, as in any war, the war that's being fought against #Authoritarianism is a #hybrid one.

The #FourthEstate...

@LoranJohn
#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(4/n)

.. taking a wrecking ball towards the #West.

If the rest of the 🌍 globe, in particular #CEUM, work much stronger together, there is a good chance that the #TrumpeanTariffs'-induced #GlobalDepression2.0 might yet be averted.

However, this is not only a war of trade and...

@LoranJohn
#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(3/n)

... They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them.👈"

The #TrumpTariffs that will result in #TrumpeanTradeWars, if this collision course is maintained, are the complete opposite of what the founding fathers had in mind.
#tRump is...

@LoranJohn
#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(2/n)

... way before the much cited Art. 5.:

"Article 2

The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, 👉and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being...

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(1/2)

And #SigmarGabriel is right!

#Canada and #Mexico, while having a lot of indigenous roots, AS well as Asian and African, the majority of people have ancestral roots on the European continent and speak one of its languages.

But things should not be hastened, the #EuropeanUnion did not start as such.

mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1142…

IMO, starting with a fast-track implementation of a free-trade area...

"They'll be jobless and hungry--they won't even miss their homes."

Trump's war on veterans targets program to help them keep their homes
dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/4/…

#Veterans #EndDonaldTrump #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #NoFascism #USPol

Trump's war on veterans targets program to help them keep their homes

The Department of Veterans Affairs is ending a program that has helped over 17,000 veterans attain homeownership. It is just the latest in a series of attacks and slights against veterans from ...

^{Daily Kos}

Good news: "FEMA must "immediately comply" with an order to disburse federal funding to 22 states and Washington, D.C., a federal judge ruled.

Judge McConnell finds the agency's "manual review" of grant payments violates his injunction."
-A Klasfeld

#Courts #FEMA #USPol

storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

The penguins of the Heard and McDonald Islands thank you for this @TomWellborn

#USPol
#Tariffs
#HeardAndMcDonaldIslands
#Tesla

#Cancer, #Covid, & #Alzheimers #Research Could Be Lost Forever

Days before #RFKJr announced that 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

#Trump #health #science #medicine #AntiIntellectualism #idiocracy #USpol
404media.co/nih-archives-repos…

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever

Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

@lgbtqia
If you can help us, now is a very good time to do it. We need to extract some folks very, very quickly. We need to raise 2000 we don't have in order to do it. We are under attack.

Please spread this, we don't have much reach.
transrescue.org/donations/dona…

#trans #TransRights #uspol #humanrights #mutualaid

Interview: "Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil"

The students demanded the school release information related to the targeting and ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a former SIPA student.

democracynow.org/2025/4/3/ice_…

#columbia #studentprotests #autocracy #trump #uspol #ice #resistfascism #islamophobia #racism .

Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil

Jewish students at Columbia University chained themselves to a campus gate across from the graduate School of International and Public Affairs Wednesday, braving rain and cold to demand the school release information related to the targeting and ICE …

^{Democracy Now!}

The US Senate is happy to keep helping Trump destroy America.

Now they've approved 34 felonies' appointment of known snake oil promoter "dr" Oz.

bbc.com/news/articles/c1k4em2y…

side note: so the GOP spent many many years frothing at the mouth about Obama's middle name being Hussein, but don't care one iota about Mehmet Oz' first name?
They are always hypocrites.

#USpolitics #USpol #Medicare #Medicaid

Dr Mehmet Oz confirmed to lead Medicare and Medicaid

Oz, who has never held public office, is best known for hosting US daytime TV show The Dr Oz Show.

^{Amy Walker (BBC News)}

I didn't expect this to be the means through which #AI would take over the world.

theverge.com/news/642620/trump…

#USpol #Tariff #Trump

Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s

ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same, simple tariff calculation that the White House appears to have used.

^{Dominic Preston (The Verge)}

#USpol #LosDesaparecidos

As #Fascism takes hold of the #US, tracking #TheDisappeared is an excellent idea.

#Argentina, #Chile, #Mexico, national healing a some future point in time can eventually only take place if the wherabouts of Los Desaparecidos are known.

ifsw.org/argentina-and-los-des…

Argentina and “los desaparecidos”

^www.ifsw.org

#USpol #Yemen #Houthis

Agh, this is what came to my mind (with less details) when I thought how a petty psychopath might feel about some ragged rebels on the other side of the globe potentially making him look less royal....

"At least 6 bombers now at #DiegoGarcia in Indian Ocean, nearly a third of all nuclear-capable B-2s in #US arsenal;..."

... I very strongly hope still that the "nyclear-capable" is just a coincidence...

abcnews.go.com/International/s…

Satellite images show multiple US B-2 nuclear-capable bombers deployed to Indian Ocean

The Pentagon announced it is rapidly expanding its footprint in the Middle East.

^{Kerem Inal (ABC News)}

#USpol #DEpol #Faschismus
#BPB #SmithsonianInstitution

*👉Verfassungskrise in den USA- in absehbarer Zukunft auch in Deutschland? 👈*

(26/n)

Wow, @Jeramee, chapeau, you made it through a long thread in German!

Extra credits! 🏆

In fact, I had to think of you, when I wrote this post.
Do share your thoughts, German not required. 😉