I love the #US! I just fucking hate your President.
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The #UnitedStates & #Ukraine announced the creation of a new reconstruction & investment fund, formalizing an economic agreement between the 2 that is intended to give the US access to proceeds from Ukraine’s reserves of rare earth #minerals.
The agreement concludes months of fraught negotiations over whether the #US will continue to provide Ukraine w/ #economic & #military support to Ukraine as it tries to broker an end to its war w/ #Russia.
#geopolitics #extortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/europe/ukraine-minerals-deal-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=B6D34864-523A-4478-90D7-2E06148475AB
CNN is reporting "Hiring picked up as 2026 kicked into gear, with the US economy adding a stronger-than-expected 130,000 jobs last month"
If you haven't been following this stuff for long, it might surprise you to know that "adding" 130,000 jobs in a month is a net loss. A jobs report like this would have been taken as a sign of a very poor economy even 15 years ago. The reason is that around 180,000 young people reach legal employment age each month in the US (Contra the admin's confabulations, this is how many US citizens reach employment age, and is not about immigration slowing). Adding 180,000 jobs would be treading water. Adding 130,000 is effectively 50,000 new people without jobs, a net loss by the spirit of this metric. There's also the reality that many of these estimates have been revised down by the BLS after more data came in.
Saying hiring is "picking up" and is "stronger than expected" is effectively saying "it could have been worse! 🤷 ". It's wild to see this positive spin on a very poor report.
It's extraordinarily fishy that the reported unemployment rate is not moving much in spite of these persistent and mounting job losses. I know why this is so please don't @ me a splanation. My point is that it, again, does not reflect the spirit of what this metric is meant to capture. It is wholly perverse now and should not be reported at all, let alone taken as a meaningful indicator.
The US economic numbers, when you push aside all the B.S., are recession-level. There's no "momentum" in the "labor market". There are not "green shoots" or "signs". The economic situation is bad.
#US #USEconomy #jobs #JobsReport #BLS
If you haven't been following this stuff for long, it might surprise you to know that "adding" 130,000 jobs in a month is a net loss. A jobs report like this would have been taken as a sign of a very poor economy even 15 years ago. The reason is that around 180,000 young people reach legal employment age each month in the US (Contra the admin's confabulations, this is how many US citizens reach employment age, and is not about immigration slowing). Adding 180,000 jobs would be treading water. Adding 130,000 is effectively 50,000 new people without jobs, a net loss by the spirit of this metric. There's also the reality that many of these estimates have been revised down by the BLS after more data came in.
Saying hiring is "picking up" and is "stronger than expected" is effectively saying "it could have been worse! 🤷 ". It's wild to see this positive spin on a very poor report.
It's extraordinarily fishy that the reported unemployment rate is not moving much in spite of these persistent and mounting job losses. I know why this is so please don't @ me a splanation. My point is that it, again, does not reflect the spirit of what this metric is meant to capture. It is wholly perverse now and should not be reported at all, let alone taken as a meaningful indicator.
The US economic numbers, when you push aside all the B.S., are recession-level. There's no "momentum" in the "labor market". There are not "green shoots" or "signs". The economic situation is bad.
#US #USEconomy #jobs #JobsReport #BLS
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It would be so funny if it wasn't so extremely sad to see Pam Bondi's meltdown
How is this even real
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'I asked readers: What do you consider the definitive #movie about #America and why?
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More than 3,000 comments poured in, name-checking hundreds of #movies
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The single #film readers chose most often was “ #Idiocracy” (2006), #MikeJudge’s scathing critique of the #UnitedStates cloaked in a futuristic tale. Some commenters seemed almost sad to list it, linking it to their feelings about the country today, while more than one described it as a documentary'
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Exclusive: Up to 150 #US troops wounded in #Iran #war, two sources tell Reuters
As many as 150 US troops have been wounded in the Iran war, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The figure has not been previously reported & is far higher than the #Trump admin’s publicly disclosed figure of 8 seriously wounded US forces.
#SuckersAndLosers #ForeverWars #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-war-live-trump-tehran-trade-threats-over-oil-blockade-2026-03-10/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
#Trump claims he is indefinitely extending the “#ceasefire” between the #US & #Iran, which was set to expire in hours. He said he received a request from #Pakistan, which is trying to mediate an end to the #war.
“I have therefore directed our Military to continue the Blockade &, in all other respects, remain ready & able, & will therefore extend the Ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted, & discussions are concluded, one way or the other,” he posted.
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Moron did what now?
#Trump announced a 100% #tariff on #movies produced outside the #US, saying #Hollywood was dying a "very fast death" due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American filmmakers.
"This is a concerted effort by other Nations &, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging & propaganda," Trump said in a social media post.
[I mean…c’mon, a #NationalSecurity threat?]
#idiocracy #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-announces-100-tariff-movies-produced-outside-us-2025-05-04/
This makes no sense. They claim they want #immigrants to assimilate to whatever their idea of #US #culture is & yet…
#Trump steps up a campaign against #teaching #English to immigrant kids
The administration plans to dissolve the office that supports English instruction.
#law #immigration #education #ESL #racism #WhiteSupremacy #DualState
Unbelievable..
Voting for #Trump, supporting Trump, supporting #ICE but complaining when there is an ICE detention center build in their town
"I didn't vote for this" they say
I got news for ya, you did
As long as they don't have to see the terror they voted in and still support
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https://youtu.be/kjPJbSRURt4
‼️🇺🇦What’s happening behind Ukrainian frontline? (Reporting From Ukraine VIDEO) #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #Czechia #CzechRepublic #Poland #Sweden #News #Norway #Australia #Taiwan #Media #Japan #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #India #UnitedStates #Turkey #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
Given the epic level of self-sabotage the powerful routinely display, it's plain that to the extent they succeed, in many cases they do so in spite of themselves, not because of any supposed merits they may have.
#US
#US
That’d be the smart move
Exclusive: #Ukraine considers shift from the #US #dollar to #euro amid #geopolitical realignments
Ukraine is starting to consider a shift away from the US dollar, possibly linking its currency more closely to the euro amid the splintering of global #trade & its growing ties to #Europe, per #CentralBank Gov Andriy Pyshnyi.
#geopolitics #economy
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-considers-shift-dollar-euro-amid-geopolitical-realignments-2025-05-07/
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https://youtu.be/rWBtA4xPqdc
⚡️🇩🇪NATO Secretary General in panel discussion at Munich Security Conference (NATO News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #Munich #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #US #UN #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #Belgium #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #Cyprus
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
In #Mideast, #Trump plans to focus on #business deals, not #geopolitics
Trump leaves Monday for a 4-day trip to #SaudiArabia, #Qatar & the #UAE, a mission that is expected to focus heavily on business deals & new investments from the #oil-rich region.
The swing through deep-pocketed #MiddleEast monarchies, Trump’s first major international travel of his 2nd term, is a marker of Trump’s priorities & another sign of his intention to de-emphasize the traditional #US #allies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/11/trump-mideast-trip/
#Iran Forces Claim to Seize 2 Ships After #Trump Extends “Truce”
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they had attacked & seized 2 cargo ships near the #StraitOfHormuz, state media reported. Both sides were seeking to exert control in the waterway even as Trump renewed a #ceasefire.
#IranWar #US #MafiaState #piracy #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/22/world/iran-war-trump-ceasefire-talks?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Good result?
It will take at least a few weeks before goods are arriving from #China in the #US again, tariffs are back at where they started, people lost a lot of money, trust is completly gone, not one extra factory has been build in the US in the meanwhile
I can keep going but there is only 500 characters..
Trump is the definition of failure