Explosions were reported near a #US #military #base in #Qatar Monday after #Iran vows to retaliate for #Trump’s assault on #nuclear sites. The development coincided with a warning from the US #Embassy in Qatar’s capital, #Doha, urging American citizens there to shelter in place. Qatar’s govt on Monday also closed its airspace & suspended flights as a “precautionary measure” while the #MiddleEast braces for a potential expansion of the fighting between #Israel & Iran.
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Scrambling to reduce Canada's dependence on the Donald Trump-led U.S., the country's Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday signed a security and defense partnership with the EU.
The aim is to shift Canada's defense and security relationship away from the US
https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-pact-defense-eu-mark-carney-partnership/
https://youtu.be/xRSPxuptLd8?
‼️🇺🇦2000 Meters To Andriivka - Official Documentary Trailer - Coming in August (Dogwoof VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #Brussels #SHAPE #Andriivka #Kyiv #WashingtonDC #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Since returning to the White House, #Trump has demonstrated great ambivalence toward #Taiwan, an approach that’s raising questions ahead of this week’s summit with #China President #Xi Jinping about whether the #US leader could be open to dialing back support for the island #democracy that Beijing views as its breakaway province. [as long as Trump gets something in return, cash, #semiconductors…, he’s open to it]
#geopolitics #sovereignty #kleptocracy #MafiaState
https://apnews.com/article/trump-xi-taiwan-democracy-arms-semiconductors-5c6aed1f1628fee0d381ecbb1ff73d10
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte: “After significant studying, and in keeping with President Trump’s vision to make the United States the crypto capital of the world, today I ordered the Great Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prepare their businesses to count cryptocurrency as an asset for a mortgage”
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #US politics
At least 51 people have been killed this morning in #Israel attacks on #Gaza, hospital sources tell Al Jazeera. At least 14 of that number were killed in the north
#Iran’s Supreme Leader #Kahmenei congratulated the country’s armed forces & said #US military bases could be attacked again in case of future threats.
#MidfleEast #geopolitics #war
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/26/live-israel-kills-over-80-in-gaza-3-killed-in-israeli-settler-attack
It just keeps getting worse
Exclusive: #Trump wants deep cuts in #US #funding for #WarCrimes investigations
The White House on Wednesday recommended terminating US funding for nearly 2 dozen programs that conduct war crimes & #accountability work globally, including in #Myanmar, #Syria & on #Russia’s atrocities in #Ukraine, acc/to 2 US sources familiar w/the matter & internal government documents reviewed by Reuters.
#law #InternationalLaw #PutinsPuppet
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/white-house-wants-major-cut-us-war-crimes-accountability-funding-sources-say-2025-06-26/
#BillMoyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91
He was White House press secretary under Lyndon B. Johnson & Newsday publisher before becoming an acclaimed television #journalist, mostly for #PBS.
#TruthInBroadcasting #news #US #democracy #FreeSpeech #FreePress #law #journalism [no joke, for me, a bit of a heart throb]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/06/26/bill-moyers-lbj-pbs-broadcasting-dead/
#Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 #judges who ruled against him
A comprehensive analysis of hundreds of lawsuits against Trump policies shows dozens of examples of defiance, delay & dishonesty, which experts say pose an unprecedented threat to the #US #legal system.
#law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
https://wapo.st/4eVMYP0
#Trump said Friday that he’s immediately suspending #trade talks with #Canada over its plans to continue with its tax on #technology firms, which he called “a direct & blatant attack on our country.”
Trump wrote on Truth Social that the Canadians had just informed the #US it would stick to its plan to impose the tax set to take effect Monday.
#DigitalServices #TradeWar #economy #RevengePolitics
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-6-27-2025#00000197-b296-de08-a1f7-f7dec60b0000
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http://www.rferl.org/a/33451450.html
⛔️🇺🇸Kremlin points out how hypocritical Trump and America just violated international law, the UN Charter, and UN Security Council resolutions, which previously unequivocally classified attacks on nuclear energy as absolutely “unacceptable.” (More) #Ukraine #mastodon #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#America #EuropeanUnion
#RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
⛔️🇩🇪Russia just attacked a group of German Military trucks on German soil, Rutte and Trump attempting a cover-up as Putin see’s NATO’s impotence and fear (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-crime/4009134-german-police-investigating-arson-attack-targeting-bundeswehr-trucks.html #Ukraine #Berlin #SHAPE #NukesForUkraine #Germany #Mastodon #Brussels #Journalism #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
I am surprised my beloved #mastodon isn't at the head of sharing Southpark's "Pro-Trump" message - so,
Here:
https://southpark.cc.com/sites/hetrumpedus/index.html
#uspol #us #freespeech #democracy #southpark #paramount #entertainment
#SCOTUS tosses rulings that favored #transgender people
The #US #SupremeCourt threw out on Monday judicial decisions that favored transgender people in cases from #NorthCarolina, #WestVirginia, #Idaho & #Oklahoma, including in legal challenges to #state #health #insurance programs that deny coverage for patients seeking gender-affirming #medical #treatment.
#law #hate #discrimination #bigotry #LGBTQ #ActivistCourt
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-supreme-court-tosses-rulings-that-favored-transgender-people-2025-06-30/
from @rubenbolling
Know your ICE agent:
Being able to discern between a federally authorized ICE agent and a criminal kidnapper within seconds of first interaction is absolutely essential.
If your abductor is an ICE agent, you must obey, comply and submit. If your abductor is a criminal kidnapper, you are free to fight for your life.
#Cartoon #Comics #Humor #Politics #ICE #Trump #GOP #USPol #Immigration #US #USA
#Iran Suspends Cooperation With #UN #Nuclear Watchdog, #IAEA
The decision means that international inspectors will not be able to oversee sites. Experts have warned that Tehran could revive plans to build a bomb.
#geopolitics #MiddleEast #US #Israel
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-iaea.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Kuddo's to @EUCommission for having but more importantly USING their #Mastodon instance actively
Not only posting but also engaging with people, love that!
Meanwhile the #US mostly uses "TruthSocial" that is build on wrecked Mastodon code to profit the President and him alone
This is a win for #Europe! 
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US contractors *guarding* #aid distribution sites in #Gaza are using #LiveAmmunition & stun #grenades as hungry #Palestinians scramble for food, acc/to accounts & videos obtained by The AP.
2 #US contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal ops, said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous & irresponsible practices.
#WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #law
https://apnews.com/article/palestinians-israel-gaza-contractors-aid-distribution-fe27f3ea83e06a09d66424eed7a5d56f?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-02-Gaza+aid
I made this site because there's a lot of information warfare going on and I wasn't aware of any place to find content from *only* FCC-licensed television stations.
Local News TV - browse 660 US television stations by state and metro area and view recent broadcast content via YouTube.
Free, no ads. Local news is important and it should be easy to find!
Exclusive: The #Trump admin has terminated more than half of all federal #funding for #GunViolence prevention
programs in the #US, cutting $158 million in grants that had been directed to groups in cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC, & Baltimore.
Of the 145 community violence intervention (#CVI) grants totaling >$300 million awarded through the #DOJ, 69 grants were abruptly terminated in April….
#law #guns #GunControl #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-slashed-federal-funding-gun-violence-prevention-2025-07-29/
#ICE crackdown imperils #Afghans who aided #US war effort
2 former #Afghan #interpreters for US forces face #deportation despite following #immigration processes, acc/to attorneys for the men.
One former interpreter for US forces in #Afghanistan was detained by ICE agents in Connecticut last month after he showed up for a routine green card appointment. A second was arrested in June, just minutes after attending his first #asylum hearing in San Diego.
#law #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/03/afghanistan-immigrants-trump-deportations/
🧵If I were given the task of saving the people of Palestine, I would act now. Within seconds.
No waiting. No permission. No begging for consensus from the same institutions that have failed for decades.
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine #Palestine #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraeliCrimes #Genocide #GermanGenocide #usgenocide #Germany #US #warcrimes #EUWarCrimes
The insanity but done under a normal voice
THIS, this is the ‘President’ of the #US