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"The #US is no longer a #democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusion in its annual report, that the US is hurtling towards #autocracy at a faster rate than #Hungary and #Turkey.
...the US ... has lost its long-term status as a liberal democracy."
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#Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #USA #UnitedStates
‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin GelinMartin Gelin (The Guardian)
Trump fired his Iran Expert. Surprise!! 
#JD20260317 #JDLinkBlog
– full JDLinkBlog thread: todon.eu/@jd/11624352406993989…
'Actually, the guy who was the point person for Iran at the White House and was fired by the Trump Administration after being Loomered wrote EXACTLY that warning 4 days before the war started. The article was titled “Why Iran Will Escalate.” But who needs experts… '
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#Iran #USA #Israel #EndlessWar #IranWar
#UKpol #USpol #EUpol #Palestine all for #Israel
#Epstein #EpsteinWars
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Newsletter: Justin Sun buys his way out of an SEC fraud case, Iranian transactions on Binance draw DOJ scrutiny as the exchange sues the newspaper that reported on them, and crypto super PACs dump millions into Tuesday’s primaries in Illinois.
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#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
Republican President Donald Trump fundraising email uses photo from soldiers’ dignified transfer and promises ‘private national security briefings’
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#USPol #Republicans #Iran #soldiers #MAGA #GOP #Trump #politics #press
Republican President Donald Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount | Reuters
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#USPol #Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #stocks #Netflix #Paramount #WarnerBros #ethics #press
The gamification of war
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#gaming #war #WhiteHouse #USPol #Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #politics #press #Iran #Venezuela #Pentgon
Republican President Donald Trump's war rhetoric is coarse. It's also heard differently, depending on the audience
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#war #rhetoric #Iran #Pentagon #USPol #Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #politics #press
Trump's war rhetoric is coarse. It's also heard differently, depending on the audience
President Trump and other administration officials have projected confidence and power in Iran in a coarse tone that is unprecedented, according to experts in wartime rhetoric.Kevin Rector (Los Angeles Times)
Murderers. Psychos. Reprobates. MAGA.
Republican President Donald Trump says US may strike Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub ‘just for fun’
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#Iran #murders #USPol #Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #politics #press
Trump says US may strike Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub ‘just for fun’
In comments to NBC News, US president also deflates hope of deal with Tehran, saying ‘terms aren’t good enough’Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
NOW PLAYING == The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali 3/14/26: The #Epstein Scandal Continues To Draw in The #Trump World
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#news #uspol #commentary #progressive #left #WajahatAli #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist
The Epstein Scandal Continues To Draw in The Trump World
WARNING: About halfway through this video gets really spotty with poor audio. Just don't want you to waste your time. The first half is great though!https:...YouTube
Donald Trump Is in the Epstein Files Over 1 Million Times!
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#ReleaseTheFiles #ChildRapistTrump #GhislaineMaxwell #JeffreyEpstein #TrumpEpsteinFiles #MAGA #DonaldTrump #PamBondi #USPol
Trump Is in the Epstein Files Over 1 Million Times! | The Nation
They can’t redact deep ties.Brandon Jinete (The Nation)
Competing. North American auto manufacturing suffers from idonnwanna and misses the bullet train to tomorrow. Idonnwanna, a by product of oil saturated Boards of Directors who think compliance chants of "idonnwanna" will restore the Alamo
Volkswagen? Volkswagen just forges ahead.
GM says "ban Chinese EVs"
Volkswagen is now the top seller in China. China
"Volkswagen’s first custom-tailored EV rolls out as it retakes the top spot in China"
electrek.co/2026/03/13/volkswa…
Volkswagen’s first custom-tailored EV rolls out as it retakes the top spot in China
Volkswagen sold over 100,000 vehicles in China last month, overtaking BYD and Toyota as the top-selling car brand. To stay...Peter Johnson (Electrek)
Brendan Carr threatens the media again. He wants “positive” coverage of Trump’s idiotic forever war.
Silencing free speech kills democracy.
If we can’t remove Trump, we can do our damnedest to remove “fixer” Brendan Carr.
#Iran #BrendanCarr #FCC #Sinclair #Nexstar #FirstAmendment #USPol
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, polled higher than both Oz and Kennedy.
Just over half, or 54%, of respondents said they were confident he had provided trustworthy information during his tenure.
"Do you think it's inappropriate in any way that someone w/ no experience w/ grants for the federal government was making personal judgment calls about what grants to cancel?" an attorney asked.
"Um, no. I don't think it's inappropriate," Cavanaugh said, arguing that he did not need formal education or experience to make informed judgments. 🤔
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2 DOGE staffers say 'no' regrets for people losing income, didn't reduce the deficit: Depositions
The DOGE employees defended the effort to cut "useless agencies."Peter Charalambous (ABC News)
The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet. Judged ordered them removed from the internet on Friday. #USPol #DOGE (Links to download below from IA)
The videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian.”
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Torrent file to download them from IA: archive.org/download/Doge-Depo…
Watch the DOGE depositions at IA: archive.org/details/Doge-Depos…
The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet
On Friday, a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
Rights groups have slammed Pete Hegseth for saying that “no quarter” will be shown to Iran.
"No quarter" includes executing people who've surrendered.
The mere announcement from a govt official can be a war crime.
Such threats are illegal under the Hague Convention & US domestic laws & military manuals.
Hegseth has publicly claimed he would not abide by “stupid rules of engagement”
aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/14/a…
Hegseth is military trained & he's no fool:
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Analysts say US threat of ‘no quarter’ for Iran violates international law
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said there would be ‘no quarter, no mercy’ as US continues to pummel Iran.Brian Osgood (Al Jazeera)
"investigation into how Meta Platforms built a multi-channel influence operation to pass age verification laws that shift regulatory burden from social media platforms onto Apple and Google's app stores." A tale of lobbying, astroterfing, and millions of dollars.
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#USPol #UKPol #Internet #Meta #ScumFucks
GitHub - upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
Contribute to upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Trump has a "modernized version of the Nazi Great Replacement ideology".
He slams the migration policies he says are transforming Europe, creating strife, cratering birthrates, loss of national identities, etc.
And immigrants aren’t just coming from the Middle East; "tremendous numbers of people coming from the Congo.”
"In other words, the only thing that outstrips Trump’s Islamophobia is his horror of Black people."
juancole.com/2026/03/horror-tr…
#USPol #EUPol #Racism #Islamophobia #fascism .
“The Horror! The Horror:” Trump and the White Man’s Burden Redux
The underpinnings of Trump’s reasoning can (or at least should) be described as Nazi in styleJuan Cole (Informed Comment)
Interview: "We have two malignant narcissists, Netanyahu & Trump, that are leading us to disaster.”
"This is so out of control, without any logic, any rationality, not any humane, moral, legal justification whatsoever... it will lead to world war the way we’re going."
Jeffrey Sachs discusses the fallout of the US-Israeli “war of choice” & why it also constitutes an assault on the United Nations.
democracynow.org/2026/3/13/jef…
#USPol #EUPol #psychopathy #IranWar #UN #news #fascism .
Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S.-Israeli “War of Choice,” Assault on U.N. Charter Could Lead to WWIII
The global economy has been rocked by the war in the Middle East, with Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatening energy flows and sending the price of oil soaring to its highest level in years.Democracy Now!
Only 1,043 days to go.
#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Rights groups have slammed Pete Hegseth for saying that “no quarter” will be shown to Iran.
"No quarter" includes executing people who've surrendered.
The mere announcement from a govt official can be a war crime.
Such threats are illegal under the Hague Convention & US domestic laws & military manuals.
Hegseth has publicly claimed he would not abide by “stupid rules of engagement”.
aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/14/a…
#USPol #EUPol #islamophobia #USWarCrimes #news #Hegseth .
Analysts say US threat of ‘no quarter’ for Iran violates international law
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said there would be ‘no quarter, no mercy’ as US continues to pummel Iran.Brian Osgood (Al Jazeera)
In October, ice agents “smashed the car windows and detained all seven occupants” of a van that they thought suspicious because people in it were going to work together. Carpooling. Carpooling is foreign and unintelligible to the brilliant and diligent ice agent who testified as JB. The concept of carpooling is beyond JB’s comprehension. 🤦♂️
The intellect on JB could be studied (but might make anyone studying it dumber).
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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’Sam Levin (The Guardian)
How to explain modern American politics in one chart
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The Billionaires’ War
The ultrawealthy put Trump in power but other people will pay the pricePaul Krugman
War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.
#IranWar #USPol #Disinformation #GeorgeOrwell #Orwell
