Trump thinks he is friends with Putin, who is now selling anti-air rockets to Iran to prevent cruise missiles from hitting targets in Iran… just as Trump is about to fire… cruise missiles into Iran.
@randahl well...we're able to spot the effectiveness of russian anti-air-rockets in regards of defending their own airspace...so...let sit and wait. popcorn ready?
@randahl adding taxes to american services is the better way - and the europeans will profit. if taxes are collected without excemption. looking at you, ireland.
American tax payers will now pay for a hospital ship which will be sent to Greenland, Trump claims on Truth Social.
Let me rephrase that: The US, which does not offer free healthcare to its own people, wants it's own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare.
Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.
@charlesdelavalleepoussin
@aral germany has a policy of not selling/delivering weapons into war areas or to war parties. yet we sell/deliver to Israel. because there's another policy - whatever helps Israel is good.
this is freaking ridiculous.
yet my point is: not every german is supporting either selling weapons nor Israel commiting genocide at Gaza or the WestBank. there's a decent amount of germans happy to welcome Bibi in Berlin just to hand him over to The Hague.
@charlesdelavalleepoussin couldn't be more far off. i'm a heavy critic of the israeli government and actions. same applies to the militant/extreme palestinians (or alikes). the regular people aiming for a peaceful life are silenced and/or opressed. and the world isn't helping. it's disgusting and shameful.
@aral
@charlesdelavalleepoussin tend to agree. but Palestine hasn't been acknowledged as independent country/state (to my knowledge). hence it's in a legal greyzone. what i'm lacking is the international outcry over isreali actions aka genocide in Gaza. where're the blue helm troops guarding the gaza population? where're the global sanctions regarding illegal israeli settlements in the West Bank? the global community is failing on so many aspects of this crisis.
@aral
Picture 1: Even before Trump began raiding the homes of journalists, the US did not reach the global top ten of The Press Freedom Index.
Picture 2: Under Trump, the US is in 57th place, barely beating Gambia, but not even reaching the press freedom of Sierre Leone or Romania — falling 16 places since president Obama.
The United States presented a Russian made peace plan that in the long rung would turn Ukraine into a new Russian vassal state, right on the border of the EU; and then Trump said, Ukraine was required to sign the plan before Thanksgiving.
Not one EU leader has had the courage to stand up and say, this US administration has now sided with our enemy.
Not one.
How are we supposed to defend freedom, when those in charge close their eyes to a direct frontal assault happening in broad daylight?
In theory, if Mastodon revealed which country your Mastodon account was mostly used from, it would not be possible for someone to get paid to influence voters from another country by pretending to be from said country.
For instance, Putin could not pay Russians to influence a US election by posting in English from a secret office in Moscow.
Of course the price would be, Mastodon would then reveal everyone's home country.
A CNN article headline reads:
“Who are the Democrats voting for the government shutdown deal?”
by David Wright, published 8:43 PM CST, Sun Nov 9, 2025.
Below the headline are eight photos of Democratic and independent senators in two rows:
Top row – Dick Durbin, Jacky Rosen, John Fetterman, Catherine Cortez Masto.
Bottom row – Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, Tim Kaine, and Angus King.
A caption credits Getty Images/Reuters.
As a kid, I learned English from English language cartoons on FilmNet. I learned from German TV shows. My passion for Swedish crime series taught me Swedish.
But now, the largest tv medium of our time, YouTube, has begun auto-translating everything. Future generations will not be exposed to foreign languages and be inspired to take an interest.
There was no public review of this, no democratic vote. One company just decided to turn foreign cultures off and make the world dumber.
@randahl sadly can only side this. it makes YT unbearable. but pointing to sth like invidious or freetubeapp doesn't make you happy as well for understandable reasons. yet those still show the original video..without any translations unless you change the audio track.
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Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton was charged Thursday in a federal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-10-16-2025
I am very pleased to announce the release of my latest video: Meltdown.
Ukraine has a new strategy that takes the war to Russia — by striking Russian factories with long range weapons, Ukraine is dismantling the Russian economy.
Initially, this has led to a fuel crisis, as Putin's oil refineries are a target. But long term, Ukraine's strategy creates a much more serious problem for Putin — one which could threaten his life.
Friday, a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court, stated in no uncertain terms that King Trump is not above the law.
Back in January Trump issued an executive order to make his agencies ignore children’s constitutional birth right citizenship, because he wanted to kick children of immigrants out of the country.
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@berlinfediday, dass wir auf dem #fediday aus der täglichen Praxis unserer BSI-Präsenz im Fediverse berichten durften! Danke auch an die Teilnehmenden für die guten Fragen und die engagierte Diskussion.
👉 Ein paar unserer Erkenntnisse bis hierher:
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Selfie eines Social-Media-Manager des BSI vom 2. Berliner Fediverse Tag. Im Hintergrund sind die Zuhörenden zu sehen in der bunt beleuchteten Mainhall der C-Base in Berlin.
@bsi neben "Bespielen" bitte auch die Interaktion nicht vergessen. Aktuell erscheint es mir weitestgehend eine Einbahnstraßenkommunikation zu sein. Vergleichbar mit ner Litfasssäule. Ihr seid hier eine wohltuhende Ausnahme. Danke dafür!
My #SilentSunday was a hike through the Vejle River Valley near Tørskind, returning over Runkenbjerg.
It is such a wonderful landscape, and the weather today was ideal for photography.
On the way I met a homeowner who told me the old houses out here were reasonably priced. "Who wouldn't want to live next to these views?", I thought. But then I recalled that it is half an hour drive from the Danish highway system, which is probably why it is not for everyone.
In my next episode I will be talking about Ukraine's attack on Putin's oil economy, but I have a language question:
When I talk about car fuel, what should I call it so most people will understand globally?
From my research, the four most widely used terms are: Gas, Petrol, Essence and Benzin.
But I would like to use the term which most people would intuitively understand — so I am not asking for the single term you normally use, but ALL the terms you would understand to mean car fuel:
Give it two more weeks and Trump will have claimed to have ended the war between Denmark and Australia, because Vikings against Australian soldiers on big kangaroos, strong kangaroos, was a bloody mess, and Denmark took so many loses at Sydney harbour, they do not have a workforce in Denmark anymore, and the world is now running out of LEGO bricks — big beautiful bricks — strong bricks — because they just can't make them after the battle at Melbourne, where Denmark lost 7 million soldiers.
Trump will Todesstrafe für Morde in US-Hauptstadt Washington
Seit 1957 wurde in der US-Hauptstadt niemand mehr hingerichtet, gut 20 Jahre später wurde die Todesstrafe abgeschafft. US-Präsident Trump will das ändern: Für Mordfälle in Washington forderte er die Todesstrafe.
Debris from a destroyed Ukrainian drone caused a fire on the roof of an apartment building in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, forcing the evacuation of 15 tenants, the region's governor said on Telegram. No reported injuries. https://t.me/Yuri_Slusar/2825
@kevinrothrock Ukraine sees a lot of such debris on a daily basis. time for the Ryzzens to experience this as well. besides that - where's the news. hence "look - a squirrel!" ;)
Watching all of the BS Trump appeasement from EU leaders, a standup comedian should definitely start vlogging about everything that is "because of Trump".
🎻"I am buying grapes today, and I am so grateful that Trump improved the fruit quality here at Coop Malmö."
🎻"I am on the beach, and last year this place was full of mosquitos, but because of Trump's bold leadership, the mosquitos have now decided to leave."
🎻"My strawberries were drying out, but thanks to Trump it finally rained!"
My hero this week will be the American journalist who goes to Alaska on Friday, and after Trump has had his boasting speech about him and Putin having a big beautiful meeting, gets to ask the first press question and begins her question with, "So about those Epstein files…"
CDU-Landesparteichef Schulze: "Die Menschen wollen Stabilität, keinen Populismus"
Mit Blick auf die kommende Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt zeigt sich der neue CDU-Spitzenkandidat Schulze optimistisch. Es gehe ihm auch darum, AfD-Wähler zurückzugewinnen, sagte er in den tagesthemen.
Isn’t genocide denial a crime in Germany? Does that only apply to one genocide? (The Holocaust?) Or does it also apply to, say, the Armenian genocide too? And, if so, does that it mean that the only genocide it doesn’t apply to is Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people?
@aral germany acknowledged the armenian as well as the jezidian genocide. worst case we call it a genocide after it had happened. which would be sad. very.
Verkehrsminister Schnieder will Pünktlichkeitswerte von mehr als 80 Prozent
Verkehrsminister Schnieder zeigt sich bei den tagesthemen unzufrieden mit der Bilanz der Deutschen Bahn - vor allem die Pünktlichkeit müsste sich verbessern. Bis zum Sommer will er eine Strategie vorlegen, um den Konzern wieder auf Kurs zu bringen.
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“Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people,” says President Donald Trump, accusing two former presidents, Barack Obama (“leader of the gang”) and Joe Biden, as well as Hillary Clinton, of committing crimes, including treason, related to trying to “steal” the 2016 presidential election.
Fernstraßenausbau in Hessen führt zu erheblich mehr Emissionen als bisher angenommen ( www.klimabeirat-hessen.de ) German
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