The Kremlin is considering several scenarios for the dates of the meeting of the presidents of Russia and the United States Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in April-May.
#Trump
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#Trump’s favorite Irish person is #ConorMcGregor, who, uhh, “is not a popular figure in #Ireland, where he has been held liable for sexual assault and has regularly supported far-right fringe figures.” ☘️🙄 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/12/us/trump-news/33b704f6-c322-514a-83a3-df8b14c32d30?smid=url-share
The U.K. prime minister and his top security adviser worked intensively to rescue the broken relationship between Kyiv and Washington, drafting a truce plan that might one day pave the way for peace.
https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-ukraine-ceasefire-donald-trump-volodymyr-zelenskyy/
"Hopefully we can get a ceasefire from Russia," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Asked if he would do anything to pressure Russia, he said: "I can do things financially, that would be very bad for Russia. I don't want to do that because I want to get peace."
Russia has presented the U.S. with a list of demands for a deal to end its war against Ukraine and reset relations with Washington.
It is not clear what exactly Moscow included on its list.
“Reshape…”🙄
“Shelly C. Lowe, the first Native American to lead the National Endowment for the Humanities, has left her role at the direction of #Trump.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/03/12/shelly-lowe-national-endowement-humanities/
"Everything's computer"
Said grandpa dictator #Trump while abusing his power again to spam for swasticars
“ #Trump has pardoned an imprisoned former Tennessee state senator who was two weeks into a 21-month sentence for his role in a campaign finance fraud scheme.”
He had pleaded guilty.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/tennessee-senator-kelsey-trump-pardon.html
The #Trump admin has abruptly cleared out a 2nd group of migrants it brought to the American military base at #Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, returning to the #UnitedStates 40 men it had flown there in the past few weeks.
The move comes days before a Federal District Court judge in Washington is set to hear a major challenge to aspects of the policy.
A court filing described strip searches & the use of restraint chairs on some of the 290 migrants.
#immigration #law #HumanRights
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/politics/ice-migrants-guantanamo.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=4D790497-4C94-4C15-A256-FAB95883791B
I wonder if Musk gives him commissions?
~ Trump turns the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom ~
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/trump-musk-tesla-white-house-showroom-buys-car-rcna195905
"One of the strangest dynamics of modern politics is that the richest man in the world chooses to get his information from grifting ignoramuses on social media."
Anyone with an ounce of intelligence understands that, when making decisions, good information is like intellectual gold dust."
~ Brian Klaas
#Musk #Trump #SocialMedia #disinformation #misinformation
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https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/knowingness-and-the-politics-of-ignorance-deb
There might still be a shimmer of hope for a 22nd century with organized human life: the #trump administration seems to be continuing their #degrowth agenda, even against the warnings of leading economists.
With the policies already showing significant effect on the American and world economy, this without a doubt is the most effective act of the degrowth movement up to date... and he just got started!
Seneca Project's Tara Setmayer rips Trump's Tesla informercial at the White House and talks about empowering women plus Brian Karem on press access issues in covering Trump
https://jimacosta.substack.com/p/seneca-projects-tara-setmayer-rips
Trump is making America great again so strongly that no one has ever seen anything like it since President Hoover's Great Republican Depression in 1929, believe me.
Sad!
#USPolitics #Economics #Hoover #Trump #GreatDepression #TuckersBalls
"Even some members of the corporate media are deciding to speak out. Senior economics reporter at CNBC, Steve Liesman, said of Trump’s nonsensical tariffs: 'I’m gonna say this at risk of my job,” but what Trump “is doing is insane.'”
I appreciate Liesman for at least coming out and admitting that our corporate media outlets are run by literal Nazis who want all their "journalists" to suppress news of US protests and protect Orange Hitler at all costs.
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/wednesdays-great-news-thats-bad-for