Australia is a sizable market for American whisky. We are Jim Beam distillery's largest market outside the US. You can do your bit to support our Commonwealth cousins

As a part of this socially-asocial #Fediverse network I would like to talk to you on the other side of the ocean.

I rarely write posts in #English and I only have very few followers that are not #Czech or #Slovakian, so I'm not sure if this ever reaches my target audience of this post - the #USA citizens.

I am seriously concerned about what is happening lately with your country, who was supposed to be (or was acting like) a #democracy beacon. Yet, somehow you managed to reach the point, where #president, who most of you (!) elected is felon, who pardons criminals and does pretty rude political statements to country, who is losing lives of it's citizens only because they have chosen the path of being a #free nation.

As a person from central #EU I must admit this is seriously hard to watch as I expected your society to be #freedom and #liberty friendly and yet I see your president fueling #propaganda from #Russia and bullying president of #Ukraine.

I do not think this is a great way to #StopWar - this is a way to lose it. I'm hell-of-a-sure that befriending pretty much dictator of #Russia while his propagandists talks about nuking Washington is not a good idea, but somehow your president believes it is.

Please reconsider and act, this is not funny and people are dying. Your voices need to be heard or somehow you might find out you live in country you never imagined...

So, first things first, all US bases in the EU should be shut down as a matter of urgency. The last thing you want is soldiers of a hostile state within your own walls. Would we have Russian bases in the EU? No? (Well guess what? Now we do.)

Heck, at least the Greeks had the common courtesy to hide in a wooden horse.

So, fascists hand in hand.

"He frequently states that Europe “won’t take our cars”"

Make better cars you plonkers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/09/trump-steel-aluminum-tariffs

The latest video from @anderspuck is a must watch for all citizens of countries in the NATO alliance, not just the USA.

Donald Trump is accelerating the change of the Post-WWII world order. We citizens outside the USA need to be very aware. And #Ukraine is going to be the key to the outcome.

#russia #russiaUkraineWar #canpoli #cdnpoli #nato #worldOrder #usa

Google, a brief history

2004: Don’t be evil
2018: OK, be evil but at least don’t kill people
2025: Fuck it, kill people

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/google-drops-pledge-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons-b2692533.html

When the Constitution is no longer followed, and the rule of law no longer upheld, you no longer have a country.

R.I.P.

United States of America
1776-2025

You want, proof, that the United States is over?

Elon Musk is breaking the law and no one has issued an arrest warrant.

Donald Trump is violating the constitution, and no one has even tried to issue an article of impeachment.

All we have is lip service. Not even an effort.

You want, pwoof, that the boops your nose Unyited States is uvw?

Ewon Musk is bweaking the boops your nose waw and nyo onye has issued an awwest wawwant.

Donyawd Twump is viowating the boops your nose constitution, and nyo onye has even OwO twied to issue an awticwe of impeachment.

Aww w-w-we have is wip sewvice. Nyot even OwO an effowt.

#UnyitedStates #Amewica #Usa UwU #WuweOfWaw #Justice

RE:

You want, proof, that the United States is over?

Elon Musk is breaking the law and no one has issued an arrest warrant.

Donald Trump is violating the constitution, and no one has even tried to issue an article of impeachment.

All we have is lip service. Not even an effort.

#UnitedStates #America #Usa #RuleOfLaw #Justice

Every hour you read something more warmongering than the previous. Everyday they say openly that they take our money to give em to a bunch of capitalists and we, the working class, just standing there like hypnotized waiting for the military call to be meat for their profits.
#Warmongers #FuckWarmongers #Eupol #USA #Uspol #ArmsIndustry #ClassWar
#Europe is seeing a dramatic boost in defense budgets, driven by both long-standing pressure from Washington and the continent’s own reaction to #Russia ’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine. That promises a glut of military contracts for weapons-makers in Europe as well as in the U.S., South Korea and elsewhere.
...The enormous scale of new defense spending — the European Commission estimates that the bloc’s members will need to spend €500 billion on defense over the next decade — still means there will be a lot of money available for European defense firms.
That said, the early winner of Europe’s defense buildup is likely to be the U.S.

/5 🧵 👇

This is hilarious (Because it's actually true)

Posted by @georgetakei , but I can't find it here to reshare.

Original Post by @RodKahx
#Americans #Canada #USA #Travel

Mar-a-Lago, #Florida #MarALago
#DonaldTrump &

Do not think for one second this won't happen again w/ the #MassDeportations..

"In Feb. 1942 ....President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 that resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans. The order authorized the Sec. of War & military commanders to evacuate all persons deemed a threat from the West Coast to internment camps, that the government called "relocation centers," further inland."

via https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation

Photograph what you see.
Keep documenting.

Just read this and I am... not shocked.

Very disturbed but not shocked. The history I've been reading on how #Mexican #migrants have been treated in the past is horrific.

"There have been two 'Mass Deportations' of Mexicans and US citizens of Mexican descent that have happened before in the United States. You don’t know about it because this history isn’t taught."

https://greattransformation.substack.com/p/mass-deportations-a-dark-history

A photo by Dorothea Lange of Kimiko Kitagaki, tagged and numbered like the luggage surrounding her, as she and other Japanese Americans awaited their forced removal to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, most of them citizens, in World War II. The photo is in the National Archives, and is available for sharing online at Wikimedia Commons.

It CAN happen here. It HAS happened. And we refuse to learn from our barbarism in the past.

#fascism #cruelty #USA

I'm not a doctor.
I'm not a therapist.

One thing that has helped my anxiety/depression since September - volunteering.

I started volunteering at our local library assisting immigrants/migrants in learning to converse in English. It has helped... BEYOND.

If you're feeling helpless - volunteer(!) At your local houseless shelter, #library, food bank, etc.

They are understaffed and need your help!

We now live in a world where the #USA is a failed state.

🇺🇸 Professional Probation Services ( www.ppsfamily.com ) exposes almost 500,000 US probationers private data publicly, SSNs included, and when I ask them for their intentions regarding disclosure, they go into hiding mode, removing their management and Our companies contact page.

Read more about the exposed data from the company who, according to them, has "A corporate culture of knowing right from wrong, and doing right- every time."

https://jltee.substack.com/p/ppsfamilycom-professional-probation-services-data-leak

@Gargron
Trust the #Election.
#Vote for #Harris.
And then DEMAND #Electoral #Reform.
#USA #Politics #Biden #Harris #Trump

@Gargron

this #american says "thank you eugen"

#vote!

#nyc #newyork #un #freepalestine #armsemargonow #warcrimes #palestine #lebanon #usa #congress #traitors #StopGenocide Jewish Voice for Peace HAPPENING NOW: New Yorkers are shutting down the Israeli delegation's motorcade route in Manhattan before they are slated to speak at the United Nations. War criminals are not welcome in NYC. Arms embargo now.

Just part of Lawrence O’Donnell’s opening tonight on The #LastWord. He lacerated Trump and the U.S. corporate news media and its lackey Trump sycophantic reporters. Shades of Peter Finch in “Network”—this is the kind of thing more people need to do. Roland Martin does this often.

@SteveThompson @JamesGleick

"how much the reporting of #Trump necessarily edits & parses his words, to force it into sequential paragraphs or impose meaning where it is difficult to detect... presenting information in as intelligible a form as possible is what we are trained for. But the shock I felt hearing half an hour of unfiltered meanderings from [Trump] made me wonder whether the editing does our readers a disservice”
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump_ohio_speech_bloodbath_media_broadcast_live.php

@evan

Duverger’s law. It is not education, or worldviews, which need changing; it is the electoral system. Watch Maine and Alaska in #USA #election2024 - they will not be using fptp.

And neither should anyone else.

Proportional representation eliminates the benefits of strategic voting, so less-extreme parties emerge.