> America’s Great Brain Drain https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/09/americas-great-brain-drain/
#Gringoville 's loss is the world's good fortune. Heck, if I could, I'd be gone already too.
> Lessons from Latin America as the United States Confronts Enforced Disappearance https://www.wola.org/2025/05/lessons-from-latin-america-as-the-united-states-confronts-enforced-disappearance/
FTA: "When a government takes citizens or others in their territory outside the protection of the law, this is a warning for democracy.”
El que tenga oidos, que oiga. . .
USA USA USA! Working to #BringMeaslesBack permanently.
> In the U.S., as of May 2, 2025, health authorities have confirmed 935 cases of measles affecting 30 states. This is a huge surge compared with the 285 cases reported in 2024.
https://theconversation.com/measles-could-again-become-widespread-as-cases-surge-worldwide-255501
#ThisIsAmerica
#AmericanEmpire
#Health
#stupid
#BoycottUSA (especially if you don't want to get measles)
Only the best for His Orange Excellency. #Priorities, man.
> While we save to buy 3 dolls and 5 pencils, Trump spends your money on a $400 million gilded flying throne https://www.advocate.com/voices/trumps-gilded-new-jet
And while #Gringoville went on an outsourcing spree, we heard the "sucking sound" (IYKYK), and moved to a "service economy," #China ramped up their #manufacturing
> China’s factories are in another world https://attackthesystem.com/2025/05/04/chinas-factories-are-in-another-world/
America's new export: "deportees." I guess #Gringoville needs more prisons abroad and is willing to pay for them.
> Rwanda confirms talks with US over receiving deported migrants
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/5/rwanda-confirms-talks-with-us-over-receiving-deported-migrants
> The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025 https://www.epi.org/blog/the-federal-minimum-wage-is-officially-a-poverty-wage-in-2025/
Meanwhile, in the #BadEconomy.
Our tax dollars at work because #priorities, man.
> Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2025 to 2034 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61224
"Off we go into the wild blue yonder,
Climbing high into the sun;..." 
> Air Force lacks critical skills in digital fluency, data analysis https://federalnewsnetwork.com/air-force/2025/04/air-force-lacks-critical-skills-in-digital-fluency-data-analysis/
> Latin America Three Months Into the Trumpocalypse https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/21/latin-america-three-months-into-the-trumpocalypse/
Not just the #PendejoInChief. #PartyOfStupid and #RepublicanLite admins have both abused the region, but again, the Orange One is just more brazen.
Meanwhile, in the #BadEconomy.
> How is Africa affected by the US-China tariff war? https://globalvoices.org/2025/04/18/how-is-africa-affected-by-the-us-china-tariff-war/
Of interest for some.
> "State Terror: A brief guide for Americans" by Timothy Snyder
https://snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
And by bleak, I mean that I’m convinced, the #Executive has managed to accelerate the decline of the #Americanempire. Life is lived in fast forward for current events. . What a time to bear witness to. 3/15
Meanwhile, at the State Department.
> The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5357511/state-department-human-rights-report-cuts
There might be a theme here. . .
> Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/librarians-in-uk-increasingly-asked-to-remove-books-as-influence-of-us-pressure-groups-spreads
Gringos might not manufacture much to export as they used to, but exporting #bigotry, discrimination, #racism #Christofascists and other #fuckery is basically America at its best. Go USA!
> Can Trump legally deport US citizens to El Salvador prisons? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/16/can-trump-legally-deport-us-citizens-to-el-salvador-prisons
In theory, no. In practice, as I keep asking and no one can answer satisfactorily, who the fuck is going to stop him? You can talk all the legalese you want, but if it does not have power may as well wipe your ass with it, which he is doing pretty much.
> Who has more leverage in the US-China trade war? https://abcnews.go.com/Business/country-leverage-us-china-trade-war-experts-weigh/story?id=120713403
Short term, could be even, US may have slight edge. But long term, the Chinese will adapt, find other trading options, and then there are all those US securities they hold that they could cash anytime.
But I am not a pundit nor play one on TV.
> Oligarchy Has Arrived in America. Will We Confront It? https://inequality.org/article/oligarchy-has-arrived-in-america-will-we-confront-it/
Correction: Oligarchy HAS been, is, and will always be in America. Where the hell you guys been? There, fixed that for ya. Will gringos confront it? Not as long as they see themselves as millionaires in the waiting.
> Tourists are ditching America — and it's set to cost the economy billions https://qz.com/u-s-travel-decline-could-cost-billions-1851776218
Thus the #AmericanEmpire does #FAFO. Anyhow, #StayHome #StaySafe or if traveling go anywhere safer than the US.
