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#Trump ambushes #SouthAfrica's president in fractious White House meeting

After a cordial beginning, where #Ramaphosa took pains to stress his desire to improve relations w/the #US, things turned #hostile. Trump repeated his false claims of a 'white genocide' in South Africa & then ordered the lights dimmed to play videos he claimed supported his allegation.

#disinformation #propaganda #FactCheck #TrumpLies
npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-54046

#RWNJ #JacintaPrice's #defection to the #LiberalParty has been condemned by one insider as a #hostile takeover attempt & a form of "desperate branch stacking" to boost #AngusTaylor's #leadership hopes.

"The Liberal party room is my natural home given the Liberal Party is the freedom party, the party of responsibility," she told Sky. 🤢🤢🤮

#auspol

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-09/jac

ABC News · Jacinta Nampijinpa Price defection slammed as hostile Liberal takeover with Angus TaylorBy Jacob Greber

‘Bout time

#Trump Finally Drops the #AntiSemitism Pretext

The latest letter to #Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish #liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.

#GiftArticle

The intensely #hostile letter that *#Education* Secy #LindaMcMahon sent to the leadership of Harvard yesterday has a lot going on. But the most notable thing about it is what it leaves out.

#AntiIntellectualism #academia #law #Trump
theatlantic.com/politics/archi

#WhiteHouse calls #Amazon a #Hostile actor for considering denoting to consumers of it's Haul mobile site the #tariff effects on prices of usually cheap import products.

Amazon says this plan was never implemented and made the statement in response to reporting by Punchbowl News that the world's largest consumer #onlineretail site had planned to display effect of tariff pricing on products offered through its website.

Currently, the U.S. has a 145% tariff on #ChineseImports, while China has a 125% tariff on American goods.

youtu.be/eyJx-Lb9w6w

#USpolitics #Wisconsin [1] #Elonneke #Hostile #Apr1st

"Elon Musk’s Hostile Takeover of Wisconsin" [ ± 1min]
by RBReich

youtube.com/shorts/zBICTkaeGUM

Quote by RBR:
"Mar 26, 2025
Elon Musk's PACs have spent millions backing Trump loyalist Brad Schimel in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race.
If Schimel wins, the court could uphold a total abortion ban, attacks on unions, and gerrymandered maps — and change state law to benefit Tesla."

#USbeware #FascistsAreHere #TimeToResist
#CapitalismIsFailingYou #FightOligarchy
#WorkersUnite #UnionStrong

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@tauon

1) #CloudAct is just #CyberFacism, look it up!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

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2) @signalapp 's #Server code is proprietary and since it's centralized we can't trust that the code they release is what's running on their backend!

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3) #Signal still demands #PhoneNumbers which are #PII either by association (#Number => #ICCID = #SIM = #IMSI => #IMEI => Location Data as I explained beforetwice) or mandatory #KYC / #ID requirements (even on prepaid cards), which an increasing amount of juristictions do...

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But don't take my word for it.
youtube.com/watch?v=tJoO2uWrX1M

en.wikipedia.orgCLOUD Act - Wikipedia