Starker on 12/3/2025 at 22:33
The best people:
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https://i.imgur.com/DXq8O9Q.jpegAlso, speaking of deleted tweets...
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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/10/politics/darren-beattie-marco-rubio-deleted-tweets-kfile/index.html)
A top acting State Department official deleted at least half a dozen tweets that ridiculed his now boss, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, including ones calling him “low IQ” and repeating a false rumor about Rubio's sexuality.
The deleted tweets from Darren Beattie, the acting under secretary of state for public diplomacy, were uncovered as part of a CNN review of his social media and include a mixture of insults and harsh attacks against Rubio.
Beattie, who was fired from his role as a speechwriter during the first Trump administration after CNN's KFile revealed he attended a conference featuring White nationalists, made a series of attacks over the years against other Republicans, including a number of offensive, homophobic and racist comments.
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After being ousted from the Trump White House in 2018, Beattie launched Revolver News, a far-right media outlet that has spread conspiracies regarding the January 6 attack. The website has boosted false claims that federal agencies orchestrated aspects of the attack and that extremist groups involved were under government control.
In a tweet that was removed for violating Twitter's terms of service, on the day Roe v. Wade was overturned, Revolver News posted about shooting women who get abortions.
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So, from the looks of it, the guy was fired for making insufficiently racist and homophobic comments the first time around, but was hired back after he stepped up his game.
Nicker on 13/3/2025 at 05:17
From the US State Department website. In case you were wondering what Beatie's job is.
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Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy
Our Mission
The Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy leads Department efforts to expand and strengthen the relationships between the people of the United States and citizens of other countries. The bureaus and offices reporting to the Under Secretary advance national interests by seeking to engage, inform, and understand the perspectives of foreign audiences.
More best people indeed.
Meanwhile, Musk donates a million bucks to Trump and gets to shoot a car commercial in front of the White House, to boost Tesla's plummeting fortunes.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9cSs0ONjK7E[/video]
R Soul on 15/3/2025 at 19:08
Trump does seem quite loopy, so it seems fair to have his condition made official.
lowenz on 15/3/2025 at 23:25
= "we are certified trolls"
Nicker on 16/3/2025 at 01:09
The Stable genius is simultaneously (
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/trump-egg-prices-denmark-greenland) demanding that Denmark hand over Greenland while he begs the Danes for eggs, because Muricans can't afford them any more, thanks to the deranged orange moron in the white house.
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The United States has asked Denmark and other European nations if they can export eggs as Americans face surging egg prices, the Nordic country's egg association said on Friday.
The request from the US Department of Agriculture coincides with a raft of new US tariffs on countries, including in Europe, and the threat of more.
Donald Trump has also threatened economic sanctions unless Denmark hands over control of Greenland to the US, and said this week that he thought the US would eventually annex it - despite its status as an autonomous territory of Denmark, a member of the European Union.
What a fucking idiot, just like his drooling, morally bereft fans on TTLG.
And further more...
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https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/03/10/canada-looking-into-surge-tesla-sales/) Tesla dealerships in Canada are accused of scamming an electric car rebate offering by the federal government. In the final three days of qualifying, these dealers sold 8,653 cars.
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Over three days in January, Tesla reported selling 8,600 vehicles nationwide, resulting in $43 million in government rebates.
The Canadian Automobile Dealers Association has urged Transport Canada to investigate, as it believes the rebate system is being misused. Canadian officials are investigating the spike in Tesla sales to see if there are any irregularities during the program's final days.
"Irregularities". Buahahaha. You think?
Starker on 20/3/2025 at 03:45
Quod licet Iovi...
Nicker on 20/3/2025 at 08:15
Oh dear. That was fast. I wonder about his other three co-sponsors.
Another seat up for grabs, it would seem
Starker on 21/3/2025 at 01:19
I guess fascism always goes hand-in-hand with incompetence, cause the ultimate point is the abuse of power, not due process:
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An attorney representing a migrant sent to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act says her client was deported due to a soccer logo tattoo, according to court declarations submitted Wednesday night.
Linette Tobin is representing Jerce Reyes Barrios, a professional soccer player from Venezuela who protested the Maduro regime in February and March 2024 and was detained and tortured after one of the demonstrations.
Barrios came to the U.S.-Mexico border legally through the CBP One app in September 2024 but has been accused of being a Tren de Aragua, or TdA, member and was detained at a facility under maximum security, Tobin said.
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The tattoo in question showed a crown sitting on top of a soccer ball with a rosary and the word "Dios" (God), according to Tobin. A declaration from the tattoo artist confirmed that Barrios chose it because it was similar to the Real Madrid soccer team logo, the attorney said. According to Tobin, those alleged gang signs were the hand symbol for rock and roll and "I love you" in sign language.
Tobin also said she submitted records from Venezuela that indicated Barrios had no criminal record in his home country and was employed as a professional soccer player and children's soccer coach.
Barrios was transferred out of maximum security after submitting this evidence and had a hearing set for April 17, according to his attorney.
Around March 10 or 11, Tobin said her client was transferred to Texas without notice and was promptly deported to El Salvador on March 15.
"Counsel and family have lost all contact with him and have no information" about his whereabouts, Tobin wrote in the court documents.
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So this man from Venezuela who was tortured in prison for protesting against Maduro, who was not an illegal immigrant, but was legally seeking asylum in the US, who had no ties to any gangs or criminal organisations, who had only ever worked as a football player and a children's coach, who had gainful job offers in the US waiting for him at the end of his asylum process, he was just randomly and baselessly accused of being a gang member and disappeared indefinitely into one of the worst prisons on Earth without any notice to his family or his attorney and without any chance whatsoever to defend himself.
Once more, for emphasis, the only "crime" this man had ever committed was protesting against a dictator and the US sentenced him without a trial or a judge to forced labour in an overseas prison.
There's more and more stories of abuse by US government thugs coming out -- of a German citizen being tortured for no good reason (though, to be clear, torture is illegal in most civilised countries even when there is a good reason):
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Fabian Schmidt, 34, is being held at a detention centre in Rhode Island after attempting to return to his home in New Hampshire after a trip to Luxembourg.
His mother, Astrid Senior, told the Boston-headquartered public broadcaster WGBH news that her son had been “violently interrogated” at Boston's Logan airport for hours, stripped naked and put in a cold shower by two officials.
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Senior told the US broadcaster that immigration agents had put pressure on her son to give up his green card. He had been placed on a mat in a bright room at the airport with little food or water, and denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.
Schmidt, an electrical engineer, had been returning to the US on 7 March. His mother did not hear from him until 11 March, when he was transferred to hospital after collapsing.
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Of course, it goes without saying that thought crimes are also something US officials are on the lookout for:
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained)
A French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration, said a French minister.
“I learned with concern that a French researcher who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled,” Philippe Baptiste, France's minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde.
“This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy,” the minister added.
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Another AFP source said that US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages”. He was reportedly also informed of an FBI investigation, but told that “charges were dropped” before being expelled.
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demagogue on 21/3/2025 at 02:09
I was saying this ad nauseum last year, but anyway... When you're deporting, detaining, and torturing people without due process and rejecting a court order stopping you, it's virtually inevitable count down the days until they're doing it to innocent people, then US citizens that criticize the regime, then random people reported on by their neighbors, then their own supporters and allies whenever it's expedient or they're just paranoid f*cks and it's at their whim.
That's why activists are trying to get the public to lose their shit right now & throw a fit at this early link before it gets any further down the chain. It's a good sign that the courts are still holding the line, there are major groups openly throwing a fit, and Krasnov & co. are particularly incompetent even dictatoring. But it's a sad state of affairs most European countries have put the US on a watchlist and are telling travelers to avoid visits. F*ck's sake.
